Dear Reader,

It has been a little over a week since the final chapter of The Fox In Bunny Burrows was posted, and not a day has passed without me thinking about how much fun I had writing for all you amazing people. I am pleased to announce that I will be making sequels! I'll explain the full situation in the post-script. In the mean time, have some fluff from the train-ride home.

-Enjoy

Nick sat quietly, listening to the rhythmic bumps of the train as it carried its passengers back toward Zootopia. He ran his paw along the length of Judy's long gray ears as she lay curled up, sleeping with her head resting on his lap. The train compartment was dark, allowing for most of its passengers to sleep away the long journey. Even though Nick knew he should try to sleep after the exhausting party and weekend; his eyes would not stay closed.

Nick watched Judy as she slept, curled up with his bushy brown tale wrapped about her as an impromptu blanket. He marveled at how lucky he was to have her.

Nick let out a small shudder as he remembered his almost train-ride that had occurred only a matter of hours before. His heart began to beet faster as he thought of what his life might have become had he got on the 5:30 train. His breathing quickened as he imagined the heart-rending ride back to Zootopia. His jaw clenched as he threw open the doors to a nameless dive bar. His mouth became dry as he tried to drown his sorrow with shot after shot of cheap liquor. His paw pads began to sweat as he was left broken and battered after losing a fight that he had picked. His nose stung as he caught his own battered reflection in a puddle. Nick's heart sank as he looked through the bars of the drunk-tank to lock eyes with Judy's teary visage. Nick's mind snapped back to reality as Judy rolled over in his lap to look-up into his emerald eyes.

"What's a matter?" asked Judy, as she reached up to stroke Nick's cheek. "Your heartbeat sounds like a stampede."

Nick jolted a little as he escaped his mental prison. Returning Judy's smiling gaze he tried to cover his mental tracks, "I was… just thinking about how much I…" Nick paused to swallow the lump that blocked his throat. "How much I need you, Carrots." Nick's heart began to finally slow as he intertwined paws with his fiancé.

Judy giggled sleepily at Nick. "Getting all excited thinking about me, eh?" Judy ground the back of her head into Nick's lap for emphasis; Nick was not amused. "You should really try to sleep Nicky, it'll be morning before you know it, and we have work tomorrow." Judy took out her phone to check the time and held it above her reclined form. Tapping the screen, a wall of light blasted her tired eyes causing her to let out a small yip and drop the phone in shock, directly onto her own face.

Nick's eyes bulged out as he attempted to hold in his laughter. He could feel Judy's red-hot rage burning into his lap as she lay entirely still with her paw still outstretched and the phone still smashed into her face. Slowly, Nick peeled the phone from Judy's face to smile coyly at his enraged counter-part.

"Don't…" growled Judy as the tomb-stone phone was lifted from her snout.

"It's a good thing you had the brightness up," chuckled Nick. "Otherwise you might not have seen the screen"

"Nick…" scolded Judy as she crossed her arms at him.

"Well I'm not the one who set my phone's brightness to; 'the second coming of the lord' now am I, Carrots." Nick smiled down at the ever more furious bunny that lay in his lap.

"Nicholas P. Wilde," Hissed Judy from her reclined position in Nick's lap. "I swear, I- Mmph"

Nick snuffed out Judy's protest with a kiss. Pulling away from the shocked bunny, Nick mockingly brought a finger to his lips as he shushed his future-bunny-bride. Shaking Judy's phone for emphasis he whispered, "It's almost three in the morning, animals are trying to sleep."

Judy glared up at Nick before snatching her phone back from the mocking predator.

"I love you…" whispered Nick as he placed a paw in the middle of Judy's chest.

"Well I love you to," whispered Judy a little too forcefully as she intertwined her paws on top of Nick's. "We work at 7 tomorrow; you can crash at my place once we get back. Try to get some sleep before then."

"Can do, Carrots" whispered Nick before kissing Judy on the forehead. Leaning back against the wall of the train compartment, Nick let the warm embrace of sleep take him.

Oh hot-diggity!

Are you excited for the next story? I sure hope so. After the polling session at the end of last chaper, and some great input from you guys; I have elected to make a quadrilogy. Ultimately, there are going to be three more stories which will follow this specific instance of WildeHopps.

The next story is going to be Big Trouble In Little Rodentia Which occurs the day after the events of The Fox In Bunny Burrows.

The third (planned) installment is going to be Off Without A Hitch, which takes place approximately 6 months after the events of Big Trouble In Little Rodentia.

The fourth and final installment will be The Bunny In The Bayou.

I aim to have no more than a months break in between each story, and once a story starts, it will receive a Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday upload-schedule that will go uninterrupted until the story is finished.

Be sure to subscribe to my account so that you can be the first to read the next story the instant it comes out. Thank you everybody for such an amazing ride,

-Duke