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• To Keep Breathing, Together by Aikawakusagi

  Fandoms: Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Top Gun (Movies)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M, M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  28 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Reader
  • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell & Reader
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Jake "Hangman" Seresin
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Reader
  • Jake "Hangman" Seresin & Reader
  • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
  • Jake "Hangman" Seresin
  • Carole Bradshaw
  • Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
  • Ron "Slider" Kerner
  • Leonard "Wolfman" Wolfe
  • Rick "Hollywood" Neven
  • Reader
  • Angst
  • Heavy Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Healing
  • Found Family
  • Domestic Fluff
  • Slice of Life
  • Slow Burn
  • Mpreg | Male Pregnancy
  • Near Death Experiences
  • Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
  • Omega Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Alpha Tom "Iceman" Kazansky

  Summary

  This is a slow, grief-heavy story about survival, love, and choosing to stay.
  Please mind the tags. Hurt comes before comfort—but comfort does come.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,792

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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