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“Alright,” Frank said, not yelling. Just loud enough to cut through their screams of protest, “who wants to watch Dr. Mel?”
The fits stopped as soon as the familiar name left Frank’s mouth. Tanner and Penny looked up at him with smiles on their faces as they hopped off the floor, their voices overlapping with Me’s and I do’s.
“Wow, that was way too easy,” he sighed, “what’s so special about this ‘Dr. Mel’? You have a doctor standing right in front of you, ya know.”
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Mel makes educational YouTube videos for kids. Frank is a single dad to two wild children.
Fate brings them together in the children's section of a library in Pittsburgh.- Language:
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08 Jul 2026
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Melissa King and Frank Langdon were inseparable, growing up side by side.
They always had big plans.
But sometimes plans change, and even the closest of friends grow apart.
And sometimes, loss is the only thing that brings them back.- Language:
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08 Jul 2026
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"What is two plus two?"
Hmm. Someone is talking right now...they should stop doing that. It’s quiet for a lingering moment like the voice actually heard him, then- "What is two plus two?"
Rude. If the only way to get a little peace and quiet is to answer a kindergarten question, he’ll answer it. Two plus two equals- “Hnnfl.”
Oh. That’s not right.
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Frank wakes up in space with no memories and no one within a dozen light-years who can answer his questions. Two truths soon make themselves abundantly clear. Humanity is counting on him to find a solution to the Sun dying before it wipes out life on Earth. And more shockingly, he's not actually as alone in solving this as he first thought.
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08 Jul 2026
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Mel and Frank’s “potential to be attracted to each other” has turned into more than just potential. With Frank mid divorce and Mel living with Trinity, they try to stay away from each other… until they can’t.
Takes place approx 1 year after the season 2 finale
Comments and kudos appreciated!
Multi chapter fic in progress
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07 Jul 2026
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The Asshole Contract by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Jun 2026
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Colin comes to the realization the he might be kind of an asshole.
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06 Jul 2026
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Mel and Frank have been neighbours since birth, and have watched each other grow up, grow older, and grow apart.
However, it's senior year, and when an opportunity arises of mutual benefit for both of them to pretend to be in a relationship...what's the harm?
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03 Jul 2026
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When he finds the courage to leave the comfort of her steam shrouded bathroom, he makes his way out to the living room.
He stops in his tracks when he hears her, a fond smile etching onto his face.
He’s careful to disguise his footsteps on the vinyl floor, not wanting her to stop. He was rapidly beginning to realize he could listen to her sing forever.
She flits around the kitchen, alternating between humming and singing along to whatever music played in her ear, and all Frank can do is watch.
“Oh!” She says with a jolt when she finally notices him, “Frank! How are you feeling? I made spaghetti…spaghetti’s okay, right?”
“Yeah.” He nodded, “Yeah, spaghetti’s okay.”
She shuffles out of the kitchen a few moments later with two bowls in tow, “We can sit at the table, the couch…whatever you’re most comfortable with. If you want we can put something on the TV, that’s what Becca usually likes to do…”
“I like when you sing.” He can’t stop the words from coming, and he doesn’t regret them one bit when he watches her face change shades if only slightly.
“Oh.”
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02 Jul 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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28 Jun 2026
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The day that Melissa King first meets Frank Langdon is also the first day that she ever argues with an adult.
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28 Jun 2026
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"You don't need to be experienced," Frank said, his voice just as low. "Some people like inexperience."
"Really?" Mel flushed, her eyes darting between his as her cheeks grew noticeably redder. "I, um… I still wish I had more experience, anyhow. I've thought of just asking a friend some day if I could… practice, with them."
Frank titled his head to one side, his small smile widening into something gentle and goofy. "Oh really? Have anyone in mind?"
In which Frank hooks up with Mel a mere twenty-four hours after he and Abby agree to separate. "Just one time" has aftereffects that neither are prepared for… especially when Abby comes to Frank with life-altering news of her own.
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- Part 5 of Kingdon Week 2026
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27 Jun 2026
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strangers 'verse (aka pittfest baby) by disgracedprinceera (museme87), kay_rae
Fandom The Pitt (TV)
05 Jul 2026
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i am shielded in my armor by purplebutterflyglasses for AlysonAfterDark, debutante_gurl
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
25 Jun 2026
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He froze. His mind finally putting all the pieces together.
It wasn’t just the fireworks at all.
They had a gun, now pointed in his direction. Another loud blast ricocheted through the awning.
Fuck.
He had to get out of there.
He spun on his heel and immediately ran like he had never run before. His heart felt like it was in his throat. His mind simultaneously moving at the speed of sound and not forming any coherent thoughts at all.
The only thing he could think of was Mel.
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25 Jun 2026
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“Dr. Langdon,” Mel said.
He looked over at her. She was outside on her balcony too, wearing plaid pajama pants and an oversized t-shirt. Her hair was down.
“Frank,” he said.
“I haven’t seen you,” she said. She wrapped her arms around herself, hands hooked over her elbows.
“I’ve been laying low,” he said.
She looked up at the stars. He watched the pale line of her neck, the way her shoulders rolled back. She tucked her hair behind her ears and he watched that too. Mel had long, delicate fingers and pretty ears.
“Why?” Mel asked.
She’d come nearer to the railing between them and so as he spoke so did he. It was almost like they were on the same balcony, that way.
(Dr. Langdon disappears and Mel King gets a new neighbor.)
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25 Jun 2026
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"Hey, Mel," he offered her, his voice weak. Mel tilted her head to one side. For just a moment, the shadows of the ambulance bay cast a darkness over his left eye like a bruise.
"Hey, Frankie," she whispered.
Frank Langdon looked down at his feet, shaking his head slowly. Mel found herself walking over to him before she had even decided to move. They stood alone, together in the silent bay.
"No one's called me that in… a very long time."
An alternate universe in which 12-year-old Melissa King meets a strange boy in the woods behind her home. Over the course of the carefree summer they spend together, the unlikely friends begin to realize that they needed one another more than they knew. When late August takes a dark turn and the two are separated, seemingly for good, it takes many years and a surprise reunion before the old friends fully understand just how much they changed one another's lives.
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- Part 1 of Kingdon Week 2026
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23 Jun 2026
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Melissa King didn’t had the ideal childhood, but for a brief moment in time, she had a best friend.
Years later, she finds a best friend in Frank Langdon, who she feels like she has known for a lifetime.
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19 Jun 2026
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Oh, Baby! by StrawberryWhorecake
Fandom Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 May 2026
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“You should get back home to your wife,” she says carefully, slowly, like it’s a reprimand she doesn’t trust him to register as one unless she draws attention to it.
He pretends he didn’t hear her.
It’s only later, at the bus stop, that a firm sense of certainty washes over Frank for the first time in a very long time. He’d gotten it all wrong. Mel clearly has someone else to preoccupy herself with. It was embarrassing, really, to assume she would want a fuck up like him. At that moment, like the punctuation to some cosmic joke, the wedding ring he’s been fingering absentmindedly slips off his finger and skitters around in a circle between his feet. He crouches down to pick it back up as the last bus home flies past. He half wishes it had hit him; it probably would have hurt less than the realisation that he has feelings for Mel King, and she doesn’t feel the same way.
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Frank wants Mel so badly he's willing to fuck up his whole life to have whatever crumbs of her he can scrape together. The question is: how many people is he going to hurt on his way to her, and will he stop before she becomes one of them?
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17 Jun 2026
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Frank Langdon is worried about Mel. She has a lot on her shoulders and doesn't know how to ask for help. He decides that he can help her by giving her moments outside of work where she's just having fun, not taking care of anyone. Mel sees this as a bid for friendship and happily accepts.
Eventually real friendship blossoms between them, then something more.
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Langdon is separated from the very beginning, just wearing his wedding ring at first to avoid questions or pity at work. He is not immediately looking for love or to get over Abby; it sneaks up on him.
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16 Jun 2026
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If Frank had ever thought about it before, which he hadn't, he’d probably conclude he likes physical touch about as much as the average person does.
It’s not like he minds it when people touch him, especially since he’s kind of oblivious about personal space. He often ends up brushing up against people or dropping a hand to a shoulder or bumping into someone in the Pitt, and he doesn’t tend to think twice about it beyond a quick apology when needed.
(And maybe he does some of that on purpose, when it comes to one coworker in particular, but again, this isn’t something Frank has ever thought about, so he definitely doesn’t dwell on what that means.)
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16 Jun 2026