If Pete was trying to save his dignity, he’d say it started after he broke the hard deck. In the locker room, with Ice looming over him, with Ice’s fingers pressing mottled bruises into the meat of his skin, with that soft and sudden realization of oh, that’s what that is that leaves Pete’s mind utterly, stupidly blank.
Except, that wasn’t the start. It was a crescendo, a loud and overwhelming tumble over a precipice that Mav had been balancing himself over for weeks.
Source: The Taming of the Shrew – Chapter 1, by ironicpanicattack – Top Gun (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]
Delicious canon-divergence that starts out with some under-negotiated BDSM but turns out to be surprisingly sweet.