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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Top Gun (Movies) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Characters: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw Additional Tags: Role Reversal, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Captain Ice, Admiral Maverick, Movie: Top Gun Maverick (2022), Grief/Mourning, Implied Sexual Content, Men Crying, Presumed Dead, Angst with a Happy Ending Series: Part 3 of in reverse Summary:
"I'm telling you this now, as a warning," Warlock had said on the phone, days ago, "but Simpson is naming Kazansky as team-lead."
So that's when it starts. Doomsday, maybe. End of the world, maybe. Maverick has been having one long panic attack for three days. Ice keeps talking about how "if this goes wrong then it's a third World War," but all Maverick is thinking is if this goes wrong then I lose you.
- Or, Top Gun: Maverick, but we just keep going left