#fast cars series

[femininefutbol]

fast cars and first contact

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prompt: alexia putellas finally contacts you

word count: 3.1k

a/n: much anticipated second part to the fast cars series, hope you all enjoy it!

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“What are you watching Ale?” Patri peeks over Alexia's shoulder, attempting to view what the Barcelona captain is so invested in that she hasn’t spent any time with the group prior to their travel day. 

Alexia doesn’t respond, too invested in the beautiful face she is watching on her phone screen. The lack of response causes Patri to sigh loudly as she sits next to Alexia at the table, the dramatic action finally catching Alexia’s attention. 

“Hola Patri, when did you get here?” Alexia asks, her eyes still not leaving the screen and her attention not leaving it for long either. 

“A moment ago, I tried to ask what you are watching” Patri responds, she hopes that this will actually get Alexia to engage in conversation with her. 

“Oh that’s nice” Alexia states, clearly not listening to Patri very closely, the younger midfielder just groans knowing that she isn’t going to be able to hold Alexia’s attention as long as she is watching whatever is on her phone. 

“What are you two doing?” Ana-Maria asks loudly as herself and Jenni join Alexia and Patri at the table. 

“Well I’m trying to work out what Alexia is doing, she is glued to her phone at the moment and won’t even engage in conversation with me” Patri whines, which causes the two older players to laugh at her. 

Patri’s explanation causes curiosity to rise in Ana-Maria, she rises from her place at the table making her way around to peek over Alexia’s shoulder just as Patri was just moments prior. 

“All hope is lost, she’s watching her girlfriend” Ana-Maria states with a laugh as the other two at the table turn to her in confusion. 

“Girlfriend?” Jenni asks. 

“Not my girlfriend” Alexia replies, her eyes still not leaving her phone screen. 

“Yeah, (Y/N) the race car driver, she’s racing in the F1 grand prix this weekend” Ana-Maria answers, completely disregarding what Alexia stated, instead telling their teammates all the gossip that Alexia never would. 

“I thought she drove super cars not formula one cars?” Patri asks. The whole team had heard a lot about you after the experience Alexia and Ana-Maria had with you but they had never heard anything about the potential relationship between you and Alexia. 

“She previously only drove super cars but she has joined the F1 circuit this season and she is the first woman to drive in it since the early 90’s” Ana-Maria rattles off information easily, having obviously kept tabs on you after your meeting. 

“Are you sure she’s not your girlfriend? You sure know a lot about her” Jenni asks with a laugh. 

“I tried flirting with her but she only had eyes for la reina here” Ana-Maria informs them, also not having previously told anyone about her conversation with you at the end of the day besides for when she told Alexia that you gave her your phone number for Alexia. “Have you messaged her yet Ale?” 

“No, she probably only gave you her number to give to me to be nice since you specifically went back for it” Alexia answers, having now put her phone away seeing as your media interview has finished so she has no reason to continue watching. 

“You are joking right? She is so into you and it’s only a matter of time before she starts messaging me complaining that you haven’t contacted her” Ana-Maria states, semi-annoyed that Alexia hadn’t taken advantage of having your number yet as she would have already been all over you if it was her you were interested in instead of Alexia. 

“So she gave you her number for yourself as well? now there is really no point contacting her” Alexia huffs out, the jealousy that she felt when you were jokingly flirting with Ana-Maria suddenly returning. 

“Jealous already?” Ana-Maria asks with a smirk, “but no she didn’t give me her number but she said and I quote ‘if she doesn’t contact me I will blow up your instagram DM’s complaining’ she is into you Ale, please just message her” 

“I think you should do it Ale, you are clearly into her if you are willing to ignore me to watch her do some interview” Patri adds, hoping to urge the older woman to message you. 

“Well I think we are leaving and should stop talking about this” Alexia points to where a number of their teammates are making their way out the door preparing to load onto the bus so they can travel for the Champions League game against Real Madrid.

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“Has she messaged you yet?” your best friend Isla excitedly pounces onto the couch you are sitting on, making you groan as her head makes contact with your stomach. 

“You asked me before my interview and the answer was no, why would it have changed in the last 30 minutes?” you continue scrolling instagram, a small scowl on your face, the topic of Alexia messaging or actually not messaging you being brought up too often for you liking. 

“Maybe she saw your interview and was so mesmerised that she felt compelled to message you straight away” Isla speaks in a dreamy voice, her love for romantic movies making her find the crazy romantic scenario in every aspect of both of your lives. 

“Or maybe Ana-Maria didn’t even mention her conversation with me and didn’t bother to give Alexia my number” you huff, continuing to scroll instagram not particularly looking at the content of your feed. 

“Or maybe she is on her way to Madrid currently and wants to message you when she is alone instead of with all her teammates” Isla states condescendingly grabbing your hand to stop you from scrolling so you can see the photo that Barcelona Femení has posted. It clearly shows Alexia walking towards the team bus with Ana-Maria, Jenni and Patri behind her, annoying her in some way. 

“It seems unlikely but if you are so set that she is going to message me we have to make a bet” you eye down Isla. The two of you love competition so you know she won’t be able to pass up making some type of bet with you. 

“Terms?” 

“If she messages me before midnight it’s your choice of reward, but when she doesn’t you owe me two free dinner outings” 

“But you literally get free dinners at like every restaurant” Isla whines seeing as she too benefits from the free dinners that you receive from racing. 

“Are you in or not?” you ask ignoring her whining easily as you are more than used to it having known Isla your entire life. 

“Okay fine I am in, my reward when she does is you setting me up with Ana-Maria” Isla smirks, secretly praying that Alexia will finally decide to message you as she has been slightly stalking Ana-Maria’s instagram since you met the pair and she has a slight crush on the Swiss girl. 

“Deal” 

“Deal” the two of you complete your handshake to seal the deal, you slightly shake your head at the ridiculousness of the situation and the fact that you are bound to get free dinners because of it.

“Now go get ready loser, you have to race soon” Isla pushes your shoulder forcing you off the couch so you can actually prepare for your first ever formula one race instead of worrying about some footballer who probably won’t even end up contacting you.  

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Alexia sighs as she wriggles further into the covers of the hotel bed, she is happy to be able to relax after a long day of travel, interviews and trying to secretly watch your race without her teammates finding out and teasing her which was an unsuccessful feat as after the mornings conversation Ana-Maria, Patri and Jenni had taken it upon themselves to hound her all day about when she will finally message you. 

Opening up her instagram, she makes her way to her explore page, the first thing she is met with is your latest post. The first photo is you standing on the podium after your race, smiling brightly as you are being awarded the second place trophy. The second is a video, your laughter filling Alexia’s hotel room as she watches you, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton spray each other with champagne. The third and final picture is of you and Isla back at the pits, you are standing in front of your car holding your trophy in the air with one hand as Isla has her arms wrapped around your neck, her lips pressed to your cheek and your other hand is placed delicately on Isla’s waist. The grin on your face in the photo makes Alexia’s heart soar while also filling her with an odd sadness, and a longing that she could be the one in your best friend's position celebrating your success instead of being alone in her hotel room regretting that she hasn’t even messaged you yet. 

After a few minutes of continuous staring at the photo of you and Isla, picking out tiny details in it, Alexia decides to get over whatever has been holding her back and she messages you. 

Alexia: Hey, I saw the race results. Congratulations on such amazing results in your first ever race. I am sure this is only the start for you, next up Saudi Arabia and first place right? 

(Y/N): Hi, this is such a sweet message, thank you so much. I just have to ask, who is this?  

Alexia groans to herself, feeling extremely stupid for ruining her first interaction with you, of course she had forgotten to introduce herself. 

Alexia: Right, sorry! It is Alexia, you gave me and my teammate a driving experience the other day and she gave me your number 

As the next text message comes through from the strange number a squeal leaves your lips. You surprise yourself as you weren’t expecting to act like a schoolgirl with a crush when Alexia texted you but in all fairness you also didn't actually expect her to text you either so maybe squealing was an appropriate response to the situation. 

(Y/N): Well of course I remember you La Reina, thought you would never message me though 

You send the text, hoping that it comes across in the right way, you don’t want her to think of you as desperate but you want her to know that you are definitely interested in her. 

Alexia giggles to herself as she reads your text. She can imagine the words leaving your mouth in a sweet but sassy tone, the picture she has of you in her mind makes her grin to herself. 

Alexia: It took some convincing I will admit 

Alexia sends the message, a few moments pass before she realises how harsh her message may have come across without the aspect of in person interaction to aid in demonstrating that it took some convincing because she was nervous and not because she doesn’t like you. 

Alexia: Because I didn’t believe someone as beautiful as you would want to speak to me not because I didn’t want to 

Alexia: I really did, you can even ask Ana-Maria, she will tell you 

Alexia scowls at her phone, the desperation to fix the situation causing her to say things she isn’t really meaning to, she doesn’t want you to contact Ana-Maria at all so why would she even say that. 

Alexia: Actually don’t ask Ana-Maria, but trust me I did want to text you but I was nervous 

You laugh to yourself as Alexia’s messages continue to come through, every one making you laugh slightly louder as you picture Alexia panicking about what to write and essentially just scrambling to rectify the situation 

(Y/N): You’re cute Alexia, rest your pretty head and I’ll speak to you in the morning 

Alexia: It is only 21:00 

(Y/N): But it is 00:00 here, goodnight La Reina x 

Alexia falls back onto her bed with a groan. Throughout the course of the conversation she had sat up, becoming too giddy and nervous to lay in bed while texting you. But now that she knows she will not receive another message from you until the morning her mood is suddenly deflated, she only messaged you for the first time this evening but she already knows that she never wants to stop. 

-

“Buenos dias sunshine” Isla bursts into your hotel room, something that is not at all uncommon behaviour from your best friend. 

You force the covers over your head, hoping that if Isla can not see you momentarily that she will allow you to sleep in rather than dragging you off to whatever cafe or breakfast spot she has found on social media, a common thing she does as when she travels with you. 

“You have to get up, you owe me an update on our bet and potentially the contact details of a certain Barcelona player” while you can’t see her face you are very correct in assuming that she has a large smirk on her face. 

“I don’t owe you anything” you mumble, a loud groan coming straight after as Isla jumps onto the bed, clawing at the covers to attempt to get you out of bed. 

“Come on, did she message you? Or are you being a grump because she didn’t?” Isla teases, finally pulling away covers where she is met with your rosy cheeks, the only indication she needs to know that she won the bet. 

“SHE MESSAGED YOU!” Isla’s screams are so loud that you assume the entire hotel is able to hear her, “What did she say? When is the wedding? What is Ana-Maria’s phone number? Tell me everything” 

“She congratulated me on my podium finish. Let me at least go on a date with her before the wedding planning begins. I don’t have Ana-Maria’s number, I’ll work on it and get back to you” you respond to her questions, still not awake enough to share in the excitement about a beautiful girl contacting you. 

“You are so boring in the morning, I am going to give you half an hour to wake up properly. When I come back with your coffee I expect you to be ready for brunch with a good attitude and the juicy deals” Isla explains, pressing a kiss to your cheek before moving off your bed, making her way towards your door. 

“You are so annoying” you call out seconds before Isla reaches the door. 

“You love me” you hear her yell, you let out a small laugh, the closing of your door being the catalyst for you to get out of bed, knowing you are at least free of Isla’s antics for a small while. 

You open your phone for the first time since your goodnight message to Alexia. You aren’t surprised to not see any response from the footballer with you being 3 hours ahead of her due to time zones, it is still a little disappointing though. 

Instead of worrying too much about when or if Alexia will even message you again you decide to do as Isla told you, getting ready so you are able to enjoy the day with your best friend. 

- 

Alexia sits alone at breakfast, she is one of the first people awake so she spends the minimal time where she is not being annoyed by teammates enjoying her coffee and the silence. 

Alexia goes back and forth for a few minutes, thinking about the best way to restart her conversation with you from the night prior. She finally settles on a simple good morning, feeling lucky that she made the decision when she did as immediately after her message is delivered a number of her teammates make their way into the dining room, most notably the group from yesterday who are more than ready for another day of teasing to commence. 

“Buenos días capitana” Ana-Maria is the first to greet Alexia for the morning, she witnessed the ‘hidden’ smile that Alexia had on her face while the group was making their way into the dining room and so is extremely excited to find out all the details of what will be considered the start of your relationship. 

“AMC” she nods, not looking up from her phone, too busy inspecting your stories from the morning. 

The first is a picture of Isla standing at the end of your bed, a sweet smile on her face with her hand held out to you obviously attempting to hand you your coffee, with the caption reading ‘amor de mi vida’. Alexia scowls slightly at the caption, she is well aware from her interaction with you the other day and some stalking of your instagram that Isla is only your best friend but her jealousy intensifies every time she sees just how close you are to the girl. 

The second picture does not aid in taming her jealousy at all, the image again of Isla, this time it is of her sitting across from you in a cafe, the caption of this one reading ‘con mi esposa’. It is a running joke between you and Isla that whenever you go out together you have to caption the ‘date’ picture something about the two of you being wives, the joke is likely only funny to the two of you but you continue to do it every time anyway. 

The final picture is the one Alexia stares at for the longest time though, it is a repost of Isla’s story, you are sat across from her, your attention clearly not on her, your hand rested on your chin as you look into the distance, ‘hermosa esposa’ across the top of the image. Alexia can’t help but feel absolutely awestruck at how beautiful you look, infact she is so distracted that she does not notice that Jenni and Patri had joined herself and Ana-Maria at the table as well. 

Her attention is brought back to the people in front of her as Jenni snaps her fingers in Alexia’s face in an attempt to gain her attention. She looks up, a questioning look directed at the still snapping Jenni, “yes?” 

“You got a text” Jenni responds simply, pointing at the phone in her hand. 

“Oh thanks” Alexia responds, immediately opening the app seeing you have replied to her good morning text. 

(Y/N): Buenos Días Reina, I see you’ve been stalking my instagram x

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[bokutooooo]

Dream Ride

warnings: strong language! flirting? age gap!! (LEGAL)

"Hey Neela, who's this red neck?" I laugh and Neela rolls her eyes. "This is Sean he just moved here try to be nice." "Hey nice to meet you y/n" he puts out his hand "Hey, have you showed him around yet?". "Yeah I showed him around a bit, you coming tonight?" "I think so my car finally ready, i'm so excited to show it off."

Neela and I are getting ready at my house. "Soooo going to make a move yet? I mean you guys eye fuck each other all the timeeee, you've had a crush on him for years." I laugh "He's turning thirty In like 3 years" "so what? I think you should make a move, It's likely he feels the same". It's true me and Han do flirt a lot but it never went anywhere, plus he is way older than me. "yeah yeah, just keep getting ready missy"..

We pull into the the race centre In my newly improved Nissan Skyline GT-R, of course it isn't just a boring plain car It's pink and white with a glossy finish don't even get me started on the interior. "this car Is so hot, I love it" I smile, proud of what I did "I know right! it's so perfect". I park In a spot near Twinkie's Hulk themed car, makes me grin every time I see it. Neela's already talking to Sean as I'm speaking with Twinkie "I see you're already best friends with red neck huh?" "yeah, seems chill, thought maybe he'd like to come with me tonight. He's seems really into cars." I look over my shoulder at Neela and Sean "You know DK's going to get mad right? Just look, already glaring at him." twinkie looks over, DK already on the move, eyes widen he's quick to rush over. I'm quick to follow behind him "Hey hey hey DK how's going I see you met Sean" I look over at Neela who looks a bit worried. Neela and DK have been dating? for awhile, I mean I don't know if I'd call it dating but best friends with benefits? DK has always been possessive over Neela but sometimes it's a bit much. "Who's this gaijin?!" Neela steps In front but Twinkie is quick to speak up "DK he's here with us, we don't want any problems just here to race. "really? can he drift." I swallow, Sean is probably so confused. "I can race, wanna race?" Twinkie and I look at each other wondering if we just heard the same thing. Now don't get me wrong DK doesn't scare me just I know damn well he's an amazing racer and going up against him Is kind of dumb, especially If you're Sean and have never seen DK race before. DK chuckles "alright gaijin sure, but uh whatcha gonna race with? that?" he looks over at the Hulk car. "He can use mine, see what the kid's got."

I recognize that voice so fast I don't even need to turn around to see who it is. "Really Han? gonna let this kid race with your car? .. alright I won't stop you, I can add it to my collection." he smirks he knows he'll win.

Me and Neela are listening to Twinkie lecture Sean about his stupid decision "Do you even know what DK stands for?" Twinkie crosses his arms waiting for a reply. "No? Donkey Kong?" I laugh and shake my head "It means DRIFT KING Sean, basically Twinkie's telling you that you're going to get you're ass kicked." I smile and watch Sean's face "Maybe I'll win? you never know" "the chances of you winning red neck are slim to none, than you'll have to pay back Han". I lean back against my car, "What about me?" I turn to see Han shoving his mouth full with chips. I smile seeing him shoveling food in his face he's always eating "just explaining what's going to happen after he loses" "hey have some faith in him, maybe he'll win".

"keyword Han. MAYBE, I just feel bad for you sucks you're gonna lose another car." He just laughs and looks at Sean "just try, you'll still owe me though."

"alright let's go! chop chop!!" Han hands his keys over to Sean to his 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. "Han man this car is too nice for this."

Han shrugs "Y/n lets go up a level" Neela tugs at my arm "alright good luck Sean, see you at the finish line.. if you ever make it..." I giggle walking towards the elevator. "wait up!" twinkie and Han jogging towards us.

The elevator Is filled with the talking of Neela and Twinkie, the two of them stand close to the door while me and Han are In the back. I watch as Han leans down, "Hey y/n how have you been? it's been a minute since we last talk, missed you" he whispers it so Nel and Twinkie can't hear. "Just been working on Kai, finished her a couple days ago. I'll show you after if we go back to the garage." He's teasing me..I know he is, and I'm enjoying every second of it. "Sure, forgot you name them. I know you've been working on her for awhile, congrats." I smile and the doors open, we step out into the crowd of people. Music's blasting and people are shoving their tongues down each others throat, dancing/gridding. "Do you guys really think he'll win this" i ask looking at Neela and Han "probably not but why not give it a shot"

"Okay!! Let's get this started!!!" a girl steps up between the two cars who keep revving their engines while glaring at one another. "READY?" she looks at the two cars "SET.." the room goes silent for maybe 3 seconds. "GOO!!" and off! both cars race off around the building, twists and turns and all you can hear is screeching noise of the tires. There're quick to go up another level and people rush to get up there. "Come on!" Neela grabs my hand as we run.. or at least try to In our heels.

Once we reach upstairs everyone waits patiently to see who will reach the finish line first. And whoosh! DK stops perfectly, I sigh but already knew what the outcome would be. a minute later Sean screeches In and stops. People are cheering and surrounding DK as I walk towards the scratched up, dented car. Han, Twinkie and Neela are already talking to Sean "You own me a car red." Twinkie's laughing and Neela's talking with Sean. "So that didn't really go to plan huh?"

"Yeah guess not, but I'll just practice till I know for sure I can beat him" I just chuckle at his remark "Han, maybe you can teach him how to drift, a couple of lessons wouldn't hurt." Han turns to me and smirks "maybe you should baby" I glance at him, cheeks reddening at the nickname "why because I drift better than you?" I raise an eyebrow at him with a cocky grin on my face. "whatever you say"

"I wish you'd just race me already! I've been waiting so long" I groan, he smiles "maybe later" he shrugs "you always say thattt!" walking to his car "meet me at the garage, think there's a party going on." I turn back to Sean Twinkie and Neela.

"you guys up for it?"

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Might make another part^!

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[hockeyandhrsepwr]

CHAMPIONNE!!

je t'aime series

clearing out some drafts that have sat here dor way too long 🫣

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I can't put much into words right now, but Tifosi youre the best fans in the world, I have the best team behind me and I love all of you!!

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Yourusername I love you so much Jack😭😭 watching you achieve your dream has been equally as incredible

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_quinnhughes *only sister. Congrats y/n/n!!

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[naranjapetrificada]

Happy [Fanfic] Friday!

Unfortunately I missed WIP Wednesday, mostly because this has not been the best writing week I've ever had. We've had unconscionably few days of sunlight in my area for the past several days, which always makes being productive in any capacity a real chore. It also makes negative thinking easier for me, and I didn't want to bring that kind of energy to my drafts because writing is something I have profound baggage around. I made very small amounts of progress on Chapter 3 (which is better than no progress), and my working draft has about 1900/<8000 words I'm trying to aim for. Now that the sun is back I'm hoping for work to pick up again though ☀️😎🤞

Anyway let's talk about recs!

Last week I got sucked right into Fast Car by smallestchurch, who you can always trust to put out bangers. But since there are only two chapters I decided to check out some other things to scratch that itch while we wait (patiently!) for the next update.

- All I Want for Christmas is... and A Little Bit of Love Goes a Long Long Way by @tresdem

Naturally I went looking for fics where Ed and Stede meet when they are much, much younger. And wouldn't you know it, one of my absolute favorite writers in the fandom has a newish series about them meeting around their college years, during a serendipitous snowing-in at a hotel. Stede needs music for a party where he plans to propose to Mary, Julliard student Ed gets tricked by Jack into showing up, and oh the delicious drama and tension that ensue!

The first fic has a bittersweet ending and the second fic, where they accidentally reunite a couple years later, still has one chapter to go. Much like Fast Car, it looks like this series will be following them through their adult lives as they try, with extremely mixed success, to find ways to be together and survive being apart. I can't wait to see what's next for them.

- Not Pickles by smallestchurch

Not surprisingly another great source for fics to scratch a smallestchurch itch is right there in her backlog. So I decided to catch up on some of her longer stuff that I hadn't read yet, and omg this has been a delight. I still have one chapter left but I'm kind of putting it off because like so many of the best stories, I know I'm gonna miss everyone (except Jack and Izzy lol) when I'm done.

That's all for now! Happy Friday and happy weekend! ☺️

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[raayllum]

Why S4 is Good, Actually: Part 1, The Rayla Edition

Re: basically just writing out my own thoughts but also responses to criticisms of Rayla’s characterization and (later) the Rayllum subplot this season. Not meant to change anyone’s mind, but to get my own thoughts out of my head so they can stop rattling around my brain. Also because this is the main part of the season I’ve seen people critique that I also care about discussing, mostly because all of it was some of my favourites and stuff I’ve come to enjoy and appreciate more and more about the season itself. As this is a meta post this is largely a one sided stance, I’m not particularly interested in debating, and I just wanted to write about how I appreciated the season’s overall consistency, what they did overtly, and what they left to implication to be expanded upon later. Okay? Okay.

To start with, we’re gonna talk about

Rayla in S4

Basically: they did a lot of interesting things with Rayla in S4 both overtly and heavily through implication that, when gathered together, paint a very clear and interesting picture of the ways she’s both stayed the same and has radically changed as a person, as well as why I think we’ll get to see a lot more of her psyche and what she (and possibly Claudia) went through during the timeskip. 

So first, let’s start with the similarities:

1) Independent

Rayla is still fiercely independent in S4 just as she was in the previous seasons, if not in some ways more so, and to her detriment and her strength. 

She also typically believes people can handle themselves with very little fuss, mostly because she generally can. 

2) Cynical with a sense of humour

Rayla has always been a more cynical leaning person. Although arguably too idealistic and compassionate for her people, she is still typically the pessimist / wet blanket in the group (unless Callum is being grumpy over her safety and human impressions) and this carries over into S4. 

She also still loves annoying Callum on purpose (“Ugh, I was teasing, Callum”) and maintains her typical more morbid sense of humour bordering on blase.

3) Protective and Compassionate

Rayla remains both protective and compassionate over the people she loves, rushing to Callum’s side when Claudia shows up, placing herself in front of the boys when danger arises, embracing and helping Zym mourn, and even being the one to check of whether Ibis was dead and keeping Ezran from having to do so. 

4) Body language

Rayla still has her quirk of placing a hand over her left (previously bound) wrist when she’s uncertain and nervous. She does so in each of her reunion with the boys, and notably stands with both hands clasped when she first sees Callum again and is waiting to see how he’ll respond, and when she is at Ibis’ funeral. 

5) Blame 

The only phrase that Rayla consistently says is “This is my fault” or “all my fault” and sure enough, S4 delivers on that too when she realizes Soren has gone missing and that he may be in danger, as well as her repeated fear of continually “messing things up.” 

6) Uncertainty

Rayla is a character often plagued by uncertainty, both concerning the choices she makes and where she belongs, and how those two things are deeply interrelated. This is particularly true in her imposed exile from the Moonshadow elves and being set apart from her troupe, her initial fear of the boys hating her in s1 and s2 upon learning about Harrow, her homecomings to the Silvergrove and to Katolis yielding very different responses. Callum basically completely iced her out even when she was braced for anything, and so it’s understandable she’s uncertain about how Ezran may respond, too (but more on the reunion scenes later).

Differences:

1) Purpose

Arguably the biggest difference between Rayla in seasons one to three and season four is her general lack of purpose in season four. This is not to say she doesn’t serve a purpose plot or emotions wise in season four for herself or other characters, but that she herself doesn’t have a mission anymore, and that’s behaviour we haven’t really seen from her (outside of TTM and even then, so much of it was dominated by behaviour and feeling like her mission maybe wasn’t actually over). 

As far as we know (and again, I do think for a variety of reasons we will learn more in the future about what she and Claudia got up to during the timeskip), she comes back to Katolis to repair things with Callum, but seeing as he won’t talk to her, that’s basically a non-starter. And we see how rattled she is, given that in S1-S3 she always knew what she felt she should be doing - taking Zym back to Xadia, then freeing Pyrrah, then staying behind at the Spire due to loyalty to the Dragon Queen / royal family and her parents’ failures. But now just faced with her own failure without something to chase after, she’s not sure how to go about it.

She’s not even sure if they want her around. Furthermore, she’s been rattled enough by her time away / the response her return to not be sure about doing whatever she can to protect the world anymore, because she doesn’t want to impose, and because she’s been Ghosted once before.

The one moment she shows zero hesitation is when she sees Viren, and her old mission - her failed one - has been placed right back in her hands, along with a new one of hopefully saving her family. S5 is going to give her more than one purpose to chase, and I’m curious to see where it will go. 

Although I started this section prior to the release of this interview, I also found this quote from the creators about Rayla in s4 and leading into S5 to corroborate this reading as well:

To me, one of the things about [the coin scene] actually has to do with [the fact that] Rayla has had to come back after two years of obsession and being mission-focused on finding Viren. Part of her growth is that she wants to be more normal and see if she can rebuild trust with Callum. Now, Claudia has basically handed her the next thing to be obsessed about. 

2) Revenge vs Justice

So, like everyone else, I also drew comparisons back in the day when Through The Moon came out, and we had Rayla setting out on yet another mission to king of Katolis, a seeming reset of her inherently circular narrative that, like her first mission, would ultimately end up being fruitless, as Viren had to live to be villainous (or an obstacle) for another day). While the context was wildly different (Viren had done personal harm to her and her loved ones, whereas she knew very little about Harrow and even less about Ezran), even her letter reaffirmed the strong, mirrored similarities in her mindset from her first mission, plagued by grief and self doubt, and her second.  

R (in 1x02): I have to do this. I’m sorry. I don’t want to, but I have to.  R (in “Dear Callum”): You’ll wake up and try to stop me… from doing what I know I have to do. Leaving. But I can’t let you stop me, Callum. No matter how much I want to.

We know given Rayla’s “I can fix it” mindset and the deep shame she felt over her parents abandoning their mission and running away that she likely begged, or argued, for her right to go on the assassination mission to Katolis in the first place. We know that Rayla thought she was doing the right thing in going along on the assassination mission, that it was inevitable justice that could not be denied, a way to make up for her parents’ mistakes and to protect her people. 

It’s not out of line for Rayla, once again lost, grieving, feeling powerless and fearful and so utterly ashamed, to throw herself into a quest to kill a human king. Yes, TTM was about Rayla wanting closure about her parents, but more so in some ways it was about her needing reassurance that Viren was dead. But after two years of nothing, she had to be feeling the weight of it. What if she can’t find something because there’s nothing to find? 

I also think it’s important to consider both halves of her statement here as well.

R: We had something so special. But I became so obsessed with revenge that I risked losing the best thing I ever had. You. 

The same way Rayla was able to let go of her anger in 2x07 at Callum doing dark magic, she’s able to let go (or at least try to) regarding some of her grief and obsession: “I can’t lose you like this. You mean too much to me.” Again, I’ll believe we’ll eventually see what made her come back, given it’s implied to be a very recent choice (roughly a week ago from 4x02) and she was furious at Viren as well (in addition to refuse risking losing Callum, as well: “I can’t risk you coming with me”). 

So again, while ‘revenge’ wasn’t her primary factor in leaving in TTM, I can see how it would evolve into that after two years of relative loneliness and having little else but her thoughts to consider. It wasn’t like her decision to leave and go after Viren was ever well thought out, either. If revenge is something you take out of paranoia and grief, and justice is something you do for others, then yeah, I can see how that would fit Rayla’s definitions of each and move back and forth. 

However, the way I think Rayla has actually changed the most during timeskip, is how much more

3) Jaded

she is in S4. This is the difference that stuck out the most to me throughout the season, largely given her scenes in 4x05 with Soren and even in the finale, yet it also provided an interesting and vivid contrast in her relationship with Callum. Whereas before in seasons one through three Rayla was typically a bit more cynical about their mission (“Great, I’m wet and miserable and we’ve saved no time at all” / “Really, that’s all we have to go on? Some mountain where the magical healer appeared three years ago?”) she still had a strong idealistic streak. She still believed that they, and herself, could make a real difference in the world. It was her relationship with Callum where she was a bit more skeptical, best shown when she clams up after their inopportune first kiss and subsequent misunderstanding: “We walk away, and this never happened.” 

Now, that’s largely reversed in S4. She’s hopeful if unsure about coming back. She believes she can make a difference and they can talk things out, if she’s just patient (although more on that later) and gives him time, space, and understanding. 

And despite witnessing the horror of his possession and hearing him talk about how it felt and how deep his fears run, she outright rejects his fatalistic conclusion. Perhaps because she’s seen him do the impossible before (connecting to a primal), because she’s seen his stubbornness and growth, and because she flat out refuses to consider the alternative that he’s right. How can she lose him and how can she possibly kill him?

However, this patient optimistic attitude, her steady belief in Callum’s survival, and arguably her core defining trait in previous seasons (“Rayla, you saved Bait!” “Rayla’s brave. She saves people” “That’s what makes her a hero. That’s what makes her Rayla’) is starkly at odds with her response to Soren in 4x05.

Being called a Dragonguard, a title that once made her nearly cry tears of joy for the way it honoured her parents, earns an eye roll here. A defenseless (not innocent) dragon surrounded by human guards was once enough to make Rayla leave her mission of taking Zym back to Xadia in order to free it. Now, in a scenario where she and Soren would have the numbers advantage, Rayla chooses to walk away without looking back and encourages Soren to do the same. Rayla cites that “There’s too much at stake,” but her priorities were vastly different before. Is it just doubt in her abilities after two years of failing to find Viren or Claudia and finding out they’d been causing trouble anyhow, trouble she could’ve prevented if she’d just been better?

Or did something else, more sinister, happen to her during the timeskip, an even greater failure that made her abandon her mission and choose to come home to Callum after all this time?

Either way, this was one of the most interesting scenes in the season to me, and I can’t wait to see it being expanded upon. But now onto some of the other changes, namely: 

4) Patience

Rayla in S1-S3 is both a patient and impatient person. She’s caring and compassionate, as previously stated, but can also be impatient, perpetually pushing the boys to move forward faster, not wanting to waste time, etc. This doesn’t mean she doesn’t have room for some silliness or taking a scenic route, but even in her responses, she can be huffy and snarky. 

However, in s4, Rayla never tries to hurry the group along. Partially because unlike before, she’s not the most experienced in the group (Zubeia is there for sections) nor does she have to keep the boys on task the same way as before. Their maturity, mixed with her uncertainty, keeps her overall more regulated. 

This development is also in line with her gradual development from the first three seasons. Season three Rayla is far more patient, softer with the boys, and willing to indulge them than season one Rayla (even if she’s never quite the hard-ass she wants to be, most of the time) and part of this is due to her growing open-ness. 1x06 sees Rayla at her most impatient because she’s purposefully hiding something. In season four, given the way she left things, her impatience wouldn’t have much of a leg to stand on. 

That said, we still see glimpses of Rayla being impatient and affronted, particularly with Rex Igneous

but it is fun to see the way she’s matured, in a small manner, anyway. 

5) Failure

This one is kind of a middle ground, as it’s hardly a resolved element of her character, even if we do see Rayla begin to make real development in season four as well. Failure has always haunted Rayla since her very first scene and a concept she’s wrestled with throughout every season. In s1-s3, we see her struggle between “failure = worthlessness” with her mission and her people, versus her failing and attempting to maintain her relationship with the boys as well. (More on each of these topics later.) 

We do see this come back around in S4, though, specifically in Rayla’s admissions that

So while her view of failure isn’t exceedingly different, her determination to fix it and keep going at all costs has changed and faltered, a bit. 

This is compounded a few times in the season four finale in brutally quick succession. Rayla discovers that Viren was alive and she let him live this long thanks to her failure to find him; she fails to catch the coins her family is imprisoned in; and is tricked by Claudia, failing to negotiate for the map or to stop the dark mage from progressing in her evil quest. It’s no wonder that Rayla has a fucking breakdown. 

However, the biggest difference in how she views failure is that now, when she fails, she will at least purposefully show up to face the music and/or want to come back home anyway, and that’s huge, after the Silvergrove. 

With Callum no longer having to run after her to drag her back (or bail her out, come hell or high water) — at least for now. 

Previous Season Context

Last but not least, as previously alluded to, we have context from Rayla’s behaviour in previous seasons to provide additionally inference given her behaviour, changes, and choices. She takes Callum’s anger largely the same way she took his and Ezran’s in response to Harrow, since we know from her body language, dialogue, etc. that she knows she messed up in leaving the way she did. (More thoughts later on what, exactly Rayla thinks she’s at fault for, though.)

There are some differences, though. Unlike in 2x03 where Rayla let Callum walk away from her and then waited for him to approach her again, Rayla does advocate to stay, giving him room to express his hurt as much as she can, even if he’s unwilling to take her up on it. 

The other big point of contention I want to address is the apology, or lack thereof. Not only are Moonshadow elves from a society where you rarely apologize in words, and instead make amends through actions (re: Ethari offering Rayla his hand > an apology as just one example) but as the show goes on, we see Callum and Rayla explicitly apologize less to each other. For example, they both say some rather nasty things (“Oh, you have a nicer word for it? Honour, redemption? It’s just pride!” “Then you don’t know me at all! You never did”) and neither apologizes. They simply calmly and gently talk things out when he shows up to deliver new information, and resolve the issue together. 

Then, we have Rayla’s actual apology she delivers to Ezran (who notably didn’t get a goodbye by any measure when she left, per TTM):

R: Hello Ezran. I didn’t know if you’d want to see me again after the way I left. I’m so sorry that I—

This mirrors some of what she said to Callum (“Callum, I know my leaving hurt you”) yet also shows an interesting peek into her possible frame of mind. Rayla doesn’t apologize for leaving, just how she left. She regrets that it caused pain, she holds herself privately accountable (i.e. “I became so obsessed” when Callum is asleep) but doesn’t voice any of it aloud (again, more on that later). This is also still in line with why she left, partially out of grief, fear, anger, and compounded by the patterns passed down by her parents, specifically Lain and Tiadrin. 

I also wasn’t put off by her “He’s just joking” line to Stella regarding Callum, since it’s 1) a decent attempt at some typical downplaying Rayla humour and 2) is being used to placate her protective cuddlemonkey. I also think there’s a few other layers going on under the surface.

C: Oh, so you disappeared for two years for no reason at all?! S: [screeches] R: Shh, it’s okay! Callum’s nice. He’s just joking.

The first is Rayla calling Callum nice even when he’s actively yelling at her and saying just about what could possibly cut her the deepest, yet also something she’s had to come to terms with in order to come back. However, on the prior point of apology, Rayla didn’t leave for nothing: she left to protect him.

I’ve got one more gift for you, Callum. It’s not cake or kisses, but it’s something more important than that. I’M GOING TO KEEP YOU SAFE. I have to. I love you too much not to.

She just has nothing to show for it except mutual heartbreak. Furthermore, we see Rayla take this straightforward, yet blasé stance before. 

To me, the most important thing in the Reunion Scene isn’t that Rayla is overtly casual; she’s a mess and barely hiding it, clutching her wrist, constantly looking at and distracting herself with Stella as a coping mechanism, trailing after Callum with each perpetual wall, and fighting just to be able to stay and sit silently on a couch next to her boyfriend all night after he tries to leave the room and completely ices her out. (And Callum has a right to be angry, but say it with me: more on that later.)

She didn’t expect Callum to take her back and welcome her home like nothing ever happened. She hoped for it, maybe; braced for his temper and an argument. She had all day and all week to emotionally prepare for seeing him again, while he was caught completely unawares. What catches her the most off guard is that, in every situation she likely imagined, Callum not wanting to talk to her at all was not one of them, and given that he was a kid who liked to talk about everything, she’s not off base to feel that surprise, either.

She doesn’t see his eyeroll and his anger before he turns around; those happen with his back to her. The furthest they get is:

C: Rayla, what are you doing here? R: I came back. C: Yeah. I can see that. R: You look nice, Callum. (Cue post-sleep crusties almost confession levels of diaster) C: Right. Well, thanks. R: You too, Bait. All day, all week really, I’ve been feeling so nervous and kind of edge-frazzled, you know? But now, finally seeing you, I feel... still nervous.

He says short, clipped sentences to her that are mostly confused, heartbroken, and then awkwardly unsure of how to respond and process what’s happening. Nothing up to that point indicated any anger. 

She’s not wrong to be thrown by an icier form of his temper, and she’s not wrong to stand her ground in the storm, either.

Verdict / Conclusion

Originally this meta was also going to include a further breakdown of Callum and Rayla’s characterization and arcs in S4 explicitly related to each other, but 1) I’m tired and 2) this is long enough, so the more Rayllum-y companion meta piece will be posted under “Why S4 is Good, Actually: Part 2, The Rayllum Edition” sometime later this week. 

As for some closing notes, I’ll say this: 

It is perfectly on brand for us to not get more insight on Rayla’s emotional state in S4 because she refuses to share it (just as she often refuses to share negative emotions or experiences) and particularly because she’s attempting to reconcile, and I’ll touch more on this emotional de-valuation and de-prioritization of herself in the accompanying meta because it’s one of the things that stands out the most to me in S4, tbh. 

And precisely because she hasn’t fundamentally changed at all in the ways she needs to, that leaves Rayllum in both a simultaneously very dynamic yet very stagnant state that I think is heartbreaking, interesting, and a surefire work in progress in ways that can push them both to grow in the ways that they need to. 

In many ways they’ve concurrently switched roles and are also more like each other in general, good and bad, than ever before, and I’m really excited to talk about it.

One of the most important things about Rayla has always been what she doesn’t say and even then, to not take her “I’m (obviously not) fine” ass at face value. Season four isn’t any different, I still think it reveals and nudges her character to where it needs to be at this point (also reframed with slower pacing in general in mind) and I’d be far more concerned if the season hadn’t ended with her running after Viren than I am with how it ended(?) at all. I’m excited to see where she (and everyone else in her immediate emotional arc periphery, such as Callum and Viren) go from here and how season four may be further re-contextualized. 

If you made it this far, thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed reading, and perhaps, that this put you a little more at ease regarding our favourite Moonshadow elf assassin girl and her big broken, compassionate heart. 

#rayllum #tdp rayla #rayla #caylangst #s4 #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp meta #analysis series #analysis #listened to 'fast car' while writing this like a Freak #arc 1 #arc 2 #characterization #parallels

[glomscrooge]

I rewatched s1e7 and I find glomgold's development as a character so funny... he's very competent in the pilot (probably because he's more focused on stealing the jewel rather than one-upping scrooge?), and imo a bit more low-key compared to his later characterisation, so infernal internship is the first time the audience Really gets to see how his mind works, and like. Holy Shit Dude

#and then mcmystery and links of moorshire happen and it's like “Psychologists Hate Him! Area Man is Completely Deranged” #I love glomgold sm because his development throughout the series is like watching a car speed by #thinking “wow that's a fast car” #then realising that the steering wheel was actually a pool float #then realising it didn't have any wheels #and then watching it carve out a new road down the middle of your house through the sheer force of the driver's will #like he gets worse the longer you look at him #scromtxt #ducktales 2017 #dt17 #dt17 glomgold #flintheart glomgold

[browngoblin]

2 Fast 2 Furious

#fast and furious #2 fast 2 furious #car show #flim #series #suki #brian oconner #orange julius #slap jack #2000s nostalgia #late 2000s #cars #fast cars #fast & furious #paulwalker #action #action movies #racing #speed racing #devon aoki #Amaury Nolasco #michael ealy

[femininefutbol]

fast cars and beautiful women

series masterlist here

prompt: you are a super car driver who takes alexia putellas on a joy ride

word count: 3.9k

a/n: i'm considering potentially making this into a little series if people are at all interested?

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“(Y/N)!” your boss calls out to you as soon as you walk into the compound, you groan already knowing that he is going to have some ridiculous task for you to do, which means that you won’t have a smooth day of training today like you had hoped. 

“Buenos Dias Javi, what do you want from me today?” you ask with a knowing look. 

“You know me too well, we have some members of the Barcelona Femení Football Club coming in later today, would you possibly be able to take them around the track and do some media, it won’t take too long I promise” he asks, pleading with his eyes knowing that you would be the perfect candidate to represent that brand to these women and the world. 

“That actually doesn't sound horrible, I’d be happy to help, let me know when they are here” you respond, already walking off towards your lot preparing for your regular day and also the media opportunity that you have been roped into. 

You spend the next hour or two working on one of your cars, absolutely loving the challenge of the mechanics of a car. 

“(Y/N)!” Javi calls out again, making his presence known as you are underneath the car working on things. 

You roll out from underneath the car, smiling cheekily as your eyes meet Javi’s. 

“You know you don’t have to work on that thing, I can get one of the boys to look at it” Javi informs you, it is useless though as just like every other time he offers, you wave him off. “Anyway, that doesn’t matter at the moment, I have some people to introduce you to”

As he mentions others you look behind him, your eyes immediately fall to a beautiful woman and suddenly your confidence dissolves as you are unsure that you will even manage to make basic conversation with her. 

“This is Ana-Maria Crnogorčević” Javi points at the other woman which you admittedly hadn't even taken notice of due to your focus being solely on the brunette, “and this is Alexia Putellas, they both play for Barcelona but Alexia here is the captain” he informs you, and now that he has mentioned it you have definitely seen her face plastered around town and all over TV. 

“It’s nice to meet you both” you speak politely, your vision clearly focused on Alexia. 

You must have been staring for a little too long because Javi clears his throat bringing your attention to him, when you do you notice him motioning for you to get up. 

“Sorry” you speak sheepishly to the two women, you stand up and stick your hand out to shake their hands but notice that there is oil and dirt all over it. 

“I’m just going to wash my hands, feel free to look around” you inform them, not leaving any room for arguments from Javi as you disappear before he has the opportunity to speak. 

In the bathroom, you spend probably too much time fixing your hair and outfit. You make sure you look presentable for Alexia and hyping yourself up to actually hold a conversation with the beautiful woman, wanting to make a better impression on her throughout the day than you had with your initial introduction. 

As you do this Alexia and Ana-Maria take up your offer looking around the room which consists of a few tool boxes, a wooden shelving unit that clearly doubles as a desk from the look of it with your laptop and a range of paperwork spread along it, as well as some knick knacks that you have collected. The main feature that peaks the women's interest though is the metal floor to ceiling cabinets which take up the entire back wall of your workshop and are covered in photos, postcards and other paper memories that could give anyone a synopsis of your entire life. 

“Ale, she’s gay” Ana-Maria whispers to Alexia, pointing at a picture of you and your best friends basically head-to-toe in rainbow smiling brightly while standing on a float at pride. 

Alexia doesn’t pay attention to Ana-Maria though instead she is entranced with the section of your wall that holds multitudes of photos of you and your family, mainly your niece and nephew, along with drawings and letters from them that declare their love for you. 

“Find anything that sticks out? I’d be happy to explain to them” you speak softly, not wanting to startle the two women who are clearly focused on the photographic details of your life. 

“Are you gay?” Ana-Maria asks with absolutely no shame, while she is pretty sure that you are, it doesn't hurt to hear it straight from the source. 

“I feel like that one is a little obvious” you chuckle, noticing that she has found the looking section of the wall that holds photos of yourself and your friends from pride parades you’ve been to over the years. 

“It doesn’t hurt to ask, I have a better question though, is this your girlfriend?” she asks pointing at one of the photos where you have a girl on your lap the two of you seemingly passionately making out. 

The question is what causes Alexia to turn her attention towards the two of you. She feels a tightness in her chest, a sadness overcoming her at the thought of you not being single. 

“Oh absolutely not!” you laugh quickly, a small smile overcomes Alexias features as your reaction seems to tell her all she needs to know about your relationship status. “That is my best friend, we just really love the Spanish best friends stereotype” you admit knowing that it probably does really look like the two of you are dating even though you could never imagine dating her. 

“Anything pique your interest?” you move across the workshop a little to ask Alexia hoping that she at least wants to know a little more about you. 

“This is your family?” she asks, pointing at a photo that displays the small family you have. 

You had just won your first ever professional race, your niece is sat on your shoulders the two of you holding the trophy above your head while your father stands next to you smiling proudly looking directly at the camera, your sister is crouched in front of you with an arm around your nephew who is looking up at the trophy in awe. 

“Yep, that’s all of us” you smile at the memory, even though you only have a small family you are all extremely close and they have made it out to every race possible always being there to support you. 

“It’s a cute photo” Alexia offers sweetly, enjoying seeing how much family means to you rather than obsessing over your relationships and social life as Ana-Maria has been. 

“Thank you” you respond in a similar tone, smiling at the brunette before turning your attention back to what the women are actually here to do.

“Well we can come back to the photos but I heard that I’m going to be taking the two of you out for a little bit of a joy ride” you speak, an air of confidence that was lost when you first met the women returning as you prepare to enter your comfort zone. 

“I’m going first” Ana-Maria speaks up quickly. 

“Sure thing, just follow me out here” you wave her closer to the roller door that is opening, handing her a helmet as you and the two footballers make your way outside. 

“How fast are we going to be going?” Ana-Maria asks, watching as one of your teammates basically flies along the track. 

“Top speed is usually around 150mph but we probably won't go that fast, there will be a radio in your helmet so you can communicate with me but it does also tune through our radio tower and to our ground crew, so don’t say anything you wouldn’t want them to hear” you point up the the radio tower which is where a few team members spend their time. 

“Right, so only flirt with you outside of the car” Ana-Maria states with a small chuckle, something that is missed by you but not Ana is the small glare on Alexia’s face when she mentions flirting with you. 

“I’m sure some of these guys need a good lesson in flirting if you want to show them how it’s done” you joke with her, attempting to keep the atmosphere light.

“I’ll see what I can do” Ana-Maria states with a wink. 

“Okay here is your helmet, once it is done up feel free to hop in and one of the guys will strap you in” you inform her, leaving her for a moment to grab your own helmet. 

You notice Alexia standing with her arms crossed, her previous soft expression turned stoic. 

“Are you okay?” you ask hoping that she isn’t secretly worried about the ride. 

“Yeah, I’m fine thanks” she answers shortly, an indication that she likely won’t elaborate if you ask. 

“Okay well I shouldn’t be too long with your teammate, there are some snacks in that drawer if you are hungry and if you end up not wanting to ride just let me or someone else know, there is no pressure” you explain to her, attempting to ease whatever has caused that change in attitude. 

You see her smile for a second, the action causes you to shyly smile as well before you turn back towards your car, watching Ana-Maria get strapped in, you put your helmet on focusing on the task at hand. 

After all the mandatory checks, and extra set up from the camera crew you are finally able to start driving. You let go of everything that is worrying you, feeling fully relaxed and content being able to do the thing that makes you happiest in life. 

You basically forget that there is even someone else in the car with you until you go around the first corner. 

“OH MY GOD” Ana-Maria screams, likely not used to the speed in which you are travelling. 

“Too fast?” you ask with a small smirk knowing that this isn’t even your top speed. When she doesn’t reply you push your foot down on the gas pedal making the car go even faster which makes her scream and laugh. 

The entire ride there isn’t much talking, there are some occasional screams from Ana-Maria and laughter from you as she squeezes your shoulder when going around turns. 

Once you are out of the car you are quick to take your helmet off, shaking your head back and forth in quite an attractive manner according to the two Barcelona players. 

“Okay (Y/N), they want you to do a quick interview with Ana-Maria and then we’ll do the same thing once more with Alexia” Javi informs you, pointing over to where Ana-Maria is standing in front of a camera crew waiting for you so the interview can begin. 

You make your way over standing next to Ana, waiting for some sort of direction as to what is required of you. 

“So Ana-María what was it like having (Y/N) drive you around today?” a person behind the camera asks. 

“It was insane, you’d think it would be scary but I felt extremely safe with (Y/N) driving although I hope she doesn’t drive that fast on the regular roads” she explains. 

You laugh slightly, “I can assure you I do not drive like that on regular roads although it would cut down travel time significantly I assume” your answer making everyone else laugh.

You go through some other random question and answer things, not particularly getting involved much as most of the questioning is focused towards Ana-Maria and her experience. 

“Thank you for this incredible experience” Ana-Maria thanks you at the end of her interview. 

“Yeah of course, I’m always happy to show people a little bit of my passion, you’ll have to teach me some football tricks in return sometime” you joke. 

“That could be arranged” Ana-Maria winks. 

You just giggle at her offer knowing that there is no way you would make it out alive if you stepped foot on a football pitch. 

“(Y/N)! It’s time to take Alexia for a ride” Javi calls out rather frantically, obviously trying to keep a tight schedule for the day. 

You make your way back over to your car, leaving Ana-Maria trailing behind you, her eyes trailing to your ass, unbeknownst to you, Alexia catches her though sending a mean glare her way. 

You look up, noticing the same stoic look on Alexia’s face that was there before, you begin to worry that she really doesn’t want to go on this ride at all. 

“You really don’t have to do this if you don’t want to” you speak, carefully laying a comforting hand on Alexia’s arm, the action immediately causing her face to soften, a smile overtaking her features. 

“I want to” she assures you, “I’ve never been in a super car before” she informs you, the vibe improves drastically as you are no longer worried that she feels obligated to be involved. 

“Well it is a lot of fun, and not to brag but I am a pretty good driver so I will keep you safe” you explain, focusing all your attention on her, not caring about anyone else who is around, your only goal now is to ensure that she is comfortable and having a good time. 

“Do you promise?” she asks with a childlike look in her eye, she holds out her pinky waiting for you to pinky promise her. 

“Absolutely” you grab onto her pinky, you move your thumb up, and a dejected look crosses your features when she doesn’t do the same. 

“What are you doing?” she asks curiously. 

“Here, move your thumb to met mine” you guide her, your thumb now connected with hers, “now the promise is locked, you still have to kiss your thumb though, that is what really seals that deal” she watches as you move your head to kiss your thumb, she then hesitantly does the same herself the two of you practically kissing. 

She awkwardly moves away after a moment, a clear moment occurring between the two of you. She gathers herself silently going on to state, “I’ve never made a pinky promise like that” 

“It’s the only way to do it, otherwise you are a ‘liar liar pants on fire’ according to my nephew” you inform her, smiling as she laughs at the comment.

“Well with all promises are locked up, so are you ready to go now?” you ask her. 

“Yep all good” 

“Perfect” you hand her a helmet, grabbing your own in the process. 

You both get into the car and rather than letting someone else buckle her in like you did with Ana-Maria you do it yourself, taking extra care to ensure that the buckles are secure and that there will be no issue during her ride. 

“Ready?” you ask her. 

You watch as she lights up at the sound of your voice over the radio. 

“Let's do it” she responds, offering you a thumbs up. 

As she does you take off quickly, relishing in the giggly screams that are heard over the radio, a clear indication that she is having a good time. 

At one corner you take a rough turn, a slight panic taking over as you weren’t prepared for anything to go wrong in this way as it is just supposed to be a casual joy ride.

Alexia senses that something isn’t quite right, grabbing onto her seat tightly. You control the car quickly, slowing down to what is still an extremely fast speed but not racing speed, you also hold your hand out, Alexia grabbing onto it, still slightly worried from the scare. You squeeze her hand once, an indication that you will keep your promise to keep her safe. 

The rest of your ride goes a lot smoother, although that may be due to the fact that Alexia doesn’t let go of your hand at all, forcing you to drive slower than you would have, not wanting to endanger Alexia by going faster than you can handle without full control of the car. 

As the car comes to a stop Alexia unhooks her hand from yours, silently bringing her hand into her own, another bout of awkwardness overcoming the two of you, although it doesn’t last long as some of your crew open Alexia’s door, helping her out of the car as you worry about getting yourself out. 

Once the two of you are out of the car Javi points you in the direction of the camera crew that is still set up, silently informing you that you will have to go through the same media interview that you did with Ana-Maria after her ride. 

“Alexia, how was your ride with (Y/N) today?” a guy behind the camera asks the same first question. 

“It was a ride for sure, um it was very fun, obviously there was a little bit of a scare there for a moment but (Y/N) promised me before that she would keep me safe and she did” Alexia answers, a small smile appearing when she mentions the pinky promise. 

“Well I made a pinky promise, and I never break those so of course I had to keep the football worlds la reina safe” you joke, hearing Ana-Maria calling her that at one point to annoy her. 

Just like with Ana-Maria everyone laughs at your joke and then they go on to ask her a bunch of questions that don’t involve you, basically just getting footage to prompt your team's car as the footballers are ambassadors for the brand. 

You and Alexia make your way back towards your workshop where Ana-Maria and a few other people are standing around. 

“No fair (Y/N), why did Ale get a dangerous experience and I didn’t” she asks jokingly.

“It wasn’t on purpose” you admit bashfully, not liking to have to admit that you made a mistake on your drive. 

“I’m just kidding, we all make mistakes in our professions, even la reina here” Ana-Maria nudges Alexia as she speaks. 

The teasing is not able to continue though as the escort that the players arrived with informs them that it is time to leave. 

“Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to take us on a ride today” Alexia states in an extremely professional tone, any air of the sweet smiley Alexia completely disappearing. 

“Yeah of course” you answer in much the same way, “I hope you had a good day” 

“We did” Alexia speaks again, nudging Ana-Maria, silently informing her that she needs to thank you. 

“Yeah, thank you for today (Y/N), it was a wonderful day” Ana-Maria states the same in the same professional tone as Alexia. 

You finish exchanging casual pleasantries and in basically no time at all the two of them make their way out of your workshop. 

You feel a little defeated after they leave, annoyed at yourself that you weren’t bold enough to ask for Alexia’s number. Although you conclude that it probably wasn’t appropriate, as she didn’t really seem interested in you, you had more just hoped that she would be as you found her extremely attractive. 

Ultimately you decide not to dwell on what likely wouldn’t have been anyway and instead go back to working on the car that you were getting stuck into before they arrived. 

“(Y/N)!” you hear a frantic yell from a woman, it definitely doesn't sound like anyone on your team that you know, making your curiosity rise. 

You make your way out from underneath your car, your wrench tightly held in your hand in case it is an insane intruder that somehow knows your name. 

Instead of an intruder you are met with the site of Ana-Maria desperately looking around your workshop for any sign of where you may be. 

“Oh there you are” she smiles as she notices you slightly sitting up, your wrench held up in a defensive manner, “I come in peace” she puts her hands in the air slightly laughing at your reaction. 

“Sorry” you respond bashfully, lowering the wrench to the ground, “did you leave something behind?”

“Yeah I did actually” she states with a sly smile on her face. 

“What was it?” You quickly stand up, ready to help her look for whatever she left behind. 

“Your number” she answers casually. 

“Oh um, I’m sorry if I gave you the wrong idea earlier with the flirting jokes but I am actually interested in someone else” you apologise profusely, feeling horrible that you have had led her one while in reality you were stealing glances at her teammate all day. 

“I know, your number is for Alexia” she smirks as your face falls, you thought that you had hid your interest in Alexia well enough for no one around to really notice but apparently not. 

“She asked you to get it?” you ask, attempting to understand the situation that is currently occurring, a small hope within you that Alexia did want your number but was too shy to ask you herself.

“No but she wants it and you want hers so I am making this happen because I don’t want to listen to Alexia whine about how she should have taken a chance but didn’t for the next six months” she explains. 

“Well in that case” you begin walking over to your desk finding a post it note and a pen, scribbling down your phone number and adding a little love heart for good measure, “here you go, if she doesn’t contact me I will blow up your instagram DM’s complaining for even longer than Alexia would have” you joke, handing her the piece of paper. 

“A cute girl blowing up my DM’s doesn't sound so horrible, I may just have to omit this entire situation from Alexia just for you to message me instead” Ana-Maria states, a joking tone evident throughout. 

She begins to walk back out of the door to your workshop, offering a wave and a small ‘bye’ as she goes. Before she is fully out the door you call out to her making her stop in her tracks, turning around to look at you. 

“You think I’m cute?” you ask curiously. 

“That’s really what you want to know?” she asks, you nod your head quickly, not used to these types of interactions with people, especially not very attractive footballers. “You are very cute (Y/N) and if Alexia didn’t hopeless fall for you today I definitely would have been asking for your number for myself” 

“Good to know” you speak softly, barely allowing Ana-Maria to hear you. 

“You’ll have to thank me when you and Ale start dating” she adds with a wink, actually leaving this time as you don’t call her back. Instead you stand alone smiling to yourself, rather pleased with the way your day went.

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[borhapparker]

fast and furious series masterlist

d i s c l a i m e r : i do not own the rights to the movie series "fast and furious", nor do i own the plot. all credits goes to the writers. the OC characters belong to me, adn the ideas for the scenes are crafted by me. inspiration is taken from the movies, but none are identical to the plot of the movies.

p a i r i n g : female!original character x sebastian stan , female!original character x lucas till , female!original character x ben hardy

w a r n i n g s : blood, violence, guns, street racing, death, mentions of sexual themes, languge, agnst, drinking, some fluff (MINOR DNI !!!)

s u m m a r y : street racing gives them a thrill they've enjoyed ever since they could remember, the adrenaline rush when they step on the gas pedal as the checkered flag drops. it was just her for a long time, till she found them. now, she has a team, an unstoppable one. one job seems worse than the last, yet they never stop. what happens when they face their biggest threat yet, a ghost from the past? a ghost from the past? will they push on towards the finish line or drift and crash into one another?

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1962 Jaguar E-Type Series 1 Race Car

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Abu Dhabi moments

Jack Hughes x Ferrari driver reader

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** Vegas is the last race before Abu Dhabi & series takes place in 2024 with Danny, Seb & Mick still on the grid **

A handful of moments as the season come to an end because I didn’t want to write a full fic. Also how are y’all? I’ve haven’t been on here in a while because ya girl had finals and grad 🫶

Post Practice, Friday

Welcome back to sunny Abu Dhabi, as we prepare for the final race of the season!! This weekend brings us the most heated battle for the Drivers Championship we’ve ever seen!! Yes that includes Lewis versus Max 2021, the Mercedes battle of 2016 & Sebastian Vettels maiden win in 2010. Ferrari have the Consrtuctors trophy, will they clinch the Drivers too? Lets have a look at the possibilities

Y/n L/n currently sits first in the points, with Max trailing by only one. Charles Leclerc only sits only 5 points behind him. It will come down to whoever takes the win for this race. Three potential champions, one race. Will it be a third championship for Verstappen, a second for Leclerc or a first for L/n?

Are you excited? Because we sure are. They all had great practices today. Who will come out on top? Tune in all weekend to see what happens!

Lets send it over to Naomi, who’s with y/n now

Media Pen

Hi y/n, how are we feeling today?

I’m doing great, how about you?

You know, I’m pretty good but were not here to talk about me. What’re you feeling coming into this weekend, knowing that the championship could be yours?

Honestly, I’m trying not to think about that. It’s just a normal race. I dont want to psych myself out since anything can happen once we get on that track. Of course I’d love to win, but who knows. Charles & I have been able to bring that constrictors back to Ferrari which was incredible, and whoever wins will have absolutely deserved it.

Thats a great way to look at it! I’m rooting for you but we’ll see what happens. Now, onto something more important. You had an interesting weekend in Las Vegas, didn’t you?

Yeah, you know the race was a lot of fun and it was great to win, especially given the issues we had the week before

Girl you know thats not what I’m talking about!!! I mean your after race shenanigans
Haha, yeah, so I got married which was a special experience.

Can I ask if you’d planned that going into the weekend?

Oh not at all! It was more a timing thing. So Saturday night Jack, my husband which is still weird to say, asked if I’d want to get married while we were there. He played a game in Vegas which is why he was there at all. Of course I wanted to marry him, but I didnt want to do it without some of our closest friends there. Luckily, most of them who play hockey were either in Vegas because they’re on his team or they were within a 2 hour flight range so we could get them there for Sunday night. And of course I was able to get the guys from the grid there no problem. So we just decided to go for it!

So no parents?

No, unfortunately not. Both of our parents live on the east coast and it was too quick to get them there, but we’re going to do a big party over the summer so they can celebrate with us.

At least they’ll have that!! Can I ask what the planning was like?

Jack took on all of the decisions which was really great of him since I had the race that evening, but Sunday morning we texted everyone with flight info & told them to get there asap. Then my best friend Thomas went & picked a dress for me, since Jack wasn’t allowed. I sent a message to our groupchat after the race with the chapel address once jack found somewhere & told the drivers to be there and look decent. It was a really great night though & I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.

Well congratulations!! Is he here this weekend?

Unfortunately not, hockey season is well underway, but I’m on the first flight to New York that I can get & we’ll have the winter break together.

Well, all the best to you and your new husband, and we’ll talk to you later this weekend I’m sure. Good Luck tomorrow!!

Thanks Naomi!

RACE DAY

Commentators

Oh my god, we’ve come down to the final lap to decide the championship. Who’s going to cross the line first?? Right now L/n is leading, but Verstappen is right behind her. Will he be able to get past?? The other Ferrari of Leclerc is a fraction of a second behind Verstappen.

There goes Leclerc!!! He’s trying to pass Verstappen, my word! OHHH he does it!! Charles Leclerc puts his Ferrari between the Ferrari of L/n and the red bull of Verstappen

Radio: “Tell y/n I’ve got verstappen, go & win it!!”

That was Leclerc, it looks like he’s going to defend against Verstappen so L/n can win. We have half a lap, can he hold off the Red Bull? Fantastic driving by Leclerc, and what a teammate!!

Here it it!!! Rounding the final corner in that iconic red car, its L/n!! The chequered flag is waving, SHES DONE IT!!!!

Radio: C’est toi y/n!!! Tu es la championne du monde!!!!!

In her 4th season in Formula one, your 2023 World Champion Y/n L/n everyone!! What a finish from the young driver. History is made here tonight as she becomes the first female driver ever to win the championship!! She’s also the second youngest driver to take it after former ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel.

What a race, what a finish as Leclerc crosses in second, less than half a second behind.

You

Over the radio you hear the team celebrating but you have no words. It doesn’t feel real. There’s tears streaming down your face. All the shit you put up with, all the years of hard work, missing your friends and family, it’s all lead up to this.

“Y/n?” You can hear your engineer ask since you haven’t responded, but nothing comes out. Driving towards the end, you do your donuts and pull in to your designated spot. You just sit there for a second before “HOLY FUCK” and someone on the other end laughs.

You’re still crying but its all happy tears as you pull yourself up & step onto the front of the car. You sit down on the Halo & put your head in your hands, trying to collect yourself as the crowd goes mad around you. Pulling off your helmet you look over to your team at the barriers & smile. You want to run over & celebrate with them, but you can’t bring yourself to move, afraid its all a dream. Then you get tackled. You’ve completely missed the other guys pulling up, too in your own head and you jump when Charles grabs you and pulls you off your car. He pulls you into a hug & whispers congratulations in your ear before someone else grabs you & you see Mick.

“You fucking did it!” He yells and you laugh. It was the kick in the ass you needed and you release Mick to go over to your team, hugging your engineer first. After that it’s a blur, until someone passes you a phone.

“McQueen!!!” Thomas is on the one end of the FaceTime, jack also popping up on the screen. You laugh at the nickname, glad to see their faces.

“I’m so proud of you!” Jack says “Me too!!” Thomas yells, wanting to be part of the conversation. “Thanks Thom!” “I love you so much babe! I can’t really hear you so I’ll call you later?” “Go celebrate, I’ll see you soon. Je t’aime mon amour” You blow a kiss before handing back the phone. There’s one more person you need to see. You spot Susie and you rush over to her. She’s been a mentor and inspiration to you since you were a kid and without her who knows where you’d be right now.

The rest of the day passes in a blur. You’re pulled into interview after interview, congratulations coming from all around and your phone buzzing like its possessed. You call your parents & Jack but thats it, grateful for all the love but too overwhelmed to deal with responding to all your messages. That night you and the boys go full send. You know its a good night since you can’t remember anything. Monday is filled with media, and then you hop on a flight straight to Newark.

Fourteen hours later, Jack & Luke are waiting from you when you finally make it through customs.

You’d think you’re racing or an Olympic gold to win the 100m with how fast you fly over to Jack & jump into his arms, tears streaming down your face as you hug him like a koala.

“Tu l’as fait” he whispers in your ear as you squeeze each other, your face buried in his neck. You can hear the emotion in his voice

“Je l’ai fais”

“Ma championne”

“Je t’aime tellment”

“Mon champion” you say back, smiling at the fact that both of you won this year

“Cough cough, Hi, hello, where’s my hug?” Luke says from somewhere behind you, causing you to giggle and pull your head up to look at him

“I’ll get to you in a sec”

Jack puts you down & you give Luke his hug. “Congrats y/n/n. You deserved it”

“ Thanks Moose. Now we match with our trophies.”

“We do!!” He passes you the big bouquet of flowers he’s holding, “from mom & dad”

“I love them. Let’s go home boys”

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post-series hunter / mechanic dean visuals [13/?]

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