#kershaw

[the-ace-with-spades]

Weird take but Carole and Mav get married a couple of years after Top Gun.

It starts very simple --- Carole doesn't want to move out of the house she and Goose rented in Lemoore though the military programme but she can't stay there more than three months after the funeral because she is a widow and VA can't really prolong the lease for non-military people without a military spouse. She wants Bradley to have a stable home and keep the friends from other military families Bradley already made and she quite frankly can't afford anything as good as the military housing within the same budget out privately somewhere in the area.

Mav is living in a bachelor pad that looks like the cheapest student house share one has ever seen so he says, hey, let's transfer the lease onto me and we'll just try to pay for it together. And then he moves into the spare room they were previously saving up for Baby No. 2 that will never come to be.

It makes some things easier too --- Mav can take care of Bradley while Carole looks for a part-time job that can align her hours with Bradley's future preschool hours as he's not in one yet since she was a stay-at-home mom since they moved to Lemoore. She is a qualified teacher (art/music) but there aren't many schools around and she has barely taught before b/c she finished her degree and got pregnant not long after and with them moving around different bases, she couldn't find a job as anyone but a temp teacher. It's easier to cook for three than for one and they can switch with the chores depending on who is home at the time.

This rises some eyebrows in their circle of friends and military acquaintances --- Mav moving in with his best friend's widow not long after he died and helping her with taking care of his best friend's kid --- but everyone who is closer to Mav knows he still feels guilty about Nick and that Carole and Bradley are the closest thing to family Mav has left so it's kind of brushed off.

Ice and Slider, who have kind of gradually became a family fixture too, coming to dinners and helping with Bradley when both Carole and Mav are busy, have a bit mixed feelings about this.

Mav and Carole do seem awfully close. And even with Slider knowing that it was Mav who originally introduced Goose and Carole to each other, they seem almost too synced up for it to be completely platonic or new. Mav is very natural as a parent-adjacent, too, and it might turn Ice into a gooey puddle of lovestruck idiot, but it also makes Slider a bit too aware of how fast the switch from Mav-the-fun-uncle to Mav-the-helicopter-dad was made.

If Slider was honest, he'd admit it's the jealousy speaking. He had a crush on Goose when they were in the USNA that was kind of hard to comprehend but the crush on Carole is even harder to comprehend because, well, she just lost her husband and he should not be thinking about his tragically-dead friend's widow like that, but also it's a bit weird that he had a crush on both people from one marriage. He's carefully balancing on what's appropriate and on how to make it easier for Carole and yet Maverick just slides into her life in a blink-and-you-missed-it moment. Maverick has no qualms about showing Carole affection, smothering her in hugs and cheek kisses and bringing her jumpers when they sit in the cold breeze in the porch and taking Bradley who had fallen asleep from her arms and swaying him around in his, never held back by some unspoken rules. Especially that Slider kind of sometimes sees those moments when Carole is looking at him, shyly, too, like she's battling with herself about how inappropriate it'd be if Slider had those feelings and she had those feelings back. They have the little coffee dates or he takes her and Bradley, just the three of them, shopping or to a museum, or he gives them a ride when their car doesn't start in the morning, and Carole looks at him with those huge eyes of hers all bright and bubbly and Slider---Slider can only think about how inappropriate it'd be.

Ice is, well, Ice, so he's being a bit emotionally constipated. He's in Denial, with capital D included. Maverick and Carole might be in sync but the two of them are the ones bickering like an old married couple. The locker room banter in present every day and Slider can swear that if they weren't in public, they would have fucked at least three times already after their so-called 'arguments'. He talks about Mav way too much, too, always thinking about what they can do for him and Carole, and where to take them and Bradley next. He's become addicted to Mav's surprisingly good cooking and have stopped eating spaghetti outside of Mav and Carole's house because it 'doesn't taste the same'. He takes Mav to clubs and bars to relax when he has a heavy week and it's as close to dates as Slider would put them. He's a bit weird about Carole being affectionate with Maverick, too, but in a different way --- he always looks away when she kisses Mav on the cheek or when they cuddle up on the sofa with Bradley lying across their laps. He always puts his nose in Mav's hair when they hug goodbye but barely gives Carole a pat on the shoulder. He teases Maverick every time of the day, too, but he's always smiling so softly when he does it, melting even more when Maverick grumbles in response instead of starting a fight. Whenever Maverick isn't looking, Ice looks at him like he's about to vanish from his life at the wrong word. He looks at him like that would be his life's biggest tragedy, too.

Despite all that, he still claims he 'doesn't like Mitchell like that' and that even if he did, Maverick wouldn't be interested, even though they both know Maverick is bi.

It kind of gets a bit weirder when, after almost two years since Goose's death, Bradley starts calling Mav 'dad'. It gives both Ice and Slider a heart attack, when Baby Goose says during their usual walk to the park that, Dad is taking me to the aquarium with Mom next week, maybe you can come, too. And Carole and Mav don't react aside from making the usual excuses of they might be busy, baby (like either Slider or Ice could ever say no to any of the three of them).

Mav, later, explains that Bradley was having some difficult time explaining who Maverick was in their family dynamic to his pre-school teachers and so they went with step-dad and so Bradley picked up on it and started using it sometime a week before the park trip. It was an obviously big change but he was still remembering and calling Nick 'dad' too, so they've decided whatever Bradley is most comfortable with will be what they'll go with.

It's a logical explanation, to both Ice and Slider, even if it'd sound a bit icky to anyone who didn't know Carole, Mav and Goose's dynamic well before. It also makes Slider wonder what he'd be if the step-dad title was already taken, even if the thought is shoved back deep into his mind as soon as it surfaces.

Ice is, well, still Ice, so he alternates between getting red in the face every time Baby Goose calls Mav dad while they're doing something cute and between getting incredibly quiet about it. Slider would bet that he is having an identity crisis as he's both always hated the idea of having his own kids and now he doesn't and because the person who is changing his mind is Maverick, of all people.

Then Ice and Slider get deployed for four months and when they come back, first hot rumor on base they hear is that Mav bagged his best friend's widow.

Obviously, at first they think it's a rumor but then the gossip girl of their squadron (their XO) confirms that Mav's file has been updated so he has two dependants, his wife and his now officially adopted son.

Slider feels like an idiot. Ice is sulking but he's in even bigger denial, saying he's been expecting this and that Mav and Carole were a good couple and would make each other happy and that they were already making a beautiful family with Bradley. It gets very awkward, very soon, especially that Mav and Carole don't say anything about it when they meet again.

In the meantime, Carole just had been made redundant after the school she was teaching hired a new full-time teacher who could work more hours and didn't have a kid to pick up from pre-school everyday around two. The payout she got from the Navy after Goose's death wasn't much and she could keep on being in and out of work for some time but Mav's deployment was getting closer and closer too and they had to revise all the possibilities. One being that Mav might not come back, too.

So they got married, on paper, no ceremony and with a city hall employee as the only witness. So she and Bradley could have some safety net if worst came to worst. So she could take Mav's newly signed life insurance and health benefits of a military spouse. So if the situation were reversed, Mav didn't have to struggle to get Bradley's custody.

#icemav #carole x slider #what would one call this? #kershaw #?? #a hint toward #slooserole #baby bradley just living his life #ron slider kerner #carole bradshaw #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #tg86 #op #q #charlie writes

[roughridingrednecks]

Kershaw

#kershaw #military #soldier #smoker #cap #cigar #camo

[littleroosteruwu]

Incorrect Top Gun Quotes

Slider : Are you ready to go ?

Goose : Yup, I got ready in five minutes.

Slider, checking the time : Where's Carole ?

Goose : Still in the shower.

Carole, from the bathroom : GIVE ME A SECOND OKAY??? DO YOU THINK I WAKE UP THIS BEAUTIFUL EVERYDAY???? NO!!! THIS TAKES TIME

#incorrect top gun quotes #goose x carole x slider #slider x goose x carole #top gun #nick goose bradshaw #nick bradshaw #goose #carole bradshaw #ron kerner #ron slider kerner #slider #source: starrysupercell #goose x slider #goosex​carole #slider x carole #kershaw #kernshaw ot3

[cuppaelephantshoes]

#dodgers #kershaw

[ronnperez]

#clayton kershaw #Kershaw #dodgers #los angeles dodgers

[the-gentleman-sockmonkey]

White Boy Summer '23 EDC...

#smith and wesson #shield .45 2.0 #Kershaw #Duncan #gunblog #gunblr #2nd amendment #every day carry

[justyourlocalhermit]

Pocket dump, kinda

All the things on me at the end of the night

- Leatherman wave+ with nylon sheath

- BIC lighter, leatherman micra and space pen with extra keys in leather organizer

- High Life bottle cap

- Galaxy watch

- Chain with pendants

- Multi tool belt

- Double nip of Jack

- Ontario Rat I

- Spyderco Tenacious

- Kershaw S.P.E.W.

- Engraved Zippo with belt pouch

- Custom leather wallet

- Pack of Marlboro Southern Cuts

- Black bandana

#edc #pocket dump #zippo #spyderco #ontario #kershaw #jack daniels #miller high life #leather

[sickxknives]

Kershaw Cathode Framelock

#kershaw #knife #knives #knife community #knife collection #knife aesthetic #pocket knife #knife collector #knife blog

[drei-satzzeichen]

just my thoughts on the matter. feel free to disagree 😄

#die drei fragezeichen #die drei ??? #shitpost #alignment chart #samuel reynolds #kershaw #cotta #goodween #lionel prescott #did i forget anyone of important/where we can actually say how to align them? #english #die merryweather hat keinen platz auf der scale die ist firmly im 'kannste komplett vergessen' territorium #(also do you have any idea how annoying this was to build with gimp and photoscape? #because one doesn't let you draw a straight line and the other sucks for everything else but mostly because it doesn't measure well)

[theamazingchickenman]

The contents of my pockets at any given time.

#knives #ooc #benchmade #spyderco #crkt #kershaw #leatherman

[wickedwitchofthewater]

Took a day trip to a few places actually... This was from Kershaw county in South Carolina.

Somehow what I thought was a 2 mile hike turned into 6 miles of walking and I can't feel my hips or calves.

There is a waterfall that is fed by rain here, but unfortunately, it was just a trickle down some rocks.

I even found two caves!!!

#40acrerock #kershaw #south carolina #trail #personal #nature

[anastacia-vladimirovna-murzina]

#Abbey #Lee #Kershaw

[roughridingrednecks]

Kershaw

#kershaw #military #sarge #smoker #cap #cigar

[knifemania]

#kershaw #dividend #composite #blade #folding #knife #kinife #knives #knifemania #knifephoto #knifehobby #cutit #briceag #cut #rbbinternational #blade #sexy #chișinău #moldova🇲🇩 #usa🇺🇸 #japan #sekicity (at RBB-International) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_CA5rsuMT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#kershaw #dividend #composite #blade #folding #knife #kinife #knives #knifemania #knifephoto #knifehobby #cutit #briceag #cut #rbbinternational #sexy #chișinău #moldova🇲🇩 #usa🇺🇸 #japan #sekicity

[cuppaelephantshoes]

#dodgers #yoshinobu yamamoto #kike #kershaw

[claudia-letonja]

I started a Dodgers Tarot project. I've only managed to do a few cards, but I intend to keep going asap.

Get the print here!

#baseball #dodgers #baseball art #dodgers fanart #dodgers art #los angeles #sports art #baseball fanart #baseball portrait #kershaw #tarot #dodgers tarot #the magician