Marvel's The Invaders - Tempting Fate

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Title: Tempting Fate
Fandom: The Invaders (Marvel)
Rating: PG
Notes: Toro and Bucky, racecar driver-verse -- because why not.

 

They called him “The Flaming Kid.”

He'd had three wrecks in the past season alone. The last time, his gloves had melted to the steering wheel, and they'd pulled him free still gripping it in his hands. He came out of it without even a blister.

“I won't tell you you're being stupid, Tom--”

“Then don't,” Tom said. “Riverside was a fluke.”

“You almost died!”

“But I didn't.”

Bucky scowled, kicking the red Corvair's bumper. “It just seems like you're tempting fate with this one. All they know how to do is burn.”

“Least we'll have something in common.”