-We're back!-

The return to Zootopia was an exciting one for Sarah, Judy, and Trisha.

Even though the does had only been out of the city for a few days it felt like months had gone by since they had been in the metropolis they called home.

Nick was waiting for them at the Zootopia Train Station. His signature smug smirk gracing his handsome face as he welcomed the bunnies home. Sarah received a friendly hug from the fox who used her sweet nickname causing the doe to giggle.

Trisha got a playfully reluctant hug, the fox pretending to try and escape after it went on for too long. Trisha, however, refused to let go until she felt it was a proper hug. Even though the vulpine pretended to be annoyed he still gave the bubbly brown doe an ear rub when she stepped away.

When it was Judy's turn she took a running start and leaped into the fox's arms. Nick more than happy to get a hug from his partner he hadn't seen in a while. The bond between the fox and bunny was still just as strong as it had been when Judy left the city with her sister and girlfriend. Every night they had been away Judy would make a point to video chat with the fox. Her partner more than happy to sit and talk to Judy for what could sometimes turn into hours. Trisha normally falling asleep with her head in Judy's lap as the two officers chatted.

"Welcome back Carrots," Nick said as he ran a paw down Judy's ear.

"Thanks, slick," Judy purred before letting out a labored sigh.

Nick took this as a signal and let the doe fall from his arms where she landed on her feet. His large paws continued to support the bunny as Trisha scurried over and quickly rubbed her cheek against Judy's.

"Deep breath sweetie," Trisha instructed.

Judy followed her girlfriend's orders and turned her face so she could bury her nose into Trisha's fur, taking a deep and intoxicating breath of the bunny's unique scent.

"See you are still hooked on that stuff," Nick couldn't help but tease. "You know that junk will kill ya right?"

The fox suggesting that Trisha was now some kind of dangerous drug.

"Keep talking Wilde because as soon as she has her fill I'm-"

"Okay all good," Judy let out a sigh.

"Oh, now you're in trouble!" Trisha shouted as she leaped at the fox who unfortunately didn't manage to get out of the way in time.

After spending a few minutes watching Trisha crawl all over Nick, pinching, pulling, and occasionally flicking parts of the fox's body Sarah and Judy managed to rescue the fox who was having trouble keeping Trisha at bay.

They collected all of their bags and headed out to Nick's car which he had parked in front of a meter which was now expired.

"Good thing the parking officers are really lousy these days," Nick chuckled as they piled into the fox's car.

"Speaking of.." Judy began.

"12 days," Nick responded before the bunny could finish asking her question.

"How did you manage to get that many parking duty days?!" Judy blurted out as she got comfortable in the backseat, Trisha nearly sitting on her lap as the brown doe scooted close to her girlfriend.

"Because a certain evil doctor had to rush my partner away for some kind of weird science experiment."

Sarah let out a laugh as she buckled up in the front seat, "I prefer mad doctor. It implies I do crazy experiments."

"I agree, some of those experiments were pretty crazy," Trisha joined in as she wrapped an arm around Judy's shoulder. "I like crazy though."

The brown bunny slid a paw down the opening of Judy's shirt causing the gray bunny to nearly jump in surprise.

"Trisha…" Judy tried to whisper.

"Don't make me come back there!" Sarah shot from the front of the car.

"Two Hopps girls all to myself? Yes please!"

"I see Trisha is still her regular self," Nick pointed out, looking over at Sarah who was trying to hide the blush going up the inside of her ears.

The car ride to Sarah's apartment allowed the multi-colored doe to bring Nick up to speed on how the tests at Bunny Burrow had gone.

Much to Judy's surprise, Sarah seemed ecstatic about the results.

"I didn't think they had gone that well," Judy mumbled half-heartedly from the back, earning an encouraging rub on the arm from Trisha.

Sarah looked over her shoulder at the back seat and gave her older sister and encouraging smile.

"In the medical field even tests that don't go the way we want tell us a lot. This is all new ground we are on so even though it didn't go as planned I have a ton of data to go through and more experiments to run. This was all good stuff, Judy."

"I volunteer for more experiments," Trisha said playfully as she raised her paw in the air. "Especially the taste test one. That was my favorite!"

"Taste test?" Nick asked as he glanced at Sarah who put a paw to her head.

Looking into the rearview mirror Nick noticed how Judy couldn't make eye contact with anyone and simply stared embarrassingly out the window at the passing buildings.

When they dropped Sarah off everyone took a moment to hop out of the car to bid the bunny farewell. When Sarah hugged Judy she lingered for a moment, squeezing her sister tight. When she pulled away she kept her paws on Judy's shoulders, her bright pink eyes holding confidence as she stared at her sister.

"Judy, we are gonna figure this out ok? I'm not saying this just because we are family but I am very confident we will have a breakthrough and soon."

"Worst comes to worst I can just stick to you like glue for the rest of our lives!" Trisha said as she wrapped her arms around Judy's waist from behind, nuzzling into the back of the gray bunny's neck.

"Oh geeze, better hurry there Sundae and find a cure," Nick said before getting a glare from Trisha.

"Got a lot of notes to look over and a few phone calls to make but in the meantime just take it easy," Sarah said as she gave Judy an encouraging squeeze on the shoulder.

The multi-colored doe then looked over at Trisha who happily walked over and gave Sarah a hug.

"Thanks for everything Trisha," Sarah whispered softly.

"Of course sis," Trisha replied before giving Sarah a gentle kiss on the cheek.

Judy felt a slight pang of jealousy but it subsided so quickly she simply ignored the feeling.

"Oh, and we are still on for karaoke right?" Trisha asked excitedly.

"When did we make those plans?" Sarah asked with a laugh as she told her head.

"Right freaking now! All of us! Awesome mammal karaoke night! Oh…and Nick too I guess," Trisha said, giving the fox a wink.

"Hey now! I like to think I am pretty darn awesome," Nick said as he rubbed his paw on his shoulder, putting on a handsome smirk.

The questioning looks he got from the three does caused his ears to go down before he finally grumbles, "Alright back in the car…"

When they had finally reached Judy and Trisha's apartment Nick had been caught up on the Bunny Burrow adventure. He was especially impressed with Trisha when Judy described what the brown bunny had done to protect Sarah.

"I mean it was amazing Nick," Judy gushed as the fox put the car in park. "She just flew out of nowhere. I don't think anyone saw it coming."

"No one messes with my Sundae," Trisha said proudly and flexed one of her arms.

"Always good to have a crazy attack bun around," Nick chuckled as he helped the girls with their luggage. "And Trisha has to be the craziest."

"Don't you forget it, Wilde," Trisha teased with a wink.

"Thanks again for picking us up from the station Nick," Judy said as she hefted one of her bags over her shoulder.

"And thanks again for carrying it all up to our apartment," Trisha said with a smirk.

Both Judy and Nick gave Trisha a look, the bunny however simply kept a smug grin on her lips.

"Oh for crying out loud," Nick grumbled as he walked over and picked up the bags causing Trisha to snort and clap her paws together.

"You trained him so well," Trisha said to Judy before turning to the steps of the apartment and skipping towards the main entrance.

Judy looked up at Nick, ready to apologize for her bunny's antics but she noticed the smirk on Nick's face and knew he didn't mind helping at all.

Once upstairs in their apartment, Judy took a moment to close her eyes and take a deep breath. The apartment was full of different scents, the main one belonging to a certain bubbly brown bunny. It was because of this that Judy didn't need to be hanging off of Trisha every second. The apartment had become a kind of sanctuary to the point that Trisha could be in another room without causing Judy any problems. Trisha, however, would barely let Judy out of her sight though, more for her own benefit though than anything else.

"So any plans now that you are back?" Nick asked as he set the bags down near the couch in the living room, making himself at home the fox sat down on the furniture and stretched his legs out.

"Yes," Trisha explained as she climbed up on the couch and settled in right next to Nick, pulling her phone out. "Embarrassing Bunny Burrow slideshow."

"Oh I like that idea," Nick said as he looked down at the phone in the bunny's paws.

"Wait what?!" Judy blurted out as she hurried over to the couch.

She froze for a second, her ears going up as she looked at her friends. She couldn't explain it but she actually enjoyed the image before her. Nick was casually sitting on one end of the couch. Trisha was right next to him, leaning her head against the fox as she scrolled through her phone. Judy took in a deep breath as she watched her best friend and girlfriend relax on the couch.

"So they have these dry erase boards on their doors, and someone wrote this on Judys," Trisha began which caused Judy's eyes to go wide as she scrambled onto the couch and tried to get the phone from Trisha's paws.

"He doesn't need to see that!"

"Oh yes he does," Trisha laughed as she tried to squirm away from Judy, climbing up on Nick's lap in the process.

Nick raised his paws up in the air and laughed as the two bunnies scrambled over the couch, playing a quick game of keep away. In the end, Judy relented though mainly because she knew that if Trisha wanted to show Nick the pictures there would be no stopping her. When Trisha put her mind to something it stuck, one of the reasons Judy cared so much for the confident brown bun.

Picture after picture was shown, Judy wondering when Trisha had found time to capture all the images. There were a few of Trisha and some of Judy's siblings. The brown bunny taking a selfie with several of the younger kits.

A shot of Trisha and Judy with Judy's parents on either side was one of Judy's favorite.

Trisha's was the one taken in the bathroom after she had come to Sarah's aid. The proud smile on Trisha's face was one thing. Nick agreed though that Sarah really stole the show with her beautiful bright smile.

"I have never seen her smile like that before," Judy admitted as she rested her head against Trisha's.

Nick rubbed Trisha's arm which caused the bunny to look up, "Good job Trish."

"What can I say? I kick butt."

Having shown Nick all the pictures from Bunny Burrow, well almost all of them, the bunny's turned their attention to the fox, asking him what he had been up to while they had been gone.

"Besides racking up that parking duty," Trisha teased.

"Just causing trouble and trying not to corrupt the newbie too much," Nick said casually.

Judy's ears suddenly shot up, "Newbie?"

Nick's ears flattened on the back of his head and his eyes went wide, "Ah…well ya see.."

"What Newbie? You never mentioned a newbie!"

"Bogo and I discussed it and agreed it would be best to wait for you to get back to the city before we-"

"Tell me I have been replaced? Is that it? You already have a new partner don't you!" Judy began to raise her voice as she got off the couch and glared at Nick.

"Carrots it's not like that, we had an influx of new recruits to the ZPD and a few of us are partnering up with-"

"Partnering! Exactly! I leave for a few days and just like that?!"

"Judy!" Trisha shouted as she stood up.

It was obvious Judy's emotions were getting the best of her as she stood in front of her friends and glared. An almost predatorial growl came from the small gray bunny as she clenched her paws into fists.

"How could you replace me like that Nick?! We were partners! We-"

"Are," Nick said simply as he looked right at Judy who froze.

"What?!" Judy growled.

"We ARE partners Carrots," Nick said in the same calm tone.

Trisha walked over to Judy and put a paw on the bunny's shoulder, "So you are about to feel like a total butt."

"We are?" Judy asked as she tilted her head slightly.

"The reason I didn't tell you Carrots is that I wanted you to focus on getting better," Nick said with a smile. "I won't lie to you though. I am currently helping a new recruit learn the ropes, but then its right back to parking duty."

"But-"

"Even have my trusty pen," Nick said as he produced Judy's carrot pen from his pocket.

The sight of the carrot pen carried a great deal of weight with Judy. It had been a major part of Nick and Judy's friendship and knowing the fox still carried it meant the world to the bunny.

"Nick I….I…" Judy began to ramble.

Trisha, however, gave Judy a squeeze on the shoulder, "This is the part where you apologize and go hug your partner."

Judy didn't need any more instruction as she scurried over to the fox who opened his arms for his partner before wrapping her up in a hug.

"Nick I don't know what to say. The thought of returning to the ZPD and not having you as a partner…"

"You bunnies," Nick began as he ran a paw down Judy's ears, "So emotional."

"Also so huggable," Trisha giggled as she joined in on the hug, finding a way to climb into Nick's arms as she nuzzled into Judy.

"Why do you think I have been getting so much parking duty? Its so Bogo won't reassign me."

"Oh like he would do anything to upset Judy," Trisha cooed. "Or me for that matter."

The three shared a laugh as they sat on the couch, the bunnies wrapped up in Nick's arms.

While Judy wanted the moment to last forever reality eventually set back in as the bunny thought about returning to the ZPD.

"What are we gonna do?" She asked softly as she sat up on Nick's lap and looked over at Trisha who gave Judy an encouraging smile.

A grumbling from Trisha's stomach interrupted the silence and the bunny grinned, "Well first I say pizza."

"Then we make a plan," Nick said as he put a paw on Judy's shoulder.

Judy looked at Nick and gave him a weak smile. She then looked at Trisha who nodded before leaning close to Judy, giving her a sweet kiss on the nose.

"You seem to have a short memory sweetie," Trisha began. "You keep forgetting you're not alone in this."

"Exactly," Nick agreed. "You have me and crazy over there."

"Crazy hot thank you very much," Trisha corrected.

As the two important mammals in Judy's life began to bicker Judy took a moment to collect herself mentally.

They were right. She wasn't alone. She had her amazing partner and awesome girlfriend at her side.

Maybe, just maybe things could return to normal somehow.

A coaster landed in between Nick's ears and the fox looked up before giving Trisha a shocked look, "Where the hell were you hiding that?!"

"Ancient bunny secret," Trisha exclaimed proudly as she struck a pose.

Ok so maybe not normal, but as close to normal as her life used to be.

Hey all!

We are back!

First off I am so sorry this story has been on hiatus for so long. I was caught up in some projects and then had to get my main stories back up and running. Lots has been happening in the real world too that has been keeping me occupied.

I am also sorry for such a short chapter. But hey! We are back!

So announcement time:

We are currently using a temporary cover by Deannart. Trisha sure is looking cute in her swim outfit! If you get the chance go check out Deann's work on Deviantart.

I am in the process of getting a new cover created for this story. As for the old one, I would rather not go into that so let's just keep moving forward.

3B now has its own chapter in my story But We Are Good At Multiplying. Which is my NSFW one-shot story thing. So be warned it is MA content.

If you all are wanting to see a rather heated scene between Trisha and Judy go check out chapter 15 of that story.

Hope to have more updates soon!

In the meantime check out my other works and as always your patience and support is always appreciated.

-Blue