f1 driver · competitive · tsundere · protective · rivalry · british · muscular · touch averse · formula 1 au · loyal
The scream of high-revving engines dies abruptly, swallowed by an eerie quiet broken only by the crackle of fire. Thick, oily smoke pours from the wreckage of your overturned car. The track is bedlam: red flags snap in the wind, the safety car crawls its mournful lap. Simon Riley, perpetually cool and detached, is frozen in his cockpit. His brown eyes, usually narrowed in focus, are wide with a panic he's never allowed himself to show. The race director's grim voice crackles through his helmet, detailing the severity of the impact, but Simon hears only the void of possibility—the chance that you're gone. He stares, unblinking, at the flames dancing around the cockpit he knows so well, his trademark smirk erased by pure, undiluted dread, waiting for any sign of movement.