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Maverick felt like shit.
He wasn't going to make a production out of it.
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18 May 2026
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The Earth Below My Feet (Lessons in Parachuting for the Troubled Mind) by fiorediloto
Fandoms: Band of Brothers (TV 2001)
16 Apr 2019
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Part of him knew that it would always be like this with Nix, the constant feeling of being on edge, missing the earth below his feet. Perhaps he’d touch the ground safe and sound this time, both legs intact, but there would be another jump and another and another, and he would never know which jump would be the one to break his neck.
Then again, his mother had seen right through him with the whole paratrooper thing: forget the money, forget the glory, forget being with the best of the best. Deep down, he had a reckless streak.
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- Part 1 of The Earth Below My Feet
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10 Apr 2026
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Growing up, Dennis thought praying with verses from the Bible was more powerful. As if he could use evidence from the Book to prove why whatever he was asking for was good and right. Now, he wonders if it was a crutch. A way to get around having to put his faith into his own words. I would have made a terrible priest, he thinks.
Dennis shakes his head. Now isn’t the time for self-pity, he should be focusing on Teddy. Dennis tries to come up with a verse, but it’s been a while since he reread the Bible. Only Isaiah 40 comes to mind. Let Teddy soar on wings like eagles, Dennis thinks. Let him run and not grow weary. Let him walk and not be faint.
Please, Dennis thinks more desperately. Let him beat the odds.
or, the first week+a day of Dennis being an emergency medical student and Santos' roommate. He isn't quite sure he's meant to be either.
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13 Feb 2026
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“I’d ask if you slept okay, but you look like shit, so I’m gonna guess not.”
Whitaker gulps down a mouthful of water too quickly and coughs. “I slept fine,” he says hoarsely. Trinity raises a skeptical eyebrow, tossing the balled-up paper towel between her hands. “Really,” he insists. “It’s been a while since I’ve slept without keeping one eye on the door.” He ducks his chin again, all “gee, shucks” farmboy sheepish, and the tops of his ears are pink. “Thank you for…all of this. It really means a lot.”
The earnestness makes Trinity want to poke meanly at his stomach until he curls over it protectively. She squeezes the paper towel tighter instead. “Whatever. I had the room. It’s no big deal.”
or, Trinity's first day having a
wet cat of a med studentman for a roommateSeries
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13 Feb 2026
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He follows her up the front steps and into the house, where she instructs him to take off his shoes and nudge them into the pile of her own sneakers and boots.
"So. Your room is upstairs, and your bathroom is across the hall from it," she says as they walk down the hallway and into the living room. "The kitchen is right through that doorway, and my room is down there, with my bathroom."
Whitaker takes everything in, his eyes flitting all over the place. She does the same, a little glad she'd cleaned up most of the clutter a few days ago.
"It's…" he starts, clearly trying to find the words. "It's really nice."
"Definitely better than a hospital room," she replies.
Whitaker manages a grin. He's carrying a backpack and a duffel, neither of them very full, and the bags under his eyes seem to get darker by the minute. Despite the hell of a shift they just left, he's still standing, looking a bit lost. There's something about him that pulls at her interest—she wants to take a ten-blade and slice from neck to belly, just to see what's going on in there.
Metaphorically, of course.
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aka the santos & whitaker roommates roommates-to-besties journey we deserve!!Bookmarked by dogfighting
11 Sep 2025
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what death feels like in the spring of 2000 by tessiete for maisiec33
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
07 Sep 2025
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He closes his eyes, and to his relief, it’s easy. It’s the easiest thing he’s ever done.
On May 18, 2000, after being confronted with the options of rehab or getting fired, John Carter makes a different choice. It's a way worse choice. An alternate ending to May Day where Carter OD's instead.
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08 Sep 2025
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"Here we are, Huckleberry. Try not to blow your load about those second-story views."
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20 May 2025
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When Dennis leans over a man brought in for drunkenness, shaking his shoulder and, when that gets no response, moving to a sternal rub, he is completely blindsided by the elbow which connects with his brow bone, knocking him to the floor in an undignified heap and causing him to glance his head off the arm of a plastic chair on the way down. And Jack, God help him, is still in the corridor struggling with a pair of gloves.
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Dennis gets punched by a patient. Jack helps out as best he can in the aftermath.
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06 May 2025
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Dennis is homesick for a home he doesn't miss. After a bad day that leaves him with a broken nose, he has a bit of a breakdown about his home. Robby finds him, and Dennis does what he knows best, and quotes bible verses as he cries about it.
(Or how Dennis ended up in Pittsburgh, a thousand miles from home and why he doesn't want to go back.)
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30 Apr 2025
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Maverick vs. The Cold: A Saga by justcallmenibbs for Achlys317
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
20 Apr 2025
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Pete “Maverick” Mitchell did not like the cold— and yet he found himself freezing in the sky, in the ocean with his best friend’s body, in the Siberean tundra.
No, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell did not like the cold, and did everything he could do to escape it.
Enter one Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.
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- Part 1 of this foolish lover's game
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21 Apr 2025
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The kid with blood pouring down his shins is not so far from the dog lonely enough that he thinks breaking his housetraining is worth it for the ten minutes of berating that come with it, the ten minutes of undivided, if reluctant, attention.
Buck thinks, sometimes, that at least he wasn’t the kind of puppy that gets put in a sack and drowned at birth. He wasn’t always unwanted. And he isn’t anymore.
or, evan “i love you like a dog” buckley has only ever known how to love like, well, a dog, but maybe eddie diaz is the kinda guy to give a flea-bitten mongrel a forever home
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- Part 1 of i love you like a dog
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02 Apr 2025
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The sky was clear the day Maverick’s world ended.
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- Part 3 of twenty dollars verse
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26 Mar 2025
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Sharon looks down at her wedding ring and says a prayer for the handsome Navy pilot that’s heading their way. He’s got no idea what he’s in for. / Or, Iceman and Maverick versus the Real Housewives of Fallon, Nevada.
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30 Jan 2025
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Goose has been dead for a week and a half when Iceman loses his first wingman in a dogfight with six Soviet MiGs over the Sea of Okhotsk.
Goose has been dead for thirty years when Iceman loses his second wingman to a surface-to-air missile on the tail-end of a mission he's responsible for: he's sent his family on a suicide mission to destroy a uranium enrichment facility in Russia's Far East.
This is the story of those thirty years in the middle.
(Or: Tom Kazansky rises through the ranks while trying to stay a good man. If he ever was one to begin with.)
[Final edit 2/4/23. See Ch. 1 notes for major changes.]
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- Part 1 of Easier Done Than Said
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18 Jan 2025
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reach for the golden ring (reach for the sky) by softerEpilogue
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
06 May 2026
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When Pete Mitchell is ten years old, he sets his mind, there and then, that he’s going to be the best goddamn pilot the Navy’s ever seen, and nothing and no one is going to keep him out of the air.
When Tom Kazansky is twenty-seven, their paths collide, and it makes the world shift beneath his feet. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is not a part of his Twenty Year Plan, but Tom can’t seem to shake him. He stops trying, after a while. It’s the best— and worst— thing that’s ever happened to him.
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- Part 3 of Somewhere on the East Side of Sorrow
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27 Nov 2023
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Maverick dreamt of Goose, most nights. On the ground, still alive; in the air, dying; in the ocean, already dead, pulling Maverick with him as they sank beneath the waves. The pain followed him into his waking hours, like a knife lodged permanently in his chest, but he shoved it down, smiled around it, put on a show for everyone. Even Ice. And even though Maverick ached to tell Ice the truth, to tell him about the nightmares, his grief, everything, he couldn’t make himself do it. He wasn’t brave enough. His time with Charlie had taught him what would happen if he did. / Sequel to Lead Me On (To The Other Side).
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- Part 3 of Beyond
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09 Nov 2023
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let’s talk about sex, baby (let’s talk about you and me) by boasamishipper
Fandoms: Top Gun (1986)
12 Nov 2019
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Prompt: I keep coming in to take condoms from the health services desk because I think you’re cute and I’m pretty sure you must think my sex life is wild.
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09 Nov 2023
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Buck's not sure what's going on when Eddie starts kissing him on the head after a rough call, only now it's A Thing, and it's a thing Buck would very much like to continue if he knew what it meant.
(or another Buddie fic where everyone knows except Buck.)
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18 Jun 2022
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Buck thinks it must be a habit he still hasn’t dropped from his days in the army, or maybe it comes with the territory of being a dad – but Eddie can nap pretty much anywhere.
or, Eddie starts casually falling asleep against Buck, and Buck is very normal about it.
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18 Jun 2022
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[Sokka is five when the first mark appears.
It writes itself in a deep red like a wound, as if someone had carved the word “nonbender” in a messy font across the knuckles of his left hand, as if it was handwritten with a knife.
When he asks his mother, as she applies salve on Sokka’s knuckles, she sighs deeply and says nothing for a few moments.
“Sometimes, spirits don’t make much sense.”
Sokka has yet to turn thirteen when he wakes up screaming in pain, about ten soulmarks all over each other between his left shoulder and his ear, red and vivid like burning flesh. Among the few words that are somehow possible to read out of the disastrous scribbling, “disrespectful” and “coward” and “burned” and “sorry sorry sorry” are the ones that stand out the most to Sokka. He thinks, at the tender age of twelve, whoever did this to his soulmate will be sorry too, one day.
A month after Hakoda leaves him with the job of the protector at the age of thirteen, Sokka realizes, with a bitter taste in his mouth, that he’s got more soulmarks than his entire village combined.]
Or, to have a soulmark is to carry the vilest things that your soulmate believes about themselves on your skin.
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13 Mar 2022