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   The Captain’s Wings by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows

   Fandoms: Top Gun: Maverick (2020), Top Gun (1986)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   11 Apr 2026

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   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Bernie "Hondo" Coleman & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Robert "Bob" Floyd & Jake "Hangman" Seresin & Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
   • Reuben "Payback" Fitch & Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia
   • Pete “Maverick” Mitchell & Everyone
   • Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw & Everyone
   • Penny Benjamin/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
   • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
   • Bernie "Hondo" Coleman
   • Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
   • Jake "Hangman" Seresin
   • Reuben "Payback" Fitch
   • Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia
   • Robert "Bob" Floyd
   • Beau "Cyclone" Simpson
   • Solomon "Warlock" Bates
   • Penny Benjamin
   • Amelia Benjamin
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • maverick needs a hug
   • rooster needs a hug
   • Everyone Needs A Hug
   • Long-suffering Mom Friend Hondo
   • Dad!Mav
   • Maverick has Big Dad Energy
   • The Admirals just have Big Annoyed Energy
   • rated for language
   • no beta we die like goose

   Summary

   
   Maverick really should have known better than to promise to settle things with Rooster after the mission and still expect them all to come through unscathed. 

   Maverick’s second ejection in a month didn’t leave him quite as uninjured as he’d thought it had, and it’s Rooster that has to try to pick up the pieces. Luckily he has a whole aircraft carrier of people to pull him through. 

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