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One minute, she was securely on her feet, crossing the road on what she’d thought was a green light. The next, someone had swept her up into the air while a car horn honked loudly at her. Mel wasn’t able to process a single thing before she was suddenly on the ground again, now on the other side of the street.
“Woah,” Mel breathed, her heart beating unnaturally fast in her chest. What had just happened?
“Are you okay?” A male voice asked her.
Mel looked up, and was met with …
Spider-Man.
The Spider-Man.
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OR: A Spider-Man AU!
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06 Sep 2026
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Frank Langdon: catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ double A Altoona Curve, recently dumped, and can’t afford the apartment he used to share with Abby on just his minor league salary.
Mel King: med student at Penn State-Altoona, looking for a way to cover her rent.
And they were roommates…
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23 Aug 2026
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Hey Mel, I meant to say bye before leaving but I think you went up to the roof with everyone else? Thanks again for your help today. Excited to see you tomorrow :)
—Langdon
~a story told through post-it notes~
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23 Aug 2026
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“Do you think I need to be worried about Dr. King? You can be honest with me.”
“Oh, oh, no, Abby, you don’t need to worry about her. Trust me. She’s sweet,” Dana took a beat, Abby wondered what she was thinking, what picture of Dr. King existed in her mind, “but she’s not like that. When you meet her, you’ll see. She’s more like… like his kid sister."
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Abby finds out that being "like a sister" was probably the worst thing Mel King could be.
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19 Aug 2026
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GAP Pre-Med - Class of 2018/22
Mon, Aug 17 10:18amMaybe: Priya
Can everyone introduce themselves? Name, hometown, fun fact? (Or maybe just your names! Whatever you’re comfortable with!)Maybe: Melissa King
Hello! This is Melissa King, but everyone calls me Mel. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and I’m happy to help show anyone around who wants to explore. 😃 Fun fact: I’m a twin! 👯♀️Sun, Aug 23 11:28am
heyyyy everyone, sorry that i totally ghosted this week and missed out on the meeting and everything!! i’m unbelievably bad at texting and i got added to approximately 400 group chats this week so i missed all of this
real intro: i’m langdon and i’m from buffalo. i guess i already shared an unfun fact (being horrible at texting) so how about: my family is so superstitious about hockey that i once cold shouldered my mom for two days after she washed my lucky jersey
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15 Aug 2026
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Frank was here. At a speed dating event. Which meant that he’d spent his evening sitting across from a dozen other women, looking for the same thing she was - a relationship.
The realization made her stomach sink. For months now, she’d been telling herself there was a reason Frank hadn’t made a move. Maybe he wasn’t ready after the divorce. Maybe he wasn’t even interested in dating at all - maybe he was too busy with work and the kids to even think about it. But he was here, which meant none of those things were true.
Frank wanted a relationship - just not with her.
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10 Aug 2026
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“Mr. and Mrs. Langdon?” she calls.
The couple’s heads swivel in unison until they land on her, and the woman’s anxious expression drops into a frown. It’s not quite the reaction Mel is expecting, but she is a stranger. She doesn’t know what Frank has told them about her, if he’s shown them her picture or anything. They’re probably just wondering how she knows who they are.
“Hi.” She sticks out her hand for the man to shake. “I’m Dr. Melissa King. I’m a… friend of Frank’s. I can get you your visitor’s passes and take you back to see him…”
Mr. Langdon gives her hand a perfunctory shake. But when Mel turns to his wife, she just looks Mel up and down, her lips pressed into a thin line, as Mel stands there, toes curling up tight inside her sneakers and her shoulders creeping up to her ears.
“Oh, we know who you are,” Frank’s mom says, voice loud enough to carry over the din of the waiting room. “You’re the whore who stole our son away from the mother of his children.”
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02 Aug 2026
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The first bets were placed shortly after the wedding ring disappeared from Langdon’s finger one rainy day in August, never to be seen again. Trinity thinks it’s funny, though she isn’t the most invested, until it all ends up coming to a head in a way more awful than any of them could have predicted.
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27 Jul 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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21 Jul 2026
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The day that Melissa King first meets Frank Langdon is also the first day that she ever argues with an adult.
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17 Jul 2026
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When Frank Langdon walks back into the Pitt on a Fourth of July weekend ten months after he left, he doesn’t tell anyone he’s gotten divorced.
It doesn’t work out for him. Well, until it does.
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15 Jul 2026
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To understand social interactions better, Mel makes a spreadsheet cataloging her co-workers responses. She incorporates aspects of others' personalities into her own, noting how they respond. The data is useful and comprehensive and Mel is satisfied with the experiment, so she stops.
Until Frank Langdon shows back up and punches a big hole in her carefully cultivated data.
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13 Jul 2026
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Frank huffed, setting the mug down. “How many times are we going to have to go over this, Mel? I like listening to you talk. I’m not just being nice. We’re friends.”
“It’s important to ask,” she said, still watching him carefully. “Because sometimes people say they want to know something but they don’t actually mean that they do. They’re just being polite. And it’s hard for me to tell that, always.”
“I’ll tell you what,” he suggested. “Let’s make this easy. With me, you never have to ask. Consider it my… blanket approval, I guess.”
He pointed to himself. “I, Frank Langdon, am interested in what you have to say.”
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09 Jul 2026
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“I need to get out of this dress,” Mel said abruptly.
Frank went very still beside her, his voice was quieter, lower too, “oh, yeah?”
“Yes. I get very overstimulated by unfamiliar fabrics, and this kind of zipper always digs in.”
“Right,” he said, leaning back again with a chuckle to himself, running a hand across his face. “Right.”
Or, Mel doesn’t work the day of Pittfest, nine months later she meets a handsome stranger at a bar
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08 Jul 2026
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“Tell me not to do it.”
Her jaw drops, eyebrows furrowing, and she says, “What?”
“Tell me not to do it,” he repeats. “Tell me that I should divorce her, tell me that you —”
He swallows the words and says, “Tell me that I shouldn’t renew my vows, that I should be with someone who actually wants to be with me, who isn’t just doing it because she thinks she has to because we have kids and I’m in recovery.”
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29 Jun 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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"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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“Dr. Langdon,” Mel said.
He looked over at her. She was outside on her balcony too, wearing plaid pajama pants and an oversized t-shirt. Her hair was down.
“Frank,” he said.
“I haven’t seen you,” she said. She wrapped her arms around herself, hands hooked over her elbows.
“I’ve been laying low,” he said.
She looked up at the stars. He watched the pale line of her neck, the way her shoulders rolled back. She tucked her hair behind her ears and he watched that too. Mel had long, delicate fingers and pretty ears.
“Why?” Mel asked.
She’d come nearer to the railing between them and so as he spoke so did he. It was almost like they were on the same balcony, that way.
(Dr. Langdon disappears and Mel King gets a new neighbor.)
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25 Jun 2026
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He grinned again, immediately turning and dragging her the rest of the way through the trees into the clearing where the thirty-foot-tall rock wall stood ominously. A pit settled into her stomach.
“Never mind,” she said, turning back towards the trees.
“No!” Langdon yelled, grabbing her around the waist so that her back was pressed to his front and pulling her back awkwardly with him. “No takesies backsies!”
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OR: Kingdon Camp Counselor AUBookmarked by emn99
19 Jun 2026