Disclaimer: Disney owns Zootopia, But I bought stock in Disney, therefore I own part of Disney. And since I own part of Disney, and Disney owns Zootopia I own part of Zootopia. Muhahahaha... wait that still won't stop me from getting sued for copy right infringement. Well darn.

Approved and Edited by: Cimar of Turalis WildeHopps, Feared pirate lord of the Wildehopps fleet, (it's rumored among the other pirates that unlike all the other pirate captains, he doesn't have a talking parrot... he has two talking parrots, and they spit out Zootopia quotes! *Squawk - He hustled you Good! He hustled you Good!*)

Chapter 5 – Game Day: Part 1

"Ralph, seriously, you don't think that's actually going to work, do you?" Bill asked from the kitchen where he was loading up the fridge with sodas and beer in preparation for the game.

"And why wouldn't it?" Ralph replied, snickering as he used his claws to cut out the bottom of the small box. He could feel his tail wagging like mad behind him but he didn't even bother trying to control it. This was going to be so much fun, it was perfect! He snickered again, tail wagging even faster. The look on Nadine's face when he booped her nose would be priceless!

"Because that's one of the stupidest ideas I think I've ever heard from you." Bill said closing the fridge door and coming over to the living room.

Ralph finished with his work examined it and snicker again, grinning over at his sibling.

"This just looks stupid because it's so simple, its brilliant." He held up the tissue box gesturing at it. "The Pack is going to crush the Prowlers today; it's going to be such a total and complete shut out that Nadine is going to be in tears! And that," he puffed out his chest a bit, "is when I will oh so cleverly offer her a tissue," Ralph held the tissue box out in front of him with both paws, one of which was conspicuously placed underneath it where he'd cut a hole in the bottom, "being of course, the chivalrous mammal that I am, and when she thanks me and takes the tissue, my clever trap springs, " his paw popped up from the tissue box, finger making a tapping motion, "and I boop her nose!"

Ralph smirked pleased with his little plan as Bill just started at him flatly.

"Ralph?" Bill asked, and gestured at the box "That is about as stupid as trying to chase your own tail!"

Ralph extracted his paw carefully, rearranging the tissues in the box to cover up his tampering and smirked back at his sibling, "As I recall, stupid or not we both did that as kits and as I recall we did catch our tails."

"And we got so dizzy running in circles we almost threw up!" Bill countered.

"Still caught them," Ralph said holding the box up and examining it, pleased with how it looked.

Bill facepalmed, before shaking his head and returning to the kitchen.

"Will you just clean up that mess you made, the rest of the gang and your friend are going to be over soon."

Nadine was wearing a huge smile as she walked into the restaurant to pick up her bribe for the help in setting up Ralph today. She hadn't felt this excited or giddy about anything since her first day at the academy (though then she'd been a bit anxious as well). She walked up to the counter where there was a huge bull wearing a (literal) 10 gallon cowboy hat and an apron saying, "Eat More Chikin!"

Nadine didn't usually splurge on food but Bug-a-Burger simply wouldn't do for today, She'd needed to be absolutely sure that Ralph's pack mates stayed bought for her little plan but the promise of the best chicken sandwiches from the award winning predator restaurant chain in the city would sure do it.

"Here to pick up my order, should be under the name Fangmeyer," she said handing across her credit card to the massive, nearly bogo sized bovine, who grunted, tipping back his hat on his horns as he took it.

Nadine had to grin as she looked around the restaurant while the bull ran her card and got her order; the chain was a bit like an oxymoron, being a restaurant run by bovines that specialized in chicken foods for predators. Apparently, it had started from an old family of cowboys and cowgirls in an attempt to save their struggling poultry ranch but one way or another it had ended up as the best rated predator specific restaurant chain in the city. The only reason they hadn't run Bug-a-burger out of business was that real chicken was far more expensive than bug based meat substitutes, even more expensive than seafood.

A minute and a wince later after looking at the bill, Nadine was on her way toward Ralph's house with her large bag of food. The price for it, expensive as it was, would be so worth it to see her partners face when she booped him. She felt her tail curl and snap in anticipation as she smiled.

Ralph was chatting with a few of the other wolves, sitting on the big wraparound sofa in front of the TV displaying the pre-game commentary, but mostly he was waiting excitedly for Nadine to arrive. Most of the mammals here were wolves from his pack that he and Bill had grown up with, well actually all of them were except for Darrel's girlfriend Cindy who was an arctic wolf from a pack in Tundra Town. But Nadine had never really seemed to mind being the only non-wolf when he'd started invited her over to these kinds of get togethers.

The first time he'd done it, even though Bill and the rest of the younger wolves had accepted Nadine fairly quickly, even going so far as to give her a sort of unofficial 'friend of the pack' status, it had sent an uproar through the rest of the pack that had taken the pack alphas' to calm down. By now though, most of the louder voiced complainers had gotten used to seeing the tiger around the pack neighborhood with him and had gone on to complaining about other transgressions against what they saw as nearly sacred tradition.

Ralph thought that he might have to thank Darrel and Cindy at some point, because recently they were all the old tradition bound codgers in the pack had been complaining about. Not only was Cindy an arctic wolf (*Gasp* The scandal!) but Darrel had publicly invited her over to participate in the packs monthly full moon howl night. Ralph nearly snickered just thinking back to some of the aghast horrified faces when she'd shown up with him, but besides some of the old diehards that complained about everything (Ralph swore they could win the lottery and find a way to complain about what to do with the money) most of the pack had accepted Cindy without too much fuss. Pluss anyone who looked at them could see that disapproval or not they were going to happen. The two were already at the point in their relationship where Darrel was paying for their dates and dinners instead of splitting the bill, which might not be a big deal to other mammals but was for wolves, even the his younger generation wasn't immune to all those old-school traditions. Inviting Cindy to the pack howl was just their way of making it clear that they were serious to those who thought or hoped it was just a temporary youthful fling. Regardless it had finally gotten the old coots to stop complaining about how improper it was to be such close friends with a tiger, and more importantly to the old stuckups, how no cat should be allowed in pack territory.

Luckily though those loudmouths were just a few of the older wolves who had nothing better to do then gripe or shake their canes at kits while yelling at them to get off their neatly manicured lawns. None of his generation really cared one way or another and after getting to know Nadine most of them treated her nearly like the pack member Ralph considered her to be.

There was a knock on the door, and Ralph turned around just in time to see one of the other wolves open it and let in a familiar tigress. Ralph grinned, leaning across the top of the sofa to wave jauntily at the tiger and call out, "Nice for you to actually show up Nadine! Thought you might stay home and hide seeing as how we're about to crush you kitties!"

Nadine finished talking with the other wolf and turning to him, used her free paw to tug at the red and blue jersey shirt she was wearing, emphasizing the big number ten on it.

"Forgot already that your new star is just a pup compared to our living legend?" Nadine called back with a smirk.

Ralph was just about to reply when the smell from the bag she was carrying hit her nose and he took a deep sniff.

"Nadine, you didn't, did you?! Did you actually grab Chik-Fil-A?" Ralph asked, his mouth starting to water. Nadine with an even bigger grin held up the big bag, turning it so that the restaurant's logo was clearly visible.

"Nadine! Seriously, you shouldn't have, we're all pitching in for the food but that won't cover the cost of that!" Ralph said a bit worriedly, even as he felt his tail wagging in anticipation. It looked like she had gotten more than enough for everyone, but that couldn't have been cheap, plus there was the propriety of the whole thing. Everyone always pitched in to cover food and drinks at these little get togethers; this wasn't like the pack barbeque where the pack alphas had been in charge of setting it up.

Nadine though, just rolled her eyes, "I'm not a wolf, Ralph. Remember?" she pointed to her striped fur, "See, stripes and all, I'm pretty sure I'm a tiger. Doesn't that exempt me from all your silly little pack rules and dominance games?"

"No," Ralph said, feeling a bit conflicted because that chicken smelled really good, "Not really, and especially not on pack grounds."

Nadine let out a huff, but before she could say anything else Bill spoke up.

"Don't worry about it." Ralph cocked his head looking at his sibling a bit confused as he went over toward Nadine, a huge grin across plastered on his sibling's face. "The food she brought isn't coming out of the party funds, this is part of a personal trade."

The other wolf stopped right in front of Nadine as Ralph frowned, his tail having completely stopped as he tried to figure out what the hell was going on. Bill got along well with Nadine but he didn't know the two of them talked or ever saw each other outside of when Ralph invited her over. He hadn't thought that they even had each other's numbers. Not that there was anything wrong with Bill and Nadine doing stuff together but Ralph couldn't stop the uncomfortable feeling of something almost like jealousy at the thought of Nadine hanging out without him, or at least hanging out with another wolf. He never felt this way when Nadine and Judy and Francine went out for girl nights, and that only confused him more since he couldn't understand why on earth he might feel like this.

"Okay, tiger," Bill said and Ralph felt his hackles rise a bit. He didn't like Bill calling her that. He didn't like it at all, "I talked to the others and set up everything just like you asked. Did you hold up your end of the deal?"

Ralph frowned more, Deal, what deal? What the hell are they talking about? Ralph looked around in confusion but all the other wolves seemed to understand whatever was going on and were watching the two eagerly.

Nadine held out the bag which Bill took and started shuffling through it as some of the other wolves starting calling over,

"Hey did she get mine? The number two with no pickles?"

"What about the extra large order of chicken stripes?"

"She didn't forget the side sauces, did she?"

Ralph was completely confused now, and shouted over to Bill in frustration, "What by Balto, is going on?!"

"Hold on a second everyone!" Bill said loudly waving a paw before continuing to rifle through the bag, checking its contents. He frowned and pulled out two sandwich boxes.

"These weren't part of our deal." He said looking at Nadine.

"Opps," she reached over and grabbed the them, "Sorry those are mine, everything else should be there; I double checked the list you sent me before I left."

Bill took one last look in the bag before nodding and looking back up at Nadine.

"Yes, it's all here. You, tiger," Ralph bristled this time when Bill called her that, "have yourself a deal."

His sibling turned back around letting out an unnecessary whistle to get everyone's attention and with all the wolves watching him spoke up.

"Okay everyone! You all know the agreement and Ms. Fangmeyer has held up her end. Time for us to keep ours."

"Bill," Ralph called over again his irritation showing a bit, "What the bloody hell are you talking about?" but Bill ignored him.

"Everyone ready?" Bill asked and there were nods and enthusiastic shouts.

"Good," Bill turned to face Ralph and pointed right at him with his paw before yelling, "Get Him!"

All of the wolves turned following Bills pointing claw, and in the moment before they all leap, Ralph saw Nadine grinning at him in way that he could only call wolfish, and he had a sudden, terrible, horrible suspicion about their whole 'deal'.

Those traitors!

But the other wolves had already moved, and Ralph found himself fighting for all he was worth.

He had grown up tussling and roughhousing with the other wolves his whole life, so a playful brawl wasn't anything new; there were even a set of unspoken rules like no clawing or hard biting. This time though, Ralph couldn't help feeling that the fight was stacked a bit unfairly.

He'd always been a good fighter, and the ZPD had trained him to be an even better one but despite all the skill Ralph could bring to bear as he tumbled off the couch, rolling on the floor and trying to throw off the other wolves, the fight was brutally short and he found himself pinned to the ground as he was literally dog piled.

There was one moment when he almost escaped, but Bill the colluding traitorous pack mate of his stopped that by landing on top of him with all the others.

"Oh come on guys!" he shouted as he tried to squirm out from under them, but at least four other wolves were helping to pin him, "This is so not fair! Not fair at all! How was I supposed to even have a chance, with everyone teaming up against me?!"

"You weren't," A smug noise said and Ralph turned his head to see Nadine casually leaning against the front door.

"You see Ralph," she continued, her tail curling and snapping back lazily, "You never had a chance at winning."

She smiled at him broadly and he gulped, "Not in that fight," she got up and started causally, oh so casually walking toward him, each step a slow, deliberate, effortless move.

"...and not in our bet."

She smirked, her hazel almost amber eyes sparkling as she moved toward him, stalking him.

Ralph gulped again and started struggling madly.

"Come on guys! You're supposed to be on my side! Let me up!" he glanced over at Nadine who was closing in on him. "Quickly!" but the other wolves only snickered.

"It's no use Ralph," Nadine said suddenly very close to him and he nearly jumped out of his fur even while being held down.

With wide eyes he tilted his head back and looked up, right into Nadine's smug face, as he panted hard from his futile efforts to escape.

Nadine leaned down until her muzzle was right next to his ear and spoke, her voice almost rumbling with something like a cross between a growl and a purr as her whiskers almost touched his ear.

"You can struggle all you want Ralph, but in the end I'll always get you."

"Nadine, you can't do this," Ralph said thinking desperately, "We can't bring others into our bet! That's cheating!"

There was a chuckle by his other ear and he jerked in surprise, turning his head quickly only for his eyes to go even wider as he found himself looking right into Nadine's smiling face again.

"There's no rule against it Ralph," she said to more snickers from the other wolves as she toyed with him.

"Not cool guys!" Ralph snapped at them to no effect as the all seemed overly amused watching as Nadine toy with him.

"So Ralph," she said moving her muzzle closer, her dangerous smile growing and Ralph found his eyes suddenly trapped, staring as her smug smile and the intricate patterns of the her exotic fur, the markings unique and chaotically elegant as they perfectly framed her piercing eyes.

"Are you going to accept your inevitable defeat, or…" those eyes got closer, and Ralph found himself breathing hard with his heart beating away like an out of control train as he stared back at her, unable to break his gaze away as she closed in on him, "are you going to struggle?"

"You won't win!" Ralph growled defiantly, "I'll get you for this Nadine! I swear I will! You won't win!"

The fur around her eyes crinkled as she smiled and her eyes sparkling.

She moved in one sudden burst, her head snapping forward so fast he almost didn't see the movement. One second she was looking at him and then one heart stopping moment later her muzzle was next to his and she growled softly into his ear in an utterly smug manner, "I always win. But you can struggle all you want Ralph," her voice gained a teasing edge copying his from yesterday when he was trapped in the cruiser, "because I think it's cute." There was a light tap on his nose and Ralph's ears twitched. He tore his eyes away from Nadine, feeling his face flush under his fur, and look in horror at the orange and black paw that had an extended finger touching his nose.

"Boop!" Nadine said with a snicker, the light laugh causing her whiskers to tickle his ear, before she growled softly, seeming completely satisfied, "Your move, wolf."

…

It took Ralph a few moments to recover before he pull himself free from the wolves that were now too busy laughing to hold him.

"Haha, guys, real funny," Ralph said disgruntledly, face still feeling warm as he got up but the pile of wolves just laughed harder.

"Oh you should have seen your face! And your ears!" Darrel nearly howled in laughter, the other wolves joining in.

"Don't worry," Cindy snickered, "I got pictures, you all want them?" there was an immediate chorus of 'yes's' including one very enthusiastic one from Nadine who was now lazily sitting on the couch. Ralph just groaned as a clatter of tapping claws on phones sounded around the room.

"You can always give up right now, Ralph." Nadine said from the spot on the wrap around sofa that she had claimed, lounging in a languid way that only felines could manage. She looked up and him, her tail twitching to and fro in a happy playful sort of way, and smirked, "You could save yourself from 99 more embarrassing defeats if you do."

Ralph crossed his arms, glaring at her smug face and teasing eyes.

"That wasn't fair." Ralph said and her smile widened.

"This is war Ralph, all's fair." She snickered lightly at him from her comfortably spot sprawled on the sofa.

"War? That's how you want to play this?" Ralph huffed still glaring, and she snickered at him again.

"Fine." He said, his own smirk starting to form as he stared back at her challenging eyes, meeting them and not giving any ground, "Two can play that game, if you can hire an army then I can too."

Smirking more at her suddenly not so smug face Ralph called over his shoulder. "Hey Everyone, Listen Up!" the other wolves all looked over at him, though most still were chuckling and laughing. Ralph looked back to Nadine watching the worry starting to spread across her face, "Same deal everyone; I'll buy your favorites for next game if you all get and hold her!"

Nadine's eyes went wide and her whiskers sagged as there was a new clatter of hoots, excited laughs and hollers of, "Come on! Let's get the tiger!"

Nadine sprang off the couch and bolted before the wolves had a chance to organize, but Ralph had been expecting it and made it to the front door first, blocking her escape.

"Oh, no you don't, Nadine!" Ralph said, now the one snickering, "You're not getting away that easily!"

Nadine skidded to a stop turned, dodged the first wolf that leaped at her and then threw of the second before tearing off in the direction of the kitchen, Ralph and the other wolves hot on her heals.

Cassandra Wolford's phone rang. She pulled it out of her pocket and opened it up, though she wished she could have just ignored it. Being a pack's alpha though came with responsibility.

"Hello?... oh and how are you doing Mrs. Howlerson?... au-huh, not so well then… Really? Lots of noise you say? They can't be that loud, they're just throwing a small party for the game… oh… howling and roaring like an out of control frat party?... okay, I'll give them a call to see what's going on… sure thing, talk to you later."

Her husband leaned over from where he was sitting next to her on their couch and placed an arm around her, nuzzling a bit and saying, "That didn't sound good. The boys up to something again, and irritating that old biddy?"

She pushed his muzzle back, stifling a giggle, "Don't you start that right now! The games just about to begin and if you keep that up we're going to miss it!"

He leaned back smiling but kept his arm around her shoulder, "So what are the hooligan squad doing this time?"

"Same as always probably," she said snuggling against him a bit, as she dialed a different number, this time putting the phone on speaker.

It took longer than she expected for the phone to be answered, but finally the line clicked and they heard Bill's panting voice answer.

"Hey, ah… What's up?" There was a crash from the background as someone else snickered and yelled, "Mick! Get her legs, slow her down so me and Ralph can grab her!" which was followed by a defiant roaring voice, she recognized as Ralph's police partner, bellowing, "It'll take more than just you three to get me!"

This was followed by a playful howl before there was a loud crash and sounds of a very energetic scuffle.

The sounds coming through the phone suddenly became a bit muted as if the receiver was being covered with a paw and they heard Bill shouting, "Don't Break the Sofa too!" to which they heard a giggling reply of "Too Late!" and then a distressed roar and a triumphant shout from Ralph, "Ha! Boop! Take that Nadine, Think you can-" His voice cut off in a sudden yip, and there was more crashing followed by a triumph roared shout of "BOOP!"

"Um… can I call you back in a bit?" Bill said quickly, now snickering nearly hysterically as there was an outraged scream from Ralph of, "THAT'S CHEATING!" followed by an eruption of howled laughs.

Cassandra whacked her husband lightly as he started to snicker, listening to the younger wolves brawl, it wouldn't do to let them know that their antics amused them. They were supposed to be a calming force for the other wolves, not egging them on.

Snicker silenced (or at least muffled behinds paws), she said back into the phone, "Just tell everybody to quiet it down, you all are annoying cranky old Mrs. Howlerson again."

There an angry shout of, "STOP LAUGHING AND GET HER!" followed by more scuffling, laughing and another roar, a loud thump and more scuffling.

"Right, will do, gotta go!" Bill said ending the call.

Cassandra looked at the phone and shook her head as her husband tried to hold back his snickers, before finally whispering to her, "Think they caught a tiger by the tail?" and broke out into laughter.

She tried not to laugh and failed.

…

Once Cassandra had her laughter mostly under control, she shook her head again, though she was still grinning, "You'd have thought that tiger had grown up with them, the way she gets along with Ralph and the others."

"Hummm…" he mumbled contemplatively, as he leaned close against her and she snuggled back, getting comfortable as the commercials before the kick off of the game finally ended, "Ralph does spend an awful lot of time with her, always invites her over whenever it's just him and the younger wolves too. Think there might be more going on there between them?"

"Could be," she replied, comfortable now, "I can't remember the last time Ralph talked of a different girl and that last date a year ago we got him to go on with the wolf from the Silverclaws's pack was a total disaster."

"You think she might have been the reason?" he asked.

She took a moment to contemplate that, "Well… he's always hanging out with her," she ticked of a claw, "all he talks about is what they've done together at work," she ticked off another, "he hasn't been on a date we haven't forced him into since before he went to the academy," she ticked of a third, "and he's started introducing her to others in the pack." She gestured her now open paw, "Already has all of the other young wolves accepting her too. He obviously likes her, and if she really likes him, as it appears he does, then I think it's about time we start doing our job."

"Some in the pack are going to throw a fit." He said sounding a bit dubious, "I mean who has ever heard of a feline in a wolf pack?"

"Well, this is Zootopia," she snickered, "It's not like their traditional enemies like that fox and bunny officers they work with."

Her husband gave an amused grunt, and muttered, "Right, more like mortal enemies being a feline and a canid." She flicked his ear and he chuckled again before sighing, "Okay, but how do we go about talking to her pack or… pride?"

"Pretty sure prides are with lions not tigers," Cassandra replied, frowning, "I don't think tigers have groups."

"What's the protocol here then?" he asked deferring to her for this, "Cindy, might be an arctic wolf but she's still a wolf. We were able to talk to their pack alphas about it and make sure there wouldn't be any problems for them. There really isn't that much of a difference between Arctic wolves and Timber wolves anyway, well not compared to a tiger at least."

"Hummm…" she gave that some thought watching the game as the two team captains went to the center of the field with the referee for the coin flip, "We should probably try talking to her parents then. Maybe see if we can get Ralph to invite her and her family over for something."

He grunted again, "That's not going to be easy."

"I'm sure we can find an excuse," She said waving a paw dismissively, "All we need to do is get them here, then we can pull them aside and have a serious conversation about our cub's futures away from their sensitive ears. It's our job as the pack leaders to make sure that these sorts of things go smoothly after all. Can you imagine what would happen if we just let them stumble through this on their own? It would be complete chaos!" she waved her paw again exaggeratingly, "Young mammals do the stupidest things when they start falling in love."

"Like we did?" He snickered and she, blushing, poked him hard to get him to behave. He grabbed her paw but settled down, interlocking his fingers with hers, before asking, "Are you just worried that he might leave the pack with her?"

She gave a disdainful huff, "That's not going to happen." She said steely determination in her voice, "I'll drag that tiger kicking and screaming into this pack if that's what it takes."

"Hummm…" he rumbled in a low growl smiling as he held her tighter, "I don't doubt you would."

"STOP LAUGHING AND GET HER!" Ralph shouted gesticulating wildly with his free paw at Nadine as he lay face down on the floor. He only had one free paw because his other was cuffed to his foot. He'd messed up and let his guard down thinking he'd won.

He should have known better. In a one on one fight, Nadine held the advantage, though he could take her… most of the time (sometimes...after she'd already sparred several times with others). Doing so though required all of his skill and a touch of luck since Nadine was significantly stronger than him, being at least a third bigger than he was; he had to use body position and leverage to his advantage to lock her limbs at angles that would mitigate her sheer strength if he wanted to pin her.

With his other packmates behind him to help, he'd had a much easier time getting her… once they'd managed to corner her (They'd pretty thoroughly trashed the kitchen and part of the living room doing so). She'd given quite the slippery chase flinging off wolves left and right before they could bring her down as she sprinted and dodged around the house using everything she could to keep them from surrounding her and simply dog piling her like they'd done to him.

Ralph had caught her though when she'd tried changing course, seeing two of the other wolves heading her off. He'd had the perfect opportunity and tackled her as she tried to leap over the sofa and out of danger. He'd brought her down in a tumbling heap rolling off the sofa (and breaking the sofas end arm in the process) to pin her on the ground with the other wolves jumped in to help hold her.

He'd gotten in a solid boop there but he'd forgotten that as good brawlers as his pack mates might be, they didn't have any real training like him and Nadine and consequently hadn't pinned her properly. His partner had used that and her pure crazy strength to break free in an quick movement, catching him by surprise. Throwing the two other wolves off she'd rolled him and before he could counter had pulled out her pawcuffs (he knew he should have remembered that she always carried those too) and cuffed his left paw to his right foot before delivering her own boop as he lay effectively subdued on the floor.

The other wolves had found his plight extremely amusing, much to his irritation, which was why he was angrily shouting at them to shut up and get her.

Nadine though had spent too much time cuffing and booping him and had let herself get surrounded. Harold came in from one side and got tossed bodily into the sofa nearly flipping it for his effort but Cindy tackled Nadine's left leg from the other side, sending the tiger crashing to the ground, where she barely managed to roll out of the way as two more wolves tried piling on to keep her down. Bill though had finally gotten back into the fight and jumped on Nadine's remaining free leg preventing her from getting back up as the other wolves closed in.

Ralph, still from his position face down on the floor, smirked gloatingly at her as she tried desperately to escape as more wolves dog piled her. She'd fought like a wildcat but it was over, he could see the realization hit her as she lay now trapped just a few feet in front of him. And he still had one paw free to boop her with.

Still smirking, Ralph couldn't help taunting her like she had earlier, "You're cute when you struggle Nadine, but you're still going to get booped again!" he snickered shaking his finger in front of her like she was a naughty child, "You lose tiger."

Her eyes narrowed dangerously and Ralph's smirk slipped.

With a tremendous roar, Nadine managed to free one paw and shot it forward to grabbing his free arm and yanked him to her until his nose was right in front of her muzzle.

"Freeze or the Wolf gets Booped!" Nadine bellowed placing her muzzle right above his nose threateningly. The others stopped, though she was nearly buried under them and looked at Ralph who was staring wide eyed, at Nadine's muzzle, her lips pulled back to show her impressive teeth.

"Tell them to get off me or I Boop you Ralph." She said commandingly, dipping her muzzle and snapping her teeth lightly just in front of his nose, clearly threatening to nip him.

"Okay, okay!" Ralph said quickly, eyes focused on her teeth, "Do as the tiger says guys!"

The other wolves slowly extracted themselves from the pile on Nadine's back and legs and backed up, snickering again.

Nadine's lips curved back into a very toothy smile. She brought her other, now free arm around and carefully got up, picking him up too. Holding him like a hostage with one paw hovering right in front of his nose threateningly, Nadine slowly backed over to the sofa (dragging him in a sort of hopping fashion as his one leg still being cuffed to his paw) before sitting near the end they'd hadn't broken. He felt her other paw shuffle around behind him and then his leg came free of the cuff. This though was only a minor improvement because she quickly grabbed his free arm, pulling it around behind him and cuffed it.

"Okay this is how it's going to go," Nadine said smugly pulling Ralph back so that he flopped down sitting on her lap, one paw still hovering dangerously close to his nose as the other wrapped around his waist pulling his back against her and making sure he couldn't do anything like try rolling away, "If Ralph tries anything, I boop him." She made a tapping motion with her paw in front of his nose, "If you all try anything, I boop him." She gestured again, "And if you all don't sit down, not only will I boop him, but we'll miss the start of the game."

All the heads swiveled around to the TV just in time to see the coin toss before there was a slew of curses and scrambling to get the best seats.

Nadine leaned down, her whiskers tickling his ear again and whispered smugly, "I win again Ralph."

He let out a disgruntled huff, "You're not going to keep me here like this throughout the game, are you?" but Nadine just chuckled in his ear.

"Really? Let you go so that you can have a second try ganging up to boop me? Not a Chance, Ralph." She settled back against the couch, pulling him along with her, "Better get comfortable, you're my insurance right now that your packmates don't jump me so you can boop me again, so I'm not letting you go before the game is over."

He grumbled and squirmed a bit but without free use of his paws and Nadine's arm firmly around him he was well and truly stuck. Nadine only chortled in a rumbly purring sort of way at his futile struggles as she settled into a comfortable position using his shoulder as a chin rest, her eyes now watching the TV and game.

Ralph frowned at her, even though he had to admit that, captive hostage or not, the position he found himself in, half sitting on the couch, half on Nadine's lap and leaning back up against her as she held him, preventing him from escaping, was… surprisingly comfortable.

"You're enjoying having me trapped here too much, aren't you?" Ralph said accusingly, and felt the vibration from her purring chuckle as she replied, her chin moving against his shoulder.

"Oh, absolutely. Officer Ralph Wolford being held captive by fear of a boop; I'll be able to hold this over you at the precinct for years." she snickered, "Perfect blackmail; just think of what Bogo would say if he found out you got yourself taken hostage by one wee little kitty when you had a whole pack backing you up!"

Ralph huffed again. He knew exactly what Bogo would probably do, he'd make him spend his free time doing refresher training.

"You now I'm going to get you back, right?" he said, finally giving up on trying to find an immediate escape and resigning himself to his furry black and orange prison. At least it was a warm comfortable prison and they were showing the game too.

"I know you're going to try Ralph," she said smiling, the motion causing her whiskers to tickle his cheek, "not that you're going to succeed."

"You just got lucky this time Nadine, just like your team," he gestured with his muzzle to the TV where the Prowlers had won the coin toss. One of the other wolves had turned up the volume as all the wolves now sprawled on the rest of the sofa and floor, or in one case a bean bag that someone had dragged over.

"Hummm… you think so?" Nadine said her chest vibrating against him with a low purring chuckle, "Guess we'll just have to keep watching so you can see why skill is going to give them the game and me our bet."

Ralph glanced over at Nadine's head, comfortably resting on his shoulder and smirked, "You're going to be eating your words tiger, but don't worry I'll be there to hand you tissues as you're crying your eyes out after your team loses spectacularly to mine."

Nadine gave another throaty vibrating chuckle, still smiling and Ralph felt his tail start thumping lightly. He settled back against her comfortable form turning his attention to the game, his tail thumping just a bit more as he thought of different ways he would get his partner back and boop her for this. Nadine might have won this round but this bet was only just beginning and he was still ahead.

The game got off to a good start, with a quick turnover as the Pack gained control of the ball to ruckus cheers from the wolves and a groan from Nadine; and Ralph's tail continued to thump on the sofa next to where he sat with Nadine, still captive but only for the moment. He knew were Nadine liked to keep her keys to the paw cuffs after all; he just had to wait for her to get distracted enough by the game to not notice him stealing them. She only thought she had him captive and she'd put her nose right there on his shoulder!

Ralph grinned as the ball turned over again, this time to groans coming from the wolves and a triumphant hoot from Nadine.

Boop Count

Ralph: 4

Nadine: 2

A/N

For anyone not familiar with the reference, Chick-fil-A is a fairly popular restaurant chain in the U.S. with an funny sense of advertising humor. If you still don't get whats so funny about how they fit perfectly into Zootopia, just google them, it should be apparent :)

Also a general Thank you to those who have been submitting Boop ideas. There have been some really good ones *smirk* and they WILL be used! We've got a lot of story to tell yet so keep those ideas coming!

Pirate Warning: Be Warned all ye salty scurvy shippers, the WildeHopps pirates claim full rights to credit the originators of ideas when used, in good old pirate fashion. Don't expect just a 'Idea By: insert name' from us, that's just boring. Disagree? Well then, you can walk the plank!