Summary: Just because she's a low level earth elemental doesn't mean she's useless! Actually, she loves her rock and wishes everyone could see how she does. The media and fans have other things to say about it and Max and Daniel refuse to see their rock loving gremlin so sad.
Warnings: Toxic media, protective Max and Daniel
Notes: For 🎀, I hope you like it!!
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Her powers aren't something she likes to flaunt around to the media. They aren't flashy or give her some massive show of strength. They're still hers, though. She loves them, and that's all that matters.
Max and Daniel had stumbled across her when she first started working with Redbull as a data analyst. Her affinity for the ground helps her assess possible tire degradation around different circuits. When they hired her, it was the first time somebody had said her powers were useful.
Her office at the factory is decorated with all her rocks. Some she's found over the course of going to races. Others she's shaped over extended periods of time. Still, each one represents something. A testament to some event in her life.
Daniel and Max had wandered into her office for no particular reason other than a tour. Max felt is necessary to show Daniel all the changes that had gone on in the last four years. Her office being one of them.
Technically speaking - it was new to both of them. She'd never had direct contact with Max. She'd never needed to.
They ask her about them. Genuine curiosity lacing their voices. Which is odd to her, considering both if them are considerably stronger than she is. Max is a level six and a metal bender. Daniel, a seven, who plays with sound.
Then there is her. A level two who plays with rocks... it's shocking that they've taken an interest.
Regardless, they take such an interest that they keep coming back. Again, and again, and again... then they just stay. They let her build rock gardens in their apartment. They listen to her stories about each one.
It's certainly not what she was expecting. But when they lay together at night, limbs tangled up and usually giggling, she wouldn't have it any other way. She counts herself lucky.
As do the media, apparently. She should've known it would come out eventually - nothing stays a secret forever. She was just hoping that - maybe - the media would like her. That the fans wouldn't find any reason to eat her alive.
Oh, how wrong she'd been.
She wakes up to the news that their relationship has been exposed. The fans take on so nicely to Max and Daniel being together that there is a bit of relief. It's her that they don't like.
How she looks. How's she speaks. How her entire being is insignificant.
The EU's don't hold back their comments either. It's a constant stream of them saying her partners deserve someone with a stronger power.
It's ridiculous - is what she tries to convince herself. That the media portrays her as weak and useless in the realm of EU's.
The unfortunate thing is that it does get to her. It weighs on her more than she wants to admit.
Max and Daniel can see it written all over her. The way her rocks seem to be ridden with despair now and her gardens grow darker the longer she forces herself to stay away from them. The ridicule of fans calling her strange and useless.
Max and Daniel want nothing to do with those fans. In fact, the media in general has been grating on their last nerves.
The downfall of the media begins on a Thursday; media day. Max and Daniel have taken their respective spots on the press conference couch. It's been better for Max since Daniel started racing again. Makes these things less boring.
"Question to Max and Daniel: do you plan on making any changes to your relationship now that you've gone public?"
They both blink at the interviewer. Shock coursing through the veins of Daniel and Rage burning through Max's.
"The hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Are you-"
"Yeah, I heard the question! When your you people going to stop asking them?!"
Daniel throws an arm in front of Max before he can make any aggressive moves. Max settles back down in his place, huffing in frustration.
"How about you stop giving our girlfriend grief?"
The press conference ends there. Max and Daniel are feeling annoyed, but happy things might start dying down now.
Max and Daniel see them on social media the next few days. Some fans are going as far as to say she isn't worth it. It hurts them, obviously.
She also aches.
What did she do to deserve this kind of treatment? The answer is simple - it's nothing. Nobody deserves this treatment. Nobody saying these things even knows her.
The rocks in the garden stumble. They shake, and they rattle - until eventually, like most things, they fall.
"Love?" Oh, it's Daniel. The other set of footsteps is Max. She's learned them based on how the rocks shift when they step. Daniel’s are quicker where Max's are confident and long.
The middle of the track is certainly not the best place for her to be. There aren't any cars, though. Just her and the ground.
"Take it things were too much?" Max grunts as he gets on the ground with her. Daniel makes more of a huff sound.
"The media hates me. The fans hate me. Even the damn EU's hate me. My rocks don't hate me though."
"And neither do we."
Daniel chuckles. "Yeah, Maxy was ready to fist fight a journalist in your honor."
"Daniel wouldn't let me." He glares back. "So I made a post about it instead."
"PR won't be happy about it."
"So then why'd you do the same?"
It's entertaining to hear her boys banter back and forth about how they might defend her. How they refuse to let her rocks sit in sadness while people continue to berate. "My heroes."
"Yeah - nobody but us get to tease you."
She looks between the two boys on either side of her. "If it gets worse... will you-"
Daniel launches himself upright. "If try to self-depricate, I will personally reorganize your entire office."
Max chuckles when her jaw snaps shut. "Just let us defend you, schat. You may be a dork, but you're ours."
summary: danny's rockstar gf is a bassist of a eurovision-winning band and a max verstappen hater second. OR lorelei hester 'lester' alessandro tells the story of how her relationship with danny came to be at the 2021 italian grand prix.
content warning: mostly outside of f1 lifestyle/news/tweets, possible allusions to smut, lester favours mclaren drivers over max, shitty grammar tbfh.
note: i do not know how to socialize, thus making it difficult for me to create an smau series because talking is kinda hard these days. also, i actually just started getting into f1, so if i miss something then yikes sorry :)
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ytukitgirlz dan's response following the iconic hit tweet (dan said she looked pretty that night and obv she took that to heart)
Warnings: annoying ass pick me girl, mentions of sex (very, very little), girl trying to steal Y/n's man, loyal af Daniel (we stan)
Requested: Yes/No
"hey Daniel"
Claire waved to the driver, a big smile splitting her face in half.
"here she goes"
Y/n rolled her eyes, as she watched Claire come closer to where they were having a conversation, turning to Daniel a moment after.
"listen- I'm gonna head to the meeting room, you have fun"
she said, patting her boyfriend on the arm as he tried to grip her fingers to not let her go.
"ah princess, don't leave me alone in this mess, please"
Daniel pleaded the girl with the best puppy eyes he could pull, but unfortunately the girl just shrugged and turned the other way to walk towards the meeting room, that leaving him alone with this crazy ass woman that declared to be his 'work wife'.
"oh- hi, Claire. how are you doin'?"
he asked, unable to turn someone down.
"I'm doing so fine since we started talking, what about you?"
Claire responded, clearly flirting with the man in front of her while his mind was just thinking about how the conversation is going to end soon and he could actually go back to his girlfriend.
"I'm... fine. well- we have a meeting in five, how about you start going? I'm gonna head in real quick"
Daniel said, trying to make the girl go away so that he could walk to the meeting room peacefully.
"okay, sure. I'm gonna save you a seat next to me"
the girl squealed, making Daniel nod his head in agreement, not even knowing what she was talking about. everyone knew that the only seat Daniel was gonna sit on is the one next to his girlfriend and absolutely no one could sit in the chair or could make him sit somewhere else. he was not gonna sit next to Claire.
Claire turned around and skipped her way to the meeting room, as Daniel turned the other way to go search for Max, since he didn't want to walk all over to the meeting room be himself. what if he got ambushed by that woman again? nah-ah, not happening.
"Max- Max, Max, Max"
he called his teammate that was looking at his phone in a corner of the garage, making the man lift his face and watch him with a frown on his face.
"what the hell, mate? what happened?"
Max calmly asked Daniel, putting his phone back in his pocket to give his undivided attention to his friend.
"you know that crazy chick that goes after me?"
Daniel started explaining, only getting a few nods from Max.
"well- she told me that she was gonna save a seat for me next to her, and I'm gonna need your help, okay?"
he finished his little story, as Max nodded his head in agreement, while he stood up from his sitting position.
"what do I need to do?"
Max asked, placing his hands on his hips while waiting for Daniel to tell him his plan.
"alright, you're gonna enter the room first and you're gonna take the seat next to her. she's gonna complain that she was saving that seat from me and ask you to get up, you're gonna start apoligizing and pretend to get up from the seat"
Daniel started telling Max what he was supposed to do in an hushed voice.
"BUT- I'm gonna place my hand on your shoulder and tell you 'oh, no biggie, stay seated', and you're gonna ask me 'are you sure, mate?', and I'm gonna respond with 'sure, I'm gonna take that seat over there'. so I can sit on MY chair next to MY Y/n, deal?"
he asked, extending his hand towards Max to shake hands.
"fine, but what do I get in return?"
Max asked back, not planning in giving in so easily.
"I don't know, mate. whatever you want, alright? just don't make me sit next to Claire"
Daniel pleaded, making Max laugh at his desperation and shake his head in approval to him.
after the meeting
the plan went smoothly, Daniel got to sit next to his princess, and the meeting went perfectly. Y/n did most of the talking, since she was one of the most important engineer in the Red Bull team, making the man proud of her. Claire interrupted her a few times, most of the time were stupid things that she didn't wait for Y/n to talk about, but it was okay, since she was new and needed to get to know the job still.
everyone exited the meeting room, a little wink exchange between Max and Daniel that went unnoticed, as he placed his hand on the small of Y/n's back. the man guided his girlfriend outside of the meeting room where Willow was, one of our media manager that was currently on maternity break.
Claire was the first one to approch the woman, as she was the first one to exit the meeting room. she went in for an hug, making Willow slightly uncomfortable since they only saw each other like three times in total.
"oh my god. you're pregnant"
the woman asked, as Y/n walked past her to get to the pregnant lady to give her a tight hug.
"how are you, boo? I haven't heard from you in a while"
Y/n said, going back to where Daniel was standing and placing an arm around his torso, as he placed his on her shoulder.
"well, yeah- pregnancy is... ugh, can't even describe it. but what were you up to?"
Willow asked the two women, while she gave Daniel a little pat on the arm as for saying hi.
"just finished a meeting. you know that feeling that you have when you are the only girl that actually participates in meetings? like- I'm so tired of carrying our gender"
Claire said, making Y/n let out a whole-hearted chuckle, as she turned towards Daniel to hide her face in his shoulder to not make a scene in the center of the Red Bull garage.
"I don't actually know, all the women in this team speak up for themselves so..."
Willow replied, as she was waiting for Y/n to recollect herself to get back to the conversation. Y/n cleared her throat awkwardly, taking in a big breath to start talking, her boyfriend watching lovingly her every movement. she was about to talk, but was soon interrupted by Claire.
"Daniel stop. you're distracting me, I'm having a conversation"
she suddendly said, making the man look up at her in a confused expression since he wasn't doing anything in the first place, how could he distract her?
"I'm his work wife, eeh"
Claire continued, turning to Willow as she pulled her tongue out in a mocking way. Daniel looked Willow in the eyes in a confused way, he didn't even know what was happening.
"girl, I genuinely don't think he need a 'work wife'. I mean- his girlfriend is right there, they work together, they do everything together. but it's your life, your choice"
Willow snapped a little, the pregnancy hormones getting the best of her. she immediately turned her whole attention to Y/n, as for inviting her to get back to what she was about to say.
"anyway, you know the gender already?"
Y/n asked the pregnant lady sweetly, filling in the little bit of the awkward silence that lifted in the air after Willow remark.
"oh, yeah- we're expecting a beautiful baby girl"
the woman said, rubbing her pregnant belly gently and with her eyes filled with little hearts. Y/n made an 'aww' sound at hearing the news, eyes softening right in the spot.
"you're having a girl? good luck, I could never be a girl mom, I could only be a boy mom. girls are so complicated, so fussy, then the clothes, the make up. bleh- it will probably be another little girl that will have to be carried from woman like me, that keep up our gender pride"
Claire got in the conversation, shocking the pregnant lady and Raven at the same time. this time though, it would not be Willow to snap at her.
"listen, girl- no one asked you to carry anything and I don't remember you talking much during that meeting five minutes ago. and please, I would prefer to be left on the ground than to be carried by someone like you, Claire. another thing before I go, could you stop addressing yourself as my boyfriend 'work wife', is making me uncomfortable and is making him uncomfortable in the first place"
Y/n finally let out, taking my hand in hers and signaling to Willow to follow us if she wanted to keep chatting. she lead the way over to the parking lot, standing right beside my car with her arms crossed over her chest and her sunglasses on her face as she glanced around, not meeting her boyfriend's eyes. a clear sign: she was mad.
Willow and Daniel glanced at each other, as the woman was silently pleading the man to do something to make his girl stop raging like that. the man picked up the sign and approached Raven, gently glazing his hands on her waist and placing them there.
"come on baby, don't let her ruin your mood like that. what can I do to make it better?"
he softly asked, their bodies pressing together as Y/n was leaning on Daniel's car. Y/n looked up at him.
"nothing, babe, it's not your fault"
she said, wrapping her arms around Daniel's waist as their lips gently touched for a second, before Daniel turned towards Raven's ear to whisper something.
"I'll let you do whatever you want to me when we get home, since my princess is such in a bad mood now"
Y/n's cheeks flushed for a second, as she turned towards Willow to make sure she didn't hear a thing, only to see the pregnant lady laughing at her phone as she read a message that she got from her husband. a sigh of relief left her lips as Daniel pulled away from her to at Willow as well.
"Willow aren't you tired? I think I will take my princess home now, do you need a ride?"
he asked unashamed, making Y/n slap his waist in return, but Willow laughed at the situation and shook her head.
"no, my hubby is coming to get me"
she said, a smile splitting her face from ear to ear as her husband pulled up in front of her. the pregnant lady got in the car, waving at the two.
