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Frank huffed, setting the mug down. “How many times are we going to have to go over this, Mel? I like listening to you talk. I’m not just being nice. We’re friends.”
“It’s important to ask,” she said, still watching him carefully. “Because sometimes people say they want to know something but they don’t actually mean that they do. They’re just being polite. And it’s hard for me to tell that, always.”
“I’ll tell you what,” he suggested. “Let’s make this easy. With me, you never have to ask. Consider it my… blanket approval, I guess.”
He pointed to himself. “I, Frank Langdon, am interested in what you have to say.”
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29 Jun 2026
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When Mel visits a college in Pittsburgh, the last thing she expects is to end up giving a ride to a complete stranger.
Frank Langdon is everything she's not, and somehow, everything she is.
He's charming, pessimistic, and carefree. She's uptight, careful, and a people pleaser. Either away, they get each other.
But they can't be friends, that's what Frank insists. Friendship between men and women don't work. Attraction always gets in the way. Mel is certain he's wrong.
There isn't any attraction between them. They're just friends.
(Aren't they?)
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18 Jun 2026
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Frank was here. At a speed dating event. Which meant that he’d spent his evening sitting across from a dozen other women, looking for the same thing she was - a relationship.
The realization made her stomach sink. For months now, she’d been telling herself there was a reason Frank hadn’t made a move. Maybe he wasn’t ready after the divorce. Maybe he wasn’t even interested in dating at all - maybe he was too busy with work and the kids to even think about it. But he was here, which meant none of those things were true.
Frank wanted a relationship - just not with her.
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13 Jun 2026
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She is midway through a thought about how delightful her sandpit is when a high-pitched voice cuts through the air. “Hey! What’s your name?”
Mel turns, a red plastic shovel clenched in her fist. She searches for a moment, unsure where the voice has come from, before she spots a dark-haired head peeking over the wooden fence separating her backyard from the neighbour’s. The Petersons had it put in right after Becca and Mel learned to walk. Through the gaps between the slats, she can see the outline of a boy standing on his tiptoes on an overturned bucket.
She drops her shovel and walks over to the fence. There’s a multi-coloured table lying on its side in the grass. Becca normally holds her tea parties there, but Mel doesn’t think her twin will mind her using it as a stool. Especially not for a potential friend.
Or: Frank is Mel's next-door neighbour. They grow up together. It's hella cute and angsty.
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11 Jun 2026
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Mel King planned her life out to a T when she was thirteen years old.
What she hadn't planned for was meeting Frank Langdon on her first day of college at Penn State.
She definitely hadn't planned on becoming best friends with him.
And she absolutely hadn't planned on falling in love with him.
or: the one where friendship comes first, love comes quietly, and timing makes a mess of everything.Bookmarked by Jul20
08 Jun 2026
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Consumed — Frank Langdon is sober, divorced, and trying very hard to keep his life under control. Then there’s Mel King: brilliant, strange, kind, and suddenly at the center of every thought he has. What starts as friendship built on movie nights, shared shifts, and quiet devotion turns into an all-consuming obsession Frank can’t outrun.
He’s convinced she could never want him back and too afraid to risk losing her to ask. But one hazy night changes everything, leaving Frank with exactly what he’s always wanted… and the fear he’s ruined it forever.
Frank Langdon was utterly fucked
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04 Jun 2026
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Wondrous time, gave me the blues and then purple pink skies by hyperfixationwe
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
09 Jun 2026
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Mel King knows how to hold steady under pressure. In the chaos of the ER, she always has control. Always knows what to do.
But there are things that can’t be solved with logic, long shifts, or steady hands.
And when her world begins to quietly unravel, Mel is forced to face something she was never trained for.
or: Mel finds out she's pregnant and she doesn't know what to do.
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28 May 2026
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“I love used books,” she proffers, eager to be a normal person. “I love when books have a story.”
“Well, I’d say if a book doesn’t have a story, it’s a pretty sad excuse for a book.”
Mel can’t help herself—she snorts. “I didn’t realize you owned the shop,” Mel says quickly, embarrassed. “That must be nice—”
“Yeah, it is,” Frank answers distractedly. “I’m sorry, I’m pretty sure I just saw two time Emmy award winning actress Mel King snort at a joke I made.”
So he really did know her, then, wow.
“Well I’m not sure anyone will believe you,” she jokes lightly.
“Yeah,” Frank breathes, his eyes roving over her face in a stunned sort of awe. “I don’t think anyone will.”
Or, the Kingdon Notting Hill AU :)
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27 May 2026
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When a mermaid in distress is brought into the PTMC ED, Dr. Langdon helps.
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24 May 2026
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When Santos ends up at Mel's place, she finds a few things out of the ordinary, including a crate of Redbull, a pack of cigarettes, and a guy sleeping in Mel's bed.
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24 May 2026
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Actually, Mel's excited about a lot of things going into the new school year. She’s excited to co-teach with Dr. Mohan and Mr. Langdon. She’s excited to continue supporting the kids on her caseload from the previous year, and she knows writing their IEPs will go so much better now that she knows them and their families a little. She’s excited that her Physics class will be entirely made up of students she taught in Chemistry the previous year; they were a great group.
There are things to worry about, too. Co-teaching with two new people again. The daily possibility that she’s going to do something overwhelmingly embarrassing in front of Langdon. Still not knowing where she should go during her prep periods. That she’s going to be just as alone as she’s always been at work, but with some added disappointment because she’s let her hopes get up, just a little.
There’s no way that she and Langdon can co-teach as well as she hopes. She’s sure her bubble will burst soon enough, that her crush will fade, and everything will settle back to baseline.
(It doesn't.)
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- Part 1 of and they were CO-TEACHERS
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24 May 2026
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Grounder Frank Langdon takes a wife.
Or,
After 100 years of isolation, an apocalypse bunker is running out of food. In order to survive, the colony must strike a deal with the survivors on the outside. The solution is an arranged marriage between Mel and Frank, and Mel leaving behind everything she's ever known to join him and his tribe.
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22 May 2026
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The Book Fair comes three times a year.
Once in September, one in March, and once in May.
Frank Langdon comes to every single family night and somehow always ends up talking to Melissa King, his son's favorite person in the library.
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16 May 2026
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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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15 May 2026
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When Abby invites Frank to a New Year's Eve party, he laments not having anyone to go with, until Dana and Princess start mildly meddling
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12 May 2026
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‘Unstoppable force, meet immovable object,’ Frank smirks and rolls his eyes.
‘That’s it,’ Mel nods. ‘Sometimes… that’s just it.’
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12 May 2026
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if i loved you less (i might be able to talk about it more) by moonandsunlight
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
22 Jun 2026
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Melissa King did not have the best of prospects. She had a suitable dowry, a respectable family, and she was pretty enough. However, she also came with a big stipulation: her husband would not only have to provide for her, but also for her twin sister. Mel would not marry a man who did not let Rebecca King live with them.
With this big of an obstacle in her way, Mel should have been out looking for a husband as often as she possibly could.
She was not.
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OR: Miss Mel King desperately needs a husband, but has been avoiding the marriage mart like the plague. When her friend Miss Samira Mohan persuades her to come to London for the social season, Mel finds herself growing closer to a strange and handsome man with his own handful of secrets tucked close to his chest.
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06 May 2026
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Frank Langdon thinks Mel King needs to loosen up. Mel thinks Frank needs to be humbled. Somewhere in the middle, they accidentally fall in love.
or - pride and prejudice and the pitt
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29 Apr 2026
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Some nights were, naturally, worse than others.
Nights where Frank laid in bed for so long, staring at the ceiling, that it made his heart start to race with anxiety and his back ache and ache and ache no matter how he positioned himself. Nights where his thoughts spiraled out into worst-case-scenarios that seemed so vivid and inevitable that he would have to get up and go to the bathroom, just to turn the light on and look at himself in the mirror to remember what was actually real.
Those were the nights when he wanted the pills again the most: alone in his guest bedroom, trying to wring sleep out of his body like the last few drops of water out of a dirty dishcloth.
He tried not to call Mel on nights like that. He did not always succeed.
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27 Apr 2026
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It was probably a good thing that no one assumed that Mel and Frank could possibly be dating. They had agreed to keep it a secret, after all.
But, come on. Not one rumor? Really?
It was starting to piss Frank off.
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26 Apr 2026