#BABY MAX
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Daniel is not special!!! I am also fucked up over de-aged max 😭😭
And sometimes Daniel is very fucked up. All earlier parts can be found in this masterpost and on AO3 here (I was planning on putting the outstanding ones on AO3 tonight, but I'll do it over the next couple of days instead, including this part).
This sort of follows on from Waking Up and Max is big again.
It's You And Me (I Know It's My Destiny): In which Daniel is sad, and Max and Daniel go on holiday (this part 2.9k)
"I have sand in my shoe," Max says.
"You can't have sand in your shoe," Daniel says, because they have been out of the car approximately 36 seconds and the beach is still the other side of the car park. All Max has stood on is the gravel next to the car. His Pikachu trainers are still tightly laced up.
"I can," Max says. He's not been enthusiastic about this beach trip from the moment Daniel's mum suggested it. He plays with the handle on the car door as if that's miraculously going to unlock it again and let him get back inside.
"You'll like it when we get there," Daniel says, sounding like his mum and her mum and probably every mum in the history of his family.
"Hmmm," Max says. "When are we going home?"
There's a strange little pull in Daniel's chest. Home. Max talks about home like it's a plant with Daniel's flat in Monaco the root and wherever Daniel is right now the leafy green. His favourite thing is when they're all together, but he'll take being with Daniel so long as going home is also on the cards.
"Later on," Daniel says. "We've got some fun to have first. We can go in the sea."
Max looks decidedly dubious. "There might be sharks."
"We won't swim if there's sharks," Daniel says. He rifles through his mental compendium of fun things they can do on the beach today. "There's tomato soup?" he offers. He's got a flask of it in his bag. He's learned. "And you can take pictures with my camera."
Max blinks at him. Unimpressed.
"My mum and dad will be here soon," Daniel says, desperate. "You can tell them all the facts out of your flag book."
"All of them?" Max asks.
"All of them," Daniel agrees. "Come on."
"Hmm," Max says, but he slips his hand into Daniel's.
&&&
Daniel finally acknowledges that he's hungry, so he gets out of bed and goes into the kitchen to find something to eat. It has been a week since his last supermarket delivery, and four days since he woke up to find Max gone, big again, disappeared back to a life which doesn't involve Daniel in any real way. There are apples slowly going soft in the bowl. Max likes apples. He likes them cut into slices with the core cut out. Depending on how crunchy the apple is, sometimes he likes the skin cut off. He doesn't like them when they're soft. Daniel can't be bothered to eat them, so he leaves them in the bowl. The fridge doesn't contain anything useful either, and the bread's gone bad. He stands in front of the kitchen cupboard with the crackers in and eats three of them. He follows it up with a packet of dried vegetable snack food for toddlers, significantly out of date, from when a tiny chunky three year old Max came to stay. He drinks a can of Red Bull looking at the empty cat litter trays. He needs to sweep the few remaining bits of litter up and take the bin out.
He doesn't do it. He finishes his can of Red Bull, goes for a piss, and climbs back into bed again with the covers over his head.
He hasn't showered in four days. He hasn't eaten a proper meal in five. He closes his eyes, buries his face in the pillows, and ignores the buzzing of his phone.
&&&
"I'm not jumping in."
"Okay," Daniel says, zooming in on a picture of the pool. "You don't have to jump."
After their relatively unsuccessful beach day, Daniel drops the idea of renting a beach house for his parents and Max for the remainder of their trip to Monaco, and instead, goes for a gîte up in the hills. It has a pool and a pétanque court and somewhere to play badminton. It has two bedrooms up in the attics, which Daniel plans on claiming for him and Max, and one downstairs with a massive bathroom for his parents. The local village boasts two specialist bakeries. Daniel hopes they're specialised enough to do a boring sliced loaf for Max to have buttered on a daily basis.
"You won't make me jump in?" Max asks, pressing himself to Daniel's side. He's so close that Daniel might require a spatula to get them apart. He's looking at the pictures of the gîte on Daniel's laptop. It's a last minute booking; they leave in the morning.
"Promise," Daniel says. He hasn't actually asked if Max knows how to swim, so his mum and dad have got floats on their shopping list just in case. They've gone out to buy last minute things for their holiday tomorrow..
"There's no sand?" Max asks, leaning over and digging his elbows into Daniel's thigh so he can get a closer look at the pictures.
"Not by the pool," Daniel says.
"I don't like sand," Max says, which is something Daniel knows, after Max had refused to touch it at the beach. "I don't like it in my shoes."
Daniel ruffles his hair. "No beach trips. I know. There is a train, though. We can go for a ride on it if you like."
"At the house?" Max asks dubiously.
"No, we'll have to drive to it. We can take my mum and dad."
"Yes, please," Max says. "Are the Jimmy or Sassy cats coming on holiday with us too?"
"They're going on their own holiday." A fucking expensive one too, at a luxury cat hotel. Cat ownership, even of the temporary variety associated with Go Small guardianship, is tremendously expensive. They've got the 'getting the cats into their multi storey cat carrier' experience to have later on too. They cats have clearly spotted the cat carrier and are sitting on top of the cupboards in Daniel's kitchen in protest. Daniel foresees a number of new scratches later on. A little pre-holiday gift.
"Will they poo in the cat carrier again?" Max maintains this is the funniest thing that has ever happened in his life, even beating the noises the camel made at the zoo, which he asks Daniel to imitate about three times a day.
"Probably," Daniel says grimly.
"Good," Max says. He leans his face against Daniel's shoulder. "Can we take the night lights? In case you are scared, Daniel."
Daniel kisses the top of his head. "Sure," he says. "We can walk around the flat and you can tell me all the important things we should take."
"Good," Max says. He's a solemn little boy sometimes, quiet and thoughtful and terribly protective of Daniel. Daniel is equally protective in return. "Pikachu won't get lost if he comes, will he?"
"No," Daniel says. "He can wear his own seatbelt in the car."
Max nods. "Good," he says. Then, "Let's pack now."
"Sure," Daniel says, who's never packed anything early in his life. "It'll be a fun surprise for my mum and dad if they come home and we're all ready to go."
&&&
The sound of the key in the lock should rouse him out of bed, but it doesn't. He's not expecting anyone, but if they've got a key it can't be all bad. Anyway, he can't be bothered to care.
He stays where he is, in bed, and waits for whoever it is to come and find him. To tell him what they need from him. It won't be a seven year old Max come to visit, so it doesn't matter anyway.
"Daniel?"
It's his mum. She's supposed to be in Australia. She isn't supposed to be here. He would have remembered that.
She pushes open the door to his bedroom. It smells in here. It's been six days since he showered. He's eaten the remains of the stale crackers and there's crumbs on the sheets and on the floor.
"Oh, Daniel," she says.
"Hi, Mum," he says. She looks sad, and worried, but Daniel doesn't feel anything. He's had a hole in his chest for a long time now, and it's grown every time Max got big and left him again, and getting to have a Go Small Max all over again and then losing him like clockwork has just meant the hole has swallowed him up. "Did I know you were coming?"
"You didn't answer your phone," she says, coming over and sitting on the bed. He moves his legs to let her sit down. "We've all been very worried about you."
Daniel hums. "It's okay," he says, although it seems like a long way to come just because she's worried about him. He's fine. "I'm just tired."
"Okay," she says. "Can I get a hug?"
She must have been travelling a long time. Daniel hugs her. He can smell himself, warm and stale and tired. She seems upset. Maybe he should be upset too. He just misses Max. He wants Max back.
She picks Pikachu up from the floor and brushes cracker crumbs off him. She tucks him up in bed next to Daniel. "I'm going to go see what's in your fridge, and then I'll come back and run you a bath, okay? We'll get you fixed up, Daniel, I promise."
Daniel nods. He just wants to sleep. He settles down into his sheets again, pulling Pikachu in close. He smells like Max. One day he won't, and Max won't Go Small again, and Pikachu will be all that's left of the months Max spent with him, small and serious and perfect.
His mum leans over and kisses him on the forehead. "Love you," she says.
Daniel closes his eyes.
&&&
Max stands on the side of the pool. Daniel's in the water, doing a very stupid dance. He's singing along, making up the words as he goes along. Max tells him he's being very silly.
Daniel agrees. They've been here two days so far and they've barely been out of the water. They've splashed and played and made up stupid games and done piggy back rides and played water badminton and piggy in the middle and had races where the point was to come last and Max has been happy the whole time. They've blown up stupid floats and ridden a giant flamingo and floated on a palm tree and paddled a boat. He suspects his parents haven't spent this much time in a pool in their lives.
They've made their excuses now, though, his dad getting the barbecue ready for dinner and his mum reading her book and taking a million pictures and videos of Daniel and Max together.
Daniel's heart sings. Max is having such a good time. He'd spent about 25 minutes in his own bed on the first night, and then gravitated straight into Daniel's, Daniel coming upstairs to bed to find Max sprawled out sideways, flat out, with Pikachu in one hand and his toy otter tucked under his other arm. The nightlights were on in both rooms. Daniel had resigned himself to sleeping in Max's bed until he'd managed about seven minutes sleep and Max was waking him up because Daniel would get scared if he slept by himself. Max had assigned himself Daniel's protector a long time ago and wasn't going anywhere. So, Daniel had the edge of the bed and Max had the remaining diagonal space, and everyone was happy (but mainly Max).
And now Max wants to jump in. He's practiced putting his head below the water, which he didn't like the first time and is now better at. Daniel's told him it doesn't matter if he decides he doesn't want to, but Max is brave and resilient and trying his best. And Daniel's ready to catch him. His mum's got the camera ready, and his dad's cheering Max on.
"Will you catch me?" Max asks.
"I won't let anything happen to you," Daniel says. "I promise."
Max studies his face. "Okay," he says finally. He puffs out his cheeks and jumps.
Afterwards, when Daniel's finished parading a cheering Max up and down the pool, his mum shows them the pictures. Max is beaming. Daniel doesn't think he's ever seen a picture of himself looking happier.
It's scary, if he stops to think about it. But he doesn't, so it's okay.
&&&
Daniel eats a sandwich and then has a bath. He can barely find the energy to wash his hair. When he gets out, the water's gone cold and his mum's put fresh pyjamas on the chair by the bathroom door. She's changed the sheets too, swapped Daniel's gross ones for fresh ones. She's even folded up Max's Pokemon blanket that Daniel's been hugging all week and put it at the end of the bed. The window's open and the curtains are pulled back. Pikachu isn't on his pillow anymore, because Max is sitting on his bed, holding him.
He's not small. He's big. He's just Max, normal sized, world champion Max.
Daniel gets back into bed. He takes Pikachu from Max and tucks him under his chin.
"Daniel," Max says.
"I'm tired," Daniel says. Max doesn't ever stay. He gets big and he leaves. He stops needing Daniel and he leaves.
Max's hand hovers over Daniel's arm. It rests on his elbow. "You didn't say you were not okay, Daniel."
"I'm fine," Daniel says. "Just tired. What are you doing here? You don't stay here when you're big."
Max flinches. Daniel feels it.
"I think I should not have left you," Max says. "But I am here now. Your mum has gone to the shop. You do not have any food."
"I'm not hungry," Daniel says. He doesn't feel anything. He misses Max. Max is here and he still misses Max, his Max, the one who needs him. "I want to sleep."
"Okay, Daniel," Max says. "Then I will stay here with you. So you are not alone."
Daniel nods. He doesn't believe it. Max always leaves. He takes his cats and his things and leaves a big hole behind him, and Daniel's chest swallows it up. He gets emptier. He feels empty now. "You won't stay," he says. "You don't stay."
"I will," Max says. "I will look after you. I am going to help your mum."
Daniel closes his eyes. He's tired. He'll wake up and Max will be gone. It's okay. He's good at losing him now. He'll cope.
He sleeps.
&&&
Max jumps in and he jumps in and he jumps in. He's delighted, excited, happy. He jumps in without Daniel holding out his hands to catch him, and lets Daniel float off to the side and just cheer him on in instead.
Afterwards, still excited, he wears his special robe to sit next to Daniel by the side of the pool and demands Daniel's mum show them both all her pictures. Daniel, in his matching robe, sits through picture after picture of the two of them together, of Max beaming, of Daniel beaming back. Of them beaming at each other.
Max is happy enough only to complain a little bit when Daniel reapplies sun cream to Max's flushed face. When Daniel's mum goes to help with dinner, Max buries himself in Daniel's side.
"I love you," Max whispers, like it's a secret. He tilts his face up and kisses Daniel's cheek.
Daniel wraps an arm around his shoulders. He kisses the top of Max's head. "Love you more," he says.
Max shakes his head. He's steadfast. He loves Daniel the most. He can't conceive otherwise. But it's okay. Daniel knows the truth: there's no one in this world he loves more.
&&&
When Daniel wakes up, he knows Max will be gone. He'll have left again, gone home, gone to find his real life, the one that Daniel isn't a part of. The one where he isn't needed.
Daniel doesn't open his eyes. He can hear his mum in the kitchen. He recognises her tread, the soft sound of the radio. He recognises her.
If he opens his eyes, Max will be gone.
"It is okay, Daniel." It's Max. He's here. He's stroking Daniel's hair. "Your mum is here and I am here. I'm not going anywhere."
Daniel swallows. He opens his eyes. Pikachu is still tucked into bed with him, the sheets pulled up over his shoulders. Max is lying next to him.
"I didn't want you to wake up alone," Max tells him. He's still stroking Daniel's hair. He's not very good at it. He's a little awkward and unsure, but Max doesn't stop something if he doesn't know what he's doing. He just keeps on going.
Daniel trembles.
"It's our turn to look after you," Max says. "We will get you better, Daniel. We'll make everything okay. I promise."
Daniel—who is desperate, exhausted, and scared—clutches at Max's hand.
Max laces his fingers with Daniel's. He leans in to kiss Daniel's forehead, and Daniel—that hollow in his chest suddenly aching, and he's breathless, his hand hot in Max's—abruptly starts to cry.
&&&
"Are you enjoying your holiday, Max?" Daniel's dad asks.
Max looks up from his new book of cat facts. He's been laboriously sounding out names of cat breeds to Daniel for half an hour.
"It's my best holiday ever," Max says in satisfaction.
He tucks his hand into Daniel's, looks up, and beams.
(thanks to Zoe @flawlessassholes for her help with the first 7/8ths of this and to Lin @andwegogreen for her help)
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Young Max Verstappen
#mv1
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#formula 1#formula one#f1#gp#grand prix#spotify#f1 racing#formula racing#max verstappen aesthetic#max verstappen fluff#maxie#max verstappen x reader#max verstappen#max#verstappen#mv1#mv33#baby max#baby max verstappen#young max#red bull team#red bull f1#red bull racing#red bull formula 1#red bull
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I could be a good mother.
Every time I see baby Max, I get hit with a wave of guilt and sadness. I just want to go back in time and give him a hug and raise him the way he deserves.
#i could be a good mother#raise him as my son#give him the life and love he deserves#baby max#max verstappen#formula 1#f1#formula one#i could be a great mom to him#fuck jos verstappen#i hate jos verstappen#mv1#mv33
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Max flying to Macau GP 10 years ago 🥺
📸 jameypricephoto
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"Is he smoking?!"
Why was there so much drama in this Minecraft furry family?? 😭 At least Donut was a good big brother to Max..
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#the little club#little club#minecraft#minecraft nostalgia#donut the dog#baby max#mcyt#mcyt fanart#meme image#meme art#tw: drugs#tw: child abuse#furry#furry art#furry anthro
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I will never ever ever get over this photo of max…. He’s so smiley young BLONDE ☹️☹️☹️ his stupid red boots omg and he’s so silly here ??
#max verstappen#BABY MAX#Who let a kitten drive an f1 car#but seriously he was a TEENAGER!(?!?)#jail bait for the rest of the grid#<— don’t hate me for speaking the truth I am but a lowly messenger
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Young Daniel and Max at Zandvoort in 2011
#max verstappen#daniel ricciardo#baby max#baby Daniel#maxiel#f1#formula 1#formula one#red bull racing#red bull
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he still got the floaties 😭
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Would you ever write Daniel hugging de-aged Max? (this is a cheat, I know, but sometimes we need hugs)
Tiny bit of de-aged max (All earlier parts can be found in this masterpost and on AO3 here (although i've got a couple of bits now to update on AO3)):
Someone (Max) Needs a Hug
Daniel wakes up with the distinct impression he's being watched.
When he opens his eyes, it's to find he is. Max is standing by his bed, Pikachu under his arm. He's wrapped in his new Pokemon blanket. One of the Jimmy or Sassy cats is sitting on Daniel's foot. The other Jimmy or Sassy cat is standing on Daniel's bedside table, and Daniel's water bottle is on the floor. This, he presumes, is what woke him up. He'd learned, a couple of nights in to having the Jimmy or Sassy cats as guests, that taking a glass of water instead of a lidded bottle to bed was a risk to his electronics. And his mattress. And him. But mostly his phone and his charger.
All three pairs of eyes are staring at him, unblinking, silent.
He rubs his eyes. "Hey, buddy," he says, when Max continues not to say anything. He goes for the lamp. "Everything okay?"
Max nods. All right.
It's five am.
"You need something?" Daniel asks, trying to wake up.
"Hug, please," Max says, in a small voice.
Okay. Daniel opens his arms, still not awake enough to compute anything, and Max tumbles into them, Pikachu and Pokemon blanket coming with him. He burrows into Daniel's front. Daniel hadn't even got as far as pulling the covers back, but Max doesn't bother with niceties. He kicks his way into a comfortable position, tucking his blanket around him, and demanding Daniel hug him tighter.
"Bad dream," Max whispers, face squished into Daniel's t-shirt.
Daniel kisses the top of his head. The Jimmy or Sassy cat that was destroying his bedside table takes a graceful leap onto the pillow to curl up perilously close to Daniel's head. This is his life now. A seven year old Max Verstappen and intrusive cats. Sure.
"Everybody knows the cure to bad dreams is hugs," Daniel agrees, shifting so he can avoid Max's sharp little shoulder digging into his arm. "Do you want to tell me what it was about?"
Max shakes his head, burrowing closer. "My Daniel," he says, like that's an answer to everything, and maybe, just this once, it is.
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• Young Max
• Max Verstappen
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#formula 1#formula one#f1#gp#grand prix#formula racing#f1 racing#red bull team#red bull f1#red bull racing#red bull formula 1#max verstappen aesthetic#baby max verstappen#young max#baby max#maxie#max verstappen x reader#max verstappen fluff#max verstappen#max verstappen x you#max verstappen x y/n#max#verstappen#max emilian verstappen#mv1#mv33#mv33 x you#mv33 x reader#mv1 x reader#mv1 imagine
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Anyone else remember when Simon and George were gonna raise baby out if there sock drawer? Cause it was so pure I love them so much!
#tsc#simon lewis#george lovelace#simon lightwood#simon lovelace#baby max#tfsa#tales from the shadowhunter academy#the shadowhunter chronicles
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I’m just gonna leave this here…😍🥲🤣
Baby max that’s all😭🥺
I saw this on Pinterest’s under Max memes; so no clue who made it😂
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Clothing of Delight
Just posted the first chapter of my de-aged Maxiel fic here!
Danny bends down to gently pry the kid's hands off his legs, trying to get control over his expression because he’s pretty sure he looks like a psycho right now and doesn’t want to freak him out. “Hey, sweetheart–” He gets a good look at the little boy’s very blue eyes. His pale, round face. “What the fuck,” Danny says. “What the fuck.” — For twenty-four hours, Daniel Ricciardo's husband is changed.
#maxiel#de-aged maxiel#f1 rpf#baby max#maxiel fic#striving to capture both the real horror and real cuteness of this scenario#my fic
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Max answers fans' questions
Published on 17 February 2014 by Stefan Meens
Q: What is the biggest difference between driving karts and single seaters? Max: "The biggest difference is your field of vision. It's completely different and a lot more restricted. You see a lot less of what is around you because you sit much lower."
Q: What skills do you want to develop further to become a better driver in the future? Max: "Of course you can improve yourself in anything you do. But at the moment I've only driven six single seater races so at the moment it's all about gaining experience. I also need to improve my starts, that's an area in which I can gain the most."
Q: What does it mean to already have so many fans who closely follow your career? Max: "It means a lot. Every time I put in a good performance, it's great to see all the messages addressed to me online. So it definitely gives me an extra motivation to perform well for the fans."
Q: What is your best Florida Winter Series memory so far? Max: "For sure it is my first single seater victory. I won race 3 at Palm Beach, despite having problems with my gear box. I remained calm and didn't make mistakes, so I'm very happy with that win."
Max concluded the Q&A with a message to his fans: "Thanks for all the support, I really appreciate it! Hopefully, I'll be able to see and meet more of you in the future."
Back when baby Max read what people said about him online 🥺
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Blast from the past (very old past…) - They are re-releasing “Zwei Allein” DVD set from 11 August 2023 if you want to complete your collection ❤️
#max riemelt#zwei allein#baby max#max and a golden lab what’s not to love?#for a while this dvd set was quite hard to find
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"The Baby Besties!"
Decided to draw some more childhood stuff. My three favorite babies of the little club, they're also all traumatized, best friends and two of them will get married in the future 😘
In another universe where they're grown 😔 if only it actually happened man..
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#the little club#minecraft#minecraft nostalgia#baby duck#baby leah#little leah#baby max#meme image#meme art#mcyt#mcyt fanart#little club
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