Heaven // NASCAR Oneshots

Honor // Chase Elliott & Alex Bowman

A/N:   This oneshot is slash (m/m).

Alex was recently on Sunday Money, Corey LaJoie's podcast and during it, Alex defended Chase when the other guy on the podcast started to call him a washout.  I honestly couldn't believe how much Alex was defending Chase and because of that, I found myself thinking about the whole situation and now we are here.  

Just a cute, fluffy oneshot where Chase thanks Alex for what he did. 

Enjoy!

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I was nervous as I walked into the shop Tuesday morning. My heart started to beat faster and faster with each stepped I took. Normally I wouldn't be so nervous with seeing my teammates for our debriefing meeting, but today I was. Well, I shouldn't say "teammates", I should say I was nervous seeing only one of them...

Alex.

I was laying in bed late last night, throwing myself a pity party for the way my season has been going; I've wrecked in all of the races so far and even though I salvaged some of them, the rest were crap. This is not how I expected to start out my 2020 season. I wanted to hit the ground running and I've done anything but.

I decided to scrolled through Twitter as a distraction when something caught my eye. It was an Alex Bowman fan gushing about how he defended me in a recent podcast. I scuffed, shaking my head not believing this.

Why would Alex defend me? We barely talk at the track, never hang out and when we do end up talking, it's just about our cars and the weather. We're teammates, not friends.

My interest was piqued enough to look for this podcast on YouTube and gave it a listen. I was honestly just going to let it be background noise as I tried to drift off to sleep but the moment Alex opened his mouth and said my name, my heart stopped and I had to watch.

He was defending me and not a simple 'he's good, stop bashing'.  Alex was straight up listing my accomplishments and defending my honor against the other guy on the podcast who was calling me a washout.

Alex didn't have to do this. Even though he's my teammate, he still didn't have to stand up for me, but he did. He made it his priority to sit that other guy down and went off. I could tell he was starting to get mad by the way he clenched his jaw and started to talk more with his hands.

Everything changed in this moment; tears pricked my eyes as he went on and on, saying I had the best car during the race even though I had a flat tire and he said I deserved so much more than how my season was going.

This man has lost it all in a single moment, doesn't have a renewed contract yet and he's talking about my career when he should be talking about his with this much pride. Alex was selfless and this right here showed that.

My mind began to race as the podcast ended, the last word out of Alex's mouth was my name and suddenly it felt so much more when he said it.

I couldn't sleep at all Sunday or last night, knowing I would see him today. So when I walked into the conference room I was expecting him to say something but he didn't. My heart was a little sad that he didn't acknowledge me but this is how it always is with us.

The seat next to him was empty so I sat next to him. He looked up at me in surprise and then gave me an earth shattering smile and whispered good morning.

Was my heart supposed to leap when he said that?

I opened my mouth say something but Mr. Hendrick came into the conference room and shut the door beginning our meeting.  I grabbed a pen and a piece of paper, scribbling quickly asking Alex if we could hang out later to chat. I showed it to him and nodded his head yes.