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She braced herself, looked out the peephole, took a step back for a moment, then looked again.
No, she had not imagined it. That was definitely Frank Langdon, soaking wet from the rain and standing at her door.
On the eve of his departure from Pittsburgh, Frank learns a secret of Abby’s. He turns to Mel for help.
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- Part 2 of the glass in your eyes
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“I think I need some air,” he sheepishly chuckled, wiping the blood from his arm onto his shirt, gesturing to the mess on the floor like it was an insignificant accident, the occupational hazard of being at a bar, not a clear indication that something had gone horribly wrong. “Care to join me?”
“Uhm,” Mel said, “sure.”
But a voice behind her said at the same moment, “Nah.”
Mel’s head whipped around. Frank had a tight frown on his face, his arms were crossed against his chest, and he walked towards them, his eyes squarely on Cole.
Mel runs into an old patient from the VA while the PTMC crew is out at a bar celebrating Dana’s birthday. It’s a welcome distraction from Abby Langdon until he gets too drunk. Frank intervenes.
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- Part 1 of the glass in your eyes
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Frank very chivalrously offers to drive a drunk Mel home from Victoria’s 21st birthday party. Too bad she lost her keys.
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As she flicked the needle with her gangly fingers, Frank felt himself on the precipice of a cliff. Just one step over and he’d free fall. He’d tumble on his way down, hitting jagged rocks and trees and sediment, and when he flattened on the bottom, this is where he’d be forever. Forever fucking sorrowful junkies in fetid apartment complexes, clamoring for disgusting, contaminated drugs. Losing himself in God knows how many miserable ways to get them. Lying, stealing, cheating. How many more small indignities he’d make himself suffer until Frank Langdon was gone completely, and in his place a miserable husk of a man, an unrecognizable beast.
The escalation of Frank Langdon’s drug addiction after he’s fired from PTMC, which eventually leads him to check into rehab.
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Take It Easy by reason2believe
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Aug 2023
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She stormed up to him to give him a piece of her mind. Irately, she started loudly as she was halfway from the stage, “Joel, I’ve really got to—“
Just as the words left her mouth, two other people walked onto the stage, and the crowd burst into applause. She had been completely drowned out.
Her anger turned to embarrassment as she saw Joel standing up there. What was he doing? He was interrupting the band.
But when she saw the drummer stand from his seat to hand Joel his guitar, she realized he was the band.
Joel was the band. Holy shit, was this actually happening?
(Joel's been disappearing on Wednesday nights. After snooping, Ellie thinks it's because Joel's been seeing Esther, the librarian. But she doesn't know that he's actually been at band practice for the fall dance.)
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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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10 May 2026
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“I swear I’ve mentioned Alex before,” Mel murmurs, frowning down at her phone, still not clocking how she’s short-circuited Frank’s brain. It's a blue screen of death up there. Hi, you’ve reached Dr. Frank Langdon. I’m not available to talk right now, but leave a message, and I might get back to you. Beeeeeep.
The picture continues to shine cheerily up at them, silently mocking Frank. He forces himself to look away and swallows with difficulty. “I think I'd remember if you'd told me about your ‘best friend’ who you ‘used to be in love with.’”
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- Part 1 of so panic
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03 May 2026
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It starts like this:
Frank gets caught. He does not voluntarily give up information about the stolen drugs – he gets caught.
Big difference.
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Frank Langdon and the years following that one shift.
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01 May 2026
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you've got a nine to five (so I'll take the night shift) by Cemeterycigs
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
01 May 2026
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Langdon starts thinking of Mel like the sun, not only because she’s bright, but because everything else feels colder without her. The hospital is still the hospital. Loud and relentless, but when she’s there, the night becomes something he can get through. Somewhere along the way, she turns into the only person he actually wants to see.
OR Langdon comes back after his ten month hiatus and immediately gets put on night shift with Mel because of a shortage AND Mel gets boba.
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20 Apr 2026
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Of all the things to happen in Pittsburgh, this was not something Robby had been planning on or expecting at all. What the hell was this world coming to?
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Langdon is caught in a hostage situation while on the train to work. Afterwards, he has to deal with the physical and mental ramifications.
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04 Apr 2026