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She hit ‘call’ next to Frank’s name before she could let herself overthink it and reason her way out of it.
“Mel?” Frank answered the phone within the first few rings sounding sleepy and confused, which was fair considering it was four in the morning. With a rush of fondness Mel realized that the fact that he answered at all must mean he had her contact info saved in a way that would cause it to break through his Do Not Disturb settings he switched on at night. Of course he did.
“I—” Mel found that she couldn’t get out more than that, and suddenly she was terrified that Frank would think it was a pocket dial and hang up.
He didn’t though. Of course he didn’t.Or
Mel reaches a breaking point, and Frank is there to catch her.
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- Part 3 of Mel & Frank's Infinite Playlist
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14 Feb 2026
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the many tiny ways dr frank langdon touches dr mel king
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- Part 1 of kismet sinking in (second nature)
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14 Feb 2026
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“Pineapple on pizza,” he leans on the wall, crossing his arms on his chest as he looks down at her. “Yes or no?”
“No,” she says immediately, wrinkling her nose.
[or: Mel starts undergrad and she thinks it's a little strange that her roommate's boyfriend is always hanging around]
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- Part 1 of The Feeling Flows Both Ways
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05 Feb 2026
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It starts like this:
Frank gets caught. He does not voluntarily give up information about the stolen drugs – he gets caught.
Big difference.
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Frank Langdon and the years following that one shift.
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17 Jan 2026
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emt mel king & firefighter frank langdon
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12 Jan 2026
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Reluctant mixed-doubles specialist Mel King encounters a kindred spirit on the U.S. Open practice courts: Frank Langdon, the golden boy of the ATP. Their connection strengthens over a charmed week of tournament play, until it’s abruptly shattered by devastating news: Frank’s doping scandal.
Six months later, Mel’s life looks nothing like she imagined. She’s retired from the tour. Her partner has left. Her coach (and mother) is dead. Money is scarce and her sister’s health insurance is a bureaucratic labyrinth. By day, she coaches peewee players and weekend warriors to stay afloat; by night, she studies for the MCAT. Tennis, she tells herself, is over. It’s time to move on.
Then disgraced Frank Langdon walks into her tennis club—accompanied by his coach, Michael Robinavitch—with an offer Mel never expected… and can’t refuse.
(the kingdon mixed doubles tennis AU)
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19 Dec 2025
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On the Upper West Side of New York City, sat an ornate, pre-war apartment building called The Astoria.
And high above, on the eighteenth floor, lived Mel King and Frank Langdon. Who—despite their first encounter—fall in love from across the hall.
or the rockstar ballerina au.
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06 Dec 2025
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rip xcherrycolaxx I want to end it all, oh what could’ve been :(
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“D’you reckon horses can be particularly fond of things, dear?” Asked the farmer, sitting in his rocking chair as the summer sun set behind the property line.
Mel is a duck, Frank is a horse, they're unlikely best friends. Inspired by @salmonblurb's Pitt farm art on Twitter! (Link in the notes)
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She was sort of a little bit thrilled by it, thrilled by his choosing her, thrilled by the STEMI timing, thrilled by the way the department worked so smoothly sometimes she felt like a cog in a machine.
And she liked to think she was a cog in a machine because it meant she was useful and purposeful and something needed or even wanted her there. She thought of Eleanor in The Haunting of Hill House, who said, placidly, she remembered because the word was so pleasing and so sad, “I’ve never been wanted anywhere.” She felt very much like Eleanor, haunted by ghosts, reaching out her hand in the darkness and waking up alone. And her intense wanting was a wound she was sure people could see, bleeding down her forehead, a primal warning sign to back away slowly so no one else would get hurt. What about me, she wanted to beg, what about my wound, but she knew that, too, was a childish fantasy. That it would be more work than anyone was willing to put in to get past the walls she put up in the form of busyness and delight and surface-level vulnerability so they couldn’t see the depth of her hurt and grief lurking inside.
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Mel agrees to be Frank’s wedding date.
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23 Nov 2025
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Frank and Mel have been best friends since childhood, growing up right next door to each other in a quiet Michigan neighborhood. For over twenty years, Frank falls hopelessly in love with her. From childhood adventures to high school prom, through college and med school, their lives always remained intertwined, but the timing was never right.
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23 Nov 2025
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The car pooling, she thought, represented this blurring of boundaries: not quite work but not quite personal life, either. If somebody asked her if she ever saw Langdon outside of the hospital, what should she say?
Mel and Langdon car pool to work.
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17 Nov 2025
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college hockey player au
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21 Oct 2025
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binged the entire fic up to this point in one night now I’m clawing at the walls for the updates
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mel didn’t expect her roommate’s older brother to be charming, annoyingly good at hockey, and impossible to ignore. but once she meets frank langdon, all bets are off.
basically, mel king cannot escape the best friends brother trope.
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21 Oct 2025
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the origin of my hockey player Langdon obsession