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sometimes – more often than he’d like to admit, actually – he just wants to tell her to fucking leave already, to take tanner and penny and run. what the fuck are you doing, abby? why are you here?
he feels like he’s drowning. he feels like he’s in a house that’s on fire, inhaling smoke that burns and clogs his lungs until he can’t catch his breath.
(or, abby stays. frank isn't sure that's a good thing.)
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22 Aug 2026
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To understand social interactions better, Mel makes a spreadsheet cataloging her co-workers responses. She incorporates aspects of others' personalities into her own, noting how they respond. The data is useful and comprehensive and Mel is satisfied with the experiment, so she stops.
Until Frank Langdon shows back up and punches a big hole in her carefully cultivated data.
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18 Aug 2026
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MEL KING: YOU DID THIS?
FRANK LANGDON: Probably
FRANK LANGDON: But what this time?Mel sent him a picture of her laptop screen.
MEL KING: THIS. YOU DID THIS.
FRANK LANGDON: Well don’t they look like they’re having fun?
MEL KING: OMG
FRANK LANGDON: 😇
MEL KING: THEY WON’T STOP.
FRANK LANGDON: Don’t make them stop!Queen Mel may be pregnant!
Mel yelled into her closed fists and scrambled back, pushing the laptop away from her. No, no. Queen Mel could absolutely not be pregnant. She still had to get to the top of the gardening career and she had to write 5 books and she hadn’t even –
FRANK LANGDON: Btw
FRANK LANGDON: Jealous?---
OR: Mel plays The Sims. Someone installed a mod she hasn't used before. Now she can't stop picturing it every time she looks at him. He thinks it's funny. A little harmless flirting never hurt anyone, right?
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18 Aug 2026
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“I’m okay, Frank.” With a nervous laugh, she asks, “Do you really think I wouldn’t tell you if something was wrong?”
He pulls back to look at her, eyes flitting over her face.
“Promise?”
And, well, Mel can’t bring herself to make a promise to him when she knows it’s one already broken.
Shortly after realizing she’s in love with Frank, Mel begins experiencing some unusual symptoms.
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17 Aug 2026
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"I'm not asking you to look after me, Mel," he begged softly. "I know things are incredibly hard for you right now. I know you feel like you're drowning under the weight of this place and Becca. But let me be the person who helps you breathe, not another task on your to-do list. Let me help you carry it. I’ll step back. If I’m crowding you, or if my stuff with Abby and the kids is putting too much pressure on you, just tell me where the line is. I’ll stay behind it. I’ll do whatever you want. I will change whatever I need to change about myself to make this work. Just please, don't shut me out."
And right there, in his desperate plea, was the absolute, terrifying core of why she had to stop it.
He was too willing to erase his own needs, to compromise his own emotional limitations, and shrink himself down into whatever shape she needed just to keep her comfortable. He adored her completely. He cherished the very ground she walked on and treated her with a level of devotion that she felt unworthy of.
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14 Aug 2026