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if y’all hated the last tapestry I made I got something even better. happy pride!

also didn’t block this one so don’t even ask

The thing is, Frank is like a heat-seeking missile, so sometimes he'll reach for her in his sleep and find the bed empty, and even though he's still mostly asleep, he gets a bit of FOMO.

And so, oftentimes, a blanket burrito with a tuft of hair sticking out at the top will shuffle out of the bedroom and come lie down on the sofa next to Mel to just be close-by while she does her thing. If she's just watching TV, he might commandeer her lap as a pillow, if she's busy, he'll just curl up next to her and listen to her typing on her keyboard.

For the longest time, Mel can't figure out if Frank has a thing that squicks him. Sure, he doesn't *love* spiders in their apartment, and she takes care of them, but that doesn't come up much in the ED. He's unfazed by maggots, unbothered by tape worms, completely chill about the rats and mice that sometimes get lost in the ED because they're on the ground floor, bugs aren't an issue, burns, feces, he powers through it all.

And then one day a patient comes in covered in leeches, because they were at some kind of practitioner and the whole glass of them tipped over and onto the patient.

Frank takes one look at the gurney and barely manages to get a trash can under him.

- trinity let dennis drive to work once and never again ("you act like you're afraid of the other cars" "i am!" "oh my god.")

- they watch a lot of dumb reality tv -- dennis is partial to home renovation shows and trinity loves survivor. they are certified dating show haters, which is why they've seen every season of love is blind

- dennis isn't even making avocado toast. he steals them to put in salads. trinity thinks this should be a felony

- he trims her hair for her. she returns the favor by insisting he go to a real barbershop, because his mom shaved his head at home until he left, then he kept cutting it himself until she made him stop

- every time they get sunday off they make cinnamon rolls from scratch (once they wake up at noon)

- they are MASTERS of the "we'll talk later" stare. princess & perlah get in a fight in tagalog? robby makes a weird remark to mckay? patient comments about javadi checking out a new nurse? they have locked eyes. doesn't matter if they're three rooms away from each other. they are communicating telepathically

- their place has like. two tiny windows. it's a dark little cave and dennis tries to grow herbs on the windowsills anyway. trinity thinks it's stupid until he starts making homemade pasta sauce with his tiny basil harvests. she keeps telling him it's dumb but sometimes comes home with new planters. she likes how gently he handles the roots when he pulls them up to repot.