*Completed* "What if we're better as a team?" Lando asked, his gaze softening. "We're better as rivals," Rose replied, her heart pulling her in two directions. In this world of speed ambition friendship and love, every race could change everything-on and off the track. Lando Norris x FemOc BEST RANKING : 16/10/2024 - #1 apex 17/10/2024 - #1 race 26/10/2024 - #1 firstfanfic 27/11/2024 - #1 lewishamilton 12/12/2024 - #1 cars 23/12/2024 - #4 writing 16/01/2025 - #1 team

First written on ao3, now also here :) STILL GOING!!!! Setting: A small UK school in 1996. Photography club, darkrooms, grey skies, hallways buzzing with Walkmans and corded phones at home. Lando and Oscar are in their final year. Oscar Piastri is the quiet, but confident, observant lead of the school's photography club, always behind the camera, rarely in front of it. Lando Norris is loud, unpredictable, and sentenced to the club for detention hours. He mocks it at first-until it starts becoming his favorite subject. As they develop film together in the red-lit darkroom, Lando sees himself through Oscar's lens: softer, more human.

Oscar Piastri had always been a calm, collected kind of guy. Unshakeable, even. Lando Norris, on the other hand? Not so much. And today? Today was the day Lando fully lost it. (Also known as: Oscar Piastri got married at 18...and forgot to mention it.)