13 Bookmarks by Vickaroo
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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
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13 months sober and determined to make this second chance work, Frank Langdon is all focus in attempting to create a new, better normal.
Then the Pitt's annual Secret Santa exchange pairs him with Trinity Santos, and he's sure if there is a God, she hates him.
But then his own Secret Santa gifts him with a personalized crossword puzzle each week, and it's the most thoughtful thing anyone has ever done for Frank that it nearly brings him to tears.
The clues are fairly easy.
Knowing someone actually cares is the hard part.
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09 Aug 2026
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"Mel— what are you—"
"Please," she whispered, her voice raw and pleading. She looked up at him slowly; he sucked in a sharp breath as he took in how wide and teary her eyes were. "I… I need the distraction."
Her fingers were twitching against his skin where she had hooked them into his waistband. She looked so desperate he could cry. Langdon let out a shuddering breath, tears prickling the corners of his own eyes.
"Mel… I'm married," he whispered gently. Apologetically. There was an edge of warning in his tone, even if he knew it held no merit.
"That hasn't stopped you before."
In which an unhappily married Langdon falls hard and fast for Mel in the months after their reunion. As the summer wears on, Langdon is devastated to realize just how weak his will actually is. But despite the guilt... he just can't seem to keep his hands off of her.
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06 Aug 2026
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That’s his bright spot, though—the thing he clings to on his first day, then continues to hold onto tightly thereafter: Mel.
Where he had felt out of step with everyone else, he and her were right on beat together, dancing around the ED, just as they had on her first day. He had been shocked how easily they picked up where they’d left off. There was no wariness towards him, no undercurrent of judgement, no hesitation to let him treat a patient. She didn’t hold him back, she pushed him forward. It was what he needed more than anything.
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OR: The only thing that really makes Frank feel good about being back at the Pitt is Mel. He holds on tight to her, even when other men in the ED seem to want her too.Bookmarked by Vickaroo
28 Jul 2026
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For a moment that seemed to draw on for an hour, nobody said anything, the awkward shock of whatever the hell had just occurred settling between them all. Garcia turned toward Frank slowly.
“What the fuck is up with ER Barbie today?” she asked. “Did Poison Ivy over there key her car or something?”
Santos had to cover her mouth to stifle the laugh that burst out. She would think this was hilarious. He bit his tongue so he didn’t say anything he’d regret - they were just beginning to tolerate each other.
Frank stared out the closed doors. “I have no idea.”
or: the one where an overconfident intern openly flirts with Frank, and unleashes a side of Mel nobody has seen before.
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22 Jul 2026
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Mel King was a creature of habit.
There was a specific sort of choreography to her life beyond the chaos of the Emergency Department. A carefully controlled routine, a color-coded calendar, a rigid set of rituals that kept her grounded enough to keep showing up day after day, to keep on doing the work that was required of her to save lives.
Everything was going fine for Mel. Her personal life was predictable, unexciting, and perfectly fulfilling, thank you very much.
Enter Frank Langdon, agent of chaos.
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21 Jul 2026
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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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21 Jul 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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Bookmarked by Vickaroo
21 Jul 2026
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Mel and Langdon have a crush on each other and it's actually ruining their lifes!
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Mel gets tipsy and can't keep her feelings to herself anymore.
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Langdon had been trying to convince himself that wanting Mel was the problem.
It had never occurred to him that one day she might want him back.Bookmarked by Vickaroo
15 Jul 2026