When Seb wakes up, he sighs softly. Kimi has already come to him again during the night and is now sleeping on Seb's chest. Seb knows that the Finn will panic if he wakes up and Seb is no longer there, so he takes the still sleeping 3-year-old in his arms and carries him down to the living room.
"Kimi, why are you always with me?" Seb suddenly asks cautiously. "I have to protect you!" Retorts the little Finn. "And why is that?" Seb asks. "Well, so that you don't leave me too. You're the only one I have!" comes Kimi with tears in his eyes.
"Oh, Kimi, I won't leave you. Never! I will always be with you. Today, tomorrow and even 50 years from now. I won't leave you alone. I promise!" Seb says worriedly and kisses Kimi carefully on the forehead.
In the kitchen he makes breakfast and then carefully wakes Kimi up "Good morning Kimi." He smiles and the former driver yawns and snuggles up to Seb. "Do you want to go wake up your brothers?" The German asks and Kimi nods after a moment's thought.
So Pascal, Mick and Charles are woken up. The five of them eat breakfast together before going shopping.
In the supermarket, Seb looks for cheese, pasta, milk, bread and vegetables. At the checkout, each of the 4 kids gets a Pixi book in his hand and they go home again.
While Seb makes lunch, Pascal and Mick watch SimsalaGrimm and Charles plays on the car carpet. Kimi is in the kitchen reading a book about the little red tractor.
"Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind... Dann leben sie noch Heute!
Ich nehme dich bei der Hand,
Zeig dir das Märchenland!
Wo Liebe und die Freundschaft zählt,
Und keinem was fehlt!"
Sounds from the living room and Seb starts to smile. The children are busy and he can prepare lunch in peace.
In the afternoon, the rest comes over and it gets crowded at the Vettel house. The children all play together in the garden and even Nando and Kimi sit in a quieter corner playing with cars.
"Guys, we need to make it clear who is dating who here!" Seb sighs and looks at the rest of the group. They just look back and Seb grumbles, "You look like handicapped fishes!"
"It's obvious that Mark and Nando are a couple." Marc says and Mark nods. "Romain and I are engaged." Says Jenson and Seb mutters "Also predictable." Daniil contributes "Checo and I have been together for 4 years." The others look at them both in surprise.
"Christian and Toto are married, Brocedes too, blah blah blah. What's going on between you and Kevin?" Hulk is asked. Overwhelmed, he looks back and forth between his colleagues.
"We're friends?" He says unsure. "What about Max and Charles?" He then asks. "Max is together with Kelly." Is the answer. "Nooo, still? But Charles broke up with Charlotte, right?" Romain asks.
The adults shake their heads briefly and then concentrate on the kids again.
"Lando, stop putting sand in Carlos' mouth!"
"Nando, Kimi is not a street so get the car out of his hair!"
"Oscar, Logan, Mick, Max, Charles stop pushing the others off the climbing frame!"
"Pierre, Yuki, Esteban, Lance! The trampoline is not just yours!"
"Alex, George, the others can bounce too!"
"DANNY WHERE DID YOU GET THAT KNIFE?! PUT IT DOWN RIGHT NOW!!!"
"Stoffel, Pascal come back, you're scaring Nikita and Kevin!"
"Zhou, please just sit there and keep looking at picture books!"
When the kitchen knife is no longer with Daniel, Carlos no longer has sand in his mouth, the trampoline is no longer blocked, no more toys are hanging in hair, the seesaw has been changed and the climbing frame can be entered without danger, the older ones breathe a sigh of relief.
Kevin clings to Hulk and refuses to let him go and Kimi is now scared too. Danny is offended that Marc shouted at him, because of course he doesn't understand how dangerous the knife is.
"Kevin, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Nico asks him. Kevin says with shining eyes, "An astronaut! Then I can fly through space. Or a racing driver, then I can drive really fast cars! But Dad says I'll never make it." Towards the end he becomes sad. "Oh, if he only knew." Smiles Jenson.
"And you Kimi?" Daniil asks. Kimi looks at him questioningly. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Seb asks him. The others look at the boy curiously. Did Kimi always want to be a racing driver? Or something completely different?
Kimi is thoughtfully quite. After a silence, he says a single word, "Kind."
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Next one :)
I just wanna say something real quick. My brother came home today from military. He was away for 10 months and wanted to surprise his fiance who is my adoptive dad. I knew about it and everything went well but my friends said "Omg I want a surprise like that!" I just thought "No, you don't" because it can change into a nightmare real quick and than at your front door are standing two soldiers that tell you that the person died. But many people ignore it. They just see homecoming videos and happy reunions.
Rest in peace Noah, you were a great big brother 🕊💔