Belonging to the Iceman

What a Time to Propose

Shantelle brought Nicolas a bottle of juice and a bottle of water for her.

"Heard anything?" She asked.

His eyes were all red and puffy, he looked like a wreck.

"No, I haven't and face it! It's all my fault!" He sobbed "I might as well admit it, I killed him!"

She rubbed his shoulder as they sat in the waiting room.

"Don't be stupid Nicolas..." She tried to comfort him.

"If you only heard what I said to him Shantelle..." and with that, he broke down again, the tears just rolling down his red and puffy cheeks.

"Tell me about it, Nicolas, what did you say to him that was so bad?" She coaxed him gently.

He shook his head and sobbed "I'm too ashamed to repeat ANY of it! Oh, Shantelle hold me! Please?"

She felt the tears welling up in her eyes as she took her into his arms, his head resting into the crook of her neck.

About half an hour later the doctor came into the waiting room to see them.

"Mme Prost? Vous pouvez entrer et de voir votre mari pendant quelques minutes, que ce stade nous voulons une seule dans la chambre avec Alain, vos enfants peuvent le voir après vous sortez" He said to Anne Marie.

Over the next hour, Shantelle watched Alain's family go into see him and come back out.

When Nico finally went in her phone notified her of an incoming call.

'Kimi' flashed up on the screen. Someone she really wanted to talk to.

"Kulta! We just heard the news! How is Alain?" He said worried, Sebastian sat beside him, they were at a bar in Heppenheim when they had seen a breaking report come up on the flat-screen TV behind the bar.

Shantelle burst into tears "We've been told because of his age that he might not make it Kimi!" She cried "How did the media find out so quickly?"

Kimi grunted "it's the media Shantelle; they'll do anything to get the juiciest news! But seriously, are you coping okay? Do you want me to come to Paris?"

She smiled and wiped away her tears, the woman who became his wife would be a very lucky lady.

"I'm not coping no, Kimi..."

"Then I come to Paris!" He said determined, standing up.

"You will be in the company of the Prosts, Kimi-Mathias stay where you are but can you do something for me?" She told him, as much as she loved him, she knew his presence would aggravate the situation even more and that's the last thing Alain's family needed.

"Mitään Kulta" He answered with a smile

"Pray for Alain please; get the word out onto Twitter, to his fans and to the world of Formula One!" She asked him.

He smiled and said, "I will get onto Hamilton now, he's the biggest King of Twitter around!"

"I love you, Iceman!" She said, entirely grateful.

"I love you too, Kulta!" he said "Keep me informed, we're all thinking of you and Alain's family!"

She wanted to ask him a question that was burning on her lips but she bit her tongue, and because partly she knew his answer.

A few hours later Nicolas was snuggled against Shantelle fast asleep as they all sat in Alain's room, watching over him as he was in a medically induced coma, to help with the bleeding on his brain.