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An Entree, an Adagio, two Variations and a Coda by do_not_confess
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
04 Jul 2026
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“Hmpf,” Robby says, after the first run-through on Monday morning when Frank has felt like a fucking pervert for running his hands down Mel’s soft side, over and over again, because the choreography requires it. It didn’t really help that he couldn’t sleep last night, feeling itchy and hot under the covers.
He’d tried the dancer’s version of counting sheep, blocking the ballet in his mind, going through all his steps.
He was just waiting in the wings, yam-pam-pam, Prokofiev’s score playing in his mind, watching Juliet and Paris dance at the ball. Juliet is polite, but bored. Yolanda always plays the bored part really well.
But then, thinking of how Juliet needs to slips out of Paris' hands on the beat and turn towards Romeo, it was suddenly Mel's face that looked at him expectantly, a soft flush on her cheeks.
Yikes.
Or: Royal Ballet principal Yolanda Garcia gets injured and Frank Langdon needs a new partner. Enter Mel King, a recent transfer from Pittsburgh Ballet.
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Celebrations are in full swing on Ajan Kloss after the Resistance's glorious defeat of the First Order, but all is not as it should be. Rey Skywalker is alive, but she is not the girl she was - she has come back from the dead, but she has come back wrong. Ben Solo is also alive, but he has problems of his own....
She steps forward to get a better look.
Poe explains, ‘He was found wandering in the ruins of Exegol, stark naked and unarmed.’
And there, sitting in the metal chair, dressed in a white paper boiler suit which is visibly too tight across the chest, is Kylo Ren.
‘I’m not sure who he is,’ says Poe.As a wise man once said - death is only the beginning.....
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02 Jul 2026
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“Um.” Mel looked down. “I still don’t know what everyone’s talking about. Honestly. That’s just how he looks at me.”
Diana’s eyebrows shot up. “You’re saying he looks at you like that often?”
Mel rolled her head. “I mean, we work together a lot. Maybe I’m not seeing what other people are seeing because to me, that’s just… how he looks.” She glanced at Langdon, who was looking at her the same way he always did, and for some reason, it made the feather dance that time, and she had to look away.
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When a Tiktok of an after hours save goes viral for their undeniable chemistry, Mel King and Frank Langdon are thrust into the spotlight and asked to do a publicity tour to help fundraise. Mel finds it increasingly difficult to keep her feelings for her happily married colleague under wraps in interviews, but Frank’s been keeping a secret that millions of people are about to learn before she does.- Language:
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28 Jun 2026
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Abby knows she’s not finding love on Love Island. It’s six weeks. She’s here to find a career: the seed money to start her own PR firm and the (hopefully) massive following that’ll have future clients salivating to have. And, of course, have a little fun while she does it.
She will not get stuck in her first couple, but America will know her as discerningly loyal. The key, she figured, was going to be finding someone smart enough (or dopey enough, she supposed) to do this with her. He’ll need to be devastating and charming, without being swarmy. He’ll need to -
Someone taps on the tinted window. It’s show time.
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Where Mel's entrance into Casa Amor throws a wrench into Abby's (almost) flawless plan to win Love Island.
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27 Jun 2026
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they don’t use a condom the first time they have sex.
it’s not an intentional decision – she honestly didn’t even think of it. they were both so wrapped up in each other, in the moment, in the fact that this was finally, finally happening, that protection was the furthest thing from their minds.
plus, neither of them had slept with anyone for awhile; he revealed that it’d been nearly a year and a half since he’d had sex with abby, even though they’d only separated nine months ago. (one of the many signs our marriage was dead in the water, he’d told her, with a wry smile on his face.)
and mel? well, mel had never slept with anyone. technically.
(or, mel and frank deal with an unplanned pregnancy.)
written for day five of kingdon week 2026: oops, accidental pregnancy.
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- Part 3 of kingdon week 2026
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26 Jun 2026
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"You need to focus now, OK? You need to talk to me. I'm so sorry this is happening and we can talk about options after but right now I need you to snap out of it. Cause otherwise they're gonna pump you full of drugs and give you a C-section and God knows what else and I need you right now. Please Mel? I need you."
Or, Mel King Didn't Know She Was Pregnant.
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26 Jun 2026
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he's put in place three rules for himself since returning to the emergency department: be transparent when handling drugs, spend as much time with mel as possible, and stay out of trinity santos' business.
he doesn't mean to break rule three. he really doesn't.
(or, mel and santos try to be friends. it doesn't go as well as they had hoped.)
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12 Jun 2026
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She likes organizing.
Seeing everything in the proper spot.
The month is going to be a busy one between Becca’s arts festival and Tanner’s play and work.
And she’s about to add a whole new component.
She cannot wait.
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11 Jun 2026
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He and his platonic decency are both in shambles by the time she buckles her seatbelt. They both seem to register it in real time while he drives her home.
Maybe, just maybe, she doesn't want anyone else at the end of the night. And maybe he stayed awake all evening with no one else left in his life to wait up for, hoping she would give him a reason to be needed.
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10 Jun 2026
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“I’m jealous.” It escapes before she can let herself back out, “That my sister has a sex life, and I don’t.”
She doesn’t know why she’s admitting that to him. She honestly doesn’t. It’s embarrassing.
“Right there with you.” His voice is low, “How long–?”
She chews at the bottom of her lip, doing the mental math, “Three years…You?”
“Thirteen months.”
Warmth pools in between her legs, and she clutches his hand like it’s a lifeline.
It’s barely a whisper, she’s so afraid to say it,
“Close the trunk.”
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“Wait, holy shit, King–” The wand stills inside of her as Trinity freezes the frame.
“What?” She asks, “God, it didn’t nick something, did it? I’m not about to bleed to death?”
“No, but you might pass out.” Trinity answers, “Maybe?”
“What is it?” She tries to sit up, but Trinity’s already turning the ultrasound monitor around to show her.
Her heart stills as she takes in the tiny flickering heartbeat on the screen in front of her, “Oh–”
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09 Jun 2026
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The Marriage Contract by TesaMadd
Fandoms: Off-Campus Series - Elle Kennedy, Off-Campus (TV series)
05 Jun 2026
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Hannah Wells meant to spend one wild night in Vegas forgetting her cheating ex, not wake up legally married to Garrett Graham, Chicago Blackhawks superstar and certified walking bad decision.
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- Part 1 of The Marriage Contract Universe
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09 Jun 2026
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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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Statistically, it's not all that uncommon. About 8% of all males in the country have some form of colorblindess, and Tanner Langdon just happens to fall into that 8%.
But unfortunately for Mel, she just 100% figured it out before his parents.
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01 Jun 2026
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To finally get to the point: while there hadn’t been a bet on them procreating (yet), there is the matter of the absolutely massive jackpot regarding them getting engaged, and in light of Trinity’s discovery during the shift that will forevermore be known within the Pitt community as “the Full Moon Friday Retrogeddon,” Trinity is like 96% sure Yolanda has won. Because Yolanda had put her money on “shotgun.”
The story of the first two years of a relationship, told primarily through the bets their coworkers make.
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27 May 2026
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"I don't think I ever want to feel what I felt with Abby again."
"Ever?" asked Mel, her eyebrows rising and falling in a split second, any hope she might have felt — for what, she wasn't quite sure — dissipating. "Why?"
"Because one day, I'm going to wake up and realise that I've spent more time without her than with her — and I think that's going to kill me. So I need you to leave me the fuck alone."
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Abby dies, and Mel's there to lend a hand.
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25 May 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."
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In which Mel and Frank orient Hollywood — and each other.
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25 May 2026
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“If you stare any harder,” a voice says, startling Frank where he stands leaning against the charge desk with his arms tightly folded across his chest. “You’re gonna burn a hole through the back of Dr. Miller’s head.”
He glances over at Dana, where the charge nurse mirrors his position, and emits a soft grunt in response.
It wouldn’t be the end of the world.
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Or, when a new doctor at PTMC shows interest in Mel, Frank is forced to confront his feelings for her.
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21 May 2026
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"So are you a Survivor superfan?" He asks—be normal Frank, be normal—walking toward some rocks at the far end of the beach.
"Huge," Mel says with a wide smile. "What about you?"
"Me, not really," Frank admits. "I watched a few seasons here and there," —one season, if he's honest— "and I auditioned just for fun," —he hadn't even known that Theo had sent in that stupid video— "and now here I am."
"Here you are," Mel echoes and Frank finds himself a little lost in the melody of her voice. It's lower than maybe he would expect, but the flow of it is an easy rhythm, a pleasing melody.
Entrancing.
"Here we are." Finds it necessary to add on, and the smile that blooms on Mel's face tells him he's said the right thing.
Fuck.
Or, the Survivor AU.
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20 May 2026
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Connor Storrie has always known how to survive longing—by compartmentalizing it.
But bodies remember what hearts refuse to name.
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20 May 2026
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For a moment that seemed to draw on for an hour, nobody said anything, the awkward shock of whatever the hell had just occurred settling between them all. Garcia turned toward Frank slowly.
“What the fuck is up with ER Barbie today?” she asked. “Did Poison Ivy over there key her car or something?”
Santos had to cover her mouth to stifle the laugh that burst out. She would think this was hilarious. He bit his tongue so he didn’t say anything he’d regret - they were just beginning to tolerate each other.
Frank stared out the closed doors. “I have no idea.”
or: the one where an overconfident intern openly flirts with Frank, and unleashes a side of Mel nobody has seen before.
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14 May 2026