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Actually, Mel's excited about a lot of things going into the new school year. She’s excited to co-teach with Dr. Mohan and Mr. Langdon. She’s excited to continue supporting the kids on her caseload from the previous year, and she knows writing their IEPs will go so much better now that she knows them and their families a little. She’s excited that her Physics class will be entirely made up of students she taught in Chemistry the previous year; they were a great group.
There are things to worry about, too. Co-teaching with two new people again. The daily possibility that she’s going to do something overwhelmingly embarrassing in front of Langdon. Still not knowing where she should go during her prep periods. That she’s going to be just as alone as she’s always been at work, but with some added disappointment because she’s let her hopes get up, just a little.
There’s no way that she and Langdon can co-teach as well as she hopes. She’s sure her bubble will burst soon enough, that her crush will fade, and everything will settle back to baseline.
(It doesn't.)
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- Part 1 of and they were CO-TEACHERS
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06 Jun 2026
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"Is this what you want?" Mel asked, eyes searching his face so urgently he could barely track them.
Frank sighed, stretching out his neck and closing his eyes. "It's what she wants—"
"You, Frank," Mel interrupted. "I don't care about Abby. What do you want?"
He wet his lips, rubbing them together as he watched her sit with a hand on the door, ready to leave the car at any given moment. Then, he nodded. "Yeah," he said simply. "I want this."
She shook her head, gathering her bag from by her feet and pushing the door open. "Then have it," she said, forcing herself out. "Just don't expect me to watch."
* * *
In which Mel and Frank orient Hollywood — and each other.
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02 Jun 2026
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Mark one year post rehab, Langdon just want the day to past by, but Mel King had other plans.
A pirate-wrapped gift, a terrible note, and one vintage pocket knife later, Frank thinks the hardest part of his day might be surviving Mel’s sense of humor.
Then the ER goes into lockdown.
When a white supremacist group storms the trauma wing with their wounded leader, they refuse to trust Dr. Al-Hashimi and demand that Langdon operate instead. Not because he is the right doctor for the job, but because he is the kind of man they want to believe in.
Trapped between armed extremists, terrified patients, and the ugliest kind of trust, Frank has to survive the day without becoming the symbol they want him to be.
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28 May 2026
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She watches him strut around headquarters, trying to look confident and purposeful as he searches for a reason to be there—orbiting Mel, while being quietly consumed by something she isn't sure he has the cojones to face.
Trinity sighs, weighing her vendetta against Mel's happiness. She really is getting a martyr complex, just like the rest of these sick fucks.
(Kingdon, reluctantly witnessed and orchestrated by Trinity Santos, who kinda has her own thing going on and doesn't need this right now)
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05 May 2026
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“So you know how Abby and I are going through a rough patch.”
Mel cocked her head. “I thought you were getting a divorce.”
“Nah, she won’t actually go through with that. She’s just making me work for it,” Frank said, as if he hadn’t been served with divorce papers in the ED lobby through the plexiglass.
“Ah,” said Mel.
He took a deep breath. “So anyway, I was thinking. You’re single, I’m separated. We should be friends with benefits. Just for six months or so, until Abby takes me back.”
//Kingdon Week Day 3: Vacation (if a CME conference counts as vacation)//
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- Part 3 of Homespun Kingdon Sampler
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05 May 2026