Top gun 50s/early 60s AU but it's also a boarding school AU.
There's a separate boys and girls school but they kind of interlink, they do dances together and stuff so think like the two schools in Heartstopper and how they're close by and do social stuff together
Carole is a scholarship student, she's a bookworm who has those big glasses and a gap toothed smile. Her roommate is Penny, a nepotism baby with a dad who got offered the role of an Admiral after his excellence as a Captain in The War, she's very sporty and more butch, or as much as she can be in the late 50s/early 60s, as she has 4 brothers.
Carole's friends with the other scholarship kid, Charlotte Blackwood, who's detemined to make it into college even if her parents really don't think that's a woman's place. She's got a weekend job in town and saves all her money up for fancy clothes, bright red lipstick, satin dresses with fur trims and does her hair like Marilyn Monroe. Her roommate is one, Elizabeth Corday, a british student who just wants to be a surgeon like her dad
In the boy's school we have Nick Bradshaw and his cousin, Mark Greene, both kids with dad's in the military. Goose is called that for how he sneaked a goose into the girls dorms during a prank war.
He's best friends with Pete Mitchell, sent to the school by an aunt who just wants him out of the way like everyone. Last year he dormed with goose but this year, let's say their junior year so 16-17, he's been paired with Tom Kazansky, determined to be an Admiral just like his dad.
But Goose realises he not only likes rock and roll, learning to play a lot of songs on the piano much to the teacher's dismay, but also boys. One boy in particular, the Captain of the Football team, Ron Kerner
Ron's a scholarship kid too, he's serious about getting out of his shitty life any way possible and does not have time for dating
Goose goes to the school library with his friend Carole, and finds out that she has a crush on her roommate Penny and, to make it even more taboo for them, her friend Charlie as well
And when his cousin Mark makes the assumption that he's dating her, he gets the brilliant idea to fake their relationship, try to set up their crushes with each other, Charlie with Pete and Penny and Ron, secretly date them behind the scenes, using their double dates as a cover up to go off with their crushes
The only problem is, they have to do this without outing themselves and maybe getting themselves kicked out to conversion therapy *sad 50s noises*
And to add another layer, Penny and Charlie don't even like each other because they're fighting over Pete
Charlie dated him last year, as a cover up and in the poor hope that it will get rid of her outrageous crush on Carole, but showed up after the summer to see him sharing spit with Penny
So they hate each other
But both love Carole
And Carole loves both of them
:(
When hanging out on the weekend, Penny and Carole find themselves alone, one thing leads to another and they end up kissing
Carole still loves Charlie too, and Penny's not giving up her cover with Pete now
At a school dance, Goose, sad that he's still not got closer to Ron, offers her a solution, set Charlie up with Ron, two career focused people who both have an image to up keep
Cue typical rom-com shenanigans, also featuring Carole and Penny cuddling for warmth in winter, Goose watching Ron train and going fully red when he walks over and smiles, all covered in sweat
Eventually, Goose kisses Ron, he teaches him a bit of piano and tries to show him that he can still have his golden future and have fun at the same time
Also Icemav get together in the background
Eventually we get a grease like situation in terms of friendship, but charenrole, sloose and icemav together secretly
Also Mark and Elizabeth get together too, but that's really in the background, just got to sprinkle in my love for ER wherever I can lol
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This is an introduction post for the blog. If anyone saw, I (@bearsinpotatosacks ) did a poll on my blog about who would be interested in an event like this and specifically about what. After getting an idea about what people are interested in, I started to plan this event.
This event is to celebrate the women of Top Gun, from Phoenix all the way down to Amelia, and the wonderful wlw relationships they're in, like halix, charole and the like. It's not surprising that a franchise like Top Gun, which is all about macho men saving the day and flying planes yeah (!), leaves its women behind. I'm not doing this to be angry at anything or anyone, I love Top Gun and the planes and the macho volleyball scene that's so macho it's not macho, I just to highlight the things more overlooked things I love about Top Gun too.
I'll update with the schedule and dates soon, I just wanted to introduce myself and what this will be about.
Thank you for reading and I hope you're as excited as I am!
If I made a women/wlw centric top gun challenge, which appeals to you more?
Top Gun Women's Week
Top Gun WLW Week
A combination of the two
Voting ended onJun 12, 2024
(That’s if anyone is at all lol. Who would've thought that a film franchise about the navy would've had enough female characters to count on one hand? (/s))
Deciding that Carole and Charlie should kiss. Goose dies or he lives but he and Carole divorce (because of a wider plot where he wins top gun, becomes an instructor but falls for Slider and either cheats on her or just divorces her because he doesn't love her).
She ends up taking up a job in the Library of Congress in DC, because she wants a new start but also because there's good benefits. Charlie bumps into her one day while at work and they reconnect. They become friends, go for coffee and Charlie shows her the sights.
One thing leads to another, however, Carole finds out why Charlie left Maverick behind after Goose’s accident, she realised she’s a lesbian. Carole jokes that Mav turned her off men and reveals to her how her marriage fell apart. They make a pact "fuck navy men, but not literally" and end up kissing.
They take it slow, Carole’s never dated a woman before and has a little bit of apprehension because she’s heavily Christian. Goose picks Bradley up with Slider, Mav and Ice for scout camp and is surprised to see Charlie saying goodbye and telling Bradley they'll get him a souvenir from France. Carole’s almost showing Charlie off, like she’s trying to show him she can run off with someone they both know as well. Charlie just stares daggers at him while Goose puts the pieces that Carole’s new thing is Charlie Blackwood and not some guy named Charlie. He's also surprised that his jealousy over someone else getting to raise his kid doesn't go away
Things work out well for them. Charlie starts smiling at work more, Carole mentions Charlie to the other parents but never says "she" or "her" so everyone assumes it's a guy until a friend drops Bradley off from a sleepover, gets invited in for coffee and sees the now infamous Charlie in Carole’s robe.
News spreads, Carole brings Charlie to a bbq after the end of the kids' little league season and educate a lot of the people there about lesbianism, and how Carole is bisexual, not a lesbian.
When Bradley’s arranging a birthday sleepover however, and this is when Carole and Charlie have moved in together, one of the kid's isn't allowed to come. Charlie finds this out when picking Bradley up in her porsche, she also finds out that the reason why is because they don't want him being brainwashed. She confronts the mum, being all nice in that corporate "I hate you but I can't say it" way until the mum caves from being confronted and lets the kid go.
Charlie goes on a conference to China for a while and thinks of her girl the whole time. She even brings her back a fancy robe
Starting my "If Mav gets a harem of aviators then Carole gets a harem of beautiful women" agenda with a college au
Modern AU
Carole went to a Catholic school in Texas
She goes to uni in California to study literature and her roommate is one Charlotte Blackwood
Charlie's doing a major in Physics and a minor in Political Science and is one of those students who is always put together, even for the earliest lectures
She has a faculty job, maybe organising events or something
Carole meets Goose, called that for his laugh, through Charlie because he's also studying physics, they start dating
Charlie starts dating Pete, studying Engineering
Ron gets brought in because he's a childhood friend of Goose, Tom is brought in through Carole's book club
Pete starts falling for Tom, Goose falls for Pete, and Carole falls for Charlie
Goose and Carole break up and go for their respective crushes
Pete, now dating Goose and openly having a crush on Tom too, they hook up with aromantic Ron sometimes too, also starts dating Penny
Carole and Charlie give it a go, they both also find one Penelope Benjamin attractive and start to organise their dates to be at the bar
But Pete breaks her heart and Carole's terrified that Penny, not a student, will just go home without anything there to hold her
Charlie calms her down, they go to Penny together and after some talking, they arrange a date, maybe after some healing time, and the crew is almost all together
Pete's break up with Penny awakens him to confess his feelings to Tom
Charlie wears lacey lingerie sets every day and Carole and Penny love it
She also loves to leave red lipstick marks on them both
Sarah visits, either she's at another uni or is working somewhere else, she's an ace lesbian (and Tom's sister) and loves having non-sexual flings with the girls when she's in town
They all gets apartments together, apart from Ron, he enjoys sex and general hang outs with the boys but makes sure there is a boundary for what he's comfortable with
Carole goes on to do a masters and becomes a librarian, Penny stays on at the bar, Charlie gets some government job, Goose does some teacher training and becomes a physics teacher and I'm not sure what the others do but that's all I really have
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Late one night, Charlie has a realisation. Carole’s not so happy it requires her to wake up.
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Written for @topgunwomensweek and is set in the same universe as my fic Something That Does Right By You on AO3
“Wake up,” Charlie turned over and shook Carole in the bed next to her. “Carole, wake up.”
She didn’t move. She didn’t even open her eyes, only let out a breathy grunt and pulled the covers further over her in some half-ditched revenge.
“Come on, Carole, this is important.”
“My sleep is important.” Her words were muffled by the layers of sheets blocking her out from her chilly apartment.
“Baby, please.”
With a huff, she turned over and pulled off her sleeping mask. She’d always worn one after her night shifts to block out the sunlight, and had carried over the habit to nighttime too. Charlie had told her to invest in thicker curtains, but she hadn’t listened.
“What?” She drew out the word and she turned over and squinted at her in the dark bedroom.
“I need my fifty dollars back.”
Instead of answering, she pulled her mask back over her eyes and threw herself back onto her side of the bed.
“That’s not important, right now.”
“I know it sounds stupid but there’s more to it than that.”
She didn’t make any effort to move. Charlie sighed and crawled her way toward her under the covers. She wasn’t best pleased when she slid her mask off again and climbed on top of her.
“What is it? I have work in a few hours, Charl, and I need to sleep.”
“Remember when we first met?”
It took a second, sleep was still fogging up her brain. “Yeah.”
“And do you remember what you said to me? About if I liked guys?”
“To give me fifty dollars, yeah?”
“And if I like girls then-”
“Your number, I was there Charlie.” Carole rolled her eyes.
“Well, I need the fifty dollars back.”
She frowned at her, her brow furrowed in thought before her eyes widened. That familiar grin of hers grew as Charlie tangled their hands together.
“You don’t like guys anymore?”
“No, Carole, I don’t think I ever have.”
— — —
TWO YEARS PRIOR
Carole hated night shifts just as much as anyone else. She’d tried to get it put in her contract that she couldn’t do them, being a single mother and all, but the nurse manager didn’t care, and signed her to a four-on four-off shift pattern. Bradley was nine now, so more aware of what work required of her, not as vulnerable as a baby, but still a child that couldn’t be left on his own.
The money at this place was good, however, better than anything she’d gotten in Texas. The people didn’t seem to be as friendly, she’d never lived in a big city, especially not the Capital City, so seeing how much people disregarded each other shook her. Someone could shove you walking by and they wouldn’t even turn around to apologise. It scared her to think that Bradley was growing up in such a cold environment, she’d have to teach him some southern values.
Wind bit her as she crossed the street and headed for Metro. She’d had to sell her car to afford the deposit on the apartment, her mother didn’t see why this move was such a good thing if she had to sell her car just to get there. Texas was a state meant for cars, though, her mother also didn’t understand why people would take a bus.
She did the zip up on her jacket just as a woman knocked into her shoulder, sending her stumbling to the edge of the sidewalk. This was just what she meant. She doubted the woman had even noticed, no one else had even looked up from their day to see if she was okay.
With how fatigued her body felt, how liquified her mind was, she didn’t have the patience to deal with idiots like this. Her feet were marching her before she could second guess herself. Her sister had always said she looked cute when she was angry, so she never took her seriously, well she hoped her face was as mad as she felt, because she was moments away from setting on fire when she saw the woman collapse to the ground.
A few people around her crowded around her unmoving form. Carole ran to her and lent down.
“It’s okay, I’m a nurse.” She said.
She found her pulse point on her neck with ease as she watched for breathing. When her chest rose, and she felt a thready pulse lightly beating under her fingertips, she let herself exhale. Gently, she moved her head to one side and began to move her to the recovery position, this woman was lucky enough to pass out in front of the hospital, it’s like she’d planned it.
“Hey, ma’am, can you hear me?” She could hear the southern twang in her voice more each day she’d been here. “I’m Carole, I’m a nurse, can you hear me?”
One of the bystanders had found some form of ID in her purse. “Her name’s Charlotte Blackwood. Looks like she works with the Navy.”
Carole glanced at the ID. Seriousness, a sense of confidence and ease exuded from the photo. Looking back at the woman lying next to her, she saw little comparison.
“Charlotte? Can you hear me?” She shook her slightly then turned to the group forming around her. “I need one of you to go into the ER of that hospital and tell me I’ve got a woman in her mid-thirties that’s collapsed.”
A man sprinted down the road and across the walkway. Cars beeped as he ran with disregard to his wellbeing and disappeared into the looming grey building she’d just emerged from.
“Charlotte, someone’s gone to get help, alright?”
Much to her surprise, she got an answer. “Charlie.”
The woman, Charlie, rolled her head toward the sky and pushed herself up. “Everyone calls me Charlie.”
Carole reached into her bag and gave her the bottle of water that was more than a little room temperature. She watched her drink in such a way that her dazzling red lipstick didn’t smudge the bottle. The water made them glisten, her hair was hardly dishevelled and-
No. No. She was not attracted to this woman she’d just met. No, she wasn’t.
“Well, Charlie, I’m Carole, I’m a nurse at that hospital over there.” She pointed toward it. “The hospital we’re going to get you checked out at.”
She opened her eyes, startled. “No. I have to get to work.”
“Oh, you’re going to be of much use to the Navy, or whoever you work for, if you collapsed on your way to work? If this is how you are before work, how are you going to be during, with all the stress?”
She held up her hands, her manicured hands, and smiled. “I appreciate the concern but I assure you I’m fine.”
“No you ain’t.”
“Yes I am, I’ll even tell my boss to take it easy on me if it makes you feel better.”
“What would make me feel better was if you came with me to get you checked out.” She said. “How do I know you’re not diabetic going hypoglycemic? Or you’ve got a fatal heart condition, or have some kind of epilepsy?”
Charlie didn’t have an answer for that. She resolved to staring at her like a problem that wouldn’t go away. To prove her point, she stood up, not taking any of the hands outstretched to her as she rose to her sharp pointed heels.
“I assure you, I’m fine.”
Carole saw how she swayed on her feet and put her arm under her’s to support her. “Wanna bet?”
— — —
“Hey, Carole, I thought you just got off?” Marty called from the other side of the desk.
“Yeah, but someone-” she tilted her head to Charlie leaning on her as they walked. “Decided to collapse just as I was leaving. So I need someone to look her over for me.”
Marty got up from his chair where he was nose deep in charts. Some of her shifts were down in the paediatrics department of the ER, so she was familiar with all the fatigued faces that cropped up. Bradley spent a lot of time here when her shift ran over, it always did as a nurse.
“Sit her down here,” he said, patting the bed in the slightly crowded area. “You said she collapsed?”
Carole nodded and reached for the blood pressure cuff as he passed it to her. “Yeah, she bumped into me, I turned around and she was passed out on the floor.”
Marty glanced at Charlie, she rolled her eyes.
“You make it sound like I had a heart attack, I was out for a minute or two, maybe I didn’t have any breakfast, but it’s nothing to worry about.” She said.
“We’ll be the decider of that thank you.” He said, then turned to Carole. “We can take this from here, Carole, you just got off and we're backed up.”
She shook her head. “If you don't mind, I'd like to see this one through, we've got a bet going.”
Marty handed her the blood pressure cuff as he clicked his pen. He rolled through the question as she rolled her eyes to most of them. No she wasn't on any medication, her dad had high blood pressure but her family was healthy otherwise, she'd been feeling mostly fine as of late.
“Are you sure?” Carole reiterated.
“I think I'd know if I wasn't fine.”
“You're the one who collapsed.”
Charlie sighed. “Maybe I've been having more headaches, and I've been tired lately but that comes with my job, it's stressful.”
Carole finished taking her blood pressure. “87 over 42, that's pretty low.”
She sagged where she sat. Under the fluorescent lighting, her skin appeared washed out. Purple bags hid under a layer of professional makeup. If she could be prescribed a thousand year nap, even that wouldn’t work against how tired she looked.
Marty turned to Carole. “I want a full set of bloods done.”
“Bloods?” Charlie's eyes went from her to Marty. “I don't do needles.”
She went to get up but Carole placed a careful hand on her wrist. Her big eyes softened on her as she tentatively sat back down again.
“When you're a patient at this hospital, you do.”
Charlie gulped. “Can you make it not hurt?”
“As best I can.”
— — —
A few hours, and a lot of phone calls later, Charlie’s test results were back. When Carole had seen them, she hated to admit that a little rush of pride shot through her spine. That was not very generous of her, not like the nurse she was supposed to be. It was very much like the woman she was, however. She was mature enough to recognise her faults.
Marty strode ahead of her as they approached the bored looking Charlie. After calling her workplace, and doing as much as she could with the documents and notebooks in her bag, she’d told her they were classified three separate times, she’d succeeded and laid back in bed, defeated.
“So, your blood results are back.” Marty said.
Charlie shot up in the bed. “So I can go home.”
“Not without a prescription you’re not.”
“What?”
Carole hid a smile. Seeing her pout made her melt into adorability, she kept going from the hottest woman she’d seen in a while, to making fire rage through her with how entitled she was, to forming into a cute ball that Carole just wanted to comfort.
“Your test results, combined with your symptoms, have led to my decision that you have Iron Deficient Anaemia. I’ve prescribed you some iron tablets that you can get filled from the hospital pharmacy, and there will be a letter with your regular doctor. I recommend treatment for six months before we review you.”
“Anaemia?”
“Yes.” Marty said. “It's when you're deficient in something. In your case, iron.”
“I know that, but that's something I could’ve gone to my doctor about. I've spent hours here for anaemia?”
Carole took a deep breath. “It can be serious. What if you collapse somewhere more dangerous, it can weaken your immune system so you could get really sick, or you could get some really serious conditions like tachycardia or you could go into heart failure.”
When her eyes widened, she knew she'd gone a bit too far. Dammit, her mouth always ran away with her.
“But now we know we can treat it, right?”
“I guess.” Charlie sighed, then said. “You won the bet.”
Carole, who had gone to put on her jacket and finally go home to Bradley, turned around. “What?”
“When you dragged me in here, when I tried to assure you I was fine, you said, wanna bet? So here I am, losing a bet, and giving you free reign over the prize.”
She thought for a moment and took in how the woman's hair formed a halo in the artificial lighting. Her lipstick hadn't been smudged and lay crisp in the lines of her lips while making them enticingly soft.
“Well, it depends.”
Charlie tilted her head. “On what?”
“If you like men, fifty dollars.” She said. “And if you like women, your number?”
After blinking at her for a second, she picked up her purse from the floor next to her. It was as neat as her makeup, and clothes, and pulled out her purse. Carole’s stomach dropped. Of course the hot, argumentative, put together woman didn’t like women. She’d gotten her hopes up again.
“I guess I’ll have to give you both then.”
She stared down at her hand where a slip of paper, scrawled handwriting that didn’t match her personality, and a fifty dollar bill, lay in her manicured hands. With a shaking hand, she took it, slipping both in her pocket and willing a lopsided smile to her face.
“I guess I’ll have to buy you a drink with this, huh?”
“Yeah,” Charlie said. “To make up for wasting my time.”
She feigned a gasp. “Wasting your time? You’ve got a prescription ain’t ya?”
A blush rose to Charlie’s face and Carole realised her southern accent had come through again.
Charlie’s head tilted downwards, eyes looking up through her lashes. “I guess.”
“Well, I’ll give you a call.”
“Yeah, you better.”
— — —
TWO YEARS LATER
Carole, sleep still in her eyes, stared vaguely at her. “So, what’s that meant to mean, then?”
Charlie sighed and rolled over to lie on her. She lay a kiss on her cheek, then her jaw, up to her ear.
“I need my fifty dollars back because I don’t like men anymore, I don’t think I ever have.” She said. “I think I was just trying to prove my parents wrong, that’s why I went to college so far away, and felt empowered to go into physics, and work with the Navy. I never dated anyway, and all the guys I dated were risky-”
“Like that navy guy who was your student?”
“Yeah, some cocky, rebellious guy who my parents would hate. But I never felt amazing with them, they never made me relax by their presence or give me butterflies when they kiss me. If something went wrong, I didn’t feel hurt if I had to let them go but I don’t think I could give you up if I tried, baby.”
A slow smile rose to Carole’s face. Sleepy, soft and gentle like sunshine through the blinds on a Sunday morning. The sunshine filled her as she kissed her nose then down to her mouth.
“Huh,” Carole mumbled in between kisses. “I guess I’ll get it to you by tomorrow, and you can buy me a strong coffee for all this sleep you’re making me lose.”
I have retconned how Charlie & Carole met, and depending on when you read this, I may or may not have changed it in the main fic. This idea of them meeting like this, and Charlie realising she's a lesbian later on, have stuck in my mind, so here we are.
I saw this art by @enthyrea of Goose and Mav getting married and got an idea. Goose and Carole aren't together, Goose and Mav are in secret. Carole went to university instead of going to stay with her sister in 1978 and meeting Goose. She gets a job as a librarian and Charlie, stationed in Corpus Christi, goes into the library to study and falls head over heels for her.
She knows it's unlike her but there's something about this woman, who cares and knows so much about a subject entirely different than her own, that draws her in.
Cut to 1986, Charlie's teaching at Top Gun and has brought one Carole Bradshaw with her, her girlfriend of 4 years. Charlie's a tad nervous, being in a same sex relationship and dealing with the navy feels taboo. Carole reminds her that she's not in the Navy so doesn't have to bide by their rules.
This doesn't mean they're overly open about their relationship but they do enjoy the shock in most of the navy guys' faces when they see a blonde woman kiss Charlie when she walks into the bar.