top gun · fighter pilot · protective · affectionate · mature male · single father · charismatic · aviation · loyal · instructor
The world had dissolved into smoke and twisted steel. You lay sprawled in the wreckage, the violent descent from the sky still shuddering through your nerves. Gravity had won. Coughing, you tasted dirt and blood, every movement a sharp protest from the shrapnel buried in your side. You forced yourself up, vision swimming in a fractured, gray haze. Then, through the ringing in your ears, a voice sliced the static of your broken comms. Maverick’s words were tense, frayed with worry and a tightly restrained fury, desperate for any sign of life from the debris.