CHAPTER 06 || Family

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A man enters Max's field of vision. But it is not Jos. The younger man's senses are so numbed that he can no longer hear any difference between voices.

As he looks into the man's eyes, he starts to cry. "I was so scared, I thought you were Jos. He lured me into a snowstorm!" His counterpart looks at Max in horror. "Shh, everything will be all right, I'm here now. Everything will be fine Pikkuiseni !" He mumbles.

"Kiitos isä! " Sniffs Max and the Finn wraps his arms around the Dutchman. "Olet turvassa, poikani. Ja minä suojelen sinua nyt. Ikuisesti! " Kimi whispers and holds Max protectively against him.

[Thanks Dad! || You are safe, my son. And I will protect you now. Forever!]

The former racing driver immediately wraps Max in blankets, makes him a hot chocolate and sits him in front of the fireplace. Then he takes an old children's book from the younger one and reads it to him. Max quickly falls asleep in Kimi's arms.

"Is everything okay now, Kimi? Max is with you. He's safe." Smiles the last man in the house. He leans against the door frame with a warm glint in his eyes.

But Kimi shakes his head. "He's totally hypothermic and Jos is apparently around here somewhere too. No ide- Hey Seb, where are you going?! You can't look for Jos now because he's lured your protégé into a blizzard. Do that later. Max needs us first!" Kimi interrupts himself and Seb actually closes the front door again.

Cursing softly to himself, he moves towards the sofa. Normally he would have fallen on top of Kimi, but that's not possible now. Max has taken his place, but Seb is glad that the young man is sleeping peacefully and slowly regaining his normal temperature.

The German also snuggles up to Kimi and quickly falls asleep. Kimi just smiles and thinks Now everything's gonna be alright!

Max is with him, Seb is finally happy again and he too can live in peace without cameras. But of course Kimi has to let the rest of the drivers know that Max is back. And he does so briefly, but then switches off the mobile phone.

When Max wakes up because his feet are getting cold, he is hopelessly confused. Firstly, because he hadn't seen Seb and secondly, because the two older ones are lying in a very trusted position.

Kimi also opens his eyes. Only he wasn't asleep. "Are you two together?" Max asks immediately. "What, no! Why are you awake?" Growls the eldest.

"My feet have gone cold." Complains Max, wiggling his toes. Kimi smirks and suggests, "Then put them back under the covers." But then Seb quacks in fright. "Oopsie," Max mumbles with a small grin. Seb was startled when his feet touched his calves.

Kimi can't help laughing. Sebastian looks at him indignantly. "And you're really not a couple?" Max doubts their actions. "How many times, no!" Says the Finn, amused.

"Seb is married to Hanna, don't you remember?" Explains the eldest patiently. "Lie! They got divorced!" Protests Max, confused. They both look at the German and want to know who is right.

"Max is right." Seb whispers and Max retreats to leave the two men he affectionately calls his dads alone.

Hearing only silence for several minutes, he is about to go back into the living room when Kimi comes out and says "Come on Max, we need new firewood!" And pulls the confused boy along.

"Papa needs some time to himself doesn't he?" Seb hears Max say softly before the two disappear outside. It's the first time Max has actually called him Papa and it overwhelms him immensely.

He sits trembling on the sofa. Did he chase Kimi away? Did he overreact? Was it right not to tell Kimi about the break-up because the introverted Finn is the reason?

He does not manage to calm down. When he hears a strange voice outside and Kimi, who keeps laughing, his heart breaks. Psychologically and also physically he can't take it anymore and collapses.

Outside, just a few minutes before Seb's collapse, a surprise guest comes into the garden. He sprints towards Max and they both lie in the snow.

Puzzled, Max blinks against the sun before he growls "I never thought I'd be greeted by you like this!" The man on top of him just growls "Keep it down Emli! I almost died of worry!" Max laughs softly. He would never have expected that. Not from Charles.

For he is the one lying on top of the Dutchman. "Come on, kids, you're frozen enough already!" Laughs Kimi. The two pick themselves up and Kimi throws them both off with a snowball. And that quickly turns into a snowball fight.

Inside, however, Seb hears only laughter and cannot place Charles' voice. For him, Charles is a stranger who is having a great time with his son and his secret love.

As he collapses, a scream leaves his lips. It expresses everything he is feeling at the moment. Sadness, anger, fear and above all despair.

As he lies on the floor crying and trembling, Kimi rushes in in a panic, looking around searchingly and fearfully. When he sees Seb on the floor, he sprints to the younger boy and drops to his knees in front of him.

He pulls the man into his arms and holds him as tight as he can. The man he is hugging no longer reminds him of the strong 36-year-old but of the 20-year-old boy completely emotionally destroyed by Helmut Marko.

Kimi tries to calm him down and whispers softly comforting things in his ear. "Seb what's wrong? Talk to me, please!" Kimi pleads and Seb clings desperately to the older man.

Kimi lets himself fall back and leans back against the sofa. He pulls Seb onto his lap. Seb hums briefly and snuggles up to Kimi. The older one asks quietly, "Would you like to tell me why you didn't tell me about the divorce?"

Seb sniffles and whispers "You're the reason." Kimi tenses up and asks "Why me?" He pushes back his hopes. "Hanna kept accusing me of having an affair with you. At some point I stopped denying it and just always went to you after the arguments." Seb explains quietly.

"But why didn't you deny it?" Asks Kimi confused. "Because I wanted it to happen." Whispers Seb so quietly, that Kimi almost didn't hear it.

The eldest is about to answer when Max and Charles come in and just drop down on the sofa to fall asleep cuddled up together in no time. The two older men look at each other in irritation, but leave it at that.

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Next one :)

NO MORE JOS!! KIMI AS A FATHER IS WAY BETTER THAN HIM :)

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