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part 1 : who is he?
The first time the world sees Carlos Sainz arriving with a little kid in his arms, the media doesn’t take long to start going crazy. The photographers of every single media platform should had a thousand photos of the tiny pup and the Alpha driver at this point.
It isn’t only the sight of the pup that is an exact portrait of Carlos for say at least in everything but his eyes. Those eyes were of an intense and beautiful green shade, some media staff would dare to say that they’ve seen that exact same pair of eyes before but they just couldn’t remember where .
No one could actually blame them, the picture of an Alpha Ferrari driver carrying a child with the his face buried in his father’s neck isn’t precisely a sight that you have every day.
But if the media went crazy, the rest of the grid went just wild about it.
“ ¿Carlos? ¿Es tuyo? ” the first person to approach the Ferrari driver it’s no other than Fernando Alonso, his face painted with shock while he looks at the tiny boy in the arms of the other spaniard.
Carlos simply smiles and the pup in his seems to relax instantly at the moment he scented his father.
“Eh… si, cabrón ” the alpha laughs and Fernando wanted to return the action but the shock is still in his body and it seems that isn’t going to leave any time soon “Él es Raph, a ver, saluda campeón ” the child gets out of his hiding spot from his father’s neck to look at the person that his father is talking to.
“Hola ” the pup says in a really low tone, barely audible while a lightly blush spreads through the infant’s cheeks and quickly returning where he was.
Fernando laughs a little.
“Hola, pequeño” the child squeezes his father’s neck and the alpha just giggles a little bit at that while he’s placing his free hand in his son’s back “Lo tenías bien guardado ¿eh? ¿cuantos años tiene?, ¿por qué…? no, olvídalo ¿donde está su madre? ”
The spaniard alpha tenses a little bit at the last question but he manages to let out a little laugh.
Fernando might be a beta but Carlos has always been an alpha with a strong scent that scream alpha in capital letters so much every time he is in a room.
So he can smell the strong alpha scent that is clearly sending a message, that he might stepped out of the line with his question.
He knows Carlos, he knows the respect that the alpha has for him but he also knows that if Carlos sees him as threat, well, problems can arise soon.
And even in his defensive posture and the tight grip over his child, Carlos kept smiling but it’s a cold smile, the ones that are direct to the media when he’s clearly annoyed.
“Tiene 5 años ” it’s all Carlos says, the beta nods and he notices how the Ferrari clearly relaxed when he questioned anymore.
He is not stupid and he is aware that if he asks more questions he will be a dead man and if any rumor comes that he’s stalking Carlos Sainz about his pup, he will be a dead man if the media knows and if the media knows, the fans will know, the tifosi, which is the worst thing that can actually happen.
“Eh… nos vemos en el pit lane ” the alpha nodded at him and before he could even say goodbye, Carlos goes away. When he is a little bit far he can see how the pup gets out of his father’s neck and waves a tiny hand at his direction.
Fernando understands that the child is saying goodbye.
The spaniard beta doesn’t hesitate to reciprocate the gesture.
But the question is still stuck in his mind. who is the pup’s mother?
Well, he has a whole season to find out.
•
The next person to come to find some answers (that he might never have) is no other than Max Verstappen.
The dutch omega is really confused about the sight of a pup in Ferrari’s garage —precisely garage 55— playing with some of the mechanics while Carlos it’s just there, watching his son screaming and laughing like he’s having the time of his life.
He heard the rumours when he arrived to the paddock and he couldn’t believe them until now .
The spaniard alpha senses his presence and smiles when his rich brown eyes connects with his but that little connection disappears soon 'cause the alpha’s eyes are back to his child.
Max feels a little knot in his throat at the pretty picture and with it comes the feeling that he never thought he could have, he wants that too .
The proud radiating from Carlos is so damn painfully obvious that for a moment he wants to be the pup or maybe have one of his own .
He is still so lost in his own mind when a tiny body collides against his legs and his eyes are directed to a pair of vibrant green ones. The child blushes when the dutch omega tries to help him to getting up from the floor.
The pup whines and runs back to his father, Carlos doesn’t hesitate to pick him up and tries to check if his son it’s okay but the pup just hides his face in the crook of his father’s neck.
Carlos smiles when he realises what happened “Eh, you have to say hello to Max, don’t be rude, pup” the alpha says in Spanish and Max knows somehow that the alpha is reprimanding the child.
“It’s okay, Carlos…” Max tries to not make this a big deal but the spaniard shakes his head and tries once more with his son.
“No, no… he tends to be shy but that’s not an excuse.”
“It’s fine, okay? I’m sorry, by the way. I shouldn’t have come here to…” but he’s cut off by one single glance from Carlos, the alpha nudges his pup and tried again to get the pup out of his hidden place.
The alpha is serious, firm but never cruel or disrespectful towards his child.
The pup says something against the alpha’s neck but he can’t really hear or understand well because the pup is speaking in Spanish.
But Carlos laughs, apparently what the child is saying is funny, then the alpha looks at Max again while he’s smiling.
“I know what happens here, Raph thinks you’re pretty.”
And oh, well. Now it’s Max who it’s blushing like a schoolgirl and a nervous smile appears on his lips.
The pup decides in that moment to be out of his hiding place and looks at Max again, the blush on his cheeks spreading quite fast.
“Um… thank you… yo-you’re a handsome boy too” Raph (as Carlos presented his pup) blushes more and smiles at the dutch omega.
“Hola ” the boy finally says, barely a whisper before he squirms out of his father’s embrace.
The child runs back to where he was playing with the mechanics, Carlos is smiling wide at his pup and the longing feeling inside Max just increases. He really wants that .
He clears his throat before talking “I’m sorry Carlos, really. I just came because everyone it’s talking about you and your pup and I just… I just wanted to see it myself” a deep red blush starts to spread on the dutchman.
Carlos sighs and gives him a gentle smile “I can understand that, no problem. I think if anyone else was in this situation maybe I would do the same.”
Max nods in agreement.
A happy scream interrupts them and Carlos turns at the garage where the pup was laughing and in that moment, the tiny copy of Carlos came running towards his dad again y pulls his pants before grabbing the spaniard’s hand.
“ Papa, vamos ” the child starts to tugs his parent and the alpha just follows.
“See you on track, Max!”
And the alpha disappears inside the garage, leaving Max with less confusion but with a lot a questions in his head.
Walking away from the Ferrari garage, one of the things that Max thinks is that he saw those pair of green eyes, the same ones in the pup’s face.
He just can’t remember where.
•
The same way Max approached Carlos the rest of the grid came through the whole weekend.
Carlos knew that the other drivers were going to be crazy and confused but he never thought that it was going to be this way.
Sergio Perez came on Friday before FP2, he said ‘hello’ to his pup but never stopped starring at him with a weird look that he could only be translated as ‘why I never knew about this?’
Nico Hulkenberg was more than surprised, the german alpha even screamed a little bit when he saw the pup but quickly recovered and really tried to knew who was the pup’s mother, Carlos just smiled with his question but as the same with Fernando his scent was a little bit more intense and territorial. Nico caught the signal so he backed off.
Even Lewis Hamilton approached him but the British was gentle and way more subtle with his question than the rest of the drivers, he congratulated him and even took a photo with Raph, the kid was just so happy that he blushed and never stopped talking the rest of the day about Hamilton having a photo with him.
By the sunday the grid was a little bit less frantic about Carlos Sainz’s son, they even seemed to start getting fond of the child. The drivers wave at the pup, give him high fives and ruffle his hair whenever they catch him in the paddock.
Carlos was glad about the others drivers behaviour, his inner alpha was driving him crazy the first day he brought Raph and his instincts were the worst thing when it comes to his pup, he was about to have a little alpha meltdown if the rest of the grid continued to ask him things about the pup’s mother or why did he keep in secret about Raph’s existence. So, yes, he was completely and absolutely happy that the others started to behave.
That Sunday he didn’t win but he reached the podium with a really good and solid race even after the disaster that was the quali on Saturday, he got a P6 and he was not so confident about the car performance that weekend but after a good start and a not so bad strategy he managed to get into the podium, celebrating along with the two Red Bull drivers.
P2 from P6 was what he needed that weekend after the whole stress that his inner alpha was exposed to.
That particular weekend he felt so happy , when the hymn of the winner began to play, his eyes stared at the only child that was among the men with the red suits. His team was there and Caco was holding his son, the kid had a big smile on his face and he was looking at the podium with big bright eyes. His inner alpha felt pleased and proud, so content that the only thoughts that he could heard was minepupminehappyminemine .
He could really used to feel this good on weekends if his son was there.
The champagne tasted good, le toreadors in the back sounded so nice and the podium photo didn’t bother him.
It really was a good weekend.
And he couldn’t wait to get more of them.
•
“ Papa, I’m tired.”
“Yes, I know but we almost there, pup” he opens the door of their room with Raph in his arms, so close to falling asleep but he knows that his son wouldn’t do it, not until they were in the bed where the shirt that belongs to his omega is placed.
Raph makes a content sound when his head finally touches the pillow, his tiny hand clasped the big grey shirt and his nose scenting the shirt’s neck. He releases a little whine and falls asleep quickly. Carlos chuckles.
He takes the opportunity to take a shower, he is sticky with champagne and sweat and he actually could smell everybody’s scent on him.
When he’s getting out of the bathroom his phone rings, a smile spreads across his face when he reads the name on the screen.
Charles.
“Hola” he says with a low tone and a big smile, at the other side of the screen the smile is returned and his omega has a beautiful blush spread on his face.
“Congratulations for the podium, I knew you could do it” his smile gets bigger (if that can be possible).
“Well, I think my lucky charm really worked” he directed a quick glance at the child, who is sleeping peacefully.
“Mon pauvre enfant, he must be so tired.”
“He had fun today, so yes, he’s even snoring.”
His omega laughs.
“How was your day?” Charles sighs and he takes it as a sign that he might be tired too.
“It was good but I’m so tired, alpha. The kids were making a mess the whole day, they miss their big brother, they miss you ” his heart melts at the last sentence, he closes his eyes for a moment.
“And you?”
“Hmm?”
“Did you miss me too?” the same blush spreads again across the omega’s face and he lets out a little whimper. Carlos growls.
“Of course I miss you Carlos, so much.”
In moments like this he would do anything to be by his omega side, to scent him and open again the mating bite on his neck.
His inner alpha growls displeased by not being at his mate’s side.
“I’m going back in two weeks.”
“I know and I’ll be waiting for you, we will be waiting for you” he closes his eyes and sighs.
Right now, he wants those two weeks to pass so fast.
He yawns and his mate giggles before saying: “You’re tired too, mon amour. I’ll call tomorrow.”
“I love you.”
Charles eyes are so bright right now.
“I love you too, alpha.”
He hangs up and a smile spreads on his lips before his eyes closed and a content sigh leaves his mouth.
Even if his family was far away, and his alpha was longing for his mate, that weekend was one of the best of his life.