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Technically, for the sake of plausible deniability, it wasn’t even a date.
Technically, they were just two friends going to see a movie. Friends could go to the movies together. Friends could get a few drinks at a bar afterwards.
And hey, maybe if things went well, they’d end up back at Ice’s place for things friends couldn’t do, but that was nobody's business but their own.
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Five times it wasn’t a date and the one time it was.
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The year was 1993 when Ice saw Maverick again.
A whole new world stood before them; a new President and title came with Bradley's 11th birthday and the best and brightest in the Top Gun program. -
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Goose has been dead for a week and a half when Iceman loses his first wingman in a dogfight with six Soviet MiGs over the Sea of Okhotsk.
Goose has been dead for thirty years when Iceman loses his second wingman to a surface-to-air missile on the tail-end of a mission he's responsible for: he's sent his family on a suicide mission to destroy a uranium enrichment facility in Russia's Far East.
This is the story of those thirty years in the middle.
(Or: Tom Kazansky rises through the ranks while trying to stay a good man. If he ever was one to begin with.)
[Final edit 2/4/23. See Ch. 1 notes for major changes.]
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- Part 1 of Easier Done Than Said
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29 May 2026
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This was a hell of a fantastic read, loved how real and agonising it felt
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Maverick doesn’t regret it when he takes the hit, when the last thing he hears before he ejects is Rooster screaming his name.
But then he wakes. Not to a vast, white snowfield behind enemy lines—but to an inverted cockpit of an F-14.
And to Goose, alive and well in the seat behind him.
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Or; the time-travel fix-it in which TG:M Maverick wakes up at the start of TG (1986).
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- Part 1 of as lions
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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?"
Or—
It isn’t the size of the soulmark that matters, but that doesn’t mean Maverick isn’t still obnoxiously smug about his.