shelbycobra: (Are you serious?)
Shelby Manning ([personal profile] shelbycobra) wrote in [community profile] nexus_crossings 2020-11-06 06:04 pm (UTC)

"Oh my God, that sounds terrible. I'm so sorry."

Shelby has lost people she loves but those tragedies have been a handful of racing accidents, and luckily few and far between. She's never had to deal with violent crime. The supernatural part she doesn't grasp but she pushes that aside because that's not what's relevant here. What's relevant is that terrible loss.

The one thing she can relate to is that chip on Piper's shoulder. She had one that whole year she was away from IndyCar and that first year back. She needed to prove herself, of course to keep her job but mostly she wanted to show everyone that they had been wrong about her. Now she was regarded as one of the best in her sport but that had only happened because she'd fought back after being kicked to the curb.

"If you have a mission in your life, you have to keep chasing it," she said after a moment. "I could have given up. I could have stayed in Indianapolis and waited for another chance to come around. I turned my entire life upside down to get my job back and that's how I ended up where I am today. Don't wait for anything and don't let anyone stop you. No matter how much it hurts."

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