I just re read this https://www.tumblr.com/24heuresdumax/816374371686940672/saw-a-post-in-overhearddating-ig-and-it-kinda?source=share
and Nina! They’re insane 😂 Charles and max, but especially Charles 😂 they’re both insanely in love and and Charles is super oblivious! Please be kind to Pierre and save him from their ridiculousness lol and max! He’s just trying to move on but alas, Charles is always there 😂
I also loved Pierre’s description of his bff ! dramatic little prince and teary-eyed devil and ugly crier - that’s Charlie 😍
Hi Anon 🤭
Cosmic Love Cosmic Insanity AU: Part 1
Pierre is legit sitting on a lawn chair with a bottle of limoncello and a plate of prosciutto-wrapped melon while Max and Charles are climbing all over each other and aggressively vowing their eternal devotion because oh my god, you two fucking losers 🙄🙄🙄
He truly is the strongest solider because others would have just thrown their hands together and given up.
But not Pierre, not Pierre-fucking-Gasly, the best friend of Charles Leclerc and the ex-teammate of Max Verstappen. Oh no. He's been too closely involved in this madness since Day 1, when these two psychos would yell at each other during karting tournaments but then:
Max punching another karter in the face after they called Charles "weak" and "soft." He receives a 10 place grid drop and a black mark on his record. Max's response? "Worth it."
Charles burying another karter's helmet in icy cold mud after they called Max "an aggressive asshole who doesn't deserve to kart." He gets a stern talking to from the Young Karters' Association but once that's over, Charles simply goes to bicker with Max some more.
Pierre has literally been on the ground, in the trenches, suffering for decades and the second he thinks some progress might be made (e.g., Max getting a girlfriend), we take 5,000 steps back (e.g., Charles throwing the biggest tantrum known to man and Max deciding no one is more important than his childhood rival turned coworker turned friend) 🙃
I guarantee you there's been periods where Pierre and Kika are scheming to get Max and Charles together because the absolute lunacy they cause separately is somehow worse than when they're together 😭😭
Pierre definitely gets a call from Charles a few days after the Girlfriend™️ debacle and when he picks up his phone, Charles is all bubbly and happy and telling his bestie that:
"Max surprised me with a holiday at the Maldives and we spent every day sunbathing and swimming and cycling around the resort." A dreamy sigh. "He bought me so many pretty bikinis and I got to wear every single one of them, even the sheer sparkly one because Max chartered a yacht that we took out to sea late at night." Charles giggles. "Maxie still gets so worried other people might see me naked, isn't that the sweetest? And then we got massages and hot stone therapy. I haven't felt that relaxed in years, Pierre." A shuffling sound fills the line. "And on our last night there, Max took me for a beachside picnic at sunset. He told me I was the most beautiful, amazing, wondrous person he's ever met and that if he lived a thousand lifetimes, there still wouldn't be anyone as perfect as me."
Pierre chokes on his espresso. "Um...Calamar...I don't know if that statement from Max can be taken...platonically." He tries to say this in the most diplomatic fashion he can.
But Charles bulldozes over Pierre's very carefully worded concern. "He kissed my hand, Pierre. Like a prince from a fairytale."
"...What?"
"The Maldives are our place now. So his stupid girlfriend can shove it." A gleeful, mean-spirited edge takes over Charles's voice. "Maxie was supposed to take his girlfriend there but she got...sick. So he took me instead."
"Your boyfriend was okay with this?"
"Who cares? I broke up with him." Charles says this so casually Pierre almost drops his phone.
"Wait, when did you two break up—?"
"Before Max took me to the Maldives, keep up Pierre." He snaps while another rustling sound catches Pierre's attention.
The rustling...sounds like bedsheets.
"Charles, if your boyfriend broke up with you then who are with right now?"
"Hm? Oh, Max." The Ferrari driver moves away from the phone and murmurs something that Pierre can't quite make out. Laughter fills the air before Charles drops the phone, more rustling, and then he's back on the line.
Pierre finishes the rest of his espresso. "Just for the sake of my own...peace of mind. Why is Max with you in bed?"
"Huh?"
"Why is Max with you in bed?"
"Oh. Because he was very tired after we flew in from the Maldives last night. So I let him sleep in bed with me."
"Best night of sleep I've ever had." Max declares, loud enough for Pierre to hear.
Charles giggles. "Oh mon cœur, you're so silly. I draped myself all over you...was I too heavy?"
"Heavy? Oh schatje you're the perfect weight. Perfect for my arms to hold."
Pierre almost gags at how saccharine Max sounds.
But Charles feels otherwise.
A loud oh Maxie! nearly ruptures Pierre's eardrum before the line goes dead.
Calmly, Pierre begins to spread some butter on his baguette. He's not touching this drama with a twenty meter pole, no thank you.
Charles will just have to figure this out for himself and—
Pierre's text notification goes off.
He glances down, wondering if Kika's arrived at the farmer's market but instead, he only sees a message from Charles.
Calamar 🦑: Dinner at my apartment tomorrow night? 7 pm?
Calamar 🦑: Need to give this apartment a proper farewell before I move in with Max ☺️
Pierre: ??? What?? Why??
Calamar 🦑: It's really very simple.
Pierre: Then explain??
Calamar 🦑: We already spend so much time at each other's homes. So why not move in together?
Pierre: What about Max's gf?
Calamar 🦑: Her opinion is irrelevant.
Pierre: ...You've already started moving in, haven't you?
Calamar 🦑: 🤭♥️
Calamar 🦑: Max bought me a Steinway Grand Piano 🥺 isn't he the best?
Pierre throws his butter knife across the hallway.
Saw a post in overhearddating ig and it kinda reminded me of your Charles and Max!
Girl 1 (sobbing) aka Charles: He (Max) has a girlfriend now!
Girl 2 aka Pierre the bff: You have a boyfriend????
like Charles please, you forgot you’re dating someone already and now max is dating someone you’re suddenly devastated 😭 Charles, he’s just trying to move on because you’re dating someone else and not him 😭
Hi Anon 🤣
Stopppp this is so Charles coded it's got me giggling and nodding along 🤣🤣 Charles's mindset is all, "Yeah I have a boyfriend but the only man in my life is my Maxie and I adore him so much, we're going to be buried in the same grave because even in death nothing can separate us 🥰"
And he thinks that's completely normal.
Meanwhile Max is so achingly, heart-stoppingly, obviously in love with Charles but realizes the ultra-talented Monegasque beauty will never see him as anything more than a friend. So he decides to try and move on even though it's a pretty useless endeavor 😭
No one can compare to his wondrous, mesmerizing, spoiled, charming, illustrious Charlie with his adorable dimpled smile and fierce temper. It makes Max's heart melt the way he cusses out the stewards and then smiles in their faces before sweet talking his way to a lesser penalty.
The Dutchman is a puddle of goo every time Charles stomps his dainty foot at a bad quali result. He listens to him rant and rave all night long, watching as Charles angrily yanks his designer clothes off and slips into Max's oversized t-shirt. He's watches, hearts in his eyes, as Charles aggressively brushes his teeth, almost slips on the bathroom mat because he stomped too aggressively, and then flops into bed, rolling right into Max's arms.
He wants Charles in every single way but...
The Ferrari darling has been in back to back relationships since he arrived on the grid.
So Max...Max has to try and force some distance between them.
Or else he'll spend the rest of his life chasing after Charles.
Except, nothing goes as planned.
Because our gorgeous Monegasque darling is in tears—uncontrollable, grief-stricken tears. He throws himself into Pierre's arms and sobs like someone's just stolen P1 from him right before Charles was about to cross the finish line.
He cries and cries and wails so loudly that the Frenchman is seriously considering calling the police because something horrible must have happened to send Charles into a fit of despair so potent it leaves Pierre feeling lost, helpless, and terrified.
Usually, Charles goes to Max but—
"He has a girlfriend!" Charles yells this with so much anguish that it takes a second for the words to register.
"...Max has a girlfriend?" He repeats slowly.
Charles's grip tightens to the point of pain. He's sprawled in Pierre's arms on the sofa, face an angry, blotchy red (Charles has never been a pretty crier) and when he hears Pierre's question, those emerald eyes flash with something...
Quite terrifying.
"Someone is trying to steal my Maxie!" Charles sobs, sounding like a feral raccoon.
"I—okay, wait one moment. Why are you so upset?" He desperately wishes Kika hadn't left the apartment to give Charles "privacy" because right now, he's holding a lunatic in his arms. "Calamar—"
"Why am I so upset? Did you not hear me, Pierre? I am being replaced in my Max's life! Do you know what happened today? I called Maxie and this...interloper answered the phone! She touched my Maxie's phone! And she told me he was busy! How dare she!" Charles hiccups, tears dripping down his cheeks.
Pierre tries very, very hard not to show emotion. "I think what she's doing is very reasonable. She is, as you said, his girlfriend."
"So being his girlfriend gives her the right to tell me Max is busy? Does she know who I am?!"
"You are his friend in the paddock, his rival on track, and the menace who shoved him into a puddle over a decade ago."
"Exactly!" Charles slaps Pierre's shoulder as if the Alpine driver has just spouted words of wisdom. "Does she not realize that Max and I are intertwined? That we are destined? That he is mine and I am his?"
"Charles, you have a boyfriend."
"So?" He blinks. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"I—well, would you like it if your boyfriend's friend suddenly tried to take up your boyfriend's time and acted as a third wheel?"
"Why would I care? He can have friends, it's not a crime."
Pierre stares at him for a moment. And then:
"Fine, what if Max's girlfriend tried to third wheel you and Max?"
Fire returns to those emerald eyes. "She should respect boundaries and realize she is interrupting!"
The Frenchman nods. "Charles, I think you have a big, fat, unresolved crush on Max—"
"I do not!"
"—And don't you have to be on a date tonight?"
"I'm busy!" Charles snaps before there's a furious, loud pounding at the door.
Pierre heaves the dramatic little prince off of him and goes to open the door. His hand has barely left the doorknob when Pierre is being shoved aside by a deranged looking Max Verstappen who's flushed, sweating, and looking like he's just sprinted from one end of Monaco to the next.
"Max? What are you—"
"Charlie!" The Dutchman barrels past Pierre without another word and runs right to the teary-eyed devil on the couch.
"Oh Maxie!" Charles wails, lifting up his arms.
Pierre watches in complete disbelief as Max scoops Charles in fierce (and rather possessive) embrace, hugging the Monegasque so tightly it's a wonder Charles can still breathe.
"I'm here, schat, I'm here—please don't cry. She told me what happened and I can't believe she treated you so cruelly, I'm sorry, Charlie, I'm so so sorry—"
"She made me f-feel like you don't c-care about me." Charles begins crying all over again.
It's amazing, Pierre thinks, that he has enough tears to sustain this nonstop sobbing.
"She had no right to say any of that." Max thunders, his expression so dark and wroth that it's...actually a little frightening to see in person. "You never have to ask for permission to spend time with me, Charlie. Wherever I am, I want you there too."
"R-really?" He sniffles. "Even when she's there?" Charles spits out the personal pronoun like it's poison.
Max nods immediately. "I always want you by my side, schatje. I...I don't feel right if you're not near."
As soon as the words are said, Pierre watches as the most luminous, radiant smile appears on Charles's face.
They are insane. They are certifiably insane but somehow, I feel like I'm the lunatic. Pierre desperately wishes he'd filmed all this for Kika.
What do you think of Charles learning Dutch, both because he wants to feel closer to Max + Max’s family (the family prefers to speak in their native language but will switch to English so Charles can understand too) and also because he wants to have babies with Max and wants their babies to be able to understand both of their native languages and wants to understand their babies in whichever language they want to speak at that moment. He ends up doing it in secret because he’s having a bit of trouble with pronunciations and feels embarrassed at the thought of Max hearing butcher his language. Also maybe he’s doing this very early on in his relationship with Max and he’s afraid that he will make Max run for the hills since he’s already thinking about their future children (little does he know that if it was up to Max they would be bonded, married and with baby number 1 on the way). Charles gets caught practicing his Dutch first by Victoria, who decides to help him learn and also decides that he’s perfect for her brother and eventually by Max, who immediately pounces him (apparently Dutch is the language of love) (A very blushy and out of breath Charles ends up explaining why he started learning Dutch, which leads Max to decide that operation Baby #1 is a go)
Hi Anon 💌
This is so dang adorable!! 🧸 Sweet, devoted Charlie who's all worried Max might think they're moving too fast if he finds out Charles is learning Dutch (so he can sing their babies to sleep) vs. Max who daydreamed of what his mating bite might look like on the side of Charles's neck right after their first date 😭
Max begging Charles to tell him what he's learned/what Victoria's taught him and our shy little Omega is all:
"I don't think I'll pronounce it correctly 🥺"
Max: "Please, Charlie, I just need to hear it. Just knowing you've been practicing my language, that you've put in so much time and effort...mijn engel, I'll love every word you say."
And Charles, whose cheeks are red with embarrassment but he musters up the courage to whisper: "Mijn liefde." He says it so softly that it should have been difficult to make out the words.
But Max heard.
He heard every syllable.
Mijn liefde. My love.
Spoken in Charles's lilting Monegasque accent that could make any sentence sound like poetry? Verstappen.exe has stopped working.
The Alpha literally grabs Charles by the waist, hoists his pretty boy up so Charles has to wrap his legs around Max's hips, and in a sudden mad dash up the stairs, the Dutchman is carrying him to bed, mouth pressing hot, desperate kisses on every inch of skin he can reach.
Charles is flustered, shocked, and delighted because Max is positively feral right now.
Zero inhibitions, running purely on instinct, wild with desire—
All because of two little words.
And while Charles is all pleased with himself (and steadily growing wetter and wetter), Max is so excited because if he gets Charles pregnant with Baby #1 right now, then he can mate Charles, propose to him, and get married by the end of this year!
He'll be ending the 2026 season as a husband, mate, and father—
Q: You ended up fifth in that first turn, what happened at the start?
CL: Well, quite simply, when I did the start procedure and released the clutch, there was, I think, much less grip than we expected. I had quite a lot of wheelspin. then into turn 1, I was kind of squeezed between Lewis and, I think, Max. I had to back out there as well. After that, we were down to p5 and from then on it was extremely difficult to fight our way back.
What's difficult to understand is that...—it's not something that only affects us, but maybe it affects us more than the others—there's too many sessions like this [inconsistent]. The run on the soft tires wasn't too bad, the first stint on the hard tires was actually pretty good. The second stint on the hards, I had no feeling with the car at all. It was extremely difficult to understand what was going on with the tires. Then the soft tires at the end were actually quite good, but by then we were on an offset strategy compared to the others, so it's difficult to make a direct comparison. Still, the feeling was good.
It's just very difficult to find consistency with this car.
Q: It must be a hard hit for Ferrari, after the good run of races before and just before the summer break, are you leaving with a lot of questions / scratching your head?
CL: What's really strange is that this is completely the opposite of what we expected based on the last three races. The two races where we thought we'd really struggle, we finished first and second. The race where we expected to be quite competitive, we finished fourth and fifth.
But that pretty much sums up these cars in general. I think it's difficult for everyone to understand, we just have to be better than the others at figuring it out
On my side I will continue to work on understanding why the inconsistency is there in this car, why in the same tires, doing more or less the same thing, it can be so different. It’s very strange.
woke up from nap and cant stop thinking about lestappen podium. went to get cookies and still thought about lestappen podium. opened my phone to see lestappen pics background. looked at my watch to see lestappen pics. opened my ipad to see dual lestappen backgrounds.
all roads lead back to lestappen. either that or i need a lobotomy
