All He’s Ever Wanted was Love.
When she and Kelly walked into the station and she saw the fear in Bucks eyes all she saw red. Maddie had known her father was emotionally abusive towards Buck and she had done everything in her power to make him feel loved and protective but it was hard when she wasn’t there. He was so young and her parents wouldn’t let him go to school, preferring to home school so no one in the town would know that their marriage wasn’t as perfect as it looked.
He was always so hyper and had an imagination so big, to big for her parents, it made him the less then perfect child in their eyes. No kid should have to suffer through that especially a kid with a heart as big as his. She hated to see the light in his eyes slowly fade.
Then they had sent her to that damn boarding school and they would never let her speak to him. When she had finally turned eighteen she was finally able to make her own decisions and what she wanted was to see her little brother. She skipped out on her graduation, left everything she didn’t need and got on a plane back to Pennsylvania. But when she had gotten home to Hershey Evan was gone and she was heartbroken. She did everything she could to find him but she had no help and her parents wouldn’t tell her a thing. She couldn’t go to the police as her parents held a lot of power in their home town, she was lost, she felt like she failed him. She hasn’t spoken to them since.
She had vowed then that when she found her little brother, she’d never leave him again and she would never let someone treat him like he was less then nothing again. It kills her to know that this has been going on without her knowing, she hates that she broke another promise. So when she saw that same fear she saw in Evan as a kid she snapped.
“Kelly, take him to the car, I’ll meet you out there in a minute.”
As soon as she knew Buck and Kelly were clear she looked straight at Bobby Nash and spoke in a low but solid and furious voice, “if you ever put your hands on my brother again I will make sure you regret the day you were ever born.” She stepped back and looked at the others, “you all should be ashamed of yourselves. All Evan has wanted was a to be loved and you made him feel like he was dirt, you’re worse then our parents, at least they never pretended to love him. Congratulations you all probably just lost the best thing to have ever happened to you.” She turned and walked away because she had nothing left to say.
Maddie only made it a few steps before Howie stopped her, when turned around she knew he could see the anger and tears in her eyes, “M-Maddie...”
She put her hand up to stop him, “I don’t want to hear it. You might not have done anything but you sat back and watched it happened which makes it worse. Then you had the nerve to lie to to my face about how well he was doing. Don’t call me for a while, I’ll let you know when I can, if I ever can, bare to look at you again.” She loved Howie but she loved her brother more. He was family and she’s be dammed if she turned her back on him like they did.