Promise

A/N Here's more. This chapter is about Fiona's parents being sad about having to leave her in the tower and are very depressed about their decision. But somebody is very depressed too, the only friend Fiona had.

The next morning there was an unexplainable sadness hanging over the castle in Far, Far Away. Harold seemed very depressed along with Lillian as they got up. They knew Fiona was gone but it was like an empty void had been created in their hearts.

"I miss her. Hiow is she in that tower? She probably figured it out by now that a dragon is guarding her.

This is my fault.

If I had stood up to the Fairy Godmother, Fiona would be here now with us but maybe one day our wish will come true and she'll be home with us soon enough." Harold thought as he ate slowly but drank black coffee.

He didn't want to talk to anybody and had locked himself inside emotionally.

Lillian was trying to be strong for them both but finding it hard.

She wondered if the kingdom knew how she felt, to have her only child leave her because of some forsaken curse on her.

But she kept playing the role of a perfect queen.

She secretly cried sometimes when she was alone but hid her feelings within. She sighed hearing people mutter as they passed her in the streets of the kingdom but she ignored it. She knew that some of the people were narrow minded.

But in her room in the tallest tower, Fiona was sad as she sat on her bed. She felt more lonely as she looked outside her bedroom window. Outside was devasation and she sighed. She didn't understand why her parents had put her here. Tears fell from her blue eyes as she yearned to be with them but knew she couldn't until the curse was broken on her.

It would take a long while for that to happen as she felt the sadness inside. But then Shrek's face was in her mind.

That made her heart hurt more remembering her only friend and confidant but wished she was with him in the forest instead of being stuck here with nobody to talk to or comfort her.

"I.... wonder what they're doing while I'm here?

Maybe Mom and Dad forgot about me already. They probably think that this was good and feel no pain for this but maybe they are.#

They were upset when they left this place of sadness, of darkness and bleakness." the young princess thought as she curled up into a ball and was sad.

But in the forest Shrek was miserable and sad.

He missed Fiona deeply with all his heart. He wished he could see her just once more but didn't know where Fiona's parents had sent her. He hoped one day they would be together once more but right now he needed a place to call home, a sanctuary. He remembered he'd been good at building the tree house with Fiona but it seemed a distant memory now.

"As I stay around here, my heart will hurt because I miss her too much.

I should move to somewhere....... until she comes back or my heart heals, whichever comes first." the young ogre thought sadly as he felt somebody's presence near him.

It was Lillian, Fiona's mother. She knew he would be hurting just as much as her and Harold were because Fiona had been sent away.

"You miss her, don't you?" she said gently to him. He turned around to face her with sadness and anger in those innocent hazel eyes of his.

"Why would you care?" he replied sadly.

Lillian didn't blame him for being like this. She knew how much Fiona meant to him.

She was like his whole world.

"Y-You would never understand how she makes me feel! She made me feel wanted and that I wasn't lonely anymore.

She was the first one to believe in me and see me for who I am, not because I'm an ogre!

You took her away from me!

You're to blame for this!" he yelled in anger sinking down to his knees in sadness, tears streaming down his face.

Lillian wanted to reach out and hug him but knew right now it wasn't a good idea seeing he was angry.

"...... I do understand.

She was lonely until you and her met. None of the other kids would befriend her but somehow this was meant to happen. But she brought you something special when you became friends.

That's what you must keep alive until one day when you will be together.

Fate would not be that cruel to keep two friends apart forever." she said as he began to calm down. He understood as he looked into her eyes full of the same sadness that filled his own.

"..... You're right. Maybe we will meet one day but my heart will never feel the same.

I'm sorry.

I-I have to go!" he said running off deeper into the forest. She sighed as she returned to the kingdom. Harold wondered what was wrong.

"I-It's nothing." she replied walking off.........