Chapter 8
A/N: Sorry for the late addition! Like I said previously, I didn't want this novel to go down the toilet due to my careless repetition. I hope you will like reading this chapter as much as I did writing it!
Finnick went on, and on, and on about the same old thing. Each story he told the two cops was about some scam that he pulled and ever single one he blabbed on about was nearly as identical as the last one. He was so into telling stories, that Judy had no chance to talk about a serious matter like 'How do you both feel being friends?' or 'What do you think Chief Bogo would do?'. This parade of nonsense kept rolling like a steam train with a never ending supply of coal until everyone's extra time ran out.
"Okay guys, your extra visiting hours are up. I'm afraid that I have to ask you all to leave." ordered the leopard doctor.
"Aww, shucks!" cried Finnick as he fell from his stool. "Oh well, nothing can last forever, eh?" he chuckled. "Well, I guess I'll see you whenever than, N." he said as he walked away from Nick's bed. As Finnick flicked his shades over his eyes, he looked back to Nick and Judy as he clicked his tongue two times. Nick, trying to look enthusiastic, clicked his two fingers and pointed two him in respect. Judy also tried to form a smile, waving to him. The fennec fox disappeared into the blind, harsh corridor. Judy's face went back to her true colour. Annoyed, disappointed and worried. You could see it in her eyes. She want to let it all out.
"Oi," the leopard called. "That means you too, bunnykins. I'll be back in five minutes." As he left the room, Judy looked to Nick in a downhearted expression. She let out a harsh sigh as she clambered down her stool and headed for the exit. "Hey, come here for a bit." groaned Nick. She accepted his offer and went towards his bed. "Yeah? What's up Nick?" asked Judy. Nick took her paws and held them tightly in his own, specially using his limited strength just for her. "Look, I don't want to say this," said Nick. "I know Finnick can be a huge chatterbox, and I know that for a fact. I mean, he gets right on my dick. So don't think that he is doing this just to prevent us from talking to each other. He just needs a polite reminder that he is just talking a bit too much." Nick took a sharp intake of breath.
"How about you come in tomorrow and we can talk. Alone." offered Nick "I know Finnick so much to know this, he won't come here for a few days then he will be back. What do you say?" he coughed.
Judy's eyes widened and her ever widening smile continued to grow. She tried to hide it but Nick's offer was too much for her to contain it. "Yeah, yeah! Sounds like a good idea!" Judy giggled. "What time? Maybe after work?" Nick didn't need to think for an answer he just came out with. "Yeah, sounds good. Whatever suits you, Judes."
"Okay! I won't disappoint you!" she promised. "I promise! Well I gotta get going." Nick smiled with a half lidded look in his eyes. "I hope not. Otherwise, I will have to discipline you... with some boring talks about hustling" he mocked. Nick knew that he was flirting with her. But he didn't care. Judy giggled softly as she swatted his muzzle gently. God, did her laughter want to make Nick hug her tightly. Nick struggled to let go of her soft, fuzzy paws but painfully let go of them soon enough.
"See you tomorrow!" said Judy as they said their goodbyes. She only was halfway out of the door, until she stopped to look at him. She suddenly ran back to Nick and wrapped her paws around him to give a soft, embracing hug. Nick welcomed it gladly. Both of their hugs made them warm inside from it alone. Warm in comfort. They stayed like this for a minute until they finally let go of each other. Judy walked out of his room and shut the door gently. Nick sighed lovingly, and then closed his eyes so he can see her faster.
Judy walked back to her apartment, with paws clasped together behind her back. As she opened the creaky door that led to her living room, she sighed in the darkness. She closed the door, feeling slightly agitated by the fact that Finnick ruined everything for her, despise him knowing her feelings for Nick. At that point, Nicks words replayed in her head; 'Don't think that he is doing this just to prevent us from talking to each other. He just needs a polite reminder...'
Judy pattered to the small, claustrophobic kitchen part of the apartment, the site of many failed attempts of trying to cook for herself. She walked over to the fridge and grabbed out a bag of microwave assorted vegetables and dropped it onto the marble worktop. She then raked down her body, still stained in red. "Better go get out of this crap first..." she said to herself. She walked over to her bedroom door, propping the door open with her foot. The musty room was left as it was when she left for a supposedly great day with him, Officer Nick Wilde for his first day.
She then looked down to the floor, observing the scattered papers that were left there when that gush of excitement left the bedroom. Judy sighed as she bent down to pick up the documents, neatly filing them and then setting them down on her small table.
Judy then started to take off her uniform. As she started to unbutton her shirt, she glanced upon a photo of her, and Nick on his graduation day at the ZPD after his training. She then turned away from it as she continued to strip herself down to only her undergarments. Judy then plucked a fresh nightgown out of her dresser. She suddenly had the urge to turn back to the photo, weirdly enough, to start talking to it.
"You'll be seeing this great body in all it's glory very soon, Nicky..." she said seductively. Her ears then went back, wondering what she is doing. "What the hell, Judy? You are talking to a fucking picture! What the hell is your problem?" She spent a few minutes to pull herself together, she said to herself once again; "This is getting too much... this is it. Dreams about him, hugging him and talking to a fucking inanimate object. I truly love him! What are you going to do when he gets out?" She thought carefully as she put on her pink, frilly nightgown. As her, small head popped out like a mole coming out of it's hole, she had an idea. "That's it! Take him to the greatest district in all of Zootropolis, the Entertainment District! Yeah, there is a funfair, a fancy restaurant and a theatre! This could be fun!" she murmured to herself as she went to the kitchen, paced around wondering how that would go.
Nick couldn't sleep. He was thinking too much about Judy, he wanted her so much that he would give anything in the world to be near her forever. The resting room was quiet with the only sounds being the machines doing their job. "Okay Nicholas, I'm going crazy for that bundle of cuteness... I really want her, hell I wanted her to talk more than bloody Finn. Maybe I should take her somewhere nice." He thought about it for a moment "I know! I could take her to the Entertainment District! I know she'll love the things that go on there! An arcade is down there, along with the finest diners to feast on and best of all, the funfair! All I need to do is make sure when the time is right!" He then looked across the room an started out of the only window in the room. Nick then closed his eyes and said a piece.
"I wish that this date with Judith Hopps a great one. I hope for this one and only miracle. Please..."
"I wish that the day that I ask a Nicholas Wilde the greatest one ever. I hope that this would come true. Please..."
As both wishes were said, a shooting star burned across the skyline of Zootropolis.