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"Mmmmnnnghhh!! Come on, you little..."

Judy Hopps gritted her teeth as tightly as her muscles, trying her hardest not to show too much weakness on the way towards her new office. The grey bunny pushed with all of her might, but was only able to drag that heavy box across the floor at a snail's pace. Even with her agile physique, the specialized athletic padding underneath her foot-paws, and the added slickness of the linoleum floors, it seemed that she had a disturbingly hefty amount of supplies in her box from her old desk. Fortunately, despite how much she looked to be struggling with her move, it seemed that most of the other officers refrained from assisting her; of course, that may have been because most of them saw the rage-fueled tongue-lashing she gave to her partner Nick when he tried to record her on his phone.

So now with that pesky fox off elsewhere, all that Hopps could do was try to achieve this move on her own. Even her Chief, who had a muscular build that would put most predators to shame, merely stood back and had his thick arms crossed while keeping an impressed smirk. Judy may have been the smallest member of the force, but he had to give her some credit for how tenacious she could be. Fortunately, the bunny was about twenty feet from her new cubicle before trying a different tactic. As the hulking water buffalo watched from a distance, Judy got into a seated position in front of the box, and used her arms to brace herself before giving the box a strong kick.

With that first powerful push, the box slid a third of the way across the floor with much better ease. Judy grinned wide in satisfaction, but didn't stop to celebrate as she went up and repeated the process. Even though it took almost ten minutes to push the box from her Chief's office the old way, her new method ensured it was within her new space in three hefty kicks.

"Whoo!" The bunny wiped some sweat beading on her forehead, and glanced back at her Chief when she heard him chucking in amusement. At seeing his coy smirk while leaned against the wall, the officer huffed with a raised brow and replied, "Really, Bogo? Is there not enough action outside the station to be entertained by?"

If Judy had said that when she was fresh out of training, the water buffalo would've likely chewed her ear off for such insubordination. However, enough time had passed between the two to establish a small friendship alongside their work statuses. They may have not been chummy enough to hit the bar together after a shift, but Bogo was still able to roll his eyes and scoff at her question. "Well, what do you expect me to do, Hopps? I didn't want any civilians to come around here, and see the Judy Hopps struggling with a bloody box."

Judy sighed strongly while keeping her smirk, although it was unclear whether that was from her exhaustion, or her feelings towards that remark. Alas, she wasn't too winded to keep from saying back to him, "Oh, really? Because with that smile you have, I almost expected you to have your phone out like Nick."

"Pbbt!" The buffalo scoffed and shook his head before beginning to walk away. "Oh, please. I'm not that immature! You should show some more faith in your superior."

"Indeed I do, Chief," she replied in a kind and sincere tone. After catching her breath, the bunny rushed up towards Bogo to follow him to his office. She looked around for a second before saying in a more discrete tone, "I mean... It's not like many other Superiors would say I was on vacation during my, errr... leave of absence."

Bogo sighed with a more stern look on his face, even though he was grateful Judy said that in a more hushed voice. She may have obviously quit before that Bellweather incident, but the Chief made sure that wasn't mentioned in any of the official paperwork regarding her leave. He took a sharp breath as they reached his office, and responded with a professional tone, "Well, given how much property damage was caused from the capture of Bellweather, I would've been insane to not have you listed as an active cop at the time. You know how badly things would've gone otherwise, right? Not just for you personally, but for the ZPD's legal department as well."

"Of course," assured Judy with a quick swipe of her arm. "Believe me, I totally get it. But still..." After the door to Bogo's office was closed behind them, the bunny made sure nobody was eavesdropping before saying warmly, "I... I really do appreciate how you stuck your neck out for me. I mean, the fact that you kept my stuff in your closet during that time is still a lot to process."

Bogo understood her point of view, but he was quick to say with a huff, "Well, it was either that, or having to throw it out in the dumpster. And if just one nosy journalist got a hold of that, the press would be a wildfire."

Judy shrugged again at the water buffalo's logistical way of thinking, but she still kept the slightest hint of skepticism at Bogo's reasoning. Although, given how much of a roller-coaster their workplace relationship may have been, it probably wasn't best to make any assumptions. And in an attempt to keep any awkward silence from growing between them (especially while alone in his office), Judy replied professionally, "Well... I still do appreciate all you've done, so ummm... Thanks."

Bogo may have been an intimidating-looking brute, but he still sighed and gave the bunny a rare smile and a nod. "It's really not a problem, Officer Hopps."

He then went back towards his personal closet, which usually just carried bulk office supplies and boxes of paperwork. But since the closet door was now open, Judy was able to see only one of her boxes remained at the bottom. Fortunately, it looked to be much easier to manage than the previous ones. Instead of holding a giant stack of books or office supplies, the final box seemed to only contain some miscellaneous items from her desk drawers, as well as a bunch of crumpled-up papers. But before she could try and grab that box herself, the Chief reached down into the closet and picked it up without hesitation. "Oh, let me get that one. I just remembered that this box has a tear in one of the corners, so I'd rather carry it myself."

Judy may have known that he was trying to be polite, but she still scoffed with a slightly offended-looking scowl. "Oh, don't give me that, Chief! You just saw what I did with the last box! At least let me get the box I can actually carry back to my cubicle!"

The buffalo retorted with a firm glance back at her while standing back up. "Given how this holds your personal belongings, Ms. Hopps, I'd rather not risk it opening up and dropping everything in front of your coworkers. I know you have your pride, but I don't want you to deal with anything embarrassing."

Judy raised her brows and opened her mouth for a second, tempted to bring up a fitting rebuttal to the Chief's claim. However, a couple seconds passed as she thought about her retort, before deciding to just keep her mouth shut. Even though she could bring up a few instances where Bogo embarrassed her when she first joined the force, that felt too inappropriate for their current relationship. So instead, she just sighed with a wave of her paw before saying, "Alright, fine. If you don't want the box to rip, I won't try to mess with it."

"Thank you," said Bogo with a grateful smile back at her. While his muscular arms wrapped around that cardboard box with ease, the water buffalo nodded his head towards the door and asked, "Hopps, would you open the door for me please? My arms are a little occu..."

Before Judy could make a single step towards the door, she paused when she heard her Chief's words trail off. Meanwhile, Bogo narrowed his eyes down at the unlidded box as a particular item caught his attention. His head tilted in confusion, clearly seeing something that Hopps wasn't able to catch from her angle. After a couple seconds of silence, his brows raised curiously before taking the box towards his desk. Judy blinked a couple times, and ignored the door as she followed him. "Ummm... what are you doing?" she asked with a slight hint of concern in her tone.

Bogo didn't reply as he put the box down, and instead reached inside to pull out a plain white envelope. It took the bunny a moment to ponder what he was doing, almost tempted to chastise him for going through her things. However, as soon as he flipped the envelope around to open it, Hopps gasped the instant she saw the Chief's name written on the front of it. Her paws shot up to cover her mouth, instantly remembering what that note was. "Oh cheese and crackers, no. No... Nooooooo, nonononononono..."

Judy wasn't sure why she didn't say anything to stop him, or even go as far as to snatch that letter from Bogo's hands to throw into the nearest paper shredder. But before she could pull herself out of her frozen state of petrified shock, the Chief opened the envelope that was written out for him. Unfortunately for him, he didn't seem to notice the bunny's mortified stare as he said with a smirked huff, "So... what was this supposed to be? An old resignation letter or something?"

It was obvious he said that as a joke, but the pale and wide-eyed look on Judy's face made it clear it was something much, much worse. Just as Bogo began to unfold the heavily scrawled page of notebook paper, Hopps gasped and threw her paws out in desperation. "N-N-N-NO BOGO DON'T READ THAT!!!"

Despite how shrill Judy's terrified shriek sounded, Bogo just figured she was too embarrassed to find something she made pre-emptively. Before she could try to franticly say anything else, the Chief scoffed and said with a roll of his eyes. "Hopps, it's perfectly alright. A lot has happened since then, remember?" He then glanced at the top of the letter while adding, "Besides, it's not like I can't--"

Bogo's statement was abruptly cut off as his eyes shot wide-open, causing Judy to cringe especially hard while hiding her horrified expression. The water buffalo may have not taken her warning seriously, but he could definitely see why she was so adamant about him not reading it. Especially when the very top of the letter read in sloppily scrawled penmanship:

Dear Bogo,

You souless, specist, self-hating cuckold piece of shit!!!

Even if Hopps' paws weren't tightly clamped over her quivering mouth, she probably wouldn't have been able to say anything more than a petrified creak. Every single hair on her fur was standing out in utter fear as she saw the shocked, disgusted gawk Bogo carried on his wide-eyed face. She could see his eyes slowly moving back and forth across the page, carefully reading out every vile and profane statement that she wrote out. That "resignation letter," which Judy scrawled out in a drunken stupor after their interaction in the Rainforest District, had enough insulting and demeaning language to cover both sides of the paper. Given her mental state when it was made, that letter carried enough bile and seething hatred to risk dripping off the page to leave a poisonous puddle on the floor. The bunny couldn't even remember all that she had written, but judging by the look on her appalled superior's face, she was sure she had a thesaurus' worth of profanity to describe her feelings about him.

By the time he had read through half of the first page of insults about himself (as well as towards a good portion of his family), Bogo had to blink a couple of times while his mouth hung slightly agape. He could tell from the skittish handwriting that she was probably heavily intoxicated when making it. However, the level of creativity she possessed when writing out so many different synonyms for various profanities was disturbingly impressive nonetheless. Alas, the Chief kept himself silent before shaking his head with a stunned look on his face. "Ummm... Wow."

"Ohmigosh..." Judy quickly threw her paws up to try and catch his attention, even though she looked terrified enough to assume her remains were soon going to be found in a garbage bag upstate. "Bogo... Bogo... Chief, please... Please, you have to belie--"

Without looking up from the paper, Bogo raised up one hand firmly to shut her up in an instant. As he continued to read in stunned silence, he left his hand up like a crossing-guard keeping a car from moving. And judging by the pale, lifeless look of horror on Judy's face, she would've been blissfully lucky to only be demoted to a job that demeaning. Inside of her head, a million thoughts were racing through to leave her heart sunken down to the pit of her stomach.

As she saw Bogo's eyes reaching the bottom of that vehement, detailed names the bunny was furious enough to jot down, she winced the instant she saw his head shake into a shocked jolt. She wasn't sure what she wrote to cause that reaction, but a few choice statements she could recall started to enter her head. She was fairly sure at one point, she just wrote down every disgusting fetish she could name off in connection to him. That may have not been her brightest method of bad-talking, but given the letter overall, she doubted anything she wrote could be considered "bright" by any means.

The Chief narrowed his eyes as he leaned in and scanned some of the more messily-written words she crammed at the bottom of the front-half of the letter. "What the... What's that supposed to mean..."

Given how a couple of the choice names she wrote down involved more Leporidic nomenclature, he could only assume some of the insults were those only bunnies could understand. But before he could finish his question, he clenched his eyes and shook his head while saying, "You know what? Just, no... Just... D-Don't tell me, I don't want to know..."

Instead, he only let out a disgusted sigh before turning the letter over. He cringed at the sight of another wall of drunken text, undoubtedly showing just how enraged his officer was at the time. Even when he heard Hopps groan out in a faint, high-pitched whine, he couldn't look away from the continuous spewing of legible bile she created. Meanwhile, Judy was looking down at the carpet with her paws cupped over her head, struggling not to cry in utter shame and fear.

"This... This is detailed, Officer Hopps..." Bogo knew that his adjective was a monumental understatement, since he could only assume Judy could've written more if she had the paper for it. By the time he reached the end of the letter, his muzzle puffed out as he exhaled through his tightly-pursed lips. If it wasn't for the sickly-sweet "Sincerely, Judy Hopps" notation at the end, he would've never assumed that a bunny would have so much vengeful rage to write out such a thing. There were a million questions running through his head, but the first one that came to his head made him put the letter down and slowly glance at the mortified bunny. "Ummm... Judy?"

"I'MSORRY!" she belted out in a petrified jolt the instant she was allowed to speak. Her face showed nothing but the purest regret as she stared up at her Superior Officer and belted out rapidly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I am so, SO sorry! I swear... I SWEAR I was drunk! I was Black! Out! Drunk when I wrote that letter! I never... NEVER intended to send you that. O-Or... to have you see it..."

Hopps' face scrunched up quite a bit after that last part, making it clear how hard it was becoming to keep from crying. Even though she didn't want to look away from Bogo, or have him see her in such an overly emotional state, the bunny couldn't keep herself from covering her shameful face with a paw. Meanwhile, the Chief winced and glanced back at that letter, which seemed even less fitting of the officer in comparison of how she looked now. After taking a breath, Bogo asked in a cautious tone, "So, ummm... I take it that this letter was written after that whole... Rainforest incident, right?"

A sharp breath escaped through Judy's paw while it was over her face, sound like she was trying not to sob. Despite feeling her tears start to come out and seep into her fur, she was able to nod her head faintly and reply in a weak-sounding creak. "Y... yeah. I... I was... I was r... really hurt about everything, and I... I ended up going to a bar with Nick after it..."

Despite how upset she felt about all of this unfolding now, she quickly gasped and put down her paw to add insistently, "Th-This was off duty! I swear, I was NOT drinking while on shift, alright?!"

"It's okay, I understand!" said Bogo quickly in response with his hands out in assurance. Since Judy's eyes were visibly reddened above the matted fur on her cheeks, the Chief was guiltily relieved when she looked away from him after that was said. While one hand held onto that letter, the other lowered as he closed his eyes and sighed. "I mean... even if you were on duty, I wouldn't blame you, but... I believe you if you say you weren't."

"Th... Thank you..." Her voice was much more timid as she kept her face away from him, lucky that she was able to keep herself from crying any more than she already had. While wiping her face with a paw, she breathed out more calmly so she could speak in a less flustered tone. "I just... I was really upset with everything, and... and Nick thought I should, like... write down everything as a venting tool. I think he... he said something about doing that himself, and how much it worked for him, so..."

Upon realizing how flawed and weak her reasoning sounded out-loud, she clenched her eyes and sighed butterly. "I dunno, it's stupid."

"No, no, it's fine Officer. I get it." Despite having just read about fifty different insults from the very bunny he was speaking to, Bogo kept his tone of voice fairly reserved while in his office. Since he could clearly see how remorseful Judy looked about her actions, he didn't want to chastise her even more about them at that moment. However, he did feel compelled to add bluntly, "Although, keeping that letter wasn't the best move on your part."

"Agreed," stated Judy almost instantly with a wave of her paw. She took a deeper breath before saying insistently, "Believe me, I thought I threw that away after everything settled down. I don't even know why I still had it!"

"Well, I won't ask why..." Bogo had his muzzle skewed as he put the letter down on his desk. However, he kept his hand firmly on top of it, just in case Hopps tried to snatch the letter away from him and turn it into confetti. Instead, he merely huffed with a shake of his head and tried to clarify, "Just to be clear, this was before I apologized to you about that night, right?"

"Y-Yes!" she immediately blurted while looking at him directly. "Chief, I swear! I would've NEVER written any of that stuff after you talked with me! That letter was written like... hours after that Rainforest thing, okay!? It was just some... drunken, impulsive venting that meant NOTHING!"

Bogo briefly paused his response, tempted to point out how that her statement could have proven she wasn't off-duty at the time. However, the water buffalo decided to just let that issue pass with a quick sigh. "Okay, I just... wanted to make sure this wasn't a recent letter. I mean... you are aware I wasn't being disingenuous with you, right?"

Judy closed her eyes and nodded with a brief exhale, not needing to hear that to know Bogo was being truthful. "Yeah, I... I'm not denying that for a second, Chief. If I had known you were going to apologize, I... I probably wouldn't have even thought of writing that stupid thing..."

Even though she never intended to send out that letter after solving the 'Missing Predators' case, she also never expected the Chief to apologize for how callously he treated her during it. She honestly thought that Bogo would just gaslight his behavior, and go back to treating her the same as before without mentioning it. But shockingly enough, not only did he pull her aside shortly after that case to apologize to her in private, but fully admitted his faults in regards to how everything turned out. Judy was actually pretty speechless by such a humbling and heartfelt display, and it helped to completely eviscerate any bad blood between them.

Unfortunately, that stupid letter still under Bogo's palm just brought all that bitterness back for Judy to see from an outside perspective. After all that was settled between her and the Chief, just being reminded of that paper was enough to make her feel sick to her stomach. The bunny almost looked repulsed by the sight of it, unable to fathom doing such a thing in a fit of drunken rage. Even though she knew she could've done a lot worse (especially with a con-artist like Nick willing to assist), it was hard to imagine what would be more dire after witnessing her Superior reading that letter in front of her.

To make matters worse, Bogo picked the letter back up with a disappointed shake of his head, and started to re-read specific sections. Judy winced in incomparable shame, and tried to say through her cringe, "Bogo, please. You... you really don't have to--"

Once again, Bogo put his free hand out to silence any further pleads from his officer. His eyes scanned the bitterly written ramblings she had made, and he carried a sterner expression on his face as he said in criticism. "I have to say, I must've hit quite a few nerves to make you this upset towards me."

Judy grimaced as she looked away from him. Even though she knew nothing could justify how nasty her letter was, she couldn't deny how much Bogo's treatment in that Rainforest hurt her. She hesitantly shrugged before saying in a feeble voice, "W-Well... a bit, yeah... I know that doesn't make it right, though."

"I certainly hope not..." Bogo shook his head while looking through the page in confounded detail. "... I'm not going to lie Hopps, it's really hard to believe you'd write something this vulgar."

"Nnnnghhhh..." Judy hid her face behind her paws as she groaned in regret. "I knoowwww..."

"I mean..." Bogo openly scoffed as his head tilted at some of the nastily-written text. "You're making a lot of bold claims about my personal life in this letter."

The bunny grimaced even more audiby and muttered through her paws. "Yes, I know. You don't have to remind me."

"... You also seemed to have some choice assumptions about my orientation."

That remark made Judy put her paws down and clarify, "Chief, I was NOT trying to insinuate anything about you! I was drunk, and I just wrote every bad thing I coul--N-Not that I think being gay is bad or anything! You have to believe me, I don't have a single homophobic bone in my body! And I wasn't trying to say it's bad if you are either! I-It was just a bad... BAD judgement call, and I'm just, ummm... I was just writing a lot..."

"Ummm... yeah, you certainly did write a lot..." Bogo was gawking at the bottom of the front half of the paper and blinking repeatedly. "... Did you really have to bring Officer Clawhouser into these accusations?"

Judy blinked a couple times, having completely forgot she ever wrote that stuff. Although in regards to how Bogo was staring at that page, she doubted he was making that detail up. She winced painfully and pinched the bridge of her snout while replying, "Ughhhhh... I don't even remember writing about him."

"... And my Mother, Officer?"

"Mmnnghh... I'm so sorry..."

"And my Grandmother?"

"I'm sorry! I don't know what came over me when I wrote that!"

"Ughhh... I don't even want to mention the Grandpa stuff."

"BOGO, I SAID I'M SORRY!"

"Alright! Alright!" Not wanting his officer to make a scene that could be overheard outside the office, the Chief waved his free hand to stop her from saying much else. While the bunny stood with a awkwardly skewed look of worry, Bogo sighed with a shake of his head and sat in his desk chair. He leaned into his desk, keeping that letter crumpled in one hand while the other was used to rub his temple. His eyes remained closed as he took a calming breath and said, "So... I think it's fairly clear that as of now... we've both done things we're not proud of, correct?"

Judy blinked repeatedly, unable to reply immediately due to her confusion and nervousness. But after a couple seconds, the bunny slowly shrugged before admitting, "Well, ummm... I suppose we do have that in common..." She looked away from the buffalo with her lips pursed while rubbing her forearm with a paw.

"Okay, so..." Even though Bogo seemed rightfully peeved at all that transpired (especially after reading through that drek a second time), he was able to collect his thoughts with another breath before saying, "Since we've both done hurtful things, and both of us apologized for them, I... I'd rather just forget any of this happened for both our sakes."

Hopps' head jolted back briefly, needing a second to process her Superior saying such a thing. Even though she definitely didn't want to refuse that offer, she still felt obligated to ask in a confounded tone, "R... Really?"

"Yes, really!" Bogo stopped himself with an angered groan, needing to cover his face for a moment to cool himself down. He knew he shouldn't get so upset at Judy for a drunken mistake, but each moment spent dwelling on it was just making him more peeved about it. In an effort to keep from blowing up, the water buffalo slowly dragged his hand down his face before saying with a huff, "I... I really am pissed at you, Hopps! But... But I know you were too, so..."

He held out the toxic letter in front of Judy, and said with a seething tone more expected of him, "Let's... just call this even. If you can look past what I did, I'll look past what you did. Deal?"

"Deal!" blurted the bunny less than a few milliseconds after that offer was brought up. She snatched the letter halfway through her reply, and quickly began to rip it apart in her paws like her life depended on it. Bogo, who had his face covered while groaning tiredly, used his other hand to pull out the paper shredder from under his desk. He then cradled his head between both hands while leaned against the desk, not wanting to even look at the bunny as she fed the ripped pieces into the machine. Before it could even finish mowing down everything with a loud buzzing sound, Judy grabbed her last box and bolted out of the office. "Th-Thanks for being so understanding, and ummm... andI'llgobuyyousomelunchsomewhereokayBYE!!!"

SLAM!!!

A long, pregnant bout of silence passed within the office before Bogo could pull his head back up from his desk. He was carrying a foul, seething look of bitterness on his grizzled face, and he looked like he needed a gallon of brain bleach to un-read everything his star officer wrote about him. He may have been glad their awkward moment was over, and fairly relieved that her letter was out of anyone else's paws, but part of him really wished he wasn't as forgiving. But alas, since the damage was already done, there was nothing for him to do but lean back in his chair and growl angrily. "Nnnnnghhhh... Great. Now I can't stop thinking about all that Clawhouser stuff..."