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“How was your date last night?”
He hears her inhale sharply. “Oh… You know. He was nice, it was nice.”
A terrible part of him is thrilled by how bad of a liar she is; how awful it must have been.
“Doesn’t sound particularly nice, Mel,” he jokes, nudging her shoulder with his own. Only, he doesn’t move back, and she stops moving to look up at him.
“Why did you invite me for boba?”
He swallows hard, eyes flicking between her eyes and her lips. “Because I was jealous.”
“J-jealous?”
“Yeah, Mel,” he laughs, like it’s obvious.
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Leslie Knope is a Gryffindor through and through; a proud, muggle-born student who doesn't take shit from anyone. Ben Wyatt, mysterious Ravenclaw, has hidden in the shadows for five years at Hogwarts- until they're paired up in Potions class.
"It might have taken him a little longer than most, but when Leslie turns up for her fifth year at Hogwarts, Ben Wyatt is suddenly everywhere; newly long limbed and angled, with dark eyes that crinkle when he smiles – even if those smiles are few and far between."
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"Ben lies in bed feeling guilty that he became a mayor at 18, and yet at 36 he couldn’t win this one for Leslie. Leslie who deserved the stupid job that Bobby Newport won more than anyone. He punches his pillow and rings up that accounting firm that were interested in hiring him all those months ago." AU - Bobby Newport wins the election for real, and Leslie and Ben find a new groove.
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"Ben Wyatt comes to work at Saint Francis Hospital in March. By mid-March, Leslie hates him. And by April? April is when she gets drunk at Mark’s leaving party and kisses him." The crossover nobody asked for - Parks and Rec meets Offspring (aka Leslie and Ben are doctors and it's fun, I promise).
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"She's waiting for him across the hallway, and he feels like he's sixteen again, awkward and desperate and ridiculously nervous." AU: Ben's a history teacher and old friend of Chris' who visits Pawnee for the summer.
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“Hey,” Langdon says, and even his voice sounds different, like he’s holding in a burp. The laugh dies in her throat, however, when she notices he's carrying... a bouquet?
"Sorry if they're ugly," he says, "I told the florist purple, and she ran with it."
Mel takes them out of his hands, but she doesn't stop blinking. "Um, thank you. But... why?"
He cringes. "Shit, it’s too much, isn’t it? It's been a while since I've been on a first date. I'm rusty."
Mel almost drops the flowers as she staggers backward. "What?"
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17 Sep 2026
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He becomes aware of his hands flexing in the air with the effort not to touch her. She notices as well, shifting with a small, watery sound. And he looks down just as she looks up at him and she's goddamn adorable. She has a nose that deserves to be kissed.
“What's wrong?” she asks him, and it's so absurd how big her heart is, he just wants to laugh. It must show on his face, because she peels herself from him, shrinking. “I'm sorry. I'm freaking you out.”
“You're not.”
“I'm sorry,” she says anyway.
He misses her already. “Stop that.”
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A newly separated Frank Langdon goes to the movies alone to take his mind off things on the eve of his return to the Pitt. He ends up spending the entire night with Mel King.
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17 Sep 2026
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One day, quite out of the blue, Mel asks Langdon out on a date. He agrees out of courtesy but is determined to just stay friends. The proximity makes him see her in a different light and before he knows it, he has caught feelings.
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A short exploration of what their first time would actually be like.
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16 Sep 2026
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If Trinity had a magic lamp, and a genie, and three wishes, she’d ask for these things, in the following order:
1) Langdon to stop having all of his personal crises on the ED floor, mid-shift, in full view of the department
2) One—just one—of her other useless coworkers to see through his bullshit so she didn’t have to do literally everything herself
3) A team of a hundred interns to finish all of her charting, since she was about to have zero free time, seeing as she was the only person willing to address the fact that Langdon was now (evidently) sleeping at the goddamn hospital.
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06 Sep 2026
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Frank doesn’t even want to be here.
[or: you're stuck on the day you meet your soulmate until you kiss them. What better place to meet them than in a crowded EM conference?]
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30 Aug 2026