I Know It's Today
A/N Here's the next one. This one's about the triplets and about how Shrek wants to protect them and keep them safe from hunters and mortal jerks like Charming. Enjoy!
Snowgre noticed the triplets were quiet as they came home from school.
They were now in first grade.
But they were having trouble making friends because they were ogres.
Most of the class were humans and magical creatures but they were the only ogre kids in class.
"What's wrong little dudes?" he asked them.
"Nothing." Spam told him.
He had a feeling something wasn't right.
Fiona had found a letter in Felicia's back pack.
It was from their teacher.
"What's going on guys?
You're not in trouble." Fiona said to them.
"It's okay Mom.
We can handle it on our own without help.
Like Dad." Meatballs told her.
"Honey that's not true.
Besides your father sometimes has to ask for help sometimes." Their mother replied.
"I-It's because the other kids in our class.
T-They say our kind shouldn't be in school.
T-They hit us with stones, take our snacks and ruin our fun." Spam said nervous.
Shrek was shocked hearing that.
"Why does this have to happen?
I haven't prepared them for how to deal with being feared and hated by some narrow minded and biased humans.
I need to talk to them." He thought as he and Fiona were in bed.
She could tell he was bothered by that.
She knew how much he cared for the kids no matter if sometimes they drove him insane or got on his nerves.
He walked into their room while they were asleep.
They were precious to him, his angels.
He'd promised himself he wouldn't let them get hurt or mde out casts or freaks.
"You're so much more than what others think.
You'll be able to change the world when you're older, make them see there's more to our kind than they think.
Never forget that." He thought leaving the room.
Fiona then heard a noise in the middle of the night, of loud chanting but soft crying in the middle of it.
She then went out to see an angry mob and her middle son Spam in a hunter's snare.
But then she watched as her husband loomed behind them.
"What do you think you're doing?
Along with trapping my son?
You're cowards, weaklings.
You think ogres are nothing but beasts but you're wrong.
We're more than what you think." he yelled as the hunters ran off scared.
"You okay?" he asked his son as he got him out of the snare.
"I-I guess D-Daddy." Spam told him shaking.
"Those guys have no idea of what their actions do.
He's shaken up badly.
I'd better calm him down." he thought as he took Spam back to the triplet's room.
"D-Daddy?
Why're people like that mob of grown ups hate us?
We don't understand." Spam asked him.
Shrek sighed trying to find the words to explain.
He watched as they stared at him with their open eyes.
"It's not us they're afraid of.
It's what our ancestors did.
They did very bad things so humans fear and hate what they don't understand and that makes them angry.
But it's not your fault.
But you might be able to change that when you're older, the way your Mom and I were able to open their minds a little but their minds are still closed.
But you've gotta keep trying.
The important thing is to keep your mind wide open.
Maybe one day they'll understand." he explained to them.
Spam nodded with a small smile.
"Maybe we can show them we're different.
That we're not what they think." he whispered to his brother and sister as they lay in bed.
"Yeah we're just like them." Felicia replied softly.
Fiona saw her husband return to the room.
"Are they okay?" she asked him as he climbed into bed.
"Yeah they're okay.
They asked me why some people hate them and I told them.
I pray for the day when it becomes a big, bright beauitful world.
Even for us.
That day will be a great one where our kind and humans are in harmony and can walk together side by side.
Until then I'm just gonna wait.
I promised myself that I wouldn't let them get hurt by others and it's already happening.
Does that make me a bad father?" he replied to her softly.
Fiona was hocked by that.
"Of course you're not.
Why would he think that?
Is there something... he's not telling me?" she thought looking into his eyes as she wrapped her arms around him.
"You're not.
At least they'll be able to deal with it like you would at their age." she replied to him.
"It's... just my father never explained anything to me and he didn't care when humans or other kids hated me or tried to hunt me.
I never knew until I became a father that I have a chance to raise them unlike my father with me." he explained to her.
She smiled sadly looking into his.
"You don't need to worry honey, you're doing a great job." she encouraged kissing him.
"Yeah I know." he replied...
aAlright! This was so cute. He's a great father to them.
What do you think?