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The Stone of Gideon

A Zootopia fiction based on William Borba's "I will survive." comic

By Dan 1966

(c) ZOOTOPIA 2016 Walt Disney Animated Studeos

(c) "I will survive" by William Borba 2017

All rights respected. For fandom enjoyment only. No monetary gains desired or expected.

Part 1

Forewords

This fan fiction is based off the controversial 2017 Zootopia comic created by Brazilian artist William Borba in which Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps suffer a disastrous relationship break up over Judy wanting to abort the pregnancy she conceived with Nick. Devastated by Nick leaving her and scared how her parents might react; Judy calls the only other family friend from home she trusts.

In the time between graduating from Bunnyburrough High School and the moment Judy makes her phone call...Gideon Gray Fox has grown from his days as a school bully to become both successful in his pastry business and in life by embracing his time tested family values. So respected is his word and reputation that the citizens of Calaverus County nickname him "The Grapple'r" and "The Jurist" They seek him out to settle bitter disputes as the county's appointed judge. Though he's attained both fame and fortune, Gideon lives plainly and simply with his two children (Roary and Belinda) and wife (Jinny Mae) in a simple three story farm house.

Now he will pay back Stuart and Bonnie Hopps for their great kindness to him and Judy for a long ago debt he's owed her. But she knows she will get nothing from Gideon but his brute and blunt honestly.

Downtown Zootopia

Mid-morning

"Yes....I do know." Nick Wilde said as he gave a facial sneer that could cut flesh. "Seems like you could even kill our baby for your career."

Judy's face displayed absolute horror and her reaction was instant white hot rage....She connected with his left cheek with everything she could put behind the brutal open hand slap she gave him with her right hand! He whirled around on his feet and crashed into the round night table in the living room! The small lamp on it flipped up and clocked him full in the snoot, cutting open his lip before he crashed down to the floor...

Judy gasped, her hands flying to her face as Nick stumbled to his knees and sat there for a moment shaking his head..."NICK! NICK I'M SORRY! I WAS UPSET! I LOST MY TEMPER!"

Nick silently got to his feet and walked into the bedroom....

"Nick?.." Judy called after him. "Nick? What are you doing?"

Nick walked to the closet, pulled out his canvas backpack, then walked to the dresser and started shoving his clothes and belongings into it without saying a word...

"What are you doing?!" Judy begged. "Nick? Please forgive me? Please? I need you! I didn't mean to hurt you like that!"

Judy grabbed at an arm but Nick jerked it away, not even giving her a glance as he shoved the last of his things...including a picture of his mother which he took an eternity to glance at and drop a tear or two on it before putting it atop the pile and cinching up the pack.

Then he set the pack down on the bed and seemed to lean against the dresser as a sort of support.

"Judy?" Nick asked as he turned his head. "What would have happened if you were never born?"

Judy replied. "Nick....it's pointless, I know what you...."

Nick cut her off. "I'll tell you what would have happened. This world would have been as bleak as ever. Without your light? I would still be on the streets having a meaningless life."

"That's not true." Judy said as she stood behind him. "That's not true at all Nick. I'm sure you would..."

"Judy?" Nick said as he turned around. "Listen please? There are animals in this world who make a difference." Nick turned to face her. "And you're one of them. Even as a bunny you stopped a fiendish conspiracy and changed the minds of thousands. To me? Things like that would never have happened without you."

Judy slowly took one of his hands..."Nick? Please?...."

Nick pulled his hand away and threw his hands out. "Judy! I'm asking you! I'm begging you! Let our baby have the same chance to do the same thing! Let your light shine through him or her!"

Judy was silent and still for a moment, then she pulled herself back. "No. As I said before....it's useless. I've made up my mind. It's my body and my rules."

Nick closed his eyes and clenched a fist. "I see.....is there even a chance you might change your mind?"

Judy replied. "No."

Nick reached for his back pack and threw it over his shoulder. "Then I won't either."

As Nick started to walk out, Judy chased after him..."Nick! Wait! Let's talk more about this! I need you!"

Nick stopped short of the apartment door. "You want to talk? Then tell me something Carrots? Why didn't you keep it a secret from me? You could have just gotten rid of our child without me knowing...so why did you tell me?"

Judy stood sullen...."Because keeping it from you was not right. I wasn't raised to do such a cruel thing to someone else. You deserved to know."

Nick frowned at her and grabbed the door knob. "It would have been better if you had lied to me. If you had kept silent about your premeditated sin." He opened the door and put a foot through the opening....

"Goodbye Judy." He said with a hint of disgust as he dropped his key into the bowl on a small table nearby.

Judy gasped. "Nick! Nick....where are you going? Don't leave me! Please!"

Nick replied..."I guess you really don't. You made your choice so I'm making mine. Bye Carrots."

Judy jumped to the doorway. "NICK! COME BACK! I'M SCARED!"

Nick said nothing more. He kept on walking down the hallway without another look back as Judy collapsed to her knees and sobbed.

Mid-Morning

BunnyBurrough, Calavarus Tri-County

The Gray home

"What are you doing?" The large red fox said as he stood towering over the small five year old fox kit as he stood on a stool over the large flour covered kitchen counter holding the flattening dough ball in his small hands. "Are you going to kneed that or put a diaper on it?"

Gideon reached around his small son and took hold of his hands. "The dough isn't going to bite your Roary and it's not going to take offense to you being a little rough. Now get your hands in there and work it around..."

The little fox felt his father's big paws move his through the soft ball of dough. "Now....let's pick it up?"

Gideon helped Roary lift the dough.

"Drop it hard!" Gideon commanded!

"Floop!" The dough ball hit the counter and quickly flattened out with a spray of four hitting both Roary and his father in their faces which broke out in chuckles as Gideon lifted the little fox up and nuzzle tickled his stomach.

"Now! Show that dough who runs who." Gideon said with a smile as he bopped Roary off the head.

"Yes Paw." Roary replied as he formed the dough back into a ball and began to tear through it with his hands while Gideon walked over to the stove where his seven year old daughter Belinda stood slowly stirring a pot....

"Lemme see Belly." Gideon asked as he looked over the pot. "Ok....now you need to turn down the heat and just stir the sauce every so often. Let it thicken up. You're doing fine." Gideon nuzzled Her and walked to catch the phone on the wall....

"Gideon Gray's pastries, this is Gideon." Gideon asked as he sat on a stool watching his children work.

"It's Tiggy, Gid." Came the reply from Gideon's actuary and business manager."I called about the negotiations with Armand's antelope A & P chain in Sahara Square over your line of equine centered dinner pies. Mister Armand wants to meet with you sometime next week to finalize a contract."

Gideon pulled a notebook from his apron. "Great! Tell him to bring the family and we'll set up next Saturday for dinner."

"Fantastic." Tiggy replied. "You realize this contract's a pretty penny?"

"Pretty for the elementary school." Gideon replied. "They can finally have a functional gymnasium after so many tax levies have failed to pass. Make sure you set that up Tiggy?"

"Sure thing." Tiggy replied. "I'm not putting the whole thing on it Gid. You deserve some return..."

"I got plenty of return. Just do what I ask Tiggy? That's why you're an actuary. And you and the Misses be over here for dinner this Friday and no excuses. Don't make me hunt you down and tie you to a kitchen chair like the last time you work-a-holic tiger." Gideon said as he shook his paw finger at the phone.

"I don't have a choice.....do I?" Tiggy asked.

"No....don't make me angry." Gideon said with a toothy grin as he hung up the phone. "Roary? That's enough now son. Take the rolling pin, throw down some more flour and roll the dough out like I showed you before." He said pointing to his son as he walked back to Belinda. "How's that sauce Belly?"

"It's thickened up Daddy." Belinda replied as she showed him the thick syrup flowing off her wooden spoon.

"Sweet." Gideon said as he reached for the timer clock on the stove panel. "Now....we set that for seven minutes, let the sauce thicken some more and when Roary has the dough rolled out? I'll show you both how to prepare the Cherries and berries for the filling."

The phone rang again and Gideon walked back to it..."Gideon Gray's Pastries and Pies, Gideon speaking?"

Gideon listened for a moment, then spoke a little deep and tough. "What now? I thought we had that business settled Winslow? What part of the settlement did you and Morris didn't understand? I don't care if he bashed into your fence and you gave him a shiner, you both agreed to the settlement of the property line, you both signed the agreement papers and here you are at it again?"

Gideon gestured to his daughter. "Belly? Take your brother and go into the living room. Daddy's about to cuss."

Gideon waited until Belinda and Roary went into the living room. "Now you listen well to me Winslow Willamette you stubborn March Hare and you listen good! You and Morris May will be in my office no later than noon tomorrow at which time I'll have Sheriff Burch and Deputy Clawson present to watch you two get an absolute and clear understanding of the terms of agreement and if that doesn't sink into your stupid, stubborn floppy eared heads then you'll both be doing time in the slammer until "I" determine you've learned your lessons. And if I hear of you two fighting before then? I hope your "claud hoppy" feet can carry you both fast enough away before I kick your cotton tail butts into candy egg creek. Now? Do I have your understanding Winslow?"

Gideon nodded his head. "I do? You better not fib to me Winslow? I swear. One little peep and I'll be coming to punt your fluff butt to Zootopia. Now have a good rest of the day." Gideon hung up the phone as his wife came walking into the kitchen from the big ice house outside...

"That truce didn't last long." Jinny Mae Gray said as she petted her husbands head.

"What is it with March Hares?" Gideon asked her. "Why is it that bunnies can be so agreeable with each other but March Hares have to be near to civil war when they live next to each other? Must be something in the carrot juice?" Gideon turned to the living room. "Belly? Roary? Come back now. Daddy's done steaming."

"The pies for Stuart and Bonny are ready any time now." Jinny Mae said gesturing. "I think you should get them there now."

"It won't take me long to show the kids how to make these pies." Gideon said as he tickled Jinny..."Then? When I get back? Perhaps you and I can have a little "session" in that big stack of hay out back?"

"Gideon Gray? Two is enough for now." Jinny giggled.

"Who said I wanted one?" Gideon replied as he nuzzled Jinny's neck. "You're about due for a big litter."

"You...don't have to give birth to it!" Jinny said as she gave her husband a light punch. "Down boy!"

"You tell him Mama!" Belinda yelped. "Mama's not ready for a big pooch belly!"

Gideon turned around. "Did we ask for your opinion? Get to watching the sauce young lady?"

The phone rang again and Gideon sprang to it quickly."Gideon's pastries and pies, Gideon Gray speaking?"

"Judy?! How are you, it's been......" Gideon was cut short, his face turning from being happy to being seriously worried...."Judy? Judy slow down....slow down....what?......what's wrong?....Judy.....calm down....look....look, I'm coming.....I'm coming to see you alright?....I don't care....I....don't....care. You just stay where you are....I have your address in the city just stay there, I'm coming."

Gideon hung up the phone and walked over to his children. "Belly? Roary? Come here?" He said as he got to his knee. "A friend of daddies is in trouble, I have to leave now. Don't worry about the pies. Roary? Wrap up the dough in sealing paper. Belly? Set the sauce in the warmer, put the temperature on low. Both of you be good and mind your mother?"

"Yes Daddy. Yes Paw." The children replied. Gideon got up and walked towards the stairs to the second floor where he caught Jinny coming down....

"Gideon? What's wrong? Your face looks a fright?" Jinny asked.

"I have to go to the city. I just got a call from Judy Hopps and she sounds dreadfully scared. I have a feeling something terrible has happened." Gideon said as he walked into the bedroom with Jinny behind him.

"Oh dear no." She said as she watched her husband take out his grandfather's old brown and aged leather jacket, his tanned leather farming hat and the black lock box kept on the high shelf in the corner of the closet...

"Do you really need your gun?" Jinny asked as Gideon pulled the old Colt 45 revolver from the box and flipped open the cylinder.

"The sound of her voice said enough." He said as he loaded the six chambers then grabbed the shoulder holster from the closet hanger...

"If Stuart or Bonny come a calling?" Gideon asked Jinny. "Tell them nothing. At least not until I come back. I might be there two or three days depending on what's happened. I don't think she's even tried to call them." Gideon gave Jinny a kiss on the cheek. "Send me with prayers. I hope it's not dreadfully serious."

Jinny nodded as he husband dawned his hat and walked down the stairs for the front door where his children waited patiently to see him off. He hugged them both and waved a finger sternly. "Remember now? Mind your mother and Daddy will bring home some nice things from Zootopia ok?"

"Yes Daddy. Yes Paw." The children replied. Gideon walked to his father's old pick up truck and slipped into the driver's seat.

Flashback

ten years earlier...

"Stop squirming you little long eared bitch....or I'll cut your skinny neck." The Honey Badger snarled as he forced himself between the legs of the struggling bunny he had thrown into an old tool shack after suckering her with promises of concert tickets. "You and me are gonna have a party." He snarled as he took hold of her long ears and shoved a sock in her mouth...

"Git off of her Whitey." Came a snarling voice from behind. The Honey Badger turned his head to see a big red fox standing at the door of the shack.

"Hey there Gideon!" Whitey said sounding happy. "Look who I got? Let's you and me give this stupid lil bunny bitch the business?"

Gideon walked a little inside the shack and clicked open his paw claws..."I said.....git off of her Whitey Badger or so help me...you'll be wearing your tongue as a tie."

Whitley punched Judy in the face and jumped up to his feet not much caring that his pants were still down around his ankles..."You're as dumb as you are big you stupid fat fox."

Gideon flexed his fingers..."Oh....you're gonna rue the day you decided to say that you stupid badger."

Judy skittered back to a corner trying to cover herself with her torn up skirt as Gideon jumped on Whitey and the two animals locked up in a vicious tooth tearing, claw swiping brawl. Judy watched as Gideon slammed the Badger into a wooden post and pounded him with his fist....then a flash of something shiny came out with a "click" and Gideon was holding his side and stumbling until he crashed to the dirt floor!

"Eat that you stupid vulpine retard!" Whitey snarled as he flicked the blood off his blade and ran out of the shack.

Mid-Morning

highway 326 heading towards Zootopia

Gideon clicked his smart phone into the holder and punched up the contact list, calling both his Actuary and Winslow Willamette to hold their appointments. He then punched up his old friend Travis Halfgate the Weasel...

"Travis? It's Gideon Gray old buddy." Gideon said as he drove.

"How's it going Gid?" Travis asked.

"I'm on my way to Zootopia. I got Judy Hopps's address and I need you to do me a solid. Go there and stay outside?" Gideon asked. "I fear something terrible is happening with her and I'm worried she might do something crazy."

"I'll go there right now. And if she comes out?" Travis asked.

"You keep her there till I get there even if you have to sit on her." Gideon said. "Just avoid her feet, you know how good she is with those claud hoppers."

"Got it." Travis replied.

Gideon hadn't seen Judy in a while and last time it was only briefly as she had a sudden inspiration and torn off in her father's delivery truck. She had called him several times...mostly to tell him how wonderful the pies he sent her were and when he'd gotten married. Other than that...obviously she was occupied with her life dream of being a police officer.

He thought back to that time when they were "kits n mits" and she stood him down dressed in her police costume from that school play at the county fair. The scratches he gave her had healed of course to where no one noticed them...

"I want you to remember this moment for the rest of your life! To think you could be anything else but a stupid carrot farming dumb bunny!"

The first thing she did was send him her academy graduation shoulder rope...

"I want you to keep this so you'll remember that bunnies are not so dumb after all."

It was done in pleasurable jest for by the time Judy had graduated, Gideon was far different than a troubled young kit with "Giganto-saurus genes" as he would quip about his own size. He'd graduated high school, felt no more shame about enjoying what his grandmother and mother had taught him, had stood up to his father's closed minded ways....

"A male fox does not do house work! Does not do cookin! And doesn't wear a stupid female's pink cooking apron boy!"

To which following Judy's fashion....Gideon sent his father his first big business check...

"A male fox who makes a million from wearing a female's cooking apron is no one's breeding bitch paw!"

His father finally apologized from all those "I'll beat the female from your red hide" sessions which made Gideon's kit-hood such hell. But his father was really convinced when Gideon brought Jinny home. She was the change of his whole life which by grace he was blessed to still have...

Flashback

ten years earlier...

The first thing Gideon saw when his eyes fluttered open was a big sheep looking back at him with a pencil light...

"Welcome back to the living." The sheep said.

"Where am I?" The fox youth asked as he slowly looked around the room.

"You're in the hospital in Claymore. You've been in a coma for two weeks. Do you remember being stabbed?"

"Yeah..." Gideon replied. "Uh? Judy!" Gideon yelped as he sat up and winced to the pain in his side..."Dang!"

"Now you just lie back down." The sheep doctor said as he petted Gideon's shoulder. "If you're talking about your bunny girl? She's over there. Poor thing finally fell asleep. She's been here the whole time praying for you."

Gideon smiled softly..."She's a really stubborn bunny."

"Your parents are outside." The sheep doctor said. "And you can expect the sheriff to come see you soon. The one who stabbed you hasn't been caught yet."

Mid-Morning

highway 326 heading towards Zootopia

Yeah.....where did that "Whitey" go? If he thought Gideon would have forgotten an old grudge, he was going to be mistaken. One thing to try and stab and kill Gideon...another thing to "dis-spoil" a helpless female and with Judy Hopps that had to be some effort given how she could stand up for herself. In junior high school, Gideon tried round two against Judy's claud hoppers....

Flashback

"Pick em up stupid!" Gideon snarled at Judy after he'd knocked her school books from her hands.

"You just won't quit?" Judy snapped back as she pushed Gideon. Of course a small bunny against a big teenage fox....fox doesn't move too good.

Gideon went to push Judy only to forget that while smaller...she was by far faster and her feet...were dangerous...

Mid-Morning

highway 326 heading towards Zootopia

He felt the crown of his head by reflex to the memory. She nailed him good which brought to Gideon a happy laugh..."That learned me." He said to himself. "I was dumb and stupid twice with her. Don't want number three."

Now she was in trouble of a sort he could only imagine as he thought how sacred she sounded and how heavy she was crying. Damn if someone hurt her, damn to them because Gideon would have no mercy for some city slicker daring to hurt a home town girl. Better one angry big old fox than a horde of bunnies descending on the city with guns, clubs and pitchforks looking to do a lynching.

Reaching the turnoff for Flock Street in the heart of downtown, it Wasn't long until Gideon came to a stop across the street from Judy's apartment building where Travis came out of his car too meet him...

"Hey boss." Travis said as he shook Gideon's paw.

"Is she still in there?" Gideon asked.

"I've been watching the front door so no." Travis replied. "You want me to stay around?"

"You should....just in case it's bad enough that I need your talent with a shot gun." Gideon said as he petted the weasel on the shoulder and started walking for the building. He stopped on the sidewalk to quickly call Jinny...

"I'm at Judy's place now Jinny. I'll call you after I'm done." He said.

"Tell her our home is open." Jinny replied.

"Would I not tell her?" Gideon said before he clicked off and walked inside the lobby where he saw an old female aardvark at the office window...

"Good mornin mam. I'm Gideon Gray here to see Miss Judy Hopps but I would prefer she didn't know I was here in the lobby. I'd like to go up to her apartment?" Gideon asked.

"Please tell me you are "the" Gideon Gray who wrote this nice cook book?" Miss Gramarweld asked.

Gideon put the book to his face and smiled. "I am more uglier than I photograph."

Gideon signed the book and thanked the old aardvark before making his way up to Judy's apartment on the 4th floor. He stopped just short of it to take a moment in thought before he walked up and knocked...

"Thump....Thump.....Judy? It's Gideon Gray." He said. The door hadn't opened half way before she came out, threw her arms as much around him as she could and buried her face into his round belly...

"Well....glad to see you too." Gideon said as he shuffled his feet when she started to pull him through the door.

Flashback

"You're the last one I'd ever think would get stabbed for a stupid, dumb bunny." Judy said as she leaned against the bed.

"Did anyone tell you that you have the most annoying voice in the world?" Gideon snorted back. "Of all the bunnies I thought I'd ever do anything for is you? How could you even think that badger would give you anything? You really are stupid Judy Hopps! Stupid, stubborn and bothersome as heck. I hate you."

"And you are a big, dumb, rock for a brain, scruffy bush tailed idiot fox." Judy yelped back...

Then they both laughed at each other...

Judy grabbed Gideon's arm..."Why did you save me?"

"My maw...had she known I turned around and left? She would have ravaged me good and probably torn my tail off and shoved it down my throat. Yeah sure I'm a big old bully who even pushes girls around but no one.....no one puts their "mits and paws" on a girl to do what that low life dirt bag "Whitey" was wanting to do to you."

Gideon gently patted Judy on the head..."You alright?"

"Yes." Judy replied.

Gideon frowned back. "If anyone....and I mean anyone touches you or hurts you or makes you feel worse than sitting in horse turd? You call me, understand?" Gideon snorted...."You stupid dumb bunny."

"Bite my cotton tail you fat ugly fox." Judy replied.

Late morning

Downtown Zootopia

Judy's Apartment

Gideon let Judy go and looked around the living room and kitchen. "Very nice. So much different than home with all the family." Gideon said as he took a seat on the floor because obviously for his size, the furniture wasn't going to be compatible.

"You want anything?" Judy asked sullenly.

"No....I'm fine. I'm worried about you. What's wrong Judy? What has you upset so?" Gideon asked as he watched her sit on her couch.

"Gideon?" Judy said softly...."I'm......I'm pregnant."

The big fox took a quick breath and blew it out as his tongue rolled over the bottoms of his teeth...."Well....when did you find out?"

"I tested myself this morning with a strip." Judy replied as she rubbed her arms.

"Do your folks know yet?" Gideon asked.

"No..." Judy replied. "I don't....." She started to cry again until Gideon took her paw in his....

"Now now....shhhhhh...." The big fox said softly as he gently rubbed her paw..."Shhhh....so? Who's the fellah?"

"He's another fox." Judy replied.

Gideon had to give her a second take...."Another.....fox?"

Judy nodded. "Yes....I know what you're thinking? Guess I won the lottery."

"Not the most appropriate description." Gideon said as he sat back. "Certainly not expected at all."

Judy started to sob again...."I don't want it...I can't...."

Gideon knew Judy was going to speak of abortion...."You're afraid of what "I" may think?"

Judy nodded slowly.

Gideon took a deep breath. "Well Judy....the law is the law. The animals enact the law by due process and until the animals change as a society to where the law becomes useless....it remains law. You have every right accorded by the law to do what you feel is good for you and you have to bear whatever comes from your choice."

Gideon wiped Judy's face..."I will not judge you here. If you want to keep this between us? I'll respect your silence."

Judy flew from the couch and fell against Gideon's chest where she "balled" herself into a headache and a breathing fit...

"Dang it Judy....stop torturing yourself." Gideon said as he set her back on the couch and rubbed her cheeks. "Shoot...I thought you'd never cry like this? Settle down..." Gideon said as he sat back again and held her hands...

"Where's this fox fellah?" Gideon asked.

"He.....he walked out." Judy replied as she looked down at the floor. "We got into a fight...and I hit him."

Gideon frowned. "Did hey lay his hands on you?"

"Nick wouldn't do that." She replied.

Gideon's scowl deepened. "I didn't ask that. I asked you if he put his paws on you. Tell the truth..."

Judy shook her head..."No...I tried to explain my reasons but he got upset and left."

Gideon crossed his arms. "How did it come to this?"

Judy snatched a box of tissues and blew her nose...."I told him I was pregnant and that I was upset and worried and that I didn't want to go through with the pregnancy because I was scared I wouldn't be able to safely carry the baby and that it might be deformed."

Gideon thought for a moment...."A reasonable concern. Then what?"

Judy fidgeted...."I was worried about my career. As the first bunny to be a police officer in Zootopia, I've busted my bushy rump to get to where I am. I'm scheduled to take the Lieutenant's test next month and being pregnant with a baby that might end in a terrible life threatening injury...I couldn't take the risk of seeing everything I've worked for turned to dust. So....Nick said I'd even kill our own child just for my career and I snapped and nailed him in the face."

Gideon sighed...."A cascade of back and forth that led to this. So he got up and walked out on you?"

"I pleaded with him. I begged him. I begged him to stay and talk to me but he made up his mind. Then when he asked me why I told him about the abortion and I told him it was wrong to width hold it from him.....he told me it would have been better I stayed quiet and kept my unpardonable sin."

Gideon clenched his fists. "Where did he go?"

Judy's face drooped with fear..."Gideon?! Please! Don't go looking for him! Don't hurt him!"

"Unpardonable sin?" Gideon snarled. "You did the right and just thing and he dares call it unpardonable and just walks out like a cur thinking he can escape his responsibility in this? Both of you share the responsibility and he has no damn right to accuse you of a sin and walk himself free..."

Gideon stood up and put his hands on his hips..."Where....did this Nick fellah go Judy? And don't bother trying to protect him because I'll find him without you. He deserves a lesson."

Judy snatched Gideon's jacket to plead and saw the glint of the pistol in Gideon's shoulder holster..."No! No....Gideon! You can't! You can't!"

"Stop getting all fretting Judy Hopps." Gideon said as he grabbed her paws. "I'm saving your boy friend a far worse fate. You know if your parents find out about this...every relative and cousin within twenty miles is going to flock to the city lookin for some justice old bunny style. I won't hurt the cuss but I'm sure going to put the justice into his stupid head. Better fox to fox than a horde of bunnies stringing him up by a rope with his tail in their paws."

Gideon rested a paw on Judy's shoulder...."Now where is he Judy? And trying to lie will do you no good."

End of part 1