TheJBomb
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- Top Gun (Movies) (13)
- Batman - All Media Types (4)
- DCU (Comics) (3)
- Mean Girls (2004) (1)
- Superman - All Media Types (1)
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She’d given him her eyes and her sadness and eight years of her time before the Duke Mitchell shaped hole in her chest bled her dry, soaking the bathroom tiles and Maverick’s white socks crimson when he’d found her.
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Sometimes Maverick falls into the same pit his mother used to.
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- Part 2 of Rosaceae
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Charlie had never quite worked out what about herself, the person she was becoming, her mother found so offensive. So unlovable.
She’d quickly stopped trying. Had moved her focus to more important things.
Because she soon realised she didn’t need to be loved when she could be respected.
Love was fickle, ephemeral, a delicate guessing game. But respect, that was absolute. If it wasn’t given willingly, it could be drawn from the reluctant depths, a forced acknowledgement of the objective truth. The truth that Charlie was too good to be ignored.
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In the dark privacy of Ice’s room, the phone on the bedside table rang with all the considerate tact of a fry pan to the temple.
Ice jolted like he’d just acquainted himself intimately with a live wire, sheets tangling around his legs as he fumbled for the phone in a sleep scrambled panic. Propped up on one elbow, he nearly dropped it twice as he brought it to his ear, heart thumping viscerally in his chest above a stomach churning like the sea.
“Who. Why.” he demanded hazily, tongue heavy and uncoordinated, mind even more so.
“So when you said anytime, did you mean anytime?”
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Three times Maverick needed his wingman.
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She’d been angry when she saw him, livid, screaming cruelty as he ran back to his bedroom to hide beneath the covers. To hide from the monster his mother sometimes became. The only monster he still believed in. The only monster that had ever hurt him.
But it wasn’t always like that. Mostly, it was quiet. Still. Curtains drawn, bedroom dark.
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Mothers' Day, twenty-five years apart.
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- Part 1 of Rosaceae
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They rolled up beside the stranger just as he was entering the spotlight glow of the next streetlight.
Or maybe not a stranger.
“Maverick?” The surprise in Sunny’s tone turned the word almost accusatory.
Maverick startled, like he hadn’t even heard them approach, which was concerning in and of itself. He whipped his head around to face them and Sunny’s stomach did something strange and unpleasant.
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Sunny and Chipper come across Maverick on the roadside.
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A sickness passed from mother to son.
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Ankle Biters Meet Bruce’s Ankles by TheJBomb
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
24 Feb 2023
Summary
A Young Bat Family worm their way into the hearts of the JLA like a bunch of adorable, crazed parasites.
Bruce’s work and home life are thrown into a metaphorical blender against his will. Professional separation is a thing of the past. The seven(ish) feral goblins he calls children couldn’t be happier.
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No one ever made me laugh as much as you. No one ever made me cry as much, either.
After drifting apart for decades, Maverick and Iceman reconnect at a wedding reception. As their once-fragile bond begins to strengthen and reform into something new, each realizes he might still need his wingman.
A slow-burn romantic dramedy.
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Slider isn't surprised to receive a call from a faintly slurring Maverick toward the end of July, even five years after Goose's passing. Like any good brother, Ron goes to pick him up. Will he be able to set Maverick straight?
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10 Jun 2026
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1989
It had taken him some time to come around to accepting their spots at teaching TOPGUN. He and Slider wanted to finish out their tour first. And then Slider suggested they go teach, and he saw it as a good opportunity to start his climb up the ranks. He has plans, and he doesn't settle for less than perfection.It's strange, though, being back at Miramar without Maverick. His presence - and Goose's, to some extent - seem to haunt the hallways.
Slider says he's moping.
He is doing no such thing.
Regardless, he'd sent Mitchell a postcard, purely to give him his new mailing address and phone number.
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2019
"Mav! No!"
Ice's breath catches in his throat, his gaze locked on the monitors in front of them. Searching for any sign of what might have happened.
"Dagger One is hit! I repeat, Dagger One is hit!"
He's frozen. He's sure his heart has stopped, and he suddenly feels as cold as his callsign implies him to be. Maverick disappears off the screen.
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Or, Ice and Mav through the years (a series of self-contained oneshots)
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- Part 2 of i'm just looking for a hand to hold
- Part 2 of you are still dangerous (a Top Gun collection)
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“What is it?”
The soft way that Ice spoke, kind and understanding, poised to listen, set off a surge of courage through Maverick’s veins.
“Don’t hit me.”
“Why would I—,” Maverick cut off the question by pressing his lips to Ice’s.
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02 Sep 2025
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spider by Bergen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
05 Nov 2023
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“Tony fucking Stark,” Clint says, and he points at the black smoke. “Did you blow up that base, you piece of shit?”
“Absolutely not. I almost got blown up with it.”
Clint is not alone. A few yards behind him, a scrawny figure halts and squints at Tony from underneath a frayed baseball cap. Sunken eyes. Dressed in a black undershirt and cargo pants.
Can’t be older than eighteen.
“What are you doing here?”
Clint jerks his head at the boy behind him. “SHIELD mission. Extracting a hostage.”
Tony glances back at the teenager, whose face has now morphed into something entirely impassive. “He seems thrilled about his rescue.”
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Tony is roped into a mission to transport a teenager to safety. But when things go south, it soon becomes more and more puzzling who the teenager is and what ‘safety’ means for him.