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Team Player 1/7
Hangster. Jake's cousin plays for the Sydney Roosters and gifts him with merchandise regularly. Bradley has an unexpected realization.
Jake opens the gift from his cousin and snorts. He can never wear this.
“You like it? It’s for the team I just signed with…”
Of course it is. Fuck.
“Congrats man, really happy for you. Thanks.”
“You’ll have to watch a game when you come visit. Wait, do they show footy matches on TV here?”
“Footy? Jake asks, eyebrow raised, because he thought is was rugby that Josh played.
“Rugby league. Footy. And we don’t wear all those pads and helmets like you lot do over here.”
Jake ducks his head to hide a smile, his younger cousin immensely proud of his own country and national sport. Not something Jake will ever understand, but he does understand passion and loyalty.
… … …
“The Hard Deck, what’s that mean?”
“Well, the way you say it makes it sound like something far filthier than what I think it should mean…”
“Still doesn’t tell me what it means… Hard Deck Hard Deck Hard Deck…”
“Oh my god, can you stop with sayin’ that! Sound like you’re sayin’ you’ve got a hard dick…”
His other cousins snort and he wonders why he thought it would be a good idea to agree showing them around San Diego. Of course, three people in their early to mid-twenties versus their parents who are all in their mid-sixties to seventies he’d felt that maybe they’d want a break from one another. He can’t imagine going on a four-week vacation with his parents. Ever. Let alone as a fully-grown adult. A couple of weeks visiting home is his limit, and even then he has to spend most of the time out of the house and helping out around outside to get away from the oppressive expectation of how he hasn’t brought anyone home. Again.
“Tell me what it means!”
“It’s slang for altitude you idiot, now stop being a dick!” Emma says, slapping at her younger brother’s head and Jake wishes he had a closer relationship with his own sister.
“Well that’s just boring! Hard Dick sounds like we’re going somewhere interesting!”
“It’s a Navy bar, just… thought I’d introduce you to a couple of my friends.”
“You have friends?” Isabella asks, and Jake pulls a face. Maybe he’s glad he doesn’t have a close relationship after all.
“Jake!”
“Javy, hey. Man it’s good to see you.”
“You too… these your cousins? Can definitely see they got the better deal in the gene pool…” Javy says, smiling over Jake’s should and he glances back and he guesses his cousins are attractive, except they’re his cousins and he’s seen them grow up through regular photos exchanged via their parents, and this is only the third time in his life that he’s spent any significant chunk of time with them. And of course Javy is already getting flirty with them. Halo and Fritz are there, he can see Bob and Phoenix at the bar.
“Yeah. Everyone, these are my cousins Isabella, Emma and Josh. They’re currently visiting because of my dad’s seventieth birthday. And don’t let him drink,” Jake says, pointing at Josh. “He’s not legal.”
“Hey! It’s legal back home.”
“And Penny here could be fined for serving minors. So no.”
“Also you’re meant to be preparing for camp, which means no empty calories.”
“Ugh. You guys are the worst.”
“I can’t wait for you to meet your trainers, because what we put you through will seem like child’s play…”
It falls into easy banter, his cousins asking dozens of questions and his squadron humoring them and he takes a sip of beer from the bottle Phoenix hands him.
Life is good.
… … …
“You want to tell us something there Bagman?”
“What?”
She tugs at his top and he glances down, realizes he’s wearing the tank that Josh sent him for working out in. He apparently gets a lot of merchandise and Jake seems to be the person he wants to send it to. Apparently he has a case of hero worship. However this particular top is damned comfortable and perfect for working out in, almost as good as wearing nothing, which isn’t an option at the on-base gymnasium, but he’d just grabbed it subconsciously.
“Uh, it’s the team my cousin plays for.”
“And you’re wearing it why?”
“I like it,” he says, and he mentally hits himself in the forehead with his palm. What the fuck is he thinking. He could have said it’s comfortable, or it’s washing day, only clean thing I had, not… I like it.
“Really? Interesting. Wait, was this your male cousin? Josh?”
“Yeah. It’s a rugby team.”
“Mmm. Rugby is a game to enjoy watching…”
“What?”
“No covering up of those athletic bodies, all out on show… Strike a pose Seresin, I’ll send it to you so you can send it to your cousin and show your appreciation.”
He frowns, because Josh would probably like that, but he’s pretty sure Trace is up to something because she never calls him Seresin. He stands and lets her take the photo though, giving her a grin and a wink, because why the hell not?
… … …
Bradley stares at his phone.
Stares some more until the screen goes black and he unlocks it and the photo is back.
Jake Seresin wearing a basketball top, sweat-shiny and winking at the camera, hair dark, damp and mussed from working out. He looks good. That’s all his brain can process.
Natasha’s message telling him he really missed a good workout at the gym.
Bradley’s never thought about his callsign as a thing before, as a name that might brand someone as his. He’s never been a particularly possessive boyfriend. Seeing Hangman wear a top with Roosters across the front makes his fingers itch, and not only because he wants to go and add an apostrophe, but because he wants to touch. He’s wanted to touch Hangman before, sometimes to punch him in the face, but mostly to rough him up a little bit… he’s always resisted though, aware he’s got to keep sharp control of his temper.
Right now it’s not his temper he has to keep control of.
To be continued? 🤷♀️
PART TWO
(Obviously the answer to it being continued was 'yes!!!')
#Hangster#Sereshaw#Top Gun Maverick#rooster x hangman#and they don't even interact in this#Team Player
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Comforting the teammate.
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TEAM WORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
#team player#unity#football#art#my art#digital art#original art#artists on tumblr#artwork#illustration#rap#hip hop#fine art#graphic art#underground#neo expressionism#skull art#black tumblr#black power#fashion#black beauty#black woman#black women#black is gold#black#teamwork#teamwork makes the dream work
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Hangman helping the daggers
Phoenix leaving the Hard Deck to catch her Uber and a creepy guy follows her. Phoenix doesn't want to deal with some loser, but her ride is almost here so she'll hold off on confronting the guy. The guy gets closer and closer, no one around her is helping until Hangman steps in front of her. Pushes the guy away and stays with her until her ride is here. They both say nothing, thanks is understood and they go their ways.
Fanboy gets a flat tire and his phone is dead so he can't call anyone for help. There's no one there cause he's there late at Top Gun, he's concerned on how he's going to call for help. Then Hangman drives past in his truck, then turns around asking if Mickey''s okay. He gets told about the flat and Hangman nods getting out of his seat opening the backseat door to get out his Jack and wrench out. Jake fixes the tire and Fanboy thanks him and offers a beer as payment.
Rooster hurts his hand where he's unable to play the piano, except for his left hand. Gets called on to do a performance and he gets up, but Jake gets up with him. He beats rooster to the piano and starts testing the keys and Rooster is confused because he never knew Jake could play. Jake starts playing Piano Man so he could force Rooster to sing the song.
Bob signs himself up for a course learning about planes weeks in advance and forgets that he did until he gets an email reminding him. He reads the email and it mentioned having a partner to complete the course with. He has to find someone willing to go with him and he texts the group chat hoping for someone to be down to go with him. Everyone has some plans except for Hangman who said he'd do it. Bob's not sure about it, but he wants to go so he agrees and they meet up. Turns out Hangman is a big nerd when it comes to planes and they talk about their favorites. At the end of the course they get the chance to fly in the plane and parachute out of it. Hangman encourages Bob to jump and at the end of the day they talk about all the fun they had. Bob realizes that Jake is not as bad as he thought.
#dagger squad#bob#tgm#phoenix#fanboy#rooster#hangman#top gun maverick#Before the daggers got used to hangman's personality#team player#helps his teammates when not in the air#Actually a good guy Jake seresin
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Roller Derby Girls Pt. 1
#Spotify#roller derby#roller skating#women#girls#sporty#funko#funko pop#fun#skating#team player#colorful#girl power
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Team Player 2/7
Hangster. Jake's cousin plays for the Sydney Roosters and gifts him with merchandise regularly. Bradley has an unexpected realization.
PART ONE
Jake doesn’t know what is wrong, just knows that something is. Rooster has been acting weird. Not bad. Not angry or upset with the world like he had a beef with the entire world, which Jake refers to in his head as PM (pre-mission), but he’s no longer quite as friendly and easy going as he had been. It’s like he’s backslid a little and he keeps thinking it’s maybe something he’s done. Not that he’s going to say anything, but it’s going to bug him until he figures it out.
“Hey Hangman…”
That. That right there. They’d been on at least a last name basis most of the time, even the occasional first name yelled out when they were really wanting to playfully annoy each other and now… He doesn’t think Rooster’s called him anything but Hangman for a couple of weeks. It’s just the two of them right now, so early to the Hard Deck that it’s almost empty.
“Look. Have I done something to piss you off?”
“What?”
“You’ve just…” he pulls a face, doesn’t actually want to say the words. “Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing.”
“No. Sorry. I’m just… working through something.”
“Something… to do with me?”
Bradshaw lets out a sigh then and Jake knows he’s just hit it on the head.
Well fuck.
Sucks to be right.
“You didn’t do anything wrong, just… my issue okay?”
“Just the one?”
“What?”
“Just the one issue? Not a collection?”
“Fuck off. I just… I saw something okay, and it surprised me, and I’m… working through it.”
“Saw something to do with me?”
“Jesus Jake…”
The way Bradshaw says that, half-plea, half-despairing gives him a shiver down the length of his spine. He likes the sound of his name in Bradshaw’s mouth, breathy and quiet on an exhale.
“What did you see?” Jake asks, voice low, because he honestly has no idea what Bradshaw might have seen that might have elicited any type of response from him, let alone this pained look of… desperation.
“It’s nothing…”
“It’s not nothing if it’s got you all… twisted up like this,” he gestures helplessly, because he still doesn’t understand.
“It was a photo.”
“A photo. Of me?”
“Yeah, of you. Uh. Nat sent it to me…”
Oh.
Wait.
What?
He frowns, thinks about photos that Phoenix might have of him and while she’s definitely one of the more snap happy amongst their squad he can’t remember if she just took a photo of… him. Oh. A few weeks ago. The one she took and then immediately sent to him. And maybe sent it to Bradshaw as well. The Roosters shirt.
Oh.
Roosters.
His eyes widen in surprise, wondering if he’s made the right connection.
“Do you want me to be yours?” Jake asks, and his first instinct is to tease, but instantly following the thought that he’s made the connection, is an opposite thought. “Or… do you not want to want me?”
He takes a step back, realizing that what he’s just said makes the most sense. Rooster doesn’t want him. Part of him might, but not all of him. The less-friendly attitude, the using of his callsign rather than his name… Bradshaw isn’t letting the space between them increase though, stepping forward and Jake frowns, doesn’t want to ask what his problem is because he’s afraid of hearing the answer.
“My issue is how much I want you to be mine…”
“What?”
“Jake.”
“Why is it an issue?”
“Pretty sure you don’t want to be mine…”
“I thought you were meant to be smart,” Jake says, feeling a flood of relief as he realizes he’s not getting rejected, he’s not starting to lose the friendship before it had started proper. That it might instead morph into something different instead.
“Let me take you out?”
“Yeah. I’d like that.”
THREE
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Why Group Insurance Is The Ultimate Team Player?
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