Hidden Talents
As always, click here for Master List of Fics.Title: Hidden Talents
Characters: Kimi Räikkönen, Sebastien Vettel
Rating: Green Flag
Summary: It's Christmas time. Little fluffy sequel to She's Me .
Disclaimer: All lies.
A/N: Part of my Nano 2014 project. Although this is technically a sequel, you don't really need to read the first fic.
“What is that?” Kimi asks out loud, turning upside down what looks to be an alien teddy bear, and shakes it. When the bear starts singing a weird song in English, Seb and him look at each other.
“Batteries out!” Seb says as he balances on one foot, trying to put the star at the top of the tree.
Kimi is happy to oblige and gets the two AA batteries out of the toy, adding them to the pile of batteries from fuckingly annoying toys that friends and family thought would make great Christmas presents for Alex.
“Why are we wrapping everything? She won’t know the difference.”
Seb plants both feet on the step ladder and turns to him, pointing the star in his direction. Kimi knows it’s intended to look menacing, but nothing really looks that way when you’re wearing an elf hat and holding a star. “Because we’ll know. Don’t you want to see her face when she’s opening up her gifts? She’ll be so excited!”
“She gets excited about eating dog food,” Kimi answers flatly while cutting out some wrapping paper, because, while it’s not his proudest parenting achievement, it’s still the truth.
Seb sticks his tongue out at him then puts the star on the tree, after which he goes back to scolding him, hands on his hips. “We said we’d do this right. That includes all the Holidays. No matter how silly you think they are.”
Kimi frowns as he finally manages to cover every inch of the alien bear with wrapping paper. “I don’t think Christmas is silly. I think wrapping presents is silly.” He holds up the wrapped bear for Seb to see, but instead of praise, Seb looks at him like he’s just gotten lapped by a Caterham, shaking his head in disappointment.
“That’s…uh…why don’t you put the lights around the windows and I’ll finish wrapping?” Seb offers, clearly not impressed with his skills.
Kimi tosses him the bear and gets up, stretching the numbness out of his legs. He gives his boyfriend a quick peck on the cheek as he walks next to him, then grabs the string of lights sitting on the nearby table. “I can do that.”
Little does Seb know, there’s a beautifully wrapped present that’s been hidden in a closet for the last three weeks. The folds are straight, the corners tight. It even has matching bows, and ribbons curled just the right way.
And as Seb will find out when he receives it, his boyfriend may not like wrapping presents, and he may even (just maybe) pretend to suck at it just to get out of doing it, but he’s actually quite skilled at it.
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