The latest wormhole... Top Gun: Maverick

RECYCLYING BIN

Ideas I may revisit however have other ideas currently consuming my brain and I was running out of letter of the alphabet.

Practical Magic AU (Tumblr ramblings) (And further ramblings)

Two guys in the mines hooking up... (Madness)

Long-distance/Zoom D&D players. (Madness)

Rooster is a shapeshifter trapped in his animal form? Crackity crack crack. (Madness)

Community Theatre putting on Grease with a twist - Jake as Danny and Bradley the new Sandy.

IceMav Bingo of the Florist and Undercover agent variety.

Olympic AU - Jake and Javy are the Flyboys, a synchronised diving pair. Bradley is a gymnast.

Party of 5 AU - Jake raising his younger siblings and trying to run the family business and grieve the life he had started to build at College.

Bradley runs away and joins the circus. Tumblr ramblings.

Hangster TGM AU with them working in a mall together

Puppetry Troop Hangster

Divorced-dad Jake and Pre-K teacher Bradley Bradshaw

Didn't know they were dating and fake dating combo

Meet!Ugly through a car crash

Encanto/TGM crossover

Follow up on Dagger Squad reaction to Jake and Bob being twins - based around this comment.

5+1 Hockey Season ticket holders.

Like vinegar on my tongue... (and here)

Travel besties and then realising you love your best friend

Pitch a Date

Jake has a teenage niece

Rock-a-bye Baby - something @stars-of-nixie is working on (rubs hands in glee!)

The room had been empty when they'd rolled his bed in, pulled the curtains closed around him and then instructed him to rest, only to wake up not even two hours later and every two hours since to take his blood pressure and check his eyes responsiveness to the light they'd shined in them. He'd heard them bring in others throughout the night, quiet muffled conversations he'd ignored. This morning though no one is trying to keep their conversations quiet, assuming everyone is awake.

"You're an idiot," a female voice says, and she sounds exasperated but fond. It makes him think of Natasha.

"Love you too," a male voice replies and Bradley would swear he recognises that voice, strains to hear them a little more, runs through his mental catalogue of who it might be.

"Seriously, you're meant to know your body, not ignore it... you're lucky I was already in town, otherwise you'd be here alone."

"I know my body fine. And I saved it special just for you."

"You didn't save shit. It's like you deliberately waited until your deployment finished and then thought acute appendicitis would be fun."

"This is quality time right here..."

"Bullshit. You're a terrible patient Jake, I'll want to kill you by day two."

Bradley blinks, because the accent, the name Jake, the mention of a recently finished deployment... He listens as someone argues back that he's absolutely charming company, sick patient or not and he has to ask.

"Hangman?"

Silence falls behind the curtain, then a face appears in the gap, if he wasn't already certain it was Hangman, seeing someone who looks exactly like him knocks it out of the park.

"And who might you be?" she asks, and she tilts her head the same way Hangman does, eyes assessing him with the same level of calculation that normally rubs him the wrong way when he gets it from Hangman.

"Uh. Bradley Bradshaw. Rooster."

"You're Rooster?"

Bradley isn't sure how to answer that, nods his head slightly, because he does have three separate lots of stitches in his face and an increasingly thumping headache to go with it.

"What the hell are you doing in here Bradshaw? Open the curtain, Karly."

"Would it kill you to say please?" the women apparently called Karly snipes back and she has to be Hangman's sister. He'd bet money on it.

"Not willing to risk it."

"Mom would be so disappointed."

"Mom would be dead from shock from hearing you curse so much - holy fuck Bradshaw, what happened to you?" Hangman blurts out when Karly finishes pushing the privacy curtain out of the way. Bradley sighs, shrugs a tiny amount.

"Car accident. I'm fine."

"They don't keep people who are fine in hospital overnight Rooster."

He doesn't want to admit he couldn't be discharged to an empty house. That's admitting too many things.

(Imagining Karly (Jake's twin) is a nurse, on vacation to see Jake. They were meant to go on a road trip together, but instead they end up moving into Bradley's spare bedrooms (Jake needs to take it easy, and he and Karly were booked in a series of motels, but they cancel all their accommodation because Bradley offers them a place to stay when he realizes they're going to stay in a motel).

Jake is a MUCH better patient with Bradley around, and Karly is enjoying herself watching her brother squirm because she has so much blackmail about how Jake may or may not feel about one Bradley Bradshaw...

Bradley does have a minor concussion, and Jake has to take it easy post-op, and they're having to be careful with one another and themselves. It's a little awkward and uncomfortable, but it forces them into a weird little world of domesticity which has them both contemplating why they're always trying to piss each other off when they're at work.

Then Natasha turns up, she has a key, and she walks in and just stops dead cold at the sight of what she considers domesticated bliss (Bradley and Jake in the kitchen doing dishes). With Bagman. And Bagman's female lookalike. She makes a passing comment about how Rooster and Hangman are always pulling each other's pigtails at work and it's like a combined lightbulb moment for both Jake and Bradley - both going "you like me! you want my attention!"

When Jake gets home to their shared apartment, Bradley has icepacks waiting, food heating in the oven and he stands there, arms crossed, while Jake rants/rails at him, calling his calls bullshit, and telling him he needs glasses etc etc. Then Bradley looks at his watch and goes 'your ten minutes are up. Welcome home baby.' And then all talk of the game is off limits for the rest of the night.

The umpires/ref sometimes train in the same facilities as the players, and may travel with them to games. No idea how this works in reality, but I am imagining these two used to play against each other before Bradley's injury (Bradley is 3-5 years older than Jake). They used to mark each other during games, needled each other and made fun of each other. But in one game where Jake was being rested Bradley was having to mark Javy Machado and he was asking about where Jake was, and Javy is like "dude, just ask him out already..."

That comment causes Bradley some sleepless nights, unsure if it was a joke or... something else. Because Javy is Jake's best friend. It's post this that Bradley's injury happens - before anything happens between them, but years of banter and playing each other on opposite teams.

Then Bradley is an umpire/ref at the grounds where Jake's team is based. They started off with circling each other warily (Bradley still not fully accepting he would never play again and Jake being either an utter shit head or weirdly compassionate about it - either way it ended with them fucking).

Now, they've been together for over three years and been living together for two. Jake still has his large fancy apartment for hosting team functions, but he spends all his time in Bradley's apartment in the same building.

Now I am thinking it could turn a little angsty with Jake getting injured, and Javy is literally the only one in the know, he's listed as Jake's emergency contact so he can then get Bradley... and this is when the shit hits the fan...