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1. Public Bookmark 77

   come alive by foreverstudent

   Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)  

   • General Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   15 Aug 2024

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Ron "Slider" Kerner & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Ron "Slider" Kerner
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
   • Bernie "Hondo" Coleman
   • Jake "Hangman" Seresin
   • Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
   • Reuben "Payback" Fitch
   • Javy "Coyote" Machado
   • Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia
   • Robert "Bob" Floyd
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Five Stages of Grief
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Needs A Hug
   • Parental Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Acting as Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw's Parental Figure
   • Good Parental Figure Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Father-Son Relationship
   • Trigger warning: grief-induced suicidal ideation
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Post-Movie: Top Gun Maverick
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw Needs A Hug
   • Hurt Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
   • Soft Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

   Summary

   “Captain Peter Mitchell? My name is Lieutenant John Brown. This is Irwin Smith, US Navy chaplain. We have news about your godson, Lieutenant Bradley Bradshaw. May we speak with you in private?”

   Maverick gets the news he never wanted to hear.

   (Temporary character death, now with an extra-fluffy ending for our two boys.)

   Series

   • Part 11 of of love's austere and lonely offices

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,532

   Chapters:

   4/4

   Comments:

   47

   Kudos:

   400

   Bookmarks:

   77

   Hits:

   7,674

   Bookmarked by General_Flame

   09 Nov 2025

2. Public Bookmark 45

   make it up to you by foreverstudent

   Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   04 Oct 2024

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Top Gun: Maverick Ensemble
   • Mentioned Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Role Reversal
   • Role Reversal
   • Self-Sacrifice
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw and Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Reconciliation
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Needs A Hug
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw Needs A Hug
   • Soft Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Soft Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Parental Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Acting as Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw's Parental Figure
   • Protective Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw

   Summary

   Iceman’s death pushes Maverick and Bradley to reconcile before the mission.

   This time, it’s Rooster that covers Mav’s plane with his flares.

   After all, it’s what his dad would have done.

   Series

   • Part 7 of I sometimes start to reach / for his hand

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   7,983

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   13

   Kudos:

   243

   Bookmarks:

   45

   Hits:

   3,109

   Bookmarked by General_Flame

   09 Nov 2025

3. Public Bookmark 12

   It’s Always Half And Never Whole by Wolfcry22

   Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)  

   • General Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   21 Sep 2024

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Nick "Goose" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
   • Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
   • Sickfic
   • Sick Character
   • Sick Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Needs A Hug
   • Married Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Established Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Sad Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Has PTSD
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Has Abandonment Issues
   • Protective Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
   • Soft Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
   • Gay Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
   • Minor Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Dead Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
   • Mentioned Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt
   • Caretaking
   • Angst
   • Heavy Angst
   • Angst and Feels
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Blood and Injury
   • Character Death
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Whump
   • Rain
   • Crying
   • Men Crying
   • Hoodies
   • Sharing Clothes
   • Sicktember
   • Sicktember 2024

   Summary

   Grief is a funny thing. Sometimes it just hits you. Other times one can go for a lifetime without stalling. Maverick is not one of those people.

   Part of Sicktember 2024

   Sicktember Day 7 Borrowed Hoodie

   Series

   • Part 7 of Sicktember 2024

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,362

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   1

   Kudos:

   117

   Bookmarks:

   12

   Hits:

   1,777

   Bookmarked by General_Flame

   08 Sep 2025

4. Public Bookmark 5

   It Feels Like An Eternity by SapphireBlueEyes (F1_Fanatic)

   Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   04 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ron "Slider" Kerner & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Ron "Slider" Kerner
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Mentioned)
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Between Top Gun (1986) and Top Gun: Maverick
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Needs A Hug
   • Ron "Slider" Kerner is a Good Friend

   Summary

   Sometimes, Bradley's absence hits Maverick harder.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   794

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   4

   Kudos:

   48

   Bookmarks:

   5

   Hits:

   352

   Bookmarked by General_Flame

   05 Sep 2025

5. Public Bookmark 56

   Research Ethics by raven (singlecrow)

   Fandoms: The Big Bang Theory (TV)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Gen
   • Complete Work

   20 Aug 2014

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Leonard Hofstadter/Penny
   • Penny (Big Bang Theory)
   • Leonard Hofstadter
   • Sheldon Cooper
   • Bernadette Rostenkowski
   • Amy Farrah Fowler
   • Community: trope_bingo

   Summary

   Five things Penny doesn't understand about Leonard until she's met his mother.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   793

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   21

   Kudos:

   321

   Bookmarks:

   56

   Hits:

   3,006

   Bookmarked by General_Flame

   13 Aug 2025