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can't wrap my arms around just a whisper of smoke by pagingthepunisher
Fandoms: The Punisher (TV 2017), Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
12 May 2026
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Frank Castle had made a promise to himself that he would never darken her door again. That promise had caveats, of course. Set a few months after the event of The Punisher: One Last Kill and following the events of Daredevil: Born Again.
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14 May 2026
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Some nights were, naturally, worse than others.
Nights where Frank laid in bed for so long, staring at the ceiling, that it made his heart start to race with anxiety and his back ache and ache and ache no matter how he positioned himself. Nights where his thoughts spiraled out into worst-case-scenarios that seemed so vivid and inevitable that he would have to get up and go to the bathroom, just to turn the light on and look at himself in the mirror to remember what was actually real.
Those were the nights when he wanted the pills again the most: alone in his guest bedroom, trying to wring sleep out of his body like the last few drops of water out of a dirty dishcloth.
He tried not to call Mel on nights like that. He did not always succeed.
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11 May 2026
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“You said this was about ‘mundane legal matters’?” Grace prompts.
“Yes.” The Attorney confirms, digging through his leather briefcase. “It took some time for things to get settled what with the wedding and the subsequent funerals and all, but the estate is finally ready for you to take the reins.”
“The estate? What estate? I abdicated the high seat.”
“Yes, well… like I said, these are entirely mundane legal proceedings. This has nothing to do with Mr. Le Bail or the High Council.” He hands Grace a packet of paper, waiting for her to scan over it before continuing. “Even in the absence of Mr. Le Bail’s favor, the Danforth family fortune is considerably immense, especially for a woman of your…” The Attorney trails off, eyeing Grace and Faith’s depressing poor people apartment. “Economic circumstances.”
“Wait,” Grace sputters, flipping through the paperwork. “I don’t get it. Why would I inherent the Danforth family fortune?”
“Well, you are the last remaining Danforth.” The attorney explains simply. As though it’s so simple.
titusgrace au marriage fic
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09 May 2026
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go home, loser.
She doesn’t feel like giving him a hard time right now, truly, but she’s hoping if she’s casual, maybe he’ll magically think everything is okay and actually go the fuck home.
A ding.
u send her out to me and i’ll put in my fucking two weeks notice.
She stares at her phone helplessly, then looks back to Robby.
“Fuck,” he barks out. “Fuck. Fine, I’ll…I’ll go figure something out.”
He turns on his heel and starts walking towards the cops.
Her phone dings one more time.
where’s mel.
(or, mel gets taken hostage in the ed. it changes trinity santos' entire worldview.)
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08 May 2026
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“I can’t think straight. My fellowship starts next month, and I… I need to be on, again. I can’t be…” She pauses, inhaling deeply through her nose and turning around to face him. He can almost see her pulse rabbiting in her throat. “I just think it would clear my head. Let me focus on being a doctor and not…” She chews at her bottom lip, suddenly shier.
“Not…?”
“Not feeling like you can see beneath my skin.” Big brown eyes plead with him. “Give me a clean break. Then I can go to Chicago and not wonder.”
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or, getting it out of their system.
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08 May 2026
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your love is like an open flame by pagingthepunisher
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), The Punisher (TV 2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe
05 May 2026
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Karen frowned as she found herself, once again, thinking of him. Not Matt — him. Frank Castle. Or, a fix-it fic that makes up for a lackluster Season 2.
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07 May 2026
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“I swear I’ve mentioned Alex before,” Mel murmurs, frowning down at her phone, still not clocking how she’s short-circuited Frank’s brain. It's a blue screen of death up there. Hi, you’ve reached Dr. Frank Langdon. I’m not available to talk right now, but leave a message, and I might get back to you. Beeeeeep.
The picture continues to shine cheerily up at them, silently mocking Frank. He forces himself to look away and swallows with difficulty. “I think I'd remember if you'd told me about your ‘best friend’ who you ‘used to be in love with.’”
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- Part 1 of so panic
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04 May 2026
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'Road Trip to Pittsburgh - Passenger Needed' was the basic title they agreed on. She advertised it as a four day, one-way trip for any student needing a ride cross country. Stipulations included going half on gas and hotels. Non-negotiables required they must be a pre-med student and have at least one reference to vouch for.
Mel King is going on a one-way road trip from Seattle back home to Pittsburgh. Frank Langdon decides to join her.
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02 May 2026
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Jack didn’t go in much for praying anymore. No point, not when nobody upstairs seemed to give a shit either way. Praying was for altar boys and little kids and people who wanted their football team to win the Superbowl; for parents in his ER who refused medical care for their dying children in favor of speaking in tongues and yelling up the ladder to something that didn’t answer. Not for him. He believed in only a few things, and none of those were anything big enough to pray to.
Well, almost none. There’d been one thing. A person, really. Bigger than a person, though. More like a grand, orchestral concept, a hope half-divine, fifty-two percent of the reason he kept showing up to work for four years straight.
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Jack Abbot is seriously injured while responding to a mass shooting. Samira Mohan, who has left the Pitt, happens to be his ER doctor at Westbridge. A reunion and a conversation, both long overdue, follow.
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01 May 2026
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"You know what your problem is?" He steps closer, close enough that she has to tilt her head back to meet his eyes. "You're so afraid of feeling something that you'd rather feel nothing at all. You'd rather be miserable and 'serene' than happy and—"
"Than what? What's the alternative? Let myself care about you and then watch it destroy everything I've built?"
"Who says it has to destroy anything?"
"History. Experience. Every Jedi who's ever fallen because they couldn't control their attachments."
"Or maybe they fell because their Order made them so afraid of attachment that they never learned how to handle it. Maybe if someone had just let them feel—"
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Samira is a Jedi Knight who knows her Code by heart. Jack is the smuggler who makes her want to forget it entirely.
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27 Apr 2026
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"Try here," he directs. Her hand caresses his nape before her fingers find his carotid. She bites her lip.
"Hey," she murmurs. "You're a bit tachy, yourself. But you haven't had very much." She motions to his deserted beer.
His eyes drop to her lips and he swallows. "Probably something else, then. Maybe you need a new differential diagnosis."
Her face heats and a strange warmth pools in her gut. This is dangerous. She needs to move back. She can stop things before they get weird. Before she makes them weird. She removes her hand from his neck. Her fingers tip toe their way up Frank's tie and hesitantly land on his chin. She traces her pinky along his lower lip. She tracks its movement, catching the bob of his Adam's apple in her periphery.
or: missing scenes of Mel and Frank's relationship as it shifts from platonic to something more
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21 Apr 2026
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Jack Abbot is two beers and a bourbon into the evening, pleasantly warm but not actually drunk. He thinks if he was drunk, he’d write this whole conversation off as an elaborate hallucination. Chucking a handful of mixed nuts into his mouth, he’s still not entirely sold on it not being some sex-deprived, testosterone-fueled fantasy his mind has cooked up after a full dose of trazodone.
Apparently, Samira Mohan is a virgin.
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Samira doesn't want to finish out her residency still a virgin. She asks Jack Abbot to help. There are to be no feelings involved.
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21 Apr 2026
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He presses her against the wall and just for a second she thinks he’s going to lift her, encourage her to wrap her legs around him, and then fuck her in the west stairwell in the middle of handover.
That is not what happens, but the kiss he gives her is full of heat and possibility. Here, the slant of his mouth on hers says, take this hunger and build on it, then give it back to me. And she does.
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What’s it going to take for her to just let herself be loved.
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- Part 2 of Other Desert Cities
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18 Apr 2026
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“What do you think about the severe rash case? Think you want in on it or can I take it?”
Frank turns to face her, which makes her look at him. His eyebrow is raised, an expression of focus on his face. “I think I want you to take a break.”
Mel laughs, glances away before making eye contact again. “That’s a funny joke.”
“No, I'm serious. Mel, go take fifteen,” he says with a firm tone.
“But I don’t need a break.”
Frank places a gentle, yet strong, hand on her shoulder. Mel glances down at it, a bit too stunned to speak; her brain trips over itself. Frank rarely touches her like this. It should be overstimulating — and if it were anyone else, it very well might’ve been — but instead the weight of his hand on her shoulder grounds her. Becomes an anchor.
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09 Apr 2026
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A comprehensive scientific framework for the human experience of love has been sought after by social psychologists for decades.
This piece will recount the experience of one person (a heterosexual, well-educated, white female in her late twenties) through the lens of Tobore’s AAC Quadruple Framework Theory of Love.
Looking for a housemate to move into my 2br 2ba apartment in South Side Flats. 1110 sq ft, modern, clean, north-facing. Shared areas fully furnished, but willing to consolidate. In-unit washer/dryer. $1000 per month, excluding utilities.
Strong preference for someone in healthcare or other industry with day/night shift rotations. Available from July 27. Current lease runs until December, with option for renewal.
Send EOI to [email protected]
“Oh, do you know someone who’s interested?”
“Yeah,” he grinned. “Me.”
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08 Apr 2026
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What if that breakroom scene we're all thinking about went a little different?
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05 Apr 2026
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start as you mean to go on by bogbrained, flowersinapril, girlwritesthings, thedarkswan, TheLadyVanishes
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
24 Feb 2026
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Around them their coworkers move with furtive glances in their direction, sly smiles sliding across their lips as though they are in on Samira and Jack’s secret.
or 5 times Samira and Jack kept a secret + 1 time they didn't.
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05 Apr 2026
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mohabbat
मोहब्बत محبت
(urdu, hindi)
definition: friendship, love, affection, amourOR: five times jack and samira had casual sex, and one time they didn't
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02 Apr 2026
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“You were testing us. Testing me.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Jack leans forward on the small table and Mohan leans back, but her mouth is quivering. “Did we pass your test, Doctor Mohan?”
The smirk breaks through, a dimple emerging on her cheek and - oh, that’s disorienting. Jack collects himself while she glances at her phone. “Under ten minutes. Not bad.”
“Usually my clients aren’t actively avoiding me, so you’ll have to forgive me the oversight this time.” He takes her soda and sips idly from the same straw.
Her lips grow into something wider, wilder. “Guess you’ll have to do better next time, Mr. Abbot.”
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bodyguard AUBookmarked by straphanger
01 Apr 2026
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They were friends.
And yeah, maybe the ring on his finger sort of burned when he looked at her sometimes, even though it was just for show, now.
It was just easier to let her keep thinking he was still married to Abby. Safer.
It raised less eyebrows about the nature of their friendship when the ring stayed on while he was at work, the weight on his finger reminding him not to say or do anything stupid.
It also made it a little less creepy when the pet names started slipping out.
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31 Mar 2026