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“Twilight? Really?” Langdon asks, less than enthusiastic.
“Yes,” Mel says, as Becca nods seriously.
“But- I thought we were watching the Princess Bride.”
“We changed our minds,” says Becca. “Twilight’s a fall movie.”
“It’s December,” he protests. “There’s snow on the ground.”or, five times Langdon tries to pick the movie and one time he succeeds
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- Part 2 of adventures in movie-watching
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12 Jul 2026
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A collection of drabbles for Kingdon Week 2026
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11 Jul 2026
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When they had made the appointment, it was specifically on his day off so that he and Abby could both be there, but he wouldn’t be surprised if she had planned this just to get back at him for the times he’d flaked on her for work.
Now that he’s met Ms. King, though, he was very thankful there was some five alarm emergency at the firm that had pulled her away.
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OR: Frank Langdon attends a parent-teacher conference with his son's kindergarten teacher, not expecting her to be the most beautiful woman he's ever met.Bookmarked by vegsav
11 Jul 2026
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“Okay, Mel, twist my arm! I’ll go with you to your aunt’s wedding.”
“What?! That’s not at all what I was—” She cut herself off when he looked at her with a very distinct Frank Langdon Sparkle in his eyes. “Oh, you’re joking. Ha ha, very funny.”
“Well, half-joking, yeah.” He started backing into a parking spot, his body twisted towards hers so he could see behind them. “I will go to the wedding with you, though.”
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OR: Frank joins the King sisters for a long weekend in New York, where Mel's relationship with him evolves very quickly.Bookmarked by vegsav
11 Jul 2026
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For the first time since she’d met her on their first day in the Pitt, Mel thinks she sees Santos blush. “Uh, nope,” she says quickly. “Mel! Truth ‘r dare?”
“Truth,” Mel says, as usual.
Santos looks like she was ready for this and immediately asks, too clearly considering how drunk she was, “Who here do you have a crush on?”
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OR: The day shift gets invited to a party at Dr. Abbot's house and plays a drunk game of truth or dare.Bookmarked by vegsav
10 Jul 2026
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“You’re scared.”
Frank lets out a short laugh. “Of Mel?”
“No,” Yolanda says. “Of how much you care about her.”Frank spends most of his life waiting to disappoint people.
After rehab, after divorce, after everything he burned down with his own two hands, he's gotten used to the idea that happiness is temporary.
Mel, meanwhile, keeps looking at the outline of the life he used to have and wondering if what they're building together is somehow smaller.Unfortunately for both of them, they're already falling in love faster than either knows what to do with.
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- Part 2 of The Great Divide (Frank's Version)
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10 Jul 2026
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“You don’t go through all this trouble for friends.”
Frank insists it’s not a date. (Except it is.)
Between falling for Mel and being called out by the friend who’s known him since they were thirteen, Frank has to figure out how not to ruin it.
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- Part 1 of The Great Divide (Frank's Version)
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10 Jul 2026
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He grinned again, immediately turning and dragging her the rest of the way through the trees into the clearing where the thirty-foot-tall rock wall stood ominously. A pit settled into her stomach.
“Never mind,” she said, turning back towards the trees.
“No!” Langdon yelled, grabbing her around the waist so that her back was pressed to his front and pulling her back awkwardly with him. “No takesies backsies!”
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OR: Kingdon Camp Counselor AUBookmarked by vegsav
10 Jul 2026
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Langdon looks aghast. “What do you mean you haven’t seen Lord of the Rings?”
“I mean, it’s not intentional,” says Mel. “I just never got around to it. Plus, it does look kind of goofy – isn’t the villain an evil spotlight?”
Garcia laughs, but Langdon looks like she just shot his mother right in front of him.Series
- Part 1 of adventures in movie-watching
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09 Jul 2026
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That’s his bright spot, though—the thing he clings to on his first day, then continues to hold onto tightly thereafter: Mel.
Where he had felt out of step with everyone else, he and her were right on beat together, dancing around the ED, just as they had on her first day. He had been shocked how easily they picked up where they’d left off. There was no wariness towards him, no undercurrent of judgement, no hesitation to let him treat a patient. She didn’t hold him back, she pushed him forward. It was what he needed more than anything.
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OR: The only thing that really makes Frank feel good about being back at the Pitt is Mel. He holds on tight to her, even when other men in the ED seem to want her too.Bookmarked by vegsav
08 Jul 2026
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Mel had one plan and one problem.
The plan: surviving fourth year. The problem: her attending having other ideas. There’s professional distance. And then there’s whatever this was.Bookmarked by vegsav
08 Jul 2026
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Mel king is completely normal about Frank Langdon. And a little light stalking never harmed anyone.
Right?
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Or, in which Mel is a little more than obsessed with Langdon.
This is obviously inspired by the videoclip "the boy is mine" by ariana grande. Ish.
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08 Jul 2026
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Frank was having a Bad Day.
Mel's upcoming date with a certain intern did not help to improve said Bad Day.
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Frank Langdon is a jealous, petty bastard.
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07 Jul 2026
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Frank notices more than Mel thinks.
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“…Where did you get these?” [Mel] asked after a moment, and Frank could’ve sighed in relief. He had to school himself. Get it together, man.
“Tanner’s really into Bluey right now,” he said with a shrug. “I started carrying a few around with me whenever I leave the house, he’s pretty clumsy.”
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04 Jul 2026
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Frank huffed, setting the mug down. “How many times are we going to have to go over this, Mel? I like listening to you talk. I’m not just being nice. We’re friends.”
“It’s important to ask,” she said, still watching him carefully. “Because sometimes people say they want to know something but they don’t actually mean that they do. They’re just being polite. And it’s hard for me to tell that, always.”
“I’ll tell you what,” he suggested. “Let’s make this easy. With me, you never have to ask. Consider it my… blanket approval, I guess.”
He pointed to himself. “I, Frank Langdon, am interested in what you have to say.”
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29 Jun 2026
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Some nights were, naturally, worse than others.
Nights where Frank laid in bed for so long, staring at the ceiling, that it made his heart start to race with anxiety and his back ache and ache and ache no matter how he positioned himself. Nights where his thoughts spiraled out into worst-case-scenarios that seemed so vivid and inevitable that he would have to get up and go to the bathroom, just to turn the light on and look at himself in the mirror to remember what was actually real.
Those were the nights when he wanted the pills again the most: alone in his guest bedroom, trying to wring sleep out of his body like the last few drops of water out of a dirty dishcloth.
He tried not to call Mel on nights like that. He did not always succeed.
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28 Jun 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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28 Jun 2026
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"Significant pulmonary contusion and multiple rib fractures, and there's very likely a subdural hematoma in there too,” Garcia says grimly, sounding like she's citing it to herself rather than to anyone else in the room. “We’re lucky it's most probably small, but given her fluctuating GCS it still concerns me quite a bit. Also, besides the shard of metal, the bruising and swelling along her abdomen suggests the possibility of internal bleeding as well, but we need to get in the OR to fully evaluate the severity of it."
“Jesus King,” he murmurs. “You were supposed to have the day off.”
or: there's a car accident on mel's day off. she ends up at the pitt anyways.
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28 Jun 2026
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What if that breakroom scene we're all thinking about went a little different?
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27 Jun 2026
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They were friends.
And yeah, maybe the ring on his finger sort of burned when he looked at her sometimes, even though it was just for show, now.
It was just easier to let her keep thinking he was still married to Abby. Safer.
It raised less eyebrows about the nature of their friendship when the ring stayed on while he was at work, the weight on his finger reminding him not to say or do anything stupid.
It also made it a little less creepy when the pet names started slipping out.