tex 🖤

Jake has a problem.

(Or, alternatively, Jake downloads Grindr, gets himself a smoking hot fuckbuddy, and maybe falls in love.)

It's me, Tex...again. (:

I'm writing the married in Vegas au (lovingly named Can't fake that) and had this 3rd of fwb already written, so I figured i'd tide you guys off with some heat.

From the latter half of this chapter pretty much till the end of the entire fic will be pretty filthy, so beware the tags being updated with each installment!

Spring Cleaning and a Fall

by overwhelmed-alien

Aka The Bug Fic 🪳

Summary:

Bradley's new husband Jake was not only brave, he was fearless.

…For the most part.

It was bugs. Specifically roaches, but really bugs of any kind that his brave, beloved Jake drew a hard, non-negotiable line.

Or-

If he's standing in a position that makes him taller than Iceman, he'll call him Icicle. They all get a kick out of calling Wolfman a pupdog whenever he's a little too whiny. Hollywood gets woody when Mav thinks he's acting like a dick.

He calls Slider by his legal name just to annoy the other man, stops briefly after Ron declares him St. Peter, saint of the heightless. Proceeds to ask the man if huffing the clouds counts as a substance abuse.

But his favourite nicknames are the ones he uses behind closed doors. Calling Tom "sweetheart" for the first time and watching him go red from the tips of his ears down to his chest, swearing to call him it at any given opportunity.

Getting swatted whenever he calls Tom "baby", because the man thinks it's corny and juvenile, but Pete keeps calling him it long after his hair greys.

Avoiding Tommy because that's Ron's nickname for Tom, and Pete understands, more than most, the importance of nicknames between close friends, what and when they can represent. Iceman might be Pete's sweetheart, but he's Ron's Tommy.

The fond mutter of Ice calling him an asshole, because if he was truly angry, he'd call Maverick a "little prick". To express his ire and make a dig at Pete's height all in one, Ice is good at multitasking like that.

"Second-best pilot." He's less fond of that nickname; it stays in continuous use. The first time Ice uses it, Pete has a psychosexual reaction that he would prefer to never remember again, which, coincidentally, Ice loves bringing up.