home // leo turner x devon kang ( belongs to @yakov-vasilyev )
The final text was hours ago, before misfits in remedy played their final show for their first leg of the tour. The encore ends with a bang, as Louis and Justin ends it with a rendition of a guitar riff, and confetti. As the curtains fall, Leo smiles to himself before turning to the rest of the members pulling them into an embrace.
He wasn't much of a talker in expressing his love and gratitude to the boys, but the hug was enough. He quickly changes into a set of new outfit, his jacket following him along before he bids a farewell to them, where he receives wishes of luck and knowing smiles. Nobody truly knew where he's going except to them, and he smiles to himself at that taking the first car to the airport.
Timezones was the biggest barrier to them, but they made it work. Sometimes it's 9 hours, sometimes it's longer and shorter depending where the circuit would take her. He flicks through his phone, it's supposedly 9 in the morning the next day for her; as he rereads the text. A good luck and a heart, simple but it does make him warm inside, the crinkling look in his eye that Johnny mentions, even his daughter Lilah noticed it too.
He chuckles quietly to himself in his seat, the plane about to lift off as he ponders on how his life changed somehow with her. He recalls the first time his heart somehow did palpations around her, made him worried that if he would die there and then, somehow of an exaggeration alone. But, he can't deny what he felt. It's new, scary, insanity and yet..when he learns to accept it the hardness of it softens into something much better.
He tosses and turn in his sleep, he missed the qualifying round but the channel was up and running, she managed to get a P3. And he couldn't even be more proud, and he is hoping to arrived and touch down just in time before the race. He slips in a quick text her way, 'touching down in a few hours.'
Time moves both slow and fast for him, but he finally lands.. after almost 12 hours. His jet lag would be lethal, but he's excited. He stops by the hotel before changing into a proper fit. He made it into the car, and manage to makes his way to the circuit just an hour before the race begun, his paddock pass ready around his neck as he enters. His eyes deemed dead at this point, but when he saw her from a distance it's like he swallowed an energy drink, when they made the eye contact.
He notices how she excuses herself already in her red fox fit, as he opens his arm to her. And when the distance close between them, he knows that the definition of home he kept on hearing when it was written by singers before. He understands it now, he understands that the home he has was imperfect, but the home he found within the person in his arms was enough to cure every homesickness that he ever had.
He chuckles when their embrace stayed a bit longer than usual, as he pulls Dev's hat away and puts it on his head. His gaze met with hers smiling, "hopefully I'm not too late."
Dev finds his tone somehow endearing but she shakes her head. "A close call, actually."
Leo grins at that, "see, I told you I'll be here.” which earns an eye roll from her. He leans forward and places a kiss on top of her head, the action alone was unfamiliar to him a year ago, yet now it was the closest kind of heaven he's ever known.
They stayed there together, away from prying eyes somehow due to them haven't made their appearance as a couple yet. But, it's nice to not be displayed to prying eyes and have this moment on their own. And when the time has come, he waits by the garage as she goes being the best driver she could be and drive her heart out. He sits by the garage with the headphones over his ear, being there as he promised to be.
And when it's all over again, the thrill have died down. They stayed together for the night with Gertrude barking his way in a some sort of an affectionate tone he grown to miss when they are apart. He lays there by the bed, with her by his side. He hums quietly an unknown melody as his finger traced her arms, the yearn to be close after being a thousand miles apart that's finally been fulfilled.
Leo Turner now understand and agree that it's true when the poets say, home is where the heart is. And this time, his heart is wherever she is, wherever Devon Kang will be.
