drunk text, drunk call, drunk oscar (LS2 x OP81)
oscar only calls logan when he’s drunk. logan goes to get oscar, he overhears things he doesn’t want to.
w/c: 1817
day 45 of loscar posts until we get a loscar podium(series masterlist) masterlist | a/n: man i really should post more, also sorry if this is an inaccurate depiction of being drunk. this was not supposed to be this long.
Logan’s phone vibrates on the bedside desk, his ringtone playing softly. He sighs, almost grumbles before he sits up and grabs his phone.
oscar piastri🐨 is calling
Logan sighs and checks the time. 11pm, right on cue.
He picks up the phone and takes a deep breath before speaking.
“Hello Oscar.” Logan says, smiling, hoping the energy transfers correctly, “Where are you right now, and how many drinks have you had?”
“Oh hi…” Oscar says, his voice slightly slurred.
“Is Lando there? Alex, maybe?”
“Nooo, I want you-” Oscar says before abruptly cutting to take a breath.
Oscar’s drunk. Of course Oscar’s drunk, Oscar only calls Logan when he’s drunk.
Logan lets out a chuckle, “No… Is anyone with you?”
“Uhm- Lando’s here, I think.” Oscar says with deep breaths, “But I really want you here…”
“No, no you don’t Oscar, you’re just drunk.” Logan says, his voice slightly cracking.
Of course he wished Oscar actually liked him, but Oscar was too good for Logan. Logan was just some nobody on the grid and Oscar was the grid’s golden child.
“Logieeeeee….” Oscar pulls out the nickname, the old nickname.
Logan sighs.
“Osc. I need you to find Lando.” Logan says slowly.
“Lando calls me Osc too!” Oscar says cheerfully. Logan wipes the single tear that he shed.
He didn’t even know he shed a tear, it just happened. Guess a lot of things just happen. Logan really missed Oscar, and he missed when Oscar would call anytime, not just when he was drunk or out of his mind.
“Yes…” Logan fakes a chuckle, “Find Lando please.”
“I don’t know where he is…” Oscar says, slurring more words, “Can you just come over…”
“I can’t. You know what, I think Alex is there.” Logan says, thinking out loud.
Oscar doesn’t respond.
“Yea,” Logan says, “Stay where you are Oscar.”
Logan hopes Oscar heard him and hangs up.
He’s immediately faced with their call log, which is once every few weeks, at 11pm or around there. All of them, just because Oscar was drunk.
He quickly closes it and calls Alex.
“Hey Alex, you’re at the party… thingy- whatever.” Logan asks, awfully happily.
“Yes, question is, where are you?” Alex says.
“Tired, in my room.” Logan quickly diverts, “Well, Oscar is there somewhere and drunk, please make sure he doesn’t die or anything.”
Alex chuckles, “Okay. I’ll find him, he’s probably with the rest.”
“Yea… yea. Cool.” Logan says.
“Mhm, I see him…” Alex says after a while.
“Great. So take good care of him, okay?”
“Mhm, but why don’t you just come over, you could join the party too- I mean, win win.”
“Wasn’t invited, didn’t wanna go anyway!” Logan says, his voice crack betraying him once again.
“Really?”
“Gotta go!”
Logan hangs up before he gets a response, he instantly buries his face into the pillow, placing his phone back onto the bed-side table.
He screams into his pillow.
Yea, he wasn’t invited. That was the truth. The lie was that he didn’t want to go. Truth was he wanted to go.
Everyone was there, except Logan. What a loner Logan was.
Logan sighs and sits upright on his bed. He stares into the blank space, hating every detail of his life.
—
“Mate, where’s your teammate?” Lando asks, pointing at Alex.
“Uh…” Alex hesitates, “He’s tired.”
“From DNF-ing?” Lando comments and Carlos almost instantly smacks his shoulder.
“He’s drunk, sorry, he didn’t mean that.” Carlos quickly says.
Alex nods, “It’s all cool.”
Oscar is laid down next to Alex, well he’s not really laid, he’s just sprawled over the bench.
Alex whips his phone back out, opening Logan’s chat.
Alex: seriously, where are you.
—
Logan grunts, his phone chime snapping him back to reality. Okay, maybe that was for the better, his mind was spiralling.
He violently picks up his phone and opens the message.
Logan: my room
Alex: you should come over
Alex: its not too late
Logan’s fingers hover over the keyboard, he doesn’t know what to say. Going there would just be social suicide, no one would talk to him anyway.
Alex: everyone’s asking where you are
Logan: mourning
Logan gives himself a small chuckle at his joke.
Alex: mateeee
Alex: please just come over
Alex: it’s like 5 minutes from the hotel
Alex: pleaseeeee
Logan doesn’t know everyone on the grid really well, but he knows them well enough to know they don’t want him there.
Logan: it’s not like me being there would make any difference
Alex: mateeee what are you sayingg
Logan: would anyone talk to me
Alex: oscar would
Alex: he’s a lil eepy now though
Logan lets out a self depreciating chuckle.
Logan: he would only talk to me BECAUSE hes eepy
Logan: he’d go back to lando after 2 seconds anyway
Alex: dont say that
Alex: just comeeee
Logan is adamant about not going.
Alex: oscar just asked me where you were
Alex: what do i say
Logan scoffs and then sniffles slightly.
Logan: say i’m not there and he can talk to lando
A few seconds pass, which Logan assumes Alex is using to tell Oscar what he sent, or he’s telling Oscar that Logan was a bastard.
Alex: yea no he wants YOU
Alex: so you should come over
Logan: no.
Alex: at least come to bring him back to his room
Logan sighs. That wouldn’t hurt him, and would also give him an opportunity to talk to Oscar, even if he was slightly not present in the mind.
Logan: fine. give me 10.
Alex: yay!
Logan slips on a sweater, which he thinks looks half decent, slips on some shoes and quickly walks over to the bar.
—
He double checks the bar for the 3rd time before walking in.
He scans the crowd quickly and sees the whole bunch of them gathered around in a circle.
He swiftly makes his way over.
Logan finds himself walking in on a conversation which is most likely about him, none of them really notice he’s there yet.
“...and so, I’m just saying he should probably take a few weeks, or years, off!” someone (one of the driver’s friends, probably) says, his hands speaking more than his mouth.
Carlos notices Logan’s presence and whacks the person.
“I raise a point! Being slow is normal but being that slow is just not ok. DNF after DNF.” he repeats.
Carlos clears his throat violently.
“He’s not talking about you.” Carlos says to Logan.
The drivers look up and see Logan standing there. He’s still standing there stupidly, processing what he just heard. They all exchange glances, not sure how they were gonna save this situation.
Logan’s lost in thought. That was about him. They were talking about how Logan shouldn’t be in F1.
Logan musters every remaining bit of strength in him to not break down, but to smile innocently.
Alex stands up, lifting Oscar up as well. Oscar groans before seeing Logan and waves.
Logan smiles and subtly nods to him.
“So you decided to come?” Lando says.
Carlos prepares his hand just in case he needs to whack Lando.
Alex answers for Logan, “He’s here to get this eepy Oscar out of here.”
“Really? Just that?”
Logan nods.
“C’mon! Where’s the life in you? Just cuz you didn’t finish doesn’t mean you can’t join us.”
Carlos facepalms and whacks Lando again.
Logan forces another smile.
A strong assumption to start.
“I’m just… tired.” Logan says.
The tension grows ever so slightly as each second passes.
Logan sighs. He knew coming here was a bad idea. His presence probably ruined whatever vibe they had going on.
“I’m- uh,” Logan points to Oscar, “Gonna take him and go.”
Oscar walks over to Logan and stumbles into him. Logan supports Oscar as they walk off.
“Way to ruin it.” Alex glares at Lando.
“What!? I didn’t mean any harm!”
Alex rolls his eyes.
“Now he thinks we hate him.” Carlos says.
—
“Logie you came!!” Oscar says as Logan walks with him on the sidewalk.
Logan nods, he doesn’t know how long he can last before he tears up.
“I missed you!!” Oscar smiles and hugs Logan. The positions are awkward since they’re both walking.
“You’re very drunk.” Logan comments.
“Just a few drinks.” Oscar says.
Logan nods.
—
The duo eventually get to Oscar’s room. Logan slowly leads Oscar over to his bed and sets him down.
Logan hesitates asking a question he has been keeping in his head, he’s not very sure if Oscar would even know.
“What…” Logan starts, which piques Oscar’s interest, “What did they say about me?”
Oscar takes a deep breath, “Uhm, I don’t know, it was pretty blurry.”
“Yea… that’s okay then…”
Logan’s mind can’t help but replaying what the person said about him, and everything else. Lando’s comments, his race, the different things he’s heard people say about him.
Logan’s too tired for it, he unknowingly starts tearing up.
“Aw. Why are you sad. I’m sorry.” Oscar says.
Logan snaps back and quickly wipes away his tears.
“No- Nothing.” Logan quickly assures.
“I’m sure they all love you!” Oscar does his attempt at comforting.
Logan chuckles dryly.
Oscar pushes himself up and hugs Logan. Logan’s a little surprised but he hugs back shortly after, gripping tightly.
He doesn’t want this to end. He wants to stay here. He doesn’t want to wake up tomorrow and not have Oscar anymore.
Everything would’ve been so much easier if he wasn’t such a shitty driver.
“I love you.” Oscar says.
Logan doesn’t know what to say, but he starts tearing up again.
He knows Oscar doesn’t mean that. He’s said it a million times, only when he’s drunk.
Logan sniffles, “Yea… yea I like to think you do.”
Oscar doesn’t fully process that so he just continues hugging Logan.
It doesn’t take long before Oscar’s back to lying on his bed and about to sleep. He looks at Logan one last time as Logan smiles and leaves the room.
Logan gets back to his room quickly and there, he cries.
His back is pressed against his door as he slowly descends to the floor.
He presses the bottom of his palms onto his eyelids.
This isn’t fair. Nothing is fair.
His mind is just a mess of all the flashbacks, all the things he’s heard today.
Logan was trying his best to be better, he really was. He put his effort into everything, but nothing ever good came back.
He’s not a bad driver, right?
He can hear his sobs echoing in the room.
Oscar loves him, right?
He would like to believe that.
Oscar only called him when he was drunk, Oscar only said “I love you” when he was drunk. Every other day was as if Oscar never knew who Logan was.
He wanted everything to just be in his favour for once.
Logan begged for that.
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