F1 Imagines (BOOK 2)

Safe II Lewis Hamilton

Warnings: Angst, Hate crimes

"I'm so sorry darling you know I don't want to but I have to." Lewis cried with you. 

"No, you don't Lew, I love you and I can deal with this." You sobbed into his chest. 

"I love you too but your life and safety are more important to me, and as long as you're with me I'm putting you in danger and it would be selfish of me to carry on with this." He spoke softly knowing that with every word he broke your heart a little more and more as well as his. 

You'd been dating Lewis for a year, initially trying to keep it a secret but this man had little to no privacy so it only took about a month for people to find out about the new girl Lewis Hamilton was dating. People talked a lot, figuring out who you were, where you came from, your background, even speculating what you're future and it was safe to say people weren't fond. 

You weren't like any of the other girls that Lewis had dated coming from a humble background and having to work long shifts to provide for yourself, all until Lewis had insisted you took a less demanding job and he would take care of you, he wanted to and he loved you. 

It wasn't an easy decision at all, you'd refused for months until you finally accepted wanting to be able to spend more time with your boyfriend so it was really very recently you'd started traveling to races with him on a more frequent basis. 

And that's when things started to get worse, the hate that was once directed to you solely online was now coming in full force in person. Initially, people called you a gold digger, a slut, a whore, and the like, some even going to the extent of buying fake money guns and blasting them toward you. 

Of course, it bothered and hurt you but your love for Lewis was greater so you held onto this. Lewis though was infuriated by this, constantly asking security to do everything possible to stop this sort of behavior, and as much as he could he would make sure to be alongside you. 

But this did little to nothing when people started getting more aggressive, and more confident with their attempts at harming you physically. Now beginning to throw things at you and the last straw for Lewis was when someone had tried throwing a lit match at you which luckily only left a small burn mark on your hoddie before landing on the floor.

Lewis still pressed charges against attempted murder but still knew this could no longer keep going, he couldn't risk your life anymore just because he wanted his girlfriend alongside him on the weekends, and he wasn't going to keep you locked up at home either because that would be equally selfish. 

You could find something better, someone, who you could freely be with without having to be in constant fear for your safety or going on your phone and getting message after message berating and threatening you. 

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So here you were a month and a half later still angry, sad, and confused as to why Lewis had decided for you that you no longer needed each other. That you weren't strong enough to get through all of this, and honestly maybe you weren't but with Lewis, you felt like you could do anything, you could get through absolutely everything and you were strong enough to withstand absolutely any challenge that came your way because that's what Lewis had always told you, that's what he had always reminded you off until you believed it yourself. 

But now it was hard to believe any of it was true because he had decided it wasn't all of a sudden. Or at least that's what it felt like. It was so stupid, how could he think you could ever fall out of love with this man, how would you ever stop needing his soft lingering kisses in the morning, his warm cuddles throughout the day, his daily loving whispers and encouraging texts?