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"Sometimes Mel thinks all her little problems actually matter.
She cries on the bus after long shifts, straddling the line between trying to stop and trying to get it out so that she doesn’t ruin Becca’s night. She watches her coworkers pair up happily, full of inside jokes, and knows there’s no one waiting to catch up with her. And she gets up on bridges to see if she’ll actually do something about any of it."
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Six months into working in the Pitt, Mel is reaching her breaking point. She doesn't expect Frank to be the one who finds her when she finally cracks.
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14 Dec 2025
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“We think this may be a..”, Princess lowered her voice even further, “-huh..my boyfriend who lives in Canada situation.”
“I don’t follow,” Samira said dubiously.
“no one has seen the guy around-,
“-says they don’t have any pictures together because he is private,” Princess continues, looking at her meaningfully.
“Oh. Oh my God, you think she is making it up?” Her voice goes way over this conversation's acceptable volume.
Cassie winces.
“I don’t think she meant to do it”, she explains.
“Chad came up again, so we started talking about relationships and Mel got roped into it. I think she wanted to get us off her back but when Santos doubled down, I guess she felt like she had to save face..?”
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Mel has a boyfriend. A boyfriend who is 6’2, cooks her salmon dinners and bought her a white gold sweetheart necklace. Mel’s boyfriend loves her sister, runs marathons and drives an Audi.
Too bad no one at PTMC has ever heard his name or seen pictures nor spotted them together anywhere in Pittsburgh proper.
Oh, by the way, he is a doctor too.
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13 Dec 2025
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Reluctant mixed-doubles specialist Mel King encounters a kindred spirit on the U.S. Open practice courts: Frank Langdon, the golden boy of the ATP. Their connection strengthens over a charmed week of tournament play, until it’s abruptly shattered by devastating news: Frank’s doping scandal.
Six months later, Mel’s life looks nothing like she imagined. She’s retired from the tour. Her partner has left. Her coach (and mother) is dead. Money is scarce and her sister’s health insurance is a bureaucratic labyrinth. By day, she coaches peewee players and weekend warriors to stay afloat; by night, she studies for the MCAT. Tennis, she tells herself, is over. It’s time to move on.
Then disgraced Frank Langdon walks into her tennis club—accompanied by his coach, Michael Robinavitch—with an offer Mel never expected… and can’t refuse.
(the kingdon mixed doubles tennis AU)
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13 Dec 2025
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She was sort of a little bit thrilled by it, thrilled by his choosing her, thrilled by the STEMI timing, thrilled by the way the department worked so smoothly sometimes she felt like a cog in a machine.
And she liked to think she was a cog in a machine because it meant she was useful and purposeful and something needed or even wanted her there. She thought of Eleanor in The Haunting of Hill House, who said, placidly, she remembered because the word was so pleasing and so sad, “I’ve never been wanted anywhere.” She felt very much like Eleanor, haunted by ghosts, reaching out her hand in the darkness and waking up alone. And her intense wanting was a wound she was sure people could see, bleeding down her forehead, a primal warning sign to back away slowly so no one else would get hurt. What about me, she wanted to beg, what about my wound, but she knew that, too, was a childish fantasy. That it would be more work than anyone was willing to put in to get past the walls she put up in the form of busyness and delight and surface-level vulnerability so they couldn’t see the depth of her hurt and grief lurking inside.
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“Keep your jacket on, cover for me and say I'm having crazy IBS or something. Meet me in the family bathroom in 20. I can cover that up,” Trinity said, as if directing a procedure.
“Cover what up?” Langdon tried, lamely, bringing a palm up to cover his neck.
And this was allegedly the most prolific liar on staff? Ha.
“That massive hickey that will make tonight Hell for you if you don't let me help."
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03 Nov 2025
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"The kitchen cabinet is covered in stains. They aren’t clear from standing, blended into the grain, but on the floor the odd marks and splatters are obvious, little memories ground into the wood.
The door hangs at an odd angle now, half open, only hinged at the bottom. A sticky red-brown wetness stains the outside corner, running over the other marks.
Her heartbeat matches a throbbing deep in her skull, blood sluggishly dripping from her temple. Mel can track its path down her face like a second skin, tight and itchy."
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Mel tries to pull herself together after she's home during a burglary and is caught in the crossfire. Frank finds her in the wreckage and makes that his job instead
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29 Sep 2025
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"Once a year, like a bad zombie movie, a shambling mass of dead-eyed day-shifters drag themselves to the PTMC an hour early to be lectured on hospital policies and standards.
It seems almost counterintuitive that people who agreed to years of extra school just to reach residency would consider a lecture to be one of the worst days of the year, but alas, such is the power of hospital administration, cursed be their names."
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It's HR policy day and Frank is looking forward to having a normal time, playing footsie with Mel and not taking any notes. Hopefully there aren't any surprise questions that force him into the hot seat...
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04 Aug 2025
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She throws back her head and cackles, little snorts in her laughter that are kind of charming, actually. “Oh, god, don’t be. He dragged me to Pennsylvania, went and got hooked on drugs, and I’m pretty sure he’s been sleeping with his coworker. I’ve been waiting for this.” She grins a bit ferally. “Besides, I’m gonna be a hot divorcee, what’s not to love about that?”
Mel blinks, trying her best to adopt the sort of expression she uses when a patient tells her something particularly out of pocket. “Oh. That’s a lot,”Or, the one where Mel and Abby get stuck in an elevator.
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12 Jul 2025
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“—and I know that there’s Becca and Tanner and Millie to consider, but I was wondering if you maybe wanted to move in? Together? With me?”
Mel blinks. He certainly doesn’t look like he’s having a stroke.
“Frank, why would we move in together?”
“I thought it might be nice,” he shrugs here, acting nonchalant even though Mel can see the tension in his jaw. “To take that next step in our relationship.”
“Frank, what are you talking about? We’re not in a relationship?”
At this, Frank’s frown deepens before widening into a frustrated half smile. “Uh, yes we are? We’ve been dating for nine months?”
What.
Or, Frank thinks Mel doesn’t do physical touch.
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04 Jul 2025
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“Do you know where you’re going?”
She realized it was a ridiculous question as it passed her lips, but Langdon looked at her, his eyes a little glassy, and shook his head no.
(Mel and Langdon take each other in.)
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30 Jun 2025
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the whole world is sleeping (but my world is you) by fromiftowhen
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
01 Jun 2025
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Frank has never been a good sleeper. It's a blessing and a curse in turn, but he's made peace with needing less sleep than anyone he's ever met.
And then he meets Mel King, and she changes that.
(She changes everything.)
OR — Over a series of late night talks, texts, FaceTimes, and maybe dates, Langdon and Mel fall in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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02 Jun 2025
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“Well, I heard in town that you were looking for some help digging a well. And I thought I might provide my services.”
Penelope stared at him. “Now why on God’s green earth would you want to do that?” she asked, more bluntly than was perhaps proper for a young lady. “We can’t pay you.” Their father had left them with almost nothing, save this land and the house they were standing on. It was a pretty nice house - better than some of the others in the area - but life was hard.
He shook his head and turned his hat over in his hands. “No, I didn’t expect you could. I hoped you might instead pay me in kind.”
Penelope’s cheeks flushed red and she looked down, her hands smoothing the faded yellow cotton of her day dress. She didn’t suppose he meant what it sounded like he meant, being a gentleman and all, but the idea of Colin Bridgerton taking that sort of payment from her made her cheeks hot.
OR: local cowboy offers to help farmgirl dig a well (aka cowboy colin meets prairie girl pen)
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- Part 1 of Cowboy Colin
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19 Mar 2025
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the heir affair by ukrainianironbelly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Mar 2025
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“...we invest the said Mr. Colin Bridgerton, and the lawful heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, to the dignity, title, style, and honor of Marquess of Hartleigh…”
His throat had gone dry. The words on the page did not make sense to him.
“Um,” he tried, chuckling hoarsely. “Your Majesty, what is - I don’t…”
“Yes?”
Eloquence escaped him. “…what is this?”
The Queen looked mildly annoyed. “Why, I should think it is obvious. You, Mr. Bridgerton, are to be the next Marquess of Hartleigh.”—
One accidental act of heroism, and Colin Bridgerton finds himself elevated to the British peerage. Yet the Queen’s reward comes with a price: as the newly minted Lord Hartleigh, he’s been given an ultimatum - produce an heir within the next eighteen months. And, of course, to do so, he requires a wife. Urgently.
So why can’t he just pick a debutante and be done with it? And why is he far more interested in spending time in the very enjoyable company of his very good friend, Penelope Featherington?
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12 Mar 2025
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Penelope and Colin had a falling out years ago.
Does she still love him? Yes. Is she doing her best to forget him? Absolutely (if you don't count that *one* thing).
He's been busy traveling the world, barely home at all — certainly not for New Year's.
So. What exactly does he think he's doing at the lodge, standing in her room?
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07 Mar 2025
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To Gravy With Love by Sevens11073003 for ktbeets
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Jun 2024
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Takes place in the “Only You” (by ktbeets) universe. Newly engaged Colin and Penelope look for their lost companion. The Bridgertons react.
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04 Mar 2025
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to Colin, with love by Mariequitecontrarie for flybyfrankie
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Feb 2025
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While he was in Greece, Penelope and Colin kept up a faithful correspondence. Months after he returns to Mayfair, Penelope writes him a letter confessing that she is Lady Whistledown—and he completely ignores it. After two weeks of silence, their strange, unacknowledged quarrel comes to a head at the Bridgertons’ Hearts & Flowers Ball, setting the stage for an explosive, emotional confrontation that pushes the boundaries of their friendship into uncharted territory.
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What if at Violet’s Hearts & Flowers Ball, Colin didn’t go see Marina, but spent the whole weekend of the ball with Pen?
A Season 2 AU, Episode 4 AU.
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27 Feb 2025
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Perspective (or A Theory on Seeing Things in Light, Old or New) by canarysingingsweetly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Feb 2025
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Alfred looks over to see another one of those loose-cravat Englishmen standing by the statue – really, bending over to look at it upside down is a better descriptor. His brown hair is decidedly too long, flopping messily over as he straightens back up slightly, his eyes still fixed on the statue.
“Cupid and Psyche,” the man (really, Jesus, he is so young; boy is a better word for him) says, and he looks over to Alfred, eyebrows raised. “Incredible, isn’t it?”
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25 Feb 2025
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romancing miss featherington by penelopecolin (sexymonk) for Allthatwehaveshared
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 Jan 2025
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After a mortifying conversation forces Penelope to publish Colin Bridgerton's embarrassingly loud declaration that he would never marry her in her column, her already dismal prospects plummet even further. Feeling utterly defeated, Penelope resigns herself to spinsterhood, eager to seek solace in the safety of the shadows.
If only the third-born Bridgerton would stop trying to apologise.
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03 Jan 2025
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When Penelope Featherington finds herself still unmarried at the ripe old age of five and twenty, she is forced to become a governess for a wealthy little girl. Unfortunately, working as a governess affords a woman much fewer freedoms than Penelope is used to, meaning she has no control over the situation when her job brings her uncomfortably close to her ex-fiancé Colin.
Or, a Jane Eyre Au.
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29 Dec 2024
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falling backwards in time, leaping forward to the altar by pain_somnia
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
30 Oct 2024
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A quick exploration of his room did nothing to settle his nerves. All that remained in his armoire were clothes in the fashions of two seasons prior in cuts more suited for an Eton student than the adult Colin was supposed to be.
The mirror only worsened his state of confusion.
Back was the puppy fat of childhood on his cheeks and his body was lean, still muscular but not as broad as he was supposed to be and without as much definition that he had gained on his form.
“Did I really used to wear my hair like this?” Colin muttered, twirling a curl between two fingers as examined his reflection. A thought came to him and he tugged on a single strand until he yanked it out, feeling the sting on his scalp. “Shit!”
That had hurt. He had felt that.
“Ah, fuck.”
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30 Oct 2024