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    “Want me to turn it up so we can both listen? I don’t feel like putting the record on right now.”

    “Yes, please.”

    There’s some shuffling, the snap of Bill punching down the play button, and then the soft, tinny sound of “Seaside Rendezvous” playing from his headphones.

    They lapse into another silence, as “Seaside Rendezvous” eventually bleeds into “The Prophet’s Song” and then, of course, “Love Of My Life.” As the tape plays, and Bill continues to gently pet Ted’s hair, Ted realizes that he’s about to fall asleep like this: sprawled across Bill’s bed, still clad in his Pretzels ’N Cheese uniform, Freddie Mercury crooning through the Walkman and into his ear, clock barely pushing 6:30. He thinks about shaking off the sleepiness and throwing himself into the shower, like he should’ve done in the first place, but the soothing motion of Bill’s fingers combing through his hair and the warmth of his bed is a stronger call than the call of getting their night properly started.

    Or, Ted starts to notice how often he finds an excuse to get in Bill's bed, and then never really gets around to getting back out of it

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    02 Sep 2023

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    After Goose's death during a fight with a kaiju, Maverick left the PPDC and didn't look back. But his self-destructive bender gets interrupted by Charlie Blackwood, showing up to invite him to participate in a brand-new weapons development program, codename Top Gun: the first two-pilot jaegers to ever be deployed in the fight to defend humanity. That means Maverick's going to have to get back in a piloting rig again—and he's going to have to do it while drifting with another pilot. Drift compatibility means getting each other, understanding each other, on a level nobody else can beat; so whoever his partner is, at least he's not going to get stuck with the Iceman, who pretty much hates him.

    Right?

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    09 Aug 2023

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    They’ve both heard all the philosophical bullshit, of course. Poems about your soul forever seeking its other half, impassioned treatises they were supposed to read in high school English about how you know where your own limbs are, quotes from long-dead guys about physical distance but hearts taking up the same space--that kind of bullshit.

    Maverick never put much stock in that kind of thing--he’d hated school. It probably shouldn’t have been surprising that Ice also really did not care about the science or philosophy--they were supposed to be perfect for each other, after all.

    (Or: There’s a handshake in the O Club the first night of Top Gun, and the very bearing of “magnetic North” shifts permanently under Ice and Mav’s feet)

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    08 Aug 2023

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    Maverick should be paying attention to lecture, he knows this, but he can't seem to stop staring at Ice chewing on his pen cap. It shouldn't be as distracting as it was, but it is and Maverick can't help but wonder what those lips feel like.

    Or-Maverick seems to notice Ice has a slight oral fixation and it takes a pen and other things to realize he might be a little bit more preoccupied with Ice than he originally thought.

    (edited and updated 2/01/22)

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    31 Jul 2023

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    “You know you can talk to me, right?”

    Ice looks so sincere it sparks an ache deep in Maverick’s chest. That’s the point. Maverick thought they could talk to each other, but Ice’s secret looms between them. He can’t say that, though, so this time he lies, “I know, Ice.”

    Maverick makes a discovery that forces him to reevaluate his friendship with Ice.

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    04 Jun 2023