Agents - Top Gun AU

Opposites

Maverick woke up the next morning. He ended up falling asleep on the couch. He had Rooster asleep against him on his left and Phoenix sleeping on him on his right.

Bob was sprawled out on the other couch with Hangman, and fanboy as as he slept on Payback with Coyote on a chair.

Maverick carefully pulled himself from the pile of people. He realized this was the only night he's woken up in the morning without being interrupted by a nightmare.

He smiled softly at that, but then remembered what happened the night before. He pulled a hoodie on and left his room.

He needed to walk. He went down the hall and saw Ices office. He saw him still in the chair. He was going to keep going down the hall, but he stopped and sighed as he went down to Ices office.

He bypassed the code and stepped in. Ice was asleep in his chair. Maverick saw him holding Sliders hoodie and watch in his lap.

Maverick simply tidied up the office and left. He wanted to do something to make his life just a bit easier.

He went down to the gym and started to work out.

Ice was walking down the street until he heard a voice behind him. He turned and saw Slider.

"Hey hotshot." Slider said with a smile. Ice rolled his eyes at the nickname. "Hotshot? I'll have you know, Slider, my code name only has to do with cool things." Ice said with a chuckle.

Slider laughed. They were both Junior agents with Goose and Maverick. The four were a whole team but these two were a duo.

Ice admired his laugh. He smiled softly. "So what did you call me for hotshot? You told me to meet you here." Ice said as he crossed his arms at him.

"I want you to call me Ron." Slider said. Ice raised a brow. "Is this a new code name or..."

"This is my name. I trust you with it." Slider said. Ice looked at him almost shocked. He just smiled softly and looked at him.

"Call me Tom." Ice said.

Slider smiled softly at that.

"Alright."

Ice woke up in his chair. He looked around slightly and saw he was the only one there. He looked down in his lap and saw Sliders watch. He brought up and rubbed it with his thumb.

He hesitantly pulled it on his wrist and clasped it in place. He looked at it and teared up. "Thank you..." he said softly.

He got up and pulled his shirt off and got changed into fresh clothes. He combed his hair back and sat back in his seat.

He looked at the watch closely. "It's almost time for me to debrief Mavericks group..." he said tiredly.

He walked down the hall to the conference room. The whole team was there. Ice walked into the room and sat at the head of the table.

"Good morning agents." He said as he opened a file. The group responded. Ice looked at all of them.

"So... was my husbands death in vain, or do you all at least have one thing to report..." he said bluntly.

Maverick cleared his throat. "The enemy apparently knows about a project of yours. A Peace Project." He said.

Ice nodded and rubbed his neck. "The PEACE Project... its a project where we place agents in corrupt regimes, have them strengthen the opposing parties to overthrow regimes... what about it..." he said.

He listened to the group talk but zoned out as the agents files loaded onto his screen. He saw his husbands faded gray.

He simply closed the computer and stood up. "I can't do this right now..." he walked out of the conference room, and was greeted by the medical examiner.

She needed to talk to him about the funeral. Ice  felt his breathing quicken. He went to his office and felt his heart rate and breathing pick up.

"S-shit..." he mumbled as he stumbled to the ground. He felt the memories rush back as he panicked. He gripped his chest as other agents rushed in and tried to calm him down.

Someone even brought oxygen but he fell to the ground as he fainted.

"You know I love you... right?" Slider said as ice laid against him in their bed.

"Yeah... I know. I mean, if you didn't, I'd be quite confused why we are married." Ice said with a chuckle. Slider chuckled and just looked at him.

"I would be too..." he said softly. Ice leaned over and kissed him gently, holding his cheek. Slider leaned into the kiss and pushed him back down onto the bed gently.

"Love you..."

Ice opened his eyes and was greeted by a white ceiling. It was the disgusting white you only see in hospitals.

He felt a bundle of warmth next to him. It was his daughter...

He sat up slowly and looked at her. He saw tear stains on her faces as she gripped onto her toy bear.

He kissed her head and got up and walked over to his rooms bathroom. He rubbed his temples and sighed.

The excess drinking kicked him in the ass really bad. He knew it would... he didn't care though.

He was about to walk out when his watch vibrated.  He looked down at it and saw that it was giving him a reminder.

Funeral

He stared at those words and just lowered his hand. He felt that darkness he tried to drink away creep up on him once again. He closed his eyes and covered his face.

He felt like crying but no tears would come down his face. He just wanted things to go back to normal. He wanted his daughter to have her father.

He wanted to have his right hand man back.

He wanted his husband.

That darkness started to suffocate him. He just turned the light off the bathroom on and splashed cold water on his face.

" how am I supposed to do this..."