Sweet Ride

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Summary: He really CAN drive!

AUTHOR: Catw00man
EMAIL: catw00man@cryptoffic.com
RATING: PG
SERIES: Bear on the Wall: Conversations from the Garage and Beyond
CHARACTER: Kevin Harvick, Kevvie!Bear POV
PROMPT: Taming the Muse #134 (#109 for me) - Delectable
COMPLETED: February 14, 2009
WORD COUNT: 1,238
DISCLAIMER: I own NOTHING and am affiliated with NO ONE mentioned here. Not the drivers, not the teams, no one. This is all fiction and fun. In other words...NOT REAL, NOT REAL, NOT REAL. ;-)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Couple things here. First off all Kevin’s radio chatter to the team is taken from his actual race scanner. Obviously we don’t know what he said off the radio so I took some liberties there. Also, yes I know it’s “draft” and not “drag” but hey, he’s a bear. Cut him some slack. ;) Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!
AUTHOR'S NOTE2: This takes place during the Bud Shootout in Kevin’s big yellow 29.
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Bud Shootout - Daytona, FL - February 7th, 2009

“I don’t think we’re gonna catch ‘em.”

You think?  The cars are all gone.  Again!  Maybe if you pushed the thing on the floor harder we wouldn’t have lost the drag again.  They can’t drag you if you can’t even see them.  I dunno Green Eyes, maybe you should stick with the little cart cars because you’re not very good at this.

“Right then I just….  He stopped and I went left.  Huh…just were in the wrong spot I guess.”

Well maybe if we weren’t bringing up the rear it wouldn’t have happened.  You need to be at the front of the cars, Green Eyes.  Not the back.  Shouldn’t you know this by now?  I thought you did this for a living.  Hey, look!  The yellow lights are on again and they’re gonna let you catch up.  Now stay with them this time, Green Eyes.  They must really like you to give you all these chances. 

“10-4 put some tires on it, Todd.  55 actually blow up or something, Billy?”

Who are Billy and Todd??  Your imaginary friends?  It’s one thing to talk to a bear but you’ve been talking to these invisible people since we got in the car.  Are you losing your mind?  Is that why we’re running last all alone?

“Hang in there, Little Guy. We’ll get four and be good to go.”

Four what?  Four more imaginary friends?  He pats me on the head and then turns off the slanty road to the flat one with all the other cars.  How many times have we done this already?  Apparently making the car bounce up and down is supposed to make it go faster…but I don’t see how.

Screech to a stop and there we go, up in the air again.  BAM.  Back down.  Now Green Eyes’ side goes up, down and vroom, vroom here we go again.  I don’t get it.  Why do we sit there and bounce up and down while everyone else goes past?  Why do we have to be last AGAIN?

“I think he beat us to the white line.”

You don’t have to tell me.  I think everyone beat us to the white line.  I think everyone is gonna beat us all night.  Maybe we should just go back to the home away from home and watch the rest on TV…except the Blonde Bitchy One is probably there….  Never mind, back up on the slanty road, there we go.  Now go fast this time.

Ok Green Eyes, stay with them this time.  There you go, now would it kill you to try and pass one?  Just one.  For me?  Use the drag thing you’re always talking about.  Drag, drag-- wait!  LOOK OUT!!!!  Curse of a bear you can’t cover your eyes!  Green Eyes the car, the CAR!

Smoke everywhere and…are we ok?  We’re not spinning and everything seems to be ok.  Did we really miss it all?  Ok, I take it back, you may be slow Green Eyes but you are good at this.  I thought we were a goner for sure!

“I hit him with the nose.  How does it look Billy?”

Billy, Billy are we ok?  I don’t know who you are but Green Eyes seems to trust you.  I guess he’s the only one that can hear you so take care of us.  It’s getting crazy out here.

“Lets come in and check it.  I slid the front tires trying to keep from hittin’ him.”

Guess this means we’re going back down the flat road.  Hey, wait, maybe Billy is there.  Could he be one of the yellow guys that run around the car and bounce it up and down?  Maybe Todd is one of them too…but how can they hear him?

We screech to a stop and one of the guys in yellow pats the front corner of the car while we go up and down.  Are you Billy?  Hi, Billy.  Tell Todd we’re doing good in here.  Green Eyes really does know what he’s doing.  We zoom off again and there’s some new cars around us this time.  I like the black one with fire.  I bet he’s fast.  Maybe he can drag with us.

“We know where we’re goin’ Billy  We got four fresh ones. There’re only 3 in front of us that got fresh tires so we’re gonna wanna get up through there.”

Yay, four fresh ones.  Wait, did he say tires?  Is that what happens on the little flat road?  We get tires like in the garage?  Yay, maybe we will go faster.  Only a few of us got them.  I think the black fire car got some too.  Let’s go!

“That car behind me tore up or is he good?”

Don’t worry about behind us Green Eyes, worry about in front of us!  We need to go faster, like in the little carts.  We need to beat them all like we did the Cowboy.  C’mon now.  Go fast!

Yellow lights off and wow did you just remember how to drive?  Careful now, don’t hit the big white thing again.  Careful, it’s really close!  There we go.  Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee this is FUN!  Faster, faster, pass more, you can do it.  I get it now, we were saving it for the end.  Go, Green Eyes, go!  Stay with the black fire car.  There you go.  Yes!  Wait…why are we stopping?

“It’s too tight off of 4. I think I’m fourth here Billy, I dunno.”

Tight?  Loose?  Who cares, we’re fast!  Stupid yellow lights.  We don’t need to catch up again, we’re in front!  Ok, the black fire car’s in front of us but that’s ok.  We can pass him.  We can do anything.  Now turn off those stupid yellow lights and lets go again.  We have a race to win!

Here we go.  Now remember, Green Eyes, go fast.  Push that thing on the floor hard.  Don’t forget.  We don’t wanna lose the drag again.  Here we go.  Go faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast.  Ugly purple car, come on, come on you can get it.  He’s not near as pretty as we are.  Go, go, GO!  Faster, faster!!!  Outside, by the white thing, GO!

“WOOOOOOOOOOO How about that boys! “

Yes, yes, yes we WON!  Way to go Green Eyes.  I never should’ve doubted you.  Thank you Todd and Billy and any other real or imaginary people.  This is FUN!  We did it.  We won!

“That’s why you don’t ever give up right there ladies and gentlemen.  10-4 what a way to start off!”

That’s right, Green Eyes.  Never give up.  I’ll never, ever doubt you again.  I promise.  Just let me do this again!  This is awesome.  Wait, what’s going on?  Smoke everywhere.  Is this supposed to be happening?  Green Eyes, did you break Big Yellow?  Vroom, vroom, smoke, smoke, smoke.  Oh wait, this is like the donut things in the cart!  Yaaaaaaaaaaay we won!  Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

“We got it, Buddy.  You are one helluva good luck charm.  Hope you had fun cause you may just have to do this more often.”

I did!  I did!  Let me race! I like being a race bear.  I like being your race bear!  Let me run the big 500 with you, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease!

“Time to show you Victory Lane, Buddy.  Hope you clean up well cause you’re about to get doused in the sweetest champagne RC has to offer!”

Bring it on Green Eyes.  I’ll dry.  Just let me race again!

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