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“Just as a note,” the dentist tells Frank, her voice low. “She may be a little… rambunctious as the sedatives wear off.”
He nods in response, his eyes trained on Mel. She grins at him, unaware that she is the topic of conversation. Rambunctious, he thinks. What could sweet Mel possibly do to be described as rambunctious?
or: frank takes mel to get her wisdom teeth removed. shenanigans ensue.
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23 Jun 2026
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But Frank was the one who had taken her under his wing that first day, watched out for her, listened to her, learned from her. He was kind, in a way that didn’t feel like he was pitying her or babying her. Frank respected her as a doctor, as a person, and Mel now wanted to know how he’d treat her as a woman.
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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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She stared down at his picture on her phone in confusion. Like it was a bomb she'd been given only seconds to diffuse. She could handle a cricothyrotomy or a spinal tap, but Mel had trained for neither bombs nor online dating.
She panicked.
(Mel finds out about Frank's divorce via his Tinder profile because they're both trying to distract themselves from their crushes)
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12 May 2026
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Ten months gone, ten months back. Frank Langdon goes to his first Ren Faire to save Mel King from being a third wheel, and not at all because he's in love with her.
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06 May 2026