Reckless Driving - Lestappen AU

It's 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐏
It's 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐘
It's 𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄

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𝐒𝐄𝐓 in the elite halls of Saint Elias University, where privilege is inherited and reputation is everything. The pressure to be perfect breaks people here. And when it doesn't? It turns them reckless.

"Don't wanna watch it as it happens / See the crowd's reaction..."

⊰ slow hands on the steering wheel, fast hearts behind the ribs ⊱

𝐌𝐀𝐗 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍 has never played by the rules. Brash, brilliant, and too fast for his own good, he's haunted by the past and hurtling toward a future he doesn't want. His nights are spent behind the wheel of an illegal racing scene that coils like smoke beneath the city's surface-where adrenaline is a drug and mistakes are fatal.

"You're a reckless driver..."

He never planned to care about anyone again. Not after everything.
Until Charles Leclerc walks into his life with sharp smiles and a spine made of glass and steel.

⊰ I'm reckless, but you-you're scared ⊱

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐂 has been living someone else's dream his whole life. Image. Discipline. Control. A golden boy raised to be flawless. But pressure cracks things, and Charles is starting to unravel. Slowly. Quietly. Tragically.

"I'm a careful driver"

He shouldn't be drawn to Max. Max is everything he was taught to avoid-chaotic, cruel, and painfully real.
But avoiding him? That was never an option.

⊰ we're driving straight into something we can't come back from ⊱

As tension turns to obsession, and obsession turns to something deeper, they find themselves caught between love and destruction, past and present, fear and freedom.

"I tell you all the time to keep your eyes on the road..."
"Would you hold me when we crash?"
"One day it'll kill us if I don't let go"