Sleeping Sickness
Dr Cassie McKay slowly approached her 10th year of sobriety, but she felt her mental health slowly deteriorating and the cravings returning. After a particularly triggering shift, something snapped and she found herself on the edge of a relapse. Despite their relationship being strictly friendly coworkers (who secretly have had feelings for each other that they've hidden for years), she called Dana Evans in the middle of the night to intervene. Dana was able to save Cassie from her worst impulses, and it changed everything between the two.
Cassie and Dana try to figure out what their relationship means through recovery, mental health crises, and learning to be who you really are later in life.
CW for addiction (drug and alcohol) depiction of drug use and domestic violence.
All Chapter Master List
Chapter 1: Someone Come and Save My Life
Chapter 2: I'll Sleep When I Am Dead
Chapter 3: It's Like The Night is Taking Up Sides
Chapter 4: Denial is a River
Chapter 5: It Seems I'm Not Sleeping
Chapter 6: I Awoke Only to Find My Lungs Empty
Chapter 7: My Dreams Were Nothing Like They Were Meant To Be 🩷
Chapter 8: The Simple Souvenir of Someone's Kill
Chapter 9: Living With the Uncertainty
Chapter 10: This Misery Will Suffice
Chapter 11: Constantly Changing from Calm To Ill
Chapter 12: Madness Fills My Heart and Soul 🩷
Chapter 13: And I'm Afraid to Sleep Because of What Haunts Me
Chapter 14: I Wish I Could Do Better By You
Chapter 15: Please Know That I'm Yours to Keep 🩷
Chapter 16: My Beautiful Girl
Chapter 17: While I'm Out Chasing My Own Dreams
Chapter 18: That's What You Deserve
Chapter 19: I Guess I Take After My Mother
Chapter 20: Sailing Around the World 🩷
Chapter 21: I Am the World's Poor Pessimist
Chapter 22: You Don't Ask For No Diamond Rings
Chapter 23: Tired of the Dirt and Grit
Chapter 24: I Feel I'll Die of Complications
Chapter 25: Complications Due To Things That I've Left Undone
Chapter 26: Like All My Debts Will Be Left Unpaid
Chapter 27: I'm Like a Jack of All Trades Who's a Master of None 🩷
Chapter 28: I Used to Be Quite Resilient
Chapter 29: It Is Not a Cry for Pity Or For Sympathy
Chapter 30: Root For the Home Team
Chapter 31: Rest Your Weary Eyes 🩷
Chapter 32: Before Soon Such Distance
Chapter 33: But I Understand Your Sadness
Chapter 34: I Just Hope That I'd See You Soon
Chapter 35: I'd Rather Wake Up Beside You 🩷
Chapter 36: Illusions of Someday
Chapter 37: Lay Me Down 🩷
Chapter 38: Now the Day is Losing Light
Chapter 39: Hoping You'd Hear My Plea
Chapter 40: Won't You Lay By My Side
Rating: Explicit ( 🩷 indicates chapter with explicit sexual contact)
Word Count: Currently 165 670
Master List Will Be Updated as Chapters are added!
