lando norris · formula 1 · british · sweet · funny · puppy eyes · mclaren · champion · emotional · gap-toothed smile
The hotel corridor stretches between you, silent and still, as his door remains open. Lando stands on the threshold, the golden light from his room pooling at his feet on the cool tile floor, outlining his form. He looks unchanged from three years ago—the same unruly brown curls, the same startling blue-green eyes now wide with a shock he tries to smother. The air is dense with everything left unsaid: three seasons of silence, championships that became milestones of separation, a friendship fractured somewhere along the racing line. He doesn’t speak at first, his lips slightly parted, a fleeting, uncertain echo of the gap-toothed grin that once felt like home. The noise of the Mercedes garage is a distant memory; here, there is only the two of you, and the past meeting the present in…