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Teammates, wingmen, Ice and Maverick, they’re all synonyms in Maverick’s head, the lines long since disappeared and mixed up, placed in the wrong boxes with the wrong labels. And now Maverick’s in Ice’s face, eerily similar to that day in the locker room, to that dreadful year, to jet wash and biting teeth and stupidity. And Ice wants to push Maverick away, to give way and make space. He doesn’t. Because it’s better him than someone else. Better than Maverick walking away with his fists clenched and teeth bared and going to Bradley demanding why.
Ice wants to grab Maverick by the shoulders and shake some sense into him. Yes, Mitchell. It was fucking obvious that Bradley was getting restless. That he needed space for all the fear and anger to go. He doesn’t really know what to say, but he opens his mouth, getting ready to deliver something. Anything. Maverick beats him to it, quick and desperate. Just in the nick of time. In the last second. It’s all so irritating.
Or: Ice and Mav argue about everything and nothing. Ouroboros.
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04 Jun 2026
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To most people, Bradley flies conservative because he lost his dad too young. That’s not wrong. It’s just also hard to take risks when Jake Seresin’s livelihood ties pretty explicitly to his.
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An Achilles heel, quasi-soulmates AU
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- Part 3 of blind devotion
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03 Jun 2026
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Bradley Bradshaw is New York City’s most underpaid, overworked associate, working for the city's biggest workaholic. The only thing more painful than the combination of those things is his equally underpaid, overworked colleague, Jake Seresin, who drives him halfway insane on a regular basis.
That’s until Jake comes up with the world’s worst idea, and somehow, Bradley’s under-slept, over-caffeinated brain decides that he should help execute it.
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The Set it Up AU.
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31 May 2026
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just to see each other (feel it all) by susiecarter for alby_mangroves
Fandoms: Top Gun (1986)
23 Jul 2023
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After Goose's death during a fight with a kaiju, Maverick left the PPDC and didn't look back. But his self-destructive bender gets interrupted by Charlie Blackwood, showing up to invite him to participate in a brand-new weapons development program, codename Top Gun: the first two-pilot jaegers to ever be deployed in the fight to defend humanity. That means Maverick's going to have to get back in a piloting rig again—and he's going to have to do it while drifting with another pilot. Drift compatibility means getting each other, understanding each other, on a level nobody else can beat; so whoever his partner is, at least he's not going to get stuck with the Iceman, who pretty much hates him.
Right?
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14 May 2026
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“You don’t have to,” Bradley says.
Jake looks at him like he’s just said something particularly stupid. “I know.”
or; all the quiet in-betweens; moments and habits and the unspoken thing between them.
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13 May 2026