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    “I guess what I’m trying to say is…” he starts, a small, almost tentative smile pulling at his mouth. “I could use a friend, Dr. King.”
    Mel blinks.

    “Oh. I—well, um.”

    Every coherent thought she had a second ago disappears. Completely. Clean slate.

    “I think I heard Dr. Whitaker say he wanted to spend less time at home with Santos, so maybe he’d—”

    “Mel.”

    He’s laughing now.

    Not at her.

    But enough that she feels the familiar prickle of having missed something.

    She straightens slightly, already bracing to correct whatever she got wrong.

    “I’d like to be your friend.”

     

    or: the one where two lonely doctors find solace in one another

    rated e for eventual smut. i’ll continue to update the tags as things come up!

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