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This story was written for Drewbermeister as part of their top tier Patreon reward for February 2019. It contains M/F romance and masturbation involving consenting adults, and takes place in the world of Zootopia. :3

A Learning Curve - Part One

Nick yawned, and he ever so briefly glanced over at Judy curled up under a blanket in the passenger seat. She looked so peaceful. So beautiful. He hated to wake her, but... he yawned again, and felt his eyes growing heavy, reluctant to focus on the headlamp lit highway ahead. A sign flashed past. Rest stop, gas, food, motel, 2 miles. He sighed in relief.

"Hey, Carrots?"

Judy shifted. Murmured. A foot escaped from the blankets, toes flexing and wiggling softly. Nick smirked, but spoke up again a little louder just seconds later.

"Carrots? Wakey wakey. Roll call's in five minutes. Gotta make sure your uniform's all clean so the Chief doesn't give you a demerit."

The rabbit snorted, squeaked, and sat bolt upright.

"O-Officer Hopps all present and accounted for Chief, ready for dut-... oh... wait..."

She blinked. She looked around at the interior of her truck, then at Nick, then out at the dark night closing in around them from all sides, only the lights of a few other vehicles providing illumination with dusty desert reaching out into the inky black on either side of the highway itself.

"How long was I asleep, Nick?"

The fox smiled, and shrugged non-committally.

"Four, five hours."

Judy's eyes widened, and she looked at the dashboard clock to confirm what her partner, friend and boyfriend was saying.

"Nick! Dammit, I was just supposed to be resting my eyes for like twenty minutes. You didn't have to sit here in silence all this time. And, god, you've been driving for like eleven hours now. We said we'd trade off after eight."

The fox kept on smiling, and nodded in agreement.

"That's why I'm waking you, Carrots. You took an eight hour shift before me, and you barely slept at all for the first seven or so hours of my drive. Even with five hours under your belt, you're probably still too tired to take another eight hour shift, and I'm starting to lose focus. So..."

They passed by another sign, and Nick gestured as up ahead the faint glow of numerous more stationary lights indicated buildings on the roadside.

"...how about we call it a night. Grab a motel room, get some proper sleep, and start up again in the morning when it's light and when neither of us are gonna be a potential menace to other law abiding road users, hmm?"

Judy slumped back in her seat, and yawned again, giggling as her response prompted Nick to do the same with an uncontrollable canid whine. She nodded, and reached over to gently touch the back of Nick's hand as he shifted gears.

"Thank you, Nick. For letting me sleep. Letting me rest all that time."

The fox chuckled, and nodded reassuringly as he turned the truck off the highway and into the rest stop's dusty, mostly empty parking lot.

"Anything for my partner."

He murmured fondly, tensing up for just a second, then relaxing as he remembered that he didn't have to hide how he felt any more. That he didn't have to obfuscate and joke about how Judy made him feel. He sighed, smiled, and glanced over as he slowed the truck to a crawl, meeting Judy's beautiful, unmistakable violet eyes while she blushed and beamed right back at him.

"Anything for you, Judy."

Barely five minutes later, the fox and rabbit stood before a small, rather cluttered desk at which a coyote was seated. He didn't smile as they entered, but nor did he frown or show any sign of judgement at the sight of a fox, never mind a fox travelling with a rabbit. His indifference was pleasantly refreshing to the pair, who were honestly still not totally comfortable with the fact that through their part in the Bellwether fiasco they were effectively the poster mammals for the ZPD and in many respects for Zootopia's renewed agenda of diversity and inclusion. It wasn't that they were ungrateful, or that they didn't feel as though they wished to embody those qualities in the best way possible. But... they had their own stuff going on, personal business which was tough enough to figure out when it was just the two of them, never mind with an entire city watching their every move.

Thus, to see not the slightest shred of recognition in the coyote's eyes when he finally looked up and asked them if they wanted a room, was something of a boon.

"Please, just for tonight."

Nick nodded warmly, looking over to Judy before hastening to add.

"Uh, do you have rooms with twin beds?"

The coyote's brow furrowed for a moment, then he reached down into a desk drawer and pulled out a worn book with Vacancies embossed into its faded leather cover. He flipped about two thirds of the way down, and frowned.

"Sorry, we only have two twin rooms in non-rodent size, and they're both occupied right now."

Nick shrugged, but smiled winningly regardless.

"Oh, that's okay then. I'll just take two rooms. Do you have any adjoining ones?"

Before the coyote could answer though, Judy cleared her throat and spoke up from where she was standing at Nick's side.

"Uh, w-wait. Hang on a second. Nick, can I talk to you, please?"

Nick nodded, and as the coyote did likewise and settled back into his seat, returning his eyes to the phone which had been in one of his hands all the while, the fox and rabbit stepped back across the reception area.

"Carrots, I know we don't need to spend money on two rooms, but I'd rather not sleep on the couch or chair or whatever these rooms have, and my default position would absolutely be that chivalrous asshat who absolutely insists I be the one to do it even though you're smaller. Besides, The Mammalian Bureau of Investigations is footing the bill for all of this, remember. So, it's not like it's coming out of my pocket."

The fox murmured in what he thought was a playful, reassuring manner to the rabbit as he anticipated her objection. He was wrong, however, and learned that rather swiftly as Judy reached out and took one of his hands in hers, squeezing it rather firmly as she stared up at him with those big, beautiful violet eyes of hers.

"I know that, Nick. And... if you're saying all this because you aren't comfortable with us sharing a room yet, that's totally okay, though I'd rather you just said it. In the spirit of that honesty though... it really isn't about the money, Nick. It's... it's that, well... I'd like to share a room with you. And, more than that... I'm happy to share a bed with you, Nick. If you are, too."

Cheeks flushing, Nick cleared his throat and tried to play it cool as his heart began to race, and lurched with genuinely excitement at hearing Judy just come right out and say that she was ready to take that next step. They'd slept on the couch together while watching movies, they'd chilled out on Judy's bed, lying down, making out until they were both too aware of their own building excitement to risk going any further without having to go further, but never before had they actually shared a bed for a whole night. His heart swelled at the very thought of it, but for some unfathomable reason, he tried to act as though it was no big deal.

"Well, I suppose given where we're going, and what the plan is when we get there..."

He chuckled as he began to make light of their ongoing situation, and immediately regretted it as Judy let go of his hand, shaking her head and looking a little frustrated, a little hurt by his making light of her sincere and genuine request for them to take a new step together. Nick frowned, sighed, and extended a hand towards Judy as he dropped down to his knees, at eye level with the rabbit herself.

"Sorry, Carrots. Judy. Sorry. Old habits, humour defence mechanism, y'know. But, bad timing. Bad call on my part, so, I'm sorry. I hope you know that I really do want to share a bed with you, too. I... I have for a while now, and if you're ready? I'm so, so happy to hear that."

Judy's frown faded. Her blush rose once again, and she reached out to take Nick's offered hand. She squealed with laughter as he tugged her forward and caught her off balance, pulling her into his arms and holding her close, kissing her on one cheek and snuffling, inhaling her scent as she did so. She buried her face in his neck in turn, and he felt her inhale his scent in precisely the same intimate, affectionate way. They pulled back, both beaming now, and pecked one another on the lips before Nick spoke up one last time, every bit as sincere and up front as Judy so obviously wanted him to be with her, and as he wanted to be with the bunny too, no matter what years of distrust and keeping people at a distance had told him.

"This really is something you want though, Carrots? You're not pushing yourself, pushing us further than you would otherwise, if... if the circumstances weren't what they are?"

Judy closed her eyes, and for a moment or two she sincerely seemed to consider that question. Soon though her eyes re-opened, met the fox's own without the slightest reluctance, and the rabbit whispered one more time.

"It really, really is, Nick. I want this. Please."

Nick grinned, hugged the rabbit close to him for another few seconds, then released Judy and sprang back to his feet, sliding over to the desk once more and clearing his throat as the coyote failed to immediately look up from where he was once more engrossed in whatever game he was playing on his phone. When the canid male did look up, Nick beamed as he fished his wallet out of one trouser pocket, and spoke in a voice a little more proud and loud than was perhaps absolutely necessary under the circumstances, like a father announcing the birth of a new baby to a couple of close friends while kinda wanting everyone else in the hospital waiting room to overhear.

"I'd like one room please, for me and my girlfriend."

The coyote looked utterly nonplussed as he fished a key off a series of hooks on the wall behind him without even looking, while Judy face-palmed and giggled from the fox's side, though slipping her free hand back into his at the same time.

Soon they were walking along a balcony towards their room, slipping inside, setting their bags down beside the single, somewhat larger than either of them required double bed. It was clean, and warm, and... fine, really. In a way it reminded Judy of her first apartment in the Grand Pangolin Arms, albeit on a somewhat larger scale. And, of course, with an added room-mate. Judy turned away from her case towards Nick, about to ask him which side of the bed he'd prefer, when a soft squeak escaped her lips. A squeak born of the fact she turned just in time to see Nick peeling off his shirt, and reaching for the belt of his trousers. He stopped, and looked nervously, bashfully over at Judy.

"Uh, sorry, Carrots... I... should I have asked?"

Judy blushed as she looked at Nick's bare upper body. Not the first time she'd seen it of course. They might not have slept together yet, not sexually nor even having spent the night in the same bed, but that wasn't to say they hadn't done anything. It was just that she had a very particular association with Nick's bare chest, and that was lying upon it making out with him, then spending a rather bashfully long length of time with her face just buried in his chest, nuzzling and inhaling his rich, comforting scent while he nuzzled and nipped affectionately at her ears. The rabbit shook her head, squeaking again before frowning, drumming her foot against the floor of the motel room in frustration at her own lack of control before re-focusing and clearing her throat as she forced herself to keep looking at the half-naked fox.

"No, it's... s-sorry, just, I..."

Nick could see the trouble she was getting herself into, so he broke the ice the only way he knew how. He flexed his lithe, toned limbs, and grimaced in a gurning body-builder style expression that made him look like he was severely constipated.

"It's just that I'm so fucking beautiful, right? I took your breath away?"

It worked. Judy giggled, smiled in playful gratitude to the fox, and nodded as she too began to unbutton the front of her shirt, noticing Nick's eyes widening, but not darting away or seeking to busy themselves elsewhere.

"Exactly, Nick. I just can't help myself."

Judy teased, blushing as she considered how many layers of irony and sincerity were wrapped up on that comment. Both she and the fox continued to remove their clothes, not making a show of it but both very much aware that they were watching and being watched by their partner. Soon Nick was standing by the bed in just a pair of plaid blue boxer shorts, and Judy was wearing a pair of black panties, not particularly elaborate or overtly sexy in their design but still one of her nicer pairs, and a dark sports bra, all she really needed to comfortably contain her modest, practically non-existent chest. Still, despite not having much in the way of a chest to conceal, Judy waited until after both she and Nick had used the bathroom, brushed their teeth and finally found themselves ready to actually get into bed before she slipped it off, blushing as while Nick was already scrambling up and into the bed she saw his eyes dart back over towards her, and his pupils dilate visibly at the sight of her bare chest, body now clad only in her panties.

By the time they slipped under the covers together, both fox and bunny alike were red in the face. Nevertheless, they were both incredibly tired, Nick especially so but Judy too despite her extended snooze in the truck. They turned off the bedside light, shuffled and settled themselves down with plenty of space between them, and then silence fell. Silence broken only by the hum of a fluorescent light on the balcony outside their door, an occasional rattling of pipework somewhere in one of the walls, and their own slowing, calming breathing as the two mammals sank towards slumber.

"G'nite, Carrots..."

Nick murmured to Judy a minute or so later, shuffling one more time as though settling into the position he planned on sleeping in, turned on his side away from the beautiful, almost nude bunny under the very same sheets as himself. The rabbit didn't respond though, and for a few moments Nick smiled as he wondered whether she had already fallen asleep. Before he could think about glancing over to look though, to catch a glimpse of Judy's beautiful, peacefully resting face to guide him to his own peaceful slumber, he felt movement. He felt soft, warm hands on his back, and legs, and the furred flesh of a torso pressing up behind his own. His eyes widened, and he gasped as he felt Judy's body spoon up against him from behind, only to hear her whisper a few moments later.

"Is this... do you mind, Nick? If you need your space to sleep, I can move back... but... maybe, even if its just for a few minutes, do you mind if I... cuddle you?"

The fox's face burned crimson, and he forced himself to take a breath before responding, even if in the end he sounded just as nervous and eager as Judy had.

"I really, really, really don't need the space, Carrots. So... y'know, cuddle away."

The rabbit squeezed him tighter. The fox sighed happily. Just a few moments later though, he heard Judy speak up softly again through the darkness.

"Nick?"

"Yeah, Carrots?"

"Cuddle me back. Please?"

"Oh. Right. Sorry, I just... I didn't know if, b-because... you're just wearing..."

"Nick."

"Right. Okay. One bunny cuddle, coming up."

The fox turned, shuffled, rolled himself over with Judy never really letting go of him, and wrapped his arms around the gorgeous, incredible woman who for some insane reason loved him every bit as much as he loved her. He pulled her in close as she wrapped not just her arms around him, but even went so far as to swing a leg up and over his torso, his body long enough that practically her entire frame, ears aside, could rest between his neck and stomach. He held her tight enough that he could feel her heart thundering against his own, and tight enough that to his excitement and embarrassment he could feel her nipples pressing firmly against his chest, which no doubt meant she could feel his, too.

"Nick..."

Judy whispered again, her voice almost drunk in its cosy contentment.

"Yeah, Judy?"

Nick murmured back, equally overwhelmed by how good it felt, how right it felt to be lying here with her like this, a whole night of such comfort and cosiness and intimacy ahead of them, and hopefully a great many more beyond that.

"Kiss me, Nick..."

His heart skipped a beat, and he swore he felt hers do the same. They shivered, shuffled and shifted against one another, and without a word of answer from the fox, nor indeed any other words spoken by either of them that night, he pressed his lips to Judy's own in a long, deep, tender goodnight kiss, and growled softly, joyously as she responded eagerly in kind.

*********

When Judy awoke, she didn't just feel like she'd slept well. She felt like she had just experienced the single greatest night's sleep of her entire life, and of course the fact that she awoke with Nick's arms still wrapped around her, his breath on the insides of her ears just above her head and his back spooning against her own, meant that she was in no two minds about the reason for that. She sighed happily. She squirmed back against the fox, trying to push herself into his soft fur even harder as though he might just be able to swallow her up and make it so they could live the rest of their lives combined in this one entity of supreme and total comfort. Her legs stretched out, toes curling downward, and...

Judy froze.

She froze as she stretched out her footpaws down the length of the bed, and almost immediately felt them brush up against something, against a portion of Nick's own body where he was curled around beneath her. Judy's eyes bulged in the morning light streaming through the motel room's drapes. Her throat tensed up, though she held back the squeak and whimper she could feel threatening to burst forth, and despite knowing full well what it was that she had just felt, she let her toes flex and stretch out, exploring a little more as they rubbed against the confined but obviously fully engorged and boxer-short tenting tip of Nick's morning wood.

Before Judy could decide what to do about what she was feeling though, before she could think clearly or even attempt to put her still sleep and instinctively lust-clouded mind to work on the potential outcomes of Nick's current physical state, the fox stirred around her. He shifted. He squirmed. He squeezed her in his arms, and his hips rocked, instinctively or otherwise, forward just enough to bring the tip of his tented crotch into contact with the seat of Judy's own underwear. Then his grip relaxed slightly. She heard and felt the pattern of his breathing change, felt his body shift more purposefully, and suddenly...

"Wha... oh, dammit Wilde..."

He muttered to himself, and swiftly released Judy, scooted down to remove his crotch from any potential contact with any part of her, and rolled over. She felt the sheets shift around them, but dared not stir, dared not let Nick know that she was awake as she felt him pull away from her and drag himself out of bed. Judy felt the bed shift as Nick pulled himself out of it and hopped down to the motel room's floor, she heard his feet padding hurriedly away on the thin, well worn carpet, and then heard the creak and click of the bathroom door sliding shut, then locking behind him.

A few moments later the pipes of the room creaked and groaned, and then Judy heard the hissing of a shower turning on. Only then did the rabbit let herself move. Only then did she roll over, stifling another whimper as somehow, though she swore it wasn't intentional, one of her hands ended up sandwiched between her legs in the move. Pressing against the front, the crotch of her panties. Not touching herself. Absolutely, definitively not touching herself, but most certainly thinking about it. Wishing she could, as she stared at the bathroom door, as she shamelessly trained her sharp ears upon it, and tried to listen. To imagine what was going on inside, with Nick slipping out of his tented boxer shorts, under the water's flow, and... Judy shuddered, her toes curling once again as for a moment she surrendered, and rubbed her clit through the fabric of her underwear. Just one touch. Just one wave of intense, delicious arousal as she pictured Nick standing in the shower, head tilted back, eyes closed and a hand feverishly working his cock while his mind thought about her. She had no way of knowing of course, no real reason beyond his morning wood to assume that was what Nick was doing. But, the idea that he might have been doing so didn't embarrass her or make the rabbit feel uncomfortable. Quite the contrary.

She thought about Nick masturbating just a single room away from her, thought about him sexually fantasising about her and about what might have happened if he hadn't left the bed so swiftly, and she was glad. Overjoyed at even the chance that Nick might have been pleasuring himself to thoughts of her in that moment. Because, if so, he was doing exactly what she would have been doing, were it her who had been locked away in the privacy of the bathroom in that moment. What she would have been doing after a long and wonderfully restful night spent in the arms of the mammal she loved. Touching herself, and wishing that happy as she was for them to take things slow and let it happen when they were ready for it to happen, that she could feel as though she could find herself ready faster.

When Nick emerged from the shower some twenty minutes after slipping out of their shared bed, Judy did everything in her power not to look directly at his crotch, but was still able to notice that it was no longer tented. She blushed as she realised that she was lying propped up on the pillows with her phone in hand, bare chested once again in full view of the fox but this time in daylight rather than darkness, but made no move to hide herself. In fact she set down her phone mid-tweet, pulled herself out from beneath the covers, and crawled to the edge of the bed just as Nick arrived there himself, his fur towel dried but still a little damp as he draped the now rather wet towel over his shoulders.

"Morning, I... I hope I didn't wake you with the shower."

He leaned forward and kissed her on the lips, a peck at first, but one which grew swiftly drawn out by Judy herself as she wrapped her hands around the back of his head and held him close to her, deepening, intensifying that kiss as she felt her nether regions aching, burning between her legs. When they drew back from that kiss, ending only when Judy no longer had the breath to continue it, Nick licked his lips, blinked several times, and grinned.

"Well, someone slept well, huh?"

Judy blushed, but nodded.

"I really did, Nick. Thank you. Thank you for last night, I... I hope... maybe, we can do it again? When we get back to Zootopia, you can stay at my place, or maybe..."

Her voice trailed off, and Judy's already red face got redder still as Nick sat down next to her on the bed, gently encircling her with one of the hands that might just a few minutes ago have been squeezing his knot as his came. The bunny trembled, her face burned hotter, but she leaned into his embrace eagerly.

"...you're always welcome at my place, Carrots. And, there's always a space in my bed for you. Well, so long as you get the whole snoring thing sorted."

Judy's eyes widened, and she whimpered softly.

"Snoring? Did I... oh Nick, I'm s-..."

She saw him grin. She scowled, and Nick yelped as she shoved him hard, though playfully so, away from her.

"Dumb fox."

Nick just laughed, and yet a moment later he had a hand on Judy's face, cupping it tenderly as he drew her gaze back to his, her glorious purple eyes back to his own green hues.

"I slept amazingly too, Carrots. Truly. And, all joking aside, it would mean the absolute world to me to be able to sleep with you like that again. Turns out that every minute and hour I get to spend with you, even ones where I'm unconscious, are the best of my day."

The rabbit beamed, blushed, and trembled as Nick leaned in to kiss her once again. Her thighs squeezed together, and in that moment there was a very, very substantial part of her which was debating whether or not then was the moment. Whether or not this was the time and place where she and Nick could finally, finally stop waiting, and...

But, no.

He might have just masturbated, and she didn't want to embarrass him by expecting sex only for him to be spent and unable to perform. Besides, this wasn't exactly the most romantic venue for a first time, and they only had a couple of hours before check-out. And for Judy, whenever she'd fantasised about her first time with Nick, she felt as though they were going to need a lot more than a couple of hours.

Thus when that kiss broke, Judy gently peeled herself out of her boyfriend's gentle embrace, and slipped down onto the floor. She smiled at him, and gestured to the bathroom.

"I'm gonna take a shower now too. Maybe after I'm done, we can go see if the diner in the rest stop is any good?"

Nick nodded, and as though on cue, his belly gurgled slightly. A few moments later though, Judy was out of sight of that cute, lean, fluffy white furred stomach. A few moments and she was out of sight of the fox entirely, closing and locking the bathroom door, then padding her way over to the shower which was still glistening with the condensation of Nick's recent use. She found herself slipping out of her underwear, pulling a towel over to just outside the shower cubicle for easy access when she was done, and turning on the water before stepping inside to find that Nick had left it set at almost the perfect temperature. She gasped in contentment at the warm flow of water raining down upon her from above. She slid the shower door closed, sealing herself inside as steamy waves of warm moisture began to rise up around her and fog up the glass anew, and then as she found herself standing in the very spot where to the best of her knowledge Nick might have been trembling, panting and masturbating himself just ten minutes ago, Judy spread her legs, leaned back against one wall, and began to do the very same.

*********

When Judy emerged from the shower, wrapped from underarms to ankles in a towel the same size as the one Nick had been using to dry off himself, the fox was fully dressed. He showed no sign of suspicion, no sign of embarrassed awkwardness as Judy padded past him, just smiling warmly as though he had no idea that about seven minutes ago Judy had fallen to her knees, shuddering, one paw clasped over her muzzle to keep herself from crying out as the other attacked her g-spot and drove her to a convulsing, gushing orgasm with thoughts of Nick's own self-pleasure in mind. The rabbit tried to play things similarly cool, albeit burdened by the knowledge that she very much had done all of that, and smiled and nodded along as Nick suggested an approximate time for them reaching their destination that night, presuming that they ate breakfast pretty soon and ate snacks on the road for lunch.

"... and if we manage to make it there by tonight like it seems we should, we'll have all tomorrow to figure out our cover and stuff with the local MBI branch before the first round of auditions the next day."

The fox concluded, only then glancing up from his phone and noticing Judy gathering her clothes from her suitcase, struggling to hold the towel onto herself while doing so. His eyes widened, and his cheeks flushed a little as he stood up from the bed, and padded not towards Judy but past her, towards the motel room door.

"I'll do a little scouting while you get dressed. See if there's any snacks we can buy for the rest of the day, a candy machine or whatever, before we go into the diner for breakfast."

Judy looked up as she saw the fox preparing to leave the room, then glanced down as she realised why. At first she was going to let him, going to thank him for understanding, but then she thought back to what she had just been doing a handful of minutes ago. What she had been thinking about, fantasising about, wishing that Nick could do with her, to her, what he would share with her. She had meant it all then. It had been sincere, utterly unabashed and unapologetic in her heart and mind. So, why was now so different, just because she didn't have the intense hormonal rush of pleasure and sexual arousal surging through her system.

"Nick, wait."

The rabbit whimpered just as Nick's hand was reaching out towards the handle of their motel room's door.

"You... you really don't have to come up with an excuse to leave the room."

Nick's eyes widened. He shook his head, and began to deny it, though as he realised how untrue that denial would be it swiftly trailed off.

"I wasn't, I... I mean..."

Then, even if he had been able to say more, the fox's capacity for speech of any kind was stolen away as in that moment, riding a surge of renewed arousal and confidence brought on by the memory of Nick's arousal against her feet and her ass, Judy stood upright, took a deep, steadying breath, and dropped her towel.

She didn't put on a show. She didn't purposefully turn to face Nick head on, or in any way overtly and erotically expose herself to him. The rabbit did however linger in her efforts to get dressed, folding her towel entirely unnecessarily given that it belonged to the motel, and picking up each of her garments for the day ahead in turn, looking them over as she leaned over her suitcase, then stood upright and walked with them back to the bed, certain that she could feel Nick's eyes resting firmly, longingly on her naked rump.

She was still naked, laying out her clothes on the bed in a further delaying tactic, when Judy caught movement out of the corner of her eye, and saw Nick move to sit down on the bed beside where she was working. She stopped fiddling with her clothes, stood upright once more, and looked up at the fox as he looked at her in return, up and down, helplessly admiring, delighting in her nudity before his gaze was finally drawn back to Judy's eyes. After a few moments, both of them crimson-cheeked and feeling as though their hearts were going to burst clean through their ribs, Judy pushed her clothes aside, and pulled herself still nude up onto the bed, settling down into a sitting position beside Nick.

"I..."

Judy took a deep breath as she saw Nick re-arrange his hands over his lap in a manner too purposeful to be anything but a desperate attempt to hide a physical reaction to what he was looking at. That fact buoyed her confidence, and after closing her eyes for just a moment to gather herself, she opened them again and met Nick's bashful, awe-struck gaze as she confessed to him.

"I felt you, in bed. I was awake before you moved, before you woke up and went for your shower."

Nick croaked in humiliation, but a moment later one of Judy's hands was holding his own, squeezing him, silently assuring him that she wasn't angry in the slightest, as if her naked body sitting there with him wasn't evidence enough of her happiness and contentment in his presence. Still though, the fox tried to explain.

"You know it was... when I wake up, it's almost always..."

Judy smiled and nodded, giggling as Nick's eyes only widened in shock and the fox rapidly began to try and back up from what he'd just said.

"Not that I don't think you're... t-that you couldn't make me, y'know... obviously I... I do feel that way. I... I am..."

The rabbit giggled more, and reached up with her free hand to press a finger to Nick's lips.

"I know."

She murmured, that finger running down his neck, down his shirt, and threatening to slide directly onto his crotch where his hands were still locked tight over it before at the last second diverting to the right, coming to rest upon Nick's thigh with a fond squeeze. The fox shuddered at her touch, and as he saw her looking down at his legs, at his crotch, clothed beside her wholly naked, exposed body, he whined and with agonising effort let his hands fall away from his tented trousers. Almost immediately, Judy's hand slid about an inch closer to the tent, though it froze, the rabbit's nerve breaking as the bulge twitched, and a ragged moan escaped Nick's lips. Her hand lingered there for a few moments longer, before withdrawing again as her other paw only tightened its loving grip on the fox's own hand.

"Nick, I want to ask you a question, and please tell me if you just don't want to answer it. I won't push. I won't think anything of it. I just... I have to ask."

The fox nodded without hesitation. Judy's face flushed brighter, hotter still. She felt Nick's hand squeeze hers in return, and suddenly the words just flowed forth.

"Did you masturbate in the shower this morning?"

Nick swallowed. His eyes widened a little, and the bulge of his crotch twitched again. But, he didn't hide from the question. He didn't try to skirt around it or avoid it. He simply nodded. No words necessary, just a nod that made Judy so very, very happy, and almost without thinking drew forth an admission of her own with her next breath.

"Me too. I... I thought about what you might have done to get rid of your... your morning wood, Nick, and... I had to."

The fox whined, and he spoke up as soon as the rabbit had fallen silent.

"I thought about you too, Judy. It wasn't just morning wood. I... I was dreaming about you, before you woke up. Your smell, your heat was with me all night, and I... I dreamed that we were... then I woke up, and you were right there. I thought for a moment it had really happened, that I was waking up the morning after. Then I realised what was really happening, a-and... well, I didn't know how you'd react, so, I dealt with it. I thought about you, and... and it was incredible. It's always incredible when I think of you."

Beaming, blushing, Judy leaned her head against Nick's shoulder, nuzzling gently against him and wishing that he hadn't put his shirt on yet, so she could smell his fur rather than the lingering scent of the detergent he used.

"Nick, I know that we said we'd go at our own pace. That we'd make sure it was right, that we could handle working together and being best friends, and being a couple before we... before we did anything it would be harder to take back, if ever one of us felt like we needed to. I know we said that wouldn't change, not even with this whole investigation we've signed on for. But, Nick... I swear to you, I'm not saying this because of the investigation. I'm not saying this because I feel rushed or pressured or... or anything other than in love with you, comfortable, happy and... and excited by being around you. We still can take our time. We still don't have to jump in head first, and if you aren't ready I'm absolutely fine staying where we are. But, next time you feel like that, Nick? Next time you... you wake up like that, with me, or something else makes you feel that same way, you don't have to go and take a shower. And if you do, n-not alone. I could... I mean, I want to..."

Judy paused, just for a moment, to let what she was saying sink in.

It did, and Nick let slip the most overwhelmed, joyously broken whimper as his head sank down to rest against Judy's own. To nuzzle at her twitching ears, and kiss her on the forehead, then the lips as she lifted her head to meet his own. The kiss was surprisingly restrained, surprisingly reserved given the topic of conversation which had spawned it. But not for lack of passion or excitement, rather simply because both of them felt like they had more to share, more to say than even a kiss could get across.

"Oh, Carrots. I want to, too."

Nick could have stopped there and Judy would still have been the happiest, possibly horniest bunny in the universe in that particular instant. But, he said more, and with every word Judy felt not just happier still, but so much more incredibly lucky to have this man in her life.

"I'm okay with taking it slow if that's what we want, if that's what we talk about and agree. But, I'm okay with not taking it slow, too. I'm okay with going at whatever pace works for us both. More than okay. A million, billion times more, actually."

Judy smiled. She nodded, and looked down once more at Nick's tented crotch as her hand returned to his thigh, rubbing yet again and watching as once more she provoked another beautiful, sensual twitching of the fabric and what lay beneath it. A moment later she tensed up, then squeaked, giggled, and relaxed against Nick's body more so than ever as one of his hands reached over and came to rest upon her thigh in a similar position, only without trousers to hold his touch back from her bare fur.

"Nick..."

She gasped breathlessly in that moment, feeling as though her body was about to boil over. Like she was still in the shower, rising rapidly towards her peak and not knowing if she was going to be able to keep from screaming when that orgasmic high crashed over her.

"Tonight, maybe we could... maybe our new hotel room in the city could only have one bed, too, and we... we could..."

Nick kissed Judy on the forehead. He squeezed her thigh, rubbed it a little, his fingers sliding inward, ever closer to the apex of her lower limbs, then withdrew slowly, gently, but still teasingly enough to draw a frustrated groan from the bunny, and a snort of laughter from his own muzzle before he murmured to the woman he loved.

"We'll decide what we want to do when the time comes, Judy. You know how I feel. You can see it clear as day, but... I don't expect anything of you. I won't. So, when tonight comes, you tell me what I can do to make you happy, and... like always, I'll do my best not to mess it up."

The rabbit giggled, and nodded as she forced herself to withdraw her own hand from Nick's thigh. She looked almost ruefully over at her pile of clothes sitting crumpled on her opposite side, and looked hopefully, lustfully back at Nick one last time as her excitement got the best of her.

"And... right now?"

Nick chuckled, plucking his phone from his pocket, glancing down at the screen and showing it to Judy, the rabbit groaning as she realised they had ten minutes till check-out.

"Right now, Carrots, I'm gonna sit here and think about the root canal I got when I was twelve. And then, once I've sufficiently traumatised my mind to make it forget how worked up you just got me, and you've put some clothes on so it doesn't happen as fast all over again, we're gonna go get some breakfast. Does that sound okay to you?"

Judy smiled. She nodded, though rather than immediately moving to get dressed she shuffled around, lifted herself up onto her knees so that she was looming ever so slightly down over Nick's still seated form, and kissed the fox one more time as she rested naked in his presence for the first time. She felt his hands rise up her body instinctively as their kiss deepened. Coming to rest on her bare rump before recalling the lack of clothes, and lingering, squeezing for just a moment before rising up to her lithe, bare back. She leaned in, kissing him deeper, harder, until he whined in pleading desperation, not wanting to have to rush what she seemed intent on tempting him into doing with her. Only then did she withdraw, panting, blushing, and addressed the fox in return as she felt his eyes drinking her in one more time.

"So long as you're gonna be there with me, Nick... breakfast sounds really, really good."

By Jeeves

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