Judy Hopps and Jack Savage sat in police cruiser number 177 at the parked in an alleyway near the corner of 4th and main, their usual banter back and forth could be heard from the sidewalk, where all different kinds of mammals walking past,

"God! We never see anything here!" she groaned, and Jack laughed in response,

"Why do you think Bogo stationed us here in the first place? Doesn't want one of his star officers getting hurt, much less catching anything" he said, his voice obviously dripping with sarcasm, as he took a sip of his decaf coffee, and sighed,

"Nice to know the stereotype remains" said Judy, and she plopped her cheek down on her paw, resting against the small window ledge in the cruiser, Jack fiddled with the radio knob, flipping through stations. Eventually finding nothing that perked his interest, and pressed the power button again, plopping himself down on his paw as well,

"So Judy, I was wondering" Jack said,

"Hm?" replied Judy, her ears perking up only slightly,

"I was wondering if you'd like to catch some din-" But he was cut off suddenly as Judy shushed him, she was staring across the street, into the alleyway on the other side, and she directed Jack there too, she could just make out two figures conversing with each other, she slowly opened her passenger side door, and slid out, Jack on the opposite side doing the same thing, they shut their doors and slid out into the crowd, making sure to hide behind mammals as they crossed the street, as they got to the other side they could see the figures more quickly, a lion and a wolf were exchanging something in hushed voices,

"Probably Methamphetamine" whispered jack, eyeing the powdery white substance as it was revealed, and in a split second thought, Judy leaped out of the shadows,

"Freeze ZPD!" she shouted, and both predators whipped around, Jack had jumped out of the shadows at this point as well, a smile crossed the lions face,

"You made a mistake little bunnies" he said, and he dropped the Meth, unsheathing his claws, Jack leaped on the wolf, as did Judy for the lions, Punches thrown, dodging his meaty paws, small hits made when his guard was down, Judy looked over to see Jack cuffing the wolf already, but this was her mistake as she was looking, the lion took his opportunity and swiped, his claws grazing her front, she yelled in pain and her vision turned red as Jack Kicked the lion unconscious and dashed to her side, she was still groaning as the front of her uniform was slowly stained red,

"JUDY!" Jack yelled as the darkness consumed her.

"Mrs. Hopps, as I said before, she will be fine, the claws missed anything and everything vital, she'll come out with only a few scratches" said the Red fox, visually comforting the puffy eyed, aging doe, "I should know, I helped with the surgery" he added, and the older rabbit looked visually reassured, the younger male doe took the unconscious rabbit's paw, and squeezed.

"Ms. Hopps, time to wake up" said the fox, peeking the the dimly light room, the amethyst eyed doe slowly opening her eyelids,

"You bring McDonald's?" she slurred, and the fox couldn't help but chuckle, the recovering rabbit was almost buried under a mound of pillows, her parents had left a few hours earlier to get some sleep, as had her partner,

"Sadly no, I only came to check in on you" he replied, smiling, walking over to the beeping monitor in the corner of the white room, checking vitals and other information,

"Why you gotta be party pooper" she slurred in response, and the fox let out a hearty chuckle,

"Because while McDognalds may be ready for you, you're not ready for McDognalds" he responded,

"Wuts ur name" she asked drunkenly, shifting under the mound of pillows, rolling too and fro,

"Nick Wilde, I'm your attending doctor, I'm the one who takes care of you" he said, and she shifted again, this time a lot more,

"Fight me, Nick" she said, and he laughed,

"Sorry, no can do, Neither of us are in any position to fight right now" he said, stopping the procedure and eyeing what little of the rabbit he could see and smiling,

"Aw C'mon, Fight me Nick" she said, and he chuckled to himself again,

"No, I know I'll lose" he replied, leaning against the bed,

"That's right, Chicken" she said, with a silly laugh, and Nick smiled as silence enveloped the white walled room,

"Why doctor?" she asked, ont slightly more coherent this time,

"Huh?" replied Nick, his ears perking up,

"Why'd you be a doctor?" Everyone has a story of why they became what they are, why a doctor?" she asked again, and Nick's ears flattened, and he was silent for a while, before shifting the pillows so the rabbit was a little more comfortable,

"I actually was a hustler before, and ended up having a change of heart, I wanted to be someone like you, an Officer, a firefighter, something like that, so I sent in applications, and true to the stereotype of a fox with a shady history, they were all rejected before they even got there" he said sullenly, and the high rabbit's face softened, as hard as that was to accomplish with the state she was in,

"I still wanted to help someone in need, so after lots of pondering and waiting, and more pondering, I went to medical school, and I studied double time and became both a medical and surgical intern, I'm usually with the people from the moment they enter the hospital to the moment they leave" he said, and sighed,

"I'm sorry, Nick" she slurred, again, shifting in the mountain of pillows,

"Eh, it ain't your fault Carrots" he said, smirking at the bunny,

"Eh, don call me Carrots, I'll fight ye" she said, laughing a little, and then going into a coughing fit, he placed a paw on the back of her neck, he coughing lowered,

"Hey, we've had our fun and games, but I think it's time for you to get some rest, Carrots" he said, stepping away and smiling, and Judy nestled back into the pillow mountain,

"Fight me" she mumbled, falling back into slumber.

"Hey Judes, Glad too see you back on the job" said Clawhauser as Judy walked into the Precinct after a week of recovery,

"I'm glad to be back too" she said, smiling, and she walked up to the reception desk,

"Oh Judes, the fox that patched you up dropped this off for you" he said, motioning to a decaf coffee cup sitting on the desk, steam still rising from the hole, she smiled, taking the coffee and taking a dainty sip, finding that the temperature was perfect, she chugged the entire cup as she saw her partner walking towards her, he walked up to her and without warning, he hugged her,

"So I was wondering if maybe you would want to-" he started, but was cut off by Clawhauser,

"Judes, what's that on the bottom of your cup?" he asked, and she questioningly flipped her mug over, on the bottom of the throwaway mug, in sharpie marker, was scrawled a simple message,

715-873-4192

Fight me?

She chuckled and pulled out her phone, it was going to be a good day.