maybe i'll be a better man (by the time you come to your senses)

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2025-01-12
Series Updated:
2025-06-17
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Tom "Redfly" Davis focused / Will "Ironhead" Miller/Tom "Redfly" Davis of Triple Frontier (2019)

AU - Canon Divergent | Tom "Redfly" Davis' life was slowly starting to unravel, though you'd never know from the outside. The future was uncertain: did he choose a marriage (that's been failing for longer than he cared to admit), or his career (the closest thing he views to a "higher calling" for himself)? All while years of denial, neglect, and a lot of untreated childhood trauma was finally taking its toll.

His subordinate, teammate, and best friend Will Miller calls him out on his bullshit, as he always does (because really, he's kind of always been the only one who could get away with it). He starts making him face the harsh truths he'd been trying so desperately to shove down into a dark, little pit inside of himself.

Then, the last crack that finally breaks the dam comes: Will is shot.

After that, nothing stays the same. If he thought everything was a mess before, he didn't know the meaning of the word. Yet despite the turbulence, maybe it's also the chance to find the right path forward.

Notes:

so it started as an ask prompt on tumblr, which was meant to be a drabble, which of course turned into a 3.6k fic and me accidentally starting to ship will and tom. i haven't had a good rare pare in ages lol. these two are quickly forming a little soft spot in my heart~

This is going to follow a whole separate series of events, timeline, et cetera from my other Triple Frontier fics.

there are some fics which can act as both a sort of "universal" moment for a few series, as for my personal headcanons, they can just happen regardless. so thats why you may see some fics in multiple series. these fics will be noted to be universal constants in their notes.

any including will &; ben, should be taken at face value and not assumed that the fic is inherently involving or leading up to a romantic/sexual ship between them; even if they are also in series where will & ben are shipped in a romantic/sexual nature! please take them at face value as i present them, they are just moments in time which could have/would have happened regardless.

my tumblr tag for the MIBABM series

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