This is my first fanfiction. There may be mistakes so sorry in advance, don't kill me. Disclaimer: I don't own Zootopia. Though I'd like to.

-Chapter 1-

The moon was already high on the sky when a gray bunny stepped out of the cinema with her fox friend. They had been watching a movie named Deadpoodle, and now the fox had promised to walk the bunny home, after all it would be dangerous for a small animal to walk alone in the night. It was the bunny's, Judy's, idea to go to the movies together after she had heard the fox, Nick Wilde, talk about wanting to go see the movie. It wasn't the first screening in Zootopia, but the place had been crowded nevertheless.

"I didn't quite understand the part where he was disfigured. Shouldn't he, like, be able to heal his skin?" she asked.

"Okay, for the last time, his healing factor assumed the cancerous cells were part of him and kinda rolled with it", Nick explained. "Seriously, it's not that hard to understand."
They stopped at traffic lights, waiting for their turn to walk.

"But whad'ya think about it?" Nick asked.

"It was cool", Judy told. "You know, when I was younger, I was a huge Batbat-fan. Had a lot of posters and almost every issue."
The light changed to green and they walked across the road.

"Cool, but Batbat's MDC and Deadpoodle's Murvel. Don't mix them up."

"I know", Judy said and crossed her arms. She didn't know.
They continued chatting until they were nearing Judy's apartment, and a certain car in the parking lot caught her attention.

"Wait a minute..." she mumbled.

"What?"

"That's ours!" she said and pointed at the blue pick-up truck. "Or my parents', actually, but anyway. They didn't tell me they were going to visit."
They walked to the door and Judy assumed they were waiting for her inside.

"Well, see you tomorrow, then", Nick said and was just going to leave when Judy pulled his tie.

"Hey, you must meet them first! I know they'll like you", she said.

"But it's so late and I still need to finish that report..."

"You have never finished them in time anyway, so one more time doesn't hurt", Judy said and grinned. "Come now."
With a defeated sigh the fox followed Judy into the building with his shoulders drooping.
The elevator wasn't working (no wonder, Judy was sure it was at least 100 years old and probably had never been maintained properly), so they walked the stairs until they arrived the right corridor and could see two bunnies standing by the door.

"Mom! Dad!" Judy yelled and ran to hug them. After the not-so-brief greetings she looked at them and said: "I did give you that spare key. Why didn't you use it to get in?"

"Your brother ate it", Mrs. Hopps told her. "Don't worry, Maribella's taking care of him, it should come back soon enough."
Judy couldn't hide her disgusted grimace as she opened the door and let the bunny couple in. Then she gestured Nick to walk inside the room although he seemed reluctant to stay.

"Mum, dad, this in Nick. We're partners, as you maybe already know", she said. Nick nodded at the awkwardly.

"So this is the fox I've been hearing so much about!" Mrs. Hopps said and shook Nick's hand. "It's so nice to see you, my daughter keeps talking about you non-stop, I think she even..."

"Mom!" Judy said harshly and the woman fell silent, but only for a second.

"Your fur looks very shiny and healthy. That's a good thing, yes, indeed. I take it you eat healthily..."

"Mom!"

"Right, I'm sorry. Stu, shake his hand!" Mrs. Hopps commanded and Mr. Hopps extended his arm to Nick.

"Stu Hopps. Good to see you", he said firmly.

"You too", Nick muttered.
It became quiet and Judy started fixing coffee for her guests.

"Oh, we brought carrots", Mrs. Hopps said and Nick accidentally let out an amused breath that he then tried to conceal by coughing, "but your father here left them in the car. Stu, could you please go get them?"

"I can fetch them", Nick said. The bunny mother seemed pleased with this and then she gave him the car keys.

"It's the blue one", she told and Nick nodded. The fox walked out holding the car keys and Judy gestured her parents to sit around the table. There were only two chairs so she and Nick would have to sit on her bed.

"So, are you staying long?" she asked.

"No, we're actually heading to east and decided to make a brief visit", Mr. Hopps told.

"Oh right, the farm festival!" Judy remembered. "Tell Barry I said hi, then."

"Will do."
Her parents told her pretty much everything that had happened back in Bunnyburrow (really nothing much. The neighbors' new triplets were healthy, and little Joey had accidentally kicked a ball through the window, things like that) and in return Judy told them about work and how he and Nick had been in a car chase few days back, and how a carrot cake had been bought for her on her one year anniversary.
The door was soon opened by Nick who was carrying two wooden crates, both filled with carrots. They looked awfully heavy but before Judy could help him, he had already placed them neatly on the ground and walked to Mrs. Hopps to return the key. She thanked him, and praised him for being such a good boy.

"So... Nick, was it?" Mr. Hopps said. "You have lived here for your entire life, yes?"

"Yeah", Nick replied vaguely. It was quiet, and no one really knew what to talk about anymore.

"Look at the time, Bonnie, we too need to hurry if we want to have a good parking place", Mr. Hopps said. They always arrived the festival at least ten hours before just to have a good place. He got up and his wife followed, and Judy gave them a quick last hug. They waved to Nick and then walked out of the door.

"Phew", Judy said, "They're a handful, but I still love them."

"They're okay", Nick said.

"Haha, yeah", Judy replied. She took the cups from the table and put them in the sink, and then she quickly washed her hands.

"So what about you, Nick? You've never really mentioned your family. What are they like?"

"My family?" Nick repeated as if Judy had asked him to recite his whole family tree beginning from his ancestors.

"Yeah", she replied. Nick seemed thoughtful for a second and then said:

"My mother's already dead."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"How did she..." Judy didn't want to finish the sentence.

"Cancer. I was twelve."

"Nick, I'm sorry."

"Don't be. It was ages ago."

"So you lived with your father after that, huh? What was he like?"

"Oh, my father left when I was maybe six. After mom died, I was alone", Nick muttered.

"He left? Oh."

"Well, more like he disappeared. Walked out of the door and never came back."

"So he might still be alive?"

"Of course he might be alive. However, he really liked my mom, so I doubt he'd have left just like that."
He quickly glanced at the clock and stretched his joints.

"Well, I really should be going then", he said and walked to the door.

"Nick!" Judy yelled after him.

"Yeah?"

"Do you... Uh, do you miss them? Your parents, I mean", she asked. Nick shrugged.

"Don't know. See you tomorrow."

"Be careful!"

"Sure, sure."
With that he left, leaving Judy alone. She sighed and lied on the bed, looking at the ceiling. She closed her eyes and dreamed for a minute, but suddenly they fluttered open and she sat up.
Her laptop was on her desk, switched on and a few webpages were open. She walked to the desk, sat down on the chair and started typing. On her computer she could access to the information of every registered citizen of Zootopia, alive or dead.
It was only after past midnight when she finally found what she was looking for, and printed the page. Then she pretty much collapsed on her bed and fell asleep.