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    “Mm, not stuff his pockets with the drug everyone thinks makes you gay right before a press conference? Maybe!” Ilya’s voice chimed happily from the phone.

    “You wanna tell us why you’re so acquainted with Rush that you can identify it in 780p, Ilya?” Kip asked.

    “…I have so much leather to deodorize, Kip Grady. So many sports cars, you know.”

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    Kip can't believe no one else can tell how outrageously gay Ilya Rozanov is, but he's not complaining, he's happy to have someone else to talk to at all the hockey functions.

    Or: Perfect gaydar haver Ilya Rozanov finally gets a taste of his own medicine. A series of looks into Kip and Ilya's friendship, starting after the cottage.

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    15 Apr 2026

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  2. Rec 76

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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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    14 Apr 2026

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    If Yuna had been a different kind of person: one with a different mother, perhaps, with different scars, then maybe she would have embraced her gift. Cultivated it, shared it.

    Instead she pretended it didn’t exist. Except for the times when she couldn’t avoid it.


    Mich put it down to the grass Yuna had smoked at the Halloween party the following night.

    Grass didn’t do this.

    Déjà vu wasn’t quite right. She’d had that before. No, this was knowing that what she’d seen was going to happen. In the future. Sera vu, or something like that. Preemptive.

    She did not call it Seeing. Not even to herself.

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    13 Apr 2026

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    “I’m going to be a mom,” Mel whispers, sounding awed. Samira looks at her and sees Mel’s wet smile. She laughs and reaches over to hug her friend.

    “You’re going to be an amazing mom!” she laughs. “Oh my God, this is so exciting! Langdon's going to be so happy, I just know it!”

    Mel’s eyes go wide again.

    “Oh God, we’re going to have to actually tell everyone we’re together now!”

    Or: Mel's pregnancy through the eyes of her (sometimes incredibly oblivious) coworkers.

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    13 Apr 2026

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  5. Rec 48

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    This was never how she pictured this going.

    She thought she’d be married, or at least in a long term relationship.

    Mel King never imagined finding out she was pregnant in the hospital bathroom after hooking up with a coworker two months ago.

     

    Or, whoopsie baby.

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    12 Apr 2026

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    Ilya was used to hazing. He had been subjected to it, he had participated in it, and, as a captain, he had stood guard over the rookies and protected them from anything truly harmful. But if he had been asked, Ilya would have approved of this prank. He would have authorized it, given Cliff and Vicky his seal of approval, perhaps even helped orchestrate it.

    Any other day, Ilya might have been happy to play along.

    But, in perfect dramatic irony, it had not happened any other day. It had happened today. And, cherry on top, of course the rookie had to walk in when Shane was already freaking out about Ilya saying his name.

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    A prank-gone-wrong leads to the Boston Bears finding out about Shane and Ilya’s relationship in 2016. The day Ilya first invited Shane into his house. Right after they say each other’s names for the first time. Fuck his life, honestly.

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    12 Apr 2026

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  7. Rec *

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    A comprehensive scientific framework for the human experience of love has been sought after by social psychologists for decades.

    This piece will recount the experience of one person (a heterosexual, well-educated, white female in her late twenties) through the lens of Tobore’s AAC Quadruple Framework Theory of Love.


    Looking for a housemate to move into my 2br 2ba apartment in South Side Flats. 1110 sq ft, modern, clean, north-facing. Shared areas fully furnished, but willing to consolidate. In-unit washer/dryer. $1000 per month, excluding utilities.

    Strong preference for someone in healthcare or other industry with day/night shift rotations. Available from July 27. Current lease runs until December, with option for renewal.

    Send EOI to [email protected]

    “Oh, do you know someone who’s interested?”

    “Yeah,” he grinned. “Me.”

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    11 Apr 2026

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    Ilya learns very young that he has a soulmate.

    Ilya's POV of the heart is hard to translate.

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    08 Apr 2026

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  9. Rec 91

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    In Filipino/Mexican cultures, food is a love language and even though everyone thinks their relationship is just casual, the ED's food envy is eventually what reveals just how serious Garcia and Santos are.

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    5 Dishes + 1 That gave them away
    (Cause Hell hath no fury like a woman who is hangry and just found out someone helped themselves to the lunch her partner prepped for her).

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    07 Apr 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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    07 Apr 2026

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    In which Trinity Santos loses a fight to a medical equipment cart (to no fault of her own) and she doesn't have an emergency contact for when she's hurt. Whitaker makes the suggestion to call Garcia, and Robby finds out they're a couple. Meanwhile, Trinity is learning how to allow herself to not be strong all the goddamn time.

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    06 Apr 2026

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    Frank Langdon is in rehab. Mel King visits.

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    Or the one where Mel saves Frank Langdon’s dog, drinks several of his juice boxes, and steals his hoodie over the course of 60 days. Not in that order.

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    06 Apr 2026

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    Mel doesn’t have an emergency contact. Frank changes that.

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    04 Apr 2026

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  14. Rec 83

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    “Sweetheart, where is Mel?” he softly asked, voice breaking at the end. Mel?
    “Mel?” Robby asked. In any other situation, his face would have been comical. Langdon ignored him, giving the chief attending a taste of his own medicine from the past year.
    Penny’s lips curled, tears pooling at her eyes. She was about to start sobbing, and Trinity yanked the sides of the gurney up, getting ready to move her inside. “Mel’s hurt, Daddy.”

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    When Mel is in a serious car accident with the Langdon kids, its up to Trinity to become everyone's favorite emotional support coworker.

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    02 Apr 2026

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    He knew that her parents weren’t around, though he didn’t know why. He knew she took care of her sister. But, he wondered, who took care of her? Mohan, probably. And Santos. Even Whittaker to an extent. Well, sign him up. Put him in, Coach. He’d take care of her, too.

    Or: all the ways Frank Langdon takes care of Mel King.

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    01 Apr 2026

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    Mel King was a creature of habit.

    There was a specific sort of choreography to her life beyond the chaos of the Emergency Department. A carefully controlled routine, a color-coded calendar, a rigid set of rituals that kept her grounded enough to keep showing up day after day, to keep on doing the work that was required of her to save lives.

    Everything was going fine for Mel. Her personal life was predictable, unexciting, and perfectly fulfilling, thank you very much.

    Enter Frank Langdon, agent of chaos.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    Mel’s third-favorite scene in Dirty Dancing is only a second long. It’s when Johnny jumps off the stage during the final dance and flips his head up right on cue with the singer crooning “Hey, baby!”

    So it was very distracting that, for the rest of the day after her karaoke session with Myrna, Frank had been quietly singing those two words to her every time they ran into each other. A “Hey baby!” when he slid into the chair next to her in the breakroom. Another when they met in the middle both jogging to an ambulance.

    She couldn’t help but laugh every time he did it which, knowing Frank, meant he’d probably do it tomorrow, and the next day, and the next.

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    27 Mar 2026

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    “How does it feel to be back?” she asks.

    Langdon lets out a laugh and leans back on his palms, looking up at the dingy ceiling. “It feels like I can finally breathe again.”

    “Yeah,” Mel says, exhaling. “I can understand that.”

    Or, Mel and Frank work together and fall in love along the way

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    25 Mar 2026

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    To finally get to the point: while there hadn’t been a bet on them procreating (yet), there is the matter of the absolutely massive jackpot regarding them getting engaged, and in light of Trinity’s discovery during the shift that will forevermore be known within the Pitt community as “the Full Moon Friday Retrogeddon,” Trinity is like 96% sure Yolanda has won. Because Yolanda had put her money on “shotgun.”

     

    The story of the first two years of a relationship, told primarily through the bets their coworkers make.

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    23 Mar 2026

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    “So listen,” Robby says, “I heard you’ve uh, well, that you’re living with Dr. King. Is there any truth to that statement?”

    Frank groans.

    “Yeah, yes, I’m living with her,” he says and Robby gets that crazy look in his eyes so Frank barrels on, “It’s not like that. Robby it’s not,” and Robby doesn’t look like he believes him one bit. “I’m living in her spare room and I pay her rent. We’re roommates. That’s not a crime.”

    or: frank gets out of rehab, gets divorced, and needs somewhere to live. enter mel.

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    21 Mar 2026

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