#goose 🤝 slider: long time suffering best friends

[pollyna]

au in which Mav and Ice compete for Top Gun in different years, Ice is '85 and Mav in '86, so they don't know each other but they know of each other. When they meet is in the middle of the fucking ocean, from two different carriers, and Ron is a step away for fuckin' mutiny because he can't live with that. Nick can't either and their going to bond over their bad luck.

The meeting goes USS Enterprise this isn't your route, please adjust the coordinates and get the hell out of it to which they respond with a no, you are on the wrong path. You should change course and get the hell out of it because everybody lost their fucking mind and never learn a lick of protocol. And so both carriers stop, less than a nautical mile of distance, and Commander Pete Maverick Mitchell opens his mouth and Commander Tom Iceman Kazansky does the same. Because, again, nobody knows a damn about protocol. But everything changes when Maverick says I'm better Kazansky and Iceman answer At what, pray to tell? with his ice cold stare, tracing him from head to feet and the Commander's cheeks are red and the man behind him murmurs a ah fuck, here we are again.

How that translates in Commander Mitchell coming on board of the USS Layton just to leave the afternoon of the day is a mystery for the entire Navy but not for Goose and Slider. Fuck why it always has to be them?!