The pit 19
In the kitchen
Nick ran into the Kitchen, huffing.
Not a second after a kit, by the name of Emily slammed into his back. He toppled forward and slammed into the kitchen tile.
"You're not very fast mister"
"Way to make a fox feel good"
She giggled and hopped off of his back, Just as she did so Judy walked into the kitchen with a brown doe behind her. Nick quickly stood up while Judy gave him a very questioning look.
Judy went to talk but before she could the brown doe pushed past her and stuck her paw out.
"Amber Hopps" She said with a big toothy smile.
"Nick Wilde, it's a pleasure" He said as he engulfed her paw in his.
He gave her his hustlers smile and couldn't help but think that her paw lingered a bit longer than it should have.
"So Nick, what would you like for breakfast?" Mr's Hopps asked from across the kitchen.
"Uh, what everyone else is having I guess"
"Are you sure? I could cook up some blueberry pancakes-"
"I'm sold" He said with a massive grin.
A few minutes and a full stack of delicious blueberry pancakes on his plate later they walked into a large room, Nick thought of it as more of a canteen.
There was easily 300 rabbits in the room, while even more continued to flood into the room. They seated at a table towards the bottom left of the room and began to eat.
Not even a few seconds in and a small group of rabbits approached them.
The leader, a white buck, addressed Judy.
"Sis, who's this?" He asked with a motion towards Nick.
"That, is Nick" She sighed.
He scoffed.
"And why is he here?"
"Because he saved my life back in the city, so back off Dylan"
"Hmpf"
He then turned to Nick, who was having flashbacks of high school brawls that started like this. He sized him up and leant towards him.
"If you touch a hair of her body, I'll put you in a wheelchair city slicker"
"Wouldn't think of it buddy" Nick said with a smirk in place.
Dylan looked pleased with himself and his group left Nick and Judy alone.
"Do you care to explain why he just threatened to disable me?" Nick asked.
"Just another one of my wonderful littermates, but don't worry, he's just overprotective of me"
Nick went to speak but was stopped by a loud squeal from Judy.
"Talking about littermates" She said and jumped out of her seat. She ran to meet a doe who looked to be about her height.
They hugged and turned to face Nick, they were identical. There were two Judy's in front of him. Except the one on the left had brown eyes.
"Nick this is Amelia, one of the only mammals in my litter that I'm close two"
"Other than Charlie" Amelia said.
Charlie was the only Buck in Judy's friend group throughout the entirety of her childhood.
"It's nice to meet you Amelia"
"Nice to meet you too Nick, Judy's told me a lot about you"
"Really? And what kind of things has she told you about?"
A devious smirk suddenly appeared on her face while Judy's paled and her ears shot up, Judy gave Amelia a begging look.
"Oh only about how fluffy your tail looked-" She was stopped by Judy clamping her paw over her mouth.
"Not another word"
"Alright, alright. But I can see how you like his tail, it does look quite-" She was cut off again by a swift punch to the stomach.
She doubled over and coughed.
"Jeez Jude, I can see that your punches haven't changed" Amelia managed to get out.
Judy smiled in triumph and hopped back over to her seat, Amelia straightened herself out and with one final cough she joined them at the table.
A few minutes into eating Amelia decided to make some conversation.
"So Nick, Judy told me you helped her with the case?"
"Sure did, I was the backbone of the operation" He gloated.
"He was more of a nuisance when he first started"
"Heh, yeah I never really did say sorry for that did I?" he mumbled.
He had flashbacks to how badly he treated Judy and he internally cringed, she easily could've arrested him for interfering with the investigation or something.
While the two does caught up and talked about what Judy had experienced in the city, Nick pulled his phone out and unlocked it.
It showed he had gotten a new email and a couple of missed calls, they were from the one and only, Finnick.
He clicked on Finnick's number and held it up to his ear.
After a few rings the phone clicked and a grumpy rumble echoed through the phone.
"What?" Finnick demanded.
"Well, after calling me a couple of times I thought it would be nice to give a call back" Nick said with a grin, he'd missed his grumpy little friend.
"Oh yeah, when are you getting back? Carl from that bike job a couple years back is in town" Finnick asked.
"Uh, well you see" Nick took a deep breath.
"What?"
"I'm out Fin"
"What do you mean you're out?"
"I'm done with the jobs, the ZPD offered me a spot in the academy, and I pretty sure I'm going to take it" While Nick said it he looked up to Judy, Chatting animatedly with Amelia.
A massive grin grew on his face as he imagined his new life, hopefully cashed up from the ZNN deal, a steady job, and a great partner with the job. He couldn't refuse that was a dream.
"Actually yeah Fin, I'm going to take it"
"You're kidding me right?"
"No I'm not"
There was a heavy silence over the phone.
"I- Really mammal? After everything we've gone through, all those tough times, Your gonna drop it for some bunny?"
Nick let out a dreamy sigh.
"She more than just a bunny Fin"
"Yeah whatever. If you need any help don't come to me" Finnick spat bitterly.
"Fin don't be like that, you know we've talked about It before"
"About what?"
"Going clean, getting jobs, following the law"
The was a deep sigh from the other side of the line.
"I'll think about it" he said and hung up.
That could've gone worse, he thought.
"Nick?" He looked up to see Judy looking at him with concern.
"Yeah Carrots?"
"Are you ok?"
"Of course, why do you ask?"
"I heard the conversation with Finnick"
"You did?" Judy was across the table, and with the noise of about 300 other rabbits yelling and screaming.
She tapped the base of her ear.
"Bunnies have good hearing"
"Of course" He muttered.
"So, I heard that you're that you've decided that you want to do to the Academy?" She asked, barley able to hold her excitement.
"Yes Fluff, you heard correctly"
She let out a squeal of excitement that hurt his ears.
"Oh my god, this is so cool. I can show you all the textbooks I used to study for the tests at the academy and-" Nick placed a finger over her muzzle.
"Remember Carrots, this is a holiday, meant for relaxing"
She took a deep breath.
"Sorry Nick, I was just so excited for you!"
He chuckled and ruffled the fur in between her ears.
"It's fine"
"So, according to Amelia some kits and parents are going to be watching some movies. If you wanted to, we could uh, maybe watch the movie together?" She finished with her ears reddening.
"Of course I would Judy" He smiled at how nervous she was.
"Great! Just stay right here and I'll get us some snacks!" She said and bolted off in the direction of the kitchen.
Nick chuckled and decided to sit at a table and pulled his phone out again, this time he tapped the email icon.
He scrolled down a bit past the spam and marketing stuff and found one from his bank. He opened it and slowly read it.
Nick Wilde,
A large transaction from ZNN has been added to your account, Click the link attached to the email to access the bank through your phones browser.
He eagerly tapped on the link and typed his details in.
After a few agonising seconds the page loaded and showed his bank account. His jaw dropped as he read the latest transaction.
ZNN: $508 , 000
He couldn't believe it.
Just as he was about to restart the page to make sure he hadn't read it wrong Judy hopped over to him with her arms full of an assortment of snacks.
"Ready Slick?"
"S-sure am"
Hey guys!
So it was kinda an awkward ending for this chapter but I just couldn't find the right way to end it, on a better note the next chapter is chapter 20! Thank you to everyone who's been with me the whole way through this journey. I would also like to give a massive shout out to my proof-reader Jose Godlines, he's made nearly all of my chapters a lot better than they first came out as.
Hope you enjoyed!