silver fountains mud
The first thing Lewis thought when he saw the kid was, fuck, he’s fast. It didn’t matter, of course, because he was fighting Nico for the championship and Max was in Toro Rosso fighting for points, but then Lewis blinked and Nico was gone. Nico had won, waved a smug smile and a title in Lewis' face and dissapeared off the grid, leaving him with a teammate who was young, hungry, desperate, in their silver car wearing their white suit sporting their Mercedes logo as a last fuck you to Lewis. There, you lost, and you lost me too. Or, Max goes to Mercedes for 2017
i added a final chapter, a coda, from nico's pov
Max texted Nico, come to dinner on friday !! championship celebration, as if Nico hadn’t spent a better part of the last year in Max’s kitchen, weighing out lentils for dinner as Max laid on his stomach on the couch, complaining about something or the other.
