The Hustle of Love

Chapter 22: Birthday Boy

The next few days went by smoothly for our lovely couple. Judy enjoyed being back on duty. Both her and Nick obayed Bogo's orders to keep the PDA under control. Everyday after duty they would go back to Judy's place to look at houses on the computer. Every night Judy got more and more excited. The thought of living in a house with her Nicky Poo made her happy. No more small apartment, a real house, where on day they could possibly start a family. Then Nick's birthday came, it wasn't going to be as celebrated as last year. Just her, Nick, Finnick, and of course Mrs. Wilde. Judy even had a special surprise for Nick. All though Bogo's briefing she thought of giving it to him once they were in the SVU.

"Finally my last announcement, Wilde......Happy Birthday." Bogo said with a slight grin

Everyone hooted and howled for Nick. All obviously very excited for him. As a gift Jesse gave Nick a movie as a gift, "La La Lamb", wasn't his kind of movie but he thanked her anyway. As Judy and him made their way to the vehicle Nick began laughing.

"Hahahahahaha" he chuckled

"What's so funny Nick?" Judy asked

"Nothing Carrots, it's just that if someone told me 3 years ago that I'd be a cop and I had a serious girlfriend who's a bunny. Well I would've probably called them a liar and laughed."

"Haha, life surprises you sometimes Nick." Judy chucked

They got to their SUV, with Judy in the driver's seat as usual.

"I guess it does Carrots."

"Speaking of surprises, I have one for you Nick."

Nick cocked a eyebrow at Judy and smiled.

"I don't think we can do that hear fluff, we might get caught."

Judy rolled her eyes as she hit her forehead on the steering wheel.

"You and Finnick both have perverted minds, here." Judy said handing a folded piece of paper to Nick.

Nick grabbed it as he chuckled to himself. He opened it, on it was a date that realized was this Saturday and a photo of a house that he and Judy had looked at earlier in the week. It had been one that Nick liked a lot.

"What is this Carrots?" He asked

"Well I called a realtor, and made an appointment for us to go look at it." Judy said with a big smile.

"Really! Are you sure about this place. I know that there was other places that you liked as well, are you sure about this one?"

"I'm sure Nick, I really like it. It has lots of room and it's close to the ZPD as well as your mom's place. Plus it's near a school, perfect for any future kits."

Nick leaned over and hugged Judy tightly.

"Thank you Judy."

"You're welcome Nick, happy birthday."

After breaking the hug Judy started the car as Nick tucked the piece of paper into his shirt pocket. He put on his aviators and took a drink from his cup, the same one that Judy had given him last year. It was time for patrol.

Kane sat quietly at his desk, he listened to the ticking of his clock as he smoked his cigar. His mind was full, thoughts of Dawn kept going through his head. He missed his sister, she was all he had ever had. But that wasn't all, his plan was a failure. He had underestimated the prey's tolerance for the predators. But he wasn't giving up on his plans of destroying Nick and Judy. They, in his mind, had killed his sister. He still had the shock collar, he still had the visual image of placing it on Nick. But he had to solve a little problem first, Zane. The dumb Zebra had been getting ready to back out of the whole plan for while now, he couldn't have him turning witness like Vlad had. But soon he would no longer be a issue.