A story by Pricat.
Part Two
A secret revealed.
Later that night Fiona was in the roof space of her and Shrek's home looking for clues. Something he'd said during their game of Truth or Dare had stayed in her mind and she needed to find out more. Donkey was keeping an eye on Shrek for her while she was doing this. So far she'd found nothing but then a chest caught her eyes with a lock on it. "Maybe there's something in here that'll help me." She thought as she came over to it. She then used a karate chop to break it open and lifted the lid carefully. A picture caught her attention. She then picked it up. She looked at it closely. It was a picture of her husband but very younger like five or six years old with his parents and Snowgre. "Wow! He looks so much cuter back then as he is now. Maybe I should ask him later about this but he might avoid this if I bring it up." She told herself as she hid it in her dress and left the roof space quietly. In the morning as dawn broke, Shrek woke up feeling drowsy and his head hurting badly like he'd had too much beer. "What happened?" he asked Fiona sleepily. "We were playing Truth or Dare and you picked Truth but didn't answer so Donkey made you eat fruit cake but you were hyper so I calmed you down and then you fell asleep." She told him calmly. He understood and got up slowly. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he made himself some coffee. Fiona then looked under his pillow and found something. It was a book filled with photos and writing about his past. Fiona started to read it but halfway through, she found something that he'd hidden from her and Donkey. His parents had abandoned him as a child after his seventh birthday. They were bad ones but their actions hadn't rubbed off him because of his heart of gold like his father. His actual mother had died from illness so his father had to marry another female ogre but she wasn't so pleasant. Before he met her, his Dad had been loving and cared about him but his new wife had changed him for the worse. But one day they'd left him in the forest and disappeared forever. He'd never trusted anyone because of that and built up an emotional wall to keep others away from his true feelings. Tears were in Fiona's eyes as she finished reading this. Donkey couldn't believe this had happened. "That's why he didn't answer your Truth question! Because it was too painful for him to answer." She told him. He nodded understandingly. "We've got to talk to him about this!" he said to her. Fear gripped her at this. "We can't tell him this. I need you to do something for me." She said quietly to him. "Sure but what?" he asked her curiously. "I need you to promise not to talk to Shrek about this until… he's ready to talk about it, okay? You can't just start going on about it in front of him or the others. They can't know about this!" she told him desperately. He understood and agreed. "Thanks. This means a lot to me." She told him. He then smiled and went off. But Fiona had an idea. She still kept the photo in her dress but needed to see Snowgre. "Maybe he could help seeing as he's apparently family. But where does he live?" she asked herself. She then saw the Magic Mirror in the living room and smiled. "Could I ask you something?" she asked him when he woke up. "Sure Princess but what?" he asked. "I need you to find a distant family member. His name is Snowgre. I've got to find him so he can help me with a little something." She told him as she showed him the photo. He then showed her an image of an icy castle. "This is where he lives. It's in the North side of Duloc. It's an area where only ogres like him would go." He told her. "Thanks. That's a big help to me. It looks like I'm off to the north of Duloc then!" she said as she walked out the door and into the forest. She hoped this would work. Meanwhile Shrek was fixing the onion carriage and didn't notice her going off somewhere.