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Peggy "Master of Subtlety" Carter sets forth a plan to woo her roommate. It doesn't go exactly as she expected.
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31 May 2026
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If Cassie traces it back like a line on a piece of paper, she knows it’s because of what happened the day of Pittfest, but if she’s feeling more honest, she’ll say the line started long before that. But being honest with herself requires admitting something happened—even though nothing happened, technically—and that would make it all way more real. So she continues not naming this thing that now sits between her and Dana Evans, letting it snowball in size until the day it knocks one of them over.
or, Cassie and Dana almost kiss after Pittfest—and now Cassie must deal with the fallout.
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- Part 1 of stop the world just to stop the feeling
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17 May 2026
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Something sharp and unpleasant twists low in Dana’s stomach before she can stop it.
Because Cassie hasn’t looked at her like that all day, hasn’t softened once. Not after the trauma, not after the staffing disaster, not after Dana spent hours trying to keep the entire department from capsizing.
She knows it’s unfair the moment it passes through her mind.
Dana’s the one who’s been stomping around the ER like an active thunderstorm since sunrise, snapping at Cassie in front of staff because she was overwhelmed and overstimulated and furious at literally everyone with a pulse.
Still, the feeling comes anyway.
Small and ugly and immediate.
Or: Though everyone at PTMC is blissfully unaware, Dana and Cassie have been dating for a few months when a new nurse joins the team. Dana handles it very well (no, she doesn't).
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13 May 2026
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Cassie has this awful fleeting image of her lying there, stunned not by the pain itself but by the realization that getting back up was going to take a kind of effort she just didn’t know she had anymore.
The thought hurts. More than Cassie expects it to.
Because Dana should never have had to absorb that moment alone.
Because someone should have protected her.
Because it suddenly feels obscene that people like Dana spend decades holding emergency departments together with sheer will and sacrifice only to eventually become vulnerable inside the exact systems they’ve carried for years.
Cassie wishes, fiercely and irrationally, that she could take the fear out of her entirely.
Or: in the weeks after the assault, Cassie wonders if Dana will truly come back. If there's no other way to be certain, she guesses she'll just have to start checking in on her herself.
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09 May 2026
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A finished affair. An unfinished connection. As Dana and Cassie struggle to return to their separate lives, distance and denial only make what they lost harder to forget.
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05 May 2026