Nick opened his eyes slowly. He could hear a soft beeping and people moving and talking some distance away but he couldn't make out the words. His head throbbed and stomach hurt like he might throw up. His entire body was sore and his mind was fuzzy. He blinked his eyes and looked around the dim room. He was lying on a bed and machines were nearby displaying his vital signs.

He tried to sit up but his head swirled and he felt a weight on his left side. He looked at his left arm and saw that it was completely encased in a plaster cast with metal pins sticking out.

Did he break his arm? He couldn't remember. He tried to think back, clearing the fluff from his head. A memory of a baseball bat flashed in his mind. He was attacked. He and Judy were abducted and attacked. His heart began to race and he remembered he was going to be pitted against his partner in a fight to the death. He had been beaten prior so he could be more easily killed by the little bunny. He wasn't supposed to have survived, he shouldn't have survived. Yet here he was recovering in a hospital bed. His mind raced. He couldn't remember anything after the baseball bat. He couldn't even remember when the bat had hit his arm, even though he knew it happened. What happened in that basement? Did he kill his partner?

Nick panicked. He had to know what happened to his partner. He swung himself over the side of the bed but had to stop when a wave of nausea threatened to make him vomit. The machines let out a loud tone as he came unplugged from them. He tried to stand even though his body felt heavy.

A white tailed deer wearing scrubs burst into the room and called for help when she saw Nick crumpled on the ground.

"Mr. Wilde! You need to be in that bed. You're going to hurt yourself," she commanded.

"Judy," he muttered. The doe tried helping him back into the bed but he shook her off. "Judy!" he called more clearly this time, "I have to find Judy!"

"No Mr. Wilde, you need to be back in bed!" The doe insisted, once again trying to guide him back into the bed, more forcefully this time.

Nick fought back, swinging his good arm and knocking over an IV stand. He squirmed away from the doe with a snarl and ran out of the room.

"Judy!" He yelled as he skidded out of the room.

"Some one catch him!" The nurse cried.

Nick took off down the hall. He didn't know where he was going, his mind was still fuzzy and swirling with panic. Nurses came out from their station to chase him but Nick was too quick.

"Judy! JUDY!" He called frantically.

He turned a corner and saw his little bunny dash out of a far waiting room. His eyes filled with tears as he ran towards her. She ran to him and the two animals collided in a warm embrace. Nick fell to his knees as he hugged Judy tight to his chest.

Tears ran down his face, relieved that his worst fear had not come true.

"I thought," he sobbed, unable to complete his own sentences, "I thought you didn't make it. We-we weren't both su-supposed to-to make it."

"Dumb fox," Judy chuckled. "I'm fine, or at least better off than you. I'm sorry I wasn't in the room, the nurses insisted family only while you were still out. Come on, we should get you back there."

"Hm-hmm. I don't want to move." Nick squeezed Judy even tighter.

"Come on Slick. The nurses will get mad."

"No, if I move now I'm gonna throw up," Nick's head and stomach were doing somersaults from overexertion.

"That, Mr. Wilde, would be the morphine," said the doe nurse from behind him. She sighed, "I'll go get a bucket." The nurse grabbed the nearest waste paper basket she could find and with Judy's support, the two females got him back to his room and hooked him back into the machines. All the while Nick refused to let go of Judy's paw.

"I'll go tell the doctor you're awake and see if I can't get you anything for the nausea," the doe said grumpily as she walked away.

Nick leaned his head back onto the pillow still fighting the urge to puke. "I still don't understand," he said after a moment, "How did we escape?"

"Dumb luck really," Judy shrugged her shoulders. "As smart as those sheep are, you would think they would do their dirty work in a more remote location. Apparently a neighbor called in a noise complaint and when an officer came to investigate he saw the door wide open and a blood trail which led him to us." Judy let out a short laugh. "You should have seen the poor officer when he saw you. I've never seen a rhino look so scared."

Nick let out a small huff. He couldn't find the humor in losing his mind, even if it was temporary. "I take it Bellwether and her goons took off then?"

"Well, Dawn and one of the rams did, the other didn't make it." Judy looked down to her hands. Nick was curious about what she meant but he didn't press. She was probably as traumatized as he was.

"But she is still out there, right? Are you going to go after her?" Unlike Nick, Judy appeared unharmed save some missing fur around her neck and a bandage over her head.

She shook her head. "No, I had a debrief with Bogo. I'm on medical leave until I talk to a psychiatrist and get cleared to come back. They want to make sure I'm not suffering from PTSD and flip out on a random sheep. They will probably do the same with you." Nick nodded before Judy continued, "Even if I was cleared today, I probably won't be permitted to actively search for her anymore. This isn't some crime drama, lawyers would have a field day if anything happened to her and I was the arresting officer. Besides, I need to put in for light duty anyways before I start showing and the Chief yells at me some more."

Nick was following along with Judy's explanation up until the last part. "Light duty?"

"Yeah, you know, making copies, backed up paperwork, reception, dispatch, ugh, meter maid." Judy shuddered at the last option. "Can't endanger the little ones."

Nick's head swirled. It must have been the morphine because he could tell that she was trying to say something but he just couldn't pick up on what it was. Or, maybe he did understand but his level of shock left him dumbfounded.

"Little ones?" He gasped.

Judy smiled and rubbed her tummy as she gave a confirming hum, "Mm-hmm! I told you us rabbits are good at multiplying."

Nick didn't know what to say or how to feel about all this, "What? But I thought we couldn't? It is 'we' right?"

"I'm going to pretend you didn't just ask me that." Judy glared at the fox.

"No, I didn't mean that! But, you said it was impossible!" He clarified.

"Technically I said it has never happened before," Judy was starting to get nervous. She was really hoping he would be more excited about this but instead he was throwing accusations her way.

Nick threw his head against the pillow and ran his good paw over his face.

"I'm gonna be a dad?" he asked the ceiling and a smile crept across his face as he processed the information. "I'm going to be a dad." he paused, his shoulders bounced with an unformed laughter before he shouted, "I'm going to be a dad!" He laughed in such a way that Judy had never heard before. It wasn't his usual cynical laugh, but something more pure and joyful. His eyes popped open with an excited light as he pulled her close to him.

"I'm going to be a dad and you are going to be the mother of my kits! I can't believe this," he laughed joyfully until he suddenly stopped and his eyes grew large as he pushed Judy back away from him.

"I'm going to puke!"