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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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15 Sep 2026
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Once was an accident, twice was a coincidence, three times was a pattern, and according to the chair of the meeting, that pattern was where the administrators in the physicians health program drew the line.
Or: There’s a disciplinary hearing about three work-related drug exposures and Langdon is barely holding it together.
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11 Sep 2026
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It's just — every time he walks in, a skip to his step like he's still surprised he's allowed to be here — all she can see is his new key-chain jiggling against his keys, a gift he'd shown to anyone willing to look; Tanner made it himself, Abby let him give it to me for my sobriety anniversary. No, he doesn't know that's why, he's five. Isn't it great?
And it is, she'd thought — said — absently. He fought so hard to keep his relationship to his children, to his now ex-wife, even as he went through the motions of rehab and recovery and constant HR meetings and random piss tests everyone conspicuously pretended weren't happening. He'd fought so hard, of course it's great.
Or it would be, Mel thinks, ducking away with lukewarm coffee in hand, if she didn't know the image of that key-chain like the palm of her hand.
Or, rather, like the soulmark on the back of her knee.
[or: soulmateism made literal]
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10 Sep 2026
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“An interdepartmental softball tournament? That sounds like fun.”
“It's a bloodbath,” Perlah tells them bluntly.
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Or: Robby and Dana (rightfully) pack for friendly competition like paranoid boy scouts, Perlah’s a Soccer Mom, and Mel decompresses from the stresses of the job with a little help from her chosen family.
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13 Aug 2026
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“Christ,” Robby muttered under his breath, scrubbing his face with his palm.
“The ER can be a very bright and noisy place, Robby!” Langdon argued, like he was reciting the words from a script.
“Yes, I understand that, Langdon,” Robby replied calmly, trying to stay even-tempered. “But you can’t just go around profiling our patients as neurodivergent.”
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