The aroma of breakfast foods was the first thing that greeted the fox's nostrils upon waking up and walking out into the room. The sounds of something presumably delectable sizzling in a pan entered his ears as he took a seat at the table. The vulpine, additionally, registered the noise of something popping up from the kitchen toaster.

Nick cocked his head over to the side to see his rabbit pacing around the area of the kitchen, filling two white plates with what she had been busy cooking before he woke up.

"Well, look who it is," Judy greeted with an optimistic tone, looking over at the fox as she continued to working around in the kitchen.

"Good morning," he muttered to his companion, his voice still sounding a tad groggy.

"Morning," the doe replied. "It's 'bout time you woke up, Slick."

"Sorry, Carrots," the vulpine breathed, apologetically. The fox rubbed his paws over his eyes, still readjusting them to the gentle daylight that was merrily peaking in through the windows. "I'm still a little tired," he added with an audible yawn.

A pause filled the room, and Judy continued to plate the food for the two of them. "Anyhow, you're just in time for breakfast. I was afraid you weren't gonna wake up and that I would've had to eat all of this good food all by myself."

Nick laughed under his breath, a gentle, happy smile coalescing.

Once everything had been prepared, Judy casually walked over to the dining room table carrying both of the white plates. The fox beside her couldn't help but lick his lips upon seeing what she kindly made for him on this particular morning.

A plate of hot waffles studded with blueberries sat in front of the vulpine, complete with a few other things. His tail wagged excitedly as he picked up his fork and started to cheerfully dig into the array of breakfast foods.

Looking over at the delighted look on Nick's muzzle, Judy could internally confirm that he was enjoying it all.

His mouth still half-full with the waffles from his plate, the fox remarked, "Blueberry waffles, how do I love thee?"

Judy grinned and then proceeded to eat from what she had cooked for herself. In contrast to what Nick had on his plate, the doe's breakfast currently consisted of just pancakes with a fair amount of rich maple syrup drizzled upon them.

Nick looked over at Judy's plate, swallowing what he still had in his mouth before he continued talking. "Pancakes, huh?" he said.

The bunny nodded her head in response. "Mhmm," she murmured in reply. "That's how it works: The fox gets the waffles, and the bunny gets the pancakes."

Nick couldn't prevent himself from snickering at the rabbit's remark.

"Anyhow," Judy went on, "when our food is all digested, we're gonna be heading out."

"What were we doing?" the fox asked, unsure of what she was pertaining to.

The doe paused a moment. "You seriously don't remember what you promised we were going to start doing?"

"Do I recall making some type of promise? No, no I don't. Please explain, Fluff."

Judy let out a slight sigh. "When I said about getting back on the routine of running, you agreed to joining me. Remember now?"

Nick nodded his head.

"We can't keep making the world a better place if we don't stay our best. 'Cause if you don't stay in shape"—Judy cleared her throat, took a deep breath and loudly put on her best impression of a familiar polar bear from the police academy—"You'll. Be. Dead, Fluff Butt!"

The vulpine dotted his eyes downward, a smirk beginning to take its formation on his muzzle. "Thanks for bringing back those memories," he muttered under his breath. Nick finished the breakfast he still had left and set his fork down upon his empty plate. "Anyhow, where do you think would be a good place to go running?"

After a brief moment of thought, Judy replied, "That park that's near Savannah Central's got some good sidewalks. Maybe that'd be a good running path to start with, since it's pretty nice there most of the time."

Nick reclined his head back. "Sounds good to me," he said. "Whatever you say is what we'll do."

Judy put on a guileful grin, glancing at Nick's eyes. "Guessing we'll start at a pace that's not too fast," she commented. "I don't want you to get winded too easily."

The vulpine huffed at the rhetoric that was thrown at him. "Winded?" he repeated, a paw against his chest. "When was the last time you've seen this fox get winded?"

The doe thought about it for a moment, coming up with a good example. "Not too long ago, actually. It was when that trio of hyenas was sprinting away after that robbery," Judy informed.

"Yeah, but that was different," Nick explained. "Those three ran pretty dang far before I managed to catch 'em. Heaven only knows how far I had to chase them before I could get them in pawcuffs. So yeah, that was different." The fox got up from his seat and pulled his chair in. "Anyway, we'll get ready and head out in a little bit. And I'm telling you, Carrots, I won't get winded easily. You can bet your money on it."

Some Time Later...

The morning provided Judy with the most ideal conditions for running. The weather conditions were just right, not cold but also not overbearingly hot. The park, in general, was not too busy despite what day of the week it was. As she continued to run down the concrete sidewalks, she continued to catch glimpses of mammals strolling around the area and kits playing together on the perimeters of well-trimmed grass. After a good bit of distance, the overall scenery changed as the path stretched onward. As she went along, she could see some of the city surrounding her.

Judy gradually picked up her running speed just a little bit, breathing steadily as she went along. The upbeat music coming from her earbuds served as a sort of motivation to keep going forward.

For a quick moment, the rabbit cocked her head behind her to see how Nick was doing. The fox, when she looked back, was still in her range of vision but wasn't as close to her as she had previously presumed. Taking out her earbuds, she asked in between breaths, "You okay, Nick?"

The fox wheezed in between his panting, "Please... Slow... Down... Carrots..."

Her running pace started to slow down, and within a few seconds she ended up coming to a halt.

Her vulpine companion eventually came up to where she paused for the moment, panting heavily as he stopped. Bending down slightly with his paws on his legs, he muttered, "Thought you said we weren't gonna start off too fast."

"We weren't," Judy replied.

"You bunnies," the fox gasped in reply. "When it comes to runnin', you just keep going, and going…" He caught a quick breath. "How far have we ran?"

The doe checked the app on her phone that was tracking the distance that she was running. "Just a little more than a mile."

"And how much further did you plan on going?"

"Another one and a half miles and back."

Nick sighed, slowly waddling over to a park bench a few paces away and crashed on to it. "I think I'll just wait right here, Fluff. I'll watch, how's that?"

"Come on, Nick," she said, taking him by the paw and pulling him up from the bench. A sudden idea to give him some much-needed motivation entered her head, and she decided to spill it out. "How about this? If you can keep running with me, I'll treat you to a smoothie at that new shop they opened up downtown. What do you say to that?"

A wag that came from the vulpine's tail was enough of an answer to Judy that he was ready to get back up and try again. Jokingly jogging in place, he stated, "In that case, what are we waitin' for? Let's go!"

With a shake of her head, Judy out her earbuds back in and started to run a few seconds ahead of the fox. Nick joined in and tried to keep a better pace with the rabbit, the two carrying along with their Sunday morning run.