*^ Landoscar one shots ^*

I love these on ao3 so I gift u these :)

🤍-fluff
🖤- a bit of angst I guess

I wrote this instead of (full) angst :)

Also I know lando didn't dnf in Belgium but it's for the story, Oscar finished instead so just swapped around basically

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1

Lando hadn't had the best race he'd ever had.

After all the 2023 season was well..slow, and lando was really doubting himself.

So here he is now, after Bahrain curled up in his drivers room. Looking out the small window that he'd requested he put in his room. He sighed, even though his new teammate Oscar piastri had an even worse race, lando was still upset with himself.

He'd put a lot of work and patience into the team and now he couldn't even get into Q2 on any pace. Let alone finish a race.

He let a stray tear fall from his eye, another one following suit from the other.

He put his head into his arms, pulling his knees up to his chest and pulling himself into a ball.

He cried silently, these walls were thin and he didn't need some random engineer walking into his room to ask him if he was ok.

But then there was a knock on the door, lando sniffled and quickly sat up, wiping the tears away from his eyes quickly. Because this was pathetic, why was he even crying?

"Yeah?" He said, it came out shaken and broken. Lando cursed at himself for it, for not sounding happy and pleasing like he always did.

"Can I come in..?"

Shit it was Oscar, lando jumped up and pressed his hand against the door as it was about to open.

"No! Uhm..can you just like go away..maybe Oscar?" Lando asked, sniffling a little on the other side of the door.

He heard Oscar step away, "but I just wanted to see if your ok..?" The Aussie said, it was mumbled and he almost sounded hurt.

Lando felt horrible and guilty for shutting him out. He could easily open the door and just let Oscar in, let Oscar comfort him.

But he was supposed to be the older one in the team, so he wasn't going to do that, instead he kept his hand on the door and let his eyes well with more tears.

"Please go away Oscar.." he said, a silent sob escaping his mouth before he ducked in a breath and tried to compose himself.

"A-are you sure..you sound upset.." Oscar said, gently pushing on the door until he realised lando was baracading the door. And he wasn't one to invade someone's privacy if they didn't want him there. So he stepped away from the door again.

"Yes I'm sure Oscar..now please just leave me alone, I'll see you later," lando muttered, pulling his hand away from the door, letting them hang listlessly by his sides.

He heard Oscar sigh quietly, before he walked away. The Aussies footsteps fading away down the hallway.

Lando bit his lip and let a sob fall out of his mouth.

The worst part was, it wasn't even about what happened in the race. It was how sad Oscar sounded when he muttered a little 'bye'.

2

Australia, Oscar's home race.

The two had been spending a little more time together since Bahrain. Lando had gotten to know Oscar even more, making him more smiley and he'd grown a little more fond of him.