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Frank had noticed it right away, of course, the smell thing, as soon as Robby had introduced her—the pleasant, neutral scent of beta and then the immediate sharp undercurrent of something really, really delicious, like a ripe strawberry that he wanted to dig his teeth into so badly that his mouth began watering.
He had to cover his nose with his fist after that, wondering if a fan had caught her hair weird or something, because why the fuck could he smell her from all the way across the room?
It took him about an hour or two into the shift to come to the somewhat-harrowing conclusion that—shit. Goddamnit. She only smelled like that to him.
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31 Aug 2026
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It sucked to acknowledge what he'd done to anyone, obviously, but for some reason it always felt the worst in front of Mel, because she'd never once shown him even a hint of judgment for it. He could list every shitty fucking thing he did, all the drugs he stole, the lies he told, all of it, and Mel would just sit there and nod and tell him Okay, well, thank you for being honest with me.
It wasn't that he didn't want her to do that. It was that he craved it so badly he couldn't stand it, needed her acceptance with an intensity he didn't know how to handle.
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16 Aug 2026
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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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“You should cry. You’ll feel better.”
Frank Langdon knows he'll feel better if he cries, but he can't. Mel King has a heartbreaking trick for that.
(Written for Kingdon Week 2026)
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13 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