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I seriously need this to be made into a fanfic. This has the potential to lead into an incredible, emotional rollercoaster of a reunion between Rooster, Maverick, and Iceman.

Bradley Bradshaw doesn't get through losing both his parents without some tics.

He sucks his thumb much longer than most kids do and he has a little comfort blanket in the form of a duck plush his dad gave him for his first birthday (while insisting it was a goose). It's faded and it's lost an eye and it flops over a lot more than it once did but Bradley loves it. He sleeps with it every night, it went with him in his backpack to his first day of high school and he clung to it all through both of his parent's funerals. He almost left it behind for his mama's but Ice grabbed it, knowing he'd need it.

It mostly just lives on his bedside table until the day he's rejected from the Naval Academy and finds out why. There's anger and tears and Ice having to get between Bradley and Maverick, watching his family fall apart in front of his eyes. And Bradley storms out, just needing to get away from the man who he always trusted and who hurt him worse than he's ever been hurt. Maverick's just stunned, like he's stood there pale and shaking. Ice is trying to blindly think of a way to fix this, the way he's used to fixing everything and coming up empty.

And Maverick's shock lasts until Ice is trying to ring Bradley and know he's safe but hears sobs from the next room over. He finds Maverick in Bradley's room- can they even call it Bradley's room anymore, is it ever going to be Bradley's room again- breaking down completely., collapsing into sobs. Because the little duck is still on Bradley's nightstand and he can't sleep without it.