Promise

A/N Here's more. I'm glad people like.

Harold was very quiet the next morning as he woke up early. He had trouble sleeping last night after his and Lillian making up their minds. He then smiled sadly approaching Fiona's bedroom door. He then went in softly. He smiled seeing her asleep along with her friend but was sad inside too. He wished there was another way.

"Is it really right to punish Fiona because I want to stay with Lillian?

Maybe, maybe not.

If I hadn't banished that witch, none of this would've happened and I would have never had to send my only child away.

Why must she pay?" he mused leaving the room.

Shrek had felt Harold's presence and sighed. He'd a feeling the thing about Fiona leaving woyuld happen soon , a few days after today but he couldn't let her go, just like that.

What would he do after she left? He would be lonely again with nobody but himself for company. He didn't want it to happen.

"I won't let you be taken away from me." he whispered as he left the room and the castle. He noticed it was the crack of dawn but he didn't mind.

He then ran into the forest and to the tree house he and Fiona had made. It felt safe and was a sanctuary to him from the world and it's pain and hatred for thing s they couldn't understand.

He sighed as he held the tears in.

But he hoped things would be okay somehow. To him, Fiona meant the world and understood the pain, the sorrow he felt because he was different. He didn't want to imagine being without her.

Fiona woke up later and wondered where Shrek had gone. She was about to go look for him when she heard her father call for her. She wondered what he wanted.

Lillian was nervous as she and Harold waited for their daughter in the throne room. They knew this would be hard for her to take.

"Morning!

What do you and Daddy want to talk about?" Fiona asked nervous. She noticed that there were red rims around her mother's eyes. She wondered what was wrong.

"I wonder what's wrong?

Mommy looks like she's been crying..... about something." the girl thought as Harold searched for the right words to tell his daughter.

"..... Fiona honey you're going away for a little while. I know it seems scary but it's best if this happens.

It could help you because of..... what the witch did to you." he said.

Fear was in Fiona's blue eyes. She was the reason why her mother was crying. She wondered why they wanted to send her away but knew why.

"Where am I going?" Fiona asked softly. She was trying to mask the sadness in her voice.

"To somewhere where others won't make fun of you because of your being an ogre at night. I know you feel afraid but you should know we love you deeply and we're only doing this because we care about you. The world out there is cold and very uncaring towards others who are different.

Like your ogre friend." Harold explained softly.

Fiona understood as she ran off. She then went into her room and threw herself onto her bed and grabbed her stuffed dragon.

Tears fell from her blue eyes and hit the pillow. She knew her parents loved her but she knew they had treated her differently because of the curse on her.

She then remembered about SDhrek. She then snuck out of the castle with a back pack full of the things that were important to her.

She figured if she wasn't there, her parents couldn't send her away.

Shrek wondered why she had her back pack with her. She told him she had decided to run away from home. The look of sadness in her eyes told him the reason why.

"Her parents must've told her they were sending her away. I don't blame her. But why can't they let her stay with them?

That I don't understand." he thought as they played in the forest, climbing trees, playing in mud and having fun. He saw that Fiona was happy again as they played but he had a feeling her father would look for her once he realised Fiona had ran away.

"You okay?" she asked him as they were playing in the lake.

"Yeah I'm..... fine." he answered softly.

He knew that no matter how hard he tried, Fiona would leave and that would hurt him badly. The thought of it was so powerful, it nearly brought tears to his eyes.

Lillian heard the governess scream as she couldn't find Fiona anywhere in the castle.

"She must be out playing with her ogre friend." Lillian suggested but Harold saw that some of his daughter's things were missing along with her back pack.

"No Lillian she ran away." he answered with a look of sadness mixed with guilt in his eyes. He knew this was Fiona's way of dealing with the sudden change in her life by being sent away. He sighed leaving her room.

"Should we look for her Your Highness?" the captain of the guards asked him.

"No let me.

But maybe she'll come back after a while." Harold answered him as he watched him leave.

It was later that night and both Shrek and Fiona were lying on the soft grass looking at the stars in the night sky.

"They're so pretty." Fiona said softly.

"Yeah they are." Shrek replied softly but then his ears picked up footsteps. It was a pack of hunters. Fiona whimpered in fear as they picked Shrek up.

"I knew we would catch them sooner or later!" one of them gloated but Shrek got angry seeing another approach Fiona and bit the hunter in the hand.

The hunter dropped him but he watched as Fiona used karate to take care of them but roared.

It scared the hunters off but the two youngsters were frightened but then Fiona heard footsteps and saw Shrek hold her closer to him.

"Fiona are you out here?" the voice yelled as the person came towards them.

It was Harold. He looked worried as Fiona hugged him crying. He'd seen what the hunters had tried to do.

"It'll be okay honey.

Let's go home now, okay?" he said as he had her back pack in her other hand.

Fiona nodded sadly as she followed her father but she had one look into her ogre friend's eyes as she left.

"I'll come back in the morning." she whispered to him......

He nodded as he went back into the tree house and looked at the stars thinking of Fiona.....