A/N After this will hopefully be the birthday fic. So yeah.

Without further ado, Let the chaos ensue.

Greetings and Partings

Turns out Nick couldn't get the kids into the front. When he tried they all held on to the other side. He just left them as they were and drove home. At one point in the ride Mei stood up and asked if her dad if he could turn on the lights. Nick ignores her, but that only prompts them all into chanting "Lights" over and over. By the time he reaches the house, where Emmalyn is sitting on the porch waiting, Nick is at his wits end. he only opens the back door and says they're all yours before getting back to work.

Emma recognizes Mei and Judy, but the fox and big cat confuses her. She doesn't get time to ponder their identities Mei jumps into the wolf's arms. "Hi Emma, how was school? You're in High School now right? What's that like? Is it like Elementary school?" and on the questions go, Emma merely rolls her eyes at the regular occurrence, and gestures for the other two to follow, seeing how Judy is on the big cat's shoulder. They follow and enter the house, following Emma into the living room. Where they see last nights pillow fort.

Emma directs a questioning look Mei's way, which causes the cub to merely shrug and crawls inside. getting comfortable and relaxed. Emma shakes her head and looks at the two new comers. "So I'm Emma, Mei's babysitter, are you friends of hers?"

Mei pokes out from the fort, "Yeah, the Fox is Ash, and Adrian is a panther/jaguar mix." with that she disappears once again.

"Ah, so these are the new friends you were telling me about." The two share a look and Adrian nods. "Are you the babysitter she talks about?"

Emma nods and laughs out. "I can only hope so, that or they got a new one behind my back."

Mei pokes out of the fort again and gestures to her three friends. "come on guys, there's room for all of us."

Emma merely shrugs and crawls in, going to the back and tucking in her legs to make room for the others. Adrian and Ash crawl in after and find the small structure surprisingly spacious. Judy Bigg goes from Adrian's shoulder over to Mei's leg

They spend the afternoon like that, and that is how Nick and Judy find them when they return home. Only being able to make out the two thin tails sticking out, an orange one with white tip and black stripes, and a black tail with barely visible spots. Both tails were ideally swinging back and forth, and would briefly brush against one another.

A calming voice is heard from within, and they can tell that Emma is reading one of her school books out loud and showing the kids how she does the problems in the books. Even though she knows they won't be able to understand the high school level material they

"We're home, Emma." Judy says and the moment in the fort is ruined as Emma stands up and the sheet comes along with her. The books holding it down drop off the chairs and crash to the floor. More of the children are revealed as the sheet hangs around by their waists. Judy is able to distinguish which of the four laughing is Mei, but she'll focus on that later, as both older Wilde's attention is drawn to the struggles of Emma trying to get out of the sheet.

"Emma, would you like assistance?" Nick asks, Judy sees the smirk on his face, and knows he's planning something. The sheet shakes back and forth, "No I got it. I just need to stop stepping on the dang thing." Emma says as she continues to struggle. Judy sees Mei tuck some of the sheet underneath herself, and begins to roll away, taking the white fabric with her. Soon the fabric leaves Emma's figure, and traps Mei where she just looks like a white bundle of cloth on the floor, until said bundle wiggles and looks more like a grub. Nick leisurely strolls towards the squirming mass and picks it up with some difficulty.

"Mmm, what a tasty little grub I've found." He than nibbles on the center area to hear the peels of muffled laughter come from within. Judy shakes her head, and begins to help the other children up, before addressing her husband yet again. "Nick come on, we need to drop everyone off, before we can pay a visit to the hospital." Nick's mood shifts at that, add he calmly sets Mei down before removing the sheet. When his beautiful daughter is revealed he gives a smile saying "There's Mei girl." With a sober smile.

Emma is used to change in atmosphere, seeing how she has been around the family for a while, and knows what's going on. She holds back a growl at the thought of Mei's biological aunt trying for custody of the cub. She distracts herself by Helping Judy straighten up the living area.

Everyone piles into the vehicle, and after dropping the others off and talking with parents, Nick unsure about leaving Ash with his own. before making their way to the main Zootopian hospital. Mei makes sure to grab her bag with the drawings she did over the week, along with the flowers and berries she picked.

Nick and Judy check in at the front desk while Mei makes her way to her Papa's room. When she gets there though, the room is empty, the bed is made and the antiseptic smell is overwhelming. She bites her lip, and walks in to sit in her usual chair and wait for her mom and dad. She clutches the flowers close when she here's two voices calling her name along with hurried footsteps. She lowers her head when both of her parents hug her close.

Tears come to Mei's eyes without her even thinking about it. She is not unfamiliar with death, but that is to be expected when ones family visits a hospital every week. She's just never had to deal with one this close. The doctors come in and explain what happened, but Mei doesn't hear a word, only knowing that she couldn't say good-bye.

Apparently he had died at the beginning of the weak due to a stress related stroke, and his sister coming every other day was not helping. When they get home, Judy makes sure to check the mail, and sure enough there is a letter inviting them to the funeral, that is tomorrow. At hearing this Mei goes to her room to pick out an outfit. before going back downstairs to watch a movie with her parents still there. The movie for that night is Cinderellephant. For supper they just get fast food, and her daddy lets her put extra berries in her ice cream.

She wakes up the next morning in between them, and gets dressed for the wake.

The wake was awful on the account that they couldn't stay long. As soon as Mei's aunt saw they she immediately began to bother and place the blame on Nick and Judy. Saying that if they had just allowed her to take care of Mei she would've left him alone, but they drove her to bother him. While the three adults were busy playing the blame game, Mei asked the mammals in front of her if she could quick say bye to her papa before she had to go. They agreed and Mei grabbed her parents hands.

Mei didn't like the way her papa looked. He was much too thin and his fur wasn't well cared for. She went into the bag she brought and placed the drawings, a flower, and one of her favorite kind of berries in with him. Right after she holds out her arms, and Nick is quick to pick her up.

They leave without a word edgewise to Mei's aunt, and Judy goes to the back seat to comfort their daughter.

They don't go to the funeral the next day, and visit the cemetery later to avoid the same problem as the day before. When they visit Mr. Vapas' grave. Mei goes cross legged and tells it all the things she wanted to tell her papa that Friday.

Judy and Nick stand back, more than happy to give their cub a moment alone.

A/N I had this planned for a while and if the creator of Mei is reading this I wish to apologize for later chapters.