"WAKE UP! NOW!" her voice was as energetic as an atomic bomb shaking the brain between his ears, Nick pushed away his cellphone but still, somehow, her voice seemed to be leaving her carrot-avid mouth as if she was in his bedroom "YOU ARE FIVE MINUTES LATE FOR WORK, I HOPE YOU ARE ALMOST HERE" he still could hear her words crystal clear even if there was no little bunny on his room.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" his voice dragged out his throat trying to make up for the mistake he made by hitting too much the snooze button of his alarm clock. He knew he was going to pay dearly for being late on his first day off work on the ZPD, and, by that, he knew that she was going to make him pay. Nick got on his feet as fast as any fox could be at 6 a.m. in the morning and stumbled on the clothes dropped on the floor until he got to his closet "I'm gonna be there in five" he hang up before she could say anything, giggling just from thinking how cutely mad she must be right then.

The day really began to weigh on his shoulders when his fingertips scuffed on the dark blue outfit hanging among his fantasy-colored clothes, as soon as he touched it he felt a shivering sensation up and down his spine, he pulled his hand and stared at the green shirt he wore almost everyday for twelve years. *sigh* Nick was once again caught up in his thoughts, and usually that wasn't very good for him because those bad things which haunted his dreams just kept coming back, even more recently than before. It was the job. The outfit. All the mess that happened between the preys and predators. He didn't let it show, but that almost torn him apart even though he didn't want to admit it to himself or to her. Yeah, sometimes he thought about her, about how outraged he felt after she gave that speech about the DNA crap, and about how relieved and amazed he felt when she came to him admitting she was so wrong she didn't even know how to redeem herself. Yeah, that was indeed a shit show. Nick shook his head to get back to reality, every second he wasn't spending on getting ready was going to turn into an extra hour of lecture from Judy.

After setting his badge straight on his chest, Nick looked himself in the mirror. 'A fox of the law' the thought the unthinkable, as it was years ago and as he knew it since those kids pronounced the voices that would echo through his head until this day, 'predator', along with a punch to the face. After that, he never actually thought he could be more, that maybe things would change for the better and he wouldn't be reduced anymore to some distant and unknown selvage past. Well, never thought it until now, until he first saw that bunny as a fierce officer disposed to give her own life and set the world on fire just to get the job done. That, he still hadn't admitted, gave him back a little piece of the hope that was buried alongside with that scout's uniform.

'A fox cop' he thought as he was leaving his apartment building with a cold half slice of pizza pending from his mouth 'More life a wolf in sheep's clothing', the idea was bitter as he was sure his first day would be. He opened the door ahead of him very slowly, jumping into the streets of Zootopia while not prepared to face the people's looks, almost running to get to the station as soon as possible, to get to her.