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"You know, what do you think about spending the holidays together?" Bradley asks, and Jake looks at him confused. "That way, we'll avoid feeling this way, and no one will be on our backs because we'll have an excuse," Bradley explains.
"Not a bad idea, I'm in." Jake agrees, they seal the deal with a light clink of their bottles.
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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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Bradley Bradshaw was born for the skies—just like his father and uncles before him. But when a training accident shatters everything, leaving him confined to a wheelchair, it feels like his world crashed down. Tattooing becomes his escape, his passion, and his new horizon. Ten years later, he's a celebrated artist with a shop that champions disabled artists.
Yet beneath ink and success lies a restless heart haunted by the memory of one man—someone who both broke and saved him—forcing Bradley to confront a love that still won't let go. -
hangman, answer me now by ofguttersandstars for playingwiththeboysisagayanthem
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
04 Aug 2025
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He makes himself cold, detached. He sharpens each sentence like a blade and aims it straight at Bradley’s heart.
He has to, if he’s going to disappear, he wants Bradley to hate him for it.
Hatred, after all, is easier to survive than hope, than missing him.
Jake wishes Bradley a long and happy life as he drools out his droopy side and scribbles to sign the consent forms for his third brain surgery in as many weeks.
He really hopes the fourth brain bleed is what finally kills him.
(Or, Jake breaks up with Bradley over email).
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- Part 1 of but I can't let go
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After the deaths of Goose and Carole, Bradley and Mav inherit an unexpected family recipe. Snapshots of their lives, and the people they choose to call family, in the rocky years that follow.
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After a few months of trying Bob and reader are finally expecting a baby. So Reader tries to come up with a perfect plan to to tell Bob.
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- Part 3 of Baby on Board
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Phoenix push’s to get to know her new backseater. He is… not a fan
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- Part 2 of [REDACTED]
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I Bruised Your Shoulder and I Buried Him and Yet Somehow I’m the One Drowning by snowstcrms
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
17 Jul 2025
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“Why does it have to hurt this bad?” Bradley choked out between those sobs, unsure himself if he was asking Pete or merely questioning the universe.
Pete exhaled a breath he hadn’t realized he was holding in.
“Because love hurts, kid…a lot. It’s…” Pete's voice trailed off, the sentence falling apart within seconds.From Bradley's knowledge, Pete had never loved someone like this. He’d had flings and yes, he’d loved his dad. But he’d loved his dad like a brother, not a lover, and the pain had to be more intense when it was a lover…right?
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Bradley has no business being out of bed.
He’s drowning in grief and guilt — venomous, prickly, and filling with water by the minute. Natasha can’t pull him out.
But maybe Pete “Maverick” Mitchell can.
Bradley has to face the truth: he isn’t the only one mourning.
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Or, A canon divergent AU in which Jake Seresin, callsign Hangman, made a split-second decision where he sacrificed himself so Bradley and Pete could go home. His death leads Bradley into a deep, grief-stricken depression that he needs Mavericks' help to break the surface of.___
Or, Extreme angst.Series
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Daisy, a career novelist, moves in with her college best friend Phoenix who has been permanently assigned to Top Gun with Dagger Squad. She finds herself instantly connected with a cocky pilot who's soft only for her and Jake can't help but want to know everything about her. When the past comes knocking at both of their doors, will they stand together or fall apart?
Or: The Dagger Squad can't cook and Jake falls in love with a woman who makes a mean lasagna while they work their personal trauma.
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Even though every time Bob was around him for more than three seconds he had the urge to wipe the smug grin off his stupid face, Seresin had something about him that drew you in...
Bob absolutely hated it.
In which following the events of the movie, newly stationed on an aircraft carrier, Jake meets his match and Bob experiences Villain Decay. He may also be a teeny bit in love with Hangman.
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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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An AU in which Hangman is team leader and takes the missile to save Rooster. As he struggles to get himself and his teammate home, Jake is pushed to his limits in more ways than even he anticipated.
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- Part 4 of Hangman's Month of Whump
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He absently touches the inside of his bicep, where the tattoo used to be. It’s long gone now, barely noticeable. It didn’t even leave a scar when he got it removed. He slowly traces where the date used to be, just like Bradley did when he was falling asleep on top of Jake.
The memory is bitter. Bradley not being in his life is even worse.
He breathes in and closes his eyes, and he swears he can pretend they’re still in their shitty apartment, Bradley softly speaking to him.
They used to be so good. He wonders how they managed to fuck it up so badly.
aka they get married then divorced and find each other again
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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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I’ve never trusted anyone who takes their coffee with milk. by Harness143
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
05 Dec 2024
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Natasha hasn't been to her home town in years. So its is all the more surprising when she comes home for Christmas, with a boy at her side.
Its never been like Natasha to be fully open with her family. When she was younger she kept the fact that she was obsessed with flying to herself because she didn't want to share her passion for it with people who didn't understand.
So, she kept the fact that she found somebody to share that passion with a secret too.
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- Part 1 of Newton's First Law
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Alayna has never been too fond of Jake Seresin... But after working with him for several months she's grown to almost find him attractive. One night at the Hard Deck he's discovered passed out drunk and Alayna volunteers to take him home and keep him safe. But, of course, that isn't what she tells Jake.
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- Part 1 of Ice Storm
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“And since my flight got rerouted I have to stay at a hotel nearby. It’s supposed to be a nice one at least.” Jake sounds a bit on the annoyed side considering he’s going to be stuck at a hotel for his entire leave, and Bradley can’t say he blames him.
The idea of Jake having to live out of a hotel doesn’t sit right with Bradley. It sounds just as boring and lonely as it’s been for him alone in his house. He’d hate for his friend to go through that for two weeks.
The perfect solution suddenly dawns on him. At least, it’s perfect logically, but in reality, it’s probably a terrible idea. Oh well. He’s got to jump off the perch sometime, right?
“What if you come stay with me?”
Or: Two boys. Two weeks. One everlasting love.
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They had done it. They had finished the impossible and come home. Rooster and Maverick were on their way towards reconciliation.
Only, Maverick didn't escape the impossible without a price. There were only so many miracles to be had.
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Slider looks after Bradley when Ice and Maverick are out of town.
Mention of vomit (not graphic)
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when it's done, I can smile (it's on someone else's plate for a while) by playingwiththeboysisagayanthem
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
20 Aug 2024
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" So fun fact about Bradley Bradshaw. Most people wouldn’t guess it looking at him, he presents as a stereotype of the hyper-masculine men of the 1980s. But when he’s stressed beyond belief, he bakes. It’s a coping mechanism that he picked up from his mother as a child, something that started as a way to bond with her and then when she got sick, turned into a way for him to find something he could control. And having something to put a smile on her face, even through the worst of her treatments, at the end of it was definitely worth all of the effort.
So for as long as most of the people in his life have known him, Bradley Bradshaw has turned to a hot oven and a mixing bowl when nothing in life quite makes sense. And, well…that leads to quite a few things. "
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aka, Bradley stress-bakes. Here are five times that was cause for alarm for someone in his life plus the one time it shouldn't have been.Ace-gust Writing Challenge 2024 | Day Eight | Baking
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- Part 8 of Ace-gust Writing Challenge 2024