Canon is Need For Speed. She still hates Detroit.

[shelbycobra]

You're an ass.

You're going to dangle this carrot in front of me of driving for Penske? Probably the best race team in the IndyCar Series? Driving with Will Power and three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves?

And oh, all I have to do is leave the team that's supported me for my entire career? The team that said I'd always be welcome there even when I couldn't field a car? That my father is the spotter for?

You don't even want to get into what Tobey would think of this. It's pretty much the same thing his first girlfriend did to him. Fall in love, then leave Mount Kisco for the big city and big money. So I'd probably be wrecking my relationship with the first person I've ever dated who actually understands what it means to race.

So do I want to get my career back at an elite level or keep everything I've ever known? Yeah. You're an ass.

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[willtriumph]

Hey, it it makes you happy go for it. I'll be here.

[shelbycobra]

Would you? Really?

[Her tone says she doesn't believe it, because she knows what it looks like. She knows his high school girlfriend dumped him to move to Manhattan and hooked up with Dino Brewster. What makes this any different? Her leaving Mount Kisco to take a job with the biggest team in IndyCar? Sure, she wouldn't be bagging his archrival, but otherwise there's not much distinction.]

You never did tell me what you wanted.

[willtriumph]

[She wouldn't be dumping him and leaving, they'd still be together. He smiled and thought a moment.]

I just want to race, if it's on the streets it's still racing. And I want you, and I want you to be happy. I know how much it means to you, I could see it on your face when you were driving again.

[shelbycobra]

It's what I do. It's what we do.

[Shelby glances up at him from where she's sitting on the couch in his garage. Skepticism is still all over her face.]

You've never raced a full IndyCar schedule. I'd be traveling cross-country for months and then there's off-season testing. I don't know when I'd even have time to come back here. And you would never leave...would you?

[willtriumph]

I'd come see you, travel a bit with you. If you are worried about that, babe.

[shelbycobra]

I am. This is your home. This garage is your life. I just don't see how you'd really be happy if you had to give this life up - even if it was for me.

[Shaking her head.]

I want to marry you, Tobey, not fuck up your life.

[willtriumph]

We'll make compromises babe. We both love racing, you love the circuit. WHy can't we both get what we want right?

[shelbycobra]

But you deserve more than cheerleading for me. I still think you could drive for a team. Although I'm not sure you'd want to, you seem to be pretty happy on the streets.

[She chuckled.]

Can we just go back to having adrenaline-fueled sex in a hotel room and not think about trying to make everything so goddamn perfect?

[willtriumph]

I do like racing on the streets, more freedom I guess. And I can be a little crazy.

[Smirks, she's been in a car with him while racing. She knows.]

[shelbycobra]

No shit, Sherlock. My dad would be screaming in your ear if you drove for us.

[She laughed.]

Want to sit with me and watch the race? Or we can go back to that really expensive hotel room. Or - I just don't know what to do and I don't want to think about it.

[willtriumph]

How about I take you back to the hotel.

[shelbycobra]

I would like that. This race is fucked anyway. Josef's still running, but his car's jacked.