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Chell dreams of flying, most nights.
There’s never a destination, nor any explanation for how he’d gotten up there in the first place. It’s just him, zooming through the air, clouds and blue sky stretching out as far as the eye can see. Sometimes there’s sound — snatches of voices he doesn’t know, jargon he doesn’t understand — but most of the time it’s quiet, and he relishes in the feeling of his stomach swooping, adrenaline thrumming through his veins, all of his nerve endings alight with the sensation of freedom.
He doesn’t know why. Technically, he shouldn’t be having dreams at all: the Collective created tabs several years ago that provide every Kree man, woman, and child with a restful night’s sleep, but he never takes them. They make his brain feel fuzzy, like it doesn’t belong to him. And no matter what his doctors tell him, he can’t shake the feeling that these dreams have something to do with his past — the past that he hasn’t been able to remember since the accident. So he holds onto the dreams, hoarding them (and the elation they bring) like jewels, hard and sharp beneath his skin.
Maybe someday he’ll understand what they mean.
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The Captain Marvel AU of Top Gun.
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
07 Aug 2023
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The Third Wheel by littlebirdtold
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
23 Sep 2013
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Academy AU. In which Cadet Kirk constantly crashes Cadet Uhura's dates with Commander Spock and monopolizes his attention.
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
24 May 2023
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Graduation from TOPGUN was one thing. It was great, no question, but it was just the warm-up.
You hadn't made it, really made it, until you got hitched.
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
18 May 2023
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Before TOPGUN classes start, Maverick and Iceman meet in a gay bar. Mayhem ensues.
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01 May 2023
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"Alright, the bet is $20. You have to have carnal knowledge-- of a lady this time-- on the premises."
This is the story of the other time.
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- Part 1 of twenty dollars verse
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29 Apr 2023
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Of all the inane things Maverick’s done—of all of the rules he’s broken, and all of the ways he’s risked his neck—falling for Iceman is both the most ludicrous and the most expected.
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29 Apr 2023
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For a second, getting in Sundown's face on the tarmac, it probably showed anyway. That he was already over the edge, clinging by his fingernails. That he needed something nobody was giving him. He hoped dimly for a minute that Sundown might shove him off, shove him off or even hit him. He wanted to be hit. He wanted to bleed.
It wasn't going to be as much as Goose had bled. But it would be something.
But Sundown didn't do it. He let Maverick walk away whole. Just like Viper, just like Charlie. Just like Carole. Just like the board of inquiry.
Then, in the locker room after, there was Iceman.
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28 Apr 2023
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The Importance of Personal Connections by DancingDisaster for Birdys_and_bats
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
11 Sep 2022
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Iceman didn’t put this much work into building his career just so he could spend it putting out Maverick's many fires. Alas, given that half the personal favors owed to Ice stem from him handling another officer’s Maverick Problem of The Day and the other half are kept on reserve for smoothing over whatever nonsense Pete causes next, it’s become something of a reputation for him.
“At least I’m cute, right?”
Tom drops his head back and stares at the ceiling in dismay. Sometimes, he truly wonders why he keeps this impulsive idiot of his. “You do have that going for you.”
Or—
There are few things more universally feared in the Navy than owing Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky a favor.Series
- Part 4 of Men Like Us
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
28 Apr 2023
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Maverick doesn’t regret it when he takes the hit, when the last thing he hears before he ejects is Rooster screaming his name.
But then he wakes. Not to a vast, white snowfield behind enemy lines—but to an inverted cockpit of an F-14.
And to Goose, alive and well in the seat behind him.
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Or; the time-travel fix-it in which TG:M Maverick wakes up at the start of TG (1986).
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- Part 1 of as lions
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
25 Apr 2023
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A Modern day Merlin AU set at the University of St Andrews, featuring teetotal kickboxers, secret wizards, magnificent bodyguards of various genders, irate fairies, imprisoned dragons, crumbling gothic architecture, arrogant princes, adorable engineering students, stolen gold, magical doorways, attempted assassination, drunken students, shaving foam fights, embarrassing mornings after, The Hammer Dance, duty, responsibility, friendship and true love...
This story was inspired by the thought of Prince William of Wales (and indeed the current Max von Hapsburg) studying at the University of St Andrews; it is also, as the title suggests, at least a little inspired by the operetta 'The Student Prince'.
Grateful thanks to Lamardeuse and DarkEmeralds for Beta and cheerleading!
::2019 note: This story was written BEFORE the TV show introduced the character of Gwaine. It's not that I can't spell, or that I'm perversely writing him out of character - I incorporated other characters from Arthurian legend (Kay, Gawain etc) into my story, and lacking prophetic abilities, my versions naturally don't mesh with the versions subsequently introduced into the show.::
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- Part 1 of The student prince
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
24 Mar 2023
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Napoleon was about to launch into his carefully scripted spiel of punctuated disdain when he hesitated, hands still cupped over the delicate little Soviet-made devices that he had found in his room. There was a faint but unmistakable sensation crawling under his skin, a prickling, restless buzz, like getting light-headed off good champagne, and Napoleon narrowed his eyes, script forgotten, studying an increasingly irritated-looking Illya with a new light.
Illya, on the other hand, had folded his arms. His bowtie looked ridiculous with his suit, highlighting the far too long expanse between his shirt collar and belly, and he was starting to scowl. “What?” he demanded again, a flat curl of annoyance making his tone harsh, and Napoleon nearly flinched instinctively back before all the enforced training kicked in.
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11 Feb 2023
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“Yes, Lord Stark has come to town to help his mother bring out his eldest sister,” Tyrion said, pouring Jaime a glass of wine. “I understand he also plans to take his seat in the House of the Law. His uncle Edmure has been gathering time for him to give his maiden speech.”
“Yes, yes,” Jaime said irritably. “That’s not what matters and you know it. Well?”
Tyrion sighed. “He's nineteen, well-favored, and as far as I know, neither demented nor stupid. And not a hint of a betrothal. Sorry.”
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- Part 19 of Game of Thrones works
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
15 Jan 2023
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Notting Hill AU, written for the i_k prompt, "I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." Arthur owns a quirky hipster science bookstore. Eames is a world-famous mega-celebrity.
Clearly this calls for a meet-cute.
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- Part 8 of Author's faves
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18 Oct 2022
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Papers in the Roadside by kianspo
Fandoms: Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
30 Oct 2011
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Non-Starfleet AU. Jim owns a small bar in Chicago, keeps on picking up strays and taking care of everyone no matter how hard it makes his own life. Spock is a journalist writing feature articles for the Chicago Tribune; he depicts the world with uncanny skill, but hides more than one personal drama and is possibly under surveillance from the Vulcan royal family. They meet by accident just before their lives start to spin out of control.
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05 Oct 2022
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Tea and No Sympathy by who_la_hoop for disapparater
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Dec 2014
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It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter steps in and ruins it all, just like always. At first, though, the time loop seems liberating. For the first time in his life, he can do anything, say anything, be anything, without consequence. But the more Draco repeats the day, the more he realises the uncomfortable truth: he's falling head over heels for the speccy git. And suddenly, the time loop feels like a trap. For how can he ever get Harry to love him back when time is, quite literally, against him?
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23 Aug 2022
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It shouldn't have been that hard to get good help.
For the sga_flashfic Harlequin challenge.
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09 Aug 2022
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Geralt had no damn idea what to do with a vineyard when Anna Henrietta gave him Corvo Bianco, but he figured it couldn’t be that bad.
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- Part 6 of Witcher works
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30 Jul 2022
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Emhyr was looking at him for once, with a strange expression. “I have misjudged you,” he said, sounding irritated actually: how dare Geralt surprise him.
“I get that a lot,” Geralt said.
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- Part 1 of Witcher works
- Part 4 of Astolat Sampler
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30 Jul 2022
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Morgana turned away from the high, barred window and rubbed her arms, chilled and bare. Arthur was sitting in the dirty straw at the very limit of his chains, which kept him a few inches too far away to touch Merlin's limp body. Outside they were putting up the stake.
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- Part 17 of Merlin works
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
23 Jun 2022
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Sherlock Holmes is a pitcher and John Watson is a catcher. No, no, no, it's a baseball AU.
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- Part 1 of Baseball
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Bookmarked by ReadingnWriting (JustWantToBeMe)
14 Jun 2022