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This short fanfic was written by me and my good friend 'SpazzieBunnie' (spazziebunnie.tumblr.com)
I can't thank Spaz enough for his collaboration on this. He was a big help!
I provided the synopsis while he expanded it in depth. I also rewrote and added a few sentences to improve my vision for this fanfic. ^^
This was also inspired by a handful of pieces by Wiwolf, of her WildeHopps kid OC Evelyn sitting down and watching Judy's controversial conference speech and feeling utterly dismayed.
Example: Finding out the Truth - 2
Rated 'PG' for a mild use of sensitive themes (i.e. familail conflict, a regretful past).
Isabelle Wilde appears courtesy of Trashasaurusrex.
Robyn Wilde (in name only) courtesy of crewefox.
With all that out of the way, you may now read the following fanfic!
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Two months after Jason and Robyn’s second birthday, the small, cute, innocent six-year-old female fox kit named Isabelle Wilde was on the family's laptop. She was a smart girl after all, she knew what to watch and what not to watch. She browsed through the internet looking for some funny videos to watch on her spare time. From there on the couch she looks over to find a video of her mom. Judy Hopps. The one Prey mammal that she loved and looked up to most.
Her smile grew so much. She's always watched with enthusiasm her mother’s interviews about how proud she is everyday to keep Zootopia safe, and helping to make the world a better place. She clicked on the video and started watching it. But as the video of her mom at a press conference which was years before Isabelle was even born went on, slowly the kits smile started to be lowered.
She watched and listened to disbelief as her mother was starting to unintentionally sound like a racist conspiracy theorist towards Predators. Speaking ill of them as if they were beasts, not mammals. The whole minute-and-a-half video ended with Isabelle having to feel her heart broken and sunk. Saddened and disturbed by what she heard her mother say all those years ago. If anything, this may've been a video used as a smear campaign against Judy...
Isabelle moved away from the laptop and laid down on the couch with her eyes starting to feel watery. Does Judy think of her like this, behind her back? Does she view her own daughter as some sort of monster? A creature that will harm others? She wanted to cry so badly. She felt broken. Betrayed. By her own mother, of all mammals she knows.
She heard paw steps coming towards her. It was Judy, who looked over to check to see how one of her two daughters was doing.
“Hey Isabelle. How are you-” She looked over to see her daughter was on the verge of crying. “Oh my gosh. Isabelle you ok?” She was worried as she sat down and started to ask what was wrong?
Isabelle looked at her. She looked afraid at her mother. The one who apparently still thinks of Predators as monsters. At least, that was the message the video was conveying to Isabelle. “Do... do you really think of me... as a monster *sniff* that's waiting to come out?”
Judy felt shocked by her daughter's words. “What? No! Why on earth would you think that?” Her answer was met as Isabelle pointed right at the laptop to show the video of Judy at the press conference all those years ago. Judy’s eyes widened. She thought the past was all behind her. Everything would be just a painful but forgettable memory. Yet it wasn’t over, and her first child has witnessed what the rabbit doe had said. Judy felt guilt in her heart once again. Her past came back to haunt her. She wanted to keep it a secret but she knew that one day that her children would see this.
“I saw it all. I heard what you said about Predators.” Isabelle was almost choked up by her crying. “Y-you really think I'm evil?!”
“No honey, I would never!” Judy says with her heart broken seeing her daughter being afraid to even be near her mother. “Look Isabelle. I can explain everything.”
“N-no! Get away!” Isabelle covers herself with the couch pillow to save herself from Judy. She didn’t want her "savage nature" to take over. She didn’t want to harm Judy.
“Isabelle, stop this.” Judy pleads with her daughter as she tries to take the pillow but with Isabelle still gripping on.
“No! I don’t wanna hurt you!”
“Isabelle! I know you would never harm me.” Judy says as she takes the pillow away with the fox kit welling up more.
“But I-I’m a monster!” The fox kit was serious with what she said. She did really feel like one. A freakish meateating savage without any boundaries. Only to eat other mammals. To eat Prey. Prey like her mom.
“No, you’re not Isabelle.” Judy pleads with her daughter to which had no avail, as the fox kit falls on to the ground and quickly scurries to get away from her mother.
“Momma, stay back! I don't wanna eat you!” Isabelle felt panicked that she could feel her baser primitive insticts starting to show. Ready to sink her claws and teeth into the one bunny she loved more than any other, without any intentions. She ran quickly towards her bedroom to shut the door, as Judy was on her tail.
Judy ran to the door and tried to twist the knob. It didn’t budge, as Isabelle was holding tight to it. She then reached for her bedroom key near her to lock the door. The rabbit sighed. “Isabelle, sweetie. Please open the door so mommy can explain.”
“Go away! I'm a killer!” Isabelle sits down and starts to sob. “It’s in my biology. It's always been. *sniff* I don’t wanna hurt you momma! Or even papa!”
The rabbit felt sick to her stomach by what was coming out of Isabelle's mouth. She did this. All of this going on in her poor child's head. This was all Judy’s fault. Judy could only let out a sigh before she too starts to feel her eyes started to tear up. She sat down on the floor with her back and head laid on the door. Judy wanted to tear up with her daughter. She didn’t mean to say those torturous words. That speech still haunts her to this day. In her nightmares. In her life. She regrets that speech. Every single word.
"I never thought this day would come..." Judy shamefully said under her breath as she could hear the sobs of her daughter. She had to make it right. For the sake of her only non-hybrid kit. She let out a breath and had her eyes closed. Feeling warm tears drip from her eyes.
“Isabelle. I'm not gonna tell you to open your door, but will you promise me to listen to what I have to say?” Judy looked back at the door with her eyes opened. “Please?”
Isabelle is a murderer in her core, or at least, that's what her small child brain was telling her. She still felt some goodness in her heart too. "Okay... I'll listen…” She wiped away her tears and began to hear Judy with her good fox ears.
“I was wrong.” Judy letted out the first word that came to her mind. “I was wrong to speak bad of Predators like that.”
“B-but... why did you say it?” Isabelle questions.
“I said it because I wanted to sound like I knew what I was doing.” Judy rubbed her eyes to clear up the tears. “I know that in the past, we were different. We were savaged. We walked on fours instead of twos. Predator did eat Prey. But we changed. We changed because change is nature.”
Isabelle felt confused and worried both at once. “So...us Predators were monsters???”
“No, we were all monsters and defenseless beings pitted against each other... but we changed. We all did. Because we were better than that. We had to work together. To live. To trust one another. To form a place like Zootopia where anyone could be anything, instead of being just one thing for as long as we live...” Judy felt her mind was giving her all the truthful answers to say.
Isabelle sniffed and wiped her snout. “But why'd you say all that stuff?”
Judy sighed again. “Back then, I was just a dumb, condescending and naive little bunny.”
Isabelle rejected that answer “No you’re not! You're so smart and know so much!” Judy softly smiled from her own daughter still thinking of her as the smart and brave bunny she is. “But still, what made you say those mean words?”
Judy spoke up with her heart still determined to make things right. “Isabelle... I thought it was true back then. That insticts were what made those Predators turn wild. I heard it from Gideon Grey, who used to pick on me as a kid. He once said that Predators like him used to eat Prey, and that it was in their, as he put it, 'de-na'.”
Isabelle cocked her head. “You mean DNA?”
“Yeah. He wasn’t smart with biology.” Judy softly chuckled. “And one mammal said that we should be considering our biology, since Predators were the ones going savage .”
“So...you only said it... to try and make sense?” Isabelle questioned to her mother.
“Yes. I thought I had everything figured out, but I found out eventually that these toxic flowers called 'Night-howlers' was the cause of it.” Judy releases a sigh, since she felt pathetic and guilt-ridden thinking back on those days. “I almost lost your father because of that. I almost destroyed all the peace and harmony in Zootopia, simply through words. I was messing up everything. I felt like a dope. A thorn on everyone’s side. I had to quit the force and go back home because of it. Of course, that wasn't fixing the problem...”
Isabelle said nothing, so Judy continued as she felt the waterworks going again. “I lost everything...all because it was some plan thought up by Bellwether.”
From there, Isabelle spoke. “Who's Bellwether?”
“She was a lamb that turned the Predators into savages. She hated Predators, just because they didn't treat her nice enough, and her hatred for them almost brought Zootopia to wreck and ruin, and almost got me and your father killed. She tried to propagandize all the Prey's to turn their backs on Predators. To rise up against them and paint Predators like you as monsters that must never be trusted.” Judy felt her anger showing but she slowly calmed down. “She was the real monster, in lamb's clothing... And she's now behind bars for the rest of her days...”
“Good.” Isabelle felt angry that someone wanted to hurt (or even kill) her mom and dad on purpose. Yet she calmed down as well.
“Isabelle?” Judy says.
“Yeah mom?” Isabelle says as well.
“You know I love you so much right?” Judy truthfully said to her daughter.
“I know you do mom.” Isabelle sniffed again to not look like a sad mess.
“I want you to know that you are not cursed. You never were. And don’t even call yourself a monster either. Because you're not. You're my baby girl. You're the sweetest girl I ever loved and cared for in my whole life.” Judy couldn’t hear anything from Isabelle. Only quietness. Until she heard her seconds later.
“R-really?” Isabelle felt confused but yet happy. She wasn’t a monster? She wasn’t evil? She felt glad. She didn’t want to be a monster. She knows she ain’t. She didn’t want to be feared. But loved. She was always loved by everyone. Her friends. Her family. Her own parents. They love her for who she is. A good hearted fox who is by no means a "savage".
“Yes really.” Judy turned towards the door while still sitting down. “We all make mistakes. Even us adults make mistakes too. But we can remedy those mistakes. I fixed my mistakes. I fixed the relationship with your dad. I fixed all the conflict in Zootopia by admitting I was wrong. I learned from my mistakes and I atoned them. And that's what good mammals do. They make up for their mistakes.”
She heard nothing from Isabelle. As Judy tries to listen in more, she then hears a small click, and looks up to see the doorknob turning and the door slowly opened. Isabelle just stood there with her eyes mildly bloodshot from the tears, and yet she didn’t seem sad. Nor angry. She just looked at Judy.
“Isabelle?” Judy could only muster before Isabelle started to look down on the floor as if she was in trouble.
“I’m sorry.” Isabelle says as Judy scoots closer to her and be there with open arms.
“I understand Isabelle. Come here. I’m ready for the hugs.” In seconds, Judy was met with a big hug from her fox kit daughter. Isabelle felt herself shaking from having to act like that. To act so scared and be so afraid, because of some video she watched on the web. A video that no one probably takes heed to anymore anyways.
Isabelle spoke up. “I forgive you mom. I’m sorry I acted like that.”
Judy was hugging her back and feeling good to have her daughter back and not be afraid of her. “I forgive you. I'm just glad you could forgive me. I wouldn't know how to live with myself, if any of my kids didn’t love me anymore.”
“But I do love you mama.” Judy felt herself smiling to hear those words come out of her daughter as the two keep hugging each other to make up for today's events.
“I love you too Isabelle. Forever and ever will I always love you and care for you, my sweet kit.” The rabbit said while nuzzling on her fox kit as they two share a calming mother-daughter moment.
Judy felt herself feel lifted. The worry was over. Isabelle knew the truth. And though the fox kit still slightly saw herself being some sort of monster on the inside, Judy was there to comfort her and to tell the truth to her daughter. Though the truth hurt Judy with painful memories that she would rather forget about, the truth did help Isabelle. The fox kit learned of what made her rabbit mom say those things. The actions that it has caused. She saw that her mother wasn’t being hateful. She was good at heart. But like she said, ‘We all make mistakes’. Isabelle would forever remember that line for the sake of the future that lies before her.
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