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There’s someone standing in his kitchen.
He looks young, maybe close to Max’s age, with messy dark brown hair that’s pulled back from his face by a red bandana, and he’s leaning against the kitchen counter like he’s supposed to be here.
Max’s first rather unhelpful thought is; fuck, he’s gorgeous. His second, more reasonable thought is;
“Who the fuck are you?”
“Charles Leclerc,” the man smiles. It's a little bit dazzling and Max is not at all distracted by it. He extends his hand for Max to shake. “I’m your new executive sous chef.”
Or: Max is very happy with his life, thank you very much. He has his restaurant, his team, and two Michelin stars at the age of 24. He definitely does not need some pretentious Monegasque chef coming in and throwing everything into chaos.
Except, maybe he does.
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The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory. by deletedaccountjustkiddingunless
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
12 May 2025
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After a devastating crash with Max Verstappen in the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc is left to face the aftermath — and Max — in silence, guilt, and unbearable grief.
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07 Jun 2026
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It's hard to miss what you don't remember. Unless it starts showing up at your front door.
Post crash Max suffers from amnesia.
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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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30 May 2026
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Where the boys go on a trip, post on social media, share stories in interviews and everyone on social media tries to connect the dots about the mysterious trip.
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30 May 2026
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Oracle Red Bull Racing ☑ (@redbullracing)
Let's goooooooo 🔥
Bills Mafia baby 😉🤠Denny (@verstappening)
Um... wrong account?lia⋆♱ (@h44mmertime)
lmaoMax Verstappen ☑ (@Max33Verstappen)
🤦(or, a social media fic in which daniel is the red bull admin and is not so subtley in love.)
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29 Apr 2026
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Max has always been aware of the fact that Charles Leclerc lives in his apartment building; however, that has never been a problem until, one day, there’s a knock on his door and when he opens it, Charles is standing there with a sheepish look on his face and a towel tucked under his arm.
“Issue. With the pipes,” Charles starts, looking as awkward about this as Max himself feels. “Can I borrow your shower, maybe? You’re the only person I know who lives close by, and I don’t want to go to the other side of the city to my brother’s.”
There’s a hopeful look on his face. The words finally seem to register with Max. “Um, yeah. Sure.”
Charles grins as he walks past to enter Max’s apartment. “Thanks mate, you’re a lifesaver.”
or, in which charles barges in on max's life and stays there
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07 Mar 2026
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These kinds of smiles on Max are reserved for other people. Like Daniel, like Lando, like those Dutch guys that come around sometimes and he likes to yell with.
Not Charles.
It’s probably the fourth time Max is acting noticeably strange around him that he notices the freckle on his lip.
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13 Feb 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of hidden fics 2026
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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01 Feb 2026
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“I don’t know,” He finds himself staring at another picture. Max is laughing brightly, to the point where his eyes are crinkled, and his mother is smiling too. There is a navy cap on her head: it is a Red Bull cap. Max’s Red Bull cap. “It’s just hard to imagine, I think.”
Pascale looks at him. For a moment it is an odd look. But that quickly melts into a smile. One that is gentle around the eyes, and soft on the mouth. Somehow, it makes Charles feel young again — younger than how he already feels; twenty-one in a world where he is twenty-five.
“You don’t have to imagine it, mon garçon,” she says quietly. “It has already happened.”
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The last thing Charles remembers is the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix.
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31 Jan 2026
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Craning his neck behind them, Daniel laughs his loud, creaky hyena laugh. “Don’t look now, but he’s still watching.”
“Who?”
“Chuck.”
“Chuck. There’s no way he lets you call him that,” Max says, voice rife with disbelief. He also can’t help it—he turns around, jostling Daniel’s arm over his shoulder to look back toward the media pen. Charles is in fact still watching them disappear down the paddock. His head is tilted to one side, a look of consideration on his pretty face. He doesn’t look actively upset, but he doesn’t look particularly happy either. Fuck.
“He doesn’t let me do anything. I just sort of do it and he laughs and blushes and looks at me with his big cow eyes.”
“Big cow eyes,” Max repeats, disbelieving yet again.
“Not actually, but sort of,” Daniel says, grin making his eyes crinkle. What the fuck.
“He’s blushing at you?” Max sounds petulant. Jealous, even. He needs to get a grip.
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All the rookies love Max. Except for one.
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20 Jan 2026
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Rapid fire thoughts in French pour into his head, each more hysterical sounding than the last. He recognizes “merde”, “putain”, and “pensée” and that’s it. Unhelpful.
“Charles,” he murmurs, slightly apologetic, “French.”
Charles’ eyes get even bigger, his eyebrows shooting up to his hairline. He makes a noise that if Max were a slightly less merciful person he would call a squeak. Watching him make the absolutely unhinged connection in real time is fascinating. Then carefully, in tentative English, You are hearing my thoughts?
Miserable, Max nods. Then shrugs. Fuck.
“Max,” Charles practically hisses, his grip on Max’s hand going tighter. The pinprick of his nails feels like the only thing connecting Max to the earth. “What the fuck?”
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Or, the year Max turns thirty, he spends about a month mid-season being able to read minds via physical touch. Charles is there too.
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19 Jan 2026
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Harry's an alcoholic and Louis is a bartender. The first time they meet isn't the first time they've met.
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Charles Leclerc is not at Red Bull to win races. He is here to win championships.
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- Part 3 of objects in mirror
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29 Dec 2025
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Max Verstappen fucks men sometimes. Charles struggles to cope.
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- Part 2 of objects in mirror
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28 Dec 2025
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Two Formula 1 drivers walk into a bar and accidentally have a heart-to-heart.
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- Part 1 of objects in mirror
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27 Dec 2025
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Austria 2019, a two-person house party, Abu Dhabi 2021, a silly lover’s quarrel, and a stove-side morning proposal.
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26 Dec 2025
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Oscar lost Lando a championship and left McLaren. There was still a year in between.
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“Wait,” Lando said, voice high pitched, “you guys really think Max and Charles are into each other? For real?”
“All the evidence points to that,” replied Alex, sighing, all analytical and a tad regretful, as if it was a shameful fact, unavoidable.
“And you think they might be already sleeping together?”
“No, not yet,” Daniel admitted, “they are just friends for now, and Charles is simply clingy with Max, who is a big softie with Charlie, God knows why… But… I think they want to.”
or: 5 times Max and Charles acted weirdly couple-y (+ one time they noticed)
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19 Dec 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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14 Dec 2025