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Lando Norris used to be the guy you lost yourself to at 3 a.m. in a club: DJ, producer, professional burnout in progress. Then the crash, the rehab, the very nearly not-making-it.
Now he lives above a wildlife hospital on the Cornish coast, making coffee for exhausted vets and writing quiet, bird-soaked tracks no one’s supposed to hear. It’s small, and disciplined, and safe. Mostly.
Oscar Piastri is the vet who signed off on admitting him as “not technically avian” and never quite recovered from it. He likes order, risk assessments, and patients who can’t sneak off to sit on sea walls and flirt with catastrophic decisions. Unfortunately, he also likes Lando.
When a BBC documentary and live show — Tidal Line Live: Sea & Sanctuary — offers Lando a way back onto a stage, everyone has an opinion. Trustees see headlines. Old managers smell money. Lando feels the old hunger in his bones. Oscar feels sick.
This is a story about what comes after the crisis: about recovery as a practice, about found family in a small hospital full of broken birds, and about two people learning how to stay — with themselves, and with each other.
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- Part 3 of Taller in Another Dimension
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18 Aug 2026
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Max Verstappen has a reputation for dead fiancées and a family that won’t stop meddling in his marital status.
Charles Leclerc has a bankrupt family and a father who just offered him up as a solution to both problems.
The wedding happens fast. The marriage happens slower.
And the baby everyone keeps talking about isn’t going to happen at all if Max keeps treating his new Omega like a decorative object he’s afraid to touch.
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17 Aug 2026
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“Mr. Norris, you’re his only living relative.”
Lando is dizzy in a way he’s never experienced. He’s had three concussions in his lifetime, and yet this news is what makes his skull feel volatile.
“What does this mean?” he asks.
“If you agree to take Riley, someone will drop him off to you tomorrow.”
He’s already made up his mind, but he has to know— “What will happen to him otherwise?”
The caseworker’s sigh hits Lando’s ears like feedback. “He’ll have to go into foster care.”When Lando finds out he fathered a son ten years ago, he and Oscar — two single dads with nothing in common but a few mutual friends, forced together by proximity and mischief — find themselves leaning on one another in a way they didn’t think possible.
or: lando helping oscar re-discover himself as a writer and oscar helping lando learn how to be a father
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- Part 1 of for as long as you'll let me
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17 Aug 2026
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Lando rushed on, voice rising in pitch just a little, words tripping over each other. “It’s not what you think, okay? And Paul—he’s not—he’s not—people always assume weird things, and it’s easier to just say he’s my brother, because no one really questions that. And I don’t—I don’t want people asking questions about him, and—”
He bit his lip hard. His heart was racing.
“He doesn’t deserve that. Being looked at like some media freakshow. Just because I—because I’m—”
His voice cracked.OR Lando never planned to let anyone get too close. Between a demanding career, quiet scars, and the little boy who means everything to him, he's built a life carefully kept behind closed doors. But when a new karting coach with a sharp focus and a softer touch enters the picture, boundaries begin to blur.
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15 Aug 2026
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“You gave him your number?” Logans face was incredulous as Oscar tried his best to use the coffee machine as a shield between himself and the American.
“You–” he took a breath and started again “You gave Formula One driver, Lando Norris your number? And it worked?” Logan’s voice rising in pitch as he quietly screeched his disbelief at Oscar.
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