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Times sure have changed, Mav finds himself thinking as he watches his gorgeous husband stride across the stage to stand at the podium as he's introduced. A decade ago, this would have been a daydream. Two decades ago, a cruel joke to dangle in front of them, nearly criminal to consider. He never thought they'd manage to get here, to have this.
To be married, openly, and not have that blow up their careers. To be married, out to the public, and still get to see Ice climb for the stars - and now beyond them. To see Ice achieve the culmination of a lifetime's worth of ambition, beyond the Navy, as the new SECDEF.
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16 Aug 2026
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After decades of war, love, silence, and survival, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is still learning what it means to be seen—fully, painfully, tenderly—by the only man who ever looked past the legend. In the quiet aftermath of the mission, Iceman becomes the steady hand Pete never knew how to reach for.
Or, five times Iceman took care of Maverick, and the one time he returned the favor.
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15 Aug 2026
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"You know when we'd go out to the beach and walk for hours, past all the piers, until the sun went down?" Mav asks.
"Of course. You'd always forget to bring sandals and for weeks afterwards you'd complain that your running shoes were full of sand." Ice's voice is colored with amusement.
"The color of the sky," Mav continues, "The color of the sky when the sun went down, when the two of us were alone, together. That's what I'd paint our bathroom."
Or: Mav's determined to repaint their bathroom.
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15 Aug 2026
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So Cry Tonight, But Don't You Let Go Of My Hand (why did you let go?) by Fives
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
26 Sep 2023
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It was odd, in a detached, clinical sort of way.
Maverick Mitchell was renowned for his inability to stay still, both as a drive to push further in whatever advancement he was interested in and as a literal inability to stop fidgeting.
Yet there he stood, still as a statue.
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Admiral Tom "Iceman" Mitchell-Kazansky is laid to rest.
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14 Aug 2026
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The script is neat, slanting softly to the right. Navy ink on a crisp white envelope. It’s the official kind where the paper will be folded into three equal segments.
Bradley, it says.
It’s for him. From someone who loved him. From someone who held him in his arms from the first day he drew breath and who will not see his last. His eyes burn but no tears come, and he wishes they would because there’s a hurricane inside him and he wants to drown in it – be washed ashore, bruised and broken for all the world to see. Because now there are last times. The last time they had breakfast. The last time they flew together.
The last words his dad will ever give him.
Bookmarked by redvelvetteeth
14 Aug 2026