Final Lap - Sambucky AU

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A few days later, the racers were in Monaco. They had finished the qualifiers that morning. Natasha had placed 7th instead of 15th,, and was happy about it. The rest of the Standings were the same as the race before.

Since the juniors were all getting along, they all were going to go out for dinner the night before the race.

Natasha was dragged out to dinner by the juniors.

She was in her room getting dressed. She pulled on a black dress and put her converses on. She put gold earrings in and some rings.

She stepped out of her room. Bucky was dressed up to. "Where are you going?" She asked.

"Im taking your father on a date. We haven't gone on one in a very long time, so we're gonna have some fun." He said with a soft smile.

She smiled as well and nodded as there was a knock at the door. "Well, have fun."

Sam stepped out of their room and glanced at her. She didn't say another word. She just nodded and walked out of the room.

Kylo watched her walk right past him. "Paloma?" He said.

"Come on." She said

Sam sighed and then smiled as he looked at Bucky. "How do I Look?"

Bucky looked at him lovingly and just stepped towards him, pulling him into a kiss. Sam wrapped his arms around his neck and smiled into the kiss.

Bucky started to put his hand under his shirt when Sam stopped him with smirk. "I said date night... not evening alone at home."

Bucky chuckled and kissed his cheek. "Oh yeah I forgot. I was stunned by the handsomeness." He said as he grabbed the car keys.

"Ready?"

"Of course."

Natasha got to the restaurant with Kylo. The paparazzi went crazy, but she ignored them.

The teens all were sitting at a table talking and laughing. She sat down and smiled at everyone as Kylo sat next to her.

Natasha may have been sitting in that restaurant, but her mind drifted somewhere else. She was thinking about her and Sam's argument the night before.

She knew her argument was valid, but she felt she could've listened a bit more. She sighed and just held her head.

After the race tomorrow she would talk to him.

The next day, the drivers were at the track. Natasha was in the Red Bull garage pulling her racing suit on.

She went over strategy with Maria who was also the team principal. Maria was reviewing strategy with her when she saw Sam step into the garage.

"Dad." Natasha said as she noticed him. Sam walked over to her. "Hey... I just wanted to tell you good luck out there." He was going to lift his fist to her for their racing tradition, but figured she'd rather not.

He lowered her hand and waved as he stepped out. Natasha frowned as he left, and just went back over strategy with Maria.

Soon, Natasha was pulling her helmet down as she walked out to her car. She pulled her visor down and pulled onto the track at the same time as the others.

They lined up and waited for the green lights.

3

Natasha took a deep breath.

2

Bucky revved his engine.

1

Sam pulled his visor down.

And they were off.

Natasha overtook Kylo, and took sixth as she made it up in the ranks. She quickly overtook Anthony and took fifth as she raced after the top four.

Around lap 23 she finally overtook Clara. She was in fourth behind the top three. Natasha watched them closely.

Around lap 45, Natasha overtook Mina and took 3rd. She booked it to close the gap between her and her fathers.

The crowd roared as for the first time ever, the family was on the top three. She started to close the gap as Sam defended his position.

She smirked as she realized just how good he was. As she was about to attack....

"Ladies and gentlemen! The Barnes family is in the top 3! Who would've thought that their daughter would be able to keep up!"

"You're right about that Jim! Oh! She's going to overtake- wait... something's wrong. Oh no! Sam's engine has caught fire."

Natasha saw the fire. Suddenly sam tapped her tired and spun them both out. Sam slammed into Buckys car and then rolled and hit the wall.

Natasha's hit the wall, continuing to roll a few feet away from sam. Bucky hit a wall about 15 feet away and was on his side.

Natasha groan as she sat there. "Natasha okay?" Maria said panicked.

"Yeah I'm good... Ferrari had an engine fire..." she said as she suddenly heard an explosion. Her eyes widened as she looked behind her.

Sam's car...

On fire.

"DAD!" She pulled herself out of her car to the best of her abilities. She ran as fast as she could to her dad car. She got to his car but backed up as the flames roared.

She ran over to the seat and saw Sam there trying to get out. He couldn't. He reached for her, she tried to pull him out, but couldn't.

He cried out as she fell back and stumbled back. "DAD ! HOLD ON!" She panicked. She didn't know what to do.

She looked for his seat belt and tried to unbuckle it but yanked her hand back in pain as she realized she burned her hand.

As she did she realized Sam wasn't moving. Everything stopped as emergency vehicles arrived. She stared as fire trucks blasted the car with water.

They ran around her and had to cut him out. She turned her head and saw Bucky getting pulled out of his car and placed in an ambulance.

She stumbled and held her head as she stumbled to her knees. She held her head and started to cry.

"No no no no..." she started to yell in her helmet. No could hear her... she was then quickly escorted to an ambulance.

The race was cancelled.