F1 imagines (x y/n)

The sun is rising || Daniel Ricciardo

You head to the Australian Grand Prix, you would be more excited except you're running on little to no sleep, and after all, this was your full-time job. You doze off and almost get locked inside the track alone when someone finds you.

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Being a motorsport photographer was harder than people thought, no the actual job wasn't hard but everything surrounding it was tiring. Today I was asked to photograph the F1 race in Australia, my boss was harsh, he had me working every single day from the day training started at the tracks until the last person left the establishments of whatever even it was.

I calculated that this week I had probably gotten around 4 hours of sleep in total considering that when I got home I had to sort through hundreds if not thousands of pictures and edit them before sending them in as quickly as possible. I had become immune to coffee and the only thing that was left for me was trying to stay awake in whatever way I found throughout the day.

I had started photographing in the morning, some of the drivers recognized me but I noticed most of them just thought I was a fan given that I was so young and I knew how to find less crowded spots away from most reporters and photographers which is why my boss liked my shots so much because they were completely different of what other photographers got.

I photographed the race and I thought I'd take a quick break and grab something to eat. I bought some food and found an empty room close to the Renault hospitality that looked like no one was using so I hopped in.

There was a bench where I sat and ate and stupidly thought to lay down for a couple of seconds before heading out.

"Hey." I woke up what felt like seconds later to someone shaking me and whispering.

"Oh sh*t." The first thing I noticed was that it was dark out, I sat up only to fall to the side.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to startle you." I turned and saw Daniel Ricciardo there, he offered me a hand.

I grabbed it and he pulled me up. "No, thanks for waking me up. My boss is going to kill me." I grabbed my stuff ready to leave.

"Uhmm, bad news, we're locked in here." Daniel told me.

"What!?" I turned to look at him looking for any sign of a joke given his personality.

"Yep, I stayed back to look over some data, lost track of time, I roamed around the whole place, there's no one else here except you and me and all the gates are closed." Daniel explained, he didn't seem too bummed out about our situation though.

"We could just climb a gate." I suggested.

"The alarm systems are on, and I don't know about you but I don't want to get arrested." Daniel laughed.

I faked a laugh too. How was this funny? I thought to myself. "Well...I'm for sure getting fired." I dropped back onto the bench.

Daniel sat next to me and started asking me questions about my job. I told him what I did, how I hadn't gotten a blink of sleep in a while and why I was very likely to get fired once I got out of here.

"I have an idea," Daniel smirked.

"Anything has to be better than sitting here." I smiled back. I thought I'd just stop mopping and maybe just have some fun.

"How about, you get an exclusive huh?" Daniel's smile got bigger. "Look I think it would be a blessing if you got fired cause that boss of yours sounds like a d*ck but...why don't you take some pictures of me? Guaranteed no one else will have them, exclusive pictures of Daniel Ricciardo." He wiggled his eyebrows.

"What do you have in mind?" I asked.

"Nude photography." Daniel dropped his smile.

I looked at him for a couple of seconds before we both burst out laughing at the same time. "If I'm gonna ser you naked at least invite me to dinner first." I joked.

"I'm planning on it...uhmm." He waited for an answer.

"Oh I'm y/n." I introduced myself.

"I'm Daniel." He introduced himself. "But you knew that already." He giggled nervously. "Anyways let's go and find something." He extended his hand out for me before pulling us both outside.

We were running around the place just messing about, being chaotic and having fun, then Daniel found a scooter.

"HELL YEAH!" He yelled excited running to grab it. "Take pictures of me!" He giggled like a little kid.

I turned on my camera and started snapping shots of him doing all sorts of 'tricks' on the scooter. He kept hitting himself on his shin which made me burst out with laughter.

"You should stop or you won't be able to walk tomorrow." I laughed, Daniel snapped his eyes up at me.

"I'm not really into that but if you wanna have a go at it-" he smirked walking towards me.

"DANIEL!" I slapped his arm playfully.

"I'm kidding!" He started walking back to the scooter. "I'll at least take you to dinner first." He didn't loose the smirk.

I just laughed and thanked the fact that it was dark because I was probably so red right now. "Why don't we ride around the track?" I suggested.

"Yep, hop on." He faked opening a door to the scooter. I left my camera and stuff beside Daniel's bag before hopping on.

He wrapped his arms around me and put his hands over mine as he began pushing us around the track.

He mimicked engine noises as we took turns making us wobble and making me let out screams every time I thought we were gonna fall which caused him to burst out in laughter.

We went around the track too many times to count before we decided to just walk around. While we were walking Daniel smoothly started swinging his arms before he grabbed my hand.

We talked about everything, Daniel insisted he'd hire me as his personal photographer if we got out of here, and started being dramatic about how soon we'd have to find food and ration it.

"At some point we'll have to repopulate." Daniel kept joking.

"Oh yeah." I laughed. "Like when?" I played along.

"It's gonna have to be soon at this rate." He looked at his non existent watch.

I was laughing again. "And you haven't even kissed me yet." I got a sudden boost of confidence.

But he took me by surprise when he pulled me in, our chests colliding before he slipped his hand behind my head and pulled me in for a kiss.

It all happened so fast it took me a second to realize this was actually happening. I wrapped my arms around his neck letting myself melt into the kiss.

The kiss felt right, we only stopped to catch a breath but the kiss was long. I opened my eyes when I saw a yellow light, he pulled away and noticed the same.

"Oh my god, the sun is rising." His breath tickled my lips.

"We'll get out of here soon." Instead of enthusiasm in my voice I was sad that this would be over.

"I'm not gonna lie...I really hope your boss fires you." Daniel admitted, he brushed his fingers through my hair.

"Don't worry about it, I'll quit if I get to be your personal photographer." I smiled, his smile widened too.

"I'll hire you if you say yes to being my girlfriend." He stepped closer to me, intertwining his fingers with my hair and taking my head gently in his hands.

"I'd love too." He leaned down to kiss me again.