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Bradley has a medical scare.
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- Part 10 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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Someday comes almost two decades later. Someday looks like an impossible flight path through missile-capped mountains, and a dogfight all the way home.
But this time, this someday , they don’t start from zero after fifteen years, and they never have to.
AU: the uranium mission in the Proceedings!verse, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
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As a student at the academy, Bradley catches a terrible stomach flu while on base rotation.
It’s just his luck that Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell is also on base.
(yet another AU reconciliation fic, because you can never have too many)
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During Bradley’s commissioning ceremony, Mav has a special role to play.
(AU, Proceedings!verse).
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After a rough ejection that’s entirely too much like the one that killed his father, Bradley gets short-term amnesia and thinks he and Mav are still estranged.
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“Sir, this is your next of kin. Bradley Bradshaw. He came as soon as we called.”
"Mav."
“You’re not him,” Mav whispers, strangled. “You’re not my baby.”
There’s a John Doe in the Miramar hospital. Male, late fifties, traffic accident at an intersection, no ID.
On her last day before retirement, nurse Abby Jacobs recognizes a familiar face — and makes a call.
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- Part 8 of I sometimes start to reach / for his hand
- Part 12 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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“Hey, Bradley. Merry Christmas. I made mac and cheese, just the way you like it.”
Three Christmases, two navy pilots, one dish.
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- Part 9 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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Mav’s heart jumps again as Rooster’s plane tilts unsteadily. “Hey, hey, Lieutenant, level wings, come on—“
”What’s the point,” the reply comes dejectedly. “Maybe if I go down, I’ll be able to see my dad again. Finally tell him I’m sorry, tell him he was right and I was too fucking stupid to know better—“
The casualty notification from Darkstar’s last flight sends Bradley into a spiral across the ocean.
(AU, my version of the Top Gun ‘86 scene of Mav and Cougar, except it’s MavDad and his poor depressed baby bird in the other plane)
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A clerical error discovered weeks after the uranium mission lists Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as KIA after Darkstar’s last flight.
Unfortunately, this means his letter in case of casualty has already been sent out to his next of kin.
Maverick gets frantic phone calls from Virginia. These three things are somehow related.
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- Part 8 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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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.
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Proceedings of the Superior Court of California, Case No. 7490127: IN RE the Guardianship of Bradley S. Bradshaw by foreverstudent
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
15 Sep 2024
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“You mean–” Bradley stutters. “Y-You’re going to fight for me?”
Mav smiles softly. “With my life, sweetheart. Of course I’d fight for you. You’re all I have. I’m not going to let anyone take you away.”
In the story we know, Carole Bradshaw signs the papers that make Pete Maverick Mitchell the legal guardian of Bradley Bradshaw.
What if someone objected?
(The custody battle AU, essential for any found family.)
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“How are you so good at this?” Bradley asks out loud.
Mav just gives him a look as he continues feeding little Ethan. “I had practice.”
It’s “bring your kid to work” day on North Island. For Bradley, it’s a time to remember things he forgot–and discover some things he didn’t know–about his dad.
Coming back together after fifteen years apart is hard; but it can be soft too.
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- Part 7 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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After the mission, Cyclone and Maverick have a talk about Rooster disobeying orders.
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- Part 4 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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Maverick’s baby goose is making Captain.
There’s no way that he’s missing the ceremony.
(As long as the kid wants him there.)
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- Part 14 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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Years after the uranium mission, Bradley gets promoted to Captain. Maverick finally gets to pin his wings.
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- Part 13 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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“Dagger One, status! Status!”
He doesn’t know what he’s expecting, screaming over the radio when he’s seen with his two eyes the plane holding said radio burst into flames.
Talk to me, Dad!
The radio is deathly silent.
Maybe the road to reconciliation looks like an impossible course through a snaking mountain valley, covered by surface-to-air missiles and enemy planes waiting for you on your way out.
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- Part 3 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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“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.)
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- Part 11 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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Bradley looks up at him, those brown Bradshaw eyes trembling with something that looks like–fear? Guilt? There’s something there that Mav can’t help but want to unravel, but first things first. “I don’t–I don’t want to be a bother, Mav. I can do it–”
“Shush,” Mav says immediately, even as his own heart stops a little at that small admission. Those fifteen years have taken more than he realized, if his own kid thinks that being taken care of is being a burden.
One talk isn’t enough for fifteen years of separation.
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- Part 6 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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“Hey, Br-Bradley,” Mav tries, tripping up on his son’s name. It’s not Rooster or Lieutenant Bradshaw.
But wonder of wonders—this time, his kid turns around, something like faint and tentative hope in his eyes. Mav hopes to God that he isn’t imagining it.
Maverick and Bradley, on the carrier deck and on the teetering weighing scale of (dis)belief.
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- Part 2 of of love's austere and lonely offices
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Goose dies. Maverick decides to stay.
Fightertown isn’t a big place. People talk shit.
Luckily, the Bradshaws know how to talk back.
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- Part 1 of of love's austere and lonely offices