MY not so GOOD LIFE ( The Good Wife/ The Good Fight)
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  • Parts 14
  • Time 1h 20m
Ongoing, First published Aug 18, 2018
This story focuses on Diane Lockhart-McVeigh and Kurt McVeigh and their two teenage Daughters Madison McVeigh and Lauren McVeigh and son Jackson McVeigh and their parents efforts to balance the demands of their jobs as partner in her own law firm and Ballistics expert at one of Chicago's top law firms . not  only are they dealing with unruly clients in the Windy City whilst trying to have a happily married life out side the walls of the Law firm they are also trying to raise a family of their own.

Lauren McVeigh was your average 14 year old girl. Well, not really. So what if her sister Maddie was her parents straight A student and Athlete. Then there's me Lauren. A little chubby, not so smart, an alright athlete. In other words, nothing compared to her. That wouldn't change anything, right? Wrong. Living in someones shadows and constantly being compared to them wasn't exactly a luxury. Bullies ontop of it, puts you in quite a dark state. What she needs is a savior. Will she find it before it's too late?.
Guilt. It turns you into a liar.... those closest to us they're the ones who can hurt us the most.....

" we are only as sick as our secrets" 

"One day I spent a whole day in this school without a single person looking at me or talking to me and I realised that was the best day I had in a long time. The day that nobody noticed me at all. The day I stopped being there that was the best day" -  Lauren McVeigh

" I need it to stop......I need everything to stop " - Lauren McVeigh

"I never really hated anyone. But now hate was all that I had" - Lauren McVeigh.
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Untamed ~ D. Dixon

14 parts Ongoing

Shawn Walsh... For someone who was the son of a cop, he didn't exactly play by the rules, he was a uncontrollable force like a hurricane, a tornado...a tsunami. When he was young, it was only a slight tremble in the ground, a small wind, a tiny wave. But when he got older it became a rumble in the ground, so strong it split the earth in half, the winds became a storm of whipping winds that destroyed houses and ripped the trees from the ground...and the wave Became huge, so high that it reached roofs and touched the skies. Of course Shawn wasn't always like that...but Shane wasn't exactly the best father, he was cold towards Shawn, ignoring him and acting as if he didn't exist. Shawn knew why, it was because Shane didn't want him, he wanted to be with Lori and Carl... though, Shawn was the aftermath of Lori and Shane when they were teenagers, Shane still wanted Lori and her other son who she had with Rick Grimes...the man who Shawn thought of as a father. Unlike Shane who tried to forcibly control Shawn's anger and desperation for love, attention and affection, Rick would hug him and tell him to let it out, he told him to break something, to scream, to cry...and that he'd be there for him every single time. At 22, Shawn had moved out, got an apartment and a job as a tattoo artist, he never inked himself because he had respect for his body, but he did enjoy drawing his art on other people. When Shane came to Shawn's tattoo shop to tell him the only man who was like an actual father to him, had been shot, he became enraged, he screamed as loud as his vocal cords would allow him, he threw chairs and anything else he could get his hands on at the wall. Maybe it was because of his heart broken state, but for the first time in his life his actual father had hugged him, he had pulled him to his chest and told him everything would be alright...but how could it when the dead began to rise and people began to pull apart and turn on each other?