thinking about chalex again and they have such a compelling angle that i think im gonna have to write (oh no another fic idea) cause its eating my brain. so chalex were teammates in f3 right? there they bonded, shared a laugh, made friends (and maybe more) and this carried on throughout the years until they got to f1. and that's when it all starts changing. cause charles is destined from the start to be ferraris golden boy. he's the person who could finally bring a championship back to maranello, and he's treated as such. meanwhile alex is struggling at red bull, trying in vain to fight the inevitable, that he will lose to max verstappen. he gets dropped, first from red bull and then from f1 entirely. meanwhile charles has made the jump from sauber to ferrari. he's on the rise while alex falls. this isn't where they break though, charles promises that he'll stay by alex's side, that this won't change anything. they've been together for long enough, right? alex returns to the grid with williams but he's stuck at the back. while charles is winning races, alex is lucky to even finish. and charles is achieving so much more outside of the race track. fame that stretches beyond f1, a jet setting, sparkling whirlwind of a lifestyle that is all anyone would ever dream of. but while he does that, he's leaving alex behind. and alex can barely see the young man he came to love in him anymore.
