Something Gained

Chapter Thirty-Nine

I was nearly asleep watching the tv when I heard the door open. Daniel came into the bedroom and smiled at me
"Sleepy head" he said, he got stripped and jumped into bed laying on top of me, "I missed you" he mumbled into my neck, I put my hand on his neck and scratched lightly. He groaned into my neck, clearly it felt nice
"What did you do?" I asked him
"Went through some bits for the next race, went through the cars performance in Italy, and then I got to put my trophy in the cabinet, next to Senna's which he got in Adelaide" he said as he turned his head and laid it on my chest
"Aw that's lovely, that's a little victory in itself" I said to him
"Your T shirt is in the way" he mumbled
"What?"
"Your T shirt" he sat up
"No Daniel I haven't got a-" it was too late my top was already up "-bra on" I finished my sentence. He slid my top over my head and laid back down on my now bare chest
"Much better" he said, I laughed and my hand back on his neck and tickled him.

I woke up to kisses on my boobs and stomach, I giggled when they were on my sides, as it tickled. I could feel Daniels stubble scratching at the same time. I didn't realise I had fallen asleep, I opened my eyes to the sun coming through. I put my hands through his hair and he looked him and locked his eyes on mine as he kissed my hip. He looked so hot.
He moved up suddenly and his hands were either side of me holding him up, his silver chains dangling from his neck, I stroked up his arms lightly, going every muscle, every tattoo
"Good morning" I spoke softly
"Good morning" he replied
"What time is it?"
"6:30am" he said as he starting kissing my neck
"We need to get ready to go then" I said to him
"Not yet" he mumbled between kisses. I let him carry on, I wasn't going to stop him at all. One more day and we wouldn't be working for a the rest of the week. "I don't want you to leave me" he said as he got back up above me
"Leave you?"
"Yeah, you're going away and I don't want you to leave me"
"It's only for a few days?"
"A few days is too long" He moaned, I smiled and nodded. I was planning to go back to LA, with Hannah. She was staying at my house. Daniel was going to Monaco, he laid back on my chest like he did last night
"You're such a softy" I whispered and he laughed
"If you tell anyone else I won't be happy" he said

8am we walked into the McLaren building. I had meetings all day today, it going to be a long day. I much preferred travelling every week. I walked into my office and collected my laptop and my notes, Hannah came walking up behind me with two coffees, she handed me one which I took graciously and we walked to our meeting. We had a whole team one, then a media/driver one, then a media one with Zak, then a schedule meeting, it was a lot.
I sat down next to Hannah and two other communication people we have. Daniel and Lando were here along with some head engineers, social media guys, Zak and Andreas.
"Okay so first of all I want to thank you all for everything you've done so far this season, particularly this weekend, every point along the spectrum you all played your part, from pit stops to getting the cars ready, from the girls keeping us in our places and on time, all the way to the drivers for obviously performing so well on the track. Congratulations to both Danny and Lando, we very happy with what we've achieved last week. We just wanted to go through some bits from the weekend and going forward, I'll past your onto Hannah and Alex first to go through some bits from the media"
"So to get the not so great stuff out the way first we've been picking up some reports about changes with the team and rumours circulating. We wanted to clear up that is not the case and currently the team is as it should be and we are not worrying about anyone in the team. So any questions directed at anyone, particularly the drivers can we assure we reiterate that point. I'm sure Alex will prep you more guys, but for anyone else that comes in contact with media just make that clear" Hannah spoke
"For the nicer stuff, we've picked up with the Unboxed series, fans are really enjoying it and as such the media content creators will be really busy ensuring we have more content to do. Which means I have more to do" everyone laughed round the table "but it's going well, there will be more in-depth footage of engineers, mechanics and back teams, as we're picking up from fans what they want to see, so it's a constant evolvement. Netflix is in and out of our garage as you know, again that's picking up the pace with viewers, but for obvious reasons let's be careful what we're discussing when they're around as we don't want to let slip anything that can hinder our performance" I finished, "any questions?" I asked
"Not to be funny but in regards to relationships in the team, if the media ask us about those?" One of the mechanics asked, referring to I assume Daniel and I, and now the new relationship between Liam and Hannah
"I doubt those questions will be asked from you guys, but in regards to that, there's nothing you really need to know particularly, we all know what's going on the garage, if you're asked just be vague where you can to protect those people's privacy" Hannah said
"Following on from that, personally I would just say what came to mind. If you're asked is Hannah and Liam secretly dating, I would say we're focusing on the team and the teams performance and that's where we keep our heads" I said, people laughed round the table and Hannah nudged me jokingly as we finished up.

The meeting continued finished off with all the information we needed.
"Alex, Hannah, go take a break and then pop back in here to run over the next few bits. Everyone else, you're free to go" Zak said.
We all got up, collecting our things. Hannah and I walked along and downstairs to the cafeteria to get a drink.