Slider craned his neck trying to catch a glimpse of their resident short stack. He tended to wander off at air shows like this.
A flash of yellow jogged his memory, and he nudged Ice as he turned to move that direction. “Didn’t he say something about a biplane he wanted to see?”
Ice nodded, still looking all around for his husband. He saw several of the Daggers checking out the different aircraft. Phoenix and Hangman were with Bradley at Mav’s P-51. Of course, those two tended to be wherever their son went. They were a bit of a packaged deal.
The problem with having a shorter husband was it was often difficult to locate him in the crowd. Especially when said husband tended to lose focus and follow shiny things.
Ice ran into Ron’s back when he stopped suddenly. He looked up to see what had caught his attention and froze “Is that…?”
“It sure as hell looks like it,” Ron laughed as he started walking toward the bright yellow biplane. As they moved, Mav caught sight of them and waved happily.
Ice sighed as his husband hopped down from the plane way too easily for his age.
permanent dagger squad stationed at north island; phoenix, hangman and rooster, in flight gear and sunglasses, strutting past a gaggle of starstruck new ensigns
Before they get back in the Bronco, Bradley slings his arm around Natasha. He peppers the side of her head with kisses. She scratches gently at his ribs before pulling away and Jake, watching with one foot in the door, wonders if he ever stood a chance.
hi elwen!! for the WIP title game, would you share more about How To Shoot Somebody Who Outdrew You? (which I do specifically hear to the tune of the kd lang cover lol)
Hello brigit, my dear!!! Thank you so much for the ask. Titles are from this WIP game.
"How to Shoot Somebody Who Outdrew You" is a Top Gun WIP that started as a deleted scene from a different, Hangster fic called Kick the Tires and Light the Fires. I was writing a scene set during The Mission (in the time between when Jake hears Bradley get shot down and when he realizes Bradley's still alive), and I wrote some interactions between Jake and Natasha on the carrier deck, with the idea that she would be the one to help Jake figure out how to launch and fly cover for Bradley and Mav. I really liked the scene that resulted, but I felt like the vibe between Jake and Natasha was SO charged that it would actually have overloaded that particular fic, which didn't otherwise have much Natasha. So I thought...well, what if there were another fic where the triangular dynamics among Jake, Bradley, and Natasha were the focus?
I'm still filling out what I think will be a 5+1 structure (5 go-arounds + 1 final approach), but here's the scene that became the seed for the story:
“Hangman,” she says. “Seresin. Hey, come on, man.”
He looks up, tries to bring her face into focus.
“He came to me,” he blurts out. “Before the mission. He asked me for help, and I turned him away. I turned him away. Nat…did I kill him? Did I -”
He can’t finish. His chest aches. He’s choking.
“No.” Her hands are on his face, her nails scraping under the padding of his helmet. “Don’t fucking say that. Don’t - there was nothing you could do, Jake. I’m the one who - I was there, and I heard him get hit, and I - oh God.”
A noise thrashes free of her throat, and Jake grabs for her hands, clutches them in his own.
“Phoenix,” he says. “Hey, Phoenix.”
Stay with me, he wants to say - nonsensically, because he hadn’t realized she was with him before. Don’t leave me alone with this. Don’t let it break you.
And there’s too much aluminum and steel in between them, but her palms are strong on the hinges of his jaw, and Jake holds on.
“Jake,” she starts, but whatever she was planning to say is cut off by the radio coming back to life:
“Sir, we’re receiving a signal from Rooster’s ESAT.”
Jake and Natasha lock eyes. Jake’s pulse settles. His mind goes still and clear.
“The catapult -” he starts.
“I’m on it.”
“I’ll need the deck crew.”
“I’ve got it. Run the start-up.”
She drops from view as Jake’s hands fly over the control board, and then she darts back into his periphery, one hand fisting in the strap across his suit.
“Hangman,” she says. “You both come back. You hear me? You both come home.”
Jake looks at her, feels the weight her grip gives to the world, and he grins.
.....
Thank you again for the ask, my dear!!! And the kd lang cover is 👌👌👌 vibes for this.
Hey what are you thoughts on a rooster/Phoenix/hangman Pearl harbor au with rooster as Rafe Phoenix as Evelyn and hangman as Danny and instead of a love triangle it is a Polyamory relationship
OOOOOH. Pearl Harbor is such a good movie. i'd have to get rid of the death though. The supposed death can stay, but that's it haha. I think the question then becomes were they all together before or was it like, two of them together and then the other two when Bradley goes missing, the whole time there's this element of bradley and jake too, then it becomes all three. OOH it could be they were all childhood friends and grew up together. Bradley and Nat start dating cuz it just makes sense, but they always include Jake in everything, like they hate not including him. Everything goes down and they realize it was never just the two of them, like he was always equally included and they *want* that. Forever. It doesn't work without him. (It would definitely have to be one of those- we all are together or none of us situations.)
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