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CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT i will follow you into the dark. season five, episodes seventeen and eighteen.
MEREDITH BANGED ON THE DOOR TO CASSIE'S BEDROOM, TWISTING THE HANDLE DESPITE IT BEING LOCKED. She turned to Cristina with a concerned frown, prompting the woman in question to roll her eyes and repeat Meredith's movements.
"Cassie, open the door," Cristina demanded, still wearing her pajamas despite her shift starting in less than twenty minutes.
"No!" Cassie shouted from the other side of the door, her voice muffled and nasally from the small cast she was forced to wear on her broken nose for another day. "Go away!"
"Seriously," Meredith sighed, resting her forehead on the doorframe. "It's been days, and we're going to be late!"
"Then leave, because I'm not going!"
Cristina scoffed, pounding on the door multiple times in a row in the hopes of annoying her out of bed.
"Cassandra Harper, open the door right this second! Or I swear to god, I'll... um..."
"You'll what?"
"I—" Cristina looked to Meredith for help, who simply shrugged, not having anything to threaten her with. "I'll... I'll call Bailey!"
It was silent for a moment.
Five seconds later, the door made a clicking noise, swinging open to reveal Cassie in baggy sweatpants and a stained tank top, eating crunchy peanut butter straight out of the jar with a spoon. Pumpkin was seated on her right shoulder, sleeping soundly with his head tucked into the crook of her neck.
"You wouldn't dare."
Cristina cocked a brow. "Try me."
Cassie groaned, dramatically throwing her arms up in the air. Pumpkin meowed in discontent at the movement, clawing at her skin so he wouldn't be thrown off.
"I look ridiculous." She gestured to the cast on her face, which was surrounded by a dark purple bruise forming in a circle around her nose and fading out on the apples of her cheeks.
"Just get dressed, you'll be fine," Meredith said. "No one will even notice."
Cristina scrunched up her nose. "No, she's right. She looks ridiculous." Meredith glared at her. "What? I'm just being honest."
