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Out Of Character - LN

Summary: Lando has never been the type to get violent even when he's got good reason and is provoked. But when y/n's ex-boyfriend shows up, he thinks he's got more than just good reason

Warnings: Lando goes into blind rage

No part 2 requests please

Y/n being freshly broken up and being thrust upon the single market via a night out, really it was the last thing she wanted to do. .

"Y/n...you look stunning." Lando comments as y/n appears looking down at her phone.

"He's not text me back." Y/n mumbles earning a frown. "God, I'm so pathetic. I get myself dumped because he finds someone better then I spend the next two days "

"Hey, don't say that." Lando scolds as Max and Pietra appear. "Can you guys please tell her that she's not pathetic and that he has hasn't found someone better?"

"You aren't. He hasn't." Max and P agree earning a look from the young woman.

"Phone." Lando demands holding his hand out which makes her eye it like he's holding out a poisoned branch at her. "Y/n."

"Fine." Y/n grumbles putting her phone in his hand before he slides it into his pocket. "I guess if I'm third wheeling with anyone, it's not the worst person in it being you."

"Thanks." Lando hums offering his hand while Max and P are already heading out since the Uber is there. "You're going to be alright, y/n. I'll take care of you."

"I know you will. You're not an asshole." Y/n smiles making him grin at her before they head out.

Y/n did feel her mood beginning to pick up and with Lando having hold of her phone, he did have to deal with Ben finally replying trying to win her back. Which if she'd seen the messages, Lando knows would've worked.

Ben is the most manipulative person Lando has ever met and it's not secret that she is without a doubt wrapped around his little finger.

But what Lando expect when he steps down from the DJ set is to find that y/n is bickering with none other than Ben himself. He must've arrived while Lando was distracted.

Y/n's got tears threatening to spill over while she finds her bicep in Ben's hand, even in the strobe lights and darkness, Lando can see the white knuckles giving away how tightly he's holding her.

But reaching her from the distance he's at, he doesn't have the time to fight through the crowds before she's being very aggressively yanked away.

"Max? Max. Ben has y/n." Lando exclaims spotting his friend on the way over as he tries to fight his way through the crowd on the dance floor. "He's just dragged her out."

"Shit." Max groans the looking at P. "Stay inside. I don't want you involved in this."

Pietra definitely looks like she's going to argue since she is friends with y/n too. But the expression on Max and Lando's faces stops her from saying anything, instead just nodding.

By the time the two have marched outside, there's a few people who seem to be watching the exes argue.

"You broke up with me! Did you think you think my friends are the type of people to let me sit and mope over you?" Y/n questsions, her hand over his own as she seems to pause trying to pry his hand from her arm. "Will you let me go? You're hurting me."

"You think I'm just going to let you open your legs like a whore for Lando to finally-"

"What are you talking about?!" Y/n exclaims, not bothering to temper her volume anymore. "Get off."

"Hey, get the fuck off of her. Why is she repeating herself?" Lando questions as he appears with Max behind him.

"Oh here he is, the man with a god complex. Here to save the day, hero?" Ben laughs while y/n grimaces at his fist tightening around her arm, as if to make a point.

"Lando, it's ok." Y/n whispers catching his gaze and shaking her head to try and dismiss his efforts. "I'm handling this."

"Mate, maybe we should wait for her." Max states but Ben speaks up.

"Yeah, mate. Not getting your dick wet in a whore tonight. Or not this whore at least."

Lando's not really sure what happened. He didn't see red. It was more like he completely blacked out in rage. The only sense he had was the feeling of pain shooting through his fist a few times. The feeling of bone under skin crunching from the impact.

The sound hits in the form over y/n's voice screaming as sets of hands scramble time yank Lando's body backwards.

Eventually he's slingshotted back landing on another body that cushions his fall. The haze of darkness that clouded his vision finally clears and y/n appears.

"Hey, hey. We need to get you out of here." Y/n states as she looks at him for a moment. "Lando, are you listening to me? We need to go."

"I got him."

"I'll catch up." Y/n nods as Lando looks down at his right fists which looks pretty battered and bloody. It's only then he looks behind y/n that he sees some security looking at Ben who is conscious, thankfully but it looks likes he might have a broken nose and maybe a broken jaw. "Go on, Lando."

"I'm not leaving you with him again."

"You've incapacitated him and made your point. He's not going to touch me. I just have to make sure he doesn't press charges against you. Can you please?" Y/n stresses not actually worried about about Ben but more for Lando's reputation.

"Come on mate, she's right. We'll wait for her somewhere else. Get you some ice too." Max states yanking Lando up to his feet but Lando looks at y/n.

"Take your phone. We'll be waiting." Lando states making her sigh and pick her phone from his pocket with a small smile.

Lando is sitting on the curb while Max goes searching for P, just in time for y/n to appear and sigh sitting beside him.

"I'd love to know what the fuck you were thinking." Y/n comments with a sigh then pulling Lando's iced hand to her lap, looking at the damage. "Zak is going to kill you...and then kill me for being the reason behind you decided to try and break a man's face."

"I wasn't really thinking. But I wasn't going to let him talk about you like that." Lando sighs shaking his head. "Did he hit me back?"

"Uhh...I don't think he had much of a choice." Y/n sighs then smiling lightly. "You went kind of feral. I don't think he was prepared for that."

"I don't think anyone was." Lando mumbles trying not to flinch when he feels her thumb brush over his knuckles. "I don't know what you saw him."

"I don't really like being alone. And the moments he was the good guy that I know and love-loved. Those moments were amazing. It's a lot easier to look in from the outside and cast judgement."

"You deserve better." Lando mutters shaking his head.

"Well in the theme of sounding cliche. I believe the saying is that we accept what we believe we deserve."

"Can't fault you for being wrong. Not everyone can be right all the time like me." Lando smirks while she laughs and sighs. "So am I being charged for assault?"

"No he's not that stupid." Y/n sighs softly before she watches his gaze flick down to her already bruising arm. "It's fine."

"Do you wanna stay at my place tonight? It's closer." Lando states earning a small nod before Max and P reappear.

"Oh god, what happened?" P asks rushing to the two.

"Lando happened to Ben. We should go." Y/n sighs looking at Lando as she stands up and offers her hand. "Come on, hero."

After getting back to Lando's they order food before Max and P head to bed, claiming they're tired but the drunk smiles and wandering hands definitely left no room for guessing.

Y/n had already changed into some borrowed Quadrant clothes and curled up into the corner of the sofa while Lando purposely squished up to her in his slightly drunk state just to really poke at her.

"I'm sorry you got involved." Y/n sighs shaking her head. "I forgot he had my location on my phone and he followed us from that."

"I stepped in because he was hurting you...and I don't really remember throwing the first punch. I just blacked out from rage in a way." Lando admits earning a frown from the young woman. "I just wanted to protect you from an asshole who never deserved you to begin with."

"You know you're sort of proving he had reason to be jealous and threatened by you when you go on like this." Y/n laughs lightly then shifting till she's at an angle to rest on his shoulder. "Are you going to fight the next one if he treats me badly?"

Now there is an opportunity here. A chance to do what he should've done before that asshole ever laid his eyes on her.

"I would never treat you badly...and it'd be hard to fight myself."

He feels her head lift as she looks at him, definitely in shock so he gives it a few beats before turning his head to look at her.

"Lando..."

"You can say no."

"But you know I won't." Y/n states then sighing. "You know, I convinced myself a long time ago that we would never be anything more than what we've always been."

"Why?" Lando frowns since for years he's hated holding himself back from it all.

"Because you've always been so work-focused and whenever we were together I mean we flirted but I guess I just assumed it was how our friendship worked." Y/n shrugs then groaning. "Fucking hell. Which one of us was blind?"

"You."

"But-"

"I always knew, but...I thought I'd let you figure it out." Lando cuts in then sighing. "Not my most strategic of moves, I'll admit but still."

"You're a dick."

"So...are we going to try and make this work or are we going back to pretending that it doesn't mean a thing?"

"After what you did for me tonight. I wouldn't want to think of you in any other way than less than a boyfriend. It'd be nice to have someone I know is worth my time."

Y/n grins climbing over him to straddle him and picking up his bruised hand, inspecting the damage.

"I'm still sorry." Y/n states earning a head shake.

"Don't be. So far it's all working out in my favour."

"Ever the optimist when you've almost broken your fist on my ex's face."

"I'd break it entirely if I thought it needed to be done."

Y/n hums before she sighs leaning to the side to look around him and check the time.

"I think it might be a good time to get ourselves to bed." Y/n smiles earning a grin from the F1 driver. "It's a good thing you have a couple more weeks till you are back in the car. Or I might actually need to worry for my safety when it comes to McLaren employees trying to snipe me down or something."

"It's bruised, nothing is broken so I'm fine." Lando smiles then raising his bruised hand up to her throat, feeling her pulse thrumming under his touch before he pulls her down into a kiss that really feels long overdue and as if a jigsaw piece has just fallen into place.

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