Top Gun Happily Ever After 2026

Event Status: Gift Time!

Has it been 4 years already?

In the same style as  Top Gun Endless Summer and Top Gun Trick or Treat, this is a fic and art exchange open to all ships and ratings with two stages of sign-ups to ensure everyone gets to write or draw what they want! Please see Rules/Info or the FAQ for clarification.

To participate in this exchange, you must be 18+ and be prepared (as a writer) to post a completed fic of at least 2k words. While these works do NOT need to have a Valentine's theme, there should not be a sad ending in sight. It is happily ever after, after all!

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The linked exchange schedule has more details, but the key dates are:

Stage 1: Initial Sign-ups: December 21st - December 28th (10pm EST)

Stage 2: Prompt Interest Form: December 30th - January 3rd (10pm EST)

Prompts Assigned: January 6th (no later than 11:59pm EST)

Fics/Art Due: February 10th (10pm EST)

Fics/Art Posted: February 13th - February 15th

Times for this exchange are in EST - Please use this CONVERTER to calculate that on your end.

Initial Sign-up Form: Sign Up Here

Prompt Sign-up Form: Open December 30th

2026 Collection

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this exchange, please feel free to send an Ask! or check out the FAQ!

This exchange is hosted by:

    • Alex (ReformedTsundere / @film-in-my-soul)

Danger (A Chance to Win)

By: @flyingfightingfishy | flyingfightingfishy

For: @consultingunicorn22 | consulting_unicorn

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: M

Word count: 5,381

Summary: Tom thought he would be the exception to the rule, the candidate who was permitted to become a priest rather than being married off to a social outcast in need of reform. He was wrong. It turns out not to be such a bad thing after all.

so familiar a gleam

By: @magdarko | magdarko

For: @shealwaysreads | onereader

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: M

Word count: 6,416

Summary: Bradley has spent years walking in and out of Hangman's dreams. He knows everything there is to inow about the inside if Hangman's head, the things he wants and the way he feels about them.

come on the common tongue

By: @cristinuke| Cristinuke

For: @sweetlittleladybug | SweetLittleLadybug

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: E

Word count: 3,291

Summary: Warm and humid, a breath ghosted over slicked skin at his tricep as sleep receded in slow increments, letting Mav seep from a pleasant dream into an even more pleasant reality.

Mav wakes the best way possible— to Ice's mouth.

There’s no one else who could make sense to me

By: @lovemadethemdoit | LoveMadeThemDoIt

For: @green-socks | aprilfoolish

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 25,195

Summary: One thing Jake hated about being a male alpha was that he was expected to continue the Seresin bloodline.

Jasmine and Goldenrod

By: @mapled-penitentary | falling_mapl3

For: @paxdracona | Paxdracona

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: G

Word count: 11,283

Summary: Maverick ends up back home on Ice's doorstep after a mission gone wrong, only to find out that he needs some help too. They help nurse each other back up to health, but not without some bumps, mishaps, and much-needed conversations along the way.

Moon And The Stars

By: @stars-of-nixie | Nixie_DeAngel

For: thatadrenalinejunkie

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: T

Word count: 2,990

Summary: "Yeah." Jake gave a small pained smiled. "But we can do it right now," he added after a moment, tugging their hands down to lean in and press his temple to Bradley's. "To start it right this time."

"Promise."

So it should have been a fresh start, what with their three weeks of leave before all twelve daggers were reported to show for duty in Fightertown to receive orders.

the kazansky-mitchell anomaly

By: @i44rise | 44wdcs

For: @doodledraw | doodlewrite

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: T

Word count: 6,314

Summary: Slider thinks there may be a problem.

Except, when it comes to the chaotic love-sick idiots that are Maverick and Iceman, he can never be too sure.

my heart is yours

By: @doodledraw | doodlewrite

For: TUMBLR | NeverLeaveYourWingman (CaptainAmericasShield)

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: G

Word count: 2,930

Summary: They land on the carrier, and all Mav can think about is going home. or: Mav and Ice reunite post-TGM.

from Vegas, with love

By: @shanehollandersautism | canteloupedisaster

For: @rabbit-factory | LifetimeMovie

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: G

Word count: 2,419

Summary: Mav's had enough of Ice refusing to commit, so he gives him an ultimatum. Ice takes the ultimatum to the extreme.

Lost Baggage

By: @rabbit-factory | rabbit-factory (LifetimeMovie)

For: @pseudochakra | pseudochakra

Pairing: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: T

Word count: 2,813

Summary: "You're kidding me." The drawl could be anyone, Maverick thinks to himself. It's still Texas. When he turns, the grin is gone. As is all the sharp edges to the man's expression. Instead, it looks about as worn down as Maverick feels. "Are you going to—" Jake pauses as his gaze flickers up to the current flight at the gate. "Milwaukee? You seem like a Wisconsin kinda guy." "Washington," Maverick finally sighs out, and Jake just fixes him with a stare. "State?" "D.C." Jake inhales. It shouldn't be possible for an inhale to sound like an expletive, but he managed. Maverick's never been that lucky in love. Turns out, neither had Jake.

The art of cockblocking

By: @big-biscuit | Big_Biscuit

For: @sonnywrites | sonnywrites

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: M

Word count: 2,925

Summary: Bradley would really like to get laid thank you very much. Unfortunately for him one Jake Seresin seems intent on disrupting his plans.

Another Chance for Love

By: @wordsonamission | wordsonamission

For: @texasteaparty | TexasTeaparty

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 11,049

Summary: Jake and Bradley have been circling each other for years. Shared assignments, overlapping training, squads stationed near each other, their first Top Gun run, their secret Top Gun mission, and other brief meetings that were crackling with tension. Their chemistry only erupted into a hookup once, and that was years ago. But now, Bradley is settled when Jake's squad gets reassigned to the same base. By working through the lingering animosity that developed between them during the events of tgm, they find themselves back to exploring the attraction that has been growing between them.

‘til my last breath

By: @sophie83540 | BeautifulCreature

For: @mapled-penitentary | falling_mapl3

Pairing: Robert "Bob" Floyd/Natasha "Phoenix" Trace

Rating: T

Word count: 2,007

Summary: Bob knew that no matter what, he would be there for this woman until the day he died.

I keep closing my eyes, but I can’t block you out

By: greenstuff

For: @big-biscuit | Big_Biscuit

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 7,146

Summary: Jake should have known Bradley was going to be here. Even with the scant details he was given when they shipped him to North Island he should have guessed that he wouldn’t be flying solo. Looks like they’ve brought in the best of the best, and that was always going to include Rooster.

with all the bad

By: @texasteaparty | TexasTeaparty

For: TUMBLR | BeautifulCreature

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: M

Word count: 3,240

Summary: The punch is expected.

What's surprising is the fact that after Bradley's fist connects with his jaw, Bradley is the one who recoils like it was Jake who'd struck him. "What the fuck?" Yeah, exactly Bradshaw. What the fuck indeed.

slowly, and then all at once

By: Notchka88

For: @halestrom | halestrom

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 2,770

Summary: If Hangman wants to blow off steam before the mission, as stupid as it is to do it here where anyone could stumble onto them, Bradley’s game for it. What’s one more badly thought out and impulsive decision in a long line of them? (There's more to the patterns they fall into than Bradley realizes.) For the prompt: The 'oh' moment is more of an 'oh shit' moment