#everytime mav is drunk he thinks of goose as mother goose

[aki-draws-things]

Putting ideas out during breaks... All because of one fic that caused me to have headcanons. 💖

(don't blame you, @miii-chaaan... But you it sprouted because of that)

On a different note, Not chronological. The one time maverick found out Goose and Ice can be affectionate bastards, and Slider is the youngest between the three of them.

Honestly, it's just a bunch of words out, waiting to turn into an actual lil fic.

Slider sat on the side of a bench, unforgiving sun right on top of him, scorching hot. Ice nowhere in sight, he would appear soon, he thought, side by side with Mitchell. And Goose. He spent so much time with them, like an absurdly lot of time. Not that slider was jealous, okay? Why should he? His pilot could hang out with whoever he wanted, him and maverick had chemistry, no one would deny it. Slider wasn't jealous.

He swallowed, looking around. Everyone was with someone, mostly pilots and respective RIO. And he was-- alone.

It felt weirdly familiar, like his first times at academy. Right until the two older boys approached him.

It felt definitely familiar. Slider didn't hear them walk up to him, earphones on despite the low volume.

Maverick notices his RIO, with an arm around his shoulders, lean close to Ice in the other side, nod and whisper something. Then he saw the smirk ice gave in return, an almost silent exchange he was being left out of. He frowned, scrunched up his nose, then they both, as one, moved away from him and toward what, from a distance, seemed to be slider, sitting on a bench. Mav had actually wondered where the man had been, he usually was around Ice, not this time. He seemed to be sitting there, completely alone. He looked a bit pathetic, actually.

"Ronnie~" Ice reached him first, he wrapped his arms around his neck, dragging him backward just slightly. Maverick saw him jump and flinch just slightly, perhaps he didn't hear him.

Goose was next to him too, a familiarity that made Mav frown everytime. It was obvious they knew each other well, yet... Well, perhaps Mav was a little jealous of that, so used, lately, to have Goose all for himself.

"aww, what's baby Ron doing here all alone?" he cooed, and Mav blinked.

"wha--" slider turned, finding himself with goose's face almost on him. "are you two drunk? At not even 3pm?"

"why? Because we're being affectionate with our baby Ronnie here?"

"ice--"

Maverick got close too, he stood in front of the other RIO, saw him blush a deep red. Ice held him a little closer.

"me and Goose were talking, you know?"

Goose nodded next to him, he had an hand on his hair, wrapping his fingers around the short curls.

"oh, yeah? That's nice..."

"and we agreed that you looked down, lately."

Oh, so they still observed, he thought. They still looked at him, even though it seemed like their every look was directed to maverick.

"so, here we are."

"hugging me? Calling pet names?"

"mother goose idea. Besides, Mav here should know that you were the baby first."

"yup." goose agreed. Mav frowned again. The baby? Isn't slider older?

"and you, baby ron, have nothing to worry about. Just because Mav is there, he's not taking your place."

Goose moved his hand down from the hair to his neck, he dragged him toward him until slider was laying his head against his side.

Taking his place where?

"you're ours." ice bent over, he pressed his lips on top of his head. "maybe we should make it a little clearer, make sure you remember."

"i know..."

Slider muttered, he shivered slightly as his hands pressed over his chest, fingers slipping between the buttons of the shirt.

"of course you know, but we need to treat you right, not make you jealous and sad."

"I'm not--"

It was then, maverick blinked in surprise, that Goose leaned closer and stole a little kiss from his lips.

"hush, let us make it right."

"yeah, but not here, don't you think?"

"oh, Ice, we did worse..."

Goose chuckled. Mav didn't fully understand, but it was quite fascinating seeing the older man blush like that as both Goose and Ice wrapped themselves on him.

[pollyna]

Maverick is twenty-five and drunk and every house on the Naval Base is the same, just as the key to unlock them, apparently. Or at least is what Mav's drunk mind thinks while he enter in his own house by the window because the key isn't working and if he ends up sleeping on the porch he knows Mother Goose is going to kill him. He just knows.

The bed is particularly soft and warm and Mav can't stop himself from smuggling a little between the sheets until he finds the perfect position and the next thing he knows it's morning, the sun is shining inside the bedroom and his head is killing him. The bed is still particularly soft and warm and hard at the same time. It's a strange dichotomy but his brain is just so fucked up right now he could be sleeping on a rock and won't change much. But apparently he isn't sleeping on a rock because he remembers coming back home last night and rocks don't breath. He's 100% sure of that, at least. But this rock isn't just breathing, he's hugging him too, and speaking. Oh god what the fuck he drunk last night?

Mav go back to sleep the rock, that as a voice really similar to Ice's one, says and who is he to say no when he has nowhere else to be? So he snuggles a little more against the rock, with a voice really really similar to Ice's one, and goes back to sleep.

Slider and Goose find them, hours later, still cuddling in Ice's bed and Mother Goose almost screams because what the fuck Maverick I thought you were dead! but Slider can only laugh and snap a picture for posterity.

(Maverick is fifty-one, drunk as he can get and Mother Goose just left him in front of the right house, he hopes. But all the houses on the Naval Base are the same, are they know? And every keys is still opening all the doors, thirty years didn't change that apparently. But this time the key fits the first time and he doesn't even remember how he arrives in his bed but when he does the bed is soft and warm and hard in a strange way and pets his head and kisses his cheek because it's such a good bed and Mav is so so happy to have him home with him.

The next morning the sun is shining in the bedroom and his head is killing him, while everything seems a dejavù of something happen almost thirty years before. Uhuh yes babe, exactly the same way a voice, Ice's, says from his left side and he's laughing a little because seriously the situation couldn't be more hilarious. Mav opens one eye, and only one because the light could really kill him, and looks at Ice before going say and you're as beautiful as the first morning I woke up in the same position. Ice's laugh a little longer and hugs him a little tighter, I'm so glad you lost yourself that night and Mav can't do nothing more than kiss him because he isn't ready to say his husband is right, at least not so soon in the morning.)

[mrsjavymachado]

take me to bed or loose me forever:

* carol bradshaw under her breath in tears wrapped in one of gooses' hawaiin shirts the night he dies saying "goose you big stud, take me to bed or lose me forever" and for once not receiving an answer, just silence. her big stud is gone and she can't show him the way home anymore.

* carol laying in her hospital room with maverick asleep at her side in a chair she knows is uncomfortable and bradley safe in ice and mavs home asleep knowing he probably won't see his mom alive again, whispering her last words, “show me the way home honey"

* carol has (1) tatoo and no one knows she has it but her and nick, who went with her to get it back in virginia after they got married, a little goose on her hip, that has the words “show me the way home honey" in gooses' handwriting, she cries everytime she sees it.

* nick has a matching one he got the same day that says "hey goose, you big stud!" in carol’s handwriting. he also has a tatoo that says “mother goose" and matching ones with mav that say great balls of fire" his dream was to get one with bradley in his 18th birthday, but obviously that didn't happen and no one has to heart to tell bradley his fathers wish because they know it would break him that he never got to do it, but behind his knee and on his hip and ribcage bradley has two geese for his mom and dad, a plane (a p-51 mustang that was his and mavs dream plane when he was younger) and an ice cube, later he adds a little outline of a phoenix and a cowboy hat, he doesn't tell anyone about them until they all find out and get a little emotional about it.

* jake's laying with bradley one night and bradley's drunk and very sleepy- a mix for a very loose lipped bradshaw, tells jake how his parents had this call and response they did, and bradley heard it enough times in the short time he had both parents and tells jake how his mom called his dad a big stud, and to take her to bed or loose her forever and his dad would always reply, “show me the way home honey" and it stuck with jake how much it meant to bradley that one day, they were laying on a couch in one of the reck rooms on base and jake said quietly, “hey rooster you big stud," and bradley's head tipped up so fast that he almost gave himself whiplash to look at jake, his eyes wide and a little misty responded without really thinking, "yeah honey" jake spurred on by the response because he honestly had no idea how bradley was gonna react, cupped his cheek and smiled up at rooster, who leaned into it and said, “take me to bed or loose me forever" and rooster who had mostly forgotten he told jake about his parents little shtick leaned down and kissed jake with as much passion and heartache he could muster, hoping jake felt all of the emotion he was feeling at hearing the phrase he held so dear related back to him and said as softly as his heart felt, "show me the way home honey”