Dear reader,

Duke here, and I just wanted to thank you for continuing to read my work. I'm fully aware of how short my chapters are, but with being an animator, it seems my only time to write is at midnight. However, if you really want bigger, longer, thicker, and uncut chapters, then let me know.

-Enjoy

"Oh he's a very big bunny," assured Judy, nodding at Nick.

"But he's still a bunny…" replied Nick shifting nervously in the back seat of the cab.

Nick and Judy had caught the train from Zootopia to Bunnyburrows, and were now on a short cab-ride to meet Judy's parents and her 275 siblings.

"Of course my dad's a bunny," quipped Judy. "But he might as well be a rabbit-bear… or maybe just a bear…"

Nick swallowed a lump that was forming in his throat, as he wrung his paws together.

"And he's got this stare…" continued Judy, obviously taking joy in Nick's discomfort. "It just cuts down to your soul… Just, promise me you won't stare into his eyes for too long. He might turn you to stone!" A faint smile threatened to crack Judy's solid façade as the Cabby let out a snicker.

"Har, har, Judy…" replied Nick in bemusement at both Judy and the cab-Driver. "I just mean… I've met plenty of hard-nose fathers, every vixens got one. But, you know…"

"I know what?" questioned Judy as her ears perked up in curiosity.

"They were all…" Nick nervously fought for the right phrasing. "All their fathers were… expecting… a fox…"

"WAIT!" Judy practically shouted at Nick as her ears pinned down in fear. "You're a fox? You're A… FOX!" Judy's eyes widened as she screamed at the driver, "STOP THE CAB!"

The cab's tires barked and screeched as the cab skidded to a violent stop in the middle of the dirt road. Nick was launched into the glass divider that separated the driver from the back seats of the cab, with a resounding "Thwap!"

"Ow, Carrots!" Nick barked as he crumpled to the bottom of the cab clutching his smashed snout.

"Oh my word, Nick!" gasped Judy covering her muzzle in shock. "It was a joke! I'm so sorry!" Judy peaked through the window and told the driver to keep going, before tending to the puddle of Nick that lay at the bottom of the cab.

Pulling Nick back up onto the back seat, Judy looked into his glassy emerald eyes and snapped her fingers next to his left ear, causing it to twitch instinctively. "Nicky! Oh my word, are you ok?"

"Who are you?" Questioned Nick as his eyes attempted to focus on the distressed Bunny in front of him. "Why am I in Po-Dunk nowhere-land? You tell David he'll get his carrots on Sunday!" A thin smile threatened to betray Nick's otherwise entirely convincing performance.

"Nick!" said Judy, giving the sly fox a swift punch to the arm. "Stop it…"

"Ow!" retorted Nick, failing to hold back a chuckle. "But did you at least tell him?"

"I told them everything they needed to know," replied Judy matter-of-factly. "I told them that you're tall, and handsome… that you have a heart shaped birth-mark on your butt, and that I love you"

Nick blushed a little, "so that… sounds like, you didn't tell them… did you Carrots…"

"Nope!" chirped Judy with a lovey smile.

Nick took a deep breath, just in time to see that they had arrived at Hopps' childhood home. The cab came to a halt, and Nick stepped out of the cab to get a better view of the monumental "bunny-hill" that stood as a testament to the size of Judy's family. The imposing structure stood as a massive green hill with several archways leading in and out of the building, and countless windows perforated the hills upper surface.

Nick ducked behind the cab to retrieve Judy's and his bags from the trunk, taking the final moment of respite to steal his nerves.

"Jude!" bellowed a male rabbit. "If it aint Judes the Dude!"

Nick's hair stood up on end as the dreaded moment was finally upon them. Nick swallowed hard, and exhaled prepping himself to face his future father-in-law.

"And you must be Nick!" boomed Judy's father excitedly.

Nick turned around, bags in tow to great Stu. However, as Nick turned around he found that Stu was shaking paws with the Bunny Cabby that had stepped out of the cab upon their arrival.

Nicks eyes bulged as he looked from Judy's father shaking paws with the cabby, to Judy. Judy flashed Nick a worried look before reaching out towards her father.

"Daddy," but Stu cut Judy short without even looking away from the cabby.

"Not now sweetie," replied Stu, waving away his daughter with his free paw. "Go say hi to your mother, Bonnie. I want to really meet this mammal of your, Nick!"

Nick approached the aged rabbit, bags in tow, and opened his mouth to speak.

"Sly-guy," barked Stu turning his attention from the paw-captive cabby to Nick. "Go ahead and take those bags to the burrow, I'll get you fair in a second."

Nick stood for a second, dumbfounded by the situation that was unfolding.

"Go on," Remarked Stu, narrowing his eyes at Nick. "Big green hill with doors on it, got a bunch of bunnies inside, go ahead and put the bags there. You're a clever-fox; you should be able to figure it out."

"Stu!" scolded Judy. "That's not Nick!" Judy pointed at the captive cabby that was still having it's paw vigorously shook by Stu. "That's Nick!"

Stu's head turned from the cabby, to look where his daughter was pointing; squarely at Nick. Nick dropped one of Judy's bags as he halfheartedly smiled and waved at Stu, whose ears pinned down in a mix of confusion, and bewilderment. The cab driver seized the dead moment to spring back into his cab and drive away, without even collecting his fair.

The silent tension was enough to smother a fire, as nick walked over to where Judy was standing in front of her dumbfounded parents. Judy wrapped an arm around Nick's mid-section as they stood dead-pan across from Stu and Bonnie.

"Well I…" Nick cleared his throat. "I really wish that Judy would have told me that her parents were rabbits... That would have saved us an awkward moment…"

Judy covered her mouth in a failed attempt to muffle a snicker.

Oh hot-diggity!

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