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Did You Kiss My Helmet? | Daniel Ricciardo

Fandom: Formula One Warning: None, some anxious moment in the end. Words: 1800ish Pairing: Daniel Ricciardo x reader Summary: You and Daniel are in love with each other but it takes some help from Lando to make you act out your feelings. By kissing Daniel’s helmet.

A/N: Enjoy a oneshot with Daniel that was inspired by a dream I had with him. When I dream of F1 drivers it’s always Daniel that is the love interest. But anyways, I’m moving this week so if I’m late with an upload next Monday then you know.

You and Daniel have always been close, like best friends. You were first friends with Lando and it was through him you got to know Daniel. But after the two of you met you were inseparable.

You were now currently sitting in Daniel’s room in the McLaren building. It was race day and you were scrolling on your phone when the door opened and revealed a sweaty Daniel in the doorway.

You tried really hard to not stare at him for too long, but it was difficult. There was no denying that he was an attractive man. His humor and his wonderful smile could make you weak in the knees some days if you weren’t prepared for his sudden flirty remarks. Sometimes when he winked at you, you could feel yourself blush uncontrollably. You knew deep down why this was, but you would never admit it. Not to yourself or to anyone, especially not to the man that was causing the feeling.

He smiled at you and dried off some sweat with the towel that was resting on his shoulders. His overall was hanging around his hips loosely, showing only his white undershirt, which left little to the imagination.

“Keep staring and it might just fall off.” Daniel teased.

“In your dreams.” you quickly answered back, but looked away from him to hide the blush that was creeping up on your cheeks. He just laughed at you and sat down next to you, throwing away the towel to one of the corners in the room.

“How have you been since last time?”

“Last time? It was two hours ago.” You giggled. He rested his arm behind you and you did everything in your power to not lean onto him. Not because you didn’t want to, but you didn’t want to expose too much of your true feelings and because he was sweaty. You tried your best not to blush.

“Yeah, but I missed you during that period. I hoped that you would be downstairs when I finished the testing, but you weren’t.” He pouted and you just rolled your eyes at him.

“Fine, I’ll be with you next time okay?”

He broke out in a big smile. “Yes!”

He rose from the sofa and you followed. “I still don’t understand what the fuss is about, I am literally right here. Like five minutes away.”

Daniel just smiled. “I know.”

You rolled your eyes at him again, but you liked that he wanted you close to him. It made your heart swell and you felt fuzzy on the inside. But you quickly tried to hide your feelings in humor and sarcasm. You followed him downstairs to where the rest of the crew was. Lando was talking to some of his mechanics and sipping water from a water bottle. When Lando saw you he broke out in a big smile. You smiled and walked over to him, to Daniel's dismay.

Daniel knew that you and Lando were just friends, but he couldn’t help but feel a little jealous whenever you were near him. He wanted you to only be with him, but he knew it was a selfish thought to have.

“Hey Lando.” you greeted and gave him a big hug.

“Hey, you! How are you?”

Lando’s team soon disappeared to give the two of you some space. Daniel couldn’t sulk for too long as his team came up to him to discuss today’s testing results. But that didn’t stop him from occasionally stealing some glances at you.

“I’m good, trying my best to keep Daniel in a good mood.” you joked. Lando gave you a mischievous smile.

“How’s that going for you?” he smirked.

“Not too bad.”

“Figures, all you have to do is to show up and he's beaming like the sun.”

You looked at him confused, but also felt your pulse go up by his statement.

“What do you mean?”

“He loves you.” He said bluntly.

“Wha-...”

“And you love him.”

You quickly shut your mouth, no words could form at the moment from the true shock. You thought that you had been sneaky with your feelings for Daniel. But if Lando knew, then he probably knew as well. You wanted to deny it but you couldn’t come up with a lie. You couldn’t confess them either.

“Don’t even try to deny it. I’ve seen the two of you and no he doesn’t know. He is just as oblivious as you are. How that is possbie is beyond me.”

Sometimes it felt like he could read your mind. You kept on staring at him, how did he know you so well? How could he tell?

“H-how?”

“The way he is looking at us right now tells me that he is worried about your feelings for him.”

Lando didn’t even look up from his water bottle and you felt compelled to look over at Daniel. And he was right. Daniel was looking right at you but as soon as you looked over he pretended that he hadn’t. But he then looked back at you and winked. You just rolled your eyes.

“How did you know?”

“Well is kinda hard to miss.” He teased which resulted in you shoving him and he just laughed.

“You’re an ass, you know.”

Lando just kept on laughing. Which made Daniel’s jealousy even worse. He had a hard time focusing on what his team was saying. He tried his best to tell himself that it was just two friends having fun, nothing more than that. But what if…

No, nothing like that, he thought and started to jump up and down to shake the feeling. But he couldn’t help but steal one last glance at you. Then he saw that you were heading his way and he tried to act cool. You smiled at him when you approached him but Lando’s words echoed in your head. How did he know? Was it that obvious? Or weren’t you careful enough? Did you show off too much of your true feelings?

Your mind ignored for a moment that he had said that Daniel loved you back because it was panicking over the fact that maybe someone knew about your feelings for Daniel.

Daniel noticed your distracted gaze and saw how deep in thoughts you were. He nudged you lightly.

“Hey, where were you off to?”

“Huh?”

“I could tell that you were far away, what were you thinking about?”

“Oh, just something Lando said before. Nothing to worry about.” you said and hoped that it was enough for him to let it go. But it just tugged on that jealousy string even more inside of him.

What did Lando say to you that made you deep dive into your thoughts? Did he ask you out?

Daniel couldn’t come up with a reasonable answer as to why the second question was the one that was the most important to get an answer for.

You on the other hand had stopped ruminating and then it hit you, even if it took a while. Lando had told you that Daniel loved you back. Was it true?

You looked over at Daniel who was looking very focused and getting ready for the qualification. Did you dare to test the theory?

Daniel put on his helmet and walked over to you as you stood just beside the car.

“Wish me luck.” he said before sliding down the driver’s seat. Your mind came up with the best idea but you had a split second to decide if you dared to do it or not. But you decided on the first.

You leaned closer and grabbed his helmet with your hands a gave it a kiss on the top of it. You saw that it left a mark on there.

“Good luck.” you said and wanted to run out of there as fast as you could but tried your best to act as normal. Even if you felt every emotion humanly possible at this moment. You were certain that you had ruined everything but the fear you felt was mixed with the adrenaline, from finally acting on your feelings, so you couldn’t really decide if you should be scared, heartbroken, or ecstatic.

Daniel on the other hand had thought his mind was playing tricks on him, and he was so deep in thoughts that he almost missed his signal to leave the paddock.

You watched the race in the back of the paddock and were so excited when you saw that his qualification went well.

He jumped out of his car as soon as the qualification was over and looked for you. His hair was all over the place after removing the balaclava. He soon found your beaming face and grabbed your arm to pull you to his private room. You felt worried that maybe the kiss on the helmet was a bad idea and your excitement from before quickly turned to anxiety. You entered his room and he closed the door behind him. Then he gave you a look that was hard to interpret. It was a mixture of emotions displaying in his eyes.

“You did well out there.”

You would literally try anything to ease tension in the room. The air was so thick you almost couldn’t breathe. His stare at you didn’t help either. You felt yourself become self-aware and your cheeks became hotter and hotter for every silent second.

“Thank you.” he answered and dragged his hand through his hair. You tried to take a deep breath.

“Listen…” you started.

“Did you kiss my helmet?” he asked abruptly. He needed to know if it was true or his mind playing games with him.

“What?”

“Did you kiss my helmet?”

Your tongue couldn’t form the words so you nodded instead. Terrified of what would follow.

“Good, then maybe you won’t mind.”

Daniel’s lips soon crashed onto yours with such force and hunger that you almost lost your balance. It was passionate but also needy, like he had been dying to do this for years but hadn’t dared to make the move. But when you made the first step there was no stopping him. He loved you and he had done it since the first time he saw you with Lando, but he didn’t think much of it was he thought you and Lando were an item. But when he learned that you were single, he wanted to turn up his Daniel charm but didn’t dare to go all the way. He was scared that you didn’t feel the same. But now all his fears were gone and all he needed was you. You broke from the kiss to get some air.

“Daniel.” you breathed, in slight shock from what just happened.

“Yes?”

“How long have you been wanting to do this?”

“Since day one.” he confessed.

“Then you’re not alone in that.” you smirked and kissed him again.

“I love you” he breathed.

“I love you too.”

Needless to say he was late for the post-qualification interviews, with a very smug Lando by his shoulder when he showed up with kiss marks all over his face and neck.

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Lovers Interview (part 2) | Charles Leclerc

Fandom: Formula One Warning: Fluff, Charles being a mess. 1830 words. Pairing: Charles Leclerc x reader Summary: You’re a reporter for Forumla one and Charles has a crush on you, which makes him all nervous for the interviews.

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A/N: A week went by much faster than I realized and I’m sorry for that. But after yesterdays race I am thrilled and excited to write F1 again. Hope you enjoy the second part of Lovers Interview 🥰

Your plane landed at the airport. You were exhausted from the flight but you were happy to finally be on the ground. It was a race week, but this time you didn’t feel quite as calm as you had the other weeks. You had made a promise to yourself to ask Charles out this time, to finally show him that you liked him back.

Throughout the week when you had some time off, you watch the interview from the previous race. To watch him and his adorable face. You wanted to make sure that you weren’t reading into anything - to not humiliate you completely when you asked him the dreaded question. But he had the same loving smile and the same adoring eyes every time you watched the interview. Which made you wonder for how long your cameraman had known and not told you about it.

You walked through the gates of the airport to the taxi that was waiting for you at the end of the airport.

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Charles had already landed and was walking the track with his team, but he seemed more distracted than usual on the debriefing. His team tried their best to keep him focused on the race at hand and he tried to focus. He really did but his mind kept on wandering away to someone that had his mind occupied for the majority of his time. You.

He wanted to tell you how he felt, or how he had felt for a long time, but every time he even thought about confessing his feelings he felt like he would die. He had no idea if you liked him back and the feeling ate him alive.

Pierre had tried to comfort him by telling him that he had nothing to worry about. He had had interviews with you just before Charles, and every time you saw the Monegasque walk in you lit up like the sun.

“You don’t have to worry, she’ll say yes.” he had said.

“You don’t know that.” Charles had answered back worryingly.

“I do and you have to trust me on this.”

So he would. Today he would ask you out, but he had no idea on how or where to find you, outside of work that is.

His team gave up on keeping him focused so they headed back towards the Ferrari facility. Charles was close behind when he heard one from his team yell something.

“Okay, so interviews start at 14. Charles you are being interviewed by (Y/N) (Y/L/N) and Carlos you’re being interviewed by…”

Charles stopped listening after that, he now knew when you would be at the track, at two. He would see you at two o’clock today, which was in… He looked at the clock and saw that it was in one hour. He panicked. He had no plan for this. What should he do? What should he say?

He looked over at the counter that had water bottles and some snacks for inspiration when he glanced over the flowers that stood next to them.

Flowers! Of course!

He sprinted over to his room and grabbed his keys and ran out of the facility. Carlos looked at him with a puzzled look and some people in Charles’ team called for him that he can’t leave now so close to the practice round. But Charles ignored them. He was a man on a mission.

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You arrived at the track with more nerves than usual, but you tried your best to keep calm. This was your job and you were a good reporter. You had nothing to worry about. Except for the fact that you had to ask Charles freaking Leclerc out on a date and pray to all the gods that you hadn’t read too much into his behavior on those filmed interviews.

God why did it have to be so hard? you asked yourself.

It’s because you like him, you answered yourself. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so difficult. It would just be another day at work but not when you have feelings for someone. You sighed. But tried your best to ignore the gnawing feeling inside your chest. Then the most important question popped up in your head.

How would you do it?

You couldn’t ask him out during the interview, then the whole world would know about your crush on him. You couldn’t do it after the practice round either because it was too close to the qualy, and after qualy he would probably be busy with his team.

I have no plan for this, you thought and felt your nerves getting more anxious. Maybe next time?

No that was something you said to get out of the situation, you would do it today or…

Or it would never happen.

You looked down at your clock. A little less than one hour to the interview. You had prepared for the interview on the plane here so you knew the question by heart at this time.

Maybe if you find him now? Or was it too bold of you? No, now is perfect. But where would you find him?

Your mind was too busy with ruminating the different ways of asking him out so you didn’t even register that Charles was walking back towards the area right behind you. He was focused and on his way to the Ferrari facility when you saw him in the corner of your eye.

“Charles?” you asked but it wasn’t meant to be said out loud. Charles froze in his step when he heard his name, coming from your voice.

“What are you doing here?” You asked, almost positive that he should be with his team right now. He turned around and felt how warm his cheeks got.

This was not in his plans. That you would catch him like this, he had a plan but he had to throw it out the window and quickly come up with something else.

“Eh, yeah. I was getting something.” he said and wanted to drag his hand through his hair so bad but he couldn’t. He always did that when he felt nervous or stressed.

“Oh okay.” You said but couldn’t help but to get curious. He had one hand behind his back, trying his best to hide whatever was behind him. You smiled.

It wouldn’t get better than this, you thought and took a deep breath.

“I was actually looking for you.” you said.

Charles's face turned white. “Oh no, I’m not late for the interview right?”

“No, no, you’re not.” you reassured him and his whole body relaxed.

“I wanted to ask you something.”

“Oh?”

Charles gave you a curious look.

“I wanted to ask you out on a date.” you said and tried your hardest not to mumble or ramble. You wanted him to hear you the first time because you didn’t know if you had the courage to ask again. Charles on the other hand stood like frozen. He stared at you like he couldn’t register what you had said. You started to feel like you had made a mistake.

“If-if-if you want.” you said to break the silence that was killing you slowly.

Charles snapped back to reality when you spoke again. Once again you had screwed with his plans to ask you out, by asking him out. How was this real?

His brain was trying its best to formulate some kind of sentence to respond with, but all he could do was bring forth the hand that he was hiding behind his back. In his hand, he held the most beautiful bouquet of flowers. Some of them were a little flat as he had pressed them against him for a long time and due to the car ride back. The florist had given him a knowing smile when he had bought them. Your eyes widened when you saw the flowers.

“For me?” you asked.

“Yeah,” he smiled and gave out a burst of nervous laughter. The kind you do when you’re too relaxed and too happy to do anything else. “I wanted to give you these when I asked you out on a date, but I guess you beat me to it.”

You broke out in an enormous smile. The flowers were gorgeous, and then you realized what he had said. He was going to ask you out too.

“You-you were going to ask me out?” you asked in shock.

“Yeah, I’ve wanted to do it for the longest time, but I can’t really form a full sentence around you so I thought maybe flowers would help me.”

You blushed. It was the sweetest gesture anyone has ever done for you.

“Well I guess we have a date then.” you beamed and Charles smiled equally as brightly.

“When?” you asked.

“After the qualy?”

“Fine by me.”

You stood there and stared at each other for a minute, then you phone vibrated on your pocket. It was your cameraman asking where you were as you were going live in 10 minutes. Your eyes widened.

“I have to go!” You said started running and Charles looked at you with a weird expression. “I’m interviewing you in 10.”

Charles widened his eyes and ran towards the Ferrari as fast as he could. He knew that his team would be so mad at him but he didn’t care. He was going on a date with you and he was seeing you again in less than 10 minutes.

And he was right, as soon he got through the door his team started yelling at him that he needed to leave right away to get interviewed. He took a quick glance at the tinted glass by the computers to make sure he looked representable and the left as fast as he arrived. He hurried down towards the rest of the drivers and then he saw you standing behind the fences. The flowers were resting in your arms and he couldn’t help but smile. You beamed like always when he got close to you.

“Charles Leclerc a pleasure to see you again.”

You realized that you said again but you hoped that no one else noticed.

“Likewise to you.” he answered. You swallowed and continued the interview and somehow he felt more relaxed now. All the stress of having a crush on you and not knowing if you just thought he was foolish had vanished and he felt flirtatious. you were impressed.

“Good luck and I will talk to you after the races.” You ended.

“Of course and thank you.” he said and winked at you. You froze in your position and just watched him leave the area. Your cameraman was all over the place.

“Man, you must’ve asked him out because I have never seen him with that kind of confidence.”

You nodded. “I did.”

Saying it out loud felt even better. You did it. You asked him out and the next time you see him would be on the date.

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