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Okay I would like to blame you @maddieandchimney for officially distracting me from writing what I should be writing, because now I’m writing a child AU for Maddie after reading all of your amazing stories and an idea popping into my head late last night! Someone please turn my brain off!!! 😭❤️
“Is daddy done being mad now?”
It’s with 6 words, 6 simple words that shouldn’t ever be whispered in a certain context by a child, that finally breaks Maddie. She starts sobbing on the floor of her closet, her face a mess of bruises and blood, and it’s those words that finally snap her out of the comatose state she feels like she’s been living in for years.
“It’s okay mommy, don’t cry. I’ll make it better.” She knows she should be putting on a brave face right now, if only for her son, but those next few words only make her cry harder because they shouldn’t be leaving his mouth. Her four year old is gently rubbing her back with his small hand, or at least trying to because he is rubbing her shoulder more than anything, and she knows what he is trying to do. It’s the same thing she does for him when he’s sick and they are cuddled up in bed together and she quietly hums him a song and rubs his back at his request because he says it helps him get better quicker, even though it’s really the medicine he took an hour before that does the real magic.
He changes tactics and instead wraps his tiny arms around her neck and she gladly draws him in and holds her little boy as tight as she can without hurting him.
Tonight, she messed up badly.
Maddie was on the brink of turning the car around right when the welcome to Los Angeles sign came into view. Her whole body is shaking with nerves from both leaving her abusive husband behind in Pennsylvania and going to see a brother she hasn’t seen or talked to in 3 years, all while her son happily sat in his car seat in the back, headphones on, smiling as he watched Toy Story 3 on his portable DVD player she bought him for his birthday.
Jamie is enjoying his time away from home because to a 4 year old this all feels like going on a vacation. Maddie wants to feel just as free and light as her son, but she doesn’t think she knows how to. Not when she’s almost positive Doug is close behind them, or at least he has to realize by now they are gone. It will take him some time to find her because he has no clue where Buck lives. Maddie knows though.
Her little brother is a firefighter now. Has been for almost two years. Maddie found out through a christmas postcard he sent last year with him in front of a truck that read 118. He’s smiling proudly in the photo with his arms crossed and a santa hat on, and it has been a long time since Maddie saw her brother genuinely that happy and excited.
As much as Buck hated Hershey, he didn’t want to leave his sister and Nephew behind to go traveling again. A part of him wished he could just take them with him even if he knew deep down that he couldn’t. So he stayed for maybe a month or a month and a half, up until his sister told him it was time for him to go because she could see he was getting antsy. She promised they would be okay and would keep in touch. He left again and at the beginning months of Jamie's life received videos and pictures daily. As time went on, nearing his nephew’s first birthday, even getting Maddie to pick up her phone felt hard. He went back home for Jamie's first birthday, and that was the last time he saw either of them before Maddie completely cut him off.
Buck still loves his sister even if it felt like she abandoned him, and as he finally presses the green talk button and hears the ringing, he just hopes the real reason she showed back up is because she finally left Doug. He hopes that the real reason isn’t that she finally stopped caring about him after all these years, because Buck doesn’t think he could handle that. Finally though, after what feels like too many rings later, he hears a familiar voice at the other end of the phone. “Evan?”
he gonna get you || TW: small blood
