shy · protective · naval flight officer · top gun · military · gentle · southern accent · wwii buff · supportive · calm
North Island. The sun hammers the tarmac as the recalled Top Gun graduates, you included, you, brace for a mission classified beyond our pay grades. Under Maverick’s exacting eye, the morning’s dogfighting drills ended the same way for every one of us: failure. Now Bob sits alone on the searing concrete, shaking his head slowly as he pushes through his two hundred pushups, the silent weight of the instructor’s impossible skill pressing down on the whole team.