AU Plot Bunnies which randomly struck me like a club
1. Top Gun Filming + Murder Mystery and Investigation AU with estranged Goose and Mav, and didnt-want-to-take-sides-but-unintentionally-did-and-now-Mav-is-again-more-or-less-alone-and-we-feel-like-shit-for-doing-that Flyboys after they're all called back to Top Gun for the filming of a movie based on the Navy (yeah, kinda meta)
2. Mission Impossible AU where the fight happens, but Mav is redeployed and assumed KIA after a dogfight in 1989 but is found alive by the IMF before the Navy and coerced-cum-guilt-tripped by Kittridge into joining the IMF by 1991 with the codename Ethan Hunt. And they collide again around 5 years later in 1996. Oh and he and Penny sleep together at a dingy club after the events of MI1 in this AU (around 1992) while Mav is trying to get over Prague and Penny is trying to get over him (muehehe) and thus Amelia is born but the Admiral is worried about Penny and her reputation (no one bothers to test for the father, just go along with it), but then someone tries to steal baby Amelia away coz reasons when a newbie IMF recruit rescues the baby and delivers her to Ethan because he's the closest one around. Ethan also doesn't bother to test for the DNA (till she's 5), instead naming her Amelia as well (thus her legal name stays the same lol). And they end up meeting Benji earlier because I hc him as being good with babies and toddler Amelia takes a shining to him one day so he takes care of her till the events of MI3 don't hit and Amelia grows up with stories of her dads Navy friends and the lady he had loved along with the IMF friends, so she often alternates between wanting to be an agent, a hacker or a sailor, like kids do. It's a messy AU
(Prolly would write after the single dad one, if ever)











