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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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24 May 2026
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Like the one Frank thinks of now, as he stares at the ceiling. He can practically heat Mom’s voice, chipper and raspy and kind of grating: Time flies when you’re having fun!
Frank is not having fun. It must be why time seems to have stilled.
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10 May 2026
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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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10 May 2026
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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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16 Apr 2026
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you wait and you wonder who'll take on your odds by paperclipbitch
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
25 Mar 2021
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“Don’t think of it as marriage,” Benny tells her. “Think of it as castling.”
Beth raises an eyebrow. “Am I the king or the rook in this analogy?”
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- Part 1 of Marriageverse
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14 Aug 2021