1 - 20 of 52 Bookmarks by buckets_of_luck
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
There was always this undercurrent between them that now threatened to pull her under the waves. No restraint from his side and no inhibitions on hers. A countdown winded down on a bomb that could implode and wreck everything. But still, she let it tick.
Until it went off.
”I didn’t know you knew how to ride like that …” His voice was deep and low as his eyes locked into hers. A double entendre that she immediately recognized as his fingertips gently brushed her thigh. “…horses, I meant.”
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
06 Jul 2026
-
professional brat tamer, Frank Langdon, MD by daryldixonaf for brighterdaze
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
04 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
“You’re such a brat, you know that?” Frank teases. Mel shrugs and returns to her seat.
“Maybe you elicit it,” she suggests, her tone sincere. His heart thuds in his chest like a bat out of hell. Maybe he does.
or: frank learning the ropes of brat taming his favorite resident, melissa king
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
05 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
The day that Melissa King first meets Frank Langdon is also the first day that she ever argues with an adult.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,415
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 96
- Kudos:
- 186
- Bookmarks:
- 51
- Hits:
- 2,752
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
04 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
"I guess I’m not really used to thinking about options,” he admits, which feels like an unbelievably dumb thing for an adult—a father, a teacher, an ex-husband, an addict—to say out loud. “I just do the thing that seems like what you’re supposed to do."
Leanne hums in the way that Frank has come to learn, two stints in rehab later, is therapist non-verbal speak for “you’ve said something very troubling and therefore fascinating. Prepare to learn about yourself.”
Series
- Part 2 of and they were CO-TEACHERS
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
01 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
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.)
Series
- Part 1 of and they were CO-TEACHERS
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Trinity convinces Mel to join a dating app. What neither of them could have prepared for was Mel matching with Dr. Langdon.
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Mel,” he says slowly, “if I texted you during a shift and said you are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met, what would you do?”
I don’t know if I mean to give him a physical display of my answer, but I fall forward on my elbows, nearly knocking over my tea.
“Right,” he says. “So that’s issue number one.”
OR
After a small misunderstanding, Mel tells a lie she can’t take back, and now she has Langdon in her phone pretending to be her imaginary boyfriend. Maybe it would have been easier to just date the IT guy.
Fake dating - with a tiny twist <3
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Where do you think you’re going?” she asked as she stood up to meet him.
“To get an icepack?” he answered slowly, one eyebrow lifting in amusement.
“No you’re not,” she argued, “sit down, I’ll get it for you.”
“Sweetheart—”
“Don’t sweetheart me,” she interrupted, her eyes narrowing and her hands coming up to rest on her hips, “sit your ass down, Langdon.”
{or}
Mel and Frank both fall victim to the stomach bug and practically compete over who gets to take care of who.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,970
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 8
- Kudos:
- 91
- Bookmarks:
- 12
- Hits:
- 973
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
He watched as Mel squeezed her eyes shut for a brief second, drawing in a deep breath before finally starting toward him just as the music shifted. The booming bass faded into something slower now, softer, romantic enough that it made the entire room feel warmer.
And God, it genuinely felt like he’d stepped straight into a rom-com.
{or}
Mel and Frank are in Trinity and Yolanda’s wedding party.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,284
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 32
- Kudos:
- 136
- Bookmarks:
- 19
- Hits:
- 834
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Dr. King and Dr. Langdon notice each other in ways they don't notice others. Whatever could that mean?
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Tell me not to do it.”
Her jaw drops, eyebrows furrowing, and she says, “What?”
“Tell me not to do it,” he repeats. “Tell me that I should divorce her, tell me that you —”
He swallows the words and says, “Tell me that I shouldn’t renew my vows, that I should be with someone who actually wants to be with me, who isn’t just doing it because she thinks she has to because we have kids and I’m in recovery.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,434
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 26
- Kudos:
- 169
- Bookmarks:
- 38
- Hits:
- 2,103
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Mel offers her spare room to Frank after he’s served with divorce papers. When she refuses financial payment, they come up with another—mutually beneficial—arrangement.
Or, the roomies free use fic.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,936
- Chapters:
- 4/11
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 174
- Kudos:
- 371
- Bookmarks:
- 94
- Hits:
- 5,335
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Um.” Mel looked down. “I still don’t know what everyone’s talking about. Honestly. That’s just how he looks at me.”
Diana’s eyebrows shot up. “You’re saying he looks at you like that often?”
Mel rolled her head. “I mean, we work together a lot. Maybe I’m not seeing what other people are seeing because to me, that’s just… how he looks.” She glanced at Langdon, who was looking at her the same way he always did, and for some reason, it made the feather dance that time, and she had to look away.
----
When a Tiktok of an after hours save goes viral for their undeniable chemistry, Mel King and Frank Langdon are thrust into the spotlight and asked to do a publicity tour to help fundraise. Mel finds it increasingly difficult to keep her feelings for her happily married colleague under wraps in interviews, but Frank’s been keeping a secret that millions of people are about to learn before she does.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,420
- Chapters:
- 29/29
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 120
- Kudos:
- 328
- Bookmarks:
- 66
- Hits:
- 4,324
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
30 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Dr. King and Dr. Langdon successfully hide their relationship five times.
Then, there's the time they don't.
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
29 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
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 buckets_of_luck
29 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
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.
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
27 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Mel King has a crush. A silly, childish crush on Frank Langdon. It's a secret she has resolved to keep to herself, content to live on stolen glances, even if its eating her alive.
That is until Langdon is injured during a flag football game. In his dazed, concussed state, Mel learns that maybe it isn't all in her head after all...
Series
- Part 1 of Vital Signs
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
27 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
It took Frank Langdon’s concussion for Mel King to consider that her crush may not be entirely one sided. But it will take more than that for Langdon to be convinced that he deserves her.
Ordered to be on light duty the weeks following his injury during a flag football game, the two of them grow closer in ways neither of them fully expected, but they both desperately need.
or: post season 2 get together fic!
Series
- Part 2 of Vital Signs
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,393
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 140
- Kudos:
- 569
- Bookmarks:
- 170
- Hits:
- 16,406
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
27 Jun 2026
-
Long Hard Road by AlysonAfterDark for debutante_gurl, purplebutterflyglasses
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
26 Jun 2026
Tags
Summary
“It’s so beautiful,” Mel sighed after a while of just taking in the world around them.
“Yeah,” Frank answered.
But his eyes weren’t on the trees, or the water, or the clouds in the sky that surrounded them.
His eyes were on her.
“...Beautiful.”
{or}
Frank brings Mel to the Adirondacks.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,375
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 22
- Kudos:
- 88
- Bookmarks:
- 31
- Hits:
- 1,451
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
26 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“You should cry. You’ll feel better.”
Frank Langdon knows he'll feel better if he cries, but he can't. Mel King has a heartbreaking trick for that.
(Written for Kingdon Week 2026)
Bookmarked by buckets_of_luck
26 Jun 2026