conflict resolution
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Trinity Santos turned to face him, and for a moment her expression was supremely awkward. Then she shoved that down, bottled it up, and looked him dead in the eye. “In my experience, I have managed to solve similar… situations through aggressive sex with no eye contact.”
Frank Langdon’s brain short circuited. He blinked. Blinked again. She was still there, not an apparition. Staring at him. Resigned. He choked out, “I’m sorry?”
She shrugged. “Just an idea.”
“Hate sex,” he clarified.
Again, she shrugged, turning now, eyes grazing anywhere but him.
He blew out a breath. What the fuck, he thought.
“Fine,” he said. Santos jerked to face him again. “But I’ll drive.”
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OR: Langdon and Santos put aside their differences, have rough and angry sex, and finally start building a friendship.
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- Part 1 of conflict resolution
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“So, you’re like, friends?” Whitaker finally asked, Trinity and Langdon sat shoulder to shoulder on the sofa, tipsy and easy and thirty-three minutes post-painting each other’s nails. (Blue for her, orange for Whitaker, the most neon shade of pink she could find for Langdon.)
“Almost,” Trinity said, before Langdon could answer. She wanted the final say on that one. “We’re going to be.”
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Two weeks ago, Santos and Langdon hatefucked. Now, they're doing something else.
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- Part 2 of conflict resolution
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six months in the life of the night shift nurse rumour mill by tempestaurora
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
28 Apr 2025
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“What do you think’s going on over there?” Heather asked, because she wasn’t looking at Robby, she was looking at Langdon and Santos.
“Oh, don’t even get me started,” Dana grumbled.
Heather raised a pointed eyebrow. “Well, now I want to know even more.”
Dana grinned. “Money’s on Langdon dating the intern."
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Langdon and Santos are friends (who fucked like one time, it was stress relieving, don’t worry about it). The Pitt crew seems to think there's more going on than there is.
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- Part 3 of conflict resolution
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“Let’s go to your place.”
“Fine,” he said. “But I’m not taking any of your shit tonight, Santos.”
“You seem to be taking all of it,” she scorned.
“Yeah, but that’s my home, okay? It’s empty and depressing and fucking whatever else, but you’re not staying there if you’re going to make me feel like shit in the process, yeah? You’ve already done that enough today.”
“Then maybe you should drop me at home.”
“Go fuck yourself,” Langdon muttered.
“Or you could do it for me.”
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In November, Trinity has a bad day. She asks for Langdon's help working through it.
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- Part 4 of conflict resolution
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See, he knew, was the thing. He knew. He knew the minute he heard the screaming, because he knew that screaming. Maybe all children’s screams sounded the same to everyone else, but he knew his kids.
He knew what it sounded like when they were scared, or alone, or upset.
Robby, rolling the gurney, said, “Isn’t this—”
And Dana, nearby, said, “Aren’t they—”
And Abby, with a head injury and a crushed leg and lacerations covering her face and arms and chest cried, “Robby? Robby you have to find Frank, you have to—”
Langdon ran, because what else was he going to do.
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In February, Abby Langdon's car gets t-boned; Trinity Santos meets Frank Langdon's children for the first time; and Frank Langdon has a real bad day.
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- Part 5 of conflict resolution
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interlude: dennis whitaker gains a sister (and a brother, and a dog) by tempestaurora
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
01 May 2025
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“We’re like socks, you know?” she asked, looking up at him.
Dennis was pretty drunk, to be honest, but Trinity was drunker. He blinked down at her.
“I don’t know what that means.”
“We’re socks. You and me. Matching pair.”
Dennis blinked. “Like soulmates?”
Trinity laughed. “Like soulmates,” she agreed. “But socks.”
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Dennis Whitaker has been there since the very first night Langdon and Santos started getting along. He has been there for a lot of moments since.
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- Part 6 of conflict resolution
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“Ladies and gentlemen of the board,” she said, and Whitaker, the only person on the sofa in their apartment, looked around as if he wasn’t supposed to be alone. “In March, we started Operation: Kingdon, a nice little portmanteau I worked up of 'King' and 'Langdon'.”
“I actually figured that out by myself,” Whitaker commented.
Trinity lifted a hand, silencing him. “No questions until after the feature presentation.”
“In Part One of this Operation, we locked them in a cupboard. While in there, they discussed who would get cannibalised first. While this seemed to be a failed mission, they did then attend a fair together that weekend. One could assume, Operation: Kingdon led to this major advancement of their relationship.”
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Trinity Santos wants Langdon and Mel to date each other. Frank Langdon also wants Langdon and Mel to date each other, but on a vastly different timeline and without Santos' input. He does not get what he wants.
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- Part 7 of conflict resolution
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“Mel, I don’t want to drag you out of your life to fit you into mine. I want us to fit with each other. I’m not scared of your mess.”
“I’m not scared of yours,” she replied. “I want—I want to be there in it with you. One mess, a shared mess. You and me.”
His smile made her heart clench. “You and me,” he said. Then he blinked, and there was something like awe in his eyes. “You’re choosing me, aren’t you?”
“Of course I am,” Mel replied. “I want to. I want to care about you. I want be there for you, and love you, on purpose.”
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Mel has spent the year thinking that Langdon is dating someone else, which turned out to be categorically false. Now, they get to navigate something of their own.
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- Part 8 of conflict resolution
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The Trauma Room floor was a mess of gloves, paper gowns and blood, scuffed by shoes.
Langdon breathed out long and hard. He knocked his fist against Trinity’s outstretched one.
“Good work,” he said. “That was a good catch.”
He’d let Trinity do the chest tube, let her call the shots. It was part of teaching, his ED education fellowship had told him. It was about letting the bird fly free, but knowing exactly what to do if they plummeted towards the ground.
It had been long enough that he knew Trinity was no longer the plummeting type.
“Thanks,” she said, and it didn’t even sound forced.
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Langdon and Trinity are friends. Best friends. It has been a long road to this point: here is a week in their lives.
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- Part 9 of conflict resolution