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Mel and Langdon have always been just friends—until a disastrous plumbing repair, a soaked shirt, and Trinity’s impeccable timing force Mel to admit that Langdon’s charm might be (a little) lethal after all. Slow-ish burn, sarcasm, and shameless flirting ensue
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26 Aug 2025
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He told her once that she was the only editor who didn’t try to wring the wild out of him. She liked that. She would have told him to reuse the phrase in a column if she wasn’t selfish enough to keep it for herself.
Langdon is the star columnist of popular wilderness adventure magazine The Backpacker. Mel is the editor who helps him stay that way.
When Langdon starts blowing through deadlines and stops answering calls, Mel decides the best course of action is to meet him where he's at.
aka Kingdon go to the Cascades
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Langdon shakes his head. “She’s mailing me polaroids. Like a fucking pin-up girl.”
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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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And then Santos says — because of course she does, of course they would, of course it’s her fault — “And Langdon would be awful in bed, of course.” Mel blinks.
She somehow hadn’t expected them to get to Langdon, although she acknowledges it’s quite ridiculous of her to not have seen it coming considering the list of male coworkers they were rapidly striking. It’s just — well, Langdon isn’t exactly just a coworker to her, but also a friend. Someone she sends medical memes to and facetimes and watches bad movies on her couch to decompress, someone who pays for her coffee when she’s not looking and talks her down from the egde of a spiral and has met Becca. He’s — He’s Frank to her, and it’s weird to— talk about him that way. Extremely inappropriate, beyond what HR demands.
Still, Mel thinks she should defend his honor, and notes, “I think you might be letting your biases influence your judgment.”
or mel can't stop thinking about how frank's like in bed, and decides she should really just ask him
