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“Yes. I’m supposed to leave next week, and she set up a double date for her brother and I.” She looks at Frank, her forehead still wrinkled. Frank wants to smooth those lines away with his thumb. “It would be rude to cancel, wouldn’t it?”
“Yeah,” Frank confirms, and Mel’s shoulders drop. Frank feels the words rising up, and he knows he’s going to say them. Mel’s roommate wants to set her up. Mel needs a convenient excuse to get the roommate off her back. “I could go with you.”
“Oh,” Mel says, very quietly. She studies him from beneath her eyelashes, the frames of her glasses. “That’s very kind of you, Frank. I would be happy to have a friend there.”
“No, uh.” Frank stops, swallows thickly. “I could pretend to be your boyfriend. Get you out of those dates.”
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Another day, Trinity brought her to the aquarium, hands in her pockets as she fondly watched Mel and Becca pour over the information screens, gesticulating wildly at various fish darting past them. She lent Mel her jacket when they went to see the penguins outside and kissed her on the cheek at the end of the outing, her lips brushing the corner of Mel’s mouth. The morning after, Frank took them both out for breakfast at a local farm, all the food delivered fresh to the table, hardy winter vegetables roasted until they were soft and eggs direct from the chickens roosting there. He shared his fruit salad with Mel, cradling her chin gently in his hand as he placed a blackberry on her tongue.
Becca loved them both, as it turned out, and her questions about whether Mel was dating either of them tapered off eventually. Instead, she started asking Mel again when she was going to find someone to actually date, because she “couldn’t spend all her time letting her friends take her out on dates that weren’t really dates.”
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“We can have a real girls’ sleepover. Makeovers, rom coms. Talk about boys,” Trinity jokes. Mel’s brows scrunch up, her lips pursing in thought.
“I’ve never been to one of those.”
“What?” Trinity asks loudly, disbelievingly, and Mel flinches. “Sorry, but—what? Never?”
“No,” Mel affirms. “I didn’t have a lot of friends growing up, and the friends I did have were mostly focused on academics.” Mel presses her fingers together on the table, her gaze out the window. Trinity watches Mel bite at her lower lip, how her eyebrows furrow and then relax again. “I always wanted to, though.”
“We’re doing it,” Trinity immediately blurts. Mel swivels to look at her, and Trinity nods, gathering her own confidence. “Yeah, we’ll make it into a whole girls’ night,” she continues. “We’ll invite Mohan and Javadi. Whitaker, too.”
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Or: Trinity finds out Mel has never been to a real sleepover and decides to take matters into her own hands.
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“Hey, are you free after work?” he asks, and Mel hears the absolute silence that drops down over them, all the movement on either side of them going still.
“Yes, I am,” Mel answers eagerly. Cassie abruptly begins shuffling through her locker louder than before, and Mel feels one of her eyebrows twitch, tries not to let it show on her face. “Do you think you could fix the air conditioning today?” Frank nods, rewards her with a megawatt grin. She can feel them staring at each other an amount of time that could be considered inappropriate; she can’t think of a good reason to look away.
“Wow, King,” Santos says, breaking the silence, and Mel watches Frank glance at Santos behind her, over her shoulder. “Asking Langdon to fix your pipes for you? Didn’t think you had it in you.”
“Santos,” Frank warns, and Mel watches a muscle jump in his jaw.
“He’s not fixing my pipes.” Mel tilts her head, turning to face Santos. “He’s fixing my air conditioning. It’s been broken all week.” Santos’s lips part, her eyebrows coming together, and then a slow, terrible smile spreads across her face.
(Mel's air conditioner breaks. Frank doesn’t know a lot about them but finds a way to help)
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The thing is, they're friends. They'd covered that through and through in the library, when they'd sprinted away from facility security, and when they'd faced Vecna together, hands tangled up for bravery. She and Robin had come a long way since Nancy’s irritation at her suddenly showing up, loud and sarcastic and witty, as if she had been by Steve’s side all along, slotted in neatly alongside him like the puzzle piece that had always been missing. Somehow, she felt she and Robin had continued to grow after that, when Robin had assured her that she and Steve weren’t dating multiple times, always with an intensity that bordered on desperation, and Nancy had finally bought it.
But Nancy can't get over Robin standing in front of her, in Steve's shirt, as if that's normal. As if friends did that all time. As if Steve hadn't given her his Letterman jacket when they'd been dating, proud to show her off. Robin's face is earnest, tinged with anxiety, her hands shoved deep into the pockets of the short trunks she's wearing.
Or: Steve invites Nancy to the quarry, and Nancy figures out what she wants.
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Dr. Frank Langdon works at The Pit, a treatment center located in the heart of London's slums. The Pit, owned and operated by doctors and best friends Michael Robinovitch and Jack Abbot, cares for those who can't afford proper medical treatment at fancier facilities. Their supplies are mostly donated (or stolen) — but their supply of blood seems lower than usual, and one new student can't help but notice the strange qualities present in her new teacher.
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Dana is used to taking care of everyone around her. Her husband, her children, her department. It’s second nature to find herself at the bar where they all congregated after the gala, an eagle eye on her babies, watching with an ache in her chest as each one paired off, the gentle start of something new, something precious. The only person who notices the sadness behind her sharp eyes is Cassie, and she’s not going to stop until she finds out what is weighing their lynchpin down so heavily.
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“This is why they say don’t get into a relationship until you’ve been sober for a year, isn’t it?”
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- Part 2 of kingdon come
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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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plausible and realistic getting together :)
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