"The seats are empty. The theater is dark. Why do you keep acting?" "Leave it, Bagman." After graduation, the two weren't expecting to run into each other so often. Or at all. They thought the day they left North Island, their interactions would be over. But, boy, were they wrong. *** ***Follows along after the plot of Dagger Squad (aka before the Top Gun: Maverick plot) but I guess you can read it as a standalone***