Nick woke up the next morning with the sun glaring in his eyes. He just grumble and turned over, as he turned onto his side he was met with a loudly snoring bunny. Instead of trying to go back to sleep he decided that he would just watch his beautiful bunny sleep.
Nick sat there for more than 45 minutes just watching Judy sleep, he couldn't help but smile at her cute,but loud, snoring. After a while Judy's violet eyes flickered open and met with Nick's emerald ones.
"Good morning my beautiful bunny" said Nick kissing her on the forehead. Judy smiled,
"Good morning to you too my handsome fox".
"how'd you sleep" asked Nick.
"Okay I guess, except I have a pounding headache" replied Judy.
"That's called a hangover ,Carrots, its caused by drinking too much" said Nick. Judy tried to sit up but quickly abandoned the idea after her head felt a striking pain.
"Well if it's caused by drinking, then how come you don't have one?"asked Judy with a slight bit of grumpiness in her voice.
"Well Fluff I'm nearly a decade older than you and I have drunken a lot more than you, so I have more of a tolerance for it" explained Nick.
"It's still not fair" said Judy still attempting to get up. Nick put his paw on her head and pushed her down gently.
"Oh no, no getting up for you,nope nothing but bed rest until you feel better" said Nick.
"Nick if I'm going to be in bed, who is going to take care of me?" questioned Judy.
Nick put on a fake hurt face.
"Oh come now, do you have no faith that your husband wouldn't take care of you" said Nick.
"No, but I suppose your going to anyway" replied Judy.
Nick nodded.
"And it starts right now by getting you some coffee and an aspirin to help dumb down the headache and after effects of the drinking" said Nick starting to dig through his shaving kit bag for his bottle of aspirin.
Judy stared at him confused.
"Nick how do you know how to sober people up?"asked Judy.
"Its not from experience is it"
Nick nodded his head no.
"No when my mother and father met back in the day my mother was in nursing school" said Nick.
"And she was taught to sober people up?".
Again Nick nodded his no while walking towards Judy with an aspirin.
"No it was an extra course she took encase she would have to help someone drunk in the hospital get ready for surgery or examination, just so they wouldn't struggle" replied Nick handing Judy the pill and the water.
Judy nodded and then took the pill and then took a sip of the glass of water.
"So can we do anything today, or am I going to be stuck inside all day" said Judy.
"No,no, we just have to wait an hour or so until the aspirin starts to kick in and then we can go get breakfast down at the hotel buffet" replied Nick.
Judy nodded and laid back down, Nick laid down next her and snuggled up to her.
"Why does drinking start good in the beginning, but be so painful in the end" said Judy holding her head.
"I don't know Carrots, but I suspect it has to do with punishing people who drink to much" replied Nick giving her a coy smirk.
She gave him a light punch in the arm and gave a small smile back. The two sat on the bed holding each other, just enjoying the others company.
(With Joe)
Joe,Nick's father, was sitting in his office just staring, staring at a picture of him and his estranged ex-wife,Nick's mother, Sylvia. She was a beautiful red fox with stunning blond hair, she could knock a man out with just her stare alone.
Joe married her in 1969, both of them age 19. They had dated since their last year of middle school and loved each other very much. After they got married they decided to hold off on having kids and travel the world and do stuff they were to old.
They were both 34 when they had Nick and his Brother Michael, so Sylvia took up the job of being a house wife and mother to the family. But that took a toll on their marriage, they would have occasional scuffles but they would usually make up and would go back to loving each other as thought nothing had happened. That was until one fight in particular, it was thanksgiving 2003.
(Thanksgiving 2003)
Richard and his last wife(at the time) Jackie, Joe, Sylvia, Nick, Michael, and Sylvia's Mother and Father Vivian and Roger.
They were all gathered at Richard's large home for Thanksgiving that year, he and Jackie had spent all day preparing the meal for everyone. They had said grace and they all dug in, everything was going fine until Joe looked over and saw that his wife looked a little frustrated. So he went and opened his big mouth.
"Honey is there something wrong?"asked Joe. Nick who had not been paying attention to people at the table but on the food looked up. He could see his mothers dam burst behind her beautiful ocean blue eyes. She stood up,
"Yes in fact there is something bothering me,Joe" said Sylvia spitting Joe's name like venom.
"I know about Her, I know where you've been going for the past 6 months, you haven't been out drinking with your friends, you've been out with that young thing, I know you've been cheating on me, so yes something is bothering me" said Sylvia staring daggers at her husband.
Everyone just sat in silence, non of the elders moved in to try and stop the ensuing argument.
"H-honey I don't know what you're ta-"
"Oh, don't bullshit me ,I know, I have pictures, tape, the whole deal. But the worst part is that you did it behind my back, you didn't have the guts to come out and admit it, to own up to what you did, no instead you sit here and play the innocent 'I don't know what's going on' card in front of the whole family, you're just a ba-". Sylvia was luckily interrupted by Richard.
"BOTH OF YOU CUT IT OUT NOW" Yelled Richard. It was enough to make them both flinch but not enough to make them sit down, it also didn't' stop the following words from coming from Sylvia's mouth.
"I WANT A DIVORCE" yelled Sylvia, everyone gasped including Joe.
"You WHAT!".
"You heard me, I. Want. A. Divorce" repeated Sylvia. Joe stood up and started towards Sylvia, but her dad ,Roger, stepped in.
"You take more step towards my daughter I sock you one so hard, Nick's grandchildren will feel it".
Joe sat down and saw Richard and Jackie leading Nick and Michael away from the table and into the living room, although they were 18 you could see the mix of anger and sadness in their still young eyes.
'I really screwed it up now' thought Joe
(Back to the present)
As Joe stared at his picture he heard his door open, he looked up just enough to see his dad standing there. Joe could always tell if it was his dad or someone else, he could tell by the suit they were wearing, Richard's suits were old flannel and smelled like 60 years of Tobacco smoke, you could tell when he walked into the room.
"What's on your mind son?" asked Richard in slightly cheerful tone.
The only response Joe could must was. "Her".
Richard made an 'Ah' face and walked towards his son's desk.
"You seem to be doing that a lot lately" replied Richard.
Joe gave him a look. "How do you know when I'm thinking about Sylvia?" asked Joe. Richard just gave a fatherly smile.
"Oh, well, first your eyes go into somewhat of a star studded gaze, and then you get this adorable little smile on your face".
"DAD!" whined Joe as he tried to bury his faced into his sleeve.
"Son,look at me" said Richard.
Joe reluctantly lifted his head to meet his dads gaze.
"Son, if you love her that much, go, go and find her and get her back" said Richard putting his paw on his son's shoulder.
"But, what if she doesn't love me anymore" said Joe looking down with dejection.
"Son in the few Times I have mentioned you around her, her eyes just lit up with some kind of interest in you, so if you hurry there will probably be a chance to rekindle your shrinking flame" said Richard.
"Really dad, do you have to be so dramatic and poetic about everything" said Joe.
Richard gave a small chuckle.
"Sorry, Years as an actor will do that to you" replied Richard.
"So do you really think there is a chance that I can get Sylvia back" said Joe.
Richard sighed and sat in one of the chairs near his son's desk.
"No I cannot guaranteed anything, but you should at least give it a try, the worst thing that could happen is that she doesn't want to try getting back together" said Richard.
"Alright I'll do it, I'm going to have to use my lunch break". Richard shook his head.
"I can spare you the hours if it's for love" said Richard. Joe nodded and made his way to the parking lot, he had been driving the same 1952 Studebaker for the past 50 years. It was sturdy and reliable, and he knew a privet company that made high-end replica parts for the cars. So Joe jumped into his car hoping to reclaim his fading love with his ex-wife.
(Back with Nick and Judy)
The newly weds ,after letting Judy's aspirin kick in, made their way down to the hotel buffet and had a nice breakfast.
Nick had blueberry waffles, while Judy had carrot pancakes and a carrot muffin. After finishing their breakfasts Nick spotted a poster pinned onto a board in the lobby, it gave a location trip to a mountain spring and spa a short hike up a mountain a few miles away. It was payed for by the hotel and it was going in about 15 minutes.
"Hey Judy check this out" said Nick calling Judy over to him.
"What is it?" asked Judy. Nick pointed to the poster,Judy's eyes lit up.
"Oh Nick that sounds wonderful, come on we have to get ready" said Judy grabbing Nick's and paw and started to drag him towards the elevator.
'Quite strong for a little Bunny' thought Nick.
"Carrots calm down you're going to rip my arm off" said Nick ripping his arm from the Bunnies iron like grip.
"Don't worry fluff I'm as excited as you are, but if you rush we might forget something and not be able to enjoy the trip, so let's slow down and enjoy it, okay".
Judy nodded and the two got into the elevator to go and get ready for there spa and hike. Judy decided to wear a pair of grey sweatpants, a black tank top. While Nick opted for a pair of black track pants and a plain grey t shirt. Both of them brought their matching blue sweatshirts, which were given to them by Gideon as a wedding present, each of their names were stitched into the back, Judy's said 'Judy L. Wilde', and Nick's said 'Nick P. Wilde'.
After they got dress and each got a backpack, and packed it with some supplies. After that they both headed down to the lobby and saw the bus waiting to take the hikers to the trail. Nick and Judy boarded and took a pair of seats near the middle of the bus.
The bus was a coach bus, so it had wifi and nice padded seats, and a tv for each pair of seats, as well as a pair of head phones synced to the tv so everyone could watch what they wanted. Judy placed her head on Nick's chest as the bus started to pull away. Nick returned the gesture by wrapping his paws around Judy's curves.
Both of them held each other close and just enjoyed the warm feeling of the others body heat as the bus drove down the rode.
(A/N: hey guys, so I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. I'm sorry it's not as long as some wanted it, but I kinda was running dry on ideas for this chapter, but don't worry the next one should be longer. Thanks to everyone that sent love and prayers my way and for understanding, anyways, I'll see you next chapter,Ta Ta For Now)
