Charles Leclerc's Daughter

Chapter 5

I sat staring at the wall of blankly, all the drivers, a bunch of back up drivers, team owners, and some crew members had all met in a big room. The police where asking questions, they had already privately talked to me and Carlos. Pierre patted my leg, I tore my gaze away from the wall and met Pierre's sympathetic game.
"Don't worry we'll find her." He said, trying to reassure me,
"It's not looking very promising." I said, there was no emotion in my voice.

I had already lost so many people in my life, but this was the worst, cause I know she's alive and going through terrible things, at least with my father and Jules I knew they went to a good place. I had spent the first hours crying and full of emotion, but now I was just numb.

"I can't race." I said, I glanced at Pierre, he sighed,
"I know, I don't think it's safe to put you in the car but Ferrari wants you to race so?" Pierre shrugged,
"Wait what?!?" Max asked turning around to face us, "Charles has to race???" He asked, his voice full of shock, disbelief, and anger.
"Yes, isn't it stupid, both F1 and Ferrari want him to race." Carlos said joining the conversation,
"It's not safe." Daniel said, they all nodded,
"You should intentionally spin through the grass." Lando suggested,
"No it's fine, I'll just try my best." I said, I sighed and sank lower into my seat,
"No, I'm going to go talk to F1, Daniel your coming too." Max said firmly, he stood up and stormed out of the room, Daniel and Carlos quickly jumped to their feet and followed.

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An hour later, the three of them came back, max had a smug look on his face,
"You don't have to race, Ferrari is putting in Antonio Giovinazzi." Max told me,
"Remind me never to mess with max." Carlos said,
"Oh we already knew that." Lando said with a laugh.
"What did you say?" Pierre asked max, max just shrugged,
"Lots of yelling, he mainly went after the safety part of it, threatened to sue f1 for putting all of the drivers at risk, and again lots of yelling, in English and Dutch." Daniel explained,
"Well thank you, never thought I would actually appreciate your temper." I told max,
"No problem anytime you need my services, just give me a call, I will happily yell at someone." Max joked, I smiled a tiny bit.

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I sat in my drivers room, the race was on playing on the tv but I wasn't really paying attention. I felt like I should be doing something, anything! But I had been told repeatedly by the police and investigators that I was to just stay put and wait.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by a knock on the door, "come in." I said, my voice shaking slightly, the door opened,
"Hey." The German accent was music to my ears, I jumped up and threw myself into Sebastian's arms. He held me tightly as I clung to him, "they'll find her don't worry." He said trying to reassure me,
"That's what everyone keeps saying," I said pulling away, we sat down on the couch, "it's just the longer she's gone the less likely seems of finding her." I admitted, Sebastian sighed,
"I understand but it's only been a day or two so don't loose hope, stay strong for her." He said patting my shoulder,
"I know I'm trying." I sighed and leaned against Sebastian, i rested my head on his shoulder and we stayed like that in silence for a while before I slowly drifted off into sleep.

"Leave her alone!" I screamed as a man in black punched Faith, "don't hurt her!" I screamed, I tried to run to her, to protect her but I was stuck in one spot unable to move, unable to even turn my head away or advert my eyes. Tears steamed down my face as blood poured from faiths mouth, her hair was a mess and a her clothes were torn up and dirty. The man kicked her in the ribs and she fell to the ground, "NOOO!" I screamed as Faith lay shaking in the ground, I could hear her laboured breathing, it was getting softer.
"Please no! Take me! Take me! I will do anything you want just leave her alone." I begged desperately, I started sobbing as I realized I could no longer hear or see Faith breathing anymore, her body had gone completely still. The man in black turned to me and while making eye contact he pulled out match and lit it and then drop it on faiths body. "Stop!!! Please?!?!" I screamed.

"Charles!" I snapped awake and sat upright, my breathing was laboured and I had tears streaming down my face, "hey hey take a deep breath." Sebastian said, he rubbed my back trying to calm me down, "nightmare I'm gonna assume," he said, I nodded,
"Yeah." I said shakily, Sebastian pulled me into a hug,
"Wanna talk about it?" He asked gently, I shook my head,
"No let's talk about something else." I said,

"Okay, max won the race, Lewis and Carlos cam in second and third." He informed me,
"I'm not at all surprised." I said, Sebastian chuckled softly,
"I know me either, wanna go eat something?" He asked, I shook my head,
"I'm not hungry." I said, it was the truth, I don't think I could even choke down a mouthful of food while knowing my baby girl is out there probably scared out of her mind.
"Okay, but make sure you eat something later." Sebastian says, I just nod.