#(hint of sloose bc i can't live without putting a lil of them here)

[pollyna]

✨️Goose and Iceman (& Slider) in Annapolis✨️:

- they met because Nick needs a pencil and never really stop talking because Nick is the only one with a braincell there (sorry Ron);

- they both love sci-fi and Ice lends his book to Goose and Goose does the same. Ice's copies are full of notes and the back is always broken because Ice reads everywhere he can while Goose's are almost new because he's a bit of a maniac on how his books should be preserved;

- Slider is the first one to have a callsign because Goosd had to pull a prank just in that moment, and the banana peel on the floor exactly in the moment Ron was walking in? A fucking success. Nick is the second and the story about his callsign variates based on who asks. The Mother follows because Tom swears that man is more concerned about him not getting sick that everything else, that particular winter;

- Goose thinks and does enough shenanigans that Ice has to come up with a new excuse every day and some are as wiled as the shenanigans Goose does. Once, trying very hard not to laugh in front of the instructor, Ice had to bitten the inside of his cheek so hard he actually drew a little blood, and he spent two days eating ice chips because they were the only thing that didn't hurt;

- Goose takes Ice and Slider line dancing one night and almost falls face on the ground when he sees Ron moving;

- where Ice fills his books of notes, Goose writes on Ice's one. Especially on his math ones because Goose gets bored easily, Ice already knows most of what they're explaining, and Slider is more interested in pyshich that geometry;

- Goose plays the piano regularly every Friday night and once or twice Ice sings, but only when it's just the three of them around;

- the first time they all go up, Ice buys them too many rounds of vodka martini and they get so shit faced they end up cuddling all together because they're cold (and fucking christ how could you not be, sleeping on the fucking beach? a guy, Hollywood?, asks the next morning);

- in the middle of the winter Ice goes around in shorts and one of Slider's, or Goose's, sweatshirts because he forgot to pack his and he's hot and cold at the same time but he won't put on anything else. Goose takes pictures because, he promises, in a couple of years, he will have to show them to someone!! Ron snorts louder and cuddles Ice a little longer until Goose joins them because it's really fucking cold;

- Slider buys a succulent one night because the thing is too cute, and it costs him no more than a penny. Three of the most brilliant minds in the Navy end up killing the poor thing, Maggy, in less than three weeks;

- the day of the graduation, they take a photo, and Goose gives a copy to the other two. Until the next time, my friends he says all serious and composed and Ron slaps him behind the head because ohy Ice, the Mother thought it was going to get rid of us already. They all laugh so much everybody else around them starts to laugh too.