Here's chapter 78.
Bogo and Clawhauser were out for another day of relaxation for both of them. It was curious for Clawhauser to see Bogo with a relaxed face now that they were, so to speak, taking a vacation to some extent, though still alert that something could happen. As they were passing through one of the streets, they saw a small stall where they sold ice cream. Seeing that he had enough money, the cape buffalo decided to buy two strawberry-flavored ice cream cones, one each. Once he paid for the sundaes and gave his boyfriend one of the cones, they both started eating the sundaes at a nearby bench. The weather on the day was not so hot, but it never hurt to eat an ice cream once in a while. While they were still in that Clawhauser momentarily noticed that Bogo had an ice cream stain on one of his cheeks, he got a little closer and licked his cheek to clean the ice cream, surprising his boyfriend who had not noticed, but didn't care. It didn't matter, he liked that more than it even made him blush, he could tell that the cheetah was blushing too. He said nothing and decided to enjoy the brief moment.
After the few seconds that felt like hours for the cape buffalo, he felt the cheetah walking away, luckily no one was passing by and he saw that intimate moment between the two of them, it seems that they found a quite empty area without them noticing, since there was no passers-by around. Taking advantage of that, Bogo turned to Clawhauser, and got closer to him, making him blush again due to the closeness that was happening between them, but knowing what was coming, he responded to the situation and they ended up sharing a rather soft and romantic kiss where again they began to feel that time began to go slower than it was. They had even disconnected from what was happening around them so they noticed a couple of footsteps getting closer and closer to their location.
"My, my, but what do we have here" said a female voice.
"We didn't expect to find this," a male voice said.
Both the cape buffalo and the cheetah stopped the kiss and turned to finally see the owners of those voices that they already clearly recognized.
"Officer Hopps. Agent Savage. What are you doing here?" Bogo asked, quite blushing and a little nervous, because he didn't expect them to find out, not like this.
The cape buffalo's reaction came as a surprise to the two rabbits, as neither of them had ever seen it like this in a rather awkward state.
On the other hand, the cheetah had another reaction, one of relief, because finally he would no longer have to hide that secret from his acquaintances. Although he hopes to reveal this in another circumstance, but at least two of the people he wanted to tell are already aware of this, the others would be missing something.
"Well, we were getting some parts for something important that the mobians are doing, we're buying them from different stores and we almost got everything" said Jack.
"We were on our way to the next store, when we happened to see you here. We didn't know that you guys were dating," Judy said.
This made them realize that if these two rabbits had not realized their relationship, much less the others who worked at the police station. It seems that they had managed to hide their relationship quite well from their acquaintances, at least until now. And while Bogo, like Clawhauser, wanted to reveal it, he didn't want it to be that way.
"We've been dating for about a year, and now that they finally know about us I think we both have to thank you Judy, and also Nick," Clawhauser said.
"Me and Nick. Why?" Judy asked.
That's when Clawhauser began to tell them what happened a year ago regarding how they both realized their feelings, the days they spent avoiding each other out of shame, when Nick and Judy put them together without realizing what was going on and how they finally ended up dating. Once he finished telling it, both Judy and Jack were surprised. Since all this time Judy thought that this meeting she and Nick arranged for Bogo and Clawhauser to meet was because they thought their friendship was over, and she wanted them to reconcile, she didn't expect them to inadvertently become cupids to them. Jack was also surprised, since from what Judy and Nick said, he thought they were just friends or at least co-workers, since he didn't see them as often as they did.
"Well you're welcome. I'm glad I helped you with your relationship. And at the end of the day, I know I shouldn't say it like this, but they look adorable together," Judy said in a way that sounded as if Bogo and Clawhauser were characters in a movie, series or book that she had been supporting for years and that she now saw become a reality. Although at least she was able to calm the muscles in her body so as not to act like a little girl, which would have been a bit embarrassing and inappropriate if she had. Seeing Jack, she saw that his reaction was normal and almost without showing any emotion.
"And out of curiosity, where are Nick and Finnick?" asked Clawhauser when he saw that they were not in the vicinity.
"Nick went to take bass lessons," Judy replied.
"And Finnick is visiting some friends he's made here in town," Jack replied.
"Friends? I hope he is not doing illegal things with them," Bogo said.
"Oh come on boss, Finnick doesn't do that kind of thing anymore" the gray rabbit said then she turned her head and said quietly so no one could hear her "Or at least that's what it seems like."
"Anyway, I don't think they take the relationship you guys have badly. Nick and Finnick have already met several gay couples in Zootopia in their time as con artist and for them it's nothing from the new world. And as far as I've seen, Judy's parents and Nick's mom are very open-minded about that. And children don't have any prejudice either and we haven't taught them anything against people with different preferences" said the striped rabbit.
"That takes a huge weight off my shoulders. I knew you guys weren't going to think I was going to play favoritism at work just because I was dating the boss," said the cheetah.
"That was the reason why I preferred to keep our relationship a secret," said the cape buffalo.
"I don't think anyone thinks that there will be favoritism, since throughout this year that you mentioned that you have been together and that in my case I didn't know about your relationship until now, during work hours your behavior towards others was the same as always, so if in all this time there seemed to be nothing different between you, I don't think anything will change when you decide to reveal your relationship to the other co-workers" said Judy.
"Besides, if there have not been signs of favoritism before, I don't think they think there will be now," said Jack, knowing from experience that favoritism is something that doesn't happen in the jobs they do, which although they are similar aren't 100% the same either.
While they continued talking, they didn't notice something that was happening at one of the intersections near where the two rabbits, the cape buffalo, and the cheetah were gathered.
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At said nearby intersection was Louis who was still held by Legoshi and Collot. With Voss still on the second's head. While Jack, Durham and Miguno followed behind. Louis was still frustrated because he couldn't free himself, if he had only been supported by one of the canines, it would have been easy for him to free himself, but with both of them it was too difficult. And he didn't plan to ask anyone for help to achieve that either, his pride prevented him from asking for help in this situation. He was doomed to have to go wherever the six were taking him at the time. He was pretty sure he wouldn't want to be there at all.
After going around a couple of times they finally came to a place, it was a game room for all ages. They had passed this place by taxi every day both going to work and coming home. It was a place that he considered too childish for his taste and that is why he never agreed to go with the others before when they discovered that place a few days after arriving in that dimension. He was even surprised that Legoshi would go to those kinds of places, considering that he preferred to be mostly in quieter places, he supposed that Jack had something to do with it.
Once inside the place, Louis was surprised by everything he saw, there were many activities that could be done, including: Playing on video game machines of different genres, an area where one could play games where you could get tickets to get prizes, as well there was an area where one could play basketball. Definitely every child's dream, and he was sure that five of his companions frequented this kind of place in their childhood, although considering how things were between carnivores and herbivores where they came from, he thought it was a bit difficult for them will be in that place for a long time. For himself, due to how he was raised, he had never set foot in a place like it. At least he relaxed knowing that this was not their plan to devour him, since although Legoshi had devoured one of his feet in the past, that was for a good reason and because Louis himself insisted, that was why since years ago he had a prosthesis.
While they were watching something, they saw a game of shooting targets on the screen. Of all the ones who saw that they were easy and that they weren't busy, that was the only one that was free, so they approached him and stood around him so he wouldn't try to run away, they gave Louis control of that video game, which was in the shape of a gun. Louis began to wonder if this game really used real weapons to shoot. Fortunately, since he thought that in his mind, the others didn't hear it, since there were two reactions that they would surely do if they knew and both reactions bothered him and more if they were with respect to him.
While they were watching something, they saw a game of shooting targets on the screen. Of all the ones who saw that they were easy and that they weren't being used, that was the only one that was free, so they approached him and stood around him so he wouldn't try to run away, they gave Louis control of that video game, which was shaped like a gun. Louis began to wonder if this game really used real weapons to shoot. Fortunately, since he thought that in his mind, the others didn't hear it, since there were two reactions that they would surely do if they knew and both reactions bothered him and more if they were with respect to him.
When they put a coin in the game to start the game and Louis took control in the form of a gun. When the game started, Louis began to shoot all the targets one by one, without letting anything escape, he did it in such a natural way that he seemed to be an expert, this left Legoshi, Jack, Collot, Voss, Durham and Miguno with their mouths open. He did this like an expert, none of them had done this before, even though they had played this game during childhood.
Once the game was over, Louis put the controller in his place as he said "Child's play" while he saw some tickets coming out of the game, so he took them. Seeing his companions, he asked them "Is something wrong?" While those continued with their mouths open in shock.
So far the chapter. I hope you liked it. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.