brighterdaze
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"Look at you. Growing up, but you'll always be my little girl, huh?"
She feels all warm and gooey inside. A tingle in her tummy, spreading all throughout her body. She could melt right into her chair. "Always, daddy."
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Mel wants a special gift for her birthday.
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This isn’t you. This isn’t what brothers do to their sisters.
Isn't it?
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Frank comes back for spring break in his fourth year of college, and everything changes.
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It’s not something they talk about. It’s a secret language of theirs that doesn’t need to be spoken aloud.
Stolen glances across the ER, marks left on her neck, tits, thighs, and her arms in the shape of his mouth and hands. His wedding band has also started leaving bruises on her skin. Sometimes he pressed down on her skin so roughly, the ring would break skin.
They don’t need the words for it, don’t need verbal rules. It’s theirs, he already knows what she needs by one glance, one look, one touch.
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Mel and Frank have an unconventional affair.
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this is my collection of my kingdon microfics for august!
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I'm your father. I've always been inside you.
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Helena's mother intends for her to go to boarding school. Mark disagrees.
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“Well, Aunt Irene asked if you were bringing any one.”
“... And you told her no. Because I’m not bringing anyone. Right?”
“I did not do that.” Becca said, looking sideways, avoiding Mel’s eye.
Mel blanched, swallowing hard, eyelids stuttering. But she had to keep her cool. She could not yell. She could not freak out.
“I told Aunt Irene that you were bringing your boyfriend.”
“Becca,” She said, as calmly as she could, “I don’t have a boyfriend. You know that. I’ve never had a boyfriend.” The last line, in a whisper.
“Well, I told her that Dr. Langdon was your boyfriend.”
Mel brings Dr. Langdon as her plus-one to her cousin Claire's wedding. Dr. Langdon is all too willing to pretend to be her boyfriend. Maybe a little too willing? To follow: a dog bite, spanking-related misunderstandings, erotic steak eating, and of course: only-one-bed!
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08 Jul 2026
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"Didn’t make any friends during orientation?”
She laughed- then stopped abruptly because that was actually not a joke. “Um…no. I don’t make friends easily.”
She waited for him to look at her with pity, or offer false reassurances. He looked mildly contemplative instead. “I think most people’s ‘friends’ are actually just acquaintances, anyway.”
Mel blinked. “You think so?”
“It’s important to remember that most people are bullshitting you like…at least sixty percent of the time.”
Mel wasn’t sure if this extended to him. If it did, would he tell her? Probably not.
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10 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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08 Jun 2026
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He allows this moment to be special: Melissa and him, sitting side by side at a bar counter in wonky wooden stools, him playing around with the idea of drawing their chairs closer together, feeling the shift of his leg against hers, watching her face after.
He knows what he would find. Her cheeks would be pink, and her brows would be drawn and she would not be able to look at him, fully flustered.
The thought of it, the very thought of the sight of her in such a way makes him hungry.
Or, Frank has a crush on Mel. He does not think of himself as special.
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04 Jun 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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03 Jun 2026