#wygig: kelly

[ladysomething]

Snippet Wednesday by any chance?

hell yeah!! kind of a long one today :)

But he can’t resist the desire to spend time with Penelope while he has it. He has absolutely no idea where their safe house is, and he doubts that Max will ever take him there—understandably so. For all he knows, Charles will never see Penelope or Kelly again after this weekend. 

Still, he lets Penelope grab his fingers and wiggle them around in her little fist, and watches idly on as she pulls his hand down to her mouth, closing her mouth around the edge of his hand. He’s some odd mix of enraptured and confused as she gums her way down the side of his hand, until she’s chewing on the knob of his wrist, her bottom lip touching the edge of his scent gland. 

“You’re a freak,” he whispers to her as she tries to eat him. 

She just stares at him as she keeps going, her mouth opening and closing as her gums put pressure on his skin. 

Charles says nothing else, because she seems totally happy to just keep going, so he holds his hand up until his shoulder starts to ache, and then keeps holding it up anyway. He leans his head down to rest it against the side of the bed, Penelope’s legs moving a little against the top of it. 

In the main area of the motorhome, he can hear the other three start to pack up dinner, but he ignores it all and keeps his eyes focused on Penelope. Her eyes are half-closed, mouth starting to go black around Charles’ wrist, when there’s a gentle knock on the door. 

Penelope pushes against his hand, so he takes it back as she reaches happily for her mother. 

“Still not back to sleep,” Kelly says indulgently as she walks inside. “You don’t have to stay. She’ll go back to sleep on her own.” 

Charles thinks she probably would, but he doesn’t mind entertaining her in the meantime. It’s not like it’s particularly hard. 

“I don’t mind. She’s sweet.” 

Kelly smiles adoringly. “I’m rather biassed, but I think so, too. You can bring her out, if you want; Jean-Luc and I are going to shower, anyway.” 

“It won’t disturb her more?” 

Kelly shakes her head. “She loves falling asleep in someone’s arms. Put some music on, and she’ll be asleep in minutes. Just . . . No Baby Shark. Please.”  

[ladysomething]

Maddie can we get a snippet pretty please🥹🥹

snippet 2 coming right up

for context, please picture Charles and Kelly sitting on the lounge of the motorhome, with Penelope laying on Charles' chest.

When Max gets back to the motorhome with food, Kelly is in the middle of telling him a story about Max trying to make a smoothie and forgetting to put the lid on on the blender.  

Charles is trying not to laugh, because he doesn’t want to disturb Penelope, when the door opens. 

“I got Indian, I hope—” Max looks up, makes eye contact with Charles, and then trips over the top step of the stairs. He barely manages to catch himself against the wall, face bright red when he straights up. He clears his throat, then says, a little more high pitched, “I hope that’s okay.” 

Charles stares at him, perplexed, while Kelly looks between Charles, then Max, then Charles again, before bursting into laughter. 

“God, you’re an idiot,” Kelly says fondly, pushing herself up to stand. “I’ll put Penelope to bed. Charles, will you set the table for us?” 

Kelly manoeuvres Penelope out Charles’ arms easily, and Charles almost immediately misses the soothing weight of her. His arms feel light and useless without her. 

Kelly disappears into the bedroom while Jean-Luc closes the door to the motorhome behind him. 

“I got Indian,” Max repeats, holding the bag up. 

Charles blinks at him, feeling a bit weird and awkward and tense. He’s not entirely sure how he’s supposed to act right now, and nothing feels quite right.

[ladysomething]

Happy WYGIG Snippet Wednesday!!!

Can we pleaseeeeeeee have another snippet? With someone else (Kelly/Max) and Charles this time? 😛

you're so lucky that you specified Kelly or Max, because I was going to go a little crazy and plant a bomb.

“Penelope isn’t Max’s, in case you were wondering.” 

Fuck. 

He really, really messed this up. 

“She’s not?” he asks a little meekly, pulling the pup a little further into his lap as she fidgets around. 

“She’s not biologically Jean-Luc’s either,” Kelly says as the kettle starts to boil. She turns back around to it, pulling a mug out of the cupboard for herself. “But he’s her dad.” 

He’s familiar with the concept of step-parents, obviously, but until two minutes ago he didn’t even know that Kelly and Jean-Luc knew each other. 

“I’m confused,” he admits. “You and Jean-Luc are married?” 

Kelly stares at him, clearly perplexed, and then lets out a loud long-suffering sigh. 

“Oh, that man,” she says, clearly disappointed. “He really didn’t tell you anything, did he?” 

[ladysomething]

I think we won't see it, so thats why im asking. What is jean luc and kellys reactions to seeing max finally holding p and to max being sooo stupid around charles w a baby?

they were probably pretty gagged tbh.

Jean-Luc didn't really see it in action, but if we remember back to a few chapters ago, Max had only just met Penelope for the first time then, but JL wasn't there for it (though I'm sure Kelly got on the phone to him and was like "anyway Max is being self-conscious again" and JL would've been like "story of my fucking life, what did he do now"

anyway long story short, Kelly would've been immensely pleased to see Max holding Penelope.

She also thought Max was a complete plonker about the Charles thing.

[ladysomething]

Charles seeing max and kelly together? I sense some jealously coming....

And whipped!max seeing charles interact w baby p maybe???

wellllllllll even if we don't see Charles jealous of Kelly ...... remember that we haven't seen the end of the Lando plot yet. 😊😊😊😊

as for the second ........ have faith my dear friends.

[ladysomething]

do we find out Kelly’s feelings about being in the paddock previously and what she thought about Charles bursting in on her?

we're not getting a flashback or anything, but we'll get some insight for sure!

[ladysomething]

That time jump in the snippet did seem to be a little sus ngl. Happy (not) to see Manipulative Mads is back.

But coming to the chapter, this part:

“Charles—” “You love me.” Charles’ voice is flat, devoid of any real emotion. Like he doesn’t believe him. But how could he not believe him? How could he look at Max and see anything other than someone hopelessly and completely devoted to him?

WHY DO YOU THINK MAX? HUH???

Someone get this man a goddamn mirror 🙄

Usually it's Charles who is contradicting himself in every other chapter. But Max is no better honestly!! He knows he has scared Charles, lied to him or at least kept the truth from him, manipulated him and still expects Charles to see him as someone who is DEVOTED to him?! Like GURLLLL?!?!!

I have always been Team Max and still am, but it's funny that in Charles POV chapters where we are supposed to get mad at Max, I'm not really able to do that and in this chapter, where we are supposed to feel sorry for Max, he infuriated me with his (lack of) logic here.

So rant over, but I think I'm missing something here which is probably insignificant but I'll still ask. Why did Kelly say at the end that they'll have to wait for a few hours? And is it connected to Max arriving late enough to skip media day? How? Why?

It's totally fine if that's a spoiler, but if not, my mind is stuck on that tiny detail that I can't figure out, soooo pls...?

well hey I gotta gaslight ya'll every now and again otherwise you'll start to think I'm always telling you the TRUTH.

Max and Charles are also the kings of gaslighting, but they do to themselves.

also ... good to see people feeling a little bit more for Charles haha.

and for your question - basically if they arrive late, it's less likely people will see Kelly coming in.

[ladysomething]

I haven’t even finished the chapter but I’m the original Jean-Luc/Kelly theory anon and I have never been so happy!!! I knew that plane moment with Jean-Luc showing Max the pictures seemed like an Easter egg!

JEAN-LUC AND KELLY I'M SO GLAD THAT IT'S FINALLY REVEALEDDDDD

fun fact I gaslit @3ncr1pted into thinking Jean-Luc was married to Victoria for like a month. she was pretty mad at me when I revealed that I'd been lying.

[ladysomething]

hi! do you maybe think we can get a time of update besides the day? also, will it take long before charles learns the truth about kelly

no, sorry! I don't have a specific time. if my beta gets it back to me with like 3 changes, then it could be 8am AEST, but if she wants me to rewrite a whole scene, it won't be until like 10pm AEST.

and not long anon. probably less time than you think!

[ladysomething]

what you said about max being honest from the start not working because charles wouldn’t believe it just makes sense. charles doesn’t trust max at all and he would just think max was trying to placate him if he was being nice in preparation for something really bad. I don’t think charles would have forgotten how terrified Kelly seemed in the paddock and also how scared she was when he went into max’s drivers room to try and help her.

but also i feel like Charles’ pov of Kelly’s fear from that event is different from Kelly’s herself? He was trying to help someone he perceived as an omega in distress but from her perspective was probably something like this crazy fucker broke into my protector’s(??) drivers room to hurt me.

I feel like there’s explanations for everything that we will slowly start to find out. can’t wait for more!

absolutely not, Charles would have been the exact same smiling assassin he was for ch 3-17.

and, well ............ Charles definitely has one opinion on what happened when he busted in to see Kelly. it's just not the only opinion lmao

[ladysomething]

I feel like Max should be the one who tells Charles what actually happened to Kelly or Kelly herself but with the way Charles constantly blaming Max without knowing anything I feel one of those who care about Max is gonna drop the truth about her on Charles and that wouldn't be fair to either Charles or Max.

I think all those things can be true anon. Charles WOULDN'T believe him, but then Max owes it to them both to be the one who says it.

all I'll say is have faith in the process! I'd think to think that I haven't lead you astray thus far.

[ladysomething]

Hello Maddie,

Let me just say I love your work. I have an unhealthy relationship with it, I will admit. I have a theory, that just keeps bugging me.

I think that FIA investigations go south and it strips aways Charles's championships. Ferrari being so furious that Charles lost them their championships takes it a as a "good" reason to terminate him. However Charles and Max are on better terms at this point. Therefore Max gets Charles hired to drive at redbull.

I also have a another theory that Redbull has helped Max buy Charles as well as helped Kelly disappear. Especially after this last chapter Christian seems to be willing to help Max even if it goes against his instincts. I feel like this is important detail or maybe it's not and I can throw it out the window

I know you can't confirm or deny either one of these

I can neither confirm nor deny, but I can say you're almost right in some places and not right in others!

[ladysomething]

I forget if you already answered this, and if it gives away too much feel free to ignore, but in chapter 16 will we also find out what happened with Max and Kelly or is that a later conversation?

welllllll that ch 16 you're referring to is actually now ch 17, so I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news there anon.

but to answer the question .... that is a later conversation, yeah. but not THAT much later 😉

[ladysomething]

Bueno, estuve releyendo algunos capítulos y hay algunas cosas que me parecen sospechosas. Cuando Charles entra a la habitación de Kelly y descubre el desorden, lo más impactante es la escena en general, pero cuando leí ese capítulo había algo más que me molestaba y era ¿por qué Kelly tenía esa habitación? Hasta ahora lo poco que sabemos de la relación entre Max y Kelly es que ella siempre estaba aterrorizada y Max era muy posesivo. Ahora, eso es desde la perspectiva de Charles y dado lo horribles que son los alfas con los omegas, no me sorprende el comportamiento de Max, ya que, en sus Povs, siempre dice que tiene que ser fuerte y demostrar que ha dominado al omega. La perspectiva de Max sobre Kelly es bastante vaga, pero se da a entender que le tenía cariño, se preocupaba por ella, pasaron su celo juntos y la forma en que terminó todo todavía le causa sentimientos. El punto es que si se suponía que su relación era real (es decir, que ambos se querían, estaban enamorados y ese tipo de cosas) ¿por qué Kelly dormiría en cualquier otro lugar que no fuera con Max? Es decir, me parece extraño que Max, que se ha mostrado muy deseoso de ser bueno para Charles, le agrade y se muestre insaciable por Charles a pesar de que no confía en él y es obvio que tiene sentimientos por él de tal manera que ha dicho muy explícitamente que no está seguro de poder dejarlo ir alguna vez, y estoy seguro de que si no fuera porque Max sabe que Charles no lo quiere, ni tiene sentimientos por él, que no tiene a Charles durmiendo a su lado, abrazándolo, y respirando su olor todas las noches posibles. Entonces, ¿por qué alguien que se ha mostrado así cuando tiene sentimientos por una persona tendría a su pareja durmiendo en una cama distinta a la suya? Quizás solo estoy sobreanalizando los hechos, pero mi teoría con respecto a Max y Kelly siempre ha sido, que no fue una relación real, sino más bien de conveniencia, que Max la estaba ayudando y que está frustrado por no haber podido protegerla de lo que sea que le haya pasado, porque vamos, Max ha sido muy intenso con Charles, es imposible que haya podido ser tan diferente con Kelly si hubiera tenido sentimientos por ella y me refiero a estar enamorado, porque la pudo haber amado de diferentes formas. Solo tengo que esperar a los capítulos 16/17 para saber si estoy equivocada o no 🫠

ok unfortunately I don't speak Spanish so many apologies but I put this through translate:

"Well, I was rereading some chapters and there are some things that seem suspicious to me. When Charles enters Kelly's room and discovers the mess, the most shocking thing is the scene in general, but when I read that chapter there was something else that bothered me and that was why did Kelly have that room? So far the little we know about the relationship between Max and Kelly is that she was always terrified and Max was very possessive. Now, that's from Charles' perspective and given how horrible alphas are to omegas, I'm not surprised by Max's behavior since, in his Povs, he always says that he has to be strong and show that he has mastered the omega. . Max's perspective on Kelly is pretty vague, but it's implied that he was fond of her, he cared about her, they went through her heat together, and the way he ended it all still causes her feelings. The point is, if their relationship was supposed to be real (i.e. they both loved each other and were in love and that kind of thing) why would Kelly sleep anywhere else but with Max? That is to say, it seems strange to me that Max, who has shown himself very eager to be good for Charles, likes and is insatiable for Charles even though he doesn't trust him and it is obvious that he has feelings for him in such a way that he has He's said very explicitly that he's not sure he'll ever be able to let him go, and I'm sure that if it weren't for the fact that Max knows that Charles doesn't love him, or have feelings for him, that he doesn't have Charles sleeping next to him, holding him, and breathing in its smell every night possible. So, why would someone who has shown himself like this when he has feelings for a person have his partner sleeping in a different bed than him?

Maybe I'm just overanalyzing the facts, but my theory regarding Max and Kelly has always been, that it wasn't a real relationship, but rather one of convenience, that Max was helping her and that he's frustrated that he couldn't protect her from what he did. Whatever happened to him, because come on, Max has been very intense with Charles, it is impossible that he could have been so different with Kelly if he had had feelings for her and I mean being in love, because he could have loved her in different ways. I just have to wait for chapters 16/17 to know if I'm wrong or not 🫠"

but also honestly ... no notes. its a very thorough investigation. I guess 16/17 will reveal all huh? or will it ....

[ladysomething]

I also thought for a moment that Jean-Luc is with Kelly but the fact that it was "step-daughter" might mean the child might be Max's or *darker route* taken advantage of by someone(*even darker route*Jos???). But then again I also went huh this seems too deep and complicated and crossed out my theories 😂

TOO DEEP AND COMPLICATED?!?!

I told @thearchercore the other day that the number of emojis I used to use in my answers would indicate what chapter the plot point I was discussing would happen in. so. nothing is too deep or complicated.

(in case you're wondering, I don't usually have the time to be that deep anymore. but. every now and again I do Taylor Swift mastermind my asks.)

[ladysomething]

Believe me, I do trust your writing, but the chapter this week really really got me almost crying lol! I often see people in the comments being mad at Charles while I can only feel sad for him everytime even when he is being "stupid" from a neutral pov... He was thrown into a world where he doesn't really have a lot of independence and choice and seeing him so defeated was heartbreaking :/

At this point I'm wondering the same thing as him... I understand society completly changing would be idealistic, but it seems like he's always going to be so restricted (like being vulnerable to the alpha voice)

Abt Kelly's pup anon theory, I really don't feel like it's Max's, but I can't form a timeline in my head for other options, since she did use to spend heats with Max and did leave in a hurry after discovering the pregnancy... so idk even if Max was protecting her from the pup's alpha, where does her spending her heats w him fit?

Also, I can't decide between two theories for Max's reasoning, which means you're doing a very good job because I tend to sniff out plots from a mile away

Ps. I do realise ao3 audience is kinda young sometimes sooo I do take their comments with a grain of salt

honestly, I feel for Max, but I feel for Charles too. they're both just in such shitty situations.

and yeah, Charles is starting to feel pretty hopeless. poor guy.

if this adds to your theory at all, someone suggested the pup's father is Jos. that could fit.

and what are your two theories? 👀