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As she flicked the needle with her gangly fingers, Frank felt himself on the precipice of a cliff. Just one step over and he’d free fall. He’d tumble on his way down, hitting jagged rocks and trees and sediment, and when he flattened on the bottom, this is where he’d be forever. Forever fucking sorrowful junkies in fetid apartment complexes, clamoring for disgusting, contaminated drugs. Losing himself in God knows how many miserable ways to get them. Lying, stealing, cheating. How many more small indignities he’d make himself suffer until Frank Langdon was gone completely, and in his place a miserable husk of a man, an unrecognizable beast.
The escalation of Frank Langdon’s drug addiction after he’s fired from PTMC, which eventually leads him to check into rehab.
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Take It Easy by reason2believe
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Aug 2023
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She stormed up to him to give him a piece of her mind. Irately, she started loudly as she was halfway from the stage, “Joel, I’ve really got to—“
Just as the words left her mouth, two other people walked onto the stage, and the crowd burst into applause. She had been completely drowned out.
Her anger turned to embarrassment as she saw Joel standing up there. What was he doing? He was interrupting the band.
But when she saw the drummer stand from his seat to hand Joel his guitar, she realized he was the band.
Joel was the band. Holy shit, was this actually happening?
(Joel's been disappearing on Wednesday nights. After snooping, Ellie thinks it's because Joel's been seeing Esther, the librarian. But she doesn't know that he's actually been at band practice for the fall dance.)
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Leave the Door Open by reason2believe
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Jul 2023
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“Just… let your old man sleep peacefully and leave the door open, please,” Joel pleaded.
Ellie sighed, giving up the fight. She’d never, ever, think of Jesse that way, but she didn’t know how to relay that information without entering an even more painfully awkward and volatile conversation. She merely said, “Fine,” and ran up the stairs.
When she got to her doorway, she saw Jesse sitting on her bed with chocolate coated fingers shoving candy into his chocolate crusted mouth. The image was the least erotic thing she’d ever seen; she couldn’t help bursting into a fit of laughter.
Walking into the room, leaving the door open, she said, “You will not believe what Joel just asked me.”
(joel asks ellie to leave her bedroom door open when jesse's around. he learns the hard way that jesse was not who he should have been worrying about.)
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Hermione Granger is getting married. Draco Malfoy's slow descent into rock bottom takes a nosedive.
Loosely inspired by "From the Dining Table" by Harry Styles.
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Hermione Granger is suspicious of the new Malfoy she now shares Heads' duties with. Draco just wants to impress the girl he can't seem to stop yearning for.
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“Mel,” Frank said softly, “can I tell you something?”
“Yes,” Mel replied, even softer, her gaze flicking back and forth from one eye to the other. “You can tell me anything.”
A dark look shadowed his face for a second before he leaned back in his seat, braced his hands against the steering wheel until his arms were completely straight, and blew a raspberry.
Then he exhaled roughly - similar to the raspberry, but without so much involvement of the lips. “You can’t judge,” he told her then, glancing in her direction. “Okay?”
She was resisting the urge to start twirling her butterfly ring around her finger. “Just tell me, Frank,” she said, “you’re making me nervous.”
“I’m trying, I’m trying. Not to make you nervous, I’m trying to tell you. That…” He looked away from her again, back out the car window, and clenched his fists around the steering wheel until his knuckles turned white. Then he dropped his hands in his lap. “I had a sex dream the other night,” he told her, with a weird sense of finality. “About you.”
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10 Mar 2026
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It was probably a good thing that no one assumed that Mel and Frank could possibly be dating. They had agreed to keep it a secret, after all.
But, come on. Not one rumor? Really?
It was starting to piss Frank off.
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27 Feb 2026
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She’d been here time and time again; they’d arrived at a Mel King grade-one emergency.
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11 Feb 2026
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In the summer of 1960 Franklin, Tennessee, enigmatic physician Dr. Michael Robinavitch saves small-town farmhand Dennis Whitaker from heat exhaustion, beginning the most turbulent period of his life.
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09 Feb 2026
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Like the one Frank thinks of now, as he stares at the ceiling. He can practically heat Mom’s voice, chipper and raspy and kind of grating: Time flies when you’re having fun!
Frank is not having fun. It must be why time seems to have stilled.
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30 Jul 2025