Just some Stray - Sergio Perez x Mechanic! Reader
Plot: Sergio decides to spend his summer break how most drivers do, but his car breaks down in an unknown country and he needs to find help.
It was a pretty standard day for you in the UK. It was a Monday so you were working in the garage that your dad used to own beofre he passed it onto you and your brother. You had an oil change on a Vauxhall Corsa in the morning, an overheating engine just before lunch in a Audi A3.
It was your turn to go get lunch for you and the rest of the staff. Everyone agreed on the local sandwich shop that was only a 5 minute drive away. You took the company car, not wanting to waste your own petrol even on a 5 minute drive, and gave the hearty order of food to the lady at the till who comically wiped the non existent sweat off her forehead.
You waited on one of the seats scrolling through your phone before your name was called with the large order.
“Hmmmm there’s a lot right? Could you help me take it to the truck?” You asked politely. The chef nods seeing its a slow day and takes the boxes and helps you load them onto the back seats.
“Thank you for the help” you grin in a flirty sort of way before running off and into the drivers seat. You crank the windows down and turn the old radio that only had three different stations tuned to it.
As your driving down the winding country road back to the garage, you slow down seeing a car pulled into a lay-by, a man shouting into his phone on the grass bank.
“Hey, you good?” You shout out your window that’s rolled down as you look over at the car that’s steaming at the front from the bonnet.
“Si, I mean yes sorry” he says seemingly struggling to switch from his phone call in Spanish to English with you.
“It looks like your engines overheated, this car looks pretty new too, which is kind of concerning” you point out as you check your wing mirror to make sure no one’s speeding round the country lane behind you.
“Let me pull over and help” you say as you put you car gear from neutral back into first to pull off.
“No no that isn’t necessary, my … friend? Has already called … erm this company?” He says showing you his phone and the AA roadside assistance number.
“Ahh man how long have they told you?” You ask and he shrugs before he answers his phone again.
“5 hours! WHAT! I can’t be on the side of this little windy road for 5 hours are you kidding me?” He asks to the supposed friend on the other line.
“That’s what I’m telling you, look I own a garage I can get your car there and fix it up for you! Much cheaper than AA I promise, and quicker” you nod and he sighs before having a hushed conversation with the friend.
You pull up in front of his car and jump out just as he ends the call.
“You have a garage?” He asks with a suspicious look. You understood that it was a nice car and he probably thought you’d try and drive off with it or something.
“Yes, I’m a mechanic. I can take a look at the car but … it’s going to be an in garage job” you sigh having seen many sporty cars get like this if they were driven a little … boyishly? If that’s even a word.
Which you didn’t expect from this older, Mexican, gentleman.
“Yes please take a look” he says clasping his hands together. You leave with a little laugh going round to the front of the car and popping up the bonnet.
A huge puff of water like smoke come burning up into your face making you flush a little red but it wasn’t anything that you weren’t used to.
“Okay, yeah it’s the cooling system. I can fix it up at the shop” you say wiping the sweat off the forehead from the sheer heat that was coming from the car.
“Alright, how will you get it to the shop” he asks and you point at the truck that allows you to get one car on the back.
“Can you even do that” he asks scratching the back of his neck. Even though many others would have taken offence to that, you couldn’t help but laugh it off as it didn’t look like an easy job.
“Yeah, don’t worry I won’t get a scratch on her” you smile before you climb up onto the back of the truck, grabbing the main chain to lift the car up.
After closing the bonnet and attaching the chain to the car you start your own engine and pulling the car up onto the truck with Sergio’s guidance. Once it’s on you come out to secure it and make sure it won’t roll off even on the 3 minute drive back to the garage.
“Okay, you can jump in” you smile once you show him the car is secure. He goes into the passenger side while you wait for some traffic to go past and walk round to the drivers side.
“Oh erm, you want a sandwich or something? We got some spares” you point to the back where the boxes and bags of sandwiches are. You grab the bag that had your sandwich in and split it in half.
“What is in it?” He asks inspecting his half and the fillings inside.
“I think it’s supposed to be like a Fajita ciabatta? So it’s got like chicken, peppers, salsa and all that healthy stuff, Yano?” You say looking happily at your sandwich and you lean back into your seat starting to enjoy your lunch.
“Why are you being so nice?” He asks with a raised eyebrow, a look of curiosity and suspicion on his face, his thick brows almost furrowed.
“Aren’t you used to people being nice?” You laugh, wiping your mouth just incase there was so sauce there as you turned to face him in shock.
“Look, I’m a mechanic. It would have played on my mind all day if I didn’t stop and help. And besides I don’t think I’ve ever had a car THIS nice in my shop” you grin and he nods with a small polite smile on his face.
“You like?” You ask and his head shoots up to look at you in shock.
“Excuse me?!” He gasps out looking at you.
“The sandwich do you like it?” You ask again this time a little bit more direct with what you were asking whether he liked or not.
“Oh yeah, it’s very nice. Thank you for sharing” he nods taking another bite of his half of your sandwich.
“Anytime, and besides I got spares too, so I can have my filling later if half doesn’t turn out to be enough. So if you don’t mind me asking, where were you going in such a rush? And don’t lie to me, you were 100% driving that car like a manic for the cooling to already be knackered” you admit looking over to him when it’s safe to do so.
“Erm, work? A meeting with my boss” he sighs knowing he definitely has missed that meeting now.
“Oh, is that the er friend that was on the phone with you earlier?” You ask cocking your head to the side as your turn down a side road, coming onto a busier street.
“Oh no, that was my … helper while I’m here in the UK” he admits and for the first time you hadn’t even considered that he didn’t fully know where he was going as this country might not be familiar to him.
“And where possibly could you be heading to work between Buckingham and Towcester” you laugh, meaning it as a joke not expecting his to divulge his whole life to you.
“Ah just my bosses place, he’s very personal” he nods knowing he didn’t want to tell this very attractive woman who he really was.
“Okay here we are” you say pulling into the garage, reversing in so it’s easier for the boys to get the car in.
“Whose this?” Fred, one of the mechanics who you worked with asks looking at Sergio who’d just jumped out of the truck.
“Ahhh just some stray, get his car in. He’s got a cooling problem and a boss to try get too on time” you smirk as your fellow colleagues help get the car off the truck.
“Dude this is a nice car. Who do you work for to afford a car like this” someone whistles as it’s rolled down and into your section of the garage.
“And how have you knackered the cooling already?” Another chips in looking at what you were writing in your pad.
Sergio watches as you get to work on his car, it was a very attractive sight and he never knew seeing a woman work and get her hands dirty would be such a turn on for him.
In about 30 minutes you’ve fixed what you found to be the issue and offer him an oil change as to you it didn’t look like it had been done for years and knowing Christian and his cars it probably hadn’t.
“All done, your good to make your way to you boss” you say swinging a spanner round your finger before catching it in your hand as you walk over to him.
“How much do I owe you?” He asks starting to dive into his pocket for money.
“Ahh consider this on the house” you smile and he again looks so shocked with how nice you are being to him.
“No, I refuse” handing you over £500 which is seriously over the asking price for the job, and it shows when your mouth falls open like a goldfish.
“I can’t - I can’t accept this” you say trying to get him to take it back. But of course he won’t budge.
“And my number too? If you, you know want it?” He asks shyly and you pretend to think for a second before switching details with him.
“I’ll text you later then, drive safely yeah?” You ask and all he does it nod before leaving and driving away.
And audible sigh comes from you, until your phone pings with a voice note from none other than mystery break down guy. Whose saved his name as Sergio in your phone.
Dinner me and you, tonight 6pm?
And you were smiling and grinning like an idiot for the rest of the day.
y/user
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y/user: Met a guy who broke down on the road today, shared my sandwich with him and drove him to the garage.
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schecoperez: thank you for … everything
user1: babe why is an F1 driver in your comments?
-> y/user: EXCUSE ME?
y/user: Sergio? You have some explaining to do!
-> schecoperez: Erm oops? 🫣🤙🏼
-> y/user: oops? You cannot just say that to this kind of revelation 😳
y/user: I feel stupid 😭
user2: its hilarious that you just towed a random man AND shared your food, you never anything
user3: no way Checo broke down and this sweet girl helped him.
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