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Asking, Telling by rabbit-factory (LifetimeMovie) for aishii420
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
07 Jul 2024
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‘ASKING, TELLING,’ emblazoned across the front of the glossy magazine cover is the first thing that catches Maverick’s attention. When he processes the rest of the cover, bordered by that distinctive red frame, his heart freezes in his chest and his vision swims.
“Shit, Pete-” Ice’s voice is distant, second to the tunnel vision as he feels his ass hit the edge of the countertop behind him. He’s aware of the other man grabbing his shoulders, steadying him, but he can’t pull his eyes from the image on the cover.
It’s him- undeniably so. But more than that, it’s Ice.
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In the wake of the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Ice and Maverick are unwittingly outed. Ice, master tactician that he is, knows an opportunity when he sees one.
My submission for the TG Secret Santa exchange!
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01 Jul 2026
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Mechanical technopaths didn’t often make it to high ranks in the military. Pete knew that, and he didn’t much care. He wanted to fly the planes. He didn’t want to be an admiral or whatever. That sounded boring as hell. It turned out it was like that for every MT. Whatever machine they preferred to interface with, an MT couldn’t be happy, sometimes couldn’t survive without regular access to it.
There was another reason that MT’s didn’t make high ranks, though, something that they didn’t tell you, something that you learned on the very first day when they brought you into the Tech Pits for your intake screening and health assessment.
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28 Jun 2026
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Maverick's on his second whiskey when Kazansky appears beside him, the very picture of good manners and sin. If he had more energy, Maverick thinks he’d hate him for it, or maybe just give into the urge to suck him off in a bathroom stall.
“Hello Maverick.”
"Iceman."
They drink in companionable silence for the next quarter hour until—
"So what do you have against soulmates?"
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It isn’t the size of the soulmark that matters, but that doesn’t mean Maverick isn’t still obnoxiously smug about his.Bookmarked by merinowool
26 Jun 2026
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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
Bookmarked by merinowool
03 Jun 2026