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now and then I reread the manuscript by playingwiththeboysisagayanthem
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
04 Nov 2024
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“ Because he’d spent a long time avoiding the truth. But it had also been a long time since he’d lived in San Diego again and he’d been fighting back the memories for months, preferring the long drive out to the Mojave over the varied sights of the city and how all of it dragged up memories he’d sooner forget.
But avoidance had never worked for him before. It hadn’t worked when Jake asked the inevitable “what are we?” after weeks of sleeping together with soft touches and sweet kisses, it hadn’t worked after he found out Mav had pulled his papers to the Academy, it hadn’t worked when his mother was diagnosed with cancer. It only made sense that it hadn’t worked here.
He still didn’t want to think about it. And Nat had unknowingly, unintentionally, gone and made him think about it.
So now he couldn’t stop thinking about it. And that…was a problem.
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aka, after a night out with the Daggers brings up some memories he’d sooner forget, Bradley has to reckon with a part of his past he’s spent a long time running from. In turn, he falls down a rabbit hole trying to find answers and solace for what happened. All the while he falls further and further in love with Jake every day.
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- Part 2 of The Tortured Pilot's Department
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28 Nov 2025
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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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26 Nov 2025
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Walking at night around the Mojave was one of the closest things Maverick had to a supernatural experience with his feet on the ground. There was the ever-present edge of potential danger presented by his solitude in raw nature in the dark of night. And it was just enough of an edge to make the quiet more rejuvenating and the stars all that more brilliant above him. When sleep alluded him or betrayed him into memories or equally-as-horrific possibilities, Mav padded around the sand and let his loneliness and his smallness be comforted by a universe that was bigger even than the shrapnel still lodged in his heart.
Having a bunch of young aviators surrounding his bed in sickbay, squabbling over petty nothings, watching Mav fall asleep as the meds took him, was... It was embarrassing. It was heart-warming. It was...
It wasn’t walking outside in the Mojave, but Mav thought maybe it was time to trade in the lonely desert nights for something better.
Bradley and Maverick have that talk. After another series of events, including ballroom dancing lessons and a group movie night in the Mojave and a revelation or several.
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25 Nov 2025
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Several hours had passed. Still no news.
Some got up to get everyone something to eat or drink from the vending machine. Others went off again to ask questions that no one could answer. Some had even fallen asleep.
Everything changed, however, when they heard hurried footsteps echoing in the hallway, coming at full speed toward the airmen.
"Excuse me! Are Captain Mitchell and Lieutenant Bradshaw being treated here?"(Or : After the mission, the daggers are surprised to see someone else waiting for news.)
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- Part 3 of Luna's Top Gun fics (English)
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25 Nov 2025
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“Um…” Bradley’s voice wobbled. “Can you come over?”
Ice sat back down slowly.
“Buddy, is everything okay?”
There was a long pause.
“I think Uncle Mav’s sick,” Bradley said finally, in a whisper that made Ice’s chest tighten instantly, “and crying, but I am not s-sure.”
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In which 5-year-old Bradley calls Ice after Mav and him have their worst fight yet.
Emotions run high, old trauma resurfaces, confessions are made, apologies are sobbed, and tender love and care follow.Bookmarked by Strawberry_chrush304
25 Nov 2025