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It’s a true criticality accident on the track. Shimmering air, burning chemicals, toxic wind- all of it spills from a distorted monument to humanity’s hubris. As he stares down the scraps of scarlet, Max realizes that there’s no real difference between a reactor and a racecar.
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- Part 3 of Shattered Glass Across the Track
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It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.
It was supposed to be planned around his schedule- aligned with winter break, maybe. Or even after he’d retired. He should’ve been with his partner, whoever they were; he’d never dared hope it would be Max. He should’ve been wrapped in their embrace, murmuring hushed words of excitement to one another as they waited for the minutes to pass and a result to show on the test.
They should’ve found out together. Ready. Eager. Full of love.
Instead it was like this: alone, curled on a cold bathroom floor, a painfully impersonal PDF staring at Charles from his phone. The only positivity to be found in the situation was sitting in the results column of the file, neatly slotted next to the word pregnancy.
The email. The result. The loneliness. It was all too much. Charles began to cry once again.
At the top of his screen, a response popped up with impeccable timing.
i told you not to text me.
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Charles is in love with Max. Max is in love with Charles. It really is that complicated, and then it gets worse.
Meanwhile, Lando just wants Oscar to kiss him, and he's not quite sure how to make that happen. -
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Max thinks that diamonds no longer fit, and entertains himself with learning geology to find the perfect red stone that matches his childhood rival.
Eventually he learns the rich history of blood diamonds, sparkling white but torn from the earth at the cost of human life.
By that point, he no longer wants to know.Series
- Part 2 of Shattered Glass Across the Track
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The only thing that could save him is an act of God, and He is busy racing across the finish line.
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- Part 1 of Shattered Glass Across the Track
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Charles is a loyal disciple of Ferrari, but finds his devotion goes unrewarded. That's fine, though- he'll seek absolution elsewhere, in Max.
Max knows there's something wrong with his beloved Charles, but he's not sure what to do about it.
Full push, full risk, bien-aimé.
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Two secrets. Four years. One heat that changes everything — and a discovery, months later, that changes everything again.
Merlin really should have asked Gaius more questions about that contraceptive tea.
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When Charles is sent to the Stonewall Maximum Security Prison, he goes there expecting to die. That’s what he’s heard happens most inside those tall, ominous walls. What he doesn’t expect however, is a captivating, sweet man with blue eyes, an adorable lip freckle and a startling sense of humour. And suddenly, he finds the dismal ending he’s planned for himself to be inadequate. He finds himself with a reason to live.
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Charles doesn’t have baby fever, he just gets a lot of videos recommended to him of babies and dogs interacting with each other and he likes these videos because they’re cute and entertaining that’s all. Charles does not have baby fever, he just lies in bed stroking Leo’s fur with a flat expression on his face thinking about nothing and then goes to sleep and doesn’t dream about anything in particular, because he does not have baby fever.
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charles has really bad baby fever
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Oscar’s white-knuckled hands tremble slightly where they grip the sink, as another coughing fit overtakes him and more purple petals fall from his cracked lips.
The mental image of someone else standing next to Lando, both clad in papaya, makes Oscar choke. Because Lando is his. His first and only teammate. And Oscar, equally sentimental and idealistic when it comes to Lando, wants him to be his last.
❀ ❀ ❀
In which a bouquet blooms in Oscar's chest.
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Maybe Max already knows, sees through Charles right to the roots. “You don’t want to know? Who it is, I mean?”
“No,” Max snaps.
Charles flinches. He feels raw, exposed, like everyone can see the blooms unfurling in his chest.
And then Max is turning to him and sliding a possessive hand around the base of his skull. He waits until Charles meets his eyes.
“They don’t matter.” His long fingers curl in to press at the hinge of Charles’ jaw. “You will make them fall in love with you. Or.” Max swallows, throat bobbing reflexively. He leans in so close they’re breathing the same air. “Or you’ll get over them. Maybe…maybe fall for someone else. Anything can happen.”
“Anything,” Charles echoes, feeling insane. Max doesn’t know. Max is jealous of himself.
Or, Charles and Max have an arrangement to hook up during race weekends; half the grid knows. Charles has hanahaki; hardly anyone knows he’s heartsick, much less who he's pining over. Not his family, not Ferrari, and certainly not Max.