Zootopia Drabbles (Discontinued)

Sleep Over Ch.1

It was a cold, dark and wet night. Nick scurried out of his car and into his apartment building, hiding from the torrential rain that crashed down onto Zootopia.

The day had a very sad feeling to it. A long and slow day of running errands with a storm waiting for him once he got home. Sometimes Nick felt like there was an animal who spent their whole life trying to ruin his day. If that was the case, then it had succeeded.

Nick hid in the building and sighed as he leaned against the old wood door. He was home, but his relief was short lived as he quickly realised that his hopes of running from the storm were far from over. His apartment building had been flooded. There was water in every direction, a good few inches at that too. Nick lifted his left paw out of the cold, dirty gunk in an attempt to keep dry. Nick sighed and set his paw back down with a 'plop' of disappointment. "Great! Just great!" He announced to himself sarcastically. "Now I'm a hobo." He trudged down the hall, through the couple inches of water that had leaked into the building, in an attempt to get to his apartment. He was halfway down the hall before the lights began flickering and eventually dying out. He was wet, sad, in the dark and homeless.

"Come on!" Nick yelled out in pure anger. "Why me?" He asked aimlessly before continuing his march towards his flooded dump of a place. Thankfully, the dark did not prove to be much of a problem because of his night vision, but lights definitely would have been better. Once he reached his door, Nick unlocked it and entered his home.

His apartment was a disaster, water covering every room. After some quick thinking, Nick realized that he needed to grab his necessities and leave. Just seeing his safe haven in such a condition made him nauseous. He picked out two duffel bags from his closet and loaded them with whatever clothes, toiletries, and valuables had not been soaked. He packed them with literally everything and anything that could be saved from the water and headed out. The day couldn't possibly get any worse.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, Judy Hopps had just sat down for a long marathon of her favourite TV show after a long day of staying home and cleaning. She had offered to watch it with Nick, but he was busy and had little interest in what Judy considered to be entertaining. So she decided to watch it alone. She had a bowl of popcorn, a big glass of carrot juice and the TV remote in hand. She was ready for a long night of binge watching.

But before her marathon began, she heard a knock at her door. Seconds later, a familiar voice was heard from the other side of the door. "Judy? You there?" Nick called out from the hall. "I'm homeless, I'm cold and I'm sad. Let me in." He continued with a tired voice.

Judy hurried over to the door and swiftly opened it, wondering what Nick could possibly be rambling on about. Nick stood in the doorway with a droopy frown and was soaked from the extreme amount of rain out. "What in the world are you talking about?" She asked in confusion. "You're homeless?"

Nick walked in and dropped two drenched duffel bags down in front of Judy. "That's all I was able to save from the flood." He said disappointingly, as if he thought he could have gotten more.

"The flood? Your apartment is flooded?"

"Yep" Nick confirmed. "I called Castor, you know him right?" Judy nodded with approval

"Yeah," she agreed "the landlord."

"Yeah. He said that we probably won't be allowed back into the building for another week or so. So until then, I have nowhere to live."

"You'll find a place to stay," Judy said trying to comfort Nick. "But until then, you need a shower because you look and smell like a bum."

"I agree." Nick said as he started towards the bathroom, excited to warm himself up. Once Nick entered the bathroom and locked the door behind him, Judy fell down on the couch, hundreds of questions running around in her head. 'Where was Nick going to stay? Could he stay with her? Would he want to stay with her? Would it be weird?' The idea of Nick sleeping over for a week or so seemed great, but a bit strange. They already spent all their free time together, how could this be much different?

Judy laid on the couch, continuing to think about all the things that could change between her and Nick. She could show him how to make better meals, because all he ate was mac n cheese and takeout. She could teach him how to keep his place organised, because his apartment was a mess (despite the flood, of course). Judy had a full week to make Nick a better animal, now she saw this opportunity as another job.

Judy sat up and pushed the thought aside. She was overthinking the whole situation. This wasn't a slumber party, life went on anyway. Work continued no matter what, and he would just be staying here because he had to. If he wanted to.

In an attempt to forget about Nick, she started her marathon. She didn't get far into the first episode before Nick finished his shower and interrupted her show.

"You're watching that?" He asked Judy disgustedly as he walked out of the bathroom. Judy turned around to face Nick and defend herself, but froze in awe. Nick had strolled out of the bathroom still dripping wet with only a small bunny sized towel around his waist.

"Really Nick?" She asked disappointedly as she held her up paw to cover her face."Put some clothes on, Jeesh!"

"That's what i'm doing," Nick said as he went to pick up his duffel bags for clean clothes. "and come on, It's nothing you haven't seen before." He continued tauntingly.

"Nick stop! You're being nasty!" Judy demanded, still holding her paw up between them.

"Fine negative Nancy." Nick mocked as he turned around and disappeared back into the bathroom with his bags.

Judy brought her arm down and started to relax. If Nick did live with her for the next while, it might end up being a long and strange week. Judy turned back towards her TV and continued her episode, once again trying to ignore Nick.

Once Nick had dried himself off and put some clothes on, he went out the living room to sit down next to Judy. "So, what happened?" Judy asked Nick as he hopped over the back of the couch and landed beside her.

"Well, my apartment building is really old. Castor says that the rain found a way around the walls and now, the building isn't 'fit for animal habitation'." Nick gestured the last part by making quotations with his fingers. "Everyone in the building needs to find a new place to live until they suck the water out and fix up the architecture."

Judy then asked the million dollar question. "So what's your plan? Where are you going to stay?"

Nick took a deep breath before starting, as if he knew this moment was going to come. "I thought about staying at a hotel or something, but the ones in town are too expensive and the ones out of town are too far from the station. So I was hoping that I could stay with you... Maybe?" Nick asked with uncertainty. He didn't want to make things weird between him and Judy, but he had no choice.

"You haven't even been here a half hour and things have already gotten weird. Imagine what a week could do."

"I know, but I don't have any other options." Nick said desperately. "Pleeeaaase? Pretty pleeaaase, with a cherry on top?"

Judy rolled her eye, finally agreeing with Nick "Fine, but there are rules."

"Ok, go.What are they?" Nick asked, now excited to know what he was getting himself into.

Judy paused. " I haven't thought that far yet." She admitted. "We'll go over that in the morning. But for now, I'm marathoning." She said as she turned back to the TV and starting to pay attention to her show again.

"Still watching it?" Nick asked jokingly
Judy cut off his sarcasm and started her rulebook. "Ok, rule number one, never question my taste in anything."

For the rest of the night, Judy put up with Nick as he nitpicked at every flaw in the show. It was going to be a long week.