The drivers sit in their rooms in meetings, interviews or the like. Well, not all of them, but the majority. They had settled in.
The workout plans all hang in the in-house gym and everyone does the tasks together. The diet plans are in some drawer in the kitchen way downstairs.
Also, how the hell are you supposed to keep over 25 different diet plans when you're cooking for everyone together?
A scream interrupts the pleasant silence and Seb just bangs his head on the table in despair.
"Max!" Someone else shouts and the aforementioned runs giggling through the picture into the kitchen.
"What have you done?" Seb calls after his son questioningly.
"Shit doesn't happen on its own. I've got my 5 minutes 24 hours, just shut the fuck up has never worked for me!" He shouts back and Seb only gets more desperate.
"Where did we actually go wrong in your upbringing?" He murmurs questioningly and Max, who heard this, just grins and replies cheerfully, "RBR Seb raised me."
When the young Dutchman catches sight of Kimi, Sebastian stops him immediately "Stop stop stop Max, Kimi is sleeping. Leave your old man alone."
"Why is he sleeping?" Sulks Max.
"Because he couldn't sleep at night."
"Why not?"
"Because of your nightmares."
"Oh..."
Max leaves the room and Seb turns back to his screen to listen to Mattia again.
A little later, this time during an interview, the next one comes in. "If you could excuse me for a moment?" Vettel asks politely and turns toward the door.
Without waiting for the question he answers "No, you don't get ice cream; no, there is no lunch yet; no, I don't know when lunch is; yes, you can go outside after lunch; Kimi, Jenson and Nico are sleeping so no loud yelling; no I don't have time right now I have an interview."
"I have one more question." Mick says. Seb looks at him asking and the younger one asks "How do you deal with the hate?"
Seb leans back thoughtfully before saying "People hate you, they always have and always will. You need to know why they hate you. They are afraid. Afraid of your greatness."
Mick is silent before he starts to smile and disappears with a "Thanks Papa!"
When Seb wants to concentrate on his interview again, he realizes that he wasn't muted at all the whole time like he thought. He shrugs his shoulders and says "Let's go on".
*F1 Boizz 🏎💨*
Mick: Can we please appreciate Seb for a moment 🥹🥹
Alex: Ofc but why?
Mick: Because of what he told me!
Zhou: What did he tell you?
Mick: "People hate you, they always have and always will. You need to know why they hate you. They are afraid. Afraid of your greatness."
Tonio: That made my day!
Daniel: 100%
Valtteri:
Lando: He has more of these quotes!
Charles: He once told me "Fly as long as you can. The day will come when you're no longer a child and forget how to fly"
Max: "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
Kimi: "The moment I saw you I fell, but I never ended falling in love with you."
Kimi: Tbf I said that
Max: You fell?
Kimi: Bwoah Nando pushed me down the stairs
Nando: Hehe
Mark: "Even if you would hate me, you would still have my back."
Lewis: "Allow your enemies their space to hate, they will destroy themselves in the process."
Seb: Are you guys okay?
Jenson: We're collecting sweet quotes from you
Jenson: "True love is comforting the other just with their presence."
Romain: "If you love him, then you are ready to give up everything for him."
Kimi: "I just want to make you happy because you are the reason of my happiness."
Mick: Thank you Seb for being there for us ❤️
Max: Thank you for being a father for me ❤️
Lewis: Thanks for being with us when we struggle ❤️
Mark: Thank you for protecting me ❤️
Nando: Just thank you Seb ❤️
Lando: Thank you for comforting us after nightmares ❤️
Charles: Thank you for helping me after Jules death ❤️
Pierre: Thank you for helping us after Anthoine's accident ❤️
Kimi: Bwoah thank you Seb! Rakastan sinua, kulta ❤️
Seb: Thanks guys ❤️
...
Seb sits with tears of joy in his room and stares at the messages.
When he looks up, he sees Kimi, who is lovingly smiling and leaning against the doorframe, watching Seb.
He smiles back and Kimi comes into the room. The Finn sits down next to Seb and the latter crawls onto Kimi's lap and snuggles up against his broad chest.
Kimi puts his arms around the Ferrari driver and Seb buries his face in Kimi's hoodie.
"Why did they do that?" He asks Kimi vaguely.
"Because they realize how broken you are. They realize how hard it is for you and how much you're struggling. They want to make it easier for you. Want to take the weight off your shoulders so you can heal."
"How are you?" Kimi asks gently and Seb mumbles "All good".
"And now the truth." Sighs Kimi and Seb again says "All good."
Then Seb frees himself from Kimi's arms to lie down properly.
And what does a Kimi Räikkönen do when his Sebby is metal down? That's right, he lies on top of him and waits until the younger one tells him what's bothering him.
"Kimi, do you have to?" Kimi nods decisively and hands Seb the vodka bottle.
It had become a kind of tradition. Whenever Seb is mentally down, Kimi hands him the vodka bottle while he lies cuddled up against Seb's chest. When Seb takes the bottle, it means he's ready to talk about it.
Seb grabs the bottle and takes a big gulp before setting it aside. Kimi simply remains silent and waits patiently until Seb starts talking.
At some point everything bursts out of the German "I just can't Kimi anymore. It's not as bad as with Red Bull but Mattia is destroying me. I know myself that my self-esteem is fucked but I have no more strength to fight. I don't even know why you love me anymore."
Kimi murmurs, "A wise man once said to me, 'When you no longer have the strength to love yourself, I will do it. And I will do it too if you have the strength. I will do it even if we are separated by death.' And he was right. And now we turn it around and you don't say it to me, I say it to you. Because I love you Sebby and put you above everything else."
Seb sniffles before he starts crying and buries his head against Kimi's shoulder.
"Why are you crying rakas ?" The Finn asks worried and strokes his husband's hair.
"I feel pathetic!" Seb murmurs into the shoulder of the taller one.
"You're not pathetic. You're a beautiful, smart, strong and, in my eyes, imperfectly perfect man. Nothing about you is perfect. And I love everything of you. The bad and the good things!" Kimi contradicts.
With that, the younger one curls up into a ball and Kimi wraps himself protectively around Seb from the outside. His arms are wrapped around Seb's belly. Seb intertwines their fingers and pulls Kimi's arm even closer to him while Kimi's second arm now strokes through Seb's hair again.
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Next chapter :)
It's pretty long I think. Anyway next chapter is happier again!