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Trinity tilted her head to the side with a curious look at Mel. She did this sometimes when she realized there was some fundamental knowledge about social rules that Mel didn’t have. It happened more often than Mel would’ve liked. “That’s kind of why people flirt, Mel. To figure out if someone likes you back without having to say it outright.”
“Oh.”
Trinity leaned closer to Mel with a mischievous grin. “Is there someone you’d like to test the waters with?”
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OR: Mel decides to try flirting with Frank.
Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
19 Jul 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)
Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
30 Jun 2026
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“Um.” Mel looked down. “I still don’t know what everyone’s talking about. Honestly. That’s just how he looks at me.”
Diana’s eyebrows shot up. “You’re saying he looks at you like that often?”
Mel rolled her head. “I mean, we work together a lot. Maybe I’m not seeing what other people are seeing because to me, that’s just… how he looks.” She glanced at Langdon, who was looking at her the same way he always did, and for some reason, it made the feather dance that time, and she had to look away.
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When a Tiktok of an after hours save goes viral for their undeniable chemistry, Mel King and Frank Langdon are thrust into the spotlight and asked to do a publicity tour to help fundraise. Mel finds it increasingly difficult to keep her feelings for her happily married colleague under wraps in interviews, but Frank’s been keeping a secret that millions of people are about to learn before she does.- Language:
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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
30 Jun 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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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
30 Jun 2026
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“Mel,” he says slowly, “if I texted you during a shift and said you are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met, what would you do?”
I don’t know if I mean to give him a physical display of my answer, but I fall forward on my elbows, nearly knocking over my tea.
“Right,” he says. “So that’s issue number one.”
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After a small misunderstanding, Mel tells a lie she can’t take back, and now she has Langdon in her phone pretending to be her imaginary boyfriend. Maybe it would have been easier to just date the IT guy.
Fake dating - with a tiny twist <3
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16 Jun 2026
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The car pooling, she thought, represented this blurring of boundaries: not quite work but not quite personal life, either. If somebody asked her if she ever saw Langdon outside of the hospital, what should she say?
Mel and Langdon car pool to work.
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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
13 Jun 2026
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he's complicated, he's irrational by jules_kline (bisexual_tribble)
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
05 Jul 2026
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picks up the day after S1; rewrite of what happened post-Pitt Fest if Langdon faced the legal consequences that he absolutely could have faced without being written off the show and without losing the show's format
(and if there was kingdon)
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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
10 Jun 2026
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One year after his return to the PTMC, if you asked Frank Langdon what his plans were going to be for a week in July, he probably would not have predicted he'd be spending it vacationing with his colleagues at a campground somewhere in the Poconos. But it's not just the weather that's heating up and making him sweat... his relationship with Mel King is on the verge of becoming something else entirely.
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23 May 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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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
17 May 2026
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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.”
Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
15 May 2026
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Unfortunately, they did catch that guy. The one who flirted with her badly and pushed her off a stool. But Mel really, really doesn't want to go to court. Good thing she has a friend who shows up even when nobody asked.
Or, Mel finally has someone who pays attention to her and Frank makes a friend
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- Part 1 of State of Grace
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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
13 May 2026
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perfect santos/langdon dynamic, work friends to crush to lovers (glacially), we love
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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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- Part 1 of melangdon fic
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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
10 May 2026
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samira bday party where langdon comes just to hang with mel ☺️
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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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Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
10 May 2026
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Mel picked up her phone, wondering if spam callers even worked this late at night.
“I’m getting a divorce,” Langdon said on the other end, without any kind of preamble, “Can I crash with you?”
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“—and I know that there’s Becca and Tanner and Millie to consider, but I was wondering if you maybe wanted to move in? Together? With me?”
Mel blinks. He certainly doesn’t look like he’s having a stroke.
“Frank, why would we move in together?”
“I thought it might be nice,” he shrugs here, acting nonchalant even though Mel can see the tension in his jaw. “To take that next step in our relationship.”
“Frank, what are you talking about? We’re not in a relationship?”
At this, Frank’s frown deepens before widening into a frustrated half smile. “Uh, yes we are? We’ve been dating for nine months?”
What.
Or, Frank thinks Mel doesn’t do physical touch.
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Frank Langdon thinks Mel King needs to loosen up. Mel thinks Frank needs to be humbled. Somewhere in the middle, they accidentally fall in love.
or - pride and prejudice and the pitt
Bookmarked by stemelwithme (jaylocked)
06 May 2026
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lovely & precise prose, really fun play on their dynamic, heck yeah