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54. "P-please scent me, I don't want to smell like them, I want to smell like you..."
It starts innocent enough, Lando popping his head around the door of Oscarâs driverâs room somewhere between press responsibilities on Thursday. âHey,â he says, glancing at where Oscar is sprawled over the couch, scrolling through his phone. âCan you scent me?â
Oscar raises an eyebrow. Theyâve been teammates for a while now, long enough for Oscar to know Landoâs nose is sensitive. He particular, about who and what he does and doesnât smell like. Borrows hoodies from friends and family to be wrapped up in their scent, gets antsy when things smell wrong.
So this. This means Oscar⌠His inner Alpha, the one thatâs been screaming mine mine mine ever since he first laid eyes on Lando, rumbles happily. Oscar firmly tells it to shut the fuck up and turns to Lando, reassuring smile on his face, determined not to make this weird. Lando wouldnât ask him if he wasnât feeling uncomfortable, so.
âSure,â he says. âGet over here.â
Lando makes a happy noise and instead of waiting for Oscar to get up so they can do the whole cheek rubbing, neck nosing thing thatâs normal between friends, flops down square on top of Oscar and snuggles in.
âOof,â Oscar wheezes out, when Landoâs elbow ends up somewhere in his abdomen. âOkay.â
âHm,â Lando says, shoves his nose into Oscarâs neck. Oscar stares up at the ceiling, tries to think of Normal and Sane things that arenât his teammate currently lounging on his chest, fitting into his arms like a puzzle piece sliding into place.
After about five minutes of Oscar trying to name every single part of the MCL60 in his head and not thinking about shoving his nose into Landoâs soft curls and taking in his chocolate cookie sweet scent, Lando lets out a happy noise and gets up again. âThanks, mate,â he says, and then disappears before Oscar can utter as much as a âNo problemâ.
--
It happens again, after that. And again. Lando has clearly added Oscar to his roster of âPeople Who Smell Goodâ, and makes grateful use of the fact that Oscar is just around, like. All the time. It reaches a point where Lando just follows Oscar into his driverâs room between obligations, sprawls all over his couch, steals his hoodies.
Like he belongs.
And thatâs. Thatâs when it starts becoming a problem. Because the more and more Lando inserts himself into Oscarâs space, the more Oscarâs stupid instincts scream at him that heâs his, that he belongs to Oscar, that he is his Omega. Which is stupid, because Lando doesnât belong to anyone. Least of all Oscar.
The moment Oscar realizes heâs gotten in way over his head is when him and Lando make it onto another podium, and when Max gives Lando a congratulatory handshake, Oscar actually growls at him.
Nobody catches it, over the sound of the celebrations and the general F1 post-race ruckus, but Oscar realizes that if he doesnât put a stop to this now itâs only going to get worse and that isnât fair to anyone. Not to Lando, not to any Alpha that comes close to Lando, not to himself.
He doesnât tell Lando, doesnât know how to explain without putting his heart on the table and making it gratingly awkward for everyone involved, and so he keeps quiet, pulls away bit by bit, slowly disappearing back into the shadows he existed in before Lando put him in the spotlight.
Lando, for the most part, lets him. Frowns, when Oscar closes the door to his driverâs room before Lando can follow, when Oscar moves away from his touch. But he doesnât say anything, seems to accept the distance Oscar is trying to create. Doesnât push.
It hurts, only a little bit. Oscar had fooled himself, at one point, that maybe it meant something, to Lando. But the way he lets Oscar pull away so easilyâŚ
Oscar puts his head down, focuses on the car. Heâs here to race after all.
--
The whole weekend has been shit. Qualifying was garbage for the both of them, and then thereâs a sprint on Saturday that goes completely tits up, too. Lando ends up in the gravel somewhere halfway, and Oscar watches the screens, watches him climb out of the car, sulk back to the garage.
Lando gets subjected to a million interviews that all ask him the same questions, and Oscar can see the exhaustion on his face, from his end of the media pen. Something in him wants to reach out, pull Lando close, shade him from the rest of the world. He pushes that something down, and answers the fifteenth question about how theyâre expecting the race tomorrow to go now the car seems so spectacularly shit this weekend.
He doesnât expect there to be a knock on his hotel room door later that night, revealing Lando in all his jittery, exhausted glory. âOscar,â he says, mouth tight and eyes downcast. He looks so small, and Oscarâs Alpha whines at the sight. âOscar please. I know Iâve been asking way too much, making you all uncomfortable but please, please scent me. I donât, I donât want to smell like them, I want to smell like you.â
Oscar wants to give in immediately. Pull him close, press his nose into Landoâs scent gland. Take off his clothes, because skin to skin scenting is always better. Wants to cover him until Lando smells like nothing but Oscar, so everyone else can smell who he belongs to. But thatâs not. He needs answers first. So he restrains himself, tries to keep his face neutral as he says. âWhy me?â
Lando makes a frustrated little noise. âDonât. Donât be mean, Oscar. You know. You know why.â
âI really donât,â Oscar says, genuinely confused.
âBut,â Lando says, âYou pulled away. Because you realized I was in love with you. Thatâs why⌠You needed space.â
Oscar blinks. Tries to process fifteen things all at once and comes up completely blank. âI needed space because I realized I was in love with you,â he says, a little dumbfounded.
Lando frowns. âWhy would you need space, then?â
âI, because I didnât think you wanted me?â
âWell, thatâs stupid,â Lando says, frown deepening. âOf course I want you. Why would I scent you all the time if I didnât want you?â
Oscar wants to bring up the nose thing, how he just thought thatâs how Lando kept himself comfortable. Want to bring up how Lando never said anything. But itâs details, really. Details that donât really matter, not when Lando is standing in front of him, saying heâs in love with Oscar.
So instead, he grabs the front of Landoâs hoodie, pulls him close, presses their lips together in a searing kiss. Lando yelps, but then melts into it immediately, making a happy little purring noise in the back of his throat.
(Later, with his arms wrapped around Landoâs naked, sleeping form, Oscar presses his nose into the place where Landoâs neck meets his shoulder. He smells like LandoOscarLandoOscar, and itâs the most beautiful thing Oscarâs ever smelled. Heâs falls asleep only seconds later.)
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another #mirroring moment
featuring: charles leclerc, lando norris, carlos sainz, oscar piastri, alex albon, max verstappen, daniel ricciardo, lance stroll, george russell and many more
disclaimer: these are MY comfort videos, so there will be bias towards some drivers and not others, enjoy :)
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Lance: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives. Fernando: I wake up at 4:30 AM every day to train. Lance: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives.
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martian + excerpts from T.S Eliot's The Journey of the Magi