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It started with a browser tab she forgot to close. And then a text that was maybe a little too personal. And then it went all downhill from there …
“Before we … back when we were just texting, I had this fantasy …”
“Don’t you dare stop talking.”
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05 Nov 2025
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“I just think it would be better if someone showed me how to do it right,” she finally says. “And I think you would know how to do that.”
“Mel…”
“I know you’re married,” she rushes. “I know. But you’re my best friend. It would be… friendly. And just the one time.”
or: the one where frank starts soft domming mel at work and she convinces him to take her virginity. platonically.
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07 Oct 2025
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It’s that time of year…PTMC Summer League baseball is in our midst. I know there wasn’t an emergency department team last year, so let’s try to revive the long standing tradition of The Pitt dominance. Three time league champs—this summer is the year we go for four.
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me a text: 555-109-1115.
Let’s go out and win this damn thing.
or: the baseball, daddy kink au
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02 Sep 2025
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Last week Frank offered to help Mel pick up a table she'd found on Facebook marketplace but couldn't lift by herself, which was fine and reasonable, only when he picked her up she was wearing a tank top that showed her collarbones, and Frank's reaction to the sight of it was not even the slightest bit reasonable or fine. Worse, he's been catching himself thinking about it on and off ever since — the delicate line of bone, the pink flush that crawled down her chest. The way she'd said his name when she caught him staring, completely oblivious to what had him so distracted, both hugely frustrating and a huge relief.
"I don't wanna kill the vibe," Frank says, which is definitely not the same thing as no. It is, in fact, conspicuously close to a yes. "I know how important it is for you, getting time with your sister."
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18 Jul 2025
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“How does it feel to be back?” she asks.
Langdon lets out a laugh and leans back on his palms, looking up at the dingy ceiling. “It feels like I can finally breathe again.”
“Yeah,” Mel says, exhaling. “I can understand that.”
Or, Mel and Frank work together and fall in love along the way
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- Part 1 of The Pitt
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27 Jun 2025
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seven times Frank sees Mel in clothes other than her scrubs + one time he doesn’t.
or: eight times Mel makes Frank love her, whether he realizes it or not.
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18 Jun 2025
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Something clattered in the bathroom. Everything inside of Mel went very, very still.
Santos looked at the shut door. She processed.
“Mel King, you dirty dog.” A slow grin stretched over her face. “Did you hook up with someone last night?”(The gang goes to a medical conference.)
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11 Jun 2025
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He told her once that she was the only editor who didn’t try to wring the wild out of him. She liked that. She would have told him to reuse the phrase in a column if she wasn’t selfish enough to keep it for herself.
Langdon is the star columnist of popular wilderness adventure magazine The Backpacker. Mel is the editor who helps him stay that way.
When Langdon starts blowing through deadlines and stops answering calls, Mel decides the best course of action is to meet him where he's at.
aka Kingdon go to the Cascades
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06 Jun 2025
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The cold—an absolute shock to the system, like a thousand little sewing needles pricking her skin—reverberates now, in the present, when the WTAE Breaking News notification hits her phone:
Pittsburgh Doctor Sentenced to Five Years in Drug Diversion and Theft Case
At 6:30 PM on a July evening, everyone in the city knew about Dr. Frank Langdon.
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02 Jun 2025
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"That fucking chin dimple," Santos had scoffed upon falling into her seat. Mel didn’t think much at first, just cracked open her seltzer. "No idea how many times I’ve pictured riding it to shut him up."
(or, Mel bluescreens when confronted with the idea of Frank's chin dimple pressed to a certain part of her body)
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29 May 2025
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“Do you know where you’re going?”
She realized it was a ridiculous question as it passed her lips, but Langdon looked at her, his eyes a little glassy, and shook his head no.
(Mel and Langdon take each other in.)
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19 May 2025
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Robby
Hey
Will you please stop
Stop using the emergency department's twitter account to talk to ur girlfriend
Frank
But she’s not replying to my textsSeries
- Part 2 of the triple-letter files
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19 May 2025
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It's just — every time he walks in, a skip to his step like he's still surprised he's allowed to be here — all she can see is his new key-chain jiggling against his keys, a gift he'd shown to anyone willing to look; Tanner made it himself, Abby let him give it to me for my sobriety anniversary. No, he doesn't know that's why, he's five. Isn't it great?
And it is, she'd thought — said — absently. He fought so hard to keep his relationship to his children, to his now ex-wife, even as he went through the motions of rehab and recovery and constant HR meetings and random piss tests everyone conspicuously pretended weren't happening. He'd fought so hard, of course it's great.
Or it would be, Mel thinks, ducking away with lukewarm coffee in hand, if she didn't know the image of that key-chain like the palm of her hand.
Or, rather, like the soulmark on the back of her knee.
[or: soulmateism made literal]
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16 May 2025
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Those cunning folks use any means to achieve their ends.
(Or, a loose Slytherin Marauders AU.)
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11 May 2025
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It’s only when he looks away that she finds the strength to respond.
“Well, he made me think I was asexual.”
Langdon spits out his water.
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Or: It surprises people to learn that Mel King is good at sex. People in this case being, of course, Frank Langdon.Bookmarked by griffenly
10 May 2025
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Frank Langdon is nine the first time he gives confession—dragged down the center aisle of Saint Paul’s by his mother—for stealing a pack of baseball cards.
The last time, it’s after he cheats on his wife.
Or: the lapsed Catholic, infidelity fic
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09 May 2025
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"Mel," Frank interrupts, his voice filled with disbelief and warmth, "you laminated our sex schedule."
Her mouth presses into a tight line. Her eyes flick away for just a moment. Like she’s pretending she didn’t hear him—before meeting his gaze again with complete composure.
“Lamination ensures durability,” she says, like this is a well-established fact of life. “And, uh... water resistance.”
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- Part 3 of This Is Not The Frank Show
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05 May 2025
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It sucked to acknowledge what he'd done to anyone, obviously, but for some reason it always felt the worst in front of Mel, because she'd never once shown him even a hint of judgment for it. He could list every shitty fucking thing he did, all the drugs he stole, the lies he told, all of it, and Mel would just sit there and nod and tell him Okay, well, thank you for being honest with me.
It wasn't that he didn't want her to do that. It was that he craved it so badly he couldn't stand it, needed her acceptance with an intensity he didn't know how to handle.
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01 May 2025
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Letting people get close to her in general, it's — overwhelming. There are always questions, and hovering, that gap between Mel and the world around her so much wider when she doesn't have the emotional fortitude to do her best to bridge it. She's a pretty positive person, generally. It doesn't usually bother her much, until suddenly it does.
Frank's overwhelming too, she guesses, it's just that she doesn't really mind. He builds the bridge for himself, most of the time. It's easier when she doesn't have to do all the work.
(Five times Mel says she's fine.)
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01 May 2025
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They're big on acceptance, in NA. Frank mostly thinks it's bullshit, but it's not like what he was doing before was working any better, so he's giving it his best shot. He's accepted that he can't trust himself, and he's accepted that he's never going to get back what he had before, and he can accept that there's nothing for him and Robby to say to each other, now, too. He can do that.
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01 May 2025