Pete Madison

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional.
== Biography ==
=== Early Years ===
Pete Madison is a former Marine sniper, who returned home after 10 years in Afghanistan. 
=== Work ===
Pete Madison works as security for the same events company as Kevin Tighe.
=== Eyewitness News ===
==== Book 1: Stories We Tell ====
Pete and Kevin Tighe watch EWN's broadcast of the protest march on Friday May 29, and stay up in case EWN need backup. They want to talk to Ryan about safety precautions for the reporters.
On Tuesday June 2, 2020 Kevin Tighe and Pete arrive at EWN with a childproof gate for the front counter in the newsroom. Pete installs the gate while Kevin logs into the EWN computers and installs an app for it. Before leaving, Pete gives Cage Washington his own personal gas mask, black cap, balaclava, gloves and black vest and shows him how to wear them. Pete isn't a PSU alumnus, but feels as protective toward EWN as Kevin does.
Kevin, Pete and Claire wait up into the early hours of the next morning for Ryan to return home after Cage is shot with a non-lethal bullet. Both Corey and Cage called them to let them know Cage had no permanent injury. Ryan thinks he's a coward, but Pete says that he always thought it was harder to be the commander and send troops into battle than it was to be part of the troops. A soldier has a mission, someone to tell him what to do, and he does it. But the commander knows that to accomplish the mission he has to put his people at risk. It's the toughest job there is. Pete says he would sign up and work for Ryan anytime.
==== Book 3: Don't Go ====
After Ryan Matthews is nearly run off the road by Ian Black on his way down from OHSU on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, he calls Pete Madison to arrange backup. When Ian Black accosts Ryan outside the EWN building that evening, Pete is sitting on the roof of a nearby apartment building with a long range rifle. He leaves the scene after Ryan waves him off.
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Pete is hired as a security consultant by EWN, following the shooting attempts by Randy Daily and the lack of trust in Campus Security.
== Personality ==
Pete doesn't talk about his feelings much - doesn't talk much at all, actually.
== Relationships ==
=== Claire ===
Pete has never understood what Claire gets out of BDSM, he just accepts there's something. They give each other space. 
==== Book 1: Stories We Tell ====
After Ryan returns to the Loft in the early hours of Saturday May 30, 2020 and talks to Kevin Tighe, Pete talks to him about Claire. Pete wants Ryan to know that if Claire were to submit with Ryan in a scene, he would be OK with it. Pete knows she needs something he's not able to give. He can see it's a matter of need, not want. Ryan shows Pete the whip scars on his own back, and tries to explain the pleasure-pain mix in BDSM, and that he can't be of help to Claire, as he's not capable of providing the sadism that Claire craves. Ryan thinks that if Pete and Claire can't make it through COVID together, Pete won't want to live.
== Residence ==
=== The Loft ===
When Pete's roommates booted him from his previous apartment because his nightmares were too disturbing, Kevin Tighe brought Pete to the Loft to live. He was living there in 2016 when Ryan Matthews moved in, and probably always will.
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