Nico's hair is plastered to his face, sweat and champagne poured over him making it darker than it usually is, and Seb doesn't want to think about how it makes him look even younger, and a bit more relaxed, more fun than usual.
"More drinks?" Nico half-screams into his ear, and Seb nods distractedly, looking over to where Michael is talking to Lewis. They are laughing, and Michael pats Lewis on the shoulder, keeps his hand there. Seb looks away, gripping his beer bottle tightly, but he turns directly to where Nico is looking at him, calculation clear in his eyes.
"You know," he says, leaning in closer so that he isn't yelling anymore, "you will never have him. Not if you act like that." Nico's lips brush against Seb's earlobe, and he can't supress a shiver. By the triumph in his smile, that was Nico's intention.
"I don't want him," Seb replies, squeezing the bottle so tight, he thinks it would break if it weren't made of glass. Nico's face does a thing, but the shadow is gone before Seb can catch its meaning.
"Yeah," Nico says. "That's what I tell myself, too."
His hand moves upwards from Seb's knee, and Sebastian doesn't look away from his eyes as he relaxes his hold on the bottle and opens his legs just a bit more in the dark of the booth.
seb arriving at monaco feels like the plot twist of some cheesy romcom. like can you imagine if charles ***
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No because I'm still so ajsdfkg that his first post-retirement paddock appearance is in Monaco of all places. Monaco. Loud, glamourous, filled with celebs and influencers flocking to get a bit of that clout. Just so happens to be Charles's home race, the place that means the most to him on a personal level. It really is!!! I mean I've written fics about Seb coming to visit Charles in Monaco but then he one-upped me and did it for real ajsdfjg
Really hoping for some Seb/Charles interaction this weekend. I know he's busy with sponsor and media duties as the hometown boy, but come on... 👀
Anyway, now we know that no matter what happens this weekend, no matter how the race goes for Charles, he'll have Seb's support right there. And that's really special 😭😭😭❤️❤️
speaking of the austrian gp, i don't care about the austrian gp. max is going to crush everybody into a fine powder yet again and the race will be boring af
"I feel like I am missing something," Charles says, declares, casting his eyes out towards the broad expanse of neon lights and the cities' veins of rushing highways and stagnant dreams.
Some part of Alex, the part that he keeps locked inside with Charles, a vicious dog at the end of its chain, doesn't even want to be here with him, doesn't want to pretend that he can sit next to Charles in this when all he's thinking is that it wouldn't have ended like that for him (it would have), except that he does want to be there, because Charles is Charles.
Alex looks at him, not unkindly, as if Charles is missing something that he thinks is obvious. "I know, Charlie," he says, the words soft on the bridge of his mouth, but the next words don't come, even though Alex knows them in his bones. He was missing hope.