Like Lightning - Carlando

Between You and Daniel - 2

3rd Person / Lando's POV

As soon as Carlos ignored Lando and started to walk away, Lando looked up at Daniel whilst moving out of his grasp. Daniel, George and Alex didn't see the angry glare that was given to the Brit from his former teammate,as they were too busy laughing about some dumb joke Daniel made.
"Hey I've got to go a minute." Lando told them quickly.
"Oh okay mate, see ya later." Daniel replied whilst the other pair nodded goodbye with flushed faces from laughing.

Lando got up and hurriedly made his way in the direction that the Spaniard stormed off in. He was genuinely worried, like Carlos looked really angry about something and like he was gonna be sick about something as well. The Brit doesn't understand why he seemed upset, as the Chilli's Ferrari was performing well in the free practises today and he also set the quickest lap time. What would make him so upset? As he crosses the paddock he passes Charles. Charles probably also saw that something was up with Carlos when they were talking, as he just looked at Lando as if he would know what was causing it. He chose to just shrug his shoulders at Carlos' teammate and carry on to quickly walk out of the paddock in the direction Carlos went in.

Once he was out of site from the gathering in and surrounding the paddock, he began to jog in the direction he believed Sainz went in. He made it to his the Ferrari's motorhome. He entered but then stopped when he got to Carlos' door and decided to knock not wanting to invade his privacy at all).
"Go away Charles." the older man shouts almost breathlessly, as if he had been shouting or crying.
"It's me. Lando." he says quietly.
Carlos didn't reply but Lando heard shuffling around and then he opened the door.

Carlos' hair was messed up, his face was quite red and he was understandably shirtless in the extremely burning temperature for an evening. He began to walk towards the couch so Lando decided to come inside, carefully shutting the door behind him. Once the Brit was standing behind him in the living room, wondering whether he should sit down or not, Carlos let out an unsteady breath.
"What is going on between you and Daniel then?" Lando blinked at this unexpected question as, to be honest, him and Daniel didn't get on very well until the past month.
"Nothing, why?" Lando said as he went to sit on the couch by his friend.
"Don't lie to me Lando." Carlos warned with a very thick Spanish accent when looking over at him.
"I'm not." he replied making eye contact with Carlos before breaking it almost suddenly.
"Then why are you too so close all of a sudden. You let him touch you and hug you. I thought you didn't like that stuff, no? You are always hanging out even when you don't have to for the team. He always looks at you in you know that way as if..."
Lando then sighs, saying "Nothing is going on between me and Daniel, Carlos. We are literally just teammates. I can't help that Daniel is a touchy-type of person. I'm not going to be rude to him either and decline his offers to hang out if he asks me. Why do you care anyway Carlos? You are all close and cuddly with Charles, aren't you?" To this Carlos looks back up from the floor like he is thinking about what Lando just said. "You and Charles are always together even if you have the choice not to be sometimes. You pair act like an old married couple but you question about me about Daniel and I being friends?"
Lando notices that the Spaniard now looks angry at himself and like he is regretful about letting Lando inside of his motor home at all. They go silent for a minute or two so Lando gets up, and goes to leave because of the awkward atmosphere.
"I'm sorry." Carlos says making him turn around. "Please stay." the older man says to Lando, looking anxious that the Brit will refuse.

Lando walks back towards the couch, not being able to leave the man he  secretly admires so much, and sits next to the elder as Carlos puts his arm around him and Lando leans his head on his shoulder. No lights are on in the motor home so the only light is coming  from the crackling fireplace. No one said anything for about five minutes, as they sat in comfortable, peaceful silence.

"You did well in the practise today." Lando says casually to Carlos making him smile.
"And you, mi cariño." He replies back as Lando's phone buzzes. He takes it out of his pocket to see that it's Daniel saying he is heading back to the hotel now. "You should probably go with him." Carlos says as Lando sits up.
"Mhm." Lando says looking slightly disappointed. He messages Daniel back saying "i'll be ten minutes."and then to Sainz's surprise Lando hugs him tightly, so he hugs him back, still on the couch. "I've missed you, since you've moved. More than you'll ever know."
Lando says sighing. He wishes that they could stay like this forever. The Brit will never be able to tell the older man about how he really makes him feel. It would ruin everything and to be fair, they aren't as close as they used to be anyway. This thought upsets Lando so he pushes it out of his mind, remembering about having to meet his Aussie teammate.

Once Lando pulls out of the hug, Carlos ruffles his hair as they both get up. They begin walking towards the door and Lando almost trips over his own feet . "Sorry, I'm tired." he says whilst softly laughing as the elder starts laughing aswell.
They then begin to pick up their bags, which are dropped in the hallway. "I'm going to go back to my hotel aswell now. If I stay up any later I won't make it to qualifying tomorrow." Sainz says laughing. Norris opens the doors so they both walk out and the Spaniard swiftly locks it.

It is now around 11:00pm and it is pitch black outside except for the warm glow of the streetlights and the shining white moon. The quiet sound surrounding them is from crickets chirping and the hum of some people talking. The last people are leaving the place and getting into the cars to prepare and rest for the qualifying tomorrow. As they walk over to the car park they see Daniel waiting for Lando.
"Hey guys! Took you a while Lando." The Aussie says a little too energetically whilst sarcastically rolling his eyes.
"Sorry, I was getting my stuff." he replies, trying to advoid the look that Daniel gave Lando, when him and Carlos approached together after being gone from the paddock for some time.
"Yeah yeah, it's whatever." he says to Lando whilst getting into his Navy McLaren 720S. "Come on mate, you look like you'll fall asleep in a minute."
As he gets into the passenger side of the car, the sleepy Brit says "See you in the morning Carlos."
"Goodnight, Lando."

A/N~ Okay so this chapter was longer but i don't think it's as good as the first and I will probably end up editing it soon. Once this gets 15 views I will write/publish the next chapter though. If you enjoyed this or have any tips please comment to let me know. Thank you for reading! :)