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Judy struggled to stay asleep for a moment. The sun was filtering into her room and she could already hear people stirring in the room next to her, her nose twitching as she tried her best to just stay asleep. She reached out and pulled her covers over her tighter, covers that were oddly much warmer than she was used to. She cuddled against them but still felt like she wasn’t being covered, and as she pulled at the covers she felt something unfamiliar and heavy fall across her body.
Then it started to breath, and Judy’s ears perked up. Her eyes cracked open and instantly she felt like her head was being beaten around like a drum. Looking around her apartment, she rather quickly realized that the warm, fuzzy, breathing blanket was a rather familiar shade of orange.
Her eyes shot open and she realized three things.
1) If she thought her head hurt before she had opened her eyes, it really hurt now. Her entire body was sore actually. Her headache was the most offending pain, but her legs hurt too. She wasn’t entirely sure why, but it felt like she had ran several miles.
2) She was naked, which was a little disturbing as she usually slept in pajamas, and as she looked around she could see her uniform laid out around the room.
3) Finally, and most importantly, Nicholas Wilde was laying next to her. His bright orange fur radiated in the sunlight and his slow, methodical breathing should have calmed her, but at this moment in time she was seeing her partner, and from what she could see he wasn’t wearing anything either.
Panic started to set in, Judy’s nose continued to twitch and her eyes went wide with fear. What had they done? Why couldn’t she remember the night before? Panic continued to settle in as Nick started to stir.
His emerald eyes blinked open and the world started to speed up. Judy was still naked, still scared, and in that moment did the only thing she could think of. She kicked, and she kicked hard. Nick was sent flying out of the bed they had been sharing, the air in his lungs forced out as he was knocked to the ground.
Scrambling, Judy threw the covers around herself and curled up. “Stay back!”
“Carrots?” Nick coughed as he tried to get up, only to be hit by his phone as Judy tossed it at him. The fox’s eyes widened for a moment as he looked at Judy, not understanding what was happening. Judy’s eyes were wide with uncertain fear for a moment as she looked at Nick.
“Get out.” Judy said finally, pointing at the door.
“Carrot’s, I’m not exactly dressed.” He said getting to his paws before a pillow hit him and sent him back down to his ass.
Judy felt something burning at her eyes for a moment. “I said get out!”
“Fluff?”
“Leave.”
Nick got back up and turned to leave, tucking his tail around him as went and taking his phone with him, as it was really the only thing he could cling too.
Judy was a wreck as the door closed behind him. Her breathing was starting to even out, but her headache was back in full force; she felt completely unsure of what was going on. She couldn’t remember a thing, and tried to focus on anything other than the fox and the look of horror that he had as she had sent him away.
“Hey rabbit you okay?” Bucky’s voice rang out between the two walls after they had all listened to Nick pad his way down the hall.
“I… don’t know.” Judy muttered. As she looked down at her bed she felt like her world was turning upside down at the moment.
“Well that’s good, it sounded like the fox was practically eating you alive last night.”
“Oh shut up, she just sent him away could you be any less considerate?”
“No, you shut up, I just want to check up on our neighbor and make sure that...” Judy collapsed against her bed, exhausted for a long moment as she listened to her neighbors falling into another predictable fight. She looked up at the ceiling, feeling hot tears at the edge of her eyes. Curling up she didn’t even know what to think anymore.
Nick clutched his phone, fear striking him hard. Not because he was naked in a public hallway, no that was oddly something he was used to, having been a member of the oasis springs naturalist club. No, his fear came from the fact that Judy had been the one to kick him out.
He gripped his phone for a moment and pulled himself upright as he left. For now he would just pretend like this wasn’t the worst day he had had in almost three years, and just call a friend. He dialed a number he hadn’t used in a very long time, and kept his voice low as he walked into the Lobby of Judy’s apartment complex.
“Finnick buddy ol’ pal you are going to laugh this one up. Listen I need a lift to my apartment as quickly as possible.”
He sighed as he turned off his phone and looked out the door for a moment. Today was going to be the absolute worst. He just hoped that he would have a chance to talk about everything with Judy at work today. He swallowed lightly, his mouth feeling dry for a moment. Now if only he could figure out what actually happened last night and deal with this hangover.