Judy walked around the track at the local fitness center in Zootopia's Savannah Central. It been a few days before the hospital had allowed Judy to leave, but to her despair no one had found any sign of Nick anywhere. Even now Chief Bogo wouldn't allow her to join the search due to her "work-related injury" and even worse Clawhauser was following her almost everywhere she went. She did enjoy the leopard's company since the building was mainly deserted between the teams that would switch off every so often in the continued search for Nick and the rest of the station would come and go with different cases they had to work. Judy was to the point that she slept at the police station; very much against Chief Bogo's commands. She sighed as she trudged along with Clawhauser sweating beside her.

"You know you don't have to follow me everywhere Ben." Judy told him kindly.

"I…promised him….that I….would…keep you… safe." Clawhauser panted.

Jud only looked down as she thought of Nick again, hoping that wherever he was that he wasn't in too much danger. She shook her head and stomped her foot. No! She had to stay positive; Nick was going to be alright, and they were going to find him. Even though she thought this she had a bad feeling deep down that kept grinding away at her resolve.

"I can't give up." Judy muttered. "Nick wouldn't give up on me if he was in my position, so I can't either."

She looked up to the glass ceiling as Clawhauser watched her.

"Nick, wherever you are; we will find you, and we will bring you home." Judy whispered.

Nick ran as fast as he could but he could hear them gaining on him as the seconds ticked away. Soon they would be right on top of him and then what? He had nothing to protect himself with and he didn't have any training with dealing with the "things" chasing him. He could only really call them only thing due to the fact with how far they have descended into savagery. He heard branches snapping behind him and Nick forced himself to go faster. Suddenly, he felt his foot get caught under a segment of tree root and he was sent tumbling down a hill. When he came to a stop he saw the beast tearing down the hill after him and Nick pushed himself back to his feet; taking off again. He had to stay alive; had to get back to Judy.

"Why did I have to try to stop them?" Nick asked himself.

He felt a paw rake across his back; pushing him off balance slightly, but he kept going with his arm wind milling to keep himself on his feet. It wasn't until one of the beast jumped onto his back; shoving his muzzle deep into the muddy ground. Nick rolled to his side and kicked the beast in the knee and it roared before stomping on his side. Nick grunted but smiled as the beast jumped away from him and he rolled out of the way of the other beast as they tried to either bite or stomp on him. This was the first time Nick was able to actually see what they looked like.

They had previously been timber wolves but now they barely resemble such a thing. Their eyes were mad with bloodlust and hunger. Their teeth were elongated to a terrifying extent as were their claws. They only wore shreds of clothing that were probably only still on due to the fact that they in really unreachable places for the wolves to get at. Saliva hung from their mouths in long strands and as Nick looked them over as he backed away he noticed that they all were sporting several severe wounds that would usually cripple them.

Nick found a good sized rock and slowly picked it up before getting to his feet.

"Come here you little bastards." Nick whispered.

The first wolf charged at him and as he got close Nick jumped to the side while bring the rock down as hard as he could on the wolf's neck. As he heard a sickening crack that stunned the other two wolves he took off running again. He quickly came to a streamed chuckled as he ran through it; letting the water wash away the mud on his feet. This time when he heard the wolves howling he wasn't as afraid, because he knew one thing; they could be killed. Arm with this oddly relieving knowledge Nick ran on.

Judy sat at her desk at the ZPD and looked through the case files that had piled up on her desk; to be honest she was just glad to have something to do. Clawhauser had gone back to his spot at the front desk, but he came to her desk every so often to check on her. She went onto her computer and went onto the traffic camera main server with the access she and Nick had received after successfully completely a case for the former Mayor Lionheart; though Nick hadn't been told about the fact. She went through the recording from the time they had gone to the bank together on the day when Judy had gotten shot, and she decided to go back to before they had gotten there.

After a while she got up and walked over to the break room to find Chief Bogo sitting alone with a cup of coffee in his paw. Judy grabbed a cup and filled it with coffee; deciding to see why Nick liked it just plain as she sat in front of her chief.

"Hello Officer Hopps." Bogo stated somberly.

"Afternoon Chief, you seem a bit down." Judy replied.

"I just can't wrap my mind around why Nick would run into the back after a tiger and two lions, and without even calling for backup." Bogo told her. "I know he wouldn't usually do that; he's too smart for it."

"He blames himself for me getting hurt and Clawhauser told me that Nick had gone back to where the bank was to look for any possible cameras." Judy stated, still hating herself for letting any of it happen.

"He doesn't know about y'all's access?" Bogo asked her.

"No, I've been meaning to tell him but we've always gotten busy." Judy replied. "If only I had told him about then he wouldn't have had a reason to go back down there…"

"Hopps, it's no use beating yourself up over the past." Bogo told her. "You should focus on the here and now and how you are going to get him back here."

She looked at her police chief and smiled; she couldn't believe he was the same guy who had a vendetta against her when she first got into the ranks of the ZPD.

"Why are you hanging out here by yourself Chief?" Judy asked him.

"I just needed new surrounding to clear my head, and I figured that you would come back here eventually." Bogo replied matter-of-factly.

"Why would you say that?" Judy asked him.

"Because even you need something to keep you going after going for about three days straight looking at something you shouldn't have gotten your paws on." Bogo replied with a slight grin.

Judy looked at him in shock and spoke quickly. "Please don't punish Clawhauser sir, I was the one that pressured him slightly to get me the files so it myself who should be reprimanded for insubordination."

"Insubordination?" Bogo asked her.

"You told me that I was not to help with the search." Judy told him.

"I said you are not to go search for him, I never said that you couldn't help case the area and minimize the search area for the crews to search through." Bogo told her as he stood up.

He walked towards the door and when he was about to leave he looked back at Judy.

"Judy, I've seen how you two look at each other when the other isn't looking and trust me we are working on finding Nick."

With that he left her in the break room, slightly dumbfounded by his revelation.