Title: Hiding in his Shadow
Ratin: PG-13 for abuse
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story but Megan Irvine/Carter, Gracie Irvine/Calighan, and Collin Calighan.
Summary: Megan Irvine was a happy woman. She had a wonderful daughter, a loving husband, a great brother and all in all a great and easy life. All in one night everything that she had came to know comes crashing down, when she finds out about a secret that her husband has been hiding. She takes refuge in an ulikely buisness with an unlikely family and even learning to love another man. Working to keep her daughter and herself safe from her husbands clutches, will she ever find peace? And what does a cretain Hardy have to do with the mix?
Prolouge 2: You need to run
Megan woke up with a headache from the blow that she had taken the night before. She massaged her forhead and temples in hope to soothe it, but to no avail. Sitting up, she glanced around the room to find that Collin had not come home for the night. She sighed and heaved herself out of her bed walking into the bathroom. She took a warm bath that helped soothe the pain in her body. When she was done she pulled on tight low cut jeans and a tank top along with a nice sweater. Her palm brushed her cheek softly as she looked into the mirror. Her wound was still very red and still very much hurting. Covering up the best she could with her make up, she walked out the door to wake her daughter up.
"Gracie," Megan said, gently shaking her daughter. "Toots, it's time to get up for school."
Gracie sturred in her bed and opened her eyes slowly. The young girl smiled at her mother and reached up to recieve a hug.
"Morning mommy," Gracie said sleepily before rubbing her eyes.
"Come on toots, let's go get you ready," Megan said picking her daughter up and carrying her to the bathroom.
Megan filled the bath tub with warm water and gave Gracie a bath. Gracie had no problem with taking baths as long as she could play with bubbles along the way.
Soon enough, Gracie was done, dressed in a cute little red dress. Megan had done Gracie's shoulder length brown hair in two half pigtails.
"What do you want to have for breakfast babygirl?" Megan asked her daughter as she helped her pull her socks and shoes on.
"Can I have chocolate pancakes?" Gracie begged. "Please! Please!"
"Don't beg you look like a dog," Megan joked to her daughter.
"Ha, Ha," Gracie countered sarcastically.
"Only four and already being sarcastic," Megan said shaking her head, causing her daughter to giggle.
"So can I have pancakes?" Gracie asked hopefully.
"Yes, you can have the chocolate pancakes," Megan said giving in.
"Yay!" Gracie cheered. "Thankyou mommy."
"Your welcome toots," Megan replied smiling. "Chocolate chips or chocolate syrup?"
"Both?" Gacie answered hesitantly.
"Well that's wishfull thinking, your going to have to pick one of them and only one of them."
"Oh man!" Gracie whined. "Okay then, umm. . . CHOCOLATE CHIPS!"
"Chocolate syrup it is," Megan said.
"Hey! I said chips!" Gracie said.
"Okay, okay, chocolate chips."
Megan walked into the kitchen and started on the pancakes. She mixed the batter along with the chocolate chips and cooked them on the pan.
"Gracie! your pancakes are ready," Megan yelled to the little figure watching Spongebob on the couch.
"Coming!" Gracie called back switching the television off and skipping into the dining room.
Gracie and Megan ate their pancakes along with syrup, or in Gracie's case chocolate syrup. Who could help those cute hazel eyes that shone at Megan when she had said no to the chocolate syrup.
Megan had cleaned up all the dishes and cleaned the table when she had left in her black convertible to the Winnipeg International Daycare, or in Gracie's view the castle of the queen of happy land.
Megan walked Gracie to the entrance of the school and was met by Gracie's teacher who led was going to bring her to the classroom.
"Bye mommy," Gracie said giving her mom a nice hug.
"By baby," Megan replied waving as her daughter walked off.
She drove to Denny's where Hoku was working part time to support herself before she and hopefully Megan broke into the music buisness.
She walked into the diner that she had worked in for 5 years before she got married. A lot of memorie's laid in this diner, both good and bad. She hadn't even removed her sunglasses when she attacked with hugs by Hoku.
"Megan! Oh my god we mist so much! Didn't we Lou?" Hoku yelled turning to the owner and chef of the diner and Megan's father figure.
"Oh you can bet that we did," he chuckled wiping his hands on the apron that he wore before hugging the daughter that he never had. "I was gonna yell that the place still wasn't opening until 12:00 if i hadn't seen that it was you."
Megan smiled sadly causing the two of the most important people in her life to worry.
"What's wrong Meg?" Hoku asked.
Megan removed her sunglasses and stared into the shocked eyes of Hoku and Lou.
"What happened?" Hoku asked. "How did you get that wound?"
"Megan, who did that to your cheek," Lou said when they didn't get an answer to the previous question.
That was it, she couldn't take it anymore. She leaned into Hoku's arms, setting all the tears free. Hoku, though a bit surprised at Megan's reaction, hugged her best friend back trying to comfort her as much as she could.
"What happened girly girl?" Hoku said using one of her many nicknames for Megan.
"It's Collin," Megan whispered as she cried into Hokus shoulder. "He's beating me. . . he's beating me!"
Lou fists clenched tightly, knuckles turning white. Hoku gasped and hugged Megan even tighter. The two led Megan to the bar in the little diner and sat her down on one of the stools. Hoku sat next to her as Lou began to fix her a mug of nice coffee.
"Two creams and one sugar, just the way you like it," Lou said in an attempt to get Megan to cheer up.
Megan took the mug from Lou nodding to give her thanks and sipped a bit.
"Meg, you have to tell me what happened," Hoku said calmly but seriously. "How did this start? Why did it start?"
Megan took a deep breath and looked directly into her buddies awaiting blue eyes.
"Okay," she said in a barely audible voice and proceeded to tell them everything that happened.
From the first night when Collin had slapped her to the night when he had punched her and knocked her into the corner of the kitchen. Lou and Hoku listened intently and were definitely shocked at Collin's actions. He was so sweet and loving when they had all first met him. Lou thought he was perfect for Megan, the daughter he never had, and Hoku just thought he was absolutely adorable. Lou hadn't seen anything wrong with Collin when he had given Megan away along with her brother Chris for her wedding. Everything seemed so right. . . why did it all go wrong? Why did it all go so wrong.
"He said that he had needs that I couldn't satisfy and that Bridgette was there to do that because she was willing to take care of those needs," Megan sighed. "That asshole!"
"He is an asshole," Hoku agreed.
"I'm not that type of woman Hoku," Megan cried letting tears flow once more. "I'm not the type of woman who lets her husband beat her!"
"Your not," Lou nodded. "We tought you better than that. If that bastard doesn't realize how lucky he is to even have you then he doesn't deserve you."
"What am I going to do Papi?" Megan asked letting some of her mexican background kick in, plus it was her nickname for Lou. "I have no where to go."
"Sure you do," Hoku interjected. "The only problem is where to make you go."
"What about Gracie?" Megan said. "I am not leaving my daughter with Collin! I will most definetely not! I love her too much to leave her, not with a man who calls himself a father to my daughter! He has been more of a father too Gracie than a dead man could!"
"You're going to have to take her with you, Meg," Hoku said. "You have to get out now."
Realisation sat in. . .that's when Megan decided to act.
End of Prolouge 2
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A/N: Hey! Did you like the chapter? Im sorry that it's kind of short but i wanted to make it sort of dramatic in a way. Well happy readings!
Thanks to:
AngelBitch = Thanks for the review it made my day!
Jennifer = Cliffhangers are my thing, what can i say? LOL!
Alikitty = Thanks! I hope you enjoy the rest of the story...but it'll be long...lol
mysticalfem = Thanks for the review and bringing up my confidence in the story.
HardyzGurl1 = Thanks for liking the story so far...hope it stays that way!
Ratin: PG-13 for abuse
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story but Megan Irvine/Carter, Gracie Irvine/Calighan, and Collin Calighan.
Summary: Megan Irvine was a happy woman. She had a wonderful daughter, a loving husband, a great brother and all in all a great and easy life. All in one night everything that she had came to know comes crashing down, when she finds out about a secret that her husband has been hiding. She takes refuge in an ulikely buisness with an unlikely family and even learning to love another man. Working to keep her daughter and herself safe from her husbands clutches, will she ever find peace? And what does a cretain Hardy have to do with the mix?
Prolouge 2: You need to run
Megan woke up with a headache from the blow that she had taken the night before. She massaged her forhead and temples in hope to soothe it, but to no avail. Sitting up, she glanced around the room to find that Collin had not come home for the night. She sighed and heaved herself out of her bed walking into the bathroom. She took a warm bath that helped soothe the pain in her body. When she was done she pulled on tight low cut jeans and a tank top along with a nice sweater. Her palm brushed her cheek softly as she looked into the mirror. Her wound was still very red and still very much hurting. Covering up the best she could with her make up, she walked out the door to wake her daughter up.
"Gracie," Megan said, gently shaking her daughter. "Toots, it's time to get up for school."
Gracie sturred in her bed and opened her eyes slowly. The young girl smiled at her mother and reached up to recieve a hug.
"Morning mommy," Gracie said sleepily before rubbing her eyes.
"Come on toots, let's go get you ready," Megan said picking her daughter up and carrying her to the bathroom.
Megan filled the bath tub with warm water and gave Gracie a bath. Gracie had no problem with taking baths as long as she could play with bubbles along the way.
Soon enough, Gracie was done, dressed in a cute little red dress. Megan had done Gracie's shoulder length brown hair in two half pigtails.
"What do you want to have for breakfast babygirl?" Megan asked her daughter as she helped her pull her socks and shoes on.
"Can I have chocolate pancakes?" Gracie begged. "Please! Please!"
"Don't beg you look like a dog," Megan joked to her daughter.
"Ha, Ha," Gracie countered sarcastically.
"Only four and already being sarcastic," Megan said shaking her head, causing her daughter to giggle.
"So can I have pancakes?" Gracie asked hopefully.
"Yes, you can have the chocolate pancakes," Megan said giving in.
"Yay!" Gracie cheered. "Thankyou mommy."
"Your welcome toots," Megan replied smiling. "Chocolate chips or chocolate syrup?"
"Both?" Gacie answered hesitantly.
"Well that's wishfull thinking, your going to have to pick one of them and only one of them."
"Oh man!" Gracie whined. "Okay then, umm. . . CHOCOLATE CHIPS!"
"Chocolate syrup it is," Megan said.
"Hey! I said chips!" Gracie said.
"Okay, okay, chocolate chips."
Megan walked into the kitchen and started on the pancakes. She mixed the batter along with the chocolate chips and cooked them on the pan.
"Gracie! your pancakes are ready," Megan yelled to the little figure watching Spongebob on the couch.
"Coming!" Gracie called back switching the television off and skipping into the dining room.
Gracie and Megan ate their pancakes along with syrup, or in Gracie's case chocolate syrup. Who could help those cute hazel eyes that shone at Megan when she had said no to the chocolate syrup.
Megan had cleaned up all the dishes and cleaned the table when she had left in her black convertible to the Winnipeg International Daycare, or in Gracie's view the castle of the queen of happy land.
Megan walked Gracie to the entrance of the school and was met by Gracie's teacher who led was going to bring her to the classroom.
"Bye mommy," Gracie said giving her mom a nice hug.
"By baby," Megan replied waving as her daughter walked off.
She drove to Denny's where Hoku was working part time to support herself before she and hopefully Megan broke into the music buisness.
She walked into the diner that she had worked in for 5 years before she got married. A lot of memorie's laid in this diner, both good and bad. She hadn't even removed her sunglasses when she attacked with hugs by Hoku.
"Megan! Oh my god we mist so much! Didn't we Lou?" Hoku yelled turning to the owner and chef of the diner and Megan's father figure.
"Oh you can bet that we did," he chuckled wiping his hands on the apron that he wore before hugging the daughter that he never had. "I was gonna yell that the place still wasn't opening until 12:00 if i hadn't seen that it was you."
Megan smiled sadly causing the two of the most important people in her life to worry.
"What's wrong Meg?" Hoku asked.
Megan removed her sunglasses and stared into the shocked eyes of Hoku and Lou.
"What happened?" Hoku asked. "How did you get that wound?"
"Megan, who did that to your cheek," Lou said when they didn't get an answer to the previous question.
That was it, she couldn't take it anymore. She leaned into Hoku's arms, setting all the tears free. Hoku, though a bit surprised at Megan's reaction, hugged her best friend back trying to comfort her as much as she could.
"What happened girly girl?" Hoku said using one of her many nicknames for Megan.
"It's Collin," Megan whispered as she cried into Hokus shoulder. "He's beating me. . . he's beating me!"
Lou fists clenched tightly, knuckles turning white. Hoku gasped and hugged Megan even tighter. The two led Megan to the bar in the little diner and sat her down on one of the stools. Hoku sat next to her as Lou began to fix her a mug of nice coffee.
"Two creams and one sugar, just the way you like it," Lou said in an attempt to get Megan to cheer up.
Megan took the mug from Lou nodding to give her thanks and sipped a bit.
"Meg, you have to tell me what happened," Hoku said calmly but seriously. "How did this start? Why did it start?"
Megan took a deep breath and looked directly into her buddies awaiting blue eyes.
"Okay," she said in a barely audible voice and proceeded to tell them everything that happened.
From the first night when Collin had slapped her to the night when he had punched her and knocked her into the corner of the kitchen. Lou and Hoku listened intently and were definitely shocked at Collin's actions. He was so sweet and loving when they had all first met him. Lou thought he was perfect for Megan, the daughter he never had, and Hoku just thought he was absolutely adorable. Lou hadn't seen anything wrong with Collin when he had given Megan away along with her brother Chris for her wedding. Everything seemed so right. . . why did it all go wrong? Why did it all go so wrong.
"He said that he had needs that I couldn't satisfy and that Bridgette was there to do that because she was willing to take care of those needs," Megan sighed. "That asshole!"
"He is an asshole," Hoku agreed.
"I'm not that type of woman Hoku," Megan cried letting tears flow once more. "I'm not the type of woman who lets her husband beat her!"
"Your not," Lou nodded. "We tought you better than that. If that bastard doesn't realize how lucky he is to even have you then he doesn't deserve you."
"What am I going to do Papi?" Megan asked letting some of her mexican background kick in, plus it was her nickname for Lou. "I have no where to go."
"Sure you do," Hoku interjected. "The only problem is where to make you go."
"What about Gracie?" Megan said. "I am not leaving my daughter with Collin! I will most definetely not! I love her too much to leave her, not with a man who calls himself a father to my daughter! He has been more of a father too Gracie than a dead man could!"
"You're going to have to take her with you, Meg," Hoku said. "You have to get out now."
Realisation sat in. . .that's when Megan decided to act.
End of Prolouge 2
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A/N: Hey! Did you like the chapter? Im sorry that it's kind of short but i wanted to make it sort of dramatic in a way. Well happy readings!
Thanks to:
AngelBitch = Thanks for the review it made my day!
Jennifer = Cliffhangers are my thing, what can i say? LOL!
Alikitty = Thanks! I hope you enjoy the rest of the story...but it'll be long...lol
mysticalfem = Thanks for the review and bringing up my confidence in the story.
HardyzGurl1 = Thanks for liking the story so far...hope it stays that way!