• Charles Leclerc vs Red Bull caps
• ♡ + Completed + Oneshot
• Look, it is not like Charles had much choice. He was not the only one complaining about that, he knew, he lurked around the internet too much to know he was not the only one tired by the fact Max Verstappen wore that stupid Red Bull hat every day.
• People were claiming for his help with the matter. They might want to obsess all over Charles’ property and it might have clocked him the wrong way some things he read about Max with his sandy, wild hair. Still. At any rate, Charles could be a bastard, but he was not cruel, if he could give a glimpse of his boyfriend to please them, he could try. It was only fair.
• Was he on a mission? Yes, Charles was on a mission alright. He would be the internet’s lord and saviour. He would convince Max to quit caps!
• languages.
• ♡ + Mature + Completed + Oneshot
• max likes when charles speaks french. charles slips up and says something he shouldn't have. good thing max doesn't know any french, right?
• the entire history of you
• Ongoing + Chaptered

Max & Charles. A collection.

i. prompt - jealousy.

ii. The obligatory post 2022 French Grand Prix fic that I needed to write as personal therapy:

He blinks the haziness out of his eyes as he takes in his new surroundings. Immediately, there is something strangely familiar about this place. The sun is just above the horizon, and he has to squint at the outlines of grass and asphalt in the distance.

“This is -” he inhales sharply as realization sets in.

There is an emptiness in his stomach that matches the emptiness in his chest even before he sees the large sign at the entrance: Circuit International du Val d’Argenton.

Max tugs him along by his arm. “Come on,” he chirps brightly. “I called ahead. We have the track to ourselves for a few hours.”

• And in the end I will seek you out amongst the stars
• ♡ + Completed + Oneshot
• It was already pretty late, so the streets were quiet. Max enjoyed the peacefulness, but on the last stretch that led to the hotel, he suddenly had the overwhelming urge to turn back.

Charles was a few meters behind him, in a mid-brisk walk. Max stopped and waited for him to catch up. He fell into step next to Max, but didn’t say anything.

Neither of them mentioned how Charles so readily put himself in between Daniel’s fist and Max’s face.

But Max didn’t think he could bring himself to thank Charles, so he didn’t.

Charles was a floor above Max again, so Max got off the elevator first. He was a few steps into the hallway when Charles finally spoke, in a voice so soft that it was almost like he didn’t really want Max to hear it.

“Don’t worry about it.”

Baku sure was a strange place for Max.

• every other sunday
• ♡♡♡♡♡ + Mature + Completed + Chaptered
• Max navigates the aftermath of being outed in the press, and Charles is always there.
• Feel The Heat Going Overdrive
• ♡♡ + Mature + Completed + Oneshot
• In which Charles keeps asking questions about the RB18 in the midst of their sexual escapades and Max is – literally – one DNF away from blowing a fuse.
• proximity
• ♡ + Mature + Completed + Oneshot
• These kinds of smiles on Max are reserved for other people. Like Daniel, like Lando, like those Dutch guys that come around sometimes and he likes to yell with.

Not Charles.

It’s probably the fourth time Max is acting noticeably strange around him that he notices the freckle on his lip.

• petrol
• ♡ + Mature + Completed + Oneshot
• Max scoffs. He steps closer, smile a little real. It lets Charles see the tiny freckle on his lip, dark and undying, always zoomed in on when his face is in HD. Chuckling, Max scratches at his stubble. “I didn’t know you liked Red Bull.”

Automatically, Charles corrects, “I hate it.” It says too much.

• heartstroke
• ♡♡♡ + Ongoing + Chaptered
• He thinks that even if his voice were intact enough to say the words, he wouldn’t have been able to get them out. That even if pressed, held down and told to say it, he wouldn't have found a way. I’m married to Max Verstappen.

Charles leans over his bed and throws up on the floor.

• landslide
• ♡ + Ongoing + Chaptered
• He knows that this - having a soulmate - is inevitable. So, inevitably, he will love and be loved, right? It is his fate. So there's nothing wrong in hoping that love will go right for him. Nothing wrong in wishing for happiness. Everyone wishes for happiness.

He feels like a liar, for some reason.

• Coming home
• Ongoing + Chaptered
• Max is sent to conversion therapy after he comes out to his father but suddenly meets a lot of nice queer men and a mute roommate who doesn't understand English.
• Connard
• ♡♡♡ + Mature + Completed + Chaptered
• Something about Max Verstappen had always, from the very first moment on, made Charles’ blood boil in a very special kind of way.

And Charles knew there only was a fine line between hate and passion. But in hindsight, Charles couldn’t remember the first time the hate between Max and him had charged the air with something akin to heat. The first time an angry stare turned into stripping each other bare with looks. The first time they yelled or hissed scathing comments at the other, where a hostile “Fuck you!“ sounded more like a challenge than anything else. ----- He shoved Max backwards and hissed: “Max Verstappen, fuck off, fuck me, I don’t care – but get yourself together.” Max was on him in a flash. Blazing lust filled every fiber of his being, the thrill of aggression arousing Charles, his heart beating right out of his chest. Max sucked and bit a trail along his jaw, then down his exposed neck – and stilled, when Charles couldn‘t stop a heavy, loud moan upon feeling bared teeth at his throat. „So that is what gets you going, Leclerc?“, he murmured, a grin across his face.

• in the dark you can't see shiny cars
• ♡♡ + Completed + Chaptered
• In the summer of 2022, the quiet neighbourhood of Les Amants in Monaco becomes the epicentre of a strange weather phenomenon.

or

A dark cloud hangs over Charles’ head—unfortunately not just a metaphorical one. Max sets out to investigate.

• Favourite Activity
• ♡ + Mature + Completed + Oneshot
• Fucking Max Verstappen so hard he almost cried was fast becoming one of Charles' favourite activities.

Charles has a lot of favourite activities, they all involve Max.

• all this happened, more or less
• ♡ + Completed + Chaptered
• alix @alpinealix • 8 January

winter break sucks so here is a thread of reasons why i think @Charles_Leclerc is @escalierdesfleurs . for legal reasons this is only a joke if i’m wrong.

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• I'll Be Right Beside You
• ♡♡♡♡♡ + Mature + Completed + Oneshot
• Max stared at Charles’ closed eyes and how they twitched in his sleep. Objectively, Max knew that Charles was probably the most beautiful man he had ever seen. But... this was Charles.

Charles Leclerc.

Big, cry-baby Charles.

Sauber #2 driver Charles.

When did he decide that Charles The Driver would become Charles The Boyfriend?

He wishes he could remember.

• Of Shadow
• ♡♡♡ + Ongoing + Chaptered
• Charles Leclerc is a typical student: he goes to parties, he crams for his exams, he loves his friends and sometimes he even wakes up on time for class in the morning.

It's all very normal, except for the memories in his head that aren't his, the people he misses who were never born, and the sport he loves that apparently doesn't exist.