I can finally post this!! Here is my contribution to the @topgunzine for the Wingman collection! I got the lovely opportunity to complete a spread as a pinch hitter! Of course, I had to do the obligatory beach volleyball piece! I also contributed the Maverick Handwriting font that can be found here for anyone to use freely!
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(After Rooster's first week at TOP GUN)
Rooster(on the phone, sounding a little grouchy):...Hey, Dad.
Goose(sighs):...What's his name?
Rooster: What?
Goose: The asshole in your class that seems to be making it his mission to piss you off - what's his name?
Rooster: Hangman.
Goose: Is he good-looking?
Rooster: What?!
Goose: Is he?
Rooster: Uh...yeah, I guess.
Goose: Is he blonde?
Rooster:...How'd you know that?
Goose(to Carole): - Honey, talk to Bradley. I need to scream into a pillow and then give Maverick a call.
Do you think that when Rooster tries to eject and can't, before Hangman saves them, that he gets an answer to the question he's had for most of his life? He finally knows what his dad felt before he died, that fear, that hope dying as you realise you're stuck and can't do anything? Do you think he realises everything about why Mav pulled his papers, apart from his mum of course, that realised how traumatising it was for him to know his backseater, his best friend, died? Do you think it really set things in place for him understanding and forgiving Mav? Do you think he realised his mum was also the reason, when he thought about how his mum lost his dad so tragically?
This scene is not nearly talked about enough. You CANNOT tell me they made this bet before and Mav flirted with a guy before, I mean look at that smirk he gives when goose specifies. I need someone to write that for me, I can write fanfic for shit but I want this.