Commited to Hope

Tamara | 21+ | she/her | AO3

[usedtobetam]

Hope under Gravestone

Charles/Max | Magical Realism | 32K | Complete | Explicit

In which young boys make deals to multiply their talent by promising impossible feats—like winning four titles before thirty. And if they fail, the debt comes due. Max doesn’t have to think about that anymore. He’s fulfilled his deal, won four times, and now, incomprehensibly, has his whole life ahead of him.

Charles gets dressed quickly afterwards and doesn't meet Max's eyes while he's pulling on his jeans.

"Think about Red Bull," Max says, then makes himself add: "Depending on how much time you have left."

Charles pauses at the door. "I told you, I don't have a deal."

Max doesn't believe him, but he nods anyway.

OR A porny, angsty character study with magical realism about Max’s love for racing and Charles’s love for Ferrari

[forzafinally]

Uh just one last thing to say before I take a break. We are only 7 races into the season which is less than 1/3rd of the calendar. And this included some of Charles' worst tracks like China and Australia, 4 races of having a set a brakes different from his teammate that clearly didn't work well for atleast 3 races, and one mechanical failure due to car trouble. I would say that considering that so much has happened it's close to miraculous that he's still p4 in the championship with 2 DNFs and we have some of his best tracks coming up and new upgrades that clearly work. With more than 2/3rds of the season left I would argue there's still everything left to play for. Anyway let's see what's coming or whatever

[xarialore]

austria we go again. it's a long season ahead. forza

[breathofnyx]

i just won't bring myself to be even the slightest bit happy for lewis lol

[andthatsp1]

I don’t care that something good happened to Lewis Hamilton, I remember when he qualified p20 on pace last year

[usedtobetam]

I will not be here for next week. I have a renewed interest in sorcery and will study to become my own Etsy witch

[xarialore]

i am in utter loss for words i don't even know what to say

it's like someone out there decided he's their fun little toy to fuck with all the time i cant fathom how his teammate can have the luckiest race in the world and he on the other garage gets fucked to mars

in my entire life of watching this sport i have never seen a driver retire the car because his steering wheel failed

[m-carrick]

my dash is going into strict chirlie lockdown idc if you like a different driver fuck you lol

[lestappenwdc]

It's just that Charles will drag an undeserving car to places it shouldn't be with no chance to win in a million years and it's OK and average and whatever. But he will make one (1) mistake and it's on the only weekend on the year that the ferrari can actually win and to top it all off the luckiest safety car of all safety cars comes out and it's a "masterclass" from his teammate.

And charles dares to say that it's hard to stick with him? When he is the one sticking with ferrari and giving us hope not when it's easy but when it's hard. He is making us believe in something when we are at our lowest.

There could be 1000 successes like this but they are not worth one speck of the joy and happiness he brings us when its darkest. And one day it will all be worth it and as sick as I am of saying it I still believe it. Because I believe in him. And he deserves every second of that.

Forza Charlie forever and ever ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[xarialore]

i can't do this anymore what has he done to deserve this luck

[breathofnyx]

the worst part is i know that if charles had been in lewis' position he wld have been fucked over too many time to count lol

[xarialore]

this was a decent race with fucking awful bad luck that just had to happen now to make his teammate win

what a travesty

[chovertake]

sorry i'm going to be bitter if this happens because you know what people are going to say. and it's not just annoying people on twitter it's going to be all the pundits who want something easy to talk about. he does not get proactive strategies like this from these people or the media narrative of the team doing everything possible so he's comfortable or anything like this kind of safety car luck.

[lestappenwdc]

I dont want to watch this shit. Everything that has ever happened in f1 has been against charles and for other people this is insane amount of cursed that charles is. I hate this sport.

[xarialore]

what the fuck is this kind of luck

[lecmonica]

why don’t we ever profit from a safety car

[xarialore]

charles is way too nice as always