Full Summary:

A new criminal has made his way to the top of the food chain in the back streets and dark alleys of Zootopia. This newcomer, a Drug Lord known only by the name of Heisenpurr, has flooded the underground market with a new drug known on the streets as Synth. Synth has been confirmed as the cause of five deaths in Zootopia, and it's release must be shut down as soon as possible. On the case are Officer Judy Hopps and her partner Nick Wilde, ZPD's finest officers who will make sure they will do whatever it takes to bring this drug ring down. In comes Christy Vixs, your average fox with big dreams of becoming a prospering novelist. She meets Nick by chance, but is swoon swept up into his whirlwind of a life. What will Christy's entrance mean for Nick's focus on the case? And what will happen to Christy when a certain Drug Lord catches wind that the fox trying to bring him down has found a new friend?

A/N: Hello Hello Hello! And welcome to A Warmth in the Shadows! If you have come here looking for a Nick/Judy story, then I am sorry to disappoint, but you will not find one here. But I do ask you to at least give this story a chance! If you don't want to read it for the OC, then read it for the plot, because I believe that its twists and turns will entertain you until the very end.

So I thank you, my dear reader, for giving this story a go, and I hope you enjoy it!

Prologue

It was cold, but the weather had nothing to do with it. This was a numbing kind of cold. A cold that leaves you a hollow shell. A cold that has driven even the greatest of men into revenge induced madness. A cold one only experiences when they have lost something precious.

Officer Nick Wilde sat perched on the hood of a police car, the red and blue lights flashing and the siren blaring, but he paid them no mind. The cold was starting to seep in.

"...ick? Nick? Nick!"

The fox jumped, the voice of his partner making him surface from the ocean of his thoughts. "Sorry, Judy," remarked the solemn tod, forcing a smile onto his face.

Judy gave her best friend a sad look. "They didn't find any evidence of her door being forced open, so it's likely that she knew whoever it was that kidnapped her. I just thought you should know." She waited for him to say something, anything, but knew that it was useless. So with great reluctance, the little grey bunny slowly turned away, her lavender eyes downcast and her ears drooping as she had to watch her best friend drown in depression.

Nick sighed. She was taken by someone she knew? What kind of person would do such a thing. Anyone who knew his Vixs knew that she was an angel. She was too good to be caught up in his world. Why did they have to take his beloved angel away from him?

"You and I both know who took her, Judy," remarked Nick, a snarl slowly creeping its way into his speech.

The rabbit stopped in her tracks and turned to him, her face bearing a look of sympathy. "And you and I both know that there's no evidence to prove that it was him."

"Oh, but was him. It was Heisenpurr," sneered the fox. "He got pissed when I nearly found his inner circle, so now he's getting his revenge by stealing away the woman I love!"

"You need to relax, okay?" Judy soothed, jumping up on the car beside him and placing a paw on his shoulder. "Okay, so what if it is Heisenpurr?" She ignored his next biting remark about how he knew it was. "Christy wouldn't just open up the door for anyone. She would have to have known who they were first, right? She would have to have felt comfortable enough with them to let them into her apartment." Nick nodded.

"You're going to tell me everything, Nick. You're going to tell me all about the people she introduced you to, or the people she's told you about. We're going to go back to where this all started. We're going to go back to the beginning and you're not going to leave a single detail out."

"Get ready for a bumpy ride then," Nick stated. And then he began.

A/N: So there's the prologue. I hope I have captured your attention so far.

The first chapter should be up within a few hours, and if not, expect it by tomorrow (eastern standard time).

Again, I thank you for reading this!