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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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28 Jun 2026
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he’s careful with mel in a way that he never was with abby. not because he thinks she’s too delicate, or made of glass, or unable to handle herself. he just…he can’t fuck this up. she’s the most important thing that’s ever happened to him, alongside tanner and penny. he can’t fuck any of this up.
still, he can't protect her from this.
(or, mel and frank struggle with infertility issues.)
written for day four of kingdon week 2026: hurt and comfort.
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- Part 2 of kingdon week 2026
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27 Jun 2026
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27 Jun 2026
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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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27 Jun 2026
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The day that Melissa King first meets Frank Langdon is also the first day that she ever argues with an adult.
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25 Jun 2026
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Why were all these men from the Pitt suddenly chasing after Mel, Langdon wondered. They’d never even seen her shake her hair out of her braid after shift.
Word spreads across the Pitt that Dr. Mel King is looking for a boyfriend. Langdon throws his hat in the ring.
Written for Kingdon Week 2026 prompt "Tropes" - Love Triangle.
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- Part 5 of Homespun Kingdon Sampler
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24 Jun 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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06 Jun 2026
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It starts like this:
Frank gets caught. He does not voluntarily give up information about the stolen drugs – he gets caught.
Big difference.
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Frank Langdon and the years following that one shift.
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04 Jun 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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28 May 2026
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One year after his return to the PTMC, if you asked Frank Langdon what his plans were going to be for a week in July, he probably would not have predicted he'd be spending it vacationing with his colleagues at a campground somewhere in the Poconos. But it's not just the weather that's heating up and making him sweat... his relationship with Mel King is on the verge of becoming something else entirely.
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23 May 2026
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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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17 May 2026
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Two years ago, Mel King made a mistake she couldn't take back.
Now a snowstorm strands her in a cabin with the man she left behind, and it doesn't take long to realize that distance didn't fix anything.Bookmarked by abybi
16 May 2026
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Frank’s jaw has been hanging so low for the past thirty seconds that his mouth is starting to feel parched. He barely notices when Yolanda starts nudging at his shoulder and saying his name, because his full attention, importantly, is devoted elsewhere. Namely, where Mel stands at the back of the bar commanding the stage, spouting the most erotic lyrics Frank thinks he’s ever heard in his life.
The Pitt residents are at a karaoke bar for Dennis' birthday. Songs are sung, and Mel is determined to make her move.
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11 Apr 2026
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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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11 Apr 2026
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09 Apr 2026
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Frank was having a Bad Day.
Mel's upcoming date with a certain intern did not help to improve said Bad Day.
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Frank Langdon is a jealous, petty bastard.
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09 Apr 2026
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Mel and Langdon have always been just friends—until a disastrous plumbing repair, a soaked shirt, and Trinity’s impeccable timing force Mel to admit that Langdon’s charm might be (a little) lethal after all. Slow-ish burn, sarcasm, and shameless flirting ensue
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09 Apr 2026
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Dr. Frank Langdon doesn’t get distracted—not during trauma codes, not during twelve-hour shifts, and definitely not by residents. But something about Mel King is unraveling that discipline. She’s quiet, capable, kind, sharp under pressure… and lately, impossible to ignore. He should be focused on protocol, patients, and keeping his hands to himself. But after an incident in an on call decon shower, the line he’s not supposed to cross is starting to look awfully thin.
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09 Apr 2026
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langdon goes to rehab to get a handle on his addiction only to return to work and find a new one.
or: the cheating fic
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29 Mar 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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29 Mar 2026