Chapter 21 Family

Nick (Pov)

30 Minutes earlier

As I followed my mom I kept having flashbacks on my life. When I was a kit she would take Olivia and me to a park to play. Quick flashes of me being muzzled by the Junior Ranger Scouts. Olivia and I having a birthday party on the beach. The last memory that kept replaying through my mind was Olivia and I watching a casket being lowered into the ground.

"Nick, I know you have a lot of questions and I am willing to answer most of them. I'll go ahead with the first question, how am I alive? You and Olivia knew that I worked as a doctor at Zootopia General, what you didn't know is that I was a combat medic as well. Before your dad and I met I was in the 22nd Maple Tree division. We mainly focused on search and rescue as well as some minor info retrievals. Six years after I had joined the military I was approached by the CIA with an interesting proposal. Whenever an agent had important information but couldn't trust the agency to get it safely they would somehow wind up in my ward and I would pass the information along. I would also gather any interesting information that happened to blow through my ears. Long after you and your sister were born and shortly after your father had died an agent stumbled up to me not even trying to be discreet. He died shortly thereafter in my arms after whispering the message in my ears, 'all covers blown.' When he told me that, it informed me that I had two options wait until someone came after me and then both of my kits or take a more drastic option. So without hesitation, I ran to my office where Jax had prepared a dose of Tetrodotoxin* causing me to have a 'heart attack' moments later. So yes Nick you did burry me and yes I am sorry that I didn't come back for you and your sister, but I did it to protect you both." I didn't know what to say, this was a lot to take in.

"Mom, it's been 10 years since then. Why didn't you come back?" She just gave me a long sad smile for a minute before answering.

"Nicky you don't know how much I wanted to. But the people that had blown my cover would go after you two the instant I showed my face. They had your phones tapped for 2 years before they finally believed I was dead. We kept monitoring for another year to make sure they weren't following you two before I was allowed the chance to see you again. That's when I hesitated, I had been watching you both and you looked happy, I didn't want to bring more danger to my kits by dragging you back into my life. So I let you be and you both grew up to be fine young mammals. Olivia with her excentric side and you with your, shall we say, walking the line of the law side. I don't expect either one of you to forgive me for leaving you and when we get the chance we should call Olivia so we can all sit down and talk more intimately." Before I could respond Alice walked up to us.

"Hello you must be Vivian, we are about to relocate to a more discrete location. Do you want to follow us or would you like to stay here?" She said with a soft smile.

"Thanks for asking Alice, but I think we will stay here. Mom and I need to talk we also need to call Olivia."

"Ok, we will talk later tonight then." With that, she launched herself into the air.

I turned to my mom, "Would you like to call Olivia or do you want me to?"