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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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01 Jun 2026
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“Huh. Max posted on instagram.” Lando says casually from his place on Charles’ couch, as if that wasn't earth shattering news for everyone else in the room.
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Cringe fail loser Charles and cringe fail loser Max fall in love.Series
- Part 1 of Cringe-verse
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31 May 2026
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‘‘How can I sleep when you’re doing this?’’ he continued, his teeth pushed together, his eyes starting to get red. Max rubbed his eyes again, asking him what he meant, but the Monegasque was having none of it. ‘‘Stop playing!’’ Charles said, tears starting to rise while he pushed Max further along the hallway for a second time.
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Charles made a mistake after the Monaco GP in 2022, something which he desperately tries to forget about. And he might've, if it wasn't for the fact that someone tries to blackmail him with a video one year later. Charles is sure that Max is the one behind it all, but what if he is not?
Story is finished as of 19-06-2023
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30 May 2026
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Three days after the mission, the rain hasn’t stopped. The family estate smells of antiseptic, lilies, and gunpowder. A coffin rests in the private cemetery, and Charles Verstappen-Leclerc hasn’t spoken to his husband since the night he was brought home half-broken and alive. Max stands a few steps behind him at the grave, silent, worshipful, blamed for choosing the ‘wrong’ life to save.
No one speaks of what happened inside the facility. Not the ropes. Not the screams through the vents. Not the moment one brother was forced to aim a gun at the other to keep their family alive. They only bury their dead and try to pretend the living are still whole.
But ghosts don’t stay buried long in this house. Not when loyalty has teeth, not when love turns to penance, and not when the ones left behind would burn the world just to see each other breathe again.
This is the story of what remains after survival… love turned sacred, grief turned violent, and the quiet, impossible miracle of coming home.
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- Part 12 of ✨ Verstappen-Leclerc Crime Syndicate ✨
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29 May 2026
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Charles met his soulmate when he was four years old. His parents assumed they must have met at one of Lorenzo’s karting races. Supposedly, Charles had felt weightlessness, warmth, and utter happiness when he looked in his soulmate’s eyes for the first time.
He wishes he remembered it.
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28 May 2026
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“You are severely touch-starved Mr Leclerc," the doctor explained quietly, pushing the tissue box towards his patient. "You're the worst case I've ever seen, to be honest. Your body is screaming for physical affection, which causes this… heightened emotivity."
"Can I just have depression like normal people?" Charles asked, his voice breaking on the last syllable, as he grabbed a tissue from the box.
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Charles has a condition. He needs to be hugged as much as possible, otherwise he cries. Constantly. The paddock tries to help. Mysteriously, Max's hugs work much better than everyone else's.
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28 May 2026
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It's March 2023 and after another season of heartbreak and frustration, Charles steps out of the spotlight, leaving the paddock wondering and the world holding its breath. Max Verstappen can't understand why, and he's determined to find out.
or: Charles Leclerc announces his retirement and Max decides to follow, to understand, to break down walls, and perhaps to realize that the most unexpected victories aren’t on the track.
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28 May 2026
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“Max,” Charles said, Max’s blue eyes reflecting Charles’s own fears. “Please. What happened?”
Max stared at him for a few long seconds before he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, his expression twisted into something painful and afraid.
“There was a bomb.”
(Or what I've been referring to as my love letter to Lestappen)
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27 May 2026
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After a surprising 2024 season that saw McLaren rise back to the top of the Constructors' Championship while Max Verstappen held on to his Driver's Championship title after a hard fight, there were high expectations placed on the 2025 Formula 1 season.
Will Lewis Hamilton be able to secure his eighth title in his first year with Ferrari? Will McLaren continue their dominance? Will Max Verstappen equal the record and win five titles in a row? Will Charles Leclerc finally find himself in a title fight once again? Or will someone else be the surprise contender for the WDC title this year?
With new regulations in place, four new rookies on the grid, and everything to play for, see how one of the most exciting seasons of racing played out! The full season of Drive to Survive is set to release on 6 March 2026 and here's a sneak peek at the episode titles!
Rookie Season. Rhapsody in Red, New Kid on the Block, Hometown Heroes?, “Just an Incident”, 2019 Rookies On Top, 242 Starts, In Hot Water, (Ex) Teammates, Inevitable or Predestined
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Or a very long and detailed 2025 season AU featuring angst, feels, and plenty of perspectives (and relationships) on and off the track.
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- Part 4 of Red vs. Blue
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26 May 2026
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Charles Leclerc had long ago learned the art of slipping between masks. It was second nature to him now - the way he could glide from one set to another, wearing costumes and smiles that never quite reached his eyes, delivering lines that won applause and headlines. Acting was both his gift and his shield. On screen, in interviews, even in candid photos that fans dissected with obsessive detail, he appeared untouchable - brilliant, charming, grounded. Nobody ever asked him about the hollowness that followed him home, about the man who waited for him behind closed doors.
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Charles is an actor stuck in a toxic relationship with fellow actor Marcus Whitman. When Charles lands the lead role in an F1 movie, he must attend real races to prepare - reconnecting with old karting friends Pierre, George, Alex, Lando. And Max, who may or may not have a huge crush on him. Amid the roar of engines and starstruck admiration, Charles remains shy and guarded, all while Marcus’s controlling presence shadows him at every turn.Bookmarked by lookercooker
20 May 2026
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Fresh off a victory tour from the 2026 winter olympics with more than one medal in the bag, Charles Leclerc gets invited by Oracle Red Bull Racing to a weekend in Miami for…Formula, uhh, something. He’s there for the vacation sunshine, a free drink or two and a well deserved break, not whatever is happening on track.
OR: Charles is the latest in a rising influx of social media influencers, athletes, and celebrities to be invited into the paddock for a race weekend who have no idea what F1 even is or how it works. So it’s a good thing he ends up in four-time World Drivers’ Champion Max Verstappen’s garage—whatever the hell that means.
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10 May 2026
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in a world of boys, Max’s a gentleman.
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10 May 2026
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Married, divorced, and a single father, all within the span of the last five years.
What happened to Charles Leclerc?
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- Part 2 of wait for your love
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10 May 2026
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Charles had learned early not to get attached to things that didn’t stay.
At eighteen, he survived the streets.
At twenty-seven, he built something steady.
At twenty-eight, someone left a six-month-old baby at his door with a note that said, He’s yours.Now Charles has to decide what it means to keep something.
And Max, who was never meant to be permanent, has to decide whether he’s staying too.Bookmarked by lookercooker
10 May 2026
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Lewis Hamilton retires at the end of 2025, just in a single night, all of a sudden. Max Verstappen is there to take both his seat and his prestige in the historic team.
𝐎𝐑: Lestappen ferrari teammates.
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10 May 2026
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Max was perfectly happy with his chaotic yet happy life, which included a house full of loyal but equally unhinged friends, his final year of engineering, and just enough drama to keep things interesting. Everything was perfectly on track... until he showed up. A mysterious, annoyingly elegant stranger who bumped into him at a mall, spilled boba tea all over him, and then casually reappeared wearing Dior—just to buy milk.
After Charles entered the picture, life only became more chaotic, What started out as casual encounters turned into academic rivalries, petty fights, slow-burn tension, and the kind of love that flips your world upside down with arguments, late-night study sessions, glitter bombs, grocery store runs, Chaos, party and pranks.
And in between all of this Max came to the very big realization that he’s hopelessly, stupidly in love with the man who made his already chaotic life infinitely better
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10 May 2026
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It's early in the morning when Max receives a weird message on his phone "You are gonna make Charles win the race on Sunday, or he dies". Max dismisses it at first, choosing not to fall for the joke, scam, or whatever it was.
But the messages continue through the whole week, attached with various pictures of Charles, taken from a distance. Charles walking in public, Charles training, Charles sleeping. Pictures that were nowhere on the internet or in magazines, he checked.
Come Saturday night and the news reports someone has broken into Charles's hotel room and stolen just one thing: his bracelets. Sunday morning, those bracelets appear in Max's backpack.
The race arrives and Max is certain the threats are probably serious.
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02 May 2026
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They say some things never change. But after years of running, Max and Charles are about to learn just how much it hurts when the past catches up fast.
OR: Charles has a secret baby. Max has a temper. There are too many broken promises, too many 'what ifs,' and maybe… not enough time.
Can two shattered hearts find their way back, before the final lap?
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28 Apr 2026
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After silly 2024 season there are six rookies on the grid. And everyone, absolutely everyone, falls in love with Charles Leclerc. But this is not some kind of mind-blowing news. As it turns out, everyone has been through this in the past.
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28 Apr 2026
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"Baby girl, it's just me and you."
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Max and Charles navigate a string of mistakes, a lot of heartbreak, and experience love in all its forms.
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- Part 1 of wait for your love
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28 Apr 2026