When The Days Are Done
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“Get. Over. Here. Now. To Alex’s Winner’s Room. I will text you the address. Do not even start to argue with me. This is bad. So bad, Hinch. Much worse than I would have ever imagined and I lived some of it.”
“I don’t want to talk to or see Alex right now, Conor.”
“And Alex didn’t want to be brainwashed but he is James! That is what they have done to him. I don’t know why none of us have seen it. How did we miss this?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Just get over here.”
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- Part 1 of When The Days Are Done
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“I will be back on Thursday and yes, we leave early Friday morning. We’ve covered this, Alex. I even left you an itinerary on the refrigerator so you wouldn’t have to ask me every time we talked,” James said juggling his cell phone between his ear and his shoulder, while trying to carry several bags of groceries into his parent’s house.
“But James, all that’s listed are dates and flight times. It doesn’t say where and there are a lot of very warm places we could get to within six hours.”
This Fic takes place at the end of 2018 as the guys get ready to celebrate the 2019 New Year.
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- Part 2 of When The Days Are Done
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Heading into Alex’s office, James cheerfully announced, “Dinner and a movie is ready as requested, so get…” He broke off as he looked at Alex, who was staring at his laptop screen. Hands clenched to the edge of the desk. Eyes with a haunted gaze. Complexion fully, distressingly white.
“Hey babe, what’s wrong?”
When Alex didn’t move, James went to him and stood behind his chair, resting his hands on taut, now trembling shoulders. And that is when James saw the announcement email on his partner’s laptop screen.
Fernando Alonso was coming back to Indianapolis in May.
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- Part 3 of When The Days Are Done
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Driven By A Desperate Hunger (To The Dark Of The Neon Light) by Forged_In_Fire
Fandoms: IndyCar RPF
01 Jul 2025
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"Do I even want to know how you got a key?" Alex asked quietly as they made their way through the dark of the IMS bus lot to the garages. They were not, of course, supposed to be in here right now. They actually should have been back at one of their houses, social distancing, only using their buses when it was strictly necessary.
"Well, his last name starts with A and ends with I. And he couldn't be my grandpa or dad."
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- Part 4 of When The Days Are Done
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"Wait. Why is Rossi choosing me? Why didn't he pick Hinch?" Colton said as he opened the door to his bus, Max Papis and a piece of paper standing at the bottom of the stairs.
"James isn't eligible anymore, Colton."
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- Part 5 of When The Days Are Done
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For the Indianapolis 500 when you picked out your choice of milk, you also submitted your Winner's Room choices and a list of any particulars you were wanting of your chosen partners or included in the room with you.
Josef Newgarden was this year's Indy 500 Champion and he wanted no one else but Alexander Rossi.
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- Part 6 of When The Days Are Done
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After what Josef did to Alex in the Winner’s room of the 2024 Indy 500, James vows revenge on his partner’s behalf.
Many thanks to Forged_In_Fire for letting me play in her sandbox.
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- Part 7 of When The Days Are Done
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"Do you remember your 500 Winner's Room?"
Alex had been drawing circles on his stomach with his finger but stopped at the comment and turned to glance up at James.
"I've said before that some of it is hazy, so much happened in such a short time. It was overwhelming. But yes, mostly. You?"
"Every minute. But I had the luxury of not being shuttled across the country over the several days following it, being pushed and pulled in all kinds of directions."
"True. Why do you ask?"
"I'd like to have that night again."
Following the events of Gateway 2024 and all that happened there (including a Josef Newgarden win), Alex and James recall some rather fond memories of a much better Indy 500 Winner's Room experience.
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- Part 8 of When The Days Are Done
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Alex likes rain. It does things to him.
James really likes that Alex likes rain. And the things Alex does to him.
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- Part 9 of When The Days Are Done
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Alex still struggled frequently at times with what had happened in Josef's 500 Winner's Room. He'd had to go back to therapy on a pretty regular schedule for a while, was currently still going once a week and probably would be for a bit longer.
He had a lot to work through. And not only things related to Josef.
But James was there. He always was. And Alex wanted to keep it that way.
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- Part 10 of When The Days Are Done
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"We are gathered together to witness and celebrate the marriage of Alexander and James. Every one of us has a deep desire to love and to be loved. This marriage is just a public affirmation of the bonding that you both had already begun years ago."
Alex barely paid any attention to what Bryan was saying, his focus was entirely on James. Brown eyes were locked on his, hands clasped together between them.
"You fell in love by chance, but you're here today because you're making a choice. You both are choosing each other and declaring your consent with vows you have written."
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- Part 11 of When The Days Are Done
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"My baby is American made,
Born and bred in the U.S.A.
From his silky brown hair to his sexy long legs.
My baby is American made."Series
- Part 12 of When The Days Are Done
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It's Not Just A Birthday Dinner by Forged_In_Fire for chilisainz55 (msrogersstark)
Fandoms: IndyCar RPF
02 Sep 2025
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"So, what's up, James?"
"I hate spoiling this and Alex will kill me if he finds out but it is in his best interests that you know ahead of time."
And James would always look out for anything concerning his Alex.
"This sounds kind of ominous. Should I be scared?"
"No, no. It is actually a really good thing and you will absolutely love it. On Tuesday, when you come over for dinner... well, you will be staying the night."
"Not unusual, Hinch. I've stayed at your place a bunch of times."
"Yeah, but never in our bed. With us".
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- Part 13 of When The Days Are Done
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‘James! Look at what the Team got Ras and I for Toronto!'
He glanced down at the picture message Alex had just sent him.
James' heart almost stopped. He didn't know Alex Rossi straddling a motorbike was going to be a new and sudden kink.
'I'd love to take a ride.'
'Are you implying what I think you are implying?'
'Maybe, Alex. ;)'
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- Part 14 of When The Days Are Done
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"At the same time?" Alex asked, raising his eyebrow. Pausing a moment, where James could see the wheels turning in his head.
"Yeah."
Come on, Alex. Figure it out.
"Fuck. You mean a sixty-nine. Why in the hell did it take me a moment to realize what you were suggesting."
"You're pretty, bud. Never said you were smart."
"Keep it up, James. Your ass doesn't have to sit in a car tomorrow."
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- Part 15 of When The Days Are Done
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There was absolutely no way James would forget. Alex wasn't huge on celebrating his birthday but they all tended to mark it in some way. Whether that was in person or some form of technology. Conor was here to take Alex out to dinner with James still being overseas.
"The last time I spoke to my husband was yesterday early evening as he was getting ready for bed."
"So, he didn't call you today?"
"No, Conor. You do understand what radio silence means, right?"
"But it's your birthday, Alex. James wouldn't..."
"I know it is my fucking birthday. And yes, my own damn husband forgot."
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- Part 16 of When The Days Are Done
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"Alex," Pato whined over the video call. "Your husband is being mean to me."
"How so?"
"Keeps walking around in his underwear and making me all horny." Pato turned the phone so that Alex could indeed see that James was just in his boxers. It was late in Singapore. Alex probably expected James when he accepted the video call and not Pato.
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- Part 17 of When The Days Are Done
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