(AN/ Here we go...the end. Take a Stand had been my most successful fic and that is only possible because of you amazing folks who actually read it reviwed, liked, faved, followed and reblogged this dumb fic, I want to high five all of you for being so awesome. Now I have to thank a few folks who helped illustrate this fic; Ziegelzieg dude you know how much I love your work and your friendship you're an amazing artist and writer, I love you dude. Fuzzywuzzylittletail you came up with some crackin' artwork for this fic thank you, shadowed-visitor thank you too for your song/art pieces, reddoshirousagi thank you for your brilliant sketches and everyone else who contributed. Thank you all for reading...so without further ado let's get cracking with this chapter.)

Epilogue - One Year Later

The smell of engine oil and old wood brought back a host of memories for Judy as she clambered up the ladder to the upper level of one of the many barns at Hopps farm, she used to play cops and robbers with her siblings all the time as a kit but right now the twenty six year old bunny needed a moment to relax in the barn. It had been a very hectic day, as soon as she stepped off the train at Bunnyburrow station it had been a non stop series of hugs, catching up with relatives and being overstuffed with the mountains of food that had been prepared for the massive party had arrived from Zootopia including; herself, Nick, Luna, Marian, Robin, Little John, Jack and Skye.

Judy could hear the chatter of the hundreds of rabbits and a few other mammals outside where dozens upon dozens of picnic tables had been put out by the Hopps family. But right now she sat down and let her legs swing back forth over the platform trying to ignore the pain in her right knee that had been troublesome for the cop ever since the raid in Sherwood just over a year ago. She closed her eyes and inhaled the nostalgic aroma of her childhood, as much as Judy loved Zootopia's energetic buzz a part of her always longed for these quiets moments in the countryside, she kept her eyes closed for a couple of minutes and her mind was just beginning to switch off to slumber mode when she heard small footfalls on the level below her. Judy opened her eyes to see Luna trying to clamber up on one of the tractors, but the steps were too high for the seven year old's little legs.

"Y'know there's a trick to getting on those things." Judy called out, startling the little vixen.

Luna stopped what she was doing and turned around, looking around for Judy when she couldn't see her the kit asked out loud "Where are you?"

"Up here sweetie." Judy informed, standing up. The beautiful bunny was in a pair of denim shorts and strappy top that exposed her toned tummy

Luna, who was in a denim dress, looked up to the higher level of the barn and smiled "What are you doing up there?"

"This used to be my old chill out spot when I was kid." Judy replied "And anyway that's not how I used to get on a tractor."

"How else are you supposed to climb on one?" Luna shrugged, the seven year old had grown a few inches in the last year, but it would be a while before she'd be taller than Judy.

"Like this." Judy grinned, before jumping onto a ceiling beam with little effort.

"Be careful!" Luna barked, her caring nature apparent.

"Relax," Judy brushed off, strolling across the narrow beam to get above the tractor "I've done this hundreds of time."

"If I did that you'd be worrying about me falling." Luna pointed out, crossing her arms in a very parental way.

"True," Judy conceded, cockily putting her paws behind her head "but I'm a very athletic bunny who survived the ZPD academy, there used to be this ice wa-" KWEW! A mother barn owl screeched and flew at Judy, the rabbit not noticing she was approaching a nest of owl chicks. "Whoa!" Judy exclaimed, her arms flailing as the owl tried to peck at her.

"Judy!" Luna yelled.

"I'm not after your chicks!" Judy seethed trying to swat the bird of prey away, but the owl managed to scratch her with her talons on her arm which caused Judy to lose her footing "Ah crap." She mumbled as she began to fall, luckily the rabbit also happened to be adept at landing on her feet.

"Mom!" Luna yipped in panic as Judy fell from the beam.

Judy landed both feet on the dusty ground of the barn with the precision of gymnast and even raised her arms in the air and celebrated "Ta-da!"

"That was a dumb thing to do, you could've made your knee worse." Luna chastised marching over to Judy.

"Easy 'Doctor' Wilde." Judy chuckled as the kit grabbed her arm and inspected where the owl had scratched her Wait a sec Judy suddenly thought, her brain processing what was just said what did she just call me?

"You're only bleeding a little, we should get this cleaned." Luna noted, inspecting the broken sin under the fur, the kit had recently began an obsession of becoming a doctor which Judy couldn't help but relate with.

"Luna…" Judy spoke softly, unsure of how to bring up the topic of the word she just heard.

"Does the big house have a first aid kit?" Luna questioned, still looking at the cut.

"Sweetie what did you just say?" Judy asked cautiously.

"I asked if there's a first aid kit around." Luna reminded.

"No, before that, as I was falling, you called me something…" Judy opened, subconsciously taking hold of Luna's paw.

Luna let out a small gasp, as if realising what she said, she then responded swiftly "I'm sorry!"

Judy's heart melted at the flustered expression on the girl's face as she requested with the gentlest of tones "Please say it again."

Luna looked at Judy with unsure amber eyes, she wrapped her long fluffy tail around herself and hugged it with nerves as she repeated "Mom."

Judy began to smile as she felt the warm tears of joy roll down her cheeks as soon as Luna said that simple three letter word that meant so much "Oh Luna." Judy whispered.

"Sorry!" Luna blasted with anxiety, hugging her own tail tighter.

"Why are you sorry?" Judy eased.

"It's…It's just cause' I didn't know if it was ok to call you that…" Luna admitted, looking down at her feet. "I was playing with Olivia last week at the park and when she asked about you I called you Mom, like it was normal."

"Oh sweetie." Judy gushed with glee, her heart swelling.

"Victoria will always be my Mommy but, I mean if it's ok, can you be my Mom?" Luna asked trying her upmost to sound serious yet her jitters let the question come very shyly.

Judy immediately scooped Luna up and hugged the kit while simultaneously marking her with her scent "Of course I'll be, you're my daughter aren't you?" Judy tried to crack a joke but her tears were stopping her sounding comical.

"Why are you crying?" Luna asked obviously worried.

"Grown ups cry when they're really happy." Judy answered, still embracing the small vixen.

"Grown ups are weird." Luna repeated her mantra.

Judy pulled back a little from the hug so she could see Luna's face and smiled "Can you call me it again? It feels good."

Luna laughed before saying "You're so silly Mom."

Judy's heart was ripe enough to burst she kissed her daughter on the cheek and said with heart "I love you sweetie."

"I love you too Mom." Luna reciprocated.

Judy wiped away her tears and beamed "So Dr. Wilde, how are you going to fix this?" holding up her barely cut arm.

Five minutes later Judy was sat at the kitchen table in her parent's house while Luna cleaned the wound with anti-septic and put a dressing on it from the first aid box laid out on the table, truth be told this was all unnecessary Judy would've normally just have stuck a band aid on the small cut but Luna enjoyed playing doctor so much it would be just cruel to refuse her. Luna had a career day at school a few weeks previous where the kids brought in a parent or guardian to talk about their jobs, Nick had gone along and was the only parent who was cop which wasn't that surprising seeing as it was a private school. But on that day one of her classmates' father came and talked about his job as a surgeon and Luna was enthralled from the get go, ever since then Luna had started playing with her toy doctor kit a lot more, watched hospital dramas on the TV and even looked after her Grandad Robin when he had the flu a week earlier. Judy saw the same determination in Luna's eyes that she had when she wanted to become a cop and was certain the kit would achieve her goal. "All done." Luna announced with a satisfied look on her muzzle.

"Thanks sweetie, you're a live saver." Judy praised.

Suddenly three black rabbit kits, who looked identical, poked their head around the doorframe in a nice pile, the top one playfully shouted "Luna come play hide and seek with us!"

"Can I Mom?" Luna asked, she knew she didn't need to ask but the girl just wanted an excuse to call Judy 'Mom' again.

"Go ahead, but stay away from the tractor barn, that owl is still around." Judy cautioned as Luna ran off with the other children.

Judy was putting the first aid kit away when Heather and Skye walked into the kitchen already deep in conversation "Thanks for lending me these pregnancy books Heather, I appreciate it." Skye said, carrying half a dozen paperbacks.

"You're welcome, I've had that many kits now those books are useless to me, I can give birth in the morning and be back in the field for the afternoon." Heather commented, going over to the fridge and grabbing a soda.

"You're kidding, right?" Skye chucked, unsure if the muscle bound doe was being serious or not. The snow white vixen placed the books on the kitchen table and her paw instantly going to the small baby bump showing through her blue summer dress, she had begun to show last month and was so thrilled to be finally becoming a mother after nearly a year of IVF treatment.

"She's being serious, three years ago she had a litter of four kits around nine am then she was helping in the fields by the mid afternoon." Judy clarified, her face lit up with a smile.

"It was harvest time." Heather justified, switching on the kettle to make Skye some oolong tea that was good for her and the baby.

Skye tittered at the story and was about to ask for more details when she clocked onto Judy's joyous face and commented "You seem happy."

"Well I got a reason to be." Judy bragged wistfully.

"Pray tell little sister." Heather played along.

"Luna's decided to stop calling me Judy and start calling me 'Mom'." Judy told with a radiant smile.

"Oh my god, Judy that's fantastic." Skye congratulated grabbing Judy's paw in solidarity.

Heather went over and punched Judy in the arm affectionately "So how does it feel to finally be called the M word?" the chocolate brown bunny asked.

"I can't explain it that well, it's like a warm hug." Judy tried to convey what she was feeling.

Heather smile soon faded and was replaced with an intrigued look, the farmer tilted her head before requesting "Hey Jude, stand up for a sec."

"Ok." Judy shrugged, obeying her sister.

Heather than began to circle Judy, looking her up and down while making a "Hmmm" noise.

"Uh what are you doing?" Skye asked the hostess.

"Just give me a sec." Heather delayed, as her eyes scanned her younger sister intently with Judy staring back awkwardly wondering what the heck was going on.

Then Heather sniffed Judy for a few secs before giving a smug look causing Judy to ask "What?"

"Don't act like you don't know." Heather replied "How long were you planning on keeping it a secret?"

"Secret? You've lost me." Judy reacted with a perplexed face matching Skye's muzzle.

"Don't play innocent, you've gained a bit of weight, which you never do, and you reek of hormones." Heather pointed out.

"Hey, I've not put on weight." Judy groused, inspecting herself

"I'm sorry, what's going on?" Skye asked, trying to fathom the situation.

"Judy's got a bun in the oven." Heather revealed with a sure smile.

There was a brief interlude of silence in which Skye's jaw dropped and Judy's face scrunched up with puzzlement before the grey rabbit laughed off "I'm not pregnant."

"You sure? Cos' I'm always right when guessing a doe is in the family way." Heather grinned.

"I'm not pregnant, I would know if I was." Judy stated "Besides the odds of me having a baby with Nick are ridiculously slim."

"About as slim as a rabbit getting a fox pregnant?" Skye asked rhetorically and with a happy look on her face, the arctic vixen was now scanning her friend and it was evident that Judy had put on a little bit of weight.

"You've had IVF." Judy countered, but her mind was on fire with the possibility that she may be pregnant.

"Remember this isn't my first pregnancy." Skye reminded.

"Look I'm not pregnant." Judy dismissed.

"Ok answer me this, and answer with honestly," Heather opened "in the last couple of weeks have you and tall, red and handsome had a lot more nookie?"

"Heather!" Judy gasped, the visible skin of her ears going pink.

"Yes or no?" Heather reiterated.

Judy had to think for a second, on average her and Nick made love two to three times a week but last week it must've least been six times and this week eight including the risky little session in the shower this morning. "…Yeah." Judy confessed.

"You got the preggo hornies, ever since I got pregnant I haven't been able to keep my paws off Jack." Skye admitted.

"I get the same thing whenever I've got a litter on the way," Heather concurred "Judy it's time to face facts; you're knocked up."

"You're just being illogical, you've got no proof." Judy scoffed.

"Fine miss smarty pants, go to the bathroom and there's some pregnancy tests in the medicine cabinet, take one and settle this argument." Heather proposed, crossing her arms.

"Fine, but when I come back with a negative test you've got to admit that your silly superstations are wrong." Judy said defiantly.

"Ok." Heather agreed, confident she was right as Judy marched out of the kitchen and towards the bathroom.

Five minutes, a dumbfounded looking Judy stepped back into the kitchen with a capped pregnancy test in her left paw, it had two lines in the little window "I'm pregnant." Judy whispered but both Skye and Heather heard her.

"I told you so." Heather practically sang before hugging her little sister "Congrats Jude."

"I'm so happy for you!" Skye gushed, joining the hug.

"I…just can't believe it." Judy uttered, she was smiling but it was dazed from the shock of the news.

"You better believe it kid cos' soon enough you'll be showing." Heather encouraged, placing a soft paw on her sister's exposed tummy "You're already a great mom to Luna so I know you'll be amazing."

"But say goodbye to your abs." Skye sighed "I already miss mine."

"But how will this work with my job!? Will I have just have one kit or a whole litter!? Will it be a fox or a bunny!?" Judy panicked, already worrying about the wellbeing of her future child or children.

"Hush now, getting yourself worked up won't help, when you get back to Zootopia I'll put you in touch with my Doctor, she's great." Skye assured.

"Oh sweet chesse and crackers," Judy panted with a smile "I'm pregnant, Luna's going to be a big sister."

"I'm going to be a big sister!?" An excited voice squealed.

The three women's faces froze, they slowly turned around to see Luna Elise Wilde wearing the biggest smile possible "Uh oh." Judy mumbled, knowing how much a blabbermouth the little vixen could be.

"I'm going to tell everyone, they'll be so happy!" Luna broadcasted with an even broader grin, turning on her heel to dash out the door.

Luckily Heather read her niece's movements and bolted towards the fox kit and scooped her up "Easy there Lu." Heather calmed using a nickname.

"But this is great, everyone should know!" Luna beamed.

"Yes but, don't you think your Dad should know first?" Skye reasoned.

"I guess." Luna accepted before smiling again towards Judy "Is it true Mom? Are you having a baby?"

Judy's heart was swelling again at being called 'Mom' as lifted Luna out of Heather's arms and set her down on the floor "Yes sweetie and I know you're going to be a great big sister to whoever is in here." Judy replied, pointing at her abdomen.

Luna took a step towards Judy and said directly to her stomach "Hello in there, I'm your big sister Luna."

"You already talking to your sibling?" Judy laughed.

"Or siblings, don't bunnies have litters?" Luna figured, her mind racing with possibilities.

"We won't know until Judy has a scan." Skye answered the kit.

"So when are we going to tell Dad? Now? Let's tell him now!" Luna's voice was going at top speed.

"I guess we should…but everyone's around. I kind of want it just to be your Dad, me and you." Judy spoke her mind, the thought of revealing her pregnancy to the hundreds of her relatives seemed daunting and more importantly unfair to Nick.

"So we need to get him alone." Luna mused, trying to think of an idea.

Judy spotted some wrapping paper in the corner of the kitchen, a common place item for a lapin home given the size of rabbit families and the resulting frequency of birthdays. Judy turned to Heather and asked in playful tone "Mind if I borrow that gift wrap?"

000

"Ok, ok." Little John panted, his paws clutching his very full stomach "That's enough chow for me, thank you kindly."

"Oh but John you haven't tried my vanilla and honey cake yet." Bonnie fussed, the Hopps matriarch had created a whole smorgasbord of honey based food in honour of a grizzly bear coming to the homestead.

"Bon, if that poor guy sticks another crumb in his mouth I'm sure the poor fella' will burst." Stu chuckled, on his seventh beer of the day.

"And this is the bear who cleaned out an entire seafood restaurant in Hong Kong." Robin laughed along, with a glass of red wine in hand.

"You been to Asia?" Stu asked Robin with a typical drunk cackle.

"The question should be where haven't we been?" Robin answered with a rhetorical question.

Marian who had been playing with one of the many Hopps kits strolled over and stood beside Bonnie and asked in jest "What did you do to John?"

"I just gave him some countryside hospitality, that's all." Bonnie smirked, glad that her recipes had gone down a treat.

"Too…much." Little John groaned.

"You're getting old Johhny boy." Robin teased his best friend.

"I'd give you certain hand gesture Rob but there are ladies present." Little John fired back this comment caused a ripple of laughter among the seniors of the crowd.

Bonnie went to clean up some of the plates from the tables and Marian began to help to which the hostess said "Marian you relax, you're our guest."

Marian gave a sharp "Ha!" before adding "Last time I checked we're family, so everyone chips in with cleaning up."

Bonnie smiled at the vixen whom she once reviled and grinned "Well there's a mountain of dishes that need doing in the sink."

"Ain't that what kids are for?" Marian joked which caused a long laugh between the two grandmothers.

"Help!" A voice yelped, the elders turned to see Jack Savage (Not in a designer suit for once) fleeing a half a dozen rabbit kits with water pistols.

"Ok kids stop bothering Jack, you're supposed to be nice to visitors." Bonnie chastised her grandchildren.

"Thank you Mrs. Hopps." Jack said, looking down at his soggy clothes.

"Aww little Jack's all wet." Marian mocked, pinching her godson's cheek.

"Marian, quit it." Jack moaned like a stroppy teen, pushing the vixen away.

"You city bunnies make me laugh," Stu laughed "so prim and proper."

"I'm not prim, I'm a federal agent with combat experience." Jack tried to big himself up.

"Easy Mr. Savage, you might get a big head." A loving voice bated.

Everyone turned to see Skye, Heather, Judy and Luna approaching from the big house. Jack smiled at the blooming vixen "My apologies Mrs. Savage, I'll behave in the future."

Judy's soul was elated at seeing the newly married couple, she could picture their wedding clear in her mind. It was a Saturday morning two months before and Jack had rang Nick's smartphone around 7am saying that he needed all of Nick's family at city hall for 9am that morning. When Nick, Judy and Luna arrived at the grand building they saw a familiar face Mayor Trevor Moon urging them to come inside and more importantly into his office. When the three had arrived they saw the Priderock family, the Dawsons, Robin and Marian plus Little John, the MCB agents Patel and Rivers and the newly engaged couple of Mason Bogo and Benjamin Clawhauser, before anyone could ask what was going on Jack burst into the room marched up to Nick and asked if he would be his best man, then three seconds later Skye (In a simplistic but gorgeous white wedding dress) entered the room and asked Judy to be her maid of honour. Trevor Moon himself performed the wedding ceremony and wished the couple all the happiness in the world, it was at the reception that Skye revealed she was with child, the doctor had told them to expect a single kit, it was going to be a girl and her name was already chosen; Hannah Marian Savage.

"Oh Jack, your mother would be so happy to see you now." Marian commented as she observed the two with tears in her navy eyes.

"No tears." Jack cut off "This weekend is for chilling out not moping."

"Umm, where's Nick?" Judy asked with slight apprehension, Luna beside her holding tightly onto a gift wrapped box.

"He got mobbed by your siblings, nieces and nephews so that tuckered him out. He said he was going to take a nap in the orchard." Robin explained pointing to the peach orchard about half a mile away across the field.

"Thanks." Judy replied before walking towards the orchard with Luna in tow.

000

Nick was in his own dreamland as he dosed on the makeshift table of logs and a single board; he was a kit again in Sherwood playing with Jack and Finnick, he was lost in nostalgic happiness when paw shook him from his slumber. Nick opened one eye to see the two most important women in his life, Judy and Luna smiling down at him "Hey there, looks like two angels are keeping an eye on me." The fox charmed.

"Har har." Judy rolled her eyes.

"Wakey wakey Dad, we have a present for you." Luna tempted, still holding onto the box topped off with a bow.

Nick sat up and yawned "Wasn't it my birthday a few months ago?"

"Oh come on, Mom wrapped it and everything." Luna informed putting her paws on her hips.

Nick's emerald eyes went wide at the word 'Mom' and he voiced his bewilderment with repeating the word "Mom?"

"That's right, I'm Mom." Judy boasted, looking down at her grinning daughter.

"When did this happen?" Nick asked happily, itching for details.

"Quiet Dad, Mom's got a gift for you." Luna insisted, handing the wrapped gift to Judy who sat on the makeshift table top.

"Oh really?" Nick replied, standing up and stretching after his nap.

Judy held the box in her paws and beckoned softly "Open it."

Nick saw a peculiar combination of happiness and seriousness in his girlfriend's eyes, he obeyed and used his claws to rip through the paper and ribbons surrounding the box all the while thinking hat on earth could be in the box, he removed the lid and a breath caught in his throat as he gazed on it's contents. As Nick was reaching into the box his eyes were already leaking tears of sheer happiness, he held the positive pregnancy test in his paw and marvelled at the two lines in the window "Please…" Nick gasped "Please tell me this is real."

Judy who's amethyst eyes were falling free with tears smiled at her dumb fox "It's real, I'm pregnant."

"I'm going to be a big sister!" Luna roared with joy.

Nick looked at Judy and Luna feeling sure in the fact that he had never felt so happy in his entire life as he did right now, he opened his arms and both of them fell into his heartfelt embrace, all three of them knowing what is was to feel loved.

THE END.

(AN/ It's over isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it over?...Yes folks this is the end of Take a Stand but don't worry on the 9th april the sequel Star of Ceretas will release, I hope you enjoy it. Please leave one final review and c ya soon...)