It was great living in Fru's large manor as the girls would giggle, gossip, and play all day long. Judy got to meet Mr. Big as he welcomed her into his home and now she knew why her friend was so rich… it made her slightly uncomfortable at first of being in the home of a crime boss but over the next few days Big had proven to be generous with her and treated her as if she was another daughter to him. As he told her when she first came that she was already like family to him since Fru had talked highly of her.
She was practically living like a princess as polar bear servants had pampered her and Fru. She had assured her parents that she was fine and that Fru was kind enough to let her spent the holidays with her making Stu and Bonnie feel relieved.
When it was Clawsmas morning, a polar bear came up to her and said.
"A Mister Wilde is here to see you."
Judy lit up of the mention of her boyfriend being here and told the polar bear to let him in.
"Nick!" she gleefully shouted as she ran up to him and he twirled her around in his arms.
Once he set her down he grinned, "I'm glad to see you too, Carrots. I brought you a present."
She gasped, "Oh, Nick! I was so caught up with finals and worrying about Dawn that I didn't get a chance to get you a present!" she covered her eyes, "I'm the worst girlfriend ever…"
"Relax, Carrots, you already gave me a present."
"I did?"
"The kiss, remember?"
"How could I forget about that?!"
"Well, we could always have a do-over." he twitched his brow.
She chuckled, "You're impossible." she leaned forward and closed her eyes while he did the same.
Once they had finished she led him into the parlor where a large Clawsmas' tree was and they sat down on the couch where she opened his present. It was a carrot pen.
He smirked, "I know how much you love writing down notes and you write so much that you run out of pencils and your pens dry out before the semester ends, so I got that pen because it's able to record things so when you're in class it'll be easy to get what the teacher's saying without having to-" He was stop short when Judy press her lips to his and was moving her tongue to get inside his mouth. He let her gain access and they were kissing fervently to the point Judy had her back laid on the sofa.
Nick felt her legs wrap around his waist and they kept on kissing when he felt her reaching down to his thighs and reality set back in. He quickly stopped kissing and uttered, "Wait."
Judy gave a concern look, "What's wrong?"
He sat up, "Well, we are in a room that anyone could just walk in, and I'm pretty sure you don't want your best friend gushing over this…"
She blush a deep crimson red that went up to her ears, "You're right, I guess got carried away… I'm grateful you stopped it when you did, because as much as I want it, I know I need to wait, so much is happening right now and bunnies are just natural lovers when it comes to finding that one mammal they will cherish forever…"
He smirked again, "Hence why you have so many kids…"
"That's another thing, as much as there's chance I won't get pregnant there could still be a chance I could… I've read that some interspecies couples can get children so had we've gone as far as we would have…"
"I agree, Carrots. We're still in the middle of school, and I'm pretty sure Headmistress Bellwether would've had a heart attack to find her prize student was with child by a fox."
She chuckled at the thought even though it was rather serious given her parents would've had the same reaction.
He sighed, "I will admit it's hard to control the urges."
"It is…" she sadly said. "But we can't risk it right now, not even now when school is out. Besides we should use this time to find our vandal and save our schools from being shut down."
"I'm all ears, Carrots."
"You're all everything, Nicholas Wilde, that's why I love you."
He gapped, "What did you say?"
"You heard me." she smirked.
He moved closer to her and wrapped his arms around her, "And I love you, Judy Hopps…"
It was a few days after Clawsmas when Judy exclaimed, "This is it." while looking at the machine shop in front of them.
"Now we just need to find this Raquel." Nick stated.
They went inside the shop where larger mammals were taking apart cars with their own abilities and some of the smaller mammals were repairing vehicles of all sizes that include giraffe and rodent. They had reached the main office where a raccoon wearing coveralls was busy with paperwork.
Judy cleared her throat, "Um, excuse us, but you wouldn't happen know a Raquel would you?"
"You're looking at her."
"Oh!" Judy exclaimed, "Excellent, because we got a few questions to ask you."
Nick took over, "Regarding the vandalized wall of both the All-Boys' and All-Girls' academies."
Raquel gave an emotionless expression, "And why would I have anything to do about that?"
Judy pointed, "A witness gave us a license plate to the motorcycle that was fleeing the scene and we track it down to your girlfriend, Lydia's house in the Rainforest District."
Nick said, "She said she gave it to you for repairs at the time of the graffiti writing."
Raquel stated, "Yeah, I had the motorcycle, and I did do repairs on it because Lydia's birthday was coming up but I also wanted to surprise her with new seat covers so I gave it to a friend of ours that was able to put them in. Her name is Donna Stagwell, she lives in Sahara Square but you'll mostly find her at the Mystic Spring Oasis club."
Judy's eyes widen, "But isn't that the club for naturalists?"
Raquel smirked, "The same. Donna's a regular member there."
Nick was having a hard time containing his laughter which made Judy glare at him before addressing the raccoon, "Thank you so much for your help. We'll be going now."
Once they were out of the building was when Nick burst out laughing, "You, setting foot in a naturalist club?! Oh, that will be rich!"
She stated in annoyance, "Whether or not I like going to a naturalist club is irrelevant at the moment. I'll simply have to suck it up and go through with it."
He shook his head, "Look, sweetheart, since it makes you uncomfortable I can just go in by myself."
"No. We started this together and we're going to finish it together."
"Boy, that's the spirit." he smirked.
She smirked back until it faltered, "I am a bit worried that it'll be like a dream I had." she let out a slight chuckle, "I was actually a police officer and I was on this missing mammal case and…"
Nick's eyes widen and held his paw up, "Wait-a-second. Was that missing mammal an otter and you needed me as a witness but had to blackmail me?"
She gapped up at him, "How did you know that?"
"I had a dream just like that!"
They stood silent in shock contemplating this new revelation.
She asked, "When?"
"Shortly before the Sadie Hawkins dance."
She gasped, "Oh…my…" she looked up at her fox with tears of joy filling up, "It is so odd how we manage to have the same dream but honestly I'm not going to question it."
He smiled, "Me, neither. I think fate is pulling for us, Carrots, for everything that we do, we just seem to get closer and closer."
"Maybe the dream is telling us something. In the end of it we were both police officers and seeing how we're trying to solve this mystery… Nick, I think I know now what I want to be after graduation."
"You're sure about that, Carrots? There hasn't been a bunny cop before."
"There hasn't been a fox for a cop before either but we can change that. In our dream we wanted to make the world a better place and I have faith we can do that here."
"I don't know, Judy, can mammals trust a fox officer? Dreams are one thing but in real life…"
She took his face in her paws and stared straight into his eyes, "Nicholas Wilde, you can be trusted. I had a hard time seeing it before but now… I would trust you with my life…"
He gave a small smile before he declared, "Then we've a case to crack, Officer Hopps." and playfully saluted at her.
She returned it as she said, "Lead the way, Officer Wilde."
AN: Sorry this one took so long, but between school, writer's block, and writing Visions Of for my Zootopia Christmas special which won't be done by Christmas, but I aim to finish it before winter break is over.