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the side that no one’s rooting for (but you stand by me) by whenwelostourmagic
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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“Those the same hands we let you operate in the ER with, Whittaker?”
Frank’s voice cuts through the din, not exactly booming but stern and authoritative. The group clams up as Frank deposits the two cocktails for Samira and Trinity on the table, out of the way of the beer spillage.
“I asked you a question.”
“I - uh - it was —“
“You need to watch what you’re doing. Someone could have gotten seriously hurt.” His tone is dripping in hostility and poor Whittaker wilts under the scorn. Santos’ mouth twists unpleasantly and she takes a deep breath like she’s revving up to go toe to toe with Frank. “I mean, seriously, what were you thinking —“
“Frank,” Mel interjects, if only to stop the shouting match that is about to erupt.
Frank turns to her, the tension leaving his face all at once. He studies her in that clinical way of his, scanning her body from head to toe, making his own mental diagnosis of what’s wrong and how to fix it. “Let’s get you cleaned up, yeah?”
Or, Frank is an asshole to everyone. Except when it comes to Mel. And Mel likes that.
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19 Sep 2025
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fic sooooo perfect and good it cured my derpz ailment
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f dawg 🔒 @frankopop
mel just got a 100 on the chem quiz from last week fuck she’s so smart and pretty and cool
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f dawg 🔒 @frankopop
#need to ask for her hand in marriage
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yoyo 🔒 @froyoyo
Replying to @frankopop
you wanna maybe start with a coffee?
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f dawg 🔒 @frankopop
Replying to @froyoyo
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23 Aug 2025
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funniest, silliest, best. you will laugh out loud
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This is something cigarettes and alcohol can’t touch. This is better than benzos. Mel is uppers, fucking ecstasy, methamphetamine coursing through his bloodstream.
Frank Langdon trades one addiction for another.
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Mel turns to him. He’s looking at her like—well, she’s never been very good with metaphors. He’s looking at her with desperation.
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mel and the art of being selfish
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11 Aug 2025
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frank learns how to make croissants. they both get to feel a little less lonely for a bit. WANTS WANTS WANTS.
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There’s a pause, then, “I don’t mean just that. Say the word, and I’ll do anything you want.”
He's speaking so lowly that Mel hears his words through the rumble of his chest more than his mouth. They vibrate through her, right to her heart. She can feel the words on the tip of her tongue, pushing their way out of her mouth. Leave her, leave her, leave her.
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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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04 Aug 2025
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so exceptional for so many reasons, not the least of which is ch 4 when robby observes them in their car habitat !!!
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plausible and realistic getting together :)
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14 Jul 2025
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“No one,” Frank says, and then the tears come and he looks up at the ceiling, for a second, his eyes full. “There’s no one else,” he says. “You told me to leave her alone, remember? I wouldn’t, Robby. I can’t. Jesus.”
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“I couldn’t help myself, sweetheart. You’re so cute when you play fetch.”
Frank’s being genuine, though Mel still has trouble accepting that he likes this the same way she does, despite all the proof. Years of shoving desires and kinks to the back of her mind because there simply wasn’t time to unpack it or the shame that came along. But Mel was working her way through it even while Frank was ready to bulldoze them both head first past the doubts.
aka a puppy play fic
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12 Jul 2025
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langdon says "good girl" at the hospital
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“So listen,” Robby says, “I heard you’ve uh, well, that you’re living with Dr. King. Is there any truth to that statement?”
Frank groans.
“Yeah, yes, I’m living with her,” he says and Robby gets that crazy look in his eyes so Frank barrels on, “It’s not like that. Robby it’s not,” and Robby doesn’t look like he believes him one bit. “I’m living in her spare room and I pay her rent. We’re roommates. That’s not a crime.”
or: frank gets out of rehab, gets divorced, and needs somewhere to live. enter mel.
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Mel:
Just logistically, and legally, it would be pretty hard for you to be my husband. Considering you have a wife.Frank:
pretty hard to be your husband?
you’re so pretty it makes me hardor:
a short, canon, perfectly characterized cheating fic.
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27 Jun 2025
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Frank's first year of sobriety is filled with a divorce, chronic back pain, broken friendships, and becoming roommates with Mel. He also accidentally becomes involved in the Great Fucking Bet.
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Bookmarked by romanticillusion
23 Jun 2025
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this is so funny and cozy and perfect!!!!
"Yes! he wants to say. We did in fact fuck. Multiple times. Girl has been on birth control waiting for me to get my shit together, actually. For five months! Does anybody want you that much? I think not!"
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'Because it’s not that she’s never thought about it. She tries not to think about it, most of the time, but she doesn’t always succeed. It’s just - they spend so much time together. And she really does like him, just as a person. And he is very handsome. It would be hard for someone in her position to not think about it, she imagines. But she still tries not to think about it anyway.'
Frank and Mel, post-rehab, sharing cars and beds.
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14 Jun 2025
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It’s Mel King, who looks absolutely identical to the other times—count them, three—he’s seen her: honey-colored braid, no-nonsense thick-framed glasses, a slightly uncertain expression playing across her face, which Frank already knows hides the strength of her convictions.
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Bookmarked by romanticillusion
09 Jun 2025
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cried multiple times while reading this. also, becca makes frank a cereal bowl
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But yeah, Mel thinks, they're probably going to have an affair.
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03 Jun 2025
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Determined to help her boss with his drug addiction, Mel offers him a supply of benzos. In return, she controls the amount and slowly weans him off. He's not thrilled about this.
But he can be persuaded.
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31 May 2025
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Of all the manifold iterations of Special Agent Fox Mulder, this one is her favourite.
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17 Sep 2024
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Set immediately after The Truth, when they wake up in the motel Prompt: shower sex, needy, clingy sex.
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16 Sep 2024
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Scully receives a very uplifting phone call from Mulder.
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29 Aug 2024
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screams!!!! even more fun than you can imagine
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The year is 1865 and Dana Scully is headed west at the request of her father, who wants her to marry a lieutenant under his command -- a man she has never met. Her future seems set, until she encounters an alluring Montana mountain man. Will she bend to her father's will or surrender to her own passions?
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- Part 1 of The Mountain Man
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23 Aug 2024
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So far he’s the only one who understands that she specializes in self destruction, but he thinks they’ll learn soon enough.
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10 Aug 2024
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, and for Scully so loved Mulder that she’s cracked his ribs to restart his heart and dug bloodied fingers into his mangled thigh to slow the gush of his femoral artery.
If her unfettered belief in Mulder was enough to give him eternal life, the sun would burn out first.
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27 Jul 2024