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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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))
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
Penrole AU where Goose and Carole get divorved and Carole moves to a beach house. She opens a cafe and gets up early each morning to bake bread and pastry. This is when she notices a lovely blonde surfer shaking off her hair that's glimmering in the sunrise as water droplets fall from it.
It's safe to say she's smitten.
This routine happens. Carole bakes bread and leaves it outside to prove. Surfer girl shakes off her hair and has Carole wondering if mermaids are real.
Until Bradley, the innocent little four year old that he is, suggests she just talks to her. She splutters but Bradley gives her a fresh pastry on a plate and points to the smoothie maker.
So, she makes mystery surfer girl a green smoothie and takes her a fresh pastry as she catches her breath on the steps to the porch of Carole’s deck.
At first she thinks she's here to tell her to get off, but is happy to get some of the food her mouth has been watering just looking at. Not to mention the smell of freshly baked bread.
Carole finds out she’s called Penny and tells her that they're on the house.
Penny comes in the next day, and the day after, and the day after. Bradley keeps dropping hints as to when Carole's free. He ends up telling her he's having a sleep over Thursday so she's free, she likes Italian food and sunflowers.
They go. Penny's insecure in heels as she's tall. Carole loves it.
Penny learns of the divorce. How a year before, Carole almost lost Goose in an accident at top gun. He got better, became a top gun instructor but it took her a while to move out to Miramar. When she did go out there, she fully lost him. She saw Goose and Slider kissing and found out that they've kind of been a thing since before his accident. Everyone else assumed she knew and turned a blind eye. They had a screaming match, Carole delivered divorce papers a little while later and went back home until she realised she didn't want to stay in a house full of a broken memories and moved away once the divorce was finalised.
Penny says she’s sorry. Carole takes a long drink of her wine and says she’s not to blame and they're not going to mention him.
She finds out Penny was a pro surfer who went all over the world. Then her dad got sick and she had to drop everything to look after him. Maybe her dad was a fisherman instead of in the Navy. Also yes this is kind of like Nani from Lilo & Stitch.
Surfing in the morning is her only time of peace. Just her and the waves. The sun dancing on the water. She's finally in control again, able to take time for herself.
Carole kisses her cheek when she drops her off.
Bradley tells Penny the next day not to hurt his Momma.
There's typical romcom stuff. Carole piping something when Penny, helping with opening up, starts kneading bread in a vest top. The icing goes all over the counter as she ogles her.
Penny helps her with deliveries. They make soup together.
Then Goose comes to spend some time with Bradley on leave and Carole cold front goes straight up to prove something to him. Goose kinda knows it's a front and kinda doesn't so awkwardly talks about how life's been as an instructor at top gun.
But it's agony for Carole, hearing him get everything he's wanted, that they wanted, while she had to build everything up again. And Penny can see this and tries to break through this new front but can't.
This and her dad taking a turn for the worst means they snap at each other. Penny's dad ends up in hospital and Penny goes surfing at dusk in bad weather.
Carole sees her surfboard wash up on the shore and runs out in the storm. She finds her not breathing. She tries CPR and screams at Goose (who's there for Bradley) to call an ambulance.
Goose guesses who Penny is. Bradley tells him that Penny makes her happy. He says "Momma's smiling again" and that's that
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I've been thinking more about Carole x Penny or Penrole as I've coined them (or carenny? I'm still a bit unsure). This is under the idea that either goose lives but he and Carole separate (like in my post here) or this is after he dies and Carole eventually bumps into Penny. They become close friends, Penny cares for her when she's sick (and lives 😤) and they eventually get together after Penny gets pregnant with Amelia and breaks up with her boyfriend.
Carole knitting Amelia things when Penny's pregnant
Amelia calling Carole "Momma"
Amelia not being able to say Bradley so calls him Bradbird, because Bradley, despite the 16 year age gap, is a great big brother
Amelia's teacher (when she's about 5) sets them a task of drawing their family, she thinks Amelia's confused when she puts "mom" and "momma" by stick figures of Penny, Carole, her dad and Bradley
She asks if she meant that one is her dad's partner and one is her mum but she just says her mum and momma are together and the teacher says something about that not being right (this is Texas in the 2000s, look at Texas today)
Amelia tells Penny this innocently and Penny makes an appointment with the headteacher to tell them she wants Amelia moved
The teacher in question walks in and Penny explains that she feels sickened that her daughter is getting told her home life is wrong by someone who had no problem with their family before she knew Penny was raising her child with another woman
The teacher's shocked and tries to defend herself but Penny just says that Amelia just has more people to love her and walks out
At the school's nativity, Bradley manages to make it from the Academy for winter break, he watches her as an angel in the nativity
That teacher watches as she runs to Penny, Carole and Bradbird, Bradley tells her he just managed to fly in from Annapolis
She goes "like an angel?"
And he goes "more like a bird" and says he's exhausted and that his wings hiding because of how tired he is
Amelia's new teacher tells her that when learning about birds, she drew a Bradbird as her favourite bird
They move to California when Penny's dad goes to a retirement home there
Penny buys her bar
Amelia's getting bullied in school for having 2 mums, after they get married in 2015 (I hc tgm taking place about 2016/17)
So, when the Daggersquad are in town for the mission, they pick her up, find this out and warn the bullies that she has a bunch of navy people as family so knows how to defend herself
Penny's heavily pregnant with Amelia and can't sleep. Carole reads her a bedtime story.
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For a prompt list, this was "A tells B a story to help them sleep"
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Penny wiggled about on the bed, trying to find a position that was comfortable. As excited as she was for this baby, the bump didn't make it easy for her to fall asleep. She rubbed her swollen tummy as she moved to her back.
Carole moved next to her. Her bedhead came into view as she hovered over her, leaning on one arm.
"Can you stop wiggling?" She said.
"I can't help it, if I lie on my back, it hurts my back, if I lie on my side it hurts my shoulders," she smiled at her. "I'm sorry."
Carole rested her head on her shoulder and rubbed her bump, "No, I'm sorry, I remember being pregnant and it can be really shit. What can I do to help, huh?"
"I don't know, maybe something to help me sleep?"
"Oh, you want a bedtime story?"
"I mean, I didn't mean it like that, but sure, tell me a bedtime story."
Carole moved to sit up, placing the cushion behind her back as she placed Penny's head in her lap. Gently, she began to card her fingers through her hair. Just that alone made her relax.
"Okay, lemme think of something," she watched her bite her lip as she thought. "Aha! Right, you settled, all comfy?"
"As I can be."
"Alright, I'll start then. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, she was loved and loving, kind and smart. She was born in wartime, so was heavily protected to make sure she would live to become queen someday,
"And when the war ended, although the enemy really just disappeared into the shadows, the world was allowed to go back to normal. Soldiers returned home, the princess was allowed out of the castle and the youth of the land were called up to try out for the elite knight school."
"Hm, this isn't called Top Gun, is it?" Penny said coyly.
"No, it’s called Top Sword actually, they don't have guns yet, silly,"
"Oh, well sorry,"
They went back to the story. Despite it all being a bit of fun, Penny couldn't stop herself from getting invested.
"The new knights were needed because the princess was officially taking on her role, she was a flower coming into bloom and would be visiting the people and courting other nobles to hopefully marry," Carole said. "But the world was still dangerous, so she would need only the finest protection."
"Now, there was this knight, she was strong and whitty and capable, and not from a knight kind of family, she was a farmer-" Carole stroked Penny's cheek. "-and so everyone doubted her, she had to work twice as hard to get the same recognition,"
"But it was worth it, because everytime she did extra practice, it was in the princess' favourite garden and so she was always watching her, and eventually they started talking." She said. "Then talking sparked feelings, feelings that weren't appropriate, but they didn't really care."
"The final test came and the knight knocked it out of the park, making the princess' personal guard. They were set to travel for a year to every city, every town and province to show how much the princess cared."
Any discomfort began to ease as she sank into the mattress. This was just a silly fairytale but the way Carole told it melted all her tension. Her eyes got harder to open with every blink.
"Everywhere they went, in secret, the knight and the princess would spend time together in a way that wasn't allowed for a princess. She had to marry a noble, this knight certainly wasn't a noble, she came from a farmer's family."
"One day, they went to the knight's village. It was humble, full of kind people who always helped, and, much closer to the enemy they'd fought years ago. There was evidence of their curses in the trees of the forests, buildings on the horizons echoing relics of a time long gone."
"And that’s when the princess fell truly in love with the knight, because she'd come from such humble beginnings and was a knight in the truest sense of the word. She came to protect, not because her family were knights, but because she'd probably seen first hand how their enemies affected people."
Carole's face was whimsy. She loved reading books, that's why she worked in a library, and telling stories. Now Bradley was too old for bedtime stories, a part of her must be glad to get a chance to finally tell them. Penny rubbed her bump again, this baby was going to get the best stories, she hoped they were listening.
"The princess spent a little more time there than she really should have, she did whenever they went to a knight's hometown, she wanted to give them a chance to see their families as they hadn't seen them in so long," she said. "But there was a reason they didn't linger in places, a reason none of them knew because their enemies were gone, but it must have been forgotten how their enemies worked in secret at the start of the war."
"Because what started as a simple celebration tour for her officially being a princess, turned into something darker, as an enemy thought long gone, one that was closer than any of them realised, and finally found its moment to strike."
Despite getting to an exciting moment in the story, Penny's eyes were getting more and more tired. She did want to hear how it ended, but there was a way Carole spoke that made her forget her worries, that made it so easy to sink into sleep.
"They were attacked at night-time, when they least expected it, the knights jumped into action, trying to fight off monsters and spirits to the best of their ability." Carole's voiced picked up in energy as she moved her hands with the story. "Our knight stayed close to the princess, not wanting her love to get hurt, and she meant it, because when a well aimed curse was headed straight for her, she took the full brunt of it."
Penny's eyes opened. She knew this story was about them but couldn’t quite match who was who. They met eyes, Carole's were sparkling, she was enjoying this.
"What was the curse?" Penny asked.
"It sent the knight into a never ending slumber,"
"That’s just a rip off of sleeping beauty!"
"I never said I was entirely original, and I'm coming up with this on the fly so shut up, missy,"
Penny chuckled and held her hands up in surrender. Her eyes sank lower as she settled back down ready for slumber. Maybe she could just hang on until the end.
"Anyway, back to the story, the knight was left in her hometown, the princess was ordered back to the castle by her father and kept in the grounds. If they weren’t careful, this could be war, he didn't care about the princess' broken heart or how much she longed to see her fallen knight."
"So, one day, she goes to the knight's barracks and orders them to escort her to the hometown of the knight and they know she means it by the look in her eye," Carole said. "The trip wasn't as fun this time, but they got there and the princess was in agony as she lay next to the knight hoping for a miracle."
She stopped for a moment then, leaning a little closer. This relationship was so new. Neither of them had been with a woman before, but that didn’t stop them. Even Penny's dad approved, as long as Carole wasn't Pete Mitchell he was fine.
"And she got her miracle, she gave her one last kiss and woke her up. They went back to the castle, and after some pleading, the knight was deemed worthy for the princess to marry and they lived happily ever after."
Penny's eyes began to shut slowly. The story had worked. Carole's hands stroked her face and laid a kiss on her forehead.
"Night night, my princess," she said.
"Thought I was the knight," she mumbled.
"Okay, night night my princess knight," she kissed her on the forehead. "And our blossom."
Penny watched her stroke the bump before she moved her head back onto the pillow. Carole shifted back to her side of the bed and soon she was her own sleeping beauty.
My timeline for them has Penny moving to Texas in 1990, her and Carole become friends, Carole gets ill with cancer so Penny cares for her, she gets pregnant with Amelia, breaks up with her boyfriend and gets with Carole. Thanks for reading!
After an impromptu phone call, Carole slightly worried as she waits for Penny in the cafe. But perhaps it isn't bad news after all.
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For a prompt list, "I love you doesn't even encompass how I feel about you"
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Carole craned her neck as she watched Penny walk into the cafe. She wasn't as well manufactured as she usually was, not that she was dramatically overdressed on every occasion, but today, Carole could tell she was a bit frazzled. And that wasn't just from the phone call she got yesterday either.
She waved at her and patted the seat for her to sit down at. The waitress came back with two large mugs of coffee. Carole knew Penny's order, they'd done this enough times for her to know she was partial to a flat white, whereas she liked a cappuccino. Bradley did too, but only because she used to give him the froth when he was a baby.
"Hey, how you doing?" She asked. "You sounded pretty worried on the phone."
She just nodded. And although Carole sipped her drink, it was made at a perfectly drinkable temperature, Penny didn't touch it. She held a thousand yard stare as she messed with her car keys.
"Penny? Earth to Penny?" She waved a hand in front of her face.
She jolted upright, breaking from thought, "Sorry, Carole, I was miles away." She went to sip her coffee but stopped herself. "Thank you for getting this, by the way."
"Did I get the wrong one? 'Cause you haven't touched your drink," she said, she had a tendency to speak without thinking sometimes.
Penny just gulped, "I-I don't think I should have caffeine."
"Why?"
"Because I'm pregnant."
She looked up and met eyes with her. Carole remembered when she found out she was pregnant with Bradley. Despite feeling excited, the idea that she was going to be growing and responsible for a whole other life was humbling.
"Oh my god, congratulations," Carole said, but backtracked when she saw that Penny's face still hadn’t moved from bewilderment. "Is it a congratulations? Because if you're not keeping it then I'll support you-"
Penny shook her head. "No, I'm gonna keep it."
"Okay then, congratulations,"
Penny's face didn't pick up. She took to casually stirring her drink as she huffed and sighed.
"Is it John's?" She suggested, trying to figure out why she was acting so weird.
"Yes, of course!" She said. "Not that I'm going to raise it with him."
She mumbled the last bit under her breath.
"What?" Carole asked.
"It's just-" she sighed and looked down at her hands. "Finding out I'm pregnant has made me realise that I don't love John, and I haven't for a while, so it just doesn't seem fair to stay with him just because I'm pregnant. It wouldn’t be fair on me or him or the baby."
For the first time since she got here she smiled, stroking her stomach where the baby would be. Warmth radiated from her slight grin. The way her hands settled there now the secret was out, such care, made a part of her jingle like a bell. She loved seeing her content, albeit with anxiety still tense in her fingers.
"Have you told him that?"
Penny looked up from where she stroked her stomach, there was no bump yet. "Yeah, but you can imagine he didn't take it well. But it's the right decision."
Carole didn't say anything. Penny making a difficult decision, choosing to be a single mother would be choosing the hard option, but she was brave for taking it anyway, knowing it was the right one.
"That's not saying I don't want him in this kid's life, I do, but just not in a relationship kind of way."
"Right."
"Well, that's the only reason." She looked away, sheepish. "I don't want to raise this kid with him, yes because I'm not in love with him, but also because there's someone else I want to raise the baby with."
"Oh?"
"And I'm in love with them too."
Carole almost knocked over her coffee. "What? Who? For how long? Do I know them?" She turned her head to a slant and squinted at her. "It's not Pete, is it?"
"No! It is not Pete Mitchell," she said. "And why all the questions?"
She blushed pink. Her hand went to curl her hair around her finger, a nervous tick of her's.
"Because I'm a gossip, that's why!"
"Well stop being one!" Penny lent forward, as their fingers grazed each other’s, sparks seemed to fly.
"You can give me a little leniency, Pen, I've just learnt three very big pieces of news in less than five minutes, you're pregnant, you broke up with your boyfriend and you're in love with somebody else!"
She sighed and went all shy again. Carole's big mouth and no filter ready to ruin someone's mood whether she intended to or not. And Penny was someone she really cared about, in some kind of way that she couldn't quite define or put a finger on.
"Sorry-" she started.
"No, you're right, you, and this person, deserve an answer-" Closing her eyes, she gulped and looked at her when they opened again. "-because you're the same."
"What?"
"I love you, Carole, in fact, I love you doesn't even begin to encompass how I feel about you." She said, hands running through her hair as her breath began to speed up. "It all started when you got sick and I knew I wanted to look after you, healthy or not, 'til the day I die. And everything else followed, the way you care, how confident you are, how you always say what's on your mind, your hair, your smell, your-"
She stopped. Her mouth clicked shut as she read Carole's face. She was at a loss for words. This was all so, so, unexpected. Sure, she'd fell asleep on the sofa with her more times than she could count and their closets were practically one with how often they'd shared clothes. And Carole may have stared a little too long at the way the sun shined off Penny on a bright day like she was source of all things good on the earth and Carole wanted to kiss her glossy lips sometimes-
Oh god, she was in love with her too.
"And you don’t feel the same." Penny said. "I've just ruined this, haven't I? Oh no."
She began to spiral. Her shaking hands running through her hair as her breath quickened in pace.
"Wait!" Carole shouted, placing a hand on her's. "I do feel the same, I do, but you admitting it has only just made me realise that I do."
Penny stopped. Hesitantly, she wrapped her long fingers around her hand. "Really?"
"Yeah," she said. "I mean, raising a kid is a big first step but I think I want you and I know I want to help you."
Their hands in each other’s felt right, Carole realised, like a puzzle being completed. Penny's smile made something spark, and she loved how she knew what that feeling was now. Penny picked up her hand and kissed her knuckles, there was still some hesitation as she did so. Carole felt her cheeks go bright red. She tried not to turn to mush.
"So, is this a date?" She stammered.
"It can be if you want it to be," Penny said, anxiety replaced by suave.
"Well, I want it to be."
Penny kissed her hand again. "Good."
I did it! The last prompt! It took me so long, because in the week I was writing this I was also trying to sort out a work transfer that's now going ahead so very stressful, but I'm happy it's done! Also the part about Carole feeding Bradley the foam off a cappuccino is because my mum used to do the same with me. Thanks for reading!
