Wildest dreams || Charles Leclerc x Max Verstappen (lestappen)

Drivers get together

Max was on his way towards Martijns hotel room to pick him up for the driver get together in Sebastian's hotel room. All the drivers had easily agreed to his best friend coming as long as the Dutch dj would also arrange the music and Max was glad. If he had to face Charles then at least his friend was by his side.

As they entered the room he heard an all to familiar Australian. 'MARTIJN! MARTIJN!' Screaming in broken Dutch like only he could. As they approached him the Australian passed them both a beer with a hug Max immediately felt more at ease in the room.

They were just chatting and laughing about, as everyone was happy to hang out together again as they hadn't done that for months with COVID. Because they were all tested and stayed in their f1 bubble they could at least hang out with each other.

Max felt relaxed the entire time until he saw Daniels eyes twinkle as he put his hands to his mouth. 'PIEEEEEEREEEEE GAAAAAAASLLLYYYYYYY!' He knew that meant Charles would be close as well and as he turned he saw Pierre walking in to the room only to be closely followed by Charles like expected.

Charles at first wasn't looking at him as he took of his coat. Only as he turned and looked up he and Max locked eyes.
Time seemed to stand still for a second. Only to be broken as Pierre started talking to the Monegasque and offered him a beer.

The couple didn't really see each other the first part of the evening. Staying out of the others way with military precision.

Around 22.30  Sebastian called for the group to listen. 'What about a pub quiz?' He smiled proudly.As he had prepared one this of course all part off the plan.

As if on cue Max and Charles answered simultaneously. 'No thanks, Not this time' both not feeling up to it. As Pierre, Martijn and Seb had plotted the plan they already foreseen such reaction. Luckily they knew exactly how to get their friends to participate.

'Afraid you're not going to win?' Pierre smiled mischievous as the others nodded in agreement.
'I'll beat you with my eyes closed' Max challenged the Frenchman . 'Then proof it!' He winked at him.
'Ugh fine' Max groaned, though he did actually got excited for a challenge. He loved a challenge!

'Now you have to play along Charles!' Daniel pleaded . 'Otherwise we won't have even teams!' The monegasque rolled his eyes as he sighed and clapped his hands on his thighs. 'Fine!'

Seb was quick to put the teams together, it would be:

Daniel and Alex
Pierre and Max
Martijn and Charles
George and kimi
Lando and Carlos
Valterri and Sergio
Nico  and Esteban

From the start of the game it was obvious the game was played by 13 very competitive drivers. Even everyone was stunned by Kimi's fanaticism in the quiz. Apparently the Fin liked a good Pub quiz, also the flow of alcohol probably helped.Nevertheless Martijn couldn't help but get competitive to, being surrounded by it.

It got to a point the drivers got in to a heated discussion mixed with banter. Throwing various claimes around.
'Oh common mate you know that's bull!'
'HAHAHA I'M RIGHT AND YOUR WRONG!'
'Seb I disagree here, you got the wrong answer quizmaster!'

At one of the questions George was so convinced that he was right that he even proposed to make a PowerPoint to prove it. Claiming his statement as 'facts!'

'Your so full of it George with your facts! There is nothing facts about this!' Charles laughed at the Britton's claims, though he was dead serious. George was wrong and he knew it!
To his surprise Max in his fanaticism had backed him against George.
They both smiled shyly at each other before they realised what they were doing and they quickly averted their eyes again. Trying their hardest not to look up.

This happend a couple of times during the game. They also sometimes answered the question at the same time what made them and everyone in the group chuckle.

In the end Max and Pierre were proclaimed the winners so they hugged and cheered. While Charles and Martijn came as a close second with only one right answer less then them. So they also shared a high five and a handshake followed by a pat on the back. The rest of the drivers murmuring that it wasn't fair, and they should have won. Only for Seb to tell them to suck it up and deal with it as he was the quizmaster, so it was for him to decide. After a while everyone went to separate conversations again.the drinks changed from beer to gin tonic and tequila.

Max was quietly nursing his drink in the corner of the room as Sebastian was talking to him about some beehive he saved in his garden. Though it didn't really register in Max's mind.
He couldn't help but think back to his small interactions with Charles tonight as he stared discreetly at him from across the room.
As anxious as he felt before, the looks Charles gave him, it had to mean something he was sure of it.

So after he had listened to Sebastian with another story about something his daughter had pretended to do with the tea party with her dolls and bears. He was quick to excuse himself towards the German. 'Will you excuse me seb? I've got to do something' he said as Sebastian followed his gaze and smiled. 'Sure Max no problem! I'll talk to you later'

Charles was seated across the room with Martijn who still was seated next to him since the pub quiz. To be fair, it surprised Max a little given how mad the Dutch dj had been at his Ex. But he decided to leave it for now as it was probably to keep things normal tonight. Also they used to really get along sharing a lot of the same interests. So he supposed it was a good thing.

They were talking about music, he heard Martijn tell Charles that during lockdown he started to play piano. Something that Charles had also picked up on himself. Max knew his best friend and former lover always had a lot in common and it was something he really used to love.

Shaking his head from his own reminiscing he made his way towards the two. 'Hey' he said shyly as he approached them. Doubting himself a little if this was a smart thing to do. But he never really backed off a Challenge so he wasn't going to start now.

'H-how are you?' Max asked feeling secure enough to do so with his best friend close by.
Charles who hadn't expected Max to approach him just shrugged. 'I'm okay...' he said though he wasn't fooling anybody, not even himself.
'Good... good....' the Dutch sighed as he was pulling at his pants. 'Look Charles, I-I , I guess I just wanted to say... I'm sorry about Austria, I - I don't hate you obviously.... I just don't want to fight.... So... yeah... that's just what I wanted to say... so.... Yeah... bye' Max said as he walked away again before Charles could finish. 'I'm sorry too'

He shared a glance with Martijn who held his hands up in the air as if to say 'I don't know, and sure you go' before Charles Stood up and followed the dutchman out of the room.