The next day it awoke equally cold and accompanied by heavy rain. The wind was insistent, and lightning danced in the sky. Nick was already at the ZPD. Sitting in front of his desk, the coffee rested beside him. In his paw, the little gift he'd bought on the way to the department. He had warned his partner that he would go to ZPD early, so there would be no need to pick him up, at least that morning, as usual. His emerald green eyes rested intently on the small red box adorned with a white bow. The necklace was beautiful and had not been as so expensive as he thought it would be. He decided to buy a postcard and a rose with the money left over. The postcard was simple and blank. He wanted to be the one to write on it.

Judy ...

Already for a few months, and he did not lie when she questioned him about how long he had liked this female, that the presence of his partner in the rounds in the streets and in the cases that were delivered to them, moved a little with his interior. At first, he was very grateful that she had helped him in the situation he was in. Well, when she insisted on taking him along with her in the case she was solving, he did not find much of a joke, but now he thanked her for she crossed his path. Two months at her side and the feeling evolved a bit from friendship to something else. Doubts between the confusion of feelings were withdrawn between the third and fourth month together. When he saw her in the mornings, he had to look at his chest to see if the beating of his heart was seen on his chest. Taking a deep breath, he opened a drawer of his desk and put the gift, postcard, and rose in it, closing the drawer again. The gift had to be delivered on a special place. The two of them alone, with no mammals nearby and 'mistrustful'

Unlike Nick, who was in a good mood compared to the previous two days, a rabbit does not have the same disposition. A fist clenched tightly, it fell on the large button of her alarm, silencing it, abruptly. Two paws covered a tired face with dark circles under the eyes.

Argh...dam you Clawhauser and Nick for that conversations!

She screamed in her mind. If he had slept two hours, it had been too much. The words of Nick and Clawhauser tormented her mind all the holy night, and when she could fall asleep, the damn alarm decided to wake her up. She took a deep breath and turned away the sheets, sitting on the edge of the bed. Two paws rested on the firm mattress. Two violet eyes was positioned on the wooden floor.

Who is she, Nick?

Her insides told her it might be her, but a little voice said it was impossible. She turned her head to her left side toward the fat, red letters of her alarm clock. Half past five in the morning. She was only on duty at seven in the morning. Long enough to deal with her morning hygiene and go through the store near the department to buy something she had seen the day before that would be of help for what she would prepare to offer her partner.

At ZPD, many of the officers began to arrive. The silence of a completely deserted hall gave way to the parallel conversations between officers, strides from side to side and the excitement of females for the day was approaching. The clock was now seven-thirty in the morning, and Judy had arrived in the apartment forty minutes earlier. When she opened the large main revolving door, she saw that Clawhauser was not in the reception. She thanks for that. Not that she did not like to see Chita's joy in the morning, but as she carried a bag in her paws, a thousand questions would be asked, and she was not able to answer any of them. She strode to the ladies' room. Once, she stripped off her casual clothes and traded them for the police uniform. When she finished, she grabbed the bag again and left. Again, in the hall, she was surprised by two of her colleagues who, without any explanation, took one of her wrists and literally dragged her into the department canteen, seated her at one of the tables. One of the colleagues sat down in front of her, another stood beside the female that was seating and folded her arms.

"I apologize to the 'kidnapping' subject, but we need to talk to you seriously." The colleague in front of her said. At such words, Judy raised a confused eyebrow. "We want certain answers to our questions." A pause. Two green eyes were staring at her.

Oh, gods ...

Judy rolled her eyes. She was not going to leave soon.

"First, what is your relationship with Officer Wilde?" Okay, why does not the question surprise me? Judy thought, folding her arms.

"Simply, partners!"

"I do not think so." The female next to her, cut the rabbit's words coldly. "Six months together and you tell me you guys are just partners?"

"And what's the problem?" Her violet eyes darted from the wolf to the cheetah in front of her.

"What are your feelings for Nick?"

"Huh ..."

"I'll be more direct. You like him?"

"As a friend, yes." Not that she would reveal that she felt anything else.

"Liar! Ugh!" The wolf said coldly, making a 'tsk' at the words of the bunny.

"Sorry?" Judy's nose twitched.

"Does he like you?" The cheetah interfered, breaking the tension created seconds ago.

"Not that I know!" Judy shrugged.

One paw, furiously, rested firmly on the wooden table. Eyebrows together, the wolf curved slightly inches from Judy's nose.

"Direct answers were asked."

"And I'm giving them."

"You're contradicting them."

Suddenly, the sound of the door opening from the canteen made the wolf straighten up again. Judy turned her attention to who would be the mammal who was coming in there and jumped for joy when she saw who he was.

"Carrots?" He said confusedly as he noticed his partner.

"Hello?!" she waved at him.

"What up?"

"Nothing ... too much." She disguised herself and turned her attention back to the wolf and the cheetah.

The two females looked like statues compared to a few seconds ago. Realizing that Nick's presence affected them enough, she jumped out of the chair and ran with open arms, hugging a fox even more confused by her partner's reaction. She released herself and gave him a wider smile than she had ever given.

"You cannot imagine how happy I am to see you here!"

"Huh ..." Nick raised his eyebrows.

"Come with me." She grabbed him by one of his paws and walked to the table where the females were. She stopped as she approached the chair. "Now, go up." Judy's expression changed completely. Eyebrows together, the smile a few seconds ago completely disappeared, and a stretched arm like a finger pointed at the seat confused an even more fox that was not noticing anything.

"Why, Carrots?"

"No questions. Go up," she ordered.

Not wanting to see her partner more irritated than she already was, he stepped past her and sat up. His emerald-green eyes rested on the females in front of him.

"Huh ... what's wrong with them?" He questioned, shifting his attention back to his partner with a smile on her lips and paws behind her back.

"Oh, it's perfectly natural, Nick."

"Can you be more specific, please?"

"You'll see next." She turned her back and started walking back toward the door.

"Huh ... Carrots?" He called out.

"Sorry Nick, but the questions are for you and not for me." She turned to him and answered him. "I wish you the best luck in the world. Goodbye." And she left the canteen, leaving the fox entirely in the paws of two madly in love females.

Nick swallowed hard after realizing what it was about.

"Huh ... Hello?" The words came out with an effort, and fear seized him when he saw that the females had wide smiles on their lips.

For an hour in the office, Judy read a small magazine and took notes on a notebook. The magazine contained more detailed information of what she wanted to prepare before February 14. Some of the ingredients she had but would have to pass in the grocery store to buy others for the makeup of what she wanted to do. Concentrating on what she was doing, she was startled by the sudden door being slammed open and a winding fox reappeared.

"CARROTS!" He shouted angrily.

Judy's violet eyes met Nick's figure and burst out laughing.

"It doesn't funny!" He said, entering and closing the door behind him, going towards to his partner.

Two paws rested on the arms of the chair. Their noses were inches apart. Two eyebrows together could have made Judy regretful, but his moodiness and his figure were being difficult to control a laughter.

"Oh, come on, Don Juan! Give them a discount." She wiped away a tear that kept on running down her cheek when she laughed.

Nick took a deep breath and swerved, dropping into his defeated chair.

"Look what they did?"

Judy laughed even more. A fact that such a state should have made her sad but did the opposite. The uniform shirt had the first three buttons broken. She calculated that they had 'fought' for him. On the ears, cheeks muzzle, and Judy half closed her eyes checking if his lips had too, but found that was not the case, and arms, the red lipstick marks that they should have painted them for the occasion. The waistband of his pants had been loosened like the button, and Judy figured it was the last straw and he managed to escape their 'brutality'.

"It's love week, my Love."

"They abused me, my dear!" His nostrils flared angrily. He crossed his arms.

"Do not be dramatic." Judy had calmed her laughter. "When their 'crush' is on front of them, it's natural."

"They're crazy," he countered.

Judy laughed more softly and turned the back of the chair to a completely angry Nick. She opened the drawer by her side and from there, removed a small sewing kit she always had with her in cases of emergency and a handkerchief. She got up from her chair, put the small case and tissue on the seat, and dragged the chair with her to stand beside her partner. Then she picked up her things again, knelt in the seat, and opened the small box.

"I'll treat you." She smiled at him, pulling out a blue line and a needle from inside the box.

"I know you do, Fluff." He smiled back at her.

End of the second part.