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Smoke, Spring, Sunshine, and Stardust by flechesdargent (644reasonswhy)
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
24 Sep 2025
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Summary
"It mattered. It always fucking mattered."
When Nico walked out after 2016, he told the world he was following his heart. What he didn’t say was who he’d left it with.
Years later, the cameras find them again: one in a race suit, one in a tie and a suit, both still circling the same series of tracks they never managed to leave behind. Between interviews and quiet corridors, podium lights and cigarette smoke, old habits crawl back to life.
It’s not rivalry anymore. Not exactly love either. Not yet, anyway. It’s everything that’s been burning between them since the beginning: anger, devotion, regret, and the kind of longing that refuses to die easy.
Some things end in trophies.
Some things end in silence.
And some never end at all.This is the story full of Sunshine and Stardust: love found, lost, and found again.