11 Bookmarks by berryfixate
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Being one of the multiverse's hottest commodities is not for the faint of heart. (Ver. 2.0)
Ricks across the multiverse use you for companionship. This is the price you pay for existing; a price that your Rick has graciously (or not?) spared you from. But the Citadel doesn't like rogues very much, and you worry that sparing you from your fate will prove to be more trouble than it's worth. Taken in by Rick for your 'own protection,' you become dependent on an insanely volatile man, and unknowingly, he becomes dependent on you. You'd do anything to stay in his good graces. He'd do anything to stay in yours.
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25 Aug 2026
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Reader is midway through her Master's Degree, suffering from a lack of excitement. Something in her, some part of her, wants more. -- Where Reader is hired to tutor Morty and finds the more she needs in his strange, asshole Grandpa.
NOTE: I'm back after, like 5 years which is actually crazy to me. I finished my degree, I'm in my Masters now in particle physics (hence the minor self insert) and I'm SO excited to be writing these again. To anyone who read any of my original works, I love you!
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- Part 1 of Growing Pains
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24 Aug 2026
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20 Jul 2026
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"Okay, I love you, bye." The new clarinetist - Mel - said, before hanging up. She then sighed, and sat down on the front steps, resting her elbows on her knees and cupping her face. Frank put the cigarette away, and wondered what his first words should be to her. Something about how she was really fantastic, and she shouldn't beat herself up, and she sounded great during her parts and had nothing to worry about.
"You know, a year ago I saw a guy throw up in that exact spot you're in. So I wouldn't sit there."
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After Robby caught him with pills thirty minutes before a concert, Frank Langdon comes back to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra ten months later with two goals: to keep his job as a percussionist and to stay clean. Unfortunately, what's waiting for him in the orchestra is having to see his ex-wife during rehearsals, a conductor who watches him like a hawk, a section that would rather pretend he doesn't exist, and a new cute principal clarinetist that's becoming impossible to ignore. Kingdon Orchestra AU.
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16 Jul 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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- 69/69
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13 Jul 2026
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When he finds the courage to leave the comfort of her steam shrouded bathroom, he makes his way out to the living room.
He stops in his tracks when he hears her, a fond smile etching onto his face.
He’s careful to disguise his footsteps on the vinyl floor, not wanting her to stop. He was rapidly beginning to realize he could listen to her sing forever.
She flits around the kitchen, alternating between humming and singing along to whatever music played in her ear, and all Frank can do is watch.
“Oh!” She says with a jolt when she finally notices him, “Frank! How are you feeling? I made spaghetti…spaghetti’s okay, right?”
“Yeah.” He nodded, “Yeah, spaghetti’s okay.”
She shuffles out of the kitchen a few moments later with two bowls in tow, “We can sit at the table, the couch…whatever you’re most comfortable with. If you want we can put something on the TV, that’s what Becca usually likes to do…”
“I like when you sing.” He can’t stop the words from coming, and he doesn’t regret them one bit when he watches her face change shades if only slightly.
“Oh.”
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13 Jul 2026
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Mel thought she knew all of Frank’s different voices — the professional one he uses when talking to his patients, the loving/worried/cajoling one he uses when talking to his kids, the soft one he uses just for Mel — but his voice sounds so different now, so much deeper and rougher. Mel didn’t know he could sound like that. Her mouth goes dry and she squeezes thighs together reflexively, pressing her ear harder against the wall.
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The walls between Frank's and Mel’s apartments are very thin, leading to some interesting new discoveries.
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03 Jul 2026
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They called it friendship because it was easier to call it that rather than what it was becoming. They were Mel and Frank, and one day, they fell in love. Prior to that, they were the best of friends, and it's important that what they have isn't rushed. Frank won't make that mistake again. Neither will Mel.
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Instead of Langdon and Robby having that conversation in the finale, they have it during the fireworks outside, and it's much more heated. Nasty words are exchanged, Langdon punches Robby in the face, and Robby tries to kill himself shortly after. And that night, punching an attending became the starting point of everything that comes after.
Which (coincidentally, in its own, twisted way) is how Mel and Frank come to be.
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- Part 2 of craving and the cure verse
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02 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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25 Jun 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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12 Jun 2026
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you've got a nine to five (so I'll take the night shift) by Cemeterycigs
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
01 May 2026
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Langdon starts thinking of Mel like the sun, not only because she’s bright, but because everything else feels colder without her. The hospital is still the hospital. Loud and relentless, but when she’s there, the night becomes something he can get through. Somewhere along the way, she turns into the only person he actually wants to see.
OR Langdon comes back after his ten month hiatus and immediately gets put on night shift with Mel because of a shortage AND Mel gets boba.
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- Part 2 of look at these idiot doctors in love
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10 Apr 2026