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Uhm, yeah. I'm still not sure what this is going to be, but let's see if I make it an oneshot or a small story too🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

Sitting in front of the finished piece, he leans back and looks over the landscape - the little trees might need a touch-up here and there and the railway tracks have to be glued down yet, but he's quite content with his little work.

He's so concentrated looking for small improvements that he doesn't hear the door opening and two hands gently being placed onto his shoulders, so he visibly flinches and turns around.

"Hello sweetheart," the Brit smiles down at him and kisses the top of his head, "sorry for scaring you, but I'm finally done with this week's meetings."

Just thinking about Max jumping into Vale's arms like he did with his team when he won his first world championship <3

Just a question - why are people still allowed to send death threats to others? Lando's just one of many who I witnessed getting death threats and I hate how nothing really happens to the person sending it (if they're not exposed).

Lando even read it out loud and it hurts me to hear the words "I hope you die" directed at him and him saying "I hope....HE lives" in response...

https://twitter.com/oshillex/status/1514055744307568640?s=20&t=mEr1Ziieo7vicN7P_2_cog

Please send Lando all of the love he deserves and stay strong yourselves if you ever got such threats or comments, if you ever got bullied or belittled. You're amazing, everyone of you is, no matter the age, gender, identity or natuonality. Everyone of you is unique and special❤️❤️

Dando first kiss after Monza 2021? 🙈

Uh, I like that!

An amazing feeling, such an amazing feeling! Standing on top of the podium again and this time, it's also with Lando, his younger teammate.

Looking down at the cheering people, he felt a rush of emotions, a rush of adrenaline and also a rush of lust, lust for more podiums, more battles and especially more of his younger teammate's flushed face.

He knew by heart what the face of Lando looks like after an amazing race, all happy and flushed, his eyes crinkling into small crescents until his teeth show up, he knew it all.

What he didn't know was how the lips tasted after the race, never dared to ask him if he can have a taste, especially since Luisinha came into the picture of the once single boy.

He can remember when one of Lando's friends mistook Daniel for Lando and asked if they finally took the next step, realising their mistake and apologising to Daniel before rushing off.

"It's a fucking 1-2 for us," Lando's voice could be heard next to Daniel and the older Aussie turns to him after seeing him shaking a little bit.

"You okay mate?" Before he could ask the question, Valtteri stole his chance and looks at Lando, worry fills his eyes and despite knowing the Finn for a long time, Daniel just wishes to cover the Finn's eyes so he can't look at the youngest of them any longer.

"Well, it's a fucking podium for us! Of course, I'm okay!" he jumps around and claps before realising his childish act and composing himself, an embarrassed blush covering his already flushed cheeks and god, Daniel just wants to taste them.

"Good, 'cause you scared the shit out of Daniel and me!"

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't think about the possible consequences," he smiles sheepishly before their names get called to walk onto the podium, with Valtteri going first, then Lando and then Daniel with Zak.

«Finally a Shoey again! How I missed it and how good does it feel to have it back!»

Drinking the champagne from his shoe and forcing both Zak and Lando to drink it too, both he and Zak walk away to get to the afterparty McLaren will host when Lando excuses himself to make an important phone call.

"Young kids these days, always on their phones and missing all the fun," Zak smiles when Daniel looked after Lando, ready to follow him but he got dragged away by Zak, hearing about how great he did and how the whole team's proud of the two of them.

Their afterparty also went great, Daniel drank some glasses while Lando looked uncomfortable with all the alcohol around him and Daniel notices it through his unfocused eyes, already making his way over to the younger.

"You okay?" he finally got the chance to ask the question and the slight shaking of his eyes tells him something's massively wrong. "Could you help me, please? I need some fresh air." "Uh, sure, why not?"

Without warning, Daniel slumps his arm around Lando's shoulder and gets dragged out of the sticky room and into the cool night, but his focus still wasn't where it should have been. Instead of focusing on getting sober or at least having a good vision again, his focus's on Lando's pink lips that seem so inviting.

"Is it better now?" Lando looks up and meets Daniel's eyes and gosh, even in his drunken state, Daniel's able to tell apart the different shades of steely blue in Lando's eyes, he could count every lash he has and even sees the slight freckles across Lando's face.

«Has he ever been so beautiful?» he asks himself while admiring Lando who slowly leans away and makes a small face, probably due to Daniel's boozy breath, but it's enough to let him sober up momentarily.

"Gosh, I underestimated Max's complaints whenever he had to smell your boozy breath," Lando makes another face that causes Daniel to laugh and wobble a little bit, luckily for him, Lando caught him.

"You muppet! Don't laugh while you're drunk, you'll get yourself hurt with that carelessness of yours. And I thought Carlos was bad when drunk," the young Brit starts to ramble about how careless Daniel actually is and takes out his phone to call someone to pick them up.

«Lando, baby, look at me! Only me, please! Look at how much I have you in my focus, how much love I send you through my eyes and how much lust I feel- Love and lust? Do I feel love and lust for him?»

While he's out thinking about his (possible) feelings for his younger teammate, said one grows frustrated at the lack of available taxis near them and tries to call his friends for help, which also ends up being fruitless due to the time.

"My fucking god, how can I be so unlucky? First my lost pole and now that? Not that I blame you Daniel but I really wished I could have won that thing today."

«Oh my gosh, he called my name! Quick Daniel, say something to make him smile again!» his drunken mind shouts at him and despite knowing how it might end, Daniel tries his best to be funny.

"You won in my eyes!" Okay, not the direction he wanted to go but the immediate blush of Lando that follows his words was worth it. "Uhm, thanks? But where did that come from? No wait, you're drunk! Stop playing with me you muppet!"

Hitting him with slaps, Lando then rushes away, forgetting that Daniel has his arm still around him, and causes them both to land on their asses which made Daniel laugh uncontrollably.

"Don't laugh you muppet! It's your fault for us being on the ground now and-"

"I'm not laughing because of that," Daniel catches his breath while wiping away tears that formed in his eyes, "it's the irony of the situation. How many people forget that someone has their arm on their shoulders and bring them down?"

"I'll hit you again Daniel Joseph Ricciardo!" Lando raises his hand, signalling Daniel how serious he's being but Daniel calms him down. "Okay, okay! I'm sorry Lando! I just had to tease you!"

"Get up so we can go to my car, I just wanna sleep now."

After dragging a still drunk Daniel to his car and shoving him inside, Lando goes to the driver's side and starts the engine before driving off. "Don't expect me to bring you painkillers afterwards, it's your stupidity for being drunk now."

It got quiet between them, Daniel trying to process what Lando said and Lando using this moment to finally drive off. After around 5 minutes, Daniel's brain finally processed it, the alcohol now fully effective.

"You also drank some! You had my shoey- Wait wait wait!"

"What?!" Lando stops the car next to the road they were on and looks at Daniel with a panicked face.

"You never told me how it tasted!"

"That's why you were shouting "wait wait wait!", because you wanted to ask me how your shoey tasted?!"

"Not only that but I think you're also drunk. We're still at the circuit with our motorhomes."

A slap from Lando on Daniel's thigh is the result and with a pout, the younger McLaren driver gets them back to the circuit and drags a whining Daniel into the motorhome.

"You go to sleep now and-"

Maybe it was the panic of him leaving, mixed together with the alcohol and his fuzzy mind, but Daniel leans in and kisses Lando mid-sentence, successfully shutting him up, only to break it when he needed air.

And only then did he realise 1) Lando kissed him back and 2) Lando still has a girlfriend he now cheated on with Daniel!

"Oh shit, fuck, I'm sorry! I forgot about Luisinha and you!"

A confused and blushing Lando cocks his head and while still panting, he manages to ask Daniel what he meant with that.

"Well, I heard from one of your friends, was it Max? I think it was him, that you and Luisinha might take a step further, so that would mean you're together and would marry one day and-"

Lando slaps his hand in front of Daniel's mouth, face completely red and laughter gets holden back. "That's muppet behaviour you fucking muppet! Luisinha's my best friend! What Max meant was that."

This time, Lando kisses Daniel, a soft and slow kiss that breaks Daniel's brain. He grabs Lando by his shoulders to push him against a wall, deepening the kiss.

They had to part again, only to look into each other's eyes. "So he asked if the two of you..." "...finally have a plan for me to confess to you, you Aussie muppet!"

Lando laughs but Daniel looks at him in all seriousness, making him quiet down and look at Daniel with now unsure eyes. "Dan-"

"Your lips don't taste like my shoey but like milk!?"