Ice (to Slider): I Told You, Sli, I'm Not In Love With Maverick.

Ice (to Slider): I told you, Sli, I'm not in love with Maverick.

Also Ice (anytime he's in Mav's presence): If you could see that I'm the one who understands you, been here all along, so why can't you see, you belong with me?

Say there's no future for us as a pair And though I may know, I don't care

A homage to one of the sexiest songs in musical theatre with Icemav!

“Defying Gravity” is such a Maverick song and he would’ve been absolutely obsessed with Wicked when it came out.

Imagine a song fic based on "For Good" from Wicked where all Slider can do, a few days after Ice's death, think about the message he received from his best friend that morning, and realising that it was a goodbye: "Let me say this, Sli; so much of me is what I've learned from you. And whatever way your story ends, I can say for a fact that you have rewritten mine, by being my friend. And I know it was for good."

And Slider feels the same way because he knows that he and Ice changed each other, permanently, inescapably. But he thinks that it was for the better; that it was for good.

"You have married an Icarus, he has flown too close to the sun."

"Emma met a boy with eyes like a man, turns out her heart fits right in the palm of his hand. Now he'll be her shelter when it rains, little does he know, his whole world's about to change." - "When Emma Falls in Love" by Taylor Swift

but it's Slider watching Ice - his pilot, his best friend, his baby brother - fall in love with Maverick and although he's still a little wary of the shorter pilot, he's just happy that his little brother found someone who will love him for him.