Judy felt an immediate sense of ease wash over her as soon as she stepped into the hot stream of water. Her usual soft and fluffy fur quickly became a frazzled mess as the warm liquid gradually flowed down her form.
Steam enveloped the air as the doe simply stood in bliss. She would of course eventually get to work on cleaning out the mess that remained in her fur, but she wanted to experience this for as long as she could.
Using the shower back at her apartment had never really been all that pleasant of an experience. Sure it worked, but that was about the only good thing Judy could say about it. The water itself was far too hard, making it difficult for her to get the exact shine and luster she wanted out of her fur. In addition, sharing a single water heater between multiple other tenants on her floor meant that she would rarely have an opportunity to appreciate a hot shower, and even when she did it never lasted very long. Though she greatly preferred the heat to the cold, Judy didn't like the idea of hogging all of it to herself and would always try and leave some for the next mammal that needed it.
This however was perfect. The toasty droplets felt positively divine as they flowed through her gray coat, and it was at just the right temperature; hot but not scalding.
Judy closed her eyes and dipped her head into the smooth stream, letting her ears go limp and shaking her head lightly. As she settled into the flowing water, the doe stretched her arms straight up into the air, holding them there for a few seconds before bringing them back down and crossing her arms across her chest, letting each paw rest atop her shoulder.
At that moment, the doe was completely at peace. Any worries that had been flowing through her head suddenly faded away, running straight down the drain with all the other residue that came from her fur. The rest of the world didn't matter right now. For at least a little while, she was content to simply stand there and enjoy the warm sensation that flowed over her.
That was until she suddenly felt a large pair of padded paws rest themselves firmly onto her waist, causing her to jump at the surprise sensation.
"Hey, easy Carrots. It's just me." Nick said, increasing his grip just a tad so as to ensure she wouldn't slip.
"Sweet cheese and…" Judy muttered, turning herself around to face the fox that suddenly occupied the shower with her. "You almost gave me a heart attack, Slick! How'd you even get in here?"
"The door, same as you." he smugly replied.
"Yeah, right…" she said, rolling her eyes. "At least give me a warning next time. I didn't even hear a thing!"
"Well, us foxes are pretty good at staying light on our feet when we want to."
"Uh huh. You'll forgive me if I'm not always on the alert for sneaky foxes when I'm in the shower. Though I may have to be after this…"
"Sorry, Fluff. I just thought I'd help you clean up a little. If you don't mind, that is?"
Judy let out an amused huff and moved her paws downward to rest atop his.
"Eh, you've already gotten yourself soaked. It wouldn't be very fair to make you get out now, would it?" She joked.
"I mean it is my shower, so if anyone here was gonna make the other leave…"
"Yeah, but I kind of doubt that you want to do that." She replied.
"You… may have a point there…"
Judy let out a triumphant laugh before slowly running her paws up Nick's larger arms until making it up to his elbows. Afterwards she wrapped herself around his abdomen and pulled him into a hug, briefly burying her face in the wet tuft of chest fluff that she'd come to adore so much. She relished in the sensation as she felt Nick's own arms begin to wrap around her smaller form.
Now there was one more reason to prefer this shower to the one back at her place. There were no ruggedly handsome foxes to cuddle up with back there.
It had been just a little over a day since Judy had serviced her first patron out on the main floor. She had only worked one other shift since that night, and fortunately it had proven to be far more uneventful than the previous shift. The rabbit's needs were kept in check for almost the whole night. They'd barely even had an effect on her at all, up until she spotted Nick walking to his office. Only then did her desires start to exert their influence over her, but even then Judy was able to hold out just fine, thanks to the knowledge he'd be there for her once she was off the clock.
The two mammals had been rather eager to catch up, even though it had only been a couple of nights since they last saw one another. Judy had been quick to make it to his office once the lights came on and the club's then downhearted patrons started to be ushered out, though she had been rather annoyed to find that Nick was talking something over with Finnick when she walked in. Thankfully, her arousal wasn't so extreme that the anxious bunny couldn't afford to be a little patient, and politely waited for the two foxes to finish their business before heading inside and leaping into Nick's arms.
After tiring themselves out, both Nick and Judy agreed that they wanted to keep things going a bit back at his place. The excited pair had spent the rest of the night embraced in ecstasy before collapsing onto his bed with little worry as to the mess that remained.
Of course now that they were both awake and in the shower, that mess was a little bit harder to ignore. Judy was now more acutely aware of the various patches of fur on her body that still remained clumped together thanks to the dried aftermath of their heated lovemaking. No doubt Nick possessed similar clumps as well, though likely not as many.
"So," Judy began, releasing her grip on the fox and reaching over to the bottle of shampoo that rested on the shower nook. "You gonna help me clean up or not?"
"I suppose. Though, we could get just a little bit more messy first, eh?"
Judy raised her brow at him and let out an amused scoff.
"Nice try. Get my ears for me?" she said, popping off the top of the bottle and squeezing out a glob of shampoo onto her open paw.
"Fine, fine." he replied, taking the bottle from her and covering his own paw before setting the bottle back on the nook.
After lathering the clump of shampoo together, Judy began gingerly rubbing her paws around Nick, trying to find any particularly matted clumps and get them cleaned as best she could. At nearly the same time, Nick began scrubbing the top of her head with a single paw, while the other reached over and began tenderly applying the shampoo across her large floppy ears.
For a bit they each just stood there in silence, content in simply enjoying the feeling of the other rummaging through their fur. Judy didn't even feel a little bit like taking this any further than it already was. Despite the fact that she currently had a very good view of Nick's flaccid package, Judy didn't feel any strong desire to do anything other than get cleaned up.
This was exactly how she wanted to feel while working at the club. No overwhelming yearnings, no pressure from her own body to do something she'd rather not, just a clear head and a set goal.
"So," Nick started, continuing to massage the shampoo through the top of her head. "I realize that I never did ask you how things went the other night."
"No, you did!" she said, pausing her paw on his stomach. "I sent you a text, remember?"
Nick let out a light chuckle.
"Heh, sure. Though I was hoping to get a bit more information than just 'it went well,' if you don't mind."
"What, you don't trust me?" she joked.
"Oh, one hundred percent, Fluff."
"So why do you need to know more?"
"Oh, call it a fox thing. We can be very… protective of our, uh… mates. Obviously we have a little bit of a unique thing going on, but…"
"But there's a little something more to it." she finished, prompting the corners of Nick's mouth to curve upwards.
"Right. You know, I've heard some gossip from some of the other does. I think a few of them are afraid that you're trying to snatch me up all for yourself."
"Ha! I doubt I could do that much to stop you from having your fun with them."
"Well, if anyone could…" he said, glancing down at her for a brief moment before returning his focus to cleaning the top of her head. "Anyway, the point is that you're special to me, and I just want to make sure that my girl is satisfied if she's with another guy, you know?"
"Okay, fair." she replied, a smile creeping onto her face. "What do you want to know?"
"Just run me through the night. How'd it start out?"
Judy pondered his question for a short moment, resuming rubbing her paw into his stomach as she did.
"Honestly, it started out like any other shift. Get drinks, turn heads, dance a little, the usual. It wasn't until the last hour that I really started to… feel it."
"So, what'd you do?" Nick asked as began to lather her other ear.
"Well, I started uh… browsing , I guess. For guys that I could actually see myself being with. Physically, I mean…"
"And how did that go?"
"Oh, let me tell you." Judy huffed, moving a paw to rub along his waist. "I first found a mink that caught my eye."
"A mink?" Nick asked, glancing briefly down at her. "Not exactly the kind of mammal I thought you'd go for."
"I was trying to not be… picky. After all, I never would've thought about being with a fox if it wasn't for you."
"You flatter me, Carrots." he said, the smug practically dripping from his voice.
"Anyway, I go up to him, fetch him a drink, same old same old. I notice that he's eyeing me up, so I figure I'd see if he wanted me to help him with… other stuff."
"Right." Nick replied, and Judy briefly saw his grin grow in size out of the corners of her vision.
"I ask if he needs anything else, he says he's looking to let loose a little. I figured that I might as well just go with this guy." Judy huffed.
"Did you?"
Judy stopped her washing, causing Nick to dramatically slow the pace at which he did her. The doe tilted her head up to look him straight in the eyes. A combination of annoyance and disgust was present on her face.
"I was about to, until he called me a 'little cumslut' and said that he was going to fuck me into next week."
"Ouch." Nick said, his wet ears falling flat atop his head
"So, I walk away from him without a word. I thought I'd just find another guy who was less of a prick."
"I think I can see where this is going…" Nick chimed, moving a paw down to lather her back.
"Repeat that same thing SEVEN more times with SEVEN different mammals over the next half hour!"
"Yikes…"
"I was livid! I mean, I was really pent up at that point, but not enough to let that slide! I just wanted to find a guy that wasn't going to treat me like I was just a thing ."
"Yeah, some of the guys can be a little bit… disrespectful, let's say."
"You think?" Judy scoffed. "I seriously don't know how the rest of the does put up with that kind of talk."
"I know what you mean," Nick said, scrubbing out a matted clump on her back. "I've told 'em a hundred times that they can call security on a guy for speaking like that, but they hardly ever do it. Most of the time when we kick somebody out it's because a guy starts to take things a little too far physically, not verbally. A lot of the girls just seem to not really mind being called that stuff, it hardly phases them."
"Well, I don't see myself ever getting used to that ."
"You also didn't see yourself being comfortable walking around naked, if I recall."
"Shut up!" she said plainly, giving him a playful smack on his chest and sending a small clump of bubbles and water flying.
"Just saying. Anyway, did you ever end up finding the right guy for you?" he asked.
Judy remained silent, though the memories of the rest of the night were suddenly causing her ears to redden.
"That's a yes then." Nick quipped.
"I'm getting to it!" Judy said, giving another playful smack onto the center of Nick's chest to get him quiet. "I was leaning against the bar, thinking about how I was gonna deal with this thing without having you around, when this coyote walks up to me and says he wants me to help out his buddy."
"His buddy?" Nick asked.
"Yeah, I reacted the same way." she replied, her paws having made their way down to his toned thighs. "He points across the floor to one of the booths and I see this gray fox who looks just mortified to be there."
"A fox? Was this the guy you ended up with?"
"Maybe…" she said coyly.
"Ha, I swore I smelled another vulpine on you last night!" Nick cried, moving the tip of his nose down to touch the top of her head.
"There's no way! I showered twice before I even saw you again! Could you really still smell him?"
"Heh, probably not. Let's just say I had a hunch." he smirked, prompting another scoff from Judy.
"Wilde, you are so full of yourself, you know that?"
"I do. I could make you full of me too, if you want…" he said, moving his right paw downwards and giving her ass a firm squeeze.
"Hey! Do you want me to finish the story or not?" she said. While she was certainly enjoying the way Nick was touching her, she didn't have any strong desire at the moment to take this shared shower session any further.
"Oh, I want you to finish something…" he joked.
"Nick…"
"Okay, fine…" he finally relented, removing his paw from her cheeks and instead began lathering the shampoo along her lower back.
"Thank you. Anyway, I go over to the fox and start talking to him. I ask for his name, I give him mine, er… not my real one, but… you know what I mean…"
"Carrots?" Nick asked.
"Carrots." Judy affirmed. "So, it turns out that Jamie - the fox - was dragged to the club by his friends after they found out he had a thing for rabbits.
"Well, he's not the only one…"
"So it would seem…" Judy said, pausing for a moment to enjoy the feeling of Nick's rough pads running through the wet fur of her lower back. "We get to talking for a bit, and I'm doing my best to get him a little more comfortable with where he was."
"And how did you do that?"
"Well… mostly by letting him stare at my chest…"
"Heh, that's one way of doing it I suppose." Nick chuckled.
"I mean, I could tell that he wanted to, but kept looking away in shame like he was out in public. All I told him was that it was okay for him to look at me if he wanted to."
"I take it that he did want to, then?"
"Oh, he wanted to do a lot more than just look…" Judy said, reaching one arm all the way around Nick to start cleaning his back coat. "After talking a little more, he eventually asked if he could touch me."
"Okay. And?"
"I let him do it, of course! Honestly, I was just happy that he was considerate enough to at least ask before feeling me up."
"Nice. He do a good job?"
"Sure, I suppose. Though to be fair, my ability to gauge that kind of stuff is probably skewed a bit thanks to you."
"Well, I could always give you a refresher…" Nick said, keeping his left paw on the small of her back while the other reached over and began feeling up her breast.
The rabbit shuddered in his touch, letting out a soft huff of air as he began circling her nipple with his thumb. He occasionally let his claw poke at the skin as he did so, setting off Judy's subconscious instincts to flee from a predator. Those same instincts that Nick had used on several occasions to rock her world like no other mammal had managed to do before.
"Nick…" she moaned through clenched teeth. "I appreciate the… reference… but maybe tone it down a bit? I'm still feeling pretty worn from last night."
"That's… sure…" he replied, removing his paw from her breast and bringing it up to her shoulder. "Sorry, Fluff. Won't happen again."
"I mean, I certainly hope it happens again at some point , just not now. Maybe we'll see how I'm feeling later?"
"Maybe…" he replied with a smirk, clearly looking forward to it. "Regardless, you were saying?"
"Right. So, I was letting him feel me up. I gave him a few tips on what to do, and soon after I noticed that he was getting a little… excited."
"Uh huh…" Nick said with some amusement.
"I offered to… help him deal with it. He started to panic as soon as I did, but I was able to calm him down and get him open to the idea."
"Jeez, sounds like the club really wasn't the right place for this guy. He had a gorgeous bun like you asking to fool around with him, and he didn't immediately say yes?"
"Like I said, he was pretty mortified to be there." Judy stated. "But after I made sure that this was something he actually wanted to do, I hopped up on him and… got to work…"
"Alright, and did you enjoy it?" Nick asked.
"I… had fun, yes…"
"Good," he said, lovingly rubbing his paw along her back while leaning slightly downwards and planting a quick kiss on the top of her head. "I'm glad to hear it. He had a good time too, I hope?"
"Oh, he sure did…" Judy chuckled. "You should've seen the mess I was left in after we were finished."
"Hmm, I wish I had…" he said with a sultry tone, licking his lips.
"Nick…"
"Sorry, sorry. It's just a little hard to think straight when you're putting these images into my head."
"You're the one that asked about it in the first place!"
Again, he smirked down at her.
"Can you see why?"
"Oh shut it, you." the doe said, giving him a playful slap on his muzzle. "Anyway, I had my fun, and he had his. After that I just went to the showers and got cleaned up before we closed."
Of course, that wasn't the only thing that happened. Judy was very conveniently leaving out the additional fun she and her friends had gotten into while in the club's showers. Usually she'd have no problem telling Nick about something like this, but considering how heated he was already getting, giving him any further info would likely only increase his desire for her.
Judy briefly recalled the things the four girls had done to each other as they were getting cleaned. The paws that roamed around each others bodies. The taste as Judy broke a heated kiss with Clara, only to turn her head and lean into Denise. The way Ellie suckled on Judy's tits as she moaned into the mouths of the others. The feelings she'd had as all three does ran their tongues along her body, licking up the cum that still remained. The cries she'd let out as her friends turned their attention to servicing her plastered and soaking pussy.
Just thinking about that was already causing Judy to squirm a bit. She knew their dynamic well enough at this point to know that whenever one of them became horny, the other usually followed close behind. Telling him about this would likely put him over the edge, and it wouldn't be too long before she too would eventually relent and give in to him.
So for now, the doe kept quiet. Perhaps later tonight she could tell him about her amorous adventures with the other girls, when she herself was feeling much more in the mood…
Hell, if she was lucky she might even be able to convince the others to help recreate the encounter with him later.
"Well, I'm glad you were able to open up to the place." Nick said, breaking her thoughts and turning her attention back to him. "Even if you're not planning on being as open as the rest of the girls."
"Heh, not nearly …" Judy remarked.
"Hey, I can't say I blame you. The guys there can be a little… rowdy sometimes."
Judy paused her cleaning and turned her head up towards his. She raised a brow as Nick met her gaze.
"A little?"
"Oh, you know what I mean…"
For a while after, the two mammals simply stood there in silence as they helped comb through each other's soaking coats. While Judy certainly enjoyed feeling Nick's rough pads running along her body, there was something relaxing about knowing that it wasn't going to immediately be followed by him pinning her down. Not that she wouldn't enjoy that as well, but simply reveling in each other's company with nothing more than a few intimate touches made what the two had feel much more normal. The circumstances of their relationship were far from that, so Judy appreciated the little things like this that reminded her that she wasn't with him purely because of the things he could do in bed.
Soon, the warm stream of water washed away all the bubbles that remained attached to their fur, leaving Nick and Judy sparkly clean. The shampoo that Nick had available wasn't what Judy would've preferred if given the choice, but it was serviceable at the very least. She mentally made a note to pick up an extra bottle of her preferred brand and leave it here the next time she was over.
Judy was the first to actually exit the shower once the flow of water finally ceased. Stepping out onto the cold white tiles of Nick's bathroom, she reached over and grabbed a couple of neatly hanging towels from the rack. The doe tossed one back at Nick before wrapping herself up in the other, slightly shivering now that she no longer felt the shower's warm embrace, along with her fox's.
"You hungry?" Nick asked as he stepped out, his towel wrapped around his waist.
"I could go for something, yeah." she replied, taking a few tentative steps towards the bathroom door.
"There's some blueberries in the fridge, along with some carrots and some greens. I think I've got a few apples that are still good, too."
Judy peeked over her shoulder, her back still exposed to him. She sent him a quick smirk as she wrapped the towel fully around herself
"Were you expecting someone, Mr. Wilde?" she joked.
"Well, there's this cute bunny, she comes over every now and then."
"Hmm, I'm sure she's lovely…"
"Oh she's great, you'd love her." Nick said, moving past and pushing open the door.
As the duo moved out of the door and through his lavish apartment, Judy again wondered just how much Nick paid for rent on this place. Having spent a few more nights here since first seeing it, the doe had since learned that Nick had paid to have the entire apartment soundproofed. Considering the activities he liked to get up to with his does, she didn't feel the need to ask why.
Reaching the kitchen, Judy moved around the granite countertop and made her way towards the fridge to inspect what the fox had on offer. Just as he'd said, there was an assortment of goods that would be more than palatable to her tastes, or any other rabbit's for that matter, along with a fair variety of meat and protein products for him.
Not feeling like going for too much all at once, Judy simply grabbed a couple of carrots and began idley munching on the tip as she closed the fridge. As she turned away to find her partner, she saw him move to sit on the couch, still wrapped up in his towel. She watched as he picked the remote up off of the glass coffee table and turned on the television.
"So," Nick began as he started idly flicking through the channels. "You got anything going on today?"
"Besides work later? Not really." Judy said, slowly making her way towards him as she chewed. "I was thinking about taking a long stroll through the Rainforest District on Thursday though. Maybe you'd like to come along?"
"Maybe," he replied, still surfing through channels. "That district is a little too damp for my liking, but I guess I could put up with it if you were there…"
"It's a date then." Judy quipped.
After munching on the last of her snack, the doe stepped over and sat next to him on the couch, leaning slightly into him as she did.
"What are we watching?" she muttered as she chewed, her mouth still full.
"I have… no idea. Nothing on right now except the news and a hundred of those awful morning shows. Honestly, I'd rather be back at those damn meetings instead of watching this stuff."
At the mention, Judy suddenly remembered that she'd been meaning to ask him what all the late night gatherings he'd been going to had even been about. She'd wanted to ask him sometime last night, but had promptly forgotten about it as soon as she had her legs spread for him on his desk.
"Speaking of…" she started, swallowing what remained of her food and snatching the remote from his paw to mute the tv. "You still haven't told me what these meetings have even been for."
"Just some ideas for the club. Ways to expand the business, that kind of thing."
"So, are you gonna tell me what that entails?" she said, wanting more from him.
"Well, we haven't quite worked out all the details yet, and we're probably still at least a month away from being able to get it started. I'm not sure if…"
Nick froze as soon as he saw the look on Judy's face. The doe was staring daggers at him with her brow furrowed into a disapproving look. Her arms were crossed over her covered chest, and the smallest hint of a frown was present on her mouth.
"I… don't like that look from you…" he said, unable or unwilling to break eye contact with her.
Judy said nothing, simply raising a single brow at him and leaning her head slightly forward.
"What… what is that even supposed to mean?"
"This," Judy started, pointing to her face. "This is the look you get when your girlfriend doesn't like what she's hearing. Gonna do anything to fix that?"
The unamused doe again furrowed her brow.
"Okay fine, fine!" he said, throwing his paws in the air. "Just don't tell anyone, alright? Finnick will kill me if the word gets out too soon."
"My lips are sealed!" Judy said, her face returning to normal as she moved to sit back on the couch.
"Okay. So, this is something that Finn and I have been chatting about for quite awhile. We're planning on making a sort of… delivery service for the does."
"A what?" she replied.
"You know, like a way for guys that either can't or don't want to come all the way out to the club to still have a little fun, be it as a birthday present, the entertainment for a bachelor party, or just giving some service to a guy that really needs it."
"Alright, but… is that… safe for the other girls? Is that even legal?"
"Yes, and yes!" the fox said, emphasizing each word with a pointed finger. "Those are the two main things that most of these meetings I've been going to have been about. First thing is getting them there safely. We've made a deal with a rental company to get us a few discrete vans to get them there and back one piece. In addition to that, we're planning on hiring a whole bunch of extra security just to keep the does safe while they're away, and they'll stay with them at all times to make sure nothing goes wrong."
"At all times? Are the customers going to be okay with that?"
"It'll be listed as a condition on their service agreement. If any of my does have a finger laid on them without wanting it, then I want to make sure somebody is gonna be there to help."
"Okay, that's good to hear," Judy said, relieved to hear that he was still thinking about his employees' wellbeing. "Still though, how exactly is this going to be legal? You of all mammals would know that this kind of… work isn't legal outside of the Nocturnal District."
"That's the thing, doing it this way totally is!"
"How exactly?"
"Because the law only states that payment can't be exchanged outside the District. It doesn't actually specify anything about where that particular service can or can't be provided."
"So, you're using a loophole?" Judy asked.
"Yup!" Nick said "You see, we're gonna make it so that the service has to be paid for and scheduled in advance over at the club. After that, no money is changing hands where it isn't legal, it's just a couple of mammals meeting up for a good time. I actually spent a fair amount of time talking to a few lawyers about this. Most of them said that a court likely wouldn't be able to prosecute this kind of thing, and the worst outcome is probably just a fine for bending the law a little, all of which will be paid for by me if it does happen."
"Wow… okay then, that's… a heck of an idea there, Slick." Judy said, still not entirely sure how to feel about this.
She was a little conflicted to be honest. On one paw, Nick was working on expanding his business of further objectifying her species and profiting off of their perceived stereotypes. At the same time however, she knew that he wasn't doing this out of malice or anything like that. He was simply a businessmammal, and a rather shrewd one at that. If he thought that his club could make some additional profit off of this kind of thing, chances were good that he was right. It didn't make her feel great about the public's perception of rabbits, but this probably wasn't going to change that anyway.
Additionally, he's continued to demonstrate that he puts in a lot of work when it comes to the wellbeing and safety of his does. Obviously he gave Judy a fair bit of leeway when it came to what she wanted to do there, but the same thing went for the rest of the girls as well. Judy had never heard a single time about him doing anything to mistreat or exploit any of them. Hell, she'd never anything even close to a complaint from them about how he ran things.
Though the doe's desires were still fully quenched at this point, the back of her mind couldn't help but conjure up an image of her showing up to a complete stranger's apartment and stripping down to nothing but her bare fur before letting them do whatever they wanted to her. Fortunately, this image was rather short lived and barely even had an outward effect on her - a testament to the progress Judy had made at keeping herself under control.
"I'm guessing you're not thrilled…" Nick suddenly said, snapping Judy back to reality.
"No, it's fine! It's just… not something I think I really want to do right now, if given the option."
"I figured. Rest assured, not a single doe is gonna be doing this without signing up for it. I am gonna give the girls that do this stuff a bit of a pay bump though, if that matters."
"Heh, I'm not desperate enough for that yet…" Judy said.
"Fair enough. Just know that the option is open if you ever feel like trying something new."
"Noted," she replied, confident that getting delivered to strangers wasn't something she was comfortable with. "Anyway, I'm getting a little sick of the work talk, Slick. Is there anything else that I should know before we settle down for a bit?"
Nick simply shook his head.
"Nope, can't say there is. That was about the only new stuff we-"
The fox froze mid sentence, his eyes going wide before letting out a few rapid blinks.
"Oh crap…" he said, bringing his paw up to his forehead with an audible smack . "I can't believe I almost forgot to tell you!"
"Tell me what?" she asked.
"I mean, I was planning on letting you know tonight with the rest of the does, but I didn't plan on us coming back here, and I was a little preoccupied to tell you then, and it just slipped my mind and-"
"Nick!" Judy yelled, prompting the fox to cease his rambling.
"Okay okay, sorry!" he said, briefly putting out his paws in a defensive manner before dropping them into his lap. "So, I've been meaning to tell you and the rest of the girls this, but I just never really got around to it. Starting tonight, all the does at The Rabbit Hole are gonna have a sort of… uniform."
"A uniform? You mean we aren't going to be walking around naked anymore?"
"Well no, you will… maybe uniform wasn't the right word…"
"So what? Are we gonna start wearing lingerie or something?"
"No, nothing like that. I still want the girls to keep their goods out on display, so I guess calling it a… name tag would be a little more accurate."
Judy didn't respond, simply raising a brow at him and crossing her arms over her chest with a huff.
"Let me explain." Nick began. "We've been getting some complaints from the guys that it can sometimes be difficult to find their favorite doe out on the floor, especially if the doe in question doesn't have a very… unique pattern of fur."
Judy said nothing, but did start to visibly relax a little. She didn't want to interrupt and let him continue speaking.
"Granted, we haven't had a huge amount of complaints like this, but enough that I started to take notice. After all, not every mammal has good night vision like I do. I can hardly blame them for finding it hard to see in there sometimes. So, I thought up a little solution."
"...Okay," Judy said after a short pause. "Are you going to tell me what that solution is?"
"Yes! Er, well… you know what, it'd be easier if I just showed you now!" Nick said as he stood up from the couch, one paw still grasping at the towel around his waist. "I have yours here, actually. Like I said, I was gonna tell everyone about it tonight, and I wanted to hand over yours myself. But again, when we went back here I was a little busy with you to think about… just give me one sec!"
The fox began to scurry across his apartment and back over to his bedroom, his still slightly damp tail being the last thing Judy saw before he zipped out of sight. She could barely make out the sound of him rummaging through several drawers, before eventually seeing him reappear and quickly start making his way back to her on the couch. Both of his paws were hidden behind his back.
"Okay, ready?" Nick after returning to her.
"About as much as I'll ever be, I guess." Judy replied.
Once the fox heard her affirmations, he moved his paws from behind himself. What sat resting squarely in the center of his large pads was a band of black leather, its curves noticeable enough to make out that it would eventually form a complete ring, but clearly not fully connected at the moment. In the direct middle of the band was a thin metal plate that stretched along its surface for a few inches, with what appeared to be a simple engraving of a cartoonish carrot in the center.
It only took a few moments for Judy to process exactly what she was looking at.
"A… collar?" Judy asked, her eyes still transfixed on the restraint.
"Yup. Tagged and everything, as you can see. I knew you wouldn't want to have your name on yours, so I opted to have this done for you instead."
"I… appreciate that." she said, briefly sending Nick a glance along with a quick smile before looking back down at the collar. "Did you have these made for every doe?"
"Sure did. Every collar is a little different, tailored to each girl."
"Jeez. I can't imagine they were very easy to get if you had them all custom made."
"I know a guy, makes a lot of gear for this BDSM club on the other side of the district."
"Ah, I see…" Judy muttered, quickly working to get the thought of what such a place would even look like out of her head.
"But hey, look at this!" Nick said, reaching his free paw closer to the metal tag on the front of the collar. Judy watched as his digit reached over and pressed a small button on the side of the tag that she hadn't previously noticed.
As soon as he did so, a soft glow suddenly began to emit from the carrot engraving. The body of the symbolic vegetable was orange, while what she assumed was the stem was instead green. In the well lit interior of Nick's apartment, she was just barely able to make it out. In the dim atmosphere of the club however, she could see it being much more noticeable.
Outwardly, Judy tried her best to put on an amicable expression at the very least. Inside however, she remained conflicted.
While still somewhat strange to her, Judy was at least comfortable walking around the club fully nude at this point, so she considered being able to wear literally anything else at all a step up. Something about this though just didn't sit right with her. Wearing this around was only going to make it easier for the guys to find her specifically. Obviously the choice was still hers on whether or not they would actually have their way, but the fact remained that she was likely to be propositioned even more if she were to wear this around.
Yet even as she thought this, Judy also found it much harder to care about that particular point. After all, the rabbit had already done much more than she'd anticipated doing at the club. Teasing the guys, watching them yearn after her before making it clear she was off limits. Dancing on the poles, watching the various eyes in the crowd watching her as she did. The shift she'd spent in the glory holes, anonymously servicing the males that came to her. Judy wouldn't have been able to even imagine herself doing those things when she'd first moved to the city.
And now she'd taken things one step further, having actually gone all the way on the main floor. The more pessimistic part of Judy's brain was telling her that she'd failed herself. She'd been unable to resist her primal urges, and now she was just another whore like every other doe at the club.
However, such thoughts only lingered for a brief moment before being replaced by a wave of complete contentment.
Although she'd never known the full extent of it until recently, it was clear to Judy that she really, really enjoyed having sex. That was pretty obvious, as almost every mammal would agree that it's a pretty fun activity. So why had she been fighting against it so hard all this time? The obvious answer was her police aspirations, but those were still firmly intact. Nothing about what she was doing now was going to prevent her from going to the academy in a year's time. In fact, the money was only going to help her experience all that Zootopia was without any fear of having to move back in with her family in Bunny Burrow. Fighting so hard against enjoying herself wasn't going to help move that along any faster.
In fact, fighting her urges had done nothing but plague her this entire time. Although Judy had only worked one more shift since giving in, it had been the easiest night of work she'd had so far. The only reason she'd even felt her need rising was because she'd spotted Nick, and was very eager to reacquaint herself with him.
Despite the undeniable reality that she was finding herself increasingly drawn in by The Rabbit Hole, Judy still had her limits. Finding a decent guy to help tend to her needs when they get out of control would be no big deal. Spending hours on her knees sucking and fucking any male that so much as looked at her was completely different. While her standards for her behavior at the club were still finding their proper resting place, she was beginning to see that not finding out exactly what those standards truly were was only going to make her time there more miserable.
Looking down at the collar in her lover's paws, a single corner of Judy's mouth curved slightly upwards. Whatever her true limits were, Judy knew that she could figure it out, as long as Nick was around to help support her through it.
"Carrots? You okay?" Nick asked, his brow furrowed with concern.
Judy blinked, suddenly aware of just how lost in thought she'd been.
"Yeah, sorry. Just thinking," She said, still looking at the leather ring in his paws. "Do you mind if I… try it on?"
"Of course." Nick said with a gentle smile.
The fox took another step forward and handed her the collar. She pondered it for a moment, testing the weight in her own paws. While it was definitely heavier than a simple choker, it still seemed light enough to allow a full range of neck motion when it was worn. Judy felt her heartbeat begin to increase as she moved the leather restraint around her neck and tightened it to the best of her ability, leaving it just loose enough so that she wouldn't constantly be reminded of its presence.
"Well… what do you think?" she asked.
"Personally?" He said, sitting down on the couch. "I think you look great. I mean you always do, but this is something else. I will admit though, I would like to get a peek at the complete uniform before I pass judgment."
Judy looked amusingly at him. While she was a little concerned that he was only saying this in an effort to get into her currently absent pants, she trusted him enough to keep it under control.
With almost no fanfare to speak of, Judy rose from the couch. She paused and stared at him for a short while, with the hope of making him wonder if she was actually going to do it. Once she saw his usual self confident look fade for just the tiniest bit, she let her towel fall down to her feet, leaving the doe fully exposed to him.
"And how about now, Mr. Wilde?" She asked, leaning slightly into her left leg.
"I think…" the fox began, slowly inspecting every inch of her. "That every guy in the club is gonna have trouble keeping their paws off of you. I'd know, considering how much I'm having to fight that right now."
"Then how about I make it easier for you?" She said, taking a few steps back towards him and promptly sitting down next to him and leaning into his warm fur. She idly rubbed a paw along his chest as one of his reached over and grabbed her around the waist.
"Better?" Judy asked.
"Much." Nick replied.
The two mammals leaned in and shared a short but nonetheless passionate kiss. While it was still clear to Judy that Nick would put up no protest were they to take this further, he still made no attempt to do anything other than share the moment between the two of them.
"So," she eventually started. "Feel like a movie? I'm sure we can find something worth watching."
"Sounds good to me, Carrots."
As Nick picked up the remote and resumed flipping through the channels, Judy leaned even more into him, giving no complaints as his free paw caressed around her bare curves. Although it took another half hour for the two mammals to find something they both didn't immediately veto, they both knew that there was no other place that they'd rather be.
In due time, Judy's soreness eventually faded. Not long after, the fox and the rabbit began engaging in the sensual embrace that they'd done so many times before.
And just as she'd expected, Nick really wanted to hear more about what happened back in the club's showers.