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Oh

but imagine

a top gun au where Bradley is a garage mechanic and owns this little place in California just like the photo and has the tiny apartment upstairs above it and he's always out in the garage tooling around under the hood of the Bronco or elbows-deep in the guts of a car, coming out all sweaty and arms covered in grease, wiping hands on a perpetually-stained white oil rag that's always hanging out of his back pocket Springsteen-style and everyone in the neighborhood knows where to take your car if it's got a problem, a flat tire or a rattling sound or oil change, doesn't matter, just take it over to Bradshaw's and he'll have it running in no time

and one day this guy shows up in a battered Ford pickup with a flat tire or something, saunters in with a smirk wrapped around a toothpick and his clothes still smelling like jet fuel because he can never quite get it out no matter how many times he washes them, tugs off his aviators and calls "hello?" because there's a radio playing oldies perched on a toolbox and a pile of tires in the corner and wrenches scattered on the floor but no mechanic in sight, and a shock of hair and brown whiskey eyes and a face covered in sweat and grime pushes out from under the 20-something-year-old minivan parked in the middle of the bay and holy shit the guy has shoulderschestarms like something out of a movie asks how he can help

and the guy standing over him just stares at him with a pair of shocking green eyes, sharp white teeth pinned around a toothpick in something between a smile and a grin and gestures vaguely behind him to the street, aviators still dangling between his fingers, and says, "I'm looking for Bradshaw" in a drawl that should not sound like that around his name

and so he shoves out from under the minivan to his feet and sticks out the hand that's mostly clean and says "who wants to know?" and the guy says "Jake, Jake Seresin" and his grip is calloused and firm and Bradley wonders if he can feel the kick in his pulse

someone please write this

Photographer Lasse Erkola