Where Do We Go From Here
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Bodies break down, things go wrong, and sometimes life doesn't go to plan. In those moments, your heart races, your life falls into the hands of those around you, and you have to take a leap of faith.
All these things are familiar to Ethan. They come naturally to him. Just another part of the job.
What's usually not part of the job is falling in love. But Ethan's heart races, his life falls into the hands of those around him, and he has to take a leap of faith anyway.
This is how it goes.
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- Part 1 of Where Do We Go From Here
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Benji Dunn doesn't really expect to fall in love with a coworker. No really, he doesn't.
It's overwhelming and crazy and nothing like the office dramas that he's watched before, eating straight from a tub of ice cream and pretending not to roll his eyes at the awkward pining and sudden confessions of admiration. Life doesn't really work that way. No really, it doesn't.
Well...until it does for Benji.
This is how it goes.
(Part one is NOT required reading for this, it works as just a standalone so please enjoy even if you don't intend to read part 1, thank you!)
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- Part 2 of Where Do We Go From Here
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Long Distance by bonnieandclaide
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Top Gun (Movies)
15 Jun 2025
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Thirty years ago, Ethan Hunt made a choice: he chose the IMF, chose to save the world, and chose to become the man he is today.
Thirty years ago, Ethan Mitchell made a choice: he chose to become a ghost, chose to leave his old world behind, and chose to say goodbye to his brother for the last time.
Choices have funny ways of bringing about unexpected consequences: consequences that Ethan has to deal with when he is suddenly called on a mission to assist the Navy with the retrieval of a top-secret file, and crosses paths with his twin for the first time in thirty years.
This is how it goes.
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- Part 3 of Where Do We Go From Here
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Maverick has this brother: a brother who misses his phone calls.
Ice doesn't intend to learn more, determined to just get through Top Gun and finish with a trophy in hand.
His plan is going fine until a single folded flag later, when everything starts to change.
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Mav knows there's this thing happening between him and Ice: something that starts to grow a little stronger with each day. It keeps pulling them together, even if neither of them seems to know what to do with it.
Mav figures that they'll figure it out at some point.
He just really doesn't expect the memory of his dead brother to help along the way.
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- Part 4 of Where Do We Go From Here
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Let Me Be The First to Tell You by bonnieandclaide
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Top Gun (Movies)
30 Aug 2025
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Ethan Hunt has had to make many choices throughout his life: he made the choice to join the IMF, he made the choice to become a ghost, he made the choice to love and leave his wife behind, and he made the choice to devote his life to saving the world.
He made the choice to fall in love again, and he made the choice to buy a ring. Now he has to make a choice about when to give it to Benji.
But the world rarely makes Ethan's choices easy for him, and when a new threat seems to want to take it all away, Ethan's going to have to make the hardest choice of his life: choosing to be happy.
This is how it goes.
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- Part 5 of Where Do We Go From Here
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The story of how Benji Dunn became Ethan Hunt's husband doesn't actually start with Ethan Hunt, despite what many people may think. It doesn't even start with being recruited into the IMF or moving to America to work at their headquarters: in fact, his story started thousands of miles away in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire in the South West of England, where he was the son of Ellie and Bernard Dunn and the brother of Emma Dunn first, before he became anyone else.
Through grieving a father taken too early, getting his heart broken and put together again, being arrested in the middle of the night before graduating, and getting his heart put together then broken again in the end anyway, Benji's story is long, perilous, and yet to have a clear end...
...But he won't be the one to tell you all of it anyway.
______________________________A character study of Benji Dunn and his backstory before, and after, he meets Ethan Hunt, because I love my boy and needed to write it all out - hope you enjoy!
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- Part 6 of Where Do We Go From Here