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"You're my favorite resident, Mel. That's no secret."
"Well, good," she says, trying to tamper down her emerging smile. She can feel the heat in her cheeks and is thankful the dim light is enough to hide it from him. "You're my favorite, too," then, in attempt to keep the professional wall in place, she tacks on a quick, "Dr. Langdon."
The evolution of Mel's relationship with Frank, as told by car rides to and from work.
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03 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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01 Jul 2026
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Prologue to Five Times
Out of nowhere, Dr. Langdon starts ignoring her and Mel can't take it. She decides to find out why.Bookmarked by bbrand
30 Jun 2026
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Dr. King and Dr. Langdon successfully hide their relationship five times.
Then, there's the time they don't.
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30 Jun 2026
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Her head is a little spinny and overwhelmed as she learns what it’s like to date Frank Langdon instead of just be weirdly co-dependent best friends with Frank Langdon. She starts a new section of her journal titled Observations, Hypotheses, and Research Questions (RQs) - FAL where she jots some of her newly acquired data down, just to get it out of her head, mostly little things like:
Observation: He sleeps much more deeply after an orgasm, but he also seems embarrassed about it.
Hypothesis: He is nervous about saying I love you.She starts a sub-tab for Pet Names and Compliments (PN&C) and the first RQ under PN&C is:
Why does he sometimes say “perfect” during sex?Bookmarked by bbrand
17 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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14 Jun 2026
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The moment the pieces fit together Cassie has to scoff at her own stupidity.
The picture keeps shining back at her from his phone, no matter how long she stares at it. One sigh. Two heartbeats. Three taps of her foot. His screen doesn’t turn off. Four shakes of her head. Five blinks. Six seconds.
The fool must have disabled automatic the screen dim feature just so he could longingly and dreamily and stupidly stare at a photo of Mel, despite the fact that Cassie is pretty sure every time Langdon closes his eyes he can see Mel perfectly in his mind.
Cassie lets her emotions battle it out for a second inside her. In the end, both disgust and fondness tie for first place.
It’s nice to see Langdon like this, of course. Pathetically pining, sure, but also awkwardly excited. Carefully optimistic for all that he is worried and tentative, too.
(or, five times someone sees a picture of mel on frank's phone + one time someone sees a picture of frank on mel's phone)
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01 Jun 2026
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A new high chair at the kitchen table, a new carseat crammed in the back of the car, binkies thrown everywhere. Sleepless nights, milk stained shirts, diaper blowouts.
He sees it all, laid out in front of him like a blueprint.
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19 May 2026
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“I swear I’ve mentioned Alex before,” Mel murmurs, frowning down at her phone, still not clocking how she’s short-circuited Frank’s brain. It's a blue screen of death up there. Hi, you’ve reached Dr. Frank Langdon. I’m not available to talk right now, but leave a message, and I might get back to you. Beeeeeep.
The picture continues to shine cheerily up at them, silently mocking Frank. He forces himself to look away and swallows with difficulty. “I think I'd remember if you'd told me about your ‘best friend’ who you ‘used to be in love with.’”
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- Part 1 of so panic
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07 May 2026
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“Hey,” Mel says, brow slightly furrowed as her eyes scan him over, but lips still turned up in a welcoming smile. “You okay?”
He loves her smile. Wants to spend every day for the rest of his life basking in its warmth.
“Better now,” Frank replies, his feet carrying him of their own volition to the edge of the bed so that he can fall sideways across her blue and yellow quilt.
“Bad shift?”
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Or Frank seeks Mel out after a tough day. Because home isn't a place so much as it is who is important to you.
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24 Apr 2026
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“Hi,” Frank says, breathless. His hair is messy, like he’d tried to ruffle it with his fingers to make it more presentable, and his shirt is askew, the neckline obviously tugged to one side.
“Hello,” Mel responds primly, behind the hulking printing press. She moves to the side of it and tangles her hands together in front of her apron.
The pair of them are sort of comical — her in full colonial garb and him in a free t-shirt from the campus gym that he clearly cut the sleeves off of, turning it into a makeshift muscle tank, with only a thin cord strung across a few wooden posts separating them.
or: the colonial williamsburg college au meetcute
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18 Apr 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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31 Mar 2026
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Frank Langdon's perfectly curated road trip playlist by soul_meets_body
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
30 Mar 2026
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As their vacation creeped closer and Frank found himself trying to outmaneuver every anxiety pitfall his girlfriend would face over a 5-day trip; Frank realized that adding a marriage proposal to the itinerary might be a bad move.
OR: Mel and Langdon go on their first road trip as a couple. Becca is also going on a road trip, separately, simultaneously and two states away, with Adam. Mel is being very cool, cool, cool about it no doubt, no doubt. Frank has aux.
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30 Mar 2026
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You’re doing this on purpose.” He hissed through gritted teeth, hands gripping her hips, the dress she wore bunching up as he hikes it up.“Driving me fucking crazy, Mel. I hope you know that.” The shell of her ear is hot as he leans into her. Breath hitching in her throat, Mel grips the countertop, the warmth of his tongue licking a strip on the side of her neck almost makes her lose control. But she holds strong - knuckles turning white.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” She does.Mel and Frank hookup at a work party
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10 Mar 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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28 Feb 2026
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Maybe it’s the fever, or the endless months of solitary nights, or the way Mel’s looking at him, or maybe he’s just figuring out what he wants after losing so much—whatever it is, Langdon doesn’t have to think before he says, “Stay.”
Mel blinks at him, head tilted slightly.
“Even if it’s just until I’m asleep,” he amends. “I think it’ll make you feel better, and” —hesitating, Langdon musters one last mouthful of vulnerability— “I feel better with you here.”
A smile spreads across Mel’s face, and after a second’s hesitation, she puts her hand over Langdon’s. “I feel better being here,” she says, “although you’ll need to move over if I’m staying that long.”
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Robby sends Langdon home sick from his shift; he ends up at Mel's place instead.
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- Part 1 of i'll be homeward bound in time
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26 Feb 2026
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Mel loved her birthday, once.
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05 Feb 2026
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“I just think it would be better if someone showed me how to do it right,” she finally says. “And I think you would know how to do that.”
“Mel…”
“I know you’re married,” she rushes. “I know. But you’re my best friend. It would be… friendly. And just the one time.”
or: the one where frank starts soft domming mel at work and she convinces him to take her virginity. platonically.
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30 Jan 2026
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“Dr. Langdon?” Her voice comes out as little more than a croak.
“I thought we agreed I was Frank outside of the hospital,” he says, instinctively laying a hand on her forehead.
His hands are still a little cold from the frigid February evening, but he still has to fight not to let his eyebrows raise in alarm at the heat radiating from her flushed face.
“What are you doing in my bedroom?” Mel asks.
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26 Jan 2026
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It’s petulant, the way she immediately feels the need to argue against his words, the feelings she’s fought so hard to keep bottled up threatening to explode within her. He’s married.
“Abby wouldn’t encourage it.”
“I don’t think Abby really gives a shit anymore, to be honest.”
Frank tries to hint that he's getting divorced. Mel doesn't quite get the memo.
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24 Jan 2026