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He stretches his legs, presses his feet to the floor. He still can’t feel the ground beneath him.
There’s nothing, no tingling in his toes, no cold seeping into his bones. It’s like his feet don’t belong to him anymore, like they’re someone else’s.
Even if he could control his lower legs without pain or exertion again, even if he got his range of motion back, he still wouldn’t be able to race.
Or, Max tries to deal with the aftermath of a career-ending crash. He isn’t sure who he is beyond Max Verstappen, Formula One World Champion.
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24 Oct 2025
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"He’s a damn child. He doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about,” Jos spits, stabbing a finger at the conference table like it’s Charles himself.
Max sits, arms crossed, one knee bouncing under the table, eyes fixed somewhere in the middle distance.
Max Verstappen has spent his life fighting. For wins, for titles. Now, with two world championships under his belt, he’s fighting for his third against a new rival: rookie prodigy Charles Leclerc.
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23 Oct 2025
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Charles says nothing as he picks up his drink. He holds it in his mouth for a moment, looking the man up and down. He can’t tell much about what he does for work, which is unusual. There aren’t a lot of options in a place like Monaco.
But with tattoos like that, Charles has a feeling he’s not the usual businessman.
“I’m Charles,” he says, once he swallows.
“I’m aware. I was the one who let you in.”
Charles raises a brow. “Ah, the mysterious boss. Do you have a name?”
// Charles is a Formula 1 driver. Max is a mafia boss.
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12 Sep 2025
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Some insane thing between his ribs with teeth in his heart whines and writhes and says that, if Max does good enough, Charles will love him. It’s a shocking, jarring thought that Max hasn’t let breathe in case it stole all of the air from his lungs. He knows it’s impossible. Even the idea of that love is so far beyond what he deserves, but Charles being his friend has never been enough.
Maybe he shouldn’t have said that, back in Austin. We’re friends, right? Maybe the notion that this could ever be something more wouldn’t feel so hopeless if he hadn’t foolishly stuck a label on whatever this was. All he’d known was that he needed something. He’d craved some sort of value in Charles’ mind, wanted to be something more than just a good handful of fucks. Friendship held the promise of after, he’d decided, even if it wasn’t the type of after he wanted.
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12 Sep 2025
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The sight makes Max laugh again, even harder, until he’s breathless. His hands are still against Charles, but they’re both leaning in now, foreheads bumping together in a way that would probably be painful if Max could feel anything right now.
“This is insane,” he breathes.
“What is?”
Max isn’t sure. This conversation. This entire night. The last few weeks that they’ve spent accidentally ending up in all the same places.
“I thought you were gonna hit me,” he says, instead of answering. “That last time? In the coffee shop, y’know.”
“Were you hoping that I would?"
Max doesn’t know how to explain that he’s been waiting to feel the impact for twenty years.
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Or: Charles can't stop running, Max wants to disappear, and fate is not done with these two yet.
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02 Sep 2025