"What Do We Do Now?"

A/N: I know this chapter is short, but I just had to get it posted as soon as possible!! Thanks again to all of my reviewers!! Once again, y'all are the greatest!!
"Okay, here we go," King Harold said to himself as he looked across the room at his wife. He did not want to tell her about how his pathetic plan had failed miserably, but it had to be done. He had gotten himself into this mess and he would just have to face the consequences.

"Lillian...dear...," Harold said tentatively.

Lillian turned to him and smiled, but he could see past her sweet demeanor. He knew that if she did nothear good news from him, there was going to be hell to pay.

"I just had a talk with the Fairy Godmother, and....." Harold said, wincing at the pleased look on his wife's face.

Harold suddenly lost the nerve to tell her the truth. He frantically tried to think of a way to get out of this mess in one piece.

"She said that she would fix the problem," Harold finally said. He realized that he wasn't really lying to Lillian, for that was what the Fairy Godmother had told him.

"Problem?" Queen Lillian asked, suprised,"The Fairy Godmother agrees that this whole ordeal is a problem?"

"You'll have to ask her that, dear," Harold said quickly, "All she told me was that she would fix the problem." He didn't want to say too much if he didn't have to. He knew that he wasn't telling his wife the truth, of course. However, he had also been able to keep from outright lying to her.

Lillian looked at her husband suspiciously. She could tell that he was keeping something from her.

"I think I will ask her," Lillian said.

Harold's eyes opened wide in horror.

'I am in deep trouble' he thought.

"Puss, will you keep it down?" Donkey hissed as hescurried through the woods. The twoloyal friendshad been forced to walk through the woods instead of on the road.This wastoavoid being seen by the two brutes that were taking Shrek to God knows where. One of the thugs was driving the carraige, looking utterly bored. This was probably because he had been driving forquite a few hours. Donkey and Puss could only guess that the other one was inside the carraige with Shrek, making sure that he didn't wake up.

"You want me to be quiet?! What about you?! I'm suprised you haven't woken Boss up yet!!" Puss said sarcastically. He had been walking (and running) for hours, and he was not going to tolerate Donkey telling him what to do.

"They've stopped!!" Donkey yelled, ignoring Puss's remark. Puss winced slightly.

"Are you loco, burro?" Puss whispered, "They're going to see us."

Luckily, the two brutes did not seem to hear Donkey's outburst. Puss and Donkey watched asfirst thug climbed from the driver's seat of the carraige. The brute then went about the task of helping his accomplicehaul Shrek's somewhat cumbersome, still incapacitated,form out of the carraige. They had found the perfect spot, miles and miles away from Far Far Away. There wasonly one family in the area, and that is exactly what the Fairy Godmother had wanted. Now allthat hadbe donewas make sure that the family found him, preferably before he awoke.

As soon as the two thugs inconsiderately dumped Shrek on the ground, the one that had been driving began to tiehishands and feet together, making sure that the ogre would not be able to wander back to Far Far Away if he was to awake before he was found. They then pulled Shrek over to the side of the road, and left without a word.

"Bethie, hurry up!!" Evelyn Berwick yelled to her sister.

It had been thirty minutes and Bethie still wasn't ready. It wasn't even as if she had anything to be ready for. They were only doing their daily chores.Besides,there weren't anyother boys or girlsanywhere near their house. Evelyn was used to this routine, however,for taking her time was what Bethie did best. Especially if she was doing her hair, which always seemed to take forever.

Being girls born into an isolated family was tough for Evelyn and Bethie, especially since theywere the only children of Bertha and Frank Berwick. Although Mr. and Mrs. Berwick loved their two daughters,it was a great disappointment to them that they had never had a son.

Twenty-year-oldEvelynwas the oldest of the two sisters.She had been the one born with the wit and charm of her father, but sadly lacking her mother's good looks. Her sister, Bethie, had been born three years after Evelyn, and had favored her mother where Evelyn did not. Bethie, however, did not have the charisma to talk her way out of any tough situation like her sister did. Instead, she learned that she could smile her way out of anything, for Bethie held all of the good looks that her sister mostly lacked. While Bethie was tall and thin, Evelyn was short and busty. Bethie had her mother's beautiful golden hair, while Evelyn had her father's thin red hair. It wasn't that Evelyn was not pretty, for she was, but she seemed quite plain if one were to look at her sister first.

Despite the fact that the two girls were so different, they were always inseparable. They couldn't diverge from each other if they wanted to, for they lived on small isolated farm in the middle of nowhere. There were no other children to hang out with, so they were quite stuck with each other. Luckily for them, they didn't mind. It may have been because this life actually suited them, as it did their parents, or it may have been for the fact that the two Berwick girls did not really know anything else. Whatever the reason was, the girls did not find any problem with the way they lived most of the time.

"I'm leaving without you!!" Evelyn yelled to her sister.

After this was said, Bethie hurried out of the house with an annoyed look on her face.

"You shouldn't rush perfection, you know," Bethie said half-jokingly. Evelyn let out an exasperated groan.

"Why do you have toplay dress up beforewe do our chores?" Evelyn asked, "It's not as if anyone besides Mum and Dad are going to see you."

The two girls began to walk down the dirt path that led to the apple trees about a mile from their home. The two girls loved to pick apples, but always bickered the entire time they traveled down the road.

"You can never be too careful," Bethie countered after a few moments of silence, "You never know who you might come across...."

"What do we do now?" Donkey asked Puss, as the two animals stared down at their friend, "He's too big for us to drag him all the way back to Far Far Away by ourselves, andwe have no ideawhen he'll wake up."

"Then we should go back and bring help," Puss said, "We could bring The Big Bad Wolf and everybody else down here, and with all of the added strength, we should be able to getBoss back home."

Nodding hesitantly in agreement, Donkey started tocanter back to Far Far Away, but stopped. He felt so bad about leaving his buddy in such a impodent condition.

Donkey finally decided that nothing could be done for Shrek without the helpof the rest of their friends.

"Okay....but we have to hurry," Donkey said.

Puss began to run towards Far Far Away as fast as he could. Donkey looked once more at Shrek, and after seeing that he didn't look as if he would wake up any time soon, galloped after the spanish feline.

If Donkey had only stayed with Shrek a moment longer, he may have noticed the two women that were making their way down the road........

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