Melting Ice.
Hello and welcome to my Top Gun fanfic, I do not own any of the excellent characters I have used merely borrowed from their original creator, except Fen Miller, call sign 'Dream'. Please review, I like to know what people think, thanks! It runs as a sub plot to the main stories and there will be references to main plot developments in the film, however I'll keep them as brief as possible as they are someone else's esteemed work. The bits taken from the film are in bold type.
Chapter 1
Lieutenant Fen Miller sat at the side of the volley ball court, shading her eyes from the sun with her hand, watching as the scene unfolded before her. Slider and Ice vs. Maverick and Goose, sparks could fly, and sure as hell, with all those fit bods on display she would be there to watch. She observed as Ice and Slider won a point, then as Mav and Goose pulled one back, she had known Mav forever, they had done some of the same duties and she had pulled him out of the sea on more than one occasion after a stupid stunt gone wrong.
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Being a helicopter rescue technician was a scary job, and the closest she could get to the action, she hated one of the guys to crash, but she lived for the buzz of flying out to rescue them, sometimes under fire, winching down and hooking them up, sometimes having to drag them out of the cockpit – if they were lucky. She loved the adrenaline rush of seeing the planes take off, being kitted up as she hung out of the helicopter door trying to listen to the radio relay, waiting to take off at a moments notice. To have landed this job at the esteemed Top Gun was just, well had been in her wildest dreams. And now Maverick and Goose had arrived too, that put the icing on the cake really – playmates! Fen and Mav had kissed, once a long time ago, quickly realising with relief that they didn't feel like that about each other they had got on with a brother and sister vibe, Goose had entered into this equation well, calming the two young hot heads when they got out of hand, allowing them to go so far and then pouring cold water on their escapades before they got into too much trouble. He had added a refinement to their duo, which settled into a trio. There had been many a sailor escape with his life after coming onto Fen a bit too strongly, with Mav behind her Fen sometimes took one risk too many, but he was always there to pull her out of trouble, and vice versa, she smiled to herself as she recalled the 'Penny Benjamin' episode, and swearing to the admiral, Penny's father, that there was no way that Maverick could have been sneaking out of his house the previous night as he was with her, yes Sir all night. Complete rubbish of course, she had been at Goose and Carol's, her second home when they were in the area, but the Admiral seemed to believe it, that saved Mav's ass, again.
"Jus one more game, for me?....Mav?" Goose broke into her thoughts
"Mother Goose you pussy!" Slider yelled
"Hey, Dream!" yelled Goose "Get your cute ass over here and finish this game with me!" Goose ordered
"A woman?" Slider laughed, raising his eyebrows at Iceman
"Goose, even Maverick's better than a woman!" Ice said, dry as ever
"Hey!" protested Fen "One day this 'woman' might just save your butt and pull you out of the drink!"
Slider looked at Ice, waiting for the cutting reply, Ice observed the fiery blonde jogging athletically towards the opposite side of the court, smirking as he did so.
"Might be worth a dip to have those legs wrapped around you" he muttered to Slider
"Ah, honey?" this time directed at Dream herself "Do you know the rules?" sarcasm dripping from every word
"Rules, my…" as she fired a ball at him that he completely missed "Ass!"
Slider creased over laughing as Ice picked himself up from the floor, receiving a dirty look from Ice he retrieved the ball, giving it to him.
Iceman looked thoughtful as he tossed the ball from one hand to another, before launching it with venom at Goose, who blundered about trying to return it, only to be shoved out of the way by Dream as she hurled herself at the ball, returning it with just enough height and spin to clear the net and land at Sliders feet with a small thud. Dream untangled herself from Goose laughing as they got to their feet. Ice looked furious for a second before breaking into a huge grin.
"I take it back" he conceded "She's better than both of you, how's about me and you takes these two losers?" he asked Dream, ignoring Sliders hurt puppy routine, he ducked under the net, tossing her the ball.
"Can't stand to lose can ya Ice?" said Goose good naturedly
"Never Mother Goose, Never" he said "I always get what I want, even if it don't want to be got" not taking his eyes from Dream's once.
Fen felt herself wilt under the cold blue stare, like a rabbit caught in headlights.
"Well, maybe another time" she managed to get out "Losing the light"
"Sure" Ice smiled softly, smiling "Showers, there's a lot of beer to be drank tonight" he took off towards the showers, not pausing as he put one hand on the gate and cleared it with a leap. Dream was transfixed.
"He's bad news Dream" warned Goose "Don't go there"
"What?" she blinked up at Goose "Go where?"
"Don't act all innocent, you are as bad as Mav at lying, I'm telling ya, he'll break your heart" he cautioned
"OK, Mom" Dream sighed, conceding that Tom Kaczanski's reputation with the ladies did precede him, didn't stop the butterflies in her stomach threatening to choke her when he fixed her with that ice cold stare.