Hell yeah, cowboy!

Thing is the UST is now through the roof, but they're completely oblivious to it, as well as how the other may or may not feel. However they both pretend to be a little more drunk than they are, using alcohol as an excuse to say things, all while being pretty much sober.

So they're all-out flirting with each other, both of them thinking the other is QUITE DRUNK to be responding this way, and it just kind of spirals into them dancing together, then finding a quiet spot and making out. Then agreeing to go back to a hotel room (and each of them swinging wildly between WANT and GUILT and mentally trying to talk themselves both into and out of it simultaneously...) Until:

"Fuck, wish you didn't have to be drunk to want to fuck me..."

-“Copacabana”

-“Oops! I Did It Again”

-“Man I Feel Like a Woman”

-“Espresso”

-“The Scooby-Doo Theme Song”

-“Crush On You”

-“I’m a Believer”

-“Popular”

-“The Devil Went Down to Georgia”

-“Take Me Home, Country Roads”

and once, during a “Christmas in July” party…

-“Jingle Bells (Jingle Cats version”

Thus, he occasionally appears wherever Slider is to ask, "What's up his ass? Who pissed him off now?"

Only for Slider to tell him, "He's not angry, he's just dehydrated."

And that's how they operate. If Mav tries to approach Ice and Slider tugs him back by his collar, as impulsive as Maverick is, he takes the fucking hint. There is only one man who can handle Tom Kazanksy's moods and their relationship isn't far along enough for it to be him yet.

-Jennifer Connolly, because she played Tom's character's love interest in Top Gun: Maverick.

GOD imagine Jake retires and is finally able to grow out his hair and not have to shave so frequently, and maybe even gaining more muscle.

and Bradley, poor, lovestruck Bradley, is always thrown a curveball in the shape of Hot as Balls Jake Seresin. This man is a 2star Admiral, he eats pipsqueak sailors for breakfast and puts his foot down in meetings with other highly ranked people but the second he walks into the Hard Deck and sees this Jake????

He's on his knees, a man devout to the god that is Hangman

Jake and Bradley are very codependent. They do everything together. Bradley from not having his support system for 15 years and Jake is just Jake.

- Bradley taking a bath and Jake is sitting on the toilet seat talking to him.

- Jake cooking in the kitchen and Bradley sitting on the counter

- Bradley working on the Bronco and Jake handing him tools

-Jake working on the taxes and Bradley sitting next to him for moral support

- Bradley sitting on Jake’s lap any chance he gets