Judy sighed, realizing that she couldn't have eaten another, especially with her size. Though, she did have doubts because of the scenario that happened with Clawhauser earlier where she managed to fit his pudgy paws in her mouth, she slowly started to calm down and stabilize her heart rate, thinking a bit more rationally and clearly. Luckily, it seems that her very large lunch was enough to sate her cravings, no longer having a taste for animals, but for how long?
As Judy sat there with her violently groaning belly, question after question started to fill her mind pertaining to everything that just happened. Why was she so voracious for other animals, despite being a 'prey'? Who swapped the evidence for the night howler and what were in those berries? There's only one animal, nay, a wolf in sheep's clothing who can answer these questions at hand.
"Bellwether..." Judy quietly said to herself, realizing that she, along with a few others, were the only animals she knew that would do such a thing, and she's just psychotic enough to have outside influences despite being in captivity. Judy steeled her resolve, set on getting as many answers as possible out of that one sheep. But firstly, she had to deal with what's in front of her...and her fellow officers. She take one big breath before she heaved herself on her feet, having her belly sag and hang out and low out of her uniform. There was no possible way she could hide her belly from being exposed as it is, especially with her shirt being all folded and curled up to her chest. Her feet could pretty much handle the newfound weight of her stomach, sure, but her back, not so much, having to arc her back forward to accommodate for the weight.
"This...is going to be...Uurrp a long day..." Judy groaned lowly to herself as she starts heading out the mess hall, knowing she has to grab one piece of evidence before heading out.
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Just as Judy feared, walking through the police station was quite awkward, many of the officers passing by either giving her strange looks or outright stopping to chat with her, mostly about her sudden growth spurt in her stomach area, to which always responded with herself being pregnant. She has never been so graceful to relish the fact that rabbits are good at reproducing. Luckily, the awkward air of the station faded once she was able to squeeze herself into her patrol car, immediately taking a drive to the very prison that held Bellwether as one of their inmates.
Once Judy arrived to the prison, got everything situated, and having to face a few awkward questions about her gut, she would eventually find herself searching through cell to cell, looking inside to see which cell contained the sheep she was looking for. Most of the cells contained manly burly animals, sometimes prey, mostly predators, that have conducted some crimes that earned them a place in their cells, some of which Judy recognized from her police work. Eventually, she would reach the cell that contained Bellwether...and the second the rabbit had laid eyes on the sheep, she could tell that she wasn't taking the loss very well.
Upon the bed, Bellwether was sitting with a rather spiteful glare at her hoofs, constantly writhing and wiggling her hoofed hands in a rather eerie and vengeful fashion. She was so focused on her own hoofs for her own reasoning that she didn't even notice the bunny walk up to the cells bars.
"Bellwether..." Judy addressed, catching the attention of Bellwether, who stared eye to eye with a burning hatred hidden behind her rather soft looking exterior. The sheep huffed before she spoke up in a rather growled filled tone.
"Traitor..." Bellwether responded, getting up from her bed and walking up closer to the bars. Judy took that one a bit personally than she even admits she should have, returning the glare to Bellwether.
"Who am I even a traitor to?" Judy asked with a bit of disdain.
"To us, Judy," Bellwether said, placing her hoofed hands against her chest. "To us prey's, Judy! You just had to side with them, didn't you? Being a goodie two shoes...I don't deserve to be in here! You've committed a crime just as bad as I did! If anything, you should be the one behind bars!"
Judy rolled her eyes and shook her head, not only not believing most of the words Bellwether was saying, but also because of the fact that she really wasn't in the mood for any of this. She was secretly graceful that Bellwether was so blindly wrathful that she has yet to notice the belly she was sporting.
"Listen, we can discuss moral dilemmas later..." Judy started as she then pulls out the very vial that contained the berries, pointing towards the vial. "Right now, we have more important matters to discuss, mainly that this was swapped in place of night howler!"
Bellwether glanced towards the vial, observing it carefully as she then focused on Judy and pointed a heavily accused hoof at her.
"Oh, so you're just assuming I had to do anything with this?" Bellwether said, to which Judy had immediately held the vial close to the sheep's face.
"Who else is there?!" Judy said, Bellwether responded with an 'offended' huff and had snatched the vial from Judy's paws and started to observe it more carefully. As she did, Judy continued. "That vial contained berries that was supposed to be night howler serum...someone had swapped it, and I'm certain that the swap can be easily traced back to you."
"Berries...?" Bellwether repeated, only for her to chuckle a bit menacingly as she held the vial up high. Her posture was almost as unnerving as the first time Judy had found out Bellwether was behind most of the savages that were created from her operations.
"Oh, Judy...of all the people you could have come to, you're only half-right. I did have some knowledge of the berries...specially made berries with a more concentrated night howler serum that not only turned predators in savages...but also prey as well, transforming their minds and bodies to make them believe that they are the biggest predators!" Bellwether ranted on, only to pause as she held the vial out to Judy, smiling in a bit of spiteful sneer.
"Your first fault with your accusation is the fact that this prision stripped me down of all of my tools! I have no way to communicate with anybody from the outside world. Your second fault, I had no idea of the swap taking place~"
Judy widened her eyes hearing the news that Bellwether wasn't involved in switching the evidence around. As much as Judy didn't want to believe the sheep, at this point, who else could she trust on this? Bellwether could see the amount of uncertainty on Judy's face once she revealed this, to which the sheep's sneer only grew wider.
"Then, if you weren't involved in it, who was?" Judy asked, which caused Bellwether to chuckle once more. That chuckle caused Judy's inner wrath to flare up for half a second, indicated by her ears perking up, only for her to then snatch the vial back from Bellwether's hooves.
"You're the smart one, aren't you? You figure it out..." Bellwether said, finally taking her attention away from Judy's face and growing a surprised look as she saw Judy's globe of a stomach, to which the sheep had an instant realization of what has happened, given that the vial was empty. "Fault three; you ate the berries, didn't you?"
Judy widened her eyes as she realized, she may have been caught by the one person she despised the most, immediately growing a defensive posture as she puts the vial away.
"No, I'm just pregnant! With a lot of kids!" Judy responded. It was clear that Bellwether wasn't being fooled so easily, reaching a hoof past the bars and jabbing a finger directly into Judy's bloated gut.
"You call this, being pregnant?! You would have popped like a ballon--"
"BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!"
Bellwether was cut off with a monstrous, involuntary belch from Judy at near point blank range, the sheep having a stunned look on her face as her glasses nearly fell off of her eyes. At this point, Judy kind of wishes she didn't sate her predatory cravings before coming to the cell. She could have easily swallowed down the sheep if she was in such a ravenous state, yet her mind knows she can't do anything to Bellwether, else she'd look like the villain in this situation. Judy pushes Bellwether's hoof off of her gut as she then turns to walk away from the cell, to which the sheep readjusts her glasses and sticks her head out of the cell to watch Judy walk off.
"That's it, traitor! Run and hide! If you're not one of us, you're one of them, and soon you'll be just like them! Ha...hahahahaha!"
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Judy practically had her face buried in her paws as she left the prison and back to her patrol car, having been so embarrassed by a criminal in front of dozens of cellmates and officers/guards. Once Judy had reached her car, she had yet again squeezed her belly and herself into her patrol car, locking all of the doors and even rolling up the windows, just sitting there silent in her patrol car with just her thoughts starting to collect herself, letting out a small sigh as her heart stopped beating as face as it was.
Judy shook her head in disbelief that there could be yet another person out there that may have intent of turning innocents into savages, but on a much worse scale than she had presumed. If Bellwether had nothing to do with the swap, then there's someone out there that seemed to take after the sheep's influence. What's worse is that the only people who can even get close to the evidence room are other officers, which means there's a potential foul play being involved within the very police station. Judy just continued to sit in her car, her mind pondering over and over the potential suspects that could be at large within this very case...but as she was pondering, she could feel a wave of sleepiness starting to lure her body and mind to a peaceful sleep, indicated by her eyes slowly starting to close themselves.
Judy shook her head once again to focus and awaken herself, gripping the steering wheel with tight concentration. She had a job to do and there was no time to rest! Then again...it would be a while until she'd get back to the precinct...and it is dangerous to drive while tired...and a few minutes sleep does sound good...and she could sleep off the meal, no longer looking pregnant. Every thought that would come into her mind as an excuse for take a rest made it difficult for her to not only concentrate, but to also stay awake.
