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Out favourite four would be in Red bull. Because it matches them. Anyway, Richtofen would be the new director (for like, a maximum of five years at the moment of the story), who is pretty much your combination of extremely genius but also extremely crazy. He has good strategies - at least good enough to have Takeo the Max Verstappen of this dimension - but also has rather... toxic tendencies, like his back and forth with Dempsey.

Poor Dempsey just got into Toro Rosso (at that time named like this, anyway) (some context for those who don't know: a team dependent on Red bull that drivers go at before entering Red bull itself) from Haas (that isn't exactly as good as Red Bull to put it lightly,,,), and, after finally getting out Toro Rosso and getting into the real deal - Red Bull - he's really hopeful about his career. Problem? Him and Richtofen got together. But he can't figure out how he went from second driver on Red bull back to Toro Rosso. Why his boyfriend would sent him back to "training" after the real deal. He doesn't have a clue what in Richtofen's twisted mind concluded his boyfriend would like such a downgrade. But he has to shut up and suck it up as Richtofen promises him it's a temporary thing, that he'll be back in no time and not to worry.

Takeo doesn't have nearly half the problems with Richtofen, as he comes with really good results all the time. He's the golden child of Redbull, loved and taken care of by Richtofen. Meanwhile, Nikolai, despite having a great downfall after a certain... accident, is still held by Richtofen, whether it be second driver or reserve driver.

So does Dempsey, really. He does love him, as much if not more. But there's this whole game of their "teasing" where Richtofen keeps changing Dempsey's place. Maybe Dempsey would’ve laughed at it too - even if not in front of Richtofen - if this wasn't leaving a stain on his career. Can he even begin the count the amount of times interviews simply asked him, "Why aren’t you permanently in Red Bull?". Really, why wasn’t he? He was a great driver - he knew it. He even won races once or twice, despite fighting against Takeo at the same time. He brought back points, he had good results, he never did unforgivable mistakes...

So why wasn’t he forgiven? Why was he switched from an official position in Red Bull - after years of hard work - back to Toro Rosso, back to being a "driver in training", despite his years of experience?

Richtofen loves him, he's sure of it. Sneaky dates and careful touches, glances when the cameras were turned elsewhere and soft praises when they were alone - yes, Dempsey knew Richtofen loved him. He loved him too, to the moon and back if it was even possible. But he wished those small moments of attention would keep going as Dempsey was in Red Bull, not in Toro Rosso. He wished they could share those moments everyday, not whenever Richtofen deemed their game could take a break.

He wished.

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