Broken Leg and First Choice || Song of a Nightingale Pt.9
Author's note : English is not my mother tongue, I am french but I wanted to try to write in English so here we are ! (Don't hesitate to tell me about the errors…)
Pairing : Mitchell! OC x Rooster, mention of Kazansky! OC x Hangman, mention of OC × Iceman
Summary : Two years after the uranium mission, Maverick enjoys his new life. Working on his plane, drinking beer at the Hard Deck, building a limpy little family with Penny and her daughter, Rooster, his WSO's son and Blizzard, his wingman's and old friend's daughter.
Everything change the day he got a call which announces the existence of a 26 years daughter.
Discover the story of Ally and Bradley, find out if Kathleen will deal with her father's legacy, and meet Beck, the first woman graduate of Top Gun.
Warning : VERY BAD WRITING, age gap, mention of death, mention of diseases, mention of parents death, mention of s*x but nothing descriptive
Days after days, Ally builds her new life in California. Pete introduced her to a friend who owns a garage. Mark - Maverick’s friend - accepts Ally for a one month try. Since the first day, she felt perfectly in her place, as if she meant to work with her hands full of grease and durst. She used to come back home, black spots and big smiles on her face. She was more excited than ever when she was talking about her day. Her childish enthusiasm was making everybody laugh. It was hard to resist her when she was like that.
Ally promised to search for a place when she'll definitely be hired, even if Penny and Pete told her that she could take her time. She made new friends, most of them are part of the Dagger Squad that her father trained two years ago. She’s got some new habits, walks on the beach with Pete and parties in the Hard Deck with the Squad are part of it.
What she wasn’t used to was deployment. First it was Payback and Faboy, then Blizzard, Phoenix and Bob. Even if everybody were acting like there was no reason to worry, Ally could feel the nervousness of her father the day they picked up Kat at the airport. She was wearing her fly-suit and her hair was tied back in a braid. It was the first time Ally saw her friend dressed in uniform.
Her outfit wasn’t the only thing that was different. Her stare was more cold and her smile less shining. Like if she was already wearing a kind of mask that allows her to do her duty. The only moment she lowered the mask was the moment Jake took her in his arms and she buried her face in his chest. She kissed her boyfriend deeply and turned around to board the plane.
With Blizzard, Phoenix and Bob deployed and Hangman back in Texas to see his family, Bradley and Ally spent more time together. He used to pick her at her work and bring her back to the Hard Deck or home to rejoin Mav.
Pete and Ally planned a round trip in Australia so Ally could bring her last stuff to California and finalize all that remained to be settled about her mother’s death. Most of these things consist of seeing her aunts and uncles (who have always been awful with her) and selling the house. As saying that Ally will need support over there. So she was glad to know that her father was going to accompany her.
Unfortunately, five days before the departure, Penny fell from a chair while she was cleaning the kitchen and she broke her leg. She couldn’t do her shift with crutches, the young bartender just resigned and Jimmy couldn’t handle all the evening alone since the two weeks trip.
“I’m sorry, Ally, I’m so so sorry.” couldn’t stop repeating Pete. Ally smiled at him. “Don’t worry, dad. Penny needs you at the Hard Deck, it’s normal you stay here to help her. Don’t worry about me, I’m a big girl, I can go to Australia alone.”
“I know, I know, but it’s gonna be a hard time for you, I don't like the idea of you going through all this alone, as you did with your mother's disease. I don’t want you to feel lonely anymore.” Ally tried to comfort him but Bradley, who was listening all the time, interrupted her. “I can go.” Both father and daughter looked at him. Rooster looked at Maverick. “I can go with Ally. So you can stay to work at the Hard Deck and Ally won’t be alone in Kangaroo's Kingdom.”
Maverick looked at Ally. “Is it good for you ?” Ally tried to ignore her heart, which was beating faster at the idea of spending two weeks alone with Bradley. “Yeah, yeah. It’s perfect."
At the end of the week, she sat on the plane near Bradley Bradshaw for an almost 19 hours flight.
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Top Gun Fightertown, two years ago
Blizzard ran out after Hangman, who got out of the debrief room just after he threw the truth about Goose back in Rooster’s face, in front of all the Squad. To conclude by saying that Rooster wasn’t ready for the mission. Blizzard was furious and when everyone would be yelling at his face, Blizzard’s wrath was cold, Ice cold. “Seresin !”
Hangman looked back at her. He was used to hearing her call him Hangman and even Bagman and he anticipated that she could yell at him to defend her dear Rooster. But calling him by his last name ? That’s new.
“You are the biggest bastard of the Earth.” Hangman smirked, snarky. “Tell me something I don’t know, Kazansky.” Coyote was looking at the conversation from afar, ready to defend his friend. Blizzard was fighting against tears that rose to her eyes. But in appearance, she was still cold as ice.
“You don’t know what it is. Having a parent that is dead up there, and living with that, flying with that. Who are you to think that you can drop something like that in front of everyone ! You don’t know the story, you don’t know their story !”
The cold stare she was sending him made him feel uneasy. Ok, maybe this time he went too far, but he knew why he did what he did.
“You’re right. I don’t know what it is to live with this kind of legacy. But what I know it’s that we are going on a fucking suicide mission. We don’t need the man that trained us to be affected by his personal stuff.”
Blizzard interrupted him. “If you think that Maverick is going to choose Rooster because of their common past, you are wrong.” It was Hangman’s turn to interrupt her. “I know that. But just as I said, it’s a suicide mission. I'm going to do this mission and I want the best pilots with me. And even if it tears my tongue to say it, Rooster is one of them. But he needs to be much better.”
Blizzard was speechless, that was the last thing she was expecting from Hangman. He understood that Mav was likely to set apart Rooster and he didn’t want to. So he drove him to become one of the best. He wanted Rooter as his wingman.
A little voice in Blizzard’s head told her that she already knew it. That she always knew there was something else behind this asshole’s mask, something more interesting. And right now he let her see a part of him, of the real he.
Hangman turned around and left her standing there.
He glanced over his shoulder and said : “By the way, he is my second choice, the first one is stuck in the ground.”
The idea of being Hangman’s first choice gave birth to feelings in her body that she couldn’t explain. Or that she didn't want to explain.
She pinched the bridge of her nose, ran her hand through her hair and turned around, murmuring an angry “damnit”. She got back and headed for the locker, searching for Rooster.
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