#I'm going back to bed now as it os 3am...

[tgmsunmontue]

2.30am and I can't sleep, so have the idea that I thought of today at an inappropriate time.

TGM AU where Bradley's paper are pulled, so he's furious with Mav, but Ice sits him down and explains why Mav did it. Bradley is confused and hurt, but the thing that pisses him off the most that is that Mav doesn't think he deserves this explanation.

So Bradley, being eighteen, decides he won't go the ROTC route, and instead throws himself into something else, and Ice and Sarah back him 100% and he's happy enough and successful but he still doesn't have a great relationship with Mav because he never apologises for pulling Bradley's papers and changing the course of his entire life.

And then Ice dies and at the funeral Bradley is standing with the family, because Ice and Sarah were his family, and he's spent every holiday with them, he's so very fully entrenched in their lives. He's Ice's son in everything but name.

Then at the funeral Jake Seresin sees this man standing with the family, and he's listed in the order of service as one of the children of Admiral Kazansky, and Jake's like Hmm - not bad looking. So he sidles up to Maverick to ask, because Maverick has this reputation of going after the daughters of Admirals, even though it's only happened the one time.

"So pops, any advice on asking the son of an Admiral out?"

And Mav looks around, wondering who Jake is talking about because he DOESN'T think of Bradley as Ice's son, but then Jake is staring at Bradley and not being subtle AT ALL and Mav almost chokes on a little piece of finger food...