@kdramaspace 2021 Year In Review Challenge
December 20: Ride or Die | Favorite Character Dynamic(s) of 2021
Yoon Sae Boom & Jung Yi Hyun
I realized when you said that a home depended on whom you were with. I’ll stay with you from now on. Stay with me. Whatever you’re like, I’m okay with anything.
i've been stuck on the landoscar hp fic for months now, so i've decided to put it aside for the time being and write a shorter one, so here's a snippet of the new one.
Lando swears he’s never seen someone as beautiful as the boy laying right next to him. He wishes he had the power to stop time, that his magic was strong enough to defy the Universe. He wonders what they could have been, if he was a sun witch and not the moon coven’s future, if his entire life hadn’t been already mapped out for him. If he could love freely, if he was allowed to give his heart to whomever he desired.
Oscar stirs in his sleep, Lando wonders if he should leave before he wakes. Probably should, probably would if he was a stronger man, if he wasn’t so deeply in love with him.
“Hey,” the Aussie’s voice brings him back to reality. There’s a sleepy smile on his face and his eyes are not fully open yet. Lando would tear down the entirety of the Universe for him.
Instead of starting a cosmic war against the higher powers that rule their version of reality, the Brit simply smiles back, pushes his companion’s face and gets up from bed. He shouldn’t even be here. They both know that.
It’s early enough that he’ll probably manage to sneak back to his room without anyone seeing him.
Maybe the stars don’t hate him so much, maybe they’ll let him have this at least. Quiet mornings after late night studies and the ability to pretend there’s nothing between them more than a careful friendship weaved into the tapestry of their lives through careful conversations, whispered promises and wasted evenings.
He doesn’t look back even once as he leaves through the door.
i've been stuck on the landoscar hp fic for months now, so i've decided to put it aside for the time being and write a shorter one, so here's a snippet of the new one.
Lando swears he’s never seen someone as beautiful as the boy laying right next to him. He wishes he had the power to stop time, that his magic was strong enough to defy the Universe. He wonders what they could have been, if he was a sun witch and not the moon coven’s future, if his entire life hadn’t been already mapped out for him. If he could love freely, if he was allowed to give his heart to whomever he desired.
Oscar stirs in his sleep, Lando wonders if he should leave before he wakes. Probably should, probably would if he was a stronger man, if he wasn’t so deeply in love with him.
“Hey,” the Aussie’s voice brings him back to reality. There’s a sleepy smile on his face and his eyes are not fully open yet. Lando would tear down the entirety of the Universe for him.
Instead of starting a cosmic war against the higher powers that rule their version of reality, the Brit simply smiles back, pushes his companion’s face and gets up from bed. He shouldn’t even be here. They both know that.
It’s early enough that he’ll probably manage to sneak back to his room without anyone seeing him.
Maybe the stars don’t hate him so much, maybe they’ll let him have this at least. Quiet mornings after late night studies and the ability to pretend there’s nothing between them more than a careful friendship weaved into the tapestry of their lives through careful conversations, whispered promises and wasted evenings.
He doesn’t look back even once as he leaves through the door.
hiiiii everyone! i just made a little quiz in which each possible result has a little imagine attached to it. if you see any grammar mistakes, PLEASE, tell me, i'm too tired and english ain't my first language. okay. that's it. thanks. bye! ♡
there's only 6 possible answers bc there was no way i was going to do this for 14 people, so, yeah
“Okay. Fine. Okay. Uh… I’ll comprise. Comprise?”
Oscar scoffs without any bad heat behind the sound, actually endeared by it. It helps that he can see the other man making an effort.
“Compromise.”
“That. So. I’ll do that. I’ll, uh, try. Not this week, tho,” a hand flies to stop Oscar from complaining, “I have to prepare the training schedule for the team and organize tryouts. So. Yeah, not a chance. Monday? Five sharp? I’ll meet you at the library.”
He sees the way Lando is looking at him. Like he’s some sort of puzzle he’s trying to put into place by the sheer force of being annoyingly good at this. ‘Cause Oscar has never been the one to be persuaded. It's always the other way around, actually.
He’ll make an exception. Not like Lando’s giving him much choice. Oh, how the tables turn.
“Sure. Monday. I’ll probably arrive earlier so, huh, just look for me. Hidden tables next to the 1800s conflicts section.”
Lando’s eyebrows go up and he just nods. Oscar thinks he’ll leave after that, let him have a quiet nice breakfast now that that’s all sorted.
Wrong.
The guy just puts more sausages on his plate, takes out a worn notebook and begins scrabbling in it what Oscar assumes is the new Hufflepuff training schedule.
So he just… stares. At the way his hand moves around the paper in quick motions, at the way his nose scrunches when something clearly bothers him, how his eyes close when he concentrates in a play for a bit too long.
“You can stop ogling me, I won’t vanish, you know.”
His cheeks get impossibly hot at the implication and his brain decides to not even try and come up with an excuse. Because Oscar was not doing that. Thank you very much.
He was just looking at Lando the way you look at bugs. Annoyed and mildly interested.
For the remainder of breakfast he pretends to keep his focus on the book he’s been reading this past week, moving the food around his own plate with the fork.
Doesn’t notice when Lando looks back. Of course he doesn't.
So about the fics you’re writing… the larthur one is very appealing tbh😭 but I’d die for landoscar???
Could we have a snippet of both? Pretty please🥺
hiiiii! i'm gonna assume you want the landoscar harry potter au snippet because i'm very proud of this one hehe but if you meant the agents of shield one, just let me know!
anyways, both snippets under the cut! ♡
landoscar harry potter au, but make it oscar staring from afar while ignoring his friend group (the friend group in question: arthur, logan, dennis and an oc meant to represent the audience)
“There’s no way Max Verstappen is that funny,” Dennis says, scrunching his nose at the sight, “I see the guy on a daily basis and he’s never even tried to crack a joke.”
They all focus on the scene before their eyes. Max keeps talking animatedly, everyone around him completely enraptured. Lando giggles, Alex laughs, George looks like he wants to rip out his own ears and Charles is just a mix of confused and fascinated. It checks.
“My brother says you just, and I quote, have to look past the cover. Whatever that means,” Arthur has his mouth full, making the words not as clear as he probably thinks they are, “I think he’s just been pining for years unable to say a thing to the guy. So.”
Oscar’s eyebrows rise very comically if Nora’s reaction is anything to go by. His attention goes back to the group, zones in on Lando despite Charles being the reason why he looked again.
The thing is: he doesn’t like Lando Norris. He’s never liked him. Or. Well. That’s just not true. He used to. Like him, that is. And then the whole third year prank happened and Logan cried, Nora spent a night in the infirmary and Oscar decided that he hated the guy. Dumb teenage crush be damned.
And yet… Everyone seems to like him. Adore him. He’s seen people from other houses cheer for Hufflepuff during matches dressed up in Lando jerseys, girls and boys alike swooning every time he spots the snitch. Oscar doesn’t get it, he’s literally just some guy. Sure, a somewhat funny and ridiculously charming guy, but… Just some guy at the end of the day.
At least that's what he keeps telling himself.
and larthur being soft and tentative because that really is just their whole dynamic in this fic, so, yeah.
Dinner started approximately half an hour ago. Give or take ten minutes. And Lando is still finishing getting ready, Arthur waiting for him by the door, shoulder leaning against it. He had insisted on waiting despite the Brit’s reassurance that he would be fine on his own, that it was indeed part of his brother’s wedding weekend and while Lando could afford to be a little late, Arthur couldn’t. Not really.
It hadn’t mattered.
“On your left.”
Lando’s head snapped in that direction, finally seeing the shoe he had been looking for. They were late. So late. He was sure Max would be planning his death by now. Deserved. Truly.
“You have the keycard? I think I lost mine. Who loses a keycard? S’not like we did much today! Where…? I don’t get it. Should be somewhere… Around here.” Lando’s voice is high-pitched, stress flowing through his veins.
Last thing he wants is to ruin their weekend. Which he won’t, but he’s nervous, so. Not like he can properly think things through.
It’s not until Arthur is standing right in front of him, hands on his shoulders, worried expression on his face, that Lando allows himself to take a deep breath.
“I texted Charles. They know we’re late, it’s okay. Just, uh… A few threats about tomorrow’s dinner being the most important and all that.” He says it like it’s nothing, but Lando feels his insides churn.
He nods a bit, looking at him, truly looking at him. Arthur’s brows are furrowed, like he’s worried Lando might snap at any time now. The weight of his hands on his shoulders is comforting, makes him feel centered, stops his mind from going into a spiral of “what ifs”. Lando manages a small smile in his direction, his hands traveling to the other’s forearms, squeezing lightly.
Thank you.
I don’t get it.
Thank you.
Arthur smiles back, softly, before letting his hands fall down his arms until they’re not touching anymore and Lando’s taken back to Croatia.
hope u enjoy them both, let me know if you want to see more! ♡
hello, everyone! sooooo a couple months back i said that i was gonna start posting fics on here and ao3... it never happened because i procrastinate like a professional.
BUT.
i've finally gotten a hold of myself and currently have three advanced wips. HOWEVER, i wanted to know which one would you be more interested in reading?
so.
yeah.
here's a summary, i guess.
option 1: landoscar harry potter au but make hogwarts a magical university because i cannot be bother to write teenagers. oscar pov which is turning out to be really fun to write. logan's there being adopted by half the school. dennis and arthur too. background lestappen because i can't not make them pine for each other. sue me.
option 2: agents of shield au that i cannot even begin to explain because that one is just weird and it has, like, stuff. lando as daisy johnson, tho, which is cool. again, landoscar and lestappen because why not. life's too short not to enjoy it.
option 3: see, this one is the most advanced one. and like. the strangest. SO BEAR WITH ME. it's lando x arthur. as in. arthur leclerc. and it wasn't even my idea. but. a friend threw it at me. i found it endearing. i now have +10 pages written of arthur pining and lando freaking out because he cannot have a crush on his friend's baby brother??? in the middle of his WEDDING WEEKEND in maldives. which. yes, you guessed it, it's lestappen's wedding. again. sue me. there's a lot of college times references and a little side fic about a trip to croatia years before the wedding written in arthur's pov (main fic is lando's pov) and everyone being done with them. it's really cute if i do say so myself. just a weird pairing.
so... yeah, just, tell me which one seems more compelling and i'll finish it soon. maybe not soon, actually. but i will finish it 'cause if not i'll feel bad. so. this is more of a way to give myself a purpose to keep writing.
if you would like to see a little snippet of any of them, just tell me and i'll randomly select a scene.
whether intentional or not, i don’t care, the end result is the same: he ended up behind charles and oscar after his pit stop.
lando was also faster during his second stint.
mclaren asked to let lando through because his on track position was, again, fucked up by the strategy and he was faster.
lando ended 30 seconds ahead.
because, again, he was faster this weekend.
no one robbed oscar of the podium, seeing their times, lando would’ve eventually gotten him on his own. but team orders prevent them from losing time in the battle and therefore giving them a chance to end closer to charles + furthering the gap from alonso.
i understand being disappointed because it’s oscar’s home race and it would’ve been sweet seeing him on the podium and, correct me if i’m wrong, making him the first australian to get a podium on home soil.
but saying lando was gifted the podium completely dismisses his work this weekend when he’s simply been ahead through the entirety of it.
summary: it's the australian gp and daniel needs his family around, but he needs the little sienna grace ricciardo even more to be his luck charm.
warnings: fluff, tiny bit of angst because i can't write something without it, mentions of his times in mclaren (not good memories), daniel being the bestest of dads, a little bit of sadness at the last paragraph, english is not my first lenguage.
length: 3.4k
a/n: after months and months of drought, i'm back!! the inspiration kicked me yesterday while i was trying to get some sleep and my brain decided to not let me sleep so i wrote this (and ended this today). hope you like it!! (ignore any grammar mistake and things like that) <333
Sienna Grace Ricciardo was a ray of sunshine born in the darkest of days. She was a joy to be around, just like his father. And she had the perfect timing arriving, at 5:35 am on September 3rd, 2022, just when her dad needed a little happiness outside the racing world. Her first months weren't easy, Daniel was almost drowning in a depression because of his racing status, he had just found out about McLaren dumping him, which left you alone trying to take care of her while you were trying to cheer him up, all of this being far away from Dan's family.
But everything quickly changed when Daniel went back to Red Bull, he was the Daniel you fell in love four years prior, the Daniel that was hungry for more, the Daniel that redeemed himself in Monaco, the one who always went for the gap just like he did in China, the one who could spend saturday’s night awake because you couldn’t sleep even when he needed to get rest to the race on sunday. Daniel was back to being a loving and attentive partner, taking care of you and Sienna, he became his true self again while he was becoming the best dad for your daughter.
--
Now, Sienna is three years old and is parading herself with Red Bull merch around the paddock proudly. She is her dad's biggest fan, even when she was one year old and he was driving the truck the AlphaTauri was.
"Oh! Look at that, is it who i think it is?" At the sound of Lando's voice, the little girl goes running away from the hold of your hand, jumping at him when she is closer. "Little Ric, how are you doing?" Lando tickles Sienna's belly, making her laugh.
"I'm so happy uncle Lan! Daddy starts first! Didn't you see?" Little Sienna had a broad vocabulary and perfect grammar for a three year old. She was just as happy and extroverted as Daniel, but as smart and witty like you.
"I saw it, Gracie, did you see where I start?" Lando loves to call your daughter by her middle name, thinking that it is more special than just calling her Sienna, and of course she is delighted with the nickname his favourite uncle (much to Max's and Blake's dismay) has assigned to her.
"Of course I did! You start third... But I hope you do not catch my father, uncle Lan." She says it with a semi closed mouth and a shy tone, trying to not hurt his uncle's feelings. "It's Australia, it's daddy's race, it is fair that he wins it!".
You usually don't leave Sienna walking, even less running, alone in the paddock without somebody holding her, either it's you or someone from Daniel's family, but when she got away from your grip to go running to Lando, you didn’t worry, she was in good hands. When you arrive at the duo they are debating in which colours they look better, and Sienna looks offended when Lando says she would look better in a papaya shirt with a four in it than in the navy blue shirt with the number three that she's wearing.
"Lando, you know you're supposed to be the grown up of you two, right?" You take your daughter from Lando's embrace, taking her in yours and kissing his forehead.
"That is your opinion, right Little Ric?" Lando pokes your daughter's nose and Sienna nods agreeing with Lando, betrayed by your own daughter, unbelievable. "Good job, I'll give you some cookies later" He whispers a bit too loud to your daughter.
"Sometimes you act like you're five when you're twenty seven, you should be ashamed, and don't you think that I haven't just heard the bribe you made to my daughter."
"I just like to live while I'm young."
"Aaaand that's why you're single." Lando looks at you offended and steals your daughter as revenge, Sienna doesn’t look bothered by it, she just accepts it, being used to this type of thing.
"I'm single so I'm always available for my only and true love, my bestie Gracie, right baby?"
He tickles Sienna's belly again, making her laugh, but the little girl just ignores his question to entertain herself with his curls, rolling them with her little fingers.
"Just wait until Danny hears that, I bet he's not gonna be happy."
"Hear what?"
Your husband hugs you from behind, resting his hands on your hips and his chin at the top of your head. Sienna immediately ignores Lando, opening her arms towards his father, closing and opening his fists. Daniel, as the perfect father that has been for almost four years, doesn't waste a second and abandons you to take his daughter out of Lando's arms, accommodating her in his and resting her weight on his hip.
"Look at my tiny little koala, you missed me?" Daniel nicknamed her after the animal after Sienna couldn't be away from him since she was born, crying if somebody took her from his father's arms, always seeking his father's attention. She was a daddy's girl and you don't have any problem with that, the type of bond they have is just too beautiful to be annoyed with. Sienna nods and rests her head on Daniel's shoulder without stopping admiring him. "Now, what were you two talking about? What's not gonna make me happy?"
“Lando here was saying that he’s staying single so he can spend time with his real love, who happens to be your daughter.” Lando hits your upper arm with an annoyed glance. “Ow!”
“Snitch! And you even left out the part where I said bestie, b-e-s-t-i-e.” The British spells the word to you, making clear that he wasn’t being weird, you were just twisting his words to your own benefit.
Daniel just keeps quiet, looking at the banter between you two while he caresses Sienna's hair, making the little girl sleepy. When he joined McLaren, Lando and you became inseparable, like siblings who like to annoy each other, even when Daniel and Lando had an awkward start because of their too similar personalities, the two of you couldn't have a better start, building a bond so strong from the first day. Travelling alone wasn’t easy, even less when you were 21 years old, so both of you took Lando under your wing, Daniel trying to mentor him on track (even when Lando was beating him) and you trying to give him the love his family couldn’t give him from far away.
When McLaren announced that they were parting ways with Daniel, Lando was the first one that went to console and talk to him. Behind Daniel’s back Lando broke down to you, he couldn’t handle it by himself, he couldn’t lose another teammate that was like a brother to him, he couldn’t lose you from the paddock, you two were his travel family. He was also the one of the first ones to congratulate Daniel when AlphaTauri announced him back in 2023, happy that he would have the two of you back in the paddock along with little Sienna. Travelling with a baby was hard, even more with all of the time zones changes, but Daniel and you made it work, you make it work.
“Ehem.” Daniel fake coughs, making Lando and you stop your bantering, standing side by side looking at him with an innocent face. “So much of you for being thirty-two and twenty-seven.”
“He started it!”
“She started it!” Lando and you say at the same time, making Daniel sigh and shake his head, people joked about you having to take care of two grown ups acting like kids, but most of the time that was Daniel’s role.
“I don’t wanna hear who started it, on the other hand I do wanna hear your excuse of trying to make a Jacob on my daughter Lando.”
Before the British can try to explain himself, Daniel and Lando’s engineers call them to their own garages, the race is about to start and the two of them have to review strategies and so on before it starts. Daniel and you say your goodbyes to Lando while he caresses your daughter cheek with his index finger, saying goodbye to her without waking her up.
--
When you arrive at the garage you put the headphones on Sienna immediately, knowing that the noise would disturb her and hurt her ears. Daniel passes your daughter from his arms to yours, and while she grumbles a little, she gets used to the change and doesn’t wake up, being still asleep while you rock her with your body. Daniel presses a chaste kiss to your lips and you wish him luck before he goes to revise everything with his team before he gets inside the cockpit and drives to the grid.
You sit at the back of the garage, where Daniel’s family is at, Grace smiles at you and coos at Sienna, who doesn’t even flinch. Joe kisses your cheek and Michelle just smiles at you. Isabella and Isaac try to convince you to wake up Sienna so she plays with them, this time they don’t get their way, but you assure them that after the race they can play as much as they want with their little cousin.
“Have you told him yet?” Grace whispers in your ear, so nobody but you hears her.
“I haven’t, I’m waiting until he ends the race, I don’t wanna be the one distraction in his head that ruins this big chance.”
Grace just nods and lets you be. All of you know how important this race is to Daniel, he’s finally in a championship winning car and he’s starting first, hoping to make history and become the first Australian to ever win his home race. He didn’t have the best of luck here, having DNFs or just about to get on the podium, never on it. You are nervous, even with Max and Daniel’s good relationship, the Dutch is starting second, and everyone knows how competitive Max is. In the last two years in Red Bull, Daniel has complied his role of second driver without complaining, helping Max to get another two championships under his belt, as well as another two constructor championshipsfor Red Bull, but this is his year, the year where he makes his dream come true, and it starts right here, right now, winning his home race for the first time after fifteen years of racing in Formula 1.
Once the cars are placed on their place in the grid and the lights go out, the race passes so fast that you don’t even notice that there are only two laps left. Daniel is second, having lost the position to the Mclaren of Lando, who has done an amazing job and a well done undercut. Daniel is just thousandths behind the British, inside the DRS zone, fighting for that P1, the position that could make him break a record, one that hasn’t even been settled before, so he steps on the throttle. In the first corner of the last lap, with open DRS, Daniel makes his famous late break, causing Lando to change his layout at the last minute, which gives Daniel an advantage at the exit of turn one and the entry of turn two. After a harsh but respectful battle Daniel achieves to overtake Lando, leading the race once again. The last corners have everyone stand up from their seats, even the engineers from the pit wall. The garage roars as Daniel passes the chequered flag, both sides of the garage jump and scream as both their drivers make it to the podium.
Daniel’s family and you run quickly to watch him get out of his car, everyone makes a corridor so you can pass. Sienna is awake after all of the noise, you explained to her what happened while you were trying to get to the barriers, as you say the words “dad” and “win” she starts screaming as well.
As Daniel gets out of the car you can’t contain your tears, you let them run through your cheeks. You have always been proud of him, even on his darkest days at McLaren, you knew he was doing his best, and that was enough for you to be proud, because he never gave up. Now, you have even more reasons, your husband has just won his home grand prix, he now is P1 in the drivers championship with quite a wide margin.
Daniel doesn’t waste time, he doesn’t care who has parked at both of his sides, or if his whole team is at the barricade, he only has eyes for you and Sienna, so he runs to you in a glimpse of time. Before you can think anything else, you feel Daniel arms engulf Sienna and you in a hug, with his visor up you can see that he’s crying as well, but the crinkles by his eyes show you that he’s also smiling. You kiss his helmet where you suppose his lips are, and ignoring all protocol, Daniel takes Sienna out of your arms. He makes all the rituals post race with her by his side, she is the happiest child of the world when she sees that uncle Max and uncle Lan are there as well.
Before the podium Daniel gives Sienna back to you, knowing that even if he wants both of you up with him, it isn’t possible. He gives you one last kiss before he runs to the cooldown room again so he can go up to the podium. As you see him step up in the highest spot, you can’t keep your tears at bay again. The whole time, while the aussie national anthem and the austrian one are heard through the speakers, he can’t take the eyes out of you. You can see how Max, Lando and Christian spray him with champagne while he just stays there with open arms, accepting his fate, just like minutes later the three of them have to accept theirs, having to do a shoey and drink from Daniel’s sweaty shoe.
--
Even with Grace and Joe insisting to Daniel and you to go out to celebrate, trying to convince you that they will take care of Sienna, both Daniel and you say thank you, but no. You don’t want to go out and party all night, that’s not how you are anymore, I mean, yes, after some races you go out and celebrate, but this time is special, this time you want to spend time with each other, as a family. Daniel has just made quite an achievement, and he wants to celebrate it with his favourite people.
“I still can not believe it.” Sienna has already fallen asleep and is laying on your bed, while Daniel and you are still in the living room of the suite, with you sitting in his lap.
“Actually, I do.” You say while you play with his beard, scratching it with your nails. “I always believed that this win would be yours one day, Danny, you had the talent and the craft, the things that were missing were the car and the luck, and this year you had it.”
“I don’t know what I would do without you.” You see tears trying to escape from his eyes. “Without both of you.” He circles his arms around your waist, making you get closer to him. “You stayed in the worst of times, you gave me the most important thing that we have now in those times, you got me out of there and gave me a daughter.” He kissed your lips before continuing. “I can’t express with words how much I love you and how thankful I am to have you in my life, and even if I could, the words and time I had to use to describe it wouldn’t be enough to make it justice.”
“You deserve this trophy more than anyone in the world, baby, you deserve every trophy that comes your way, because you deserve all the world can give you and more.”
"I don't care about trophies, you two are the best thing that's ever been mine and I couldn’t ask for more, both of you are my biggest achievements."
"More like us three." You take his hand and take it to your belly, you can't retain the smile as you see his shocked expression, in six months you will no longer be his favourite number, you're gonna be four. You didn't know how to tell him, so you decided the simpler, the better.
"Promise me you're not joking, because if you're joking I don't know what I would do-" You interrupt him with a kiss, knowing that he was starting to rant.
"I'm not joking Dan, I took the test yesterday but I didn't wanna fill your head with worries before the race, I know how important it was to you ."
Daniel's smile was even broader than in the podium a few hours ago, he started to caress your belly, so soft that if you weren't looking, you wouldn't even notice that it was happening.
"We're gonna be parents again?"
"Yes Dan, that's what happens when you get me pregnant."
Daniel kisses you with so much passion that if he wasn't holding you, you would've fallen back. He didn't care about championships and trophies since he met you, even from the very first glance he had a hunch that you would be his forever, the woman he would spend the rest of his life with.
Daniel and you met at the Spanish Grand Prix in 2018, you made a connection so deep that he invited you to go back to Monaco with him and you spent two whole weeks together before the grand prix. He confessed to you his fears about being second to Max and not being enough to beat him and win a championship some day, you told him about your problems with your family, they abandoned you after you came out as bisexual. Little did both of you know that his family would become yours, and that being second to Max wasn’t going to be the biggest of his challenges in F1. You connected fast and hard, he invited you to follow him throughout the whole season and you took the risk to say yes, you were 24, he was 29, you were taking a gap year and he seemed to need you, so how could you say no to those big pretty brown eyes?
The eight years that you’ve been together haven’t been easy, with his move to Renault and then to McLaren, with you starting to work as a psychologist in London after an amazing job opportunity, he was struggling and you couldn’t be by his side as much as you wanted to. But you made it through, you survived the rollercoaster together, you got married in a fast trip to Las Vegas in 2019, where Charles played his role as witness almost by accident, you survived McLaren together, even bringing another life to the world that was half him half you. If you look up to the definition of soulmates in a dictionary, a photo of Daniel and you would probably be there.
Daniel wakes you up from your daydreaming, and you face his smile, mirroring it, you could spend a hundred of years living this and it still wouldn’t be enough. Because Daniel was, is and will be enough, he has always been, even when he was dressed with papaya clothes and was doubting himself, you knew he was enough, what wasn’t enough for you was the time you spend with him, teenager you was afraid and commitment and couldn’t stay in a relationship for more than a few months, but now, even after eight years together, you can't see the end of you and him, because you don't perceive a world without Daniel in it.
Your husband takes you in his arms and you surround his waist with your legs and his shoulders with your arms, like a koala. He throws the two of you to the bed, giggling low trying to not wake up Sienna. Daniel and you spent the night remembering the tiniest of details in your relationship, like when he brought you cookies and cream ice cream instead of chocolate ice cream when you were five months pregnant. Or when Lando and you tried to play a prank on him but at the end was him who played the prank on you. You can’t help staring at him, almost tearing up at seeing him so happy after all he’s been through, but you would do it over and over for him just because of the sake of being him. You fall asleep in each others embrace, with your body on top of him, involuntarily combining your breaths.
Eight months later Jules Joseph Ricciardo was born, little JJ arrived just after Daniel was crowned champion of the world for the first time, converting the high time in even a higher and sweeter one.
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