This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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Esteban sends Max a picture intended to tease him a little, and remind him of last night.
It works.
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- Part 1 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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Of all the nights he could have had, Max would never have expected this.
He couldn’t have expected he’d be in another nightclub in Monaco, vodka and red bull coursing through his veins to a beat mimicking the pounding bass of another song he didn’t recognise as he listened to his fellow drivers debate which of them would look best in a corset.
Or: A few drivers are taking far too much notice of Esteban and how hot he is for Max's liking. Even if it's in secret, he needs to reassert his claim on what is his, and his alone.
(Now featuring a bonus chapter/epilogue as your new year’s present 😘)
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- Part 2 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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“Come on, what’s on your Spotify?”
A simple question, and it makes Max realise he is in love.
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- Part 3 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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When Max wakes up in the middle of the night, the hotel room barely lit by the streetlights outside, he finds Esteban curled up at the end of their bed motionless and staring at his phone.
It's as if he's waiting for something.
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- Part 4 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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“You know I love it when you mark me,” Esteban whispers, as if his voice alone isn’t enough to have Max gasping and grinding down on the sheets. “I love it when you bite and leave hickeys, or hold me hard enough to bruise so that I feel it for days, but you can’t. Not until after the shoot.”
How is Max expected to survive a night like this?
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- Part 5 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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After the painful disaster that was the Australian grand prix, Max wants and expects nothing more than to be left the fuck alone. He doesn’t expect a miracle from the team, he doesn’t expect pity from friends or family -
He definitely doesn’t expect Esteban at his hotel door with Italian food. But maybe, just maybe, an unexpected visit could be just what he - or perhaps both of them - needs.
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- Part 6 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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As Sassy’s purring fills the otherwise quiet air Max lets his thoughts float where they may, drifting into the past, skirting around the present and tentatively, hopefully, peering to the future too.
“So, if we got married…”
Or: Max is forced to wake up early, but what better time is there to dwell on names and hypothetical futures?
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- Part 7 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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A farewell party, a reckless game of truth-or-dare, and rather than answer a brutal question Max finds himself dared to kiss Esteban Ocon in front of their friends and colleagues.
The fact that no-one knows they’ve been dating for months already? A minor detail…probably.
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- Part 8 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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Esteban is leaning over his dresser to peer in the mirror, a frown tugging on his lips as he plays with his hair in a vain attempt to smooth it down where their activities the previous night had left it a mess. But that isn’t what robs Max of the ability to breathe right now, because Esteban is wearing his shirt.
Max’s shirt.
Or: Esteban wears Max’s red bull shirt. Max… well, he goes a little feral.
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- Part 9 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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Sixty-two wins to Max Verstappen's historic name, and perhaps this one tasted sweetest of all. How could it not, with Esteban by his side on the podium? With victory and a drink in hand, there is only one thing left to do.
Celebrate.
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- Part 10 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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In a perfect world, Max would see Alpine burn to the ground for what they’ve done, but right now he has more important priorities. Esteban falls into the one pair of arms he can trust and maybe together, they can pick up the pieces for the future.
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- Part 11 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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Esteban's eyes were still firmly closed, and his hair lay soft and splayed around his head like a fluffy halo that had Max seized with the sudden desire to steal his hair gel, preferably forever.
Or: A sweet early morning and a relationship still very much in its own sunrise, as Max awakens to find his nightly tossing and turning has surely left poor Esteban squashed. But really, what better time to process feelings that Max doesn't yet know how to name?
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- Part 12 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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While every driver says that media training is a headache, Max doesn’t expect that to become a literal, painful reality. Mercy comes in the form of Esteban, and a trip through memories of childhoods similar perhaps only in dreams and karting tracks.
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- Part 13 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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When Esteban is tricked into drinking alcohol by so-called ‘friends’, who can he turn to for help? Surely not his longtime rival, maybe-sort-of friend, the man who Esteban definitely hasn’t had a growing crush on since before the season began?
He’s going to call Max Verstappen, isn’t he.
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- Part 14 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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When a panic attack threatens to drag Ollie to the depths of despair on the final day of testing, he turns to none other than the teammate the world expects to eat him alive.
What no-one could expect is who else Ollie finds in that hotel room - and why.Series
- Part 15 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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"Even as the lightning flickered away, Max could hear the rain lashing wildly against the window panes. He rubbed his eyes and went to roll over, still mostly asleep and more than ready to drift off again, only as he moved something stopped him in his tracks.
Esteban was awake."
Middle of the night on a race weekend, with a storm raging outside. Max finds Esteban already awake, the thunder dragging him back into memories - including ones he would rather forget.
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- Part 16 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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“On Friday, once you’re back from the shoot, you’re not leaving this bed until you’re covered in hickeys and screaming my name.”
Max had made a promise, but Esteban has a few plans of his own…
Oh, this is going to be fun.
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- Part 17 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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If Max is going to use his weekend off wisely, it might as well be spent perfecting his cup of peppermint tea. And looking after Esteban of course, laid low by a vicious summer virus and barely moving from bed.
Tea is always a good start, right?
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- Part 18 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3
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”Where the fuck is he?”
This is not the first time Max has stormed across the paddock with fury igniting his every step in search of Esteban Ocon. The Frenchman had the sheer nerve to obstruct him in qualifying and now Max wants answers - or revenge, either will do.
What he finds however, is a fellow driver fighting his own body just to make it to lights out - and maybe, just maybe, that’s something Max can empathise with. Perhaps even worry about.
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- Part 19 of This anon’s guide to Esteban x Max <3