The foot steps finally stopped and the door opened to reveal an elder looking fox in long white robes and a small metal cross around his neck.
"Yes, Can I help you?" asked the elder fox.
"Father Justin, its me Nick Wilde" replied Nick. The priest squinted his eyes a little harder and then smiled warmly.
"Nick, its nice to see you again, how's your grandfather?" asked Justin.
Nick's smile dispersed and his ears went down.
"He...He's in the hospital, he had a heart attack" replied Nick with a sad look on his face. The priest's smile then turned into concern and worry.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'll pray for him tonight" said the Priest. Nick nodded his head thank you.
"Well I assume that you didn't just come here to tell me about your grandfather" said the Priest.
"No we came here about some marriage documents" said Judy stepping out from Nick's side.
"Why would you come here for marriage records, surely the hall..."
"No they're not there, we check and someone took them or destroyed them, so that's why we came to you" interrupted Judy.
"Oh I see, well in that case follow me" replied the Priest. Nick and Judy then followed the Priest into the back of the church where another old iron and wood door preceded them. He pulled on it and it opened with a massive creek sound. The room looked to be even older and dustier than the hall of records.
"This is the place where all marriage and death records are kept, well that was until the city took that job on, but being the way your grandfather is he made me keep a copy in our archives, just in case" said the Priest. The three walked in and the Priest flicked a light switch and the room erupted with a yellow glow.
"Sorry about that, the bulbs are quite old and this room hasn't been used in a while" said the Priest while heading towards the right, towards the marriage record section. The Priest then gestured with his arms.
"This is it, the marriage records of every mammal in Fox Burrow until 1965".
Nick and Judy went slack jawed. Hundreds of boxes stacked in random places, some filled to the brim with paper.
"Yes I know its not the most organized, but each box is run by the first letter of their last name, and each box has what letters they run through on the side" said the Priest.
"Well at least we can narrow it by some" said Judy starting towards the boxes. Nick followed suit and started to look the sides of boxes for the N section.
The Priest told them he was going to sit down and get some work done while they looked through the boxes.
Nick and Judy then spent the next 3 and a half hours going through different boxes. Nick laid back against a wall.
"Carrots I'm taking a break". Judy looked over at him ready to tell him to suck it up and keep going, that was until she saw how tired and pale he looked.
"Nick are you alright?" asked Judy.
"Yeah I'm fine, just a little tired" replied Nick
"I would feel a lot better if my favorite bunny would come and sit with me" said Nick patting the ground just in front of his lap. Judy sighed and walked over to her husband and sat in his lap.
"So you decided to join me huh" said Nick. Judy just rolled her eyes and snuggled into his crotch and stomach further.
"You just be glad I'm tired too" said Judy. Nick just smiled at her and wrapped his arms around her small frame.
"Carrots I wanna tell you something".
Judy looked at him with a puzzled look, she was nervous about what he wanted to tell her.
"What is it Nick?" asked Judy.
"I love you" replied Nick as he kissed her. Judy did enjoy the kiss, a smile formed on her face as she returned his kiss. In fact the two started to go back and forth more and more, until it turned into a full on make out session. Although Judy didn't think that they should be kissing in a church, she didn't care, she just loved Nick that much.
This would have advanced further for it not had been for a cough from behind them, although they didn't unlock their lips from each other. They did look up and saw the Priest standing their with a slight smirk on his face.
"I hope I'm not interrupting something" said the Priest. Judy pulled away from Nick and blushed in embarrassment.
"No,No, nothing at all, Ha, Ha" said Judy in a nervous and stuttered speach.
"It's alright no need to be embarrassed, love is a natural thing" said the Priest.
"Well, do have something to tell us" said Nick getting himself off the ground and onto his feet.
"In fact yes, I found your fathers marriage records on my desk, I must have forgotten to file them, here you go".
The Priest hands the files over to Nick, who took them with eagerness. Him and Judy then found some chairs and pulled them up to a table and opened the thick folder. After a few minutes of searching the file they finally found a copy of a Prenup, which Bellwether had signed without even knowing it.
"Alright let's get this copied and off to Richard's attorneys" said Judy.
Nick nodded and they turned to the Priest.
"You wouldn't happen to have a copier would you?" asked Nick.
"That is a copy, I made one while you too were enjoying yourselves" replied the Priest.
Judy blushed and Nick just smiled smugly.
"Thank you for your time father, if Grandpa gets any better I'll have him come and visit you" said Nick.
"Thank you Nick, and have a good night" replied the Priest while showing them out.
After they left the church, they both noticed that the sun was getting low in the sky.
"Gee didn't think it was getting this late, we better hurry if we want to make it back to Zootopia in time" said Judy, starting towards the train station.
Nick then got an idea.
"Say Judy, we don't have to get back right away, we could get a hotel room and spend the night" said Nick.
Judy knew that had to get back, but she also knew that Nick wanted some time away from the case, even if it was just brief.
"Alright, the Lawyers office won't be open till tomorrow morning, so I suppose we could spend the night" replied Judy. Nick smiled and walked up to Judy and grabbed her by her paw.
"This my dear bunny, I know a place we can stay" said Nick.
He led them back down the main street of Fox Burrow, about half way he turned down a side street filled with fair sized town homes, each one had yellow glows coming from the windows. Indicating that they were home.
Judy looked around and noticed how cozy the neighbor hood was, even at this hour there were still people out on the street walking or talking. A lone fox police officer walked the street with a friendly smile on his muzzle, waving at passersby.
"The more I see this town the more I like it, but why are we in here?" asked Judy
"I told you, I know a place we can stay, didn't I" replied Nick smiling down at his bunny.
"That still doesn't explain why were here" said Judy.
Nick just chuckled and started walking down the street, leaving a confused Judy to stand there and ponder what he meant. Judy snapped herself out of her confused state and ran towards Nick to catch up to him.
As they neared the end of the street Judy noticed Nick was leaning to the right a little, and eventually crossed the street and started towards an old oak brown and stone house. Judy still didn't know what they were doing here, but she trusted Nick, at least she did for now.
Nick made his way up the stairs to the house, with Judy at his side he knocked on the door three times and waited for whomever was inside. A few moments later an elderly looking vixen came to the door.
Judy was more confused than ever. That was until the elderly vixen gave Nick a hug.
"Nick not to be rude, but may I ask who this is?" asked Judy tilting her head slightly to the side.
"Judy this is my grandmother Marian" replied Nick gesturing to the vixen standing the door way.
"But I thought Richard's wife was dead?" said Judy. Marian just chuckled.
"Dear, I'm not Richard's wife I'm Sylvia's mother, Marian, it's so nice to finally meet you" said Marian giving Judy a hug.
"Its nice to see you again Nickie" said Marian grabbing his cheek and pinching it. As soon as the word Nickie left her mouth Nick put on a frown. Judy on the other hand just laughed lightly.
Marian grabbed his hands but then felt something on one of his paws. She looked down and saw a wedding ring.
"Nick, your married?" asked Marian looking with a confused face, much like the one that Judy had worn here.
Nick sighed and look at his grandma.
"We better go inside, so the whole neighborhood doesn't here us" said Nick.
Nick thought that there would be protest, but instead a nod and a look of assurance. They made their way into the nice little town house.
Although Nick was usually the cool and calm one, right at that time he lost his cool and started to sweat nervously. He could face his mother and father just fine, but his grandma was a different story.
(A/N: Sorry about the short chapter, but I wanted to get one up before Christmas comes and I'm to occupied to right, I will try and write a Zootopia Christmas story for all of you before Christmas day. But as of right now nothing is definite, again thanks so much everyone for all of the support. Keep the reviews coming. Ta Ta For Now)