At The Begining: A Zootopia fanfic Nick x Judy

Chapter 7: He's Amazing, Mom

Nick sat staring at the blank screen of his phone. Did that really just happen? Stu's response to seeing him was expected, though the older buck hadn't flipped out like he'd feared. Nick felt sure it had more to do with Bonnie's presence, than anything else. Now she did surprise him. It made him extremely curious about that little conversation she'd had with Judy-a sobbing Judy.
Glancing over, he ran his claws lightly through her fur again. "What did you say about me, Carrots?" Whatever it was, it was enough to convince Bonnie that Judy was safe with him. Scratching behind her ears, he grinned at her hmm of pleasure as she pressed into the light scratch. She is just too cute! Pulling his phone out, he snapped a picture, then set it as his main screen.
With a wide grin, he glanced down at the floor and noticed the cloth bag that contained Judy's dirty clothes-and the paperwork they'd received from the hospital. "Gah! I forgot your medication! Carrots, why'd you let me forget!?" Glancing at the time on Judy's phone, he exclaimed, "It's almost 2!"
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rying his tail from Judy's firm grip, he then gently lifted her head from his lap and stood up, then grabbed the pillow leaning against the arm of the couch and slid it under her cheek before laying her head back down.
While running up the stairs, he muttered under his breath, "I need to get you upstairs to bed, then I need to run to the pharmacy, and then the gas station to get something for breakfast, then I need to get myself to bed."
Taking a left at the top, he spun around the railing that protected the stairwell, then entered the second bedroom. He hadn't been in Honey's room in months as he only came in here about twice a year to dust. Flipping on the light, he glanced around and grunted. "Yep, it's dusty."
Walking over to the window, he cracked it several inches to air the room out, then turned to the bed. Although the sheets and blankets were clean when he put them on, and no one had ever used them, they'd been on the bed for years. And the top blanket was covered in a fine layer of dust. Yep, definitely changing those before bringing Judy up here. Without wasting anymore time, he tossed the pillows on the floor, then grabbed the edge of the blanket and wadded it up in the middle of the mattress, then pulled up the sheets and wrapped them around the blanket.

Picking them all up, he carried them to the bathroom, through the small door at the back that led to the laundry room, and dumped them in the corner. He'd wash them later. Grabbing fresh sheets, a blanket, and a couple of pillowcases from the shelf, he returned to Honey's old room and remade the bed. Glancing at the window, he noticed the air coming in was cool, but not cold (it being summer), and decided to leave the window cracked.

Returning downstairs to get Judy, she hardly stirred when he gently picked her up. Looking down, he watched her snuggled into his chest and grip his shirt. Nick couldn't believe how cute she was. Entering the room that would now be hers, he set her on the bed, pried her fingers off his shirt, then covered her with the blankets.
Nick smiled softly at the adorable, little rabbit sleeping in his house. She looked too cute as she burrowed into the thick blanket. Running his claw tips down her ears once more, he then turned and left.
Running to his room, he grabbed a pad of sticky notes and a pen from off his dresser and wrote his name, his phone number, and a message for her to call him when she awoke so he could come help her. Pulling the sheet off, he ran back downstairs and grabbed her phone. Sticking the note to it, he carried the phone and the charger upstairs and set them on the dresser beside Judy's bed.
Running the back of his fingers down her ears one last time, he smiled as she leaned into the caress, then he turned and headed downstairs. Returning to the living room, he grabbed the prescription and flipped the lights off as he headed out the door. Once in the truck and heading down the road, Nick let his mind wander.
Am I really doing this? Am I really going to live with a bunny? The unstoppable force of nature known as Judy Hopps. My bunny? He couldn't deny his attraction to her. And her giving him 'exclusive rights' to her ears could only mean that she was attracted to him, too. But how would they even work? A bunny and a fox?
Remembering her soft, silky paws on his ears and her short, blunt claws digging through his fur, the simple joy she found in touching him-in making him happy-left him stunned. Her ministrations had awakened feelings he hadn't felt in decades, and a few he'd never experienced before. Feelings he now craved. In the short span of less than an hour, he had become irrevocably addicted to the sweet little bunny's touch.
He couldn't even imagine not feeling her paws on him and the feelings they evoked. His thoughts for his cute honeybun weren't sexual, not yet anyway-he just wanted to be near her, to snuggle with her, and smell her sweet scent. He wanted to run his paws over her velvety ears and soft cheeks, to see her grinning in utter bliss at his touch and attention.
The thought suddenly struck him-a fox in love with a bunny. Running a paw over his face, he grunted while thinking about how the media would take it if it ever hit the news. He doubted it'd be very pretty. Especially after all the savage attacks Bellwether instigated. Well, it was just one more thing they'd need to discuss if they ever decided to become an official couple. Nick shook his head. Not if but when-when they became an official couple.