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Chapter 25: ...Is Another Mammal's Treasure Finnick was tired. He'd been out all day working his latest venture, shopping himself around as a mammal who specialized in procuring rare items. The Pawpsicle business had dried up after Wilde had gone legit, and since his friend had made the change to the right side of the law, Finnick decided he might try too. Unfortunately, the legitimate job market for small canids was still frustratingly small, unless you wanted to flip chicken burgers and constantly ask mammals if they want fries with that. So, he'd turned to one thing he new he could do: Finding rare things for mammals and making cash for i

Chapter 24: One Mammal's Trash... "What's up?" The fox's response made Liz Fangmeyer's blood run cold. "Night Howlers." The silence in the air was tangible, and it was a while before either mammal broke it. "Night Howlers?" The fox nodded, turning his head this way and that, trying to locate the scent's source. Up high, down by the carpet, in the glove box, in the boot, even the engine compartment. Of course, Nick's actions didn't escape Judy's notice either, and the doe wandered over to investigate. "It's faint, almost non-existent, but I caught the scent of Night Howlers in the cab," the canid replied when Judy inquired. "Is it recent?" Jud

Chapter 23: Finding A Ram Or Two Nick hadn't been kidding when he'd said that the area of the Meadowlands was run down. If Judy had to be the judge, it was orders of magnitude worse than Kalahari Heights. At least there, most of the buildings were habitable, if not exactly 7 figure mansions. Here, there were more boarded up and abandoned buildings than there were habitable ones. And those were the ones that were still standing. There seemed to be a lot of burnt out husks and piles of rubble where buildings once stood. Judy stared at the desolation around her. The mammals weren't much better off, clearly of the lower working class, if they had

I waited. For 33 years I waited. For someone to show me that the world was worth helping For you to show up in that ice cream store. For you to drag me with you to find that otter. I waited. For months I waited. You'd made a mistake at that press conference. One that drove us apart But then you returned and asked forgiveness, and meant every word. I waited. For half a year I waited. We couldn't see each other much. Not with you on duty and me at the academy. But we talked whenever we could. I could feel it then. Something growing for you. I waited. For a year and a half, I waited. What I felt for you had grown so much it hurt. I hoped you'd a

Chapter 22: The Truth Will Out They say the truth will set you free. But for Judy Hopps and the fox sitting next to her, the fact that the truth was being printed in a newspaper for all to see was ANYTHING but liberating. The doe felt like she was being dangled over the edge of the Grand Canyon, staring down at the hard, unforgiving ground far below. Nick didn't feel much better, his stomach twisting in knots, flip-flopping, and doing it's best to climb out of his mouth as he read the article that screamed his doom. ZPD's Star Officers: Partners On and Off the Job? by Thomas Redtail It seems love may be in the air for an unlikely couple, and

Chapter 20: Arrested Developments Police nomenclature used in this chapter: Zulu 240: Nick and Judy's cruiser/unit number. Zulu is the phonetic word for the letter 'Z'. 10-23: Unit on site/at scene While Monday had been a flurry of activity for Nick and Judy culminating in submitting a search and detain warrant for the warehouse that Callahan had been spotted at, Tuesday was little more than searching for Doug and his cohorts while patrolling the Meadowlands district. Their search had come up empty, so the two had just made a day of giving out traffic tickets and responding to the occasional call that came their way. Wednesday was a differen