Forrest Bondurant wasn't always so infamously feared. There was a time when Forrest was just another country boy working his daddy's farm and courting a sweet girl named Ellie May. Then the Spanish Lady Flu swept through, killing half of Forrest's family and bringing the Prohibition Era with it. That's when things began to change and Forrest Bondurant became a man worth a legend.

Maggie Beauford was never one to drown in her sorrows, Forrest Bondurant was never one to share or dwell on his. When they meet, they find something that they didn't know they were missing; they find each other. But Maggie starts drowning, and Forrest finds that he can't breathe or keep his head above water without her. Horrors from the past haunt them. Forrest/Maggie.

Pleasant summer over, and all the summer flowers, the red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. With Rakes' war over things come to a calm but there's always a calm before the storm. When the ghosts of the past return to haunt you, the darkness howls, and there are more bodies to bury, the autumn breeze can cool you but who will heal you? Forrest and Maggie, set after shoot-out.

Returning home after being away for fifteen years, Rosalie Rakes nee Thomas is reacquainted with a certain Bondurant. Yet as Forrest and Rose try to find common ground between themselves again, neither could imagine the lengths that her husband will go to keep his wife by his side... Forrest/OC, formerly titled, "Fire in the Blood"

A companion piece to A Man Worth a Legend in which Howard and Ellie May squabble; Everett gets faslely accused of smoking; and Forrest enjoys his first cigar. (This is just a little one-shot I couldn't fit into the original story. Takes place between Chapters 22 and 25.) Enjoy! Forrest/OC COMPLETE!

She had left with her family at the age of 19 to go to New york . most of her family went back home . Not her she stayed . When asked to do a story on the Bondurant Boys , she says no . In fear of losing her job she goes only to find the man she once loved so dearly was married . A tragedy breaks the middle man and Rebecca is summoned home once more to fix him.

Everything changed after that night; for the good and the bad. Lilibelle Rossetti was just a girl trying to keep out of trouble in Franklin County. But catching the eye of Forrest Bondurant didn't help much. Especially with gangsters after her family. But you best know by now that a Bondurant don't roll over for nobody. Forrest/OC.

Kait MacMahon had moved to the city to find any surviving members of her family. However, with her Cherokee looks and country raising, she quickly finds she does not belong in this new world. So after a few years of saving money, she is able to move back South, to Franklin County. She is returning for peace, and to heal old wounds. But what she finds, is a story of a lifetime.

In his eyes she had always been the little girl that ran around with his kid brother.Now Val O'Rourke is back and she's determined to show Forrest Bondurant that she's no longer that little girl.But it'll take a lot of convincing cuz those Bondurant boys are a stubborn bunch. Forrest/OC

Forrest realizes the scar on Maggie's ribs has a much more sinister origin than she told him. Takes place during the scene at the end of the movie, with a flashback to the night she came to his room.

Saw Lawless and I can't get these two out of my head. So this is just some Forrest and Maggie fluff.

Bertha falls in love with Jack, in four vignettes.

he is not a whole Forrest, he is a fraction of a Forrest and it baffles him/ three times Maggie leaves Forrest behind, and the world keeps on going even though it has no right to.

Six years after leaving Franklin County, Elena returns to her family and friends but she is not the naive girl who once left years ago. She yearns to pick up the pieces and continue her close friendship with Forest Bondurant but she learns that sometimes coming back is the hardest part. Forrest/OC

"Emmy so often seemed merely a shadow that flitted across the walls of their father's home." There are a few pages missing from the legend of the Bondurant boys; there's more to the story of their family's battle with the law than anyone really knows." This is my version of the story of the only surviving female Bondurant.

but she wants to listen too/ Maggie speaks, Forrest doesn't, and she is so, so tired.

Lucy Bondurant loved her husband, Howard, dearly; but ever since the war neither he or his money made it passed the bar. She wouldn't have survived if not for Forrest. Lucy knew she had to be loyal to her husband, but she found herself wishing she would wake up and be a Bondurant under a different circumstance: for family bonds run deep at The County Line.

"You were supposed to be there" Forrest croaked, his voice broken and rough like sandpaper. His eyes never left Howard's.