Authors Notes

The final chapter part, for chapter 1! It's also the largest chapter, since I needed to break some more personal plots out! and Bring up more issues for later chapters! Enjoy the final chapter part of Chapter 1!

In the span of two hours. Nick and Judy prepared themselves, clocking in for a night shift. Getting into their uniforms and loading themselves up for the possible shootout ahead. They are taking Amelia's notes to heart. Armed. Dangerous. Stealth. Judy really took those three words to heart. Armed, The assailants are armed. Dangerous, they don't have many morals. Stealth, Go in quietly. Leave loudly. Catch them by surprise.

Though there was still another thing on her mind. That bet Nick and Clawhauser have. What is it about? She looked at the clock, they still had 15 minutes before they should prepare to leave. So she took that time to come up to neck, to which he greeted her sheepishly.

"Hey Carrots" Nick greeted and smirked at her

Judy came up and tapped her foot lightly and crossed her arms, and Nick's smile slowly disappeared and suddenly she grabbed his tie and dragged him out of the Bull Pen

"Agh, Hey! Easy Carrots, what did I do?" Nick spoke as he held one paw on his tie as he was bending down slightly as they walked right up to Clawhauser's Desk and she let go of his Tie there, and Clawhauser looked at Nick slightly worried.

"Uhh" was all Clawhauser got out of himself before Judy then spoke

"Start talking." Was all she said, and Nick and Clawhauser looked confused. "I'm not a dumb bunny, Don't act like I didn't hear you guys yesterday morning." She spoke and they both pinned their ears back looking at each other.

Judy raised an eyebrow at them, looking unimpressed "I'm waiting." She said and then Clawhauser started talking

"He started it!" His chubby finger pointing at Nick and Nick looked at Clawhauser with an annoyed expression.

Judy looked at Nick and raised an eyebrow again. "Talk, Wilde. I'm dying to hear this one sweetheart." she spoke

Nick was just about to make a snappy comeback when she put her paw in the air at him, and he made the exact same face like when she caught him for Tax Evasion, and he slowly sighed. "Okay fine, Me and Clawhauser made a bet. Dozen Doughnuts and $50 to figure out if you loved me or not. Obviously if you did, Clawhauser had to give me a Dozen Doughnuts and $50, and if I lost by Friday I'd have to give him the same thing in return."

Judy seem to get more angered by the explanation and said "Is my love something that can become a game? Is it really something that can be just... TOYED with?" She snapped and Nick pinned his ears back really hard and his tail fell to the floor as he backed up a step and Judy took a step forward and pointed at him.

"Don't you dare thing for one moment that you can win my heart by doing stupid things like this... I actually, in fact think you just broke the possible chance you had with me anyways." She spoke and Nick couldn't help but see how adorable she looked when angered at him. Her ears were down, and she was giving him a stern look. He should treat it like it was serious, but he could only find it as a joke, and he kind of smiled a little bit. And that really set her off.

"Maybe I should give you a muzzle, and for once your fat mouth would be shut!" Judy responded harshly, and coldly as she left. That felt like a shot to Nick as he looked at her with widen eyes, the same word replaying over and over in his head. Muzzle, Muzzle, Muzzle. He didn't know what to do. He looked at Clawhauser, and Clawhauser was just as frightened as Nick was and Nick's childhood started flushing back to him... He shook his head quickly as he looked at Clawhauser again and quickly turned away and ran past Chief Bogo as the Chief nearly dodged the sprinting fox as he quickly rushed to the bathroom.

Clawhauser looked at Chief Bogo kind of worried as he walked by and Chief said, "Alright Clawhauser. Everyone is heading out, you should too. Take the night off. You seemed to have a nice enough day off to give you a nice night off." He spoke and smiled and Clawhauser smiled nodding.

"Thanks Chief." He spoke as he went to shut down his computer.

As the officers were getting into their vehicles, Judy looked around and saw Chief Bogo. She quickly came up speaking his name "Chief! Chief Bogo?"

Bogo looked at Judy and then responded. "Yes Officer Judy?"

"After this raid is over, can we talk about something..." Judy looked around and then back at Chief Bogo "... Something that shouldn't be public?"

Chief Bogo raised an eyebrow but then nodded "Sure. In the morning before the meeting." He spoke and Judy nodded.

"Thanks sir!" She spoke and hopped to her squad car. Soon enough, right before they were all about to leave, Nick arrived and got into their squad car. Judy was surprised about it. But she didn't say anything to him, or even look in his direction.

They began driving down through the city, a police Calvary. With Judy at the lead. Chief Bogo being the second car in line. They followed the directions carefully as they stopped where they found the bus.

She took the first left she saw.

The second right,

First right,

Second Left,

They passed one street on the left, and Judy slowed down a lot counting up to the Fourth house on the left and spotted it. An old, run down home that seemed to have a few lights on.

She stopped the car entirely and radioed in quietly. "Fourth house on the left after the street. Confirm you see it, Two lights on."

Soon at least 4 officers radioed in acknowledging the location.

"Remember to be quiet about this. Amelia warned us to be stealthy about how we get in." Judy radioed in, and there were responses of acknowledgement and Judy then got out as well as Nick.

Judy gathered everyone real quick and said "Three teams. There is two stories, and possibly a basement. One team take the basement, Another the second floor, and one on the First Floor." She spoke, she honestly hasn't coordinated an attack on a house before, But she thought she was doing a good Job.

Since she was coordinating though. "I'll be taking the basement, along with Chief Bogo, and Mchorn." She spoke and then she coordinated the other two groups together. Placing Nick on the second floor, as far from her as possible. For good reasons. She was still extremely mad at Nick for earlier. Though, true that she might have been a TAD bit too harsh upon the Fox with the whole muzzle incident.

After everything was set up, they slowly began to surround the house. They were going to go silently. By entering nicely... Chief Bogo knocked on the door lightly, and when it opened it. He hit a tiger that was coming out, straight in the face with the butt of his weapon and it fell unconscious. Bogo grabbed the tiger before it made a thud, and it didn't alert anyone in the house.

No one was on the first floor. Being as quiet as they could be, they opened the back door carefully and let the police in the back in, and the groups took control of the floors. The second floor was entirely empty, and so was the first floor.

Since it was checked, that meant that everyone was down in the Basement, and Judy took the second floor squad down to the basement with them. Even though she didn't want that, because of Nick.

Judy went first down the stairs, being as quiet as she could as she walked down checking around the corner as the stairs made a right turn to complete their decent. There was a lot of old cameras and tapes laying around the almost disgustingly looking basement. Soon Judy could see another Tiger pacing around the group of 19. The first person to make eye contact with Judy was Amelia, and she quickly looked away to not draw attention to the. Instead she looked around the room, counting the guards seeing where they were. She could make out two who were sitting by some computers near the stair case.

Amelia then pointed at them, Judy took a second to notice but once she did, she looked at the Two tigers sitting at computers, and then She looked at Amelia and she then did tapped four times. Judy thought that might mean four guards and then she pointed to her right, or Judy's left.

They now knew how many there were, Six. all armed. Surrounding the Children, and the Stair case. Judy looked at Chief and nodded before aiming carefully at one of the tigers. She didn't have one of the guns with bullets, Just a tranquilizer. She thought it was a better weapon than the guns with bullets, but there was one in the care in case of a shoot out. Which Nick actually hard, and he was holding it carefully behind Chief Bogo.

Judy aimed carefully at the tiger behind the other at the computers, and shot it, and it nailed the Tiger in the throat. To which it freaked out, and then collapsed, the other one, and two more rushing over. That left 2 by the children, and 3 by the computers. Judy smirked, and shot one more time, Taking down the bigger tiger. To which the tigers turned around and looked right at Judy and they said "INTRUDERS!"

The rest began to happen so quickly. One shot right at Hopps, she bent down, but quickly got back up and she took aim again and fired a third dart as another tiger fell to the ground. Leaving three to go. Soon Chief Bogo shot at the last standing tiger in their view since he was shooting at them and it fell to the ground with a yelp.

Judy then went down the rails as she could, holding her side carefully as she aimed the dart at one of the two who instantly began shooting as she came around the corner, and she hit one. One more to go, and he was not going down without a fight. Shooting wildly at the wall to hit an officer. But it didn't work. Judy aimed the last dart and hit the Tiger. And that was it, the shooting stopped and everyone of the 19 hostages were looking at them bewildered.

Judy made her way over to Amelia, and pulled off the piece of cloth that was around her mouth and she sighed thankfully smiled at Judy "I knew you guys would see my hints." She spoke and smiled a bit more as Judy got the cuffs off, and then helped out the children.

"You'll be a great cop one day Amelia." Judy responded, and Amelia smiled back.

"Thank you Judy!" Amelia responded, knowing the cops name, because honestly who doesn't know Judy.

Once all of the kids were out, Judy didn't notice, and no one else did either. As Judy walked out she suddenly fainted and collapsed onto the ground right then and there. Nick was the first person to run up to Judy to see what was wrong. She had been shot during the raid, and she completely forgot about it, and was loosing blood.

Nick quickly pressed on the wound on Judy as he yelled out "Officer down!" And quickly a lot more offices began to run over to help aid Judy as a light flash of lightning struck the distance, and the thundering crack was distant but still audible and it slowly began to rain.

When Judy woke up a day later, She groggily looked at the ceiling, it was white. Everything was white, she looked down at the end of the bed, and saw that she was in a hospital.

She sighed softly and looked to her right seeing that there was a tray of goodies and flowers laying there. She smiled softly, and then moved slightly, but the pain in her side made her wince, and her ears fell against her head as she placed her paw on her side softly, and undid the covers, to see that she was bandaged on her side. Plus she was in her underwear. Like that wasn't embarrassing...

She sighed and laid back down, but suddenly something red caught her vision to her left and she looked to see Nick sitting there quietly. He was sleeping. 'Why is the Sly-fox here...' she questioned in her mind as she looked back to the goodies and this time was more careful to reach for a card that was laying down, as well as a piece of chocolate and he read the card quietly. It was from Clawhauser, an apology, and a get well soon note.

She smiled softly, and suddenly the door opened and she looked up to see a Weasel coming in. This Weasel was a doctor, unlike Duke Weaselton. And the Weasel smiled at Judy "Ah, I see you're awake now!" The Weasel responded, a female.

Judy nodded softly and responded "Yep, am now."

"Alright. Well first off, welcome back... And uh, You've been out for let's see..." The Weasel responded looking at her clipboard and then looked back up

"Two days now. You came in with a gunshot wound to your side... Thanks to your friend over there." The Weasel looked at Nick and then back at Judy

"There might've been a different out come to you being here." She finished up and smiled at Judy.

"Alright.. Well, thank you Doctor?" Judy asked for the doctors name.

"Oh, were are my manors! I'm Doctor Weaselton." She spoke and smiled before heading out. "I'll see you later now!" She spoke as she closed the door leaving Judy alone with Nick again.

Nick saved Judy? That's a bit shocking, considering that her harsh words didn't stop him from saving her life... Now she owned him twice over. Saving his life, and because she used such a hard word on him. She would never let go of that day ever...

Soon Judy sighed and threw the chocolate wrapper at Nick, to which it hit his eye and he snapped it open and looked at her before his ears went back. He wasn't expecting her to wake up.

Judy watched Nick carefully and sighed as she sat up more and looked at Nick. "Are you going to come over here or what?" She asked and Nick slowly got up and walked over, he was really quiet, and really worried.

Though she didn't know how Nick really felt right now, the words were still in his system and they wouldn't go away. When he got close enough she wanted to try to hug him, but he pulled away.

Judy looked up at him and sighed. Knowing why he didn't want too. "It's okay... I really take back what I said... but... I'd understand if you wouldn't want to talk to me." She spoke a bit saddened now.

Nick looked at her blankly before looking at the door and said "If I wanted you to die, I wouldn't of even called you out after you fell unconscious. Best Friends don't hurt other best friends Judy." He spoke, his voice nearly cracking at the end as he looked away.

Judy then quietly sighed and looked away. "Yeah... I know..." she spoke really softly, and then looked at Nick.

Nick looked back at her for a moment and then said. "I decided on my own... For now, we're not going to be partners." He said and Judy took that by surprise... Sure, she was going to do it. But after hearing what the Doctor said, she didn't want too. Now he did it on his own terms...

"I-I'm sorry Judy.." He spoke and quickly stood up and left the room before she could even say anything.

She watched Nick walk away and she looked down at herself, fumbling with her paws and then sniffled lightly before laying back down at the bed, laying on her right side, since it was her uninjured side and quietly thought to herself as the room went really quiet other than her breathing, and machines beeping...

Told you this would be a long one! Haha, 2,800 words in this final part! Wow, I wasn't expecting that. Thanks everyone for reading. and Coming Monday will be the beginning of Chapter two!