Zootopia by night...

Story by hooves on SoFurry

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Missing Human:

"I assure you... we will do our absolute best to find your son." Officer Clawhauser said seriously to the strange fur-less apes, he'd lived in the city his whole life and had never seen animals like these. "Now can you tell me anything else about your son... Errr Cameron." The big red face ape smacked his hand on the desk top, looking very upset at the heavy Cheetah.

"We want to see someone in charge." He demanded, even as his wife tugged on his arm and tried to calm him down.

"Ummm well... I'll have to..." Clawhauser stammered, looking up from the file in front of him, quickly taking a nervous bite of a doughnut. As just then Officer Judy Hopps and her pardner Officer Nick Wilde walked slowly up to the desk.

"Whats going on Clawhauser?" The small bunny asked good-naturedly, as the fat Cheetah looked at her in some relief. Quickly, Clawhauser explained about the apes missing son, before assuring them that Judy and Nick were two of their top officers. The male seemed less than satisfied, but his wife was grateful to be talking to anyone other than the fat Cheetah.

"Now you say he came here as and exchange student at the university." Judy confirmed, going over the paper work on which Clawhauser had written down the facts. Watching as the parents nodded their agreement with this statement, she went on to her next question. "Was he living in student housing?"

"No... he told me he'd found an off campus apartment... in happy town." The tubby middle aged female answered, taking out a small piece of paper with an address scribbled on it. Judy took the paper scrap and quickly copied down the address into the case file.

"We went there first of course." The father explained, having calmed down quite a bit now that they seemed to be getting somewhere. "The place was locked up, and the building manager wouldn't let us in. Even though we explained that we were Cameron's parents and were worried because we hadn't heard from him in weeks." His voice was clearly tinged with anger once again, even as Judy asked where they were staying. "The Marmiset hotel across from the central train station, room 243." Getting their contact information, Judy assured them that she and Nick would get right on the case.

***

The handsome red Fox, looked up at the run down old building frowning as the pair stepped out of their squad car. "What in the world was the kid thinking... living here rather than student housing?" Nick's frown twisted into a contemplative look, his eye's narrowing slyly.

"I guess he had his reasons." The small bunny said brightly, this building wasn't that much worse than the one she had first lived in.

"I'll just bet he did..." Nick snorted, as he strolled around the car to join Judy on the side walk outside the shabby building. "None of the good." The little Fox speculated, even as he placed one paw on the small rabbits sexy round ass. Judy smiled faintly, as she felt that hot paw cupping her firm round butt-cheek.

"What do you mean?" Judy asked, turning slightly to make Nicks finger tip's slide around the curve of her butt and brush over her sex. Nick smiled, as he felt his pardners hot little sex on his finger tip's through the tight fabric of her uniform pants.

"The dorm's are cleaner, better furnished, and cheaper than this place." Nick pointed out, as the two of them walked up the steps leading into the shabby apartment building. "So what is the attraction of this place? Well... first off there is privacy, one can get up to all kinds of things here that he couldn't in a university dorm room. Things that might get him punished, or even tossed out of school. Or perhaps things of a completely illegal nature... drug use or prostitution."

"Your getting a little dark don't you think... we are talking about a college kid after all." The small bunny countered, her smile making Nick forget for a moment his own dark thoughts.

"You think you've seen the dark side of this city..." Nick breathed weakly, as he felt his heart flutter at her smile. "But it gets much darker than you know... trust me." The red Fox inhale sharply, as the sexy bunny spun and wrapped her arms around his slender body.

"With my life." Judy assured, looking up at him with that innocent big eyed look and always made his heart melt.

"Right back at ya carrots." He wanted to kiss her then, but knew that he couldn't do that out here in public. And so just hugged back, before patting her head and then separating. Judy too seemed to remember her professionalism at that moment, and stepped back straightening her uniform. The pair climbed the steps and walked into the short dirty hallway, knocking on the building manager's apartment door. Hearing loud cussing within and then the old dirty door was yanked open, and a disheveled looking older Hyena with a beer in his paw.

"What?" He snarled loud and angrily, until he saw their police uniforms. "Oh you must be here about the naked ape... the parents took my advise and filed a report." The burly Hyena flashed them a rotten toothed ingratiating grin, and then down the last of his beer. "I was just about to clean his apartment out, he's not paid this months rent. If ya wanta have a look around." Up two flights of ancient and creaking stairs, the Hyena unlocked a dull green painted door with an tarnished brass four A on it. The apartment was in fact quite a bit larger than Judy's old place, but just as old and run down. The small kitchenette show obvious disuse, there was a pile of empty pizza box's on the counter.

"Looks like someone's got a high opinion of himself." The burly Hyena smirked, picking up a foil condom wrapper that said 'Predator Elite'. Nick fished a massive used latex condom out of the waste basket, sniffing it experimentally.

"It wasn't for him... our college boy likes to bottom for preds." Nick snorted, dropping the used condom back into the waste basket. Before moving over to the bedside table, looking into the night stand drawer. Finding a blind fold, ball gag, a half empty box of condoms, looking at the bed post's. The handsome Fox smirked, seeing the soft silk ropes with loops tied in them. Kinky gay sex was a good reason to avoid the college dorms, especial when you were picking up anonymous predator pardners.

"Sick bastard." The burly Hyena snorted, looking more like he was offended that the human hadn't offer to let him have a go. "O' course he did always pay his rent on time... until this time around."

"What are you going to do with his things?" Judy asked as she looked through the small closet on the other side of the room. There was just dirty clothes and worn shoes in the closet, along with a back pack full of school books and a laptop. She took the laptop out and opened it up, looking over the files but spotting nothing out of the ordinary.

"I was going to... pack it up and sent it to the parents." The sleazy Hyena said in a slow greasy manner, that left little doubt in Judy's mind that he had been planning to toss everything in the trash.

"See that you do." Judy ordered, standing up on her tip toes to look the building manager right in the eyes.

"Of course officer." The Hyena smiled ingratiatingly, as he turned to watch Nick look under the bed. Nick discovering a dozen of so more empty condom wrappers, and a couple of old sets of underwear. He sniffed them one by one, and then took out a couple of plastic bags. Putting a couple of large sets of underwear into them, as the smiling Hyena watched. And then check in the tiny bathroom, the Fox finding a number of small bloody bandages. So the kink had gotten a little rough, still it looked like only scratches.

"I think we're through here." Nick said as he came out of the bathroom, his eyes looking sharply at the building manager. "See that his family gets his things." He ordered the greasily smiling Hyena nodded, once out on the stairs Nick turned to Judy. "I think we need to talk to a old friend of mine."

***

The door of the outer office swung open, inside was a battered secretaries desk it was empty. Behind it the door to the inner office stood open, sitting behind a larger older looking desk was a middle aged Zebra. He swung around to look at the pair entering his offices and smiled good naturally at them.

"Nick Wilde..." The Zebra in a rumbled gray suited drawled slowly, as he saw the Fox and Bunny step into his small shabby inner office. "Heard you'd joined the ZPD... can't say as I believed it, until now." The wide smirk on the equines big round muzzle spoke volumes, as he stood up and leaned across his desk to greet them. "Who's your pretty friend?"

"This is my pardner Judy... Officer Judy Hops." Nick corrected himself quickly, as the smirking Zebra greeted Judy. "Judy this is my old friend..."

"The names on the door Nick..." The big Zebra pointed out winking at Judy, before gesturing for them to have a seat. "Nice to meet you Judy... call me Palmer everyone does." The Zebra assured, before sitting back down himself, and taking a bottle out of his desk draw. Offering them a drink, but both Nick and Judy turned it down. The Bunny because they were on duty, and Nick because he knew just how cheap the Zebra's liquor was.

"Nice to meet you Palmer." Judy greeted, as she watched the older Zebra pour himself a stiff drink and knock it back in one gulp. The older equine had a very distinctive voice and way of speaking, Judy found herself liking the Zebra almost at once.

"So where's Nora?" The handsome Fox asked, looking over his shoulder to the empty desk in the front office. The big Zebra winced slightly at the question, as if that was a bit of a sore spot.

"She had to take some time off for her health..." Palmer snorted, obviously he wasn't telling everything there and Nick seemed to sense it.

"I hope its nothing serious." Nick said with concern plain in his voice, it was obvious he like everyone else liked Nora.

"Pretty serious... a girls gotta eat, she's working as a waitress down at Muldoons cafe." Palmer explained, as private detectives went Nick knew the Zebra had high standards, he didn't work divorce or cheating spouse cases. "So what brings Nick Wilde to my door?"

"Need your help of course." Nick grunted, watching as the older Zebra rolled his big blue eyes and snorted. Still it was plain he was glad the Fox had though of him, even if he was playing it off.

"Well obviously... or you wouldn't be here. It's not like I'm on the best of terms with the ZPD, Bogo is still trying to get my P.I. license yanked. Whats the case Nick?" Palmer grunted, leaned back in his chair and putting his big flinty hooves up on his desk.

"A college student disappeared... he's a pretty rare species and its starting to look bad. Bad like he had some help doing it." The handsome red Fox explained, making the big equine's head jerk up. Leaning forwards Nick slid the file across the desk to the older Zebra, who picked it up and looked through it slowly.

"A missing kid, huh?" The grisled older detective grunted, his voice husky with dark emotions. "He had help... What are you thinking, the Meat market? Well, you came to the right mammal... I know all the players. And, I've done jobs with less... somehow nice and simple never makes it onto the menu in my world." Palmer grunted, licking his lip's as he dropped his hooves back to the floor reading through the file once more. "Give me a night to ask around a bit... see what my contacts have to say. As rare as this species is on this side of the world... word will be out on the streets."

"Alright Palmer... we'll meet up tomorrow at side Belmont's coffee shop down town at lunch time." Nick agreed, as he stood up shaking the old Zebra's hand, and taking the police file back.

"You got it Nick."