One cold winters day in a vermin-filled shack in the middle of a swamp lived a family of ogres.
The triplets Farkle, Fergus and Felicia were off to visit their grandmother Lillian in FAR FAR AWAY along with Donkey, Dragon, and the Dronkeys.
Shrek was helping the triplets get settled before flying off to their grandmothers and Puss in Boots was napping on Shrek's favorite chair after a long night of catnip related misadventures.
Fiona had been up the whole night doing all the last-minute preparations for the triplets' trip. This was the first time the triplets would spend so much time away from mom and dad. They were visiting grandma for a week while Shrek and Fiona celebrated their wedding anniversary with Pinocchio, the three pigs, the big bad wolf and GingyOnce Dragon, Donkey, the Dronkeys and the triplets set off too far far away, Shrek went inside the shack to find Fiona asleep on the bed.
He gently climbs into the bed to see that Fiona's face is scrunched up in pain, her hair is stuck to her forehead with sweat and that her body was shivering not due to the cold weather outside but due to the fever coursing through her body.
Shrek gently nudges Fiona; the only response was a soft moan from her lips. Shrek grows concerned and fetches a rag with some cool water. He melts some snow from outside in the cauldron over the fireplace, allows it to cool and brings a bowl of the water to the bedroom. Puss still snoozes on the chair.
Fiona wakes up to find the bed empty, her head pounding, body aching and throat raw. She feels hot one minute, cold the next and feels the shivers going up and down her spine.
The light coming through the window hurts her eyes so she scrunches them up tight, only for her head to pound even harder causing her eyes to water. She gingerly raises her hands to massage her temples bringing only a slight temporary relief.
Shrek walks into the bedroom to find Fiona awake. "Fiona, are you feeling alright"? Asks Shrek. In which Fiona replies: "I feel like villagers are pounding daggers into my head and body".She then pauses to cough which causes her throat to sting more. Shrek hands her a drink of swamp juice and lays Fiona down to rest. He places a damp cloth on her head. "Rest Fiona": Says Shrek, "I'll be here when you wake up. Fiona closes her eyes and drifts off back to sleep./p
Puss wakes up to find Shrek stroking the fireplace with a worried look his face. Fiona is asleep on top of the bed, painful coughs escaping her lips as she sleeps.
Puss enters the bedroom and sees that Fiona is in distress. He then turns to Shrek and says: "Boss I'll go and find herbs to help ease her illness.
Shrek turns to Puss and thanks him.
The cloth on Fiona's head gets warm due to the fever and Shrek sits by her side and soaks the cloth several times with no signs of improvement.
Fiona wakes up coughing and holding her throat. Her face flushed with fever and red from coughing. The cloth falling onto the bed.
Her headache, for now, has somewhat subsided, only to be replaced with fever dreams and delirium.
"She starts to see images of the tower that the curse kept her locked up in for all those years. She starts to cry, coughing due to the irritation of her throat. Shrek just whispers sweet nothings holding her close trying to calm her down. Grabbing the cloth, soaking it and lightly dabbing her brow with it in hopes the fever goes down. He grabs a few Advil capsules and some swamp juice and helps her take them. Telling her that the medicine should help reduce her fever. She takes the pills and holds Shrek close. Her tears staining her face. She decides to lie down and closes her eyes in the hope that the painful images fade away. The swamp juice starting to take the sting away from her throat.
As Fiona starts to drift off to sleep, Puss returns with the promised herbs and places them into a cauldron with water to make a broth. Shrek realizing that Fiona hasn't eaten much that day decides to make fish eye soup for her when she wakes, knowing that it would be the gentlest thing for her throat to eat.
Fiona falls into a deep slumber, the fever starting to lower. Puss grabs a ladle and pours some broth into a mug and hands it to Shrek. Shrek thanks, Puss and wakes Fiona up to take her medicine and eat soup.
"Feeling somewhat better already she takes the mug, drinks the broth and eats half of the soup.
"She turns to Puss and Shrek and thanks them for caring for her./p
Still feeling sore and tired she then lies down again and takes a nap. Shrek lies next to her and brushes the hair out of her eyes, feeling her forehead and noting that the fever has gone down a little.
Puss curls up back on the chair and cat naps while Shrek keeps watching over his princess hoping that she gets over her virus pretty quickly.