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Natasha Trace is the uncontested possessor of a slew of superlatives in Bradley’s life. As a pilot and as a person, she’s consistent, adept, level headed — in a crisis of almost any kind, she’s the first person he’d want on his wing.
Except right now, she is the crisis.
In the weeks of leave after the uranium mission, Bradley and Jake fall back into each other’s lives in more ways than one. Bradley doesn’t know how to tell Natasha; he doesn’t even know what it means himself, yet. But he’s gonna need to figure it out fast. Nat’s at his door for their weekly brunch date, and Bradley’s desperately trying to hide the evidence of their hookup last night, ranging from clothes thrown haphazardly around the apartment to the man himself, still asleep upstairs. If he can get Natasha out the door without her noticing anything amiss — and smuggle Jake out without him seeing anything else in the apartment — well, that’ll be miracle number 4.
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If Javy squints he can almost see the noose around Jake’s neck.
It’s been there for a while. Sometimes tightening, sometimes loosening. But, present.
It’s dangerous.
It makes Jake dangerous.
Javy knows everyone thinks that's just the way he is no matter what. But Javy knows better. Knows that there was a before, a now, and eventually there’s gonna be an after.
Hangman’s reputation precedes him. Everywhere he goes, people expect something from Jake and he loves to give them what they want. But, if he keeps going on like this, there isn’t going to be a Jake left.
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Basically, Jake's entire life leading up to, during, and after the events of Top Gun: Maverick.**Gonna try and update every week!**
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"I would have expected to see you in the cockpit," Payback started, as Jake tried to keep his attention on the radio chatter. Harvard, Yale, and Fritz were up there.
He was not going to take the bait. He was not going to give them that satisfaction.
"Well, maybe the brass finally share our conclusions. That you cannot be trusted up there," Phoenix went on, just as coldly as Payback.
"You finally screwed up enough to be grounded?" Fanboy asked. "Or is it because of Bee's death?"
At the mention of his wingman's callsign, his grip tightened around the pen and clipboard he had in hand. He had heard it all before, the gossip, the accusations, but never from people he had once considered his family.
"I received orders," he answered, stoically, eyes still glued on the radio. "I'm here to teach, to lead you to success. That's it."
"Bagman, the only place you'll lead anyone is an early grave," Rooster stepped in, anger clear as day in his voice.
🛩️ Permanently grounded and wingless, Hangman must team up with Maverick to prepare the Dagger Squad for the suicide mission. Will they be able to set aside their feelings or crash and burn before they even fly that mission?
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Jake spotted his target as soon as he walked into the bar.
Natasha’s description had been brief—mustache, loud shirt—but it was enough for Jake to zero in on the man in question. He was holding court in the corner, talking to a pair of guys and gesturing expansively with the hand that wasn’t curled around his beer.
Jake smoothed a hand over his hair, straightened his shoulders, and after a brief moment of consideration, undid one more button on his shirt. He could not wait to teach this motherfucker a lesson.
Anyone who messed with Nat could get fucked.
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The Daggers are on a long training detachment. A cold begins to make it rounds.
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- Part 1 of Daggers and Flyboys
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All The Words I Couldn't Say To You (a ready army in my throat) by Black_Flame
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
27 Jul 2025
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Without warning, a hand reached out and grabbed Phoenix by the arm. She jerked back, startled, and lost her grip on Bob's sleeve. He disappeared into the crowd. “Shit, are you kidding me?” She muttered darkly, turning to tell off whoever had grabbed her. The moment she caught sight of dark hair, her thoughts immediately devolved into a train of fuck, fuck, fuck.
The man that had grabbed her was familiar, intimately in a way that Phoenix instinctively cringed from. He was just as tall and looming as she remembered, eyes just as cold and dangerous. The warm grin was a mask of the type of person he really was. “Hey, Nat!” He exclaimed cheerfully, like he hadn’t very nearly ruined her life.
“Jason.”
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- Part 1 of I put the Daggers in SituationsTM
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Jake doesn’t take his gaze off of the junction between the pavement of their driveway and the sidewalk, pretends that he can’t see Rooster’s eyes on him in his peripherals. It’s difficult to tell if it’s the rain blurring the sharp dividing line, or the residual wet edge in his eyes that he can’t seem to hide. Not from Bradley, not anymore. “Best get off that perch of yours and start talkin’, sweetheart. You got sixty seconds ‘fore I think the better of comin’ here in the first place.”
Jake and Bradley both know they’re forever, as obvious as breathing. When Jake proposes, Bradley desperately wants to say yes without hesitation, but he can’t. How can he tell the love of his life that they can’t have the whirlwind elopement they’ve always talked about — because Bradley’s already married to someone else?
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Fight Fire with Fire (5 times Jake was an asshole for the greater good +1 time the others were assholes for Jake) by courtboss
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
04 Jun 2025
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After Javy tells the story of how he and Jake became friends instead of just roommates in school, the others see an opportunity to get some assholes out of their lives. Jake is just along for the ride, being himself, which is exactly what the other Daggers needed.
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Lieutenant Natasha Trace would like to say that she’s not a jumpy person, and for the most part that’s a fairly true statement. She gets startled, sure, and sometimes panic can choke her, but that’s a little different. With a callsign like Phoenix, you tend to want to live up to it, so Phoenix doesn’t scare easy and she isn’t jumpy.
Usually.
It’s a little different when it’s three in the morning and she’s just coming out of a nightmare.
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- Part 2 of I put the Daggers in SituationsTM
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Glen Powell Looks Like a Capybara Wished to Become a Real Boy by iwritetragediesnotsin for mintchocolatetrixie
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies), Scream Queens (TV 2015)
15 May 2025
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Why does Hangman give “Chad” vibes? A question that has haunted naval aviators since they met the asshole is finally answered during the post-TGM LA trip.
A mysterious past, serial killers, formerly dead gay best friends who weren’t really dead or gay but are now dead that lead to a realization, fakeout makeouts that maybe become real makeouts, crazy exes, unnecessary references to other fictional universes, planes, Maverick doing what he does best (brooding in aviators), and crack. We have it all, folks!
(Alternatively: Maybe ‘Hangman’ doesn’t really leave as many people hanging as they think.)
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Ridin’ in on the wind and rain by seaturtle00
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies), Twister (Movies 1996 2024)
02 May 2025
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Bob never thought he would go back to chasing, not after what had happened. But fate had other ideas. Namely Bradley Bradshaw and Jake Seresin.
Aka twisters but top gun
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Bradley fucking Bradshaw wants to play mind games? Fine. Jake can play them, too.
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Gunny feels his heart hit the dirt as Nessie starts to cry, letting Bradley’s question of marry me? float up between them until it sours. It occurs to him then, as the claps die down and his big brother starts to tremble, that there is no universe where Ness was going to say yes.
(Or, in which, a secret long since drowned... finally comes to light).
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- Part 3 of it runs in the family
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Never Really Gone by IndiannaJane
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies), Mission: Impossible (Movies)
13 Feb 2025
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Cain is enacting his revenge and he’s using Jake to do it.
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- Part 19 of Seresin to Mitchell
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In another life, he might have called her his soulmate.
But that wasn’t this life.
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or, natasha and jake and a single moment that changed everything
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- Part 1 of monachopsis
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Training Detachment by GalahadsGurl for CharityLynn02
Fandoms: Twisters - Fandom, Twister (Movies 1996 2024), Top Gun: Maverick - Fandom, Top Gun (Movies)
29 Jan 2025
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The Daggers are recalled to TOPGUN for a special training detachment. Jake has his best friends on his wings, so absolutely nothing could go wrong.
Enter one Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw and his daddy issues.
Well, fuck.
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With an outbreak of lice traveling through the Dagger Squadron, everyone is waiting for their own doctor’s note of clearance with various results.
Part of Sicktember 2024
Sicktember Alt Doctor’s Note
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- Part 35 of Sicktember 2024
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And there was the horrible truth of it, cover to cover: Jake Seresin Jr. had no idea what love was.
Or, Jake Seresin’s story.
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After the mission, the pilots have three weeks off before life goes back to normal. Two of them might be realising there's something that could change.
aka Phoenix and Rooster realise their feelings but aren't ready to make a move. yet.
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- Part 7 of Pilots: they fly high and they love hard
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Contrary to popular belief, Jake Seresin loves hard and he loves easy. There are a handful of exes who he’s on amicable terms with, who speak nothing but praise even with the realities of the Navy. His friends – non-military for the most part – are constant in his stories, and his leaves are filled with catching up from state to state.
Amongst all of that, Bradley learns, there are five distinct people who take up the significant pieces of Jake’s heart.