#fake shoeys with the kid 🥺🥺🥺

[startinglights]

young single dad! f1 max and teammate dan! max is like 17, on the edge of getting into F1, when he gets his gf pregnant and it’s so so scary & daunting but max would never abandon his kid. him and his gf end up separating and a little after their son, Luca, is born, she just can’t handle it. they both agree that max will take care of Luca. it’s a terribly stressful time for max bc while he’s handling an infant, he also has to worry about racing. and his dad is a massive dickhead throughout the whole thing ofc— which makes max even more stressed. in true max fashion he bottles it all in. so anyway, max’s almost never sleeping, and his mom, family friends— they all help out whenever they can. it really does take a village. and he’s traveling all the time—sometimes with his son, sometimes not—and it’s terrible but he’s doing it and he’s always always thinking about Luca. maybe in this AU, max gets into F1 later, in his early 20’s. max goes straight into a team with Daniel and the rest is history! Luca is absolutely OBSESSED with daniel. he’s always asking to be picked up and doing fake shoeys and even tho max is his absolute hero— daniel is his fave driver. anyway they slowly start to fall in love but something always holds daniel back from making that step forward. daniel loves Luca— has literally watched him grow up in the paddock—& daniels biggest fear is them breaking up and him never being in Luca’s life again. he’s asking himself if he’s even ready to be a full time dad?! (he is!!— he basically is one part time bc he somehow ends up in max’s apt with luca 24/7 in bw races). then one year after the Aus GP, max+ Luca finally visit daniels farm— and Daniel gets a preview of their life together as a family and it’s the best thing ever so he finally kisses max❤️ 

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