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“I’m okay, Frank.” With a nervous laugh, she asks, “Do you really think I wouldn’t tell you if something was wrong?”
He pulls back to look at her, eyes flitting over her face.
“Promise?”
And, well, Mel can’t bring herself to make a promise to him when she knows it’s one already broken.
Shortly after realizing she’s in love with Frank, Mel begins experiencing some unusual symptoms.
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15 Aug 2026
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The first bets were placed shortly after the wedding ring disappeared from Langdon’s finger one rainy day in August, never to be seen again. Trinity thinks it’s funny, though she isn’t the most invested, until it all ends up coming to a head in a way more awful than any of them could have predicted.
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14 Aug 2026
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“We both knew what we were getting into when we started seeing each other,” Garcia eventually said. She looked over her shoulder, glancing at Santos. “And we both agreed this was just casual, didn’t we?”
She didn’t know if she was reminding herself or reminding Santos about their arrangement.
“I know we did… just wanted to make sure you didn’t mean–”
“I was tired and tipsy and you made me come not even thirty seconds before that. I wasn’t exactly in the sharpest state of mind,” Garcia cut off, not unkindly. “Let’s not make this a big deal.”
Or: The events leading up to their 4th of July shift; Garcia accidentally lets an "I love you" slip and tries (fails) to be casual about it.
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10 Aug 2026
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Mel and Frank have been seeing each other with Abby’s permission for a while—but when they’re together, Mel cant help but to break all of his wife’s rules.
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10 Aug 2026
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After some teasing from Tanner, Penny asks Frank for the origin of her name. All Mel can do is listen to the story
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- Part 9 of Love Lies in the Ordinary
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10 Aug 2026
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Mel traced idle patterns on his forearm and Frank watched her face in the low light, memorising it in ways he didn't yet have language for.
"Do you think we'll remember this the same way?" Mel asked quietly, twisting her lips in thought.
He remained quiet for a moment, taking a deep breath and exhaling it. "I think we'll remember it differently," he admitted. "But I think we'll both remember it as important."
She nodded, satisfied with that.
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Mel and Frank meet at a summer emergency medicine internship programme and the rest is history.
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09 Aug 2026
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Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl's phone number. Boy loses girl's phone number. Enter: odyssey across Pittsburgh to find said girl.
Or: Mel and Frank meet at the airport and don't realise falling in love can be so easy.
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09 Aug 2026
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“I was wondering if you had time for a quick chat,” she says, trying to channel Baran.
“‘Course,” he puts the notebook aside. “This is your first gig?”
“Yeah,” Mel nods, tugging at the end of her braid. She doesn’t miss the way Langdon’s eyes follow her finger before settling back up on her face, leaning back. “Is it obvious?”
[or: the same assignment of following The Pitt on their world-wide tour, ten years apart, and a lifetime of differences]
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07 Aug 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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Bookmarked by fireplaceashes
07 Aug 2026
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“How do you write to your friend?” Becca asks. “Do you text him?”
“No, we email.”
“Cool,” Becca says, smiling. “Can I read one?”
“No!” Mel says a little too quickly, and Becca looks up in surprise.
“Why?”
“Because it’s private,” Mel insists. “I don’t look at your messages to Adam.”
“But Adam’s my boyfriend,” Becca says. And then she gasps excitedly. “Is he your boyfriend?”
Mel starts a low-stakes and casual friendship over email. Of course, things get complicated.
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07 Aug 2026
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Mel’s got a fool-proof plan for her life: take care of her sister and dad, finish college and go to med school. Frank’s white-knuckling it through his sobriety, and he clings to his sponsor, Mel’s dad, with everything he has left. When they meet, falling in love is the absolute last thing that should happen, but Mel and Frank do it as easy as breathing.
It takes them more than ten years to do something about it.
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07 Aug 2026
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Time does many things. It gives, it takes, it heals and it ages you.
29 years and 7 months ago Melissa King met Frank Langdon for the first time
28 years ago Melissa King wrapped her tiny fingers around Frank Langdons only slightly bigger pointer finger and held on for dear life
27 years ago Frank Langdon tried to teach Melissa King to speak in full sentences
26 years ago Melissa King painted Frank Langdons mother a picture that she has always kept in her office.
25 years ago, Melissa King broke her arm on a climbing frame and Frank Langdon told her that she was going to be okay.
24 years ago, almost to the day, Frank Langdon asked his mother Patricia Sawyer where Mellie and Becca went.
Here, on September 5th 2025, after time had taken years and memories from them, for the first time in a very very long time they stood in the same place at the same time.
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Frank and Mel knew each other once upon a time, but only Frank remembers.
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07 Aug 2026
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At least their sheets are much smaller than the ones for her and Frank’s king bed.
It’s just a lot of sorting and folding, trying to keep track of what belongs where.
And it’s not like things are in complete chaos, the house feels lived in in a way she misses when the kids aren’t here.
But she does not remember the laundry taking this long before.
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07 Aug 2026
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Mel is over being pregnant, Frank has a suggestion to help her go into labor.
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05 Aug 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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04 Aug 2026
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“I need to get out of this dress,” Mel said abruptly.
Frank went very still beside her, his voice was quieter, lower too, “oh, yeah?”
“Yes. I get very overstimulated by unfamiliar fabrics, and this kind of zipper always digs in.”
“Right,” he said, leaning back again with a chuckle to himself, running a hand across his face. “Right.”
Or, Mel doesn’t work the day of Pittfest, nine months later she meets a handsome stranger at a bar
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04 Aug 2026
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After confronting Deborah for taking the head writer job from her, Ava decides not to blackmail her, she just walks away. Determined to build her own path, Ava creates a show inspired by her complicated relationship with Deborah. The series becomes a massive success, turning Ava into a rising star. Two years later, fate brings them face to face again when Ava is invited as a guest on Deborah’s late night show to talk about the hit that changed her life.
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30 Jul 2026
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i am shielded in my armor by purplebutterflyglasses for AlysonAfterDark, debutante_gurl
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
25 Jun 2026
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He froze. His mind finally putting all the pieces together.
It wasn’t just the fireworks at all.
They had a gun, now pointed in his direction. Another loud blast ricocheted through the awning.
Fuck.
He had to get out of there.
He spun on his heel and immediately ran like he had never run before. His heart felt like it was in his throat. His mind simultaneously moving at the speed of sound and not forming any coherent thoughts at all.
The only thing he could think of was Mel.
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28 Jul 2026
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Mel vanishes after the TOD is called, the room still buzzing around them in chaos, the beeps of the monitors still ringing in everyone’s ears, long after they’ve been shut off. She’s ripping off her blood soaked gloves and throwing them in the hazmat bin like they’ve burned her before he can even try to get a word in.
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- Part 25 of kingdon micro fics 2026!
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26 Jul 2026
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Three weeks after ending a ten month situationship, Trinity Santos transfers to night shift hoping that new routines, new people, and a new shift will be enough to outrun one heartbreak.
Instead, she finds Jack Abbot loudly claiming her as one of his own, John Shen making coffee that should qualify as a controlled substance, Parker Ellis providing an endless running commentary, Crus being Crus, and Emery Walsh appearing often enough that "coincidence" starts losing all meaning.
As impossible traumas, 3am coffees and endless night shifts slowly become routine, strangers become family and nights begin to feel like home. For the first time in a long time, Trinity starts building a life she never thought she'd have.
But healing is rarely linear, and some ghosts don't stay buried just because you've changed shifts. When the past finally catches up with her, Trinity is forced to decide whether letting someone truly know her is worth the risk of losing them.
Sometimes the hardest part isn't surviving what happened to you. It's believing someone could know all of it and choose to stay anyway.
Emery Walsh has decided. She isn't going anywhere.
Or: The slowburn walshtos I want in the world
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23 Jul 2026