Nick and Judy forever

a blossoming love

  Bright. Why is it so bright he thought. Am I dead? The pain that instantly struck him when he tried to move his head alerted him to thefact that he was not. He tried to move his paws and although they weren't restrained, the pain caused by the movement was enough to keep him in place. But were was he?There was a softness beneath him so he knew that he was either laying on the world's flattest sheep or a bed. He reasoned that a bed was probably the most logical of thetwo. He tried to open his eyes but immediately closed them and grimaced in pain as the light shined into them. His ears seemed to work just fine as he heard footstepsscurrying quickly and then the sound of window shades being pulled. The dreadfully overpowering light went away and was replaced by a calming glow. The bed dipped butonly slightly as he felt someone sitting down on it and the gentle smell of carrots and flowers wafted towards him. "J-Judy?" he rasped, his throat was sand paper dry and ithurt to speak but he needed to know. He needed to hear her and know that she was safe, that he hadn't..."Shhh," Judy calmly said, placing a soft fluffy paw on his forehead, wiping his brow."A-are you a-alri...""I'm fine Nick, its you who I should be asking if you're alright. You've been running a fever and going in and out of consciousness for a week and a half. And I'm sorry about the morning sunlight creeping in, I fell asleep watching you last night and I must have forgot to close shades. I know you love looking up at the stars so I leave them open everynight, even though I knew you couldn't see them. Hold on a sec." She got off of the bed to leave but Nick reached out to grab her paw and groaned in pain."Judy," he said between gasps, his throat seemingly set on fire with every word spoken, "don't, go, Judy." Judy cupped his paw in hers and when he opened his eyes again, hewas meet by kindly but tired violet ones."Ok, Nick I'll stay. Let me just call my mom." Good, he thought, let her parents know that she was safe and sound then they could talk privately. He still had something to tellher. "Hi Mom, can you bring some carrot root tea with lots of honey in it, a bowl of blueberries and the pain medicine Dr. Bovian prescribed for Nick? Thanks.""Your Mom is at the hospital?" Nick asked confused. Why one earth would her parents venture all the way out to Zootopia just because he was hurt. Could it be that he hadsomehow mauled her in the process of trying to protect her. The events of that night had become extremely fuzzy. "Judy, I,""Shhh," she said again, placing a paw on his lips, "your throat is still raw from the antidote and you talking will only make it worse. Wait for the tea."Just then, Judy's mother walked in. "Well how's our patient doing?" she said with a smile as she carried a kettle filled with tea and a cup nestled on top of it. One of Judy's littlesisters was carrying a bowl nearly larger than her tiny little paws and Judy took it from her before it could tip over and fall. "How are you enjoying The Hops Farm House? Iknow its not one of your fancy BnB's in the city but we got plenty of good fresh air and loads of clean sheets. No, no, don't answer," she said as she placed the tea on thebedside table, "I know you shouldn't be talking just yet. Now, Judy here will take good care of you like she's been doing and you just keep on resting like you've been doing andeverything will be alright. Come Lois, lets give Nick some privacy.""But I wanna sit with Judy and Nick," the little bunny squeak mournfully."Get your little fluffy bum going,""Yes Mama," she said and scurried out of the room with her mother following behind her.Judy helped Nick into a sitting position and then held the tea to his lips so that he could drink it. He wasn't one for carrots but the tea was very sweet like he liked it so itwasn't entirely unpleasant. By his 3rd cup, his muscles felt relaxed and the pain was ebbing away."The medicine is in the tea isn't it?" he said as he held the cup on his own and refilled it from the kettle."Nothing gets past you Nick,""Almost nothing, why am at your parent's farm and not the hospital?" Judy hesitated and Nick prodded her. "Come on Cotton Tail, spit it out." His words were direct but histone was soft."When you were hit, when you were out of your mind,""When I went savage," he corrected her."Yes, that, and jumped off the side of the bridge, I jumped after you and grabbed your foot but not before you hit your head on a rock. The others came to help but it wasdecided that you couldn't be put in a regular hospital or it would become public that an officer had turned. The only other option was Cliffside and there was no way that I wasgoing to let you go to that awful place so I was allowed to bring you here. The antidote has been brutal on you though," she said as she wipe a paw across his forehead andhe shivered. "You've been running a fever since it was a first given to you but thankfully now its breaking.""Yes," he said taking her paw from his forehead and holding it in his. "Well I better be getting up." He pulled the large comforter off of himself but then flushed withembarrassment as he threw it back on. "Carrots, I'm naked!""That you are,""But how? When?""You were running a fever remember? So I had to strip you down and put cool rags on you to keep it low.""But that means that you saw my...""Yes but I have 275 little siblings so yours isn't the first one that I've seen."Nick laughed softly, and leaned in close, touching his snout to hers. "If you just wanted to strip me down Cotton Tail, you didn't have to wait until I was in a drug inducedcomma. I would have came around if you had asked nicely.""Hardy har har," Judy said as she got off of the bed and grabbed his clothes off of a chair. Throwing them at him, she headed to the door. "Well, you're back to your old selfagain."Browse Just In Community Forum Betas Story SearchMovies (/movie/)  Zootopia (/movie/Zootopia/) +  -    "You know you love me," he said playfully but waited with baited breath for her answer."Do I know? Yes, yes I do. Now, hurry up and get dressed Nick, I wanna show you around.""Will do Carrots, will do."The day had been long and utterly exhausting. He had made small talk Judy's parents, meet every single brother and sister that she had all at once and had received a full tourof the farm. So when Judy offered him a small picnic meal on the hill by the barn that night, how could he refuse. There was still some pain in his joints but not enough for himto forego spending a night with his best friend in the world under the stars. They lay there, staring up at the sky, her belly filled with carrots and his with blueberries but not aword being said between them. Nick decided to take a chance on boldness and without taking his eyes off of the stars above them, he took her paw in his. To his greathappiness, she threaded her fingers through his and this embolden him even more."Judy," he said his voice near a whisper."Hmm?" Judy replied."What do you think of me? I mean really think of me?"I think you're a great friend and the best partner that anyone could ever have.""Do you love me?" Before she could give her customary answer he raised his free paw for silence. "Do you love me more than like a friend because I love you more than just likea friend.""Nick," she hesitated, " we cant. I mean you're a predator and I'm prey. You're a fox and I'm a bunny.""Those kind of barriers don't exist anymore, we moved past that. Granted, this kind of relationship doesn't happen often but it does happen. Love doesn't know a species oryou'd be a fox too. Come on, you've never thought about it?""I-I'll admit that I have but it would never work.""We can make it work if we really wanted to." There was silence for a while but neither of them released the others paw. Nick finally decided that the night was not going toend like this. Not for them, he would have his answer, even if it hurt him more than anything else. Sitting up, he leaned over Judy, his green eyes looking into hers, their nosesnearly touching. "Do you love me more than you would a friend," he asked softly as his free paw caressed her furry cheek.Her eyes seemed to look into his mesmerized as she spoke, "Yes."That's when all eyes closed and his lips met hers in a kiss that he had been so desperately craving for months since he realized that his feelings for her went deeper thanfriendship. He rolled back over, taking her with him and they lay there with her resting her head on the crook of his neck. He smiled as he nuzzled her left ear and took a mental note as he felt her shiver at the contact. He may need to remember that for later. "I don't know how we're going to make this work," she said, wrapping her arm aroundhis waist. "How are we going to get married? And then we'll never be able to have children.""Whoa whoa whoa,"Nick said playfully, "where did all of this marriage and kids stuff come from?""Well I don't plan on being your female-friend indefinitely and I also don't plan on having a male-friend after you soooo...""Its ok Cotton Tail," Nick said smoothly, "I've got it all worked out. There's no law against inter-species marriage so that's done. And when it comes to children, well we couldalways just adopt. There's always little bunnies and fox cubs that could use a home, why not ours?""And how would we explain our relationship to them?""Oh that part is easy. You are a rare gray furred vegetarian dwarf fox.""Or you are a rare red furred over grown bunny."Nick laughed, "Well kids will believe anything, that's for sure but I believe my teeth might be a dead giveaway. Either way, we'll make it work.""So you have given marriage and babies a thought,"" Have I spent long hours alone thinking up ways to successfully build a family with you? Yes, yes I have." He wrapped his free arm around her and they lay there on the picnicblanket as if hugging on the ground."I love you fox cop,""And I love you Officer Bunny. Oh now that we're a item, is it ok to start calling you cute or is that still just a bunny thing." Judy's answer came in the form of a nudge to hisside and he made a fake sound of pain. Then it was her turn to lean over Nick and as she kissed him, he wrapped both of his arms around her, pulling her into a tight embraceand no one but the moon watched as their love began to blossom.