Feels Like Friendship
Sweat dripped down Artie's face as he woke up. He and the others had spent the night in the waiting room. He had been having a bad dream about being a father.
"You okay? You seem really spooked." Shrek asked him.
"I was having a bad dream about being a father. I'm not sure I'm ready for fatherhood. I'm worried about screwing it up." Artie answered him.
Shrek understood how he felt. He'd felt like that when Fiona had told him she was pregnant.
"Don't worry Artie. You'll be a good father.
I know it." Shrek reassured him.
"I-I guess.
It's just my own Dad wasn't much of a father so how can I be a good father to my kid if I never had a good one myself?" Artie replied softly.
He then saw Fiona join them.
"Marissa wants to show you somebody." she told Artie. He gulped following her into the hospital room where Marissa was lying in bed with a small bundle in her arms. Artie gasped in awe and smiled.
It was a girl. She had his eyes and Marissa's features. She was in a pink blanket.
"She's..... adorable! I can't believe she's ours." Artie said kissing Marissa as the babe wrapped her finger around his as she looked into his eyes knowing he was her father.
"I should let you rest. Having her probably took a lot of you.
I'll be back later, okay?" HE SAID LEAVING THE ROOM.
"So senor how is she?" Puss asked along with Donkey and the others. They were excited about the baby.
Artie laughed at that seeing the triplets too. They were curious too about their uncle's new baby. Puss saw a smile on Donkey's face because he was remembering when the triplets used to play with him like a toy.
Artie then went outside for air. Shrek joined him.
"So is it a boy or a girl?" he asked him. A smile came across his face hearing that.
"A girl. I don't know if I can still be a good king as well as a good father." he answered him.
"Ah a princess and heir to the throne when she's older perhaps?" Shrek said watching the sunrise with him.
"I guess but she'll be what she wants to be, not what people want her to be." he told him.
Shrek understood what Artie meant.
"Shrek...... I want you to be the godfather." he said after a few minutes had passed.
The ogre was silent for a moment.
"Artie I'm honoured and will be a great godfather but why me?" he asked him curiously.
"Because you helped me become what I am today. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be King or probably in Worchester being a loser or killed by Charming. I know you'll help her become whatever she wants to be and show her love along with me and Marissa." Artie explained as they walked back into the waiting room......