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And i can tell just what you want (you don't want to be alone) by Shadowstorm66
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies), Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
26 Sep 2025
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Tom had understood him like nobody else ever would. He had been there; he had dreamed of it over and over. He'd seen the limp, lifeless body Maverick tried desperately to cling to even as the medevacs pulled them apart. He'd stood there in the locker room, searching for something to say, even though there was nothing.
Tom might have even cared about him, once.
But Maverick knew better now.
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Twelve years after kicking him out, Ice calls Maverick back to Top Gun one last time.
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23 Sep 2025
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Things I almost remember (once upon a december) by tinyblueberry
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
25 Sep 2025
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AU where in the first year of the naval academy, Jake and Bradley get in car crash. Bradley gets amensia and thinks he's still eighteen years old (before papers).
Jake is still unsure how the whole situation led to him being adopted by living Navy legends.
(or according to Bradley, that time when Jake stole his parents while he had amnesia.)
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22 Sep 2025
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After Goose’s death, Maverick has nowhere left to turn. Haunted by powers he barely understands, shunned by a Navy that mistrusts what it can’t control, he teeters between defiance and despair. But when Ice refuses to let him spiral away, Maverick begins a reluctant, uneven path toward reckoning with his heritage: a son of Death, raised in secrecy, now forced to face what that means for the living.
In which Maverick discovers the only thing stronger than Death’s pull is the hand that refuses to let go.
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- Part 13 of Assorted Top Gun Tales
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15 Sep 2025
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Mav squeezes his eyes shut and tries to remember.
They’d stumbled into the toilet, entangled in each other’s arms and laughing into each other’s mouths and then- and then-
There’s absolutely nothing, Mav thinks in horror as he stares at Slider snoring next to him, worse than sleeping with your ex-boyfriend’s best friend.
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An ill-fated tryst, a birthday party for his adorable godson, his ex-boyfriend and one-night fling in the same room. What can go wrong for Mav? (Answer: a lot. A lot can go wrong.)
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20 Aug 2025
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Maverick expects to wake up in the hospital room, preferably later in the day, seeing as it’s supposed to be Saturday. Key word supposed. Instead, he wakes up in the same position as the day before, drool leaking onto the page about in-flight engine fires. He stares in shock at the NATOPS, the beeping of the alarm clock fading into the background as panic rises in his throat.
No. No, this could not be happening. There had to be some other explanation for it, some other, better explanation for this other than–
“It’s like, you wake up, and suddenly you feel important; you feel a rush,” Goose had explained to him, rather drunkenly, when he had asked him about how he knew that he and Carole were soulmates. “It’s like that, every day.”
“You’re lucky, though, you only had to live through five iterations,” Maverick had remarked, nursing a beer of his own.
“I’m lucky for a lot of reasons,” His RIO had responded, his eyes drifting from Maverick and towards Carole and Bradley in their kitchen.
Fuck.
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18 Aug 2025