#melnipulative one may say

[muttoncon]

was just pondering on how in a lot of fics frank is very possessive of mel (love it, can’t get enough) but please consider possessive mel.

this is mostly just a snowball from a previous post but like i think she’d be so attached to being frank’s favorite student. just the concept of someone preferring her over anyone else is so new and exciting that she’s so protective of it. doing literally anything to be in frank’s favor and trying so hard to not seem like a clingy freak at the same time (spoiler alert: this does not work). she’s bringing him redbulls at the start of their shifts, packing extra snacks to give him, researching sports teams he mentions offhandedly so that she has something to talk about with him that’s not work. she wants to be his favorite everything. not just his favorite student.

langdon obviously has this deep-seated need to be well.. needed. he craves attention and affection, all he wants is for someone to fawn over him. so now there’s this new resident who actually responds well to how he teaches, wants to learn more from him, how can he not favor her? but now he’s back from rehab and he doesn’t want to look worse so he tries to not be too obvious about how much he likes mel. it’s difficult though when she pouts when he passes her over, or when she’s presenting all her cases to him, or when she very obviously tells the new med students to go check on their cases before he even has the chance to ask if they want in on something new.

so he stops trying! mel gets to have langdon (almost) all to herself and it keeps him on his best behavior so who can be too mad about it. she feels a little bad about convincing the new students that langdon has a bit of a history of aggression so they’re all a little scared of him, and telling robby that she would be more than happy to keep an eye out on langdon so she doesn’t get in trouble for constantly trailing behind him. but it’s all worth it when she hears “there’s my favorite resident” when she walks into work everyday.