Chapter Text
“For someone who nearly died, you are in an extremely happy mood.” Skid said the second the group walked into the hospital room that now held their friend. Turbo was in his hospital bed, sipping away at a juice box with not a care in the world.
As if he didn’t split his skull or lose all feeling in his legs.
“How can I not be?”
“Two big reasons.” Smoove replied.
Turbo giggled and adjusted himself so he sat up more. “Thanks for worrying about me but I’m okay. I promise. I mean, I accomplished something huge and I got SUPER SPEED. Isn’t that insane!? I had super human speed!”
“That *was* pretty sick.” White Shadow said. “But you also lost it.”
“I honestly don’t mind.”
“Really?” Whiplash asked. “You’re happier with your legs not working?”
“Okay, not being able to move around kinda sucks but going super fast was fun while it lasted.“
“Your optimism is aggravating sometimes.”
“Weird way to say you find it alluring, Whip.” Turbo said teasingly, winking at his partner.
“Ugh! If y’all are gonna flirt, do it when we’re not in the room!” Burn said, rolling her eyes in disgust. It was no surprise that since the day the two met, they both just clicked… and they weren’t afraid to show it.
“Yeah, actually, can we get some alone time?” Turbo asked.
“Ew.”
“Not for that! I just wanna talk to him one on one.“
“It’ll be one on one, alright.” Skid teased before Smoove nudged him out of the room, scolding him.
Once the room cleared out, it was only Turbo and Whiplash. Suddenly Turbo’s usually confident demeanor shifted into a shy one.
“Sooo… are you proud of me?”
“That’s all you wanted to talk about?” Whiplash asked, raising a brow at the racer and sitting down on the bed beside him.
“No! No. I’m just— Ugh. I’m bad at words.”
“Sure, you can trash talk but can’t have a normal conversation.”
“You know what I mean! Just shut up.” Turbo felt his face warm up and he hit Whiplash on the arm. Whiplash couldn’t help but laugh at his partner.
“Anyway, I wanted to say thank you…” Turbo continued, playing with the end of his shirt. “I never would’ve gotten here if it weren’t for you. Not in the hospital bed, that’s definitely my bad but I mean getting me to the Indy 500 and encouraging me when I was getting killed out there. Literally. I think Guy wanted to kill me.”
Whiplash chuckled softly and smiled, staring at his partner lovingly. Though if Turbo noticed that look, Whip would swear up and down that it didn’t happen.
“But yeah… it was sweet of you guys to help a freak with super human abilities.”
“You’re not a freak. Definitely weird though.”
“Sounds about right…” Turbo chuckled before leaning against the older man’s side. “… So… you wanna make out or…?”
Whiplash looked at Turbo in surprise before laughing, shaking his head. “You’re right, you’re terrible at this!”
Turbo groaned, covering his face in embarrassment. “Forget it—“
“Hey! No no no. C’mere…”
Turbo looked up at Whiplash as he leaned down, holding the younger man’s face and pressing their lips together. This was Turbo’s first actual kiss… and it felt amazing.
What he expected his first kiss to be soft and gentle was actually rough and passionate. Whiplash definitely wasn’t one to give Turbo a second a process or breathe and Turbo didn’t mind one bit. In fact, he loved it.
He wrapped his arms around his partner’s broad shoulders, pulling him closer and feeling his hand rest on Turbo’s waist. They stayed like this for what felt like an eternity before Whiplash pulled away slowly. Despite being disappointed at the kiss being cut short, Turbo couldn’t help but smile like an idiot.
“You’re amazing…” he sighed happily.
“Don’t take you a lot to get you like this, huh?”
“To be fair, I’m veeery new to this… I’m new to a lot of things…”
“Yeah?”
“Mayyyybe you can introduce me to other things…?”
“Don’t have to ask me twice…”
“Oooookay! That’s enough, you two! Back it up.” Chet’s voice snapped them out of it. Whiplash rolled his eyes and glared at him.
“Your brother is a full grown adult.”
“He’s still my brother. I have given him more freedom now but you are still on my suspicious list.”
Turbo groaned and face palmed himself in embarrassment.