Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw x Jake "Hangman" Seresin Masterlist Part 4 - Long
Note: This masterlist is only for long fanfiction (20k+ word fanfiction only).
✸Four Letter Fame - 72k -
Capitol viewers will see this at the dawn of another Quarter Quell: Hangman and a second Bradshaw, both back with a vengeance in an uneasy alliance, two gilded fighters who have the betting odds stacked in their corner.
They’ll wait for the betrayal to come. It won’t.
The Hunger Games AU, with a softer epilogue and a happy ending
2. ⨳The push and pull - 44k - The Dagger Squad are kept together after the mission under new command - a rear admiral who has a history of putting the mission ahead of his team. Something Jake knows all too well and he can’t let any of the other Daggers know what that can lead to - especially not Bradley.
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“We’re all up for promotion on Friday, sir,” Jake tried to placate the situation, hoping the rear admiral would latch onto this topic.
“Yes, I’ve heard a few rumours about that mission of yours.” The disappointment was evident in his tone. “Insubordination, fighting, and not even making it past a spare. Just know that as difficult as it was to get that ‘promotion’ of yours, it can be easily stripped away, understood?”
“Yes, sir.” Jake kept his voice steady and body rigid.
“That goes for all of those little ‘friends’ of yours,” any calm was gone with that one statement, the rear admiral in Jake’s face as he spat the words at him, pointing not at the group around the pool table but the door he was halfway to escaping through - the one Bradley had just left through.
3. ✸History's like gravity, it holds you down away from me - 61k -
“That’s too much thinking for you, obviously. You should leave that to the professionals. Don’t want to hurt yourself.”
This time Bradley let out a laugh. Jake had missed that sound.
“I don’t see any professionals around here, do you?”
“Sorry, princess.” Bradley didn’t look sorry at all.
“Just don’t come crying to me when you get lost in the tomb and can’t read the hieroglyphics that say this way to the exit.”
“I’m not worried. I don’t plan on leaving your side, problem solved.”
“I will leave you behind.”
“You would never. Plus, someone’s gotta talk you out of leaving society for good and moving into the ancient burial grounds to live amongst your favorite mummies and old ass relics, like some modern day form of an Egyptian hobbit hole.”
Jake stopped. “You know, that’s a valid point. Weird ass way to put it, but valid.”
Bradley grinned. “What can I say, I know you.”
Jake was starting to realize just how accurate that statement was.
✸You can make my wish come true, if you let me treasure you - 39k -
“Jake…you know you’re my family right? If we do this, we do it together. It’s not a Bradshaw only thing.”
The man blinked at him and then smiled softly. “Okay. You’re my family too so if you’re doing this, I’m riding shotgun.”
Bradley nodded and grinned brightly. “Think we’ll have to fight off any zombie founding fathers brought back to life?”
“I’m putting $5 on at least two. I call dibs on fighting off Franklin though.”
The one where, fresh off their mummy adventure, Jake and Bradley steal the Declaration of Independence, make way too many mummy related jokes, and get married, all with a little help from their friends.
4. ⨳Serendipity - 181k - During his second year at university, Bradley found himself with no room or a place to live. Venting to his co-worker, a handsome customer overheard his problems and offered him a sweet deal: to stay at his flat in exchange for looking out for his cat. But why did his new landlord have to be a naval aviator of all things? Couldn't he just be a regular rich kid?
5. ✸I found something in the woods somewhere - 28k - After almost going into G-loc, Bradley agrees to give Javy a ride out to the nature preserve to meet a friend, and ends up getting a lot more than he bargains for when he meets Jake.
6. ✸Love can ignite the stars - 26k -
“I don't know what the hell padawans are and no, I don't have an opinion on what you're arguing about. I've never seen a Star Wars movie or a Star Trek episode in my entire life,” he just said, wickedly delighted from seeing those shocked expressions on Bob and Coyote's faces.
But Jake looked absolutely horrified by what he had just said.
His chiseled jaw dropped open and Bradley was momentarily afraid it would dislocate from his face and start rolling across the Hard Deck floor.
Penny wouldn't like this, he strongly suspected.
Bradley couldn't even pinpoint why, since he had fully achieved his goal, but he didn't like the fact that he was the one who had distorted Jake’s features like that.
“What do you mean you've never watched Star Wars?!” Jake almost shouted, suddenly approaching Bradley in one fluid move and making his heart leap into his throat.
[Bradley never watched Star Wars, so Jake offers to guide him. They can't imagine what they are gonna gain from a nine movies marathon]
7. ✸All at once, everything looks different (now that I see you) - 21k - Jake convinces Bradley to fly to Texas with him to meet Jake's family, the Seresin's. Bradley can't help feeling nervous but is pleasantly surprised when he actually gets there. Jake's been acting strange ever since they landed, what could be happening behind the scenes?
8. ⨳Still counting - 63k - Jake "Hangman" Seresin has been in love with Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw for years. Bradley has been oblivious for all of them.
Can you really blame him, when Jake's an asshole around everyone, and a Super-Asshole around him?
The unthinkable happens, and it might just give them a second chance at first impressions.
9. ✸an ocean between the waves - 30k - There’s a shift in the air between them. It’s anticipation, he thinks, like the sky before a thunderstorm - that underlying thrum of electricity right before everything explodes, bright and white and brilliant.
And the thing is, Bradley fucking loves thunderstorms.
10.✸ fuse is fireside - 44k - For months, ever since he heard the restaurant down the street had been bought, Bradley’s been a ball of anticipation and nerves. But when he'd heard who bought it, he’d just about choked on his own tongue.
Jake Seresin, darling of the Culinary Institute of America, fine dining’s golden boy.
Of course he had to open his place right by Bradley’s.
11. ✸Conditions of Absolute Reality - 26k - The moment they’d bundled Bradley into the medical bay and the heady cocktail of elation and relief and pride had quieted its song in his bloodstream, a strange sense of detachment had descended on him. Two weeks later, it still hasn’t lifted. Bradley feels like he’s been watching the world from behind a thick pane of frosted glass—everything muffled and faraway and just beyond his reach.
If anything, the nightmares are a relief, because at least they feel real.
Maybe it’s his mind trying to protect itself from the trauma. Maybe the bailout rattled his brain harder than anyone realised. Maybe, he thinks, letting his head fall to one side to catch a glimpse of the unfamiliar landscape peeking through the gap in the curtains, it’s just the surreality of everything that’s come after. Like ending up here, in Jake Seresin's childhood home.
12. ✸lightning + sand = glass hearts - 22k - Hangman's got a crush. When he rescues Bradshaw from a perv, they have to fall into a fake relationship. It's just for a few weeks, right?
13. ✸Tourism and Destinations (neither compare to journeys or friendships) - 24k - Jake didn’t need a wedding date - he was solely attending as a guest, and it didn’t matter if he took a partner with him or not. In fact, he’d rather not. Why bother, when the one he wanted wouldn’t ever agree?
…But apparently Bradley was in a different boat, and now he’d just roped himself into some fake wedding date with Bradshaw. That was going to be decidedly harder.
14. ✸Trans-Atlantic Relations (and how to not start a war) - 31k -
It’s an honor to get called for a special detachment, Jake's CO claims as he informs him that they're sending him on some joint training maneuver with the British Navy out in the North Sea. Jake's not buying it. He really doesn’t see why the US Navy should be giving away its secrets like that, even if the British are allies. He has managed to spend ten years in the Navy without having to go up to the North Sea — a streak he had hoped to continue because anyone who has ever sailed knows that the North Sea is some of the roughest water out there. Plus it’s fucking cold.
Maybe he can at least sweet-talk someone into letting him fly one of those sweet F-35Bs that the Brits have.
15. ✸Electrocution is a love language - 20k -
"OW,” Jake yelped, jerking his hand back. “Oh my god. I think I just saw God.”
The exclamation echoed louder than he intended, drawing a few confused glances from nearby students. Jake blinked at his hand, then at the desk, then at the ceiling like it might provide answers.
Bradley startled at first, head whipping toward him, but then, unexpectedly, he laughed. Not a scoff. Not a condescending huff. A real, genuine laugh. Full-bodied and surprised, like he hadn’t meant to let it slip.
Jake froze.
He stared at Bradley as though witnessing a rare animal in the wild. “You laugh,” he said slowly, eyes wide. “You actually laugh.”
Bradley immediately sobered, though a ghost of a smile still lingered on his face. “I laugh when people get electrocuted.”
“Good to know your love language is mild electrocution,” Jake said, rubbing his fingers dramatically.
Bradley raised an eyebrow, recovering his deadpan. “Only for you.”
aka a Hangster College AU
16. ✸Can't fight the moonlight - 50k - What on god's green earth is Rooster thinking when he agrees to tag along for a break in Texas? He's the only one without a connection to the state. And the others have big ideas to turn this into a road trip.
Two weeks. Two weeks to take on Fort Worth, to the Gulf Coast and back again...two weeks to meet new people, join in some family drama, and learn a lot more about his travel partners and colleagues than in the entirety of the last decade. And maybe be known in the process.
Especially a version of Hangman he never knew existed. A few versions, in fact.
He caught Rooster’s eyes falling on his lips for a fraction of a second. What was that? Probably just a counterattack, to egg him on.
18. ✸the more you say, the less I know - 156k -
A missing person's case brought Jake Seresin to the town of Achlyn, but it might not be what makes him stay.
Jake's a detective working a disappearance, Bradley runs the inn he's staying at in the coastal Maine town, and he's pretty sure the locals know something he doesn't, but he's never met a case he couldn't crack. He just wasn't expecting a complication like Bradley Bradshaw and his sad eyes.
19. ✸When the waters run deep (trust them not to pull you under) - 28k -
In all of Jake’s life, all he had ever wanted was to be a marine biologist. He adored the ocean and it’s inhabitants more than anything else.
He thought he had everything he’d ever wanted.
Until his boss sent him on a mission that he’d almost died on - forcing him to realign his perspective, and realize perhaps there was something else he wanted, after all.
20. ✸Deluxe Capacitor and Green Squirrel - 43k - Back in town for a new mission, Bradley meets his past demons again, Jake is trying to make it through the day really.
Bradley thinks he'll have to see Maverick again due to a postcard he received and does see Jake at the Hard Deck. Jake is still hurting about Bradley and the mission just makes it worse.
21. ✸When danger comes home (don't ever let it roost) - 38k -
Bradley adored his job, and it had been his dream to go into law enforcement as a kid. He had everything he’d ever wanted - except for a romantic partner, but he’d never even consider dragging them into his dangerous personal life.
…Until he took a smuggling case involving Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin, a known member of the city’s organized crime syndicate.
Maybe he’d bitten off more than he could chew, this time.
22. ✸Reaching for the stars - 32k - When everyone was celebrating how they managed to finish a suicidal mission with 0 kills, Rooster found himself drunk, horny and alone. Luckily for him, Jake is also drunk, waiting for him at his place. What led him to just act, and not think.
23. ✸in this world, it's just us (you know it's not the same as it was) - 47k - He changes in the bathroom quickly, brushing his teeth and fixing his hair before he walks out, rolling his eyes when Bobby wolf-whistles.
“Really objectifying me.” Bradley grabs his phone, and Bobby laughs.
“You just look like you need objectifying.” Bobby replies, laughing again when Bradley wrinkles his nose. “Don’t worry, I’ll leave that to Jake.”
“I don’t even like him.” He argues, but even he can hear how much of a lie that it sounds like.
or, the story of Jake and Bradley, from childhood to what comes after the mission
24. ✸Chasin' that desire - 38k - “I can’t promise I won’t be a stubborn ass along the way,” he says, wanting Jake to know what he’s getting into. “I’ll do my best not to be,” he promises.
Jake laughs that off, a playful grin on his face. “Oh, I’ll be shocked if you’re anything other than a stubborn ass, but that’s one of your best qualities.”
Bradley rolls his eyes, trying and failing to stifle his smile. Jake always seems to know exactly what to say. “Ha-ha,” he deadpans. “But, Jake, I really don’t know how I’ll ever be able to thank you enough.”
The other man shrugs as if that’s the absolute least of his worries. “I’m not doing this to be repaid, I’m doing it because I care about you,” Jake says, his words hanging in the air for a moment. “So what do you say? Sound like a plan?”
“Yeah,” he says, his tone grateful. “Yeah, it does.”
Or: Bradley sustains several broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder from the mission, and Jake refuses to sit by and watch Bradley handle the recovery all on his own. Pining ensues.
25. ✸Good times, dark nights - 21k -
RiddikulusRooster has sent his address.
RiddikulusRooster: shit was that too soon?
RiddikulusRooster: imagine I said something cool first
Jake Seresin does not have one night stands. When Javy jokingly suggests he find someone to help him get over his ex, he decides "why not?"
Turns out, there are a lot of reasons why not, but the most pressing one is this: you might end up getting snowed in with said one night stand partner for over 48 hours. If that isn't bad enough, they might also end up being the most infuriating person you've ever met.
26. ✸Show me the places where the others gave you scars - 26k -
“Who-who’s getting married, excuse me?” was what Jake blurted out as a question.
Because his mind was literally refusing to believe a single word Bradley was saying and the point he was making by using that verb in a meaningful sentence with the two of them as the subject.
Bradley’s hand, large and warm, rested on Jake’s chest and he felt his heart leap into his throat at such an embarrassing rate that he thought, for a long moment, that he was going to collapse and pass out in front of them all.
“You and me, silly. There’s no need to hide our love from Ice and Mav anymore,” Bradley whispered in a fake sweet tone, as the world crumpled around Jake and dragged him down an abyss of lies. “Unfortunately, it’s the same old cliche you watch in romcom movies. You know, the boss and the assistant, long nights together in the office, intercontinental trips for books fairs... we are just two people who should never have fallen in love. And yet we did!”
[Jake is Bradley's assistant and he hates his boss so, so much... but he is forced to be his fiancé out of nowhere. Aka The Proposal AU]
[written for the Top Gun Summer Secret Santa Fake Dating Fic Exchange 2024]
27. ✸into the sun - 78k - They meet before the marine layer’s burned off, the sun high behind the marble-gray clouds.
28. ✸Cause of Action - 35k - Bradley Bradshaw is New York City’s most underpaid, overworked associate, working for the city's biggest workaholic. The only thing more painful than the combination of those things is his equally underpaid, overworked colleague, Jake Seresin, who drives him halfway insane on a regular basis.
That’s until Jake comes up with the world’s worst idea, and somehow, Bradley’s under-slept, over-caffeinated brain decides that he should help execute it.
29. ✸you've tasted love and it tasted sweet - 24k - He was trusting Jake with himself, to not hurt him and to take care of him. It was an overwhelming feeling, locking him into the moment, committing as much of this to memory as he could. If this was just a one off he could live with that as long as he could remember this.
30. ✸From Friends to This - 32k - Bradley Bradshaw spent years thinking about leaving the Navy behind, so after his brush with death during the Uranium Mission, he decides it's finally time to go through with it and stop living for others, desperately chasing ghosts. In between learning how to live for his own wants and needs and re-discovering old hobbies, he suddenly finds himself offering Jake "Hangman" Seresin his spare room. Rooming with Jake would be less troublesome if the man wasn't his ex-best friend, who he's been in love with for nearly a third of his life though.
31. ✸Kinktober 2025: Good Intentions - 43k -
Written for Kinktober 2025.
Basically, two stories concerning two idiots who fall in love, with lots of smut in between.
Story 1: Bradley wants to think Jake has changed after The Mission. A wrongly received voicemail leads him to find out something about Jake he didn't know about, something that moulds their newfound camaraderie into something else.
Story 2: Jake shouldn't be upset, but after that strange phone call and some lewd promises, he can't help but feel pissed when Bradley fails to show up at a party (organised by his godparents, no less). But Jake's not going to stand around and mope about it. Instead, he heads out to find an answer for being cast aside so easily. And the result of which proves to be much more satisfactory.
32. ✸no shame in it (not if it's you) - 28k -
Jake was used to things being easy. He was used to being good at things.
But then Jake meets Bradley on a mountain, and now he has no idea what he's doing.
brokeback mountain hangster
