[Rating T13][Drama][Friendship][Feels][Complete]

This story is a vivid, touching, and personal look into the mind of a fox whose spent his whole life running and surviving – only to be suddenly faced with a lifeline to a better, but uncertain life. After all, it’s not easy to gamble everything on hope. Follow Nick’s struggles to push aside his insecurities and the accumulation of twenty years of surviving. Because survival isn’t enough, and a little rabbit showed him that he could thrive instead. But getting there? That’s the tricky part. ~Bummer

Author: Anon8043

Description :

After Bellwether is arrested, Nick finds that he doesn’t know what to do next, instead just putting one paw in front of the other. Confronted with the knowledge that his 20 years of being alone cannot protect him from a certain rabbit’s winning smile, he finds himself in a deal to talk about the past that he never put into words. Maybe 20 years is all it would have to be.

Quid Pro Quo

Additional Tags: Bear or the Buzzard? Taking the third option.