goodnight n go | lando norris

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"ari!" maria called for the girl from her simulator rig.

"yeah, ria, what's up?" she looked up from her phone on the other side of the room.

"come say hi to the stream?" she offered.

ariana hopped off the table she was sitting on, walking into view of the camera. she waved at the camera, making her usual appearance in quadrant videos.

she wasn't a streamer, so she wasn't part of the official quadrant group, but she did game from time to time, and she was quite good.

"hi ari!" lando shouted through the video call.

"lando, you're nextdoor. i can hear you better in real life than i can through the stream." she laughed.

"come here! bring snacks!" max shouted from the other room.

"ask nicely." she scolded.

"can you bring me snacks, please, ari?" lando asked softly.

"alright. i'll be there in a sec." she told them, walking out of frame.

she walked to the kitchen of their shared house, fishing random bits of food out of the cabinets, putting it all in a large bowl.

she stopped by ria's game room first, handing her a handful of the stuff she'd put in the bowl.

"thanks, sweetheart." ria said, mid-race.

"no problem. i'm going to the boys, then i'll be back." she told her, leaving the room.

"oh, ari, you are god's greatest gift to the world, i love you, i'm starving." lando said as soon as she walked in.

"help yourselves." she placed the large bowl between their simulator set ups.

lando immediately reached in, picking up a chocolate croissant.

"oh, that's amazing." he sighed.

"you're getting a bit excited there, norris." max warned.

lando threw a middle finger up at max in response.

"do you wanna have a go?" he asked ariana, standing up from his seat. "i need to stretch my legs."

"alright. but don't expect me to be the next schumacher on this." she said, sitting down. "hi chat." she looked at the camera.

"alright, you know the controls, right?" she nodded.

"ooh, austria! that's my best track." she exclaimed excitedly.

it loaded in, and she was up against max and ria.

lando was bent over, resting his elbows on the headrest behind ariana.

"full throttle." he whispered in her ear. "now brake, yeah, through there . . . hit the accelerator."

she followed his instructions, leading the race by the second corner.

"go flat out through this one. brake a little for the next one, and then you wanna be really slow through the last one." he guided her through the final sector.

she completed the five laps, doing as lando said every time. she won, of course.

"what? she's a rookie! how did you . . . oh. you had lando." max realised.

"hey, i'm not a rookie. i sit here and race with lando and ria all the time. try me. silverstone. without lando." she challenged.

lando stepped away from her, letting them set another race in silverstone.

ariana won that one as well.

lando laughed at max, who came last.

"you've got some talent, ariana. maybe you should start streaming as well." max told her.

"maybe. who knows." she shrugged.

"you would definitely be in quadrant." lando told her.

"i basically already am, lando." she said in an obvious tone.

"alright. get up, then. you've had your little fun time, let me back on." he told her.

"wait, my legs fell asleep." she stopped him.

"wake them up then? the fuck?" his sass was strong.

"okay, sassy pants." she scoffed, managing to stand up. "i'm going back to my wife, don't interrupt us again." she said as she left.

"hey wife." ria said as ariana walked in, having overheard their conversation through the stream.

"guys, look, me and ria are actually married. sorry i've hid it for so long." she joked, popping her head into the camera view, kissing ria on the top of her head.

ria laughed, and so did ariana. she returned to her spot on the table once more, watching the trio race, still bragging about winning against the other two.

they finished up the stream after about another hour of racing, ria adding in her own little commentary her and there.

"okay, bye everyone!" ria said to the camera blowing kisses

"me and ria are about to have crazy sex!" ariana added as ria ended the stream.

"ariana!" she scolded the younger girl.

"sorry!" she threw her hands up in surrender, running out of ria's room, and into lando's.

max and lando were also getting up from their sim set ups, and lando cleared the mess he had made while eating.

"in all the years i've know you, you've always made a despicable mess while eating." she told lando, brushing the biscuit crumbs from his hoodie.

"are you not cold? you're only in a t-shirt." he asked her.

"nah, i'm good." she told him.

"you're not, you're literally shivering. here, take this." he began taking off his quadrant hoodie.

"no, it's okay." she stopped him.

"it's not. take it." he persisted.

she gave up any attempt of stopping him, and he pulled the hoodie over her head.

"there we go. perfect." he smiled, tapping her on the head.

"what about you?" she asked, motioning to his now bare upper body.

"don't worry about me." he said.

"you're my best friend, that's my job. to worry about you. get another jumper, lando." she said, turning him around, pushing him to his bedroom. he shrieked at her cold hands on his skin, running away from her.

the february cold had caught up with all the habitants of the house, as they all sat on the couch under blankets, watching a film. it had been lando's turn to pick a film, so he chose batman : the dark knight rises. an absolute classic. ariana remembered how lando had taken her to the cinema to watch the film on opening night back in 2012. it had been the first day of their summer holidays, and it was a day spent well.

it was just as good as when she had first watched it with lando almost a decade ago.

"he's so fit." ria whispered to ariana next to her when christian bale showed up.

"i know, right?" ariana agreed.

" we can hear you, you know?" max told them.

"okay, and?" ria asked.

"guys, drop it. let's just watch the film." lando interjected.

"fine." ria crossed her arms.

"fine." max mocked.

"don't start." ariana warned.

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