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And still, he can’t look away.
He only sees her. The way she loved. The way she existed in that moment, preserved in careful brushstrokes and memory.
Frank Langdon is eighteen years old. And two thousand. Both at once, young and ancient, caught in a war inside himself that can only agree on one thing: He misses her. He misses his soulmate.
Or,
Frank remembers every past life with Mel. Mel doesn't remember him at all.Bookmarked by CcookiesAndCreamM
17 Apr 2026
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“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together.”
Frank learns early how little it takes to shift the course of things, how easily a life can bend around pain, around silence, around the wrong kind of survival.
Months later, Dr. Robby meets a boy he almost remembers, and can’t quite place why he doesn’t sit right.
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17 Apr 2026
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Frank knows exactly what’s wrong; Robby must too. He’s been practicing medicine as long as Frank’s been alive, he knows abuse as well as he knows anything else in emergency medicine. And Frank won’t call it that, not really, but he thinks it on the quiet nights. He thinks it when his boss looks at him like that. He thinks it when part of him aches from being grabbed too hard, pushed, maneuvered. When he gets home late not only so she won’t yell, but so she’ll be asleep before she can suggest anything. He won’t touch her in bed just so she doesn’t wake, doesn’t reach for him. Doesn’t make him say no, not tonight. Please, Abs, I’m too tired, just to be cut off by a kiss. Hips straddling his. His consciousness retreating inside him so he won’t have to be present for his body betraying his fear of her.
But he’s not at home in his bed; he’s not looking Abby in her murky hazel eyes he used to love. Frank is waiting for a case to take up more space in his mind than the fear.
The cycle has been going on this long, he thinks it can go on a little longer still.
Frank knows what abuse looks like, but it's a lot easier to ignore when it's you. Robby helps.
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16 Apr 2026
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15 Apr 2026
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“There’s a link,” his therapist begins. “Between benzodiazepine addiction and ADHD.”
Frank had gone for a female therapist, not that he really had much choice. A man telling him what’s wrong with him would hit too close to home, he thinks. He’d probably walk out of each session worse off than he started them.
“You think I have ADHD?” He asks, flatly. Jesus. Why is he paying someone to tell him what he already knows?
“You know you likely have ADHD Frank.” His therapist answers.
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15 Apr 2026