"Two Kisses and an Arrest"

A/N: Ok, this is my second attempt at this AU fic. It is completely different than my first one, although it is still about what would have happened if Fiona had taken the potion. I have thought this one through, so you can be sure that I will finish it this time. Almost all of the characters are in this chapter, some more than others. I can guarantee that they will each have bigger parts in future chapters. Hope y'all enjoy.

Disclaimer: All characters and plot from Shrek 2 belong to Dreamworks, not me.

"NO!!" Shrek screamed in horror, sinking to his knees. At first, he refused to believe that Charming had kissed her. Things like that couldn't happen to true love. They just didn't. Shrek kept his eyes set on Fiona, praying that she would move away from Charming. Or better yet, that this was just a really bad dream, and soon he would wake up, having never come to Far Far Away. It didn't take but a few seconds for him to realize that this was real, and no amount of hoping or praying could change that.

Shrek had to turn his head away as Fiona returned Charming's kiss with a much more passionate one. Tears were forming behind his eyes, but he didn't cry. After all that he had been through, after all of the pain and heartbreak, he was still unable to cry. He chanced a glance in the direction of the new......lovers..... his eyes beholding his true love still in Charming's embrace. Never had Shrek felt so heartbroken. This hurt more than anything had ever hurt him before. Even when Fiona left for Duloc with Farquad, at least Shrek had had the ability to DO something about it. Now....he was just....helpless. He had never been helpless before and, honestly, it scared him.

As Shrek averted his eyes once again, he noticed the king and queen standing only a few yards away from him. He was brought back to the conversation that Harold, the Fairy Godmother, and Charming had shared that afternoon, and what Harold had agreed to do. His sorrow slowly began turning into outrage. Suddenly, Shrek rose to his feet and turned towards King Harold.

"This is all your fault!" Shrek thundered, pointing at the king.

Harold began to speak, but Shrek was not finished.

"What kind of father could do this to their DAUGHTER!" Shrek yelled angrily, hardly aware of the hundreds of eyes set on him, two of them belonging to Fiona. She had pulled away from Charming's embrace slightly to have a better view of the confrontation her father was having with this obviously angry man.

As for Harold, he attempted to defend what he had done, telling Shrek that he was doing what was best for Fiona, but he was not sure that he believed it himself. He had regretted giving Fiona the potion the moment Charming's lips touched hers, because it was at that moment he realized how it would change, and maybe even ruin, Fiona's life forever. Shrek was angry, and Harold couldn't blame him.

"All we wanted was your blessing," Shrek said in a much more quiet and hurt tone. "Or at least she wanted it. Instead, you try to kill me and then you do this," Shrek pointed in the direction of Fiona and Charming. He was near tears, but he would not cry in front of Harold or Charming, and he definitely wouldn't break down in front of Fiona.

Fiona had been watching the scene with interest. Was this man talking about her? He did seem to be looking her way more times than was comfortable. She looked to Charming for an answer, and was suprised to see an amused smile on his face. When he acknowledge her stare, and returned it, his smile was replaced by a look of less than sincere concern.

"Muffincake, don't worry about that," Charming said soothingly, pointing in Shrek's direction, "Who could blame him for being jealous?"

Charming began to laugh softly, and although Fiona didn't quite know why, her concern faded. She once again embraced Charming, and as he returned it, he looked humorously at the scene that was unfolding only a few yards away. Shrek had ceased his yelling, realizing that it was futile, and simply looked from Harold, to Fiona and Charming, to the Fairy Godmother, and back. He looked as if he didn't know what to do. Charming decided to help him out.

"Ogre, you need to go away and leave me and my girl alone," Charming said harshly.

That was all it took. Shrek didn't give Charming any time to think before he had him pinned on the ground, seething. Before anybody around them had a chance to move, the two were engaged in a full-fledged fist fight. Now, this scene would have seemed extremely childish if it had not been for the horrifying look of anger and hatred in both Shrek and Charming's eyes. The fight, however, did not last any more than five seconds when both Fiona and the Fairy Godmother started coming towards Shrek to help Charming. Fiona made it first.

"GET OFF OF HIM!" she yelled at Shrek, attempting to seperate him from Charming. The minute Fiona touched him, Shrek was broken out of his trance of hatred and brought back into reality. Then, when he realized how stupid, if not satisfiying, what he was doing was, The Fairy Godmother did not need to come to Fiona and her son's aid for Shrek immediately scrambled to his feet. Due to the sudden halting of the brawl, both ends of the fight had not suffered any serious injuries That is, until Fiona stared angrily at Shrek for a few seconds before slapping him cleanly across the face.

Any anger that Shrek had felt before instantly melted away, replaced by a sorrow that went far beyond words. What had this potion done to her? Sure, she loved Charming now, but why would she take his side over the other man she........

Shrek was suddenly struck with an awful thought, which he feared was also the awful truth. It was one thing for Fiona to love Charming, but Shrek couldn't handle the possibility that maybe Fiona had lost her love for him, as well. Blinded by desperation and without thinking, Shrek pulled Fiona close to him and kissed her. Maybe there was a small amount of that love potion left for him. This was an action that he would soon regret, but he couldn't think about the consequences of it just then, for it was probably the only hope he had of ever getting Fiona back.

That hope was shattered, however, when Fiona shoved Shrek forcefully away from her. Her eyes were ablaze with anger, but there was something else that flashed briefly in them that Shrek could not recognize. Although he could not tell what it was, it got his attention.

"Fiona, I love you. Please tell me you still love me, too," Shrek pleaded with her. He could not give Fiona up without a fight. They had gotten through too much for him to give up now.

"I love Charming," Fiona said quietly, but fiercely.

"I know you do, sweetheart," Shrek continued to plead with her, in the most loving voice he had ever spoken in, " but you've got to still love me too. Don't you?"

"I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!" Fiona yelled back at him.

It was then that Shrek finally realized that he had lost. Fiona not only lost her love for Shrek, she had forgetten him. Shrek continued to gaze into Fiona's angry eyes, frantically trying to figure out a way to fix this. He didn't get much time to think before he heard Charming, who had been watching everything in stunned silence, finally find his voice.

"Guards!!" he commanded, "Arrest that man!!"

The royal guards looked to King Harold, for they would only take orders from the king and queen. Harold then looked up at the Fairy Godmother, who looked from Charming to Shrek and then nodded to Harold, silently commanding him to do so. Harold sighed as he looked from the Fairy Godmother, to Lillian, to Shrek, who was still staring at Fiona, but eyeing the guards as well. Realizing that no good would come from doing otherwise, Harold reluctantly motioned the guards to arrest the poor ogre. Queen Lillian eyed Harold incredulously, but decided that it was best to wait until they were alone to protest. She just watched as the guards started walking briskly towards Shrek.

Before the guards could get far however, Donkey, Puss, and the rest of Shrek's friends sprang into action. They had been watching Shrek and Fiona in silence, knowing that there was nothing that they could do for their friend. They finally found a way to be useful, and that was by keeping the guards away from Shrek. This was easier said than done, however. For the guards were very well trained and there were about five times as many than had been at the drawbridge a while ago. They, not unlike that afternoon on "Knights", took them all into custody rather quickly.

"Get them out of here!!" the Fairy Godmother yelled. She had been silent, which was not like her at all, through almost everything so far. She decided that it was time to take charge.

The guards forced all of Shrek's friends out the door, and locked it behind them. Shrek still kept his gaze set on Fiona.

"Now, hurry up and arrest him," the Fairy Godmother said, wanting to get Shrek as far away from Fiona and Charming as possible.

As the guards made their way towards him, Shrek reluctantly tore his gaze from Fiona. He had not even noticed his friends attempting to fight off the guards for him, although it wouldn't really matter at the moment if he did. The only thing that mattered was Fiona, and if he did not find a way to get her back now, he never would. As two guards took hold of each of his arms, Shrek grew desperate, pleading futilely with Fiona and trying to fight off the guards at the same time.

"Fiona, I'm Shrek, your husband," Shrek began to call out in desperation as more and more guards began to drag him further and further from his true love.

Shrek was reminded of Fiona and Farquad's wedding, where royal guards had attempted to separate Shrek from Fiona, while both of them called out for each other. The only difference was that Fiona did not call out for Shrek. Instead, she stood where she had been standing when he had kissed her, staring at him with the same angry eyes.

"You have to remember me! Say that you love me," Shrek begged her, "Say it!!"

She never did say the words as Shrek was taken away from the ball. Neither did she say them when he was thrown into prison for the second time that night. Hanging from the wall in the dungeon, where he had been that afternoon, he thought about everything that had happened in the last.....had it really only been three days? Shrek painfully realized that just as quickly as Fiona had been given to him, she had been taken away. The dark, dreary loneliness of the dungeon, along with the events of that evening were too much for even Shrek to bear, and for the first time since Shrek could remember, he began to weep.