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Fourteen day shifts that Mel and Frank share after he returns to work.
He instinctively looked for a braid and scrub pants, the only fit he'd ever seen her in. It took his brain a hot second to realise the woman in jeans, white sneakers, and a ponytail through her snapback was actually Mel.
At which point he walked full tilt into a wall.
Bookmarked by marfra
16 Dec 2025
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He ashed the cigarette as she grasped for the magic words that would fix this.
“Someone told me once that we need sensitive people.”
He didn’t stop crying, but at least he laughed. “That’s cruel, Mel. My own medicine.”
So, she offered up a second dose: “Would you like a hug?”
A sob cracked through. “Yeah, I really would.”
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You saw a lot of it in hospitals — a wife who turns out, later, to not be the wife.
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19 Sep 2025
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Now, Frank was so solid on top of her, it was like he was making her solid too — rebuilding her touch by touch. For a few years there, she’d felt like anyone reaching for her would just pass right through; like she was a person-shaped outline with her insides all erased out. But the weight of him — warm, sweat-slick, slotted between her thighs — made it hard to remember.
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Something clattered in the bathroom. Everything inside of Mel went very, very still.
Santos looked at the shut door. She processed.
“Mel King, you dirty dog.” A slow grin stretched over her face. “Did you hook up with someone last night?”(The gang goes to a medical conference.)
Bookmarked by marfra
09 Jun 2025
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for the blueberries
(loved the little details & subtlety of the narration)
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Written for the qaf_giftxchnge community, long ago, on insane journal and live journal. The request was for fluffy, B/J office fic set around time that Justin is an intern but before the Stockwell crusade.
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The summer after season 3, and they're weirdly happy.
Bookmarked by marfra
12 Mar 2025
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His happiness is a subdued hum, inexplicable and inarticulate.