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Rest easy, Val <3

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My favorite bartender at work, John, very old Greek man, is absolutely hell bent on finding me a husband, for some reason.

Still haven’t figured out why but I appreciate the effort. Thanks John.

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Pete was on his first day of shore leave in Pensacola, it was about midnight and he had been asleep until his phone started ringing. A name flashed on to the screen, Mercedes, Ice's daughter was calling him.

“Hello, Maverick speaking.”

“Hey Mav,” Mercedes said, “Sorry for calling you so late but Dad's in the hospital, he's been asking for you since he got admitted.”

“Oh God, what's wrong?” Maverick asks, panic seeping into his voice.

“We're not sure yet, but he's had a really bad cough for the past couple months and today he started coughing blood so we got him admitted before it got worse.”

“Okay, I'll be on the next flight to Lemoore.”

Maverick hung up and jumped up to start getting ready.

When Pete arrives in Lemoore the first thing he does is call Mercedes, it goes straight to voicemail. He tries again, she still doesn't pick up. Next he tries Jack, Jack picks up on the 3rd ring.

“Jack Kazansky speaking,” Jack answered sleepily.

“Hey, Jack, it's Maverick.” Pete replies.

“Oh, hey Mav, is there a reason why you're calling me.”

“Uh yeah, your sister called me and told me that your dad was in the hospital.”

“Oh, um, yeah, I don't know why she called you, he's probably fine,” Jack said in an unreadable tone of voice.

“Well, your sister seemed pretty worried,” Maverick said. “Anyways, my plane just landed in Lemoore. I was wondering if I could get a ride since I don't have one.”

“Uh, yeah I guess, I'll be there in 20.”

20 minutes later Pete was sitting next to Jack in his pickup truck, the radio humming in the background.

“So, how have you been?” Maverick asks, trying to break the uncomfortable silence.

“Fine.” Jack grunts.

“How's your mom?”

“Dead.”

“Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.” Pete said, unsure of how to react. “She was a good woman.”

“Yeah, you don't have to act sorry Pete, I know you and my dad have some weird lovers thing going on, you don't have to hide it from me anymore.”

“What?” Pete questions, “Me and you're dad, we're not, no.”

The truck stops at a stop sign and Jack looks over at Pete. “Look, Maverick, I know you and my dad are in love and have been in love since you met, there's no point in even trying to deny it now that my mom's dead. Isn't that what you and my dad have been waiting for? For her to not be around anymore so you can have your weird homoerotic relationship publicly?”

The car starts moving again as Maverick and Jack fall into an even more uncomfortable silence than the first one.

About 5 minutes later Pete breaks it. “For the record I wasn't aware that I was in love with your dad until 2001, which was 15 years after I met him and at least 7 years after he met your mom and 5 years after you were born and 3 years after your sister was born. Not that that helps. And this also probably doesn't help but if anything I was happy that your dad married your mom, if he hadn't there was a good chance one if not both of us would have been dishonorably discharged.”

Jack seemingly ignored what Pete said. Maverick knew his comment wouldn't help yet he'd still opened his big mouth, that makes everything worse.

It was a long quiet ride the rest of the way to the hospital. The moment the car stopped Pete jumped out and started heading inside.

“I'm here to see Kazansky, Thomas Kazansky,” Maverick blurted the moment he reached the front desk.

The lady behind the desk looked tired as she asked “What's your relation to Mr. Kazansky?”

Pete reaches up and grabs the chain around his neck and pulls his dog tags out and shows one of them to the nurse.

“Military people.” She says under her breath before telling him, “Room 109, down the hall on the right, the door is on the left side.”

“Thanks,” Pete said before tearing off down the hall.

When Pete reached Tom’s door he paused in front of it staring at it like it was gonna open on its own, or try and kill him if he touched it. Finally Pete reached for the door handle and opened the door.

Maverick walked through the door and looked towards the bed in the room. His breath caught in his throat. Ice was lying back on a pile of pillows white as the blanket covering him. There was a pile of tissues on the bedside table, Pete could see blood on at least 5 of them.

“Hey, how ya doing Ice?” Pete asked, worry thick in his voice.

Ice cleared his throat before speaking, “About as well as I can be Mav.”

Maverick approached his bed, “Well that’s good, I wouldn’t expect any less from my wingman.”

“Where are you expecting flattery like that to get you?”

“A spot on the bed next to you maybe?”

Tom scooted over to make room for Pete on the bed, patting the empty space beside him.

“Thanks,” Pete grunted, sitting down next to Ice.

Tom rested his head against Pete’s shoulder.

“I heard about Sarah, I’m sorry I wasn’t there when it happened.” Pete said.

“It’s fine Mav, it’s not like you could have done anything.”

Pete nodded, “I still feel bad though. But that’s not the most important thing right now, what have they decided is wrong with you?”

Tom paused for a second, “They think it's throat cancer.”

Pete's breath catches in his throat. He knows what cancer can do to a person, he watched Carole wither away with sickness, he imagines Ice going through the same thing and starts tearing up at the thought. Pete doesn't want to watch that happen to Tom, to his wingman, he can't watch that happen.

“Are they sure?” Pete asks, his voice as strong as he can force it to be.

“No,” Tom says, “But they're pretty sure that's what it is”

“No,” Pete sobs, “No it can't be, I can't go through this shit again, I can't watch another one of my friends die while I stand by helplessly. This can't be happening.”

Just then Mercedes walks through the door.

“Oh, uh, do you want me to leave?” Mercedes asked politely

“No,” Maverick said, wiping his eyes, “Stay.”

“Okay,” Mercedes said grabbing the bedside chair and pulling it up next to the bed.

“I saw Jack in the waiting room,” Mercedes commented. “He said he told you about mom.” She said to Maverick.

This is unfinished but this is the prologue to the last story thing that I wrote

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The Flyboys and their pets

Maverick

has the most hyper mystery mix dog you've ever seen. literally running circles around everyone all the time. mav takes him to the jet runway just so he can finally power himself out.

Iceman

got a german shepherd to look all official and respectable ... unfortunately his dog is the biggest couch potato known to man and would rather nap all day

Slider

has a super spoiled kitty cat that likes no one but him. definitely talks to her in a baby voice and refers to her as his daughter to everyone who asks. a million pictures on his phone of his favorite little diva (ice is his second). probably names her something worthy of a lady, like petunia, constance etc.

Goose

bradley. that's enough (carole probably has ducks or chickens)

Hollywood

none, he likes horses but doesn't really have the space for them

Wolfman

has a tiny yellow canary that follows him around everywhere and loves sitting on the brim of his cowboy hat. probably interrupts the other flyboys all the time by chirping loudly, making wolf laugh and be like "see, even Tweety is tired of your yapping"

Chipper

is allergic to most animal hair, so his parents got him a tortoise when he was a kid. she's still alive and probably will outlive all of them.

Sundown

has the most beautiful beagle lady, spoils her absolutely rotten - millions of toys, leashes, collars etc. and of course a huge soft dog bed right next to his

Merlin

doesn't have any pets but LOVES petsitting for the others

honorable mention: Cougar

hamster. no one makes him happier than this little guy. built him a huge enclosure his wife can only shake her head over ...

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I crave to see our ‘86 flyboys in a natural disaster…

Imagine it: just another day at the beach, the guys are playing volleyball and periodically playing in the water and sand with baby Bradley as Carole sunbathes. 

When the ground suddenly trembles a bit under them… Hollywood’s a mountain Cali boy and he thinks nothing of it. He's felt some awful earthquakes in his day and that was nothing. Slider’s from the middle west and Mav’s from Kansas so unless it starts sounding like a runaway train in a green sky he isn't going to be of much help. Carole’s from Tennessee so she's in the same boat as Mav. Chipper and Sunny went up to buy lunch for everyone so they can't ask them, whereas Wolf’s from Texas and this ain't a hurricane. 

The only one who stops is Ice. 

Ice, who turns when he hears shouts from the small beach crowd a minute later and he sees the ocean start to recede. 

Everyone watches all the color drain from Ice’s face in one go and suddenly he's RUNNING. He grabs Bradley and snatches up Carole with a yelp, he's screaming at the top of his lungs at the flyboys, telling them to RUN. 

He practically throws Bradley at Mav and starts hauling the smaller pilot up the beach at full tilt, heedless of the fact that Mav’s feet are barely touching the ground at this point.

He's also screaming back at the crowd, bellowing at them to MOVE. 

Why you might ask? 

Ice is from Hawaii. 

He knows damn well what a tsunami looks like. 

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I have paperwork I need to pick up from my doctor and mail to the coast guard to renew my medical certificate.

It’s been a month and a half.

adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting

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Being hot and having no game is the worst.

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I went to highschool with a guy named Frederick-Bradley Brad *insert last name*. We called him brad^2

Ok, I know some people hc Rooster’s middle name as Peter BUT imagine if it was Bradford.

Bradley Bradford Bradshaw

Brad³

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We have a new guy at work and I swear he’s never seen a woman on a ship before.

I’m actually not sure he’s ever interacted with a woman, ever.

It’s been a weird two days.

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I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

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Watched War of the Worlds this weekend.

How dare they do that to my boat.

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Why did I just come home to my 58 year old father watching Legally Blonde.

Go off I guess, dad

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Why is it so hard to find a job?

Bro I have qualifications

I have licenses

Pay me????

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hc just dropped the flyboys call ice tomcat as a joke and so when the daggers crashed at Bradley’s ‘uncles’ imagine their surprise when they woke up and two people (slider and mav) were squabbling in the kitchen and one of them suddenly yelled tomcat and the commander of the Pacific fleet came out of fucking nowhere