Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Top Gun (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell & Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Robert "Bob" Floyd & Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Reuben "Payback" Fitch & Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, Javy "Coyote" Machado & Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Bernie "Hondo" Coleman & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell & Everyone, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Ron "Slider" Kerner & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Ron "Slider" Kerner & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
Characters: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Robert "Bob" Floyd, Reuben "Payback" Fitch, Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, Javy "Coyote" Machado, Bernie "Hondo" Coleman, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Ron "Slider" Kerner
Additional Tags: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a Little Shit, Kid!Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, deaging, Protective Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Crack, Past Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Needs A Hug, Protective Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Protective Ron "Slider" Kerner, The Dagger Squad, no beta we die like goose, Maverick and his gaggle of dagger ducklings, ducklings that are of course ready and willing to throw down for their old man
Summary:
For the few weeks they’ve known him, it’s clear that Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell is a force of nature that does not tire and does not rest. That is the fact they have carved into their bones from the instant he started flying through the air as though the sky itself were his home, and made all the more true when he brought them back alive against all odds.
So it’s really fucking weird when Hondo opens their classroom door with Cyclone and Warlock dogging his step, and a kid that Bradley knows straight from his dad’s old photo album, walks in like life had handed them all the most interesting, unneeded batch of lemons they didn’t ask for.
He clears his throat. “This may be a lot to take in but it’s really me, I’m Maverick-- and no, don’t ask how this happened ‘cause I have no fucking idea.”