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Charles lets his gaze wander through the apartment, taking in the details with that quiet curiosity Max knows too well. He stops in front of the trophies lined up on a shelf — the replicas of Max’s championships and the original, gleaming in the center. For a second, admiration flickers across Charles’s face. Max knows that look; he knows Charles wants that feeling someday, and part of him can’t blame him.
Charles turns, and Max sees a quiet smile on his face before it fades. “I, um… I received an invitation. From… The Invitation,” he starts, clearing his throat, and Max notices the nervous way his hands fidget.
“Ah, what an original name. Congratulations?” Max offers, barely containing a smirk.
Charles narrows his eyes, exasperation creeping in. “There’s a catch.”
“Do I even want to know?”
“They also invited you.”
Max’s expression morphs into an exaggerated look of shock, complete with wide eyes and raised brows. “Wow, what a shame, then.”
OR: Max and Charles are invited to appear together on a popular podcast. They have a lot to talk about and a lot of tension building up.
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09 Nov 2025
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It’s been five years since then, and every day Charles wonders what happened. He’d asked all their mutual friends, and then he’d even tried just Max’s friends, and eventually he’d even decided to bother Sophie and Victoria, but nobody would tell him anything. Charles has thought of everything in that time: maybe Max was sick. Maybe his mother was sick. Maybe Red Bull had wanted something Max couldn’t give. Maybe Max had just decided he simply didn’t want to get in a car one more time.
Maybe he’d regretted what happened between them, and simply couldn’t look Charles in the eyes.
Without a single photo of Max in the last five years, Charles had even wondered, in his darkest, saddest moments, whether Max had died.
Now, standing in a patisserie, in a tiny rural town in France, Charles finally has his answer.
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Charles has never been more lonely in his life. Then he stumbles upon Max and his daughter and he realises what he's been missing.
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08 Jul 2025
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Now it's Max's turn to grin, wide and teasing and maybe a little too earnest.
"Well, somebody just told me that I’m going to be a world champion one day, and there's only one driver around here good enough to beat me, so I'd like to think he'll be there too."
It's silly, and hopeful, but Charles is beaming at him and it feels like a promise.
"Preferably in second place, of course."
Or: There are lots of ways to love Charles Leclerc, Max maybe learns all of them through the years.
Featuring: puddles, stargazing, unsolicited driving lessons, and the overwhelming fear of growing up.
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05 Jul 2025
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lovers in the bathroom and a line outside the door by fallingprincess
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
23 Mar 2025
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“I'm the Inevitable, remember?”
Charles rolled his eyes, aware of the fact that their chests were still closely pressed together, their breathing now in sync and audible in the empty, darkness filled hallway. “Very funny, Max.”
“What? It's true! The predestined and the inevitable.”
“You make it sound like some weird destiny shit.”
Max shrugged. “Maybe it is, Charlie.”*
~ or the one where Max and Charles keep running into each other in a night club in Monza until the tension finally boils over. ~
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02 Jul 2025
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Charles lazily kicked the ball back. "I just can't believe I saw Max on Grindr."
"Forget about Max. What the fuck were you doing on Grindr, mate?"***
Charles and Max match on Grindr under fake names, each of them thinking the other one does not know it's them. Over one race weekend chaos ensues. They are being absolute dumbasses about it. Obviously.
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01 Jul 2025