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Dear Darling Doctor: Chapter 6
🕑 Added 2025-09-24 09:00:02 +0000 UTCWell folks, we're officially past the halfway point! In fact, based on my current status as of scheduling this post (writing chapter 8 as we speak), this story is going to end with Chapter 9, so we're actually 2/3rds of the way through! I think it's a good length for what's going on and the number of characters involved in the story.
Before I set out to reboot this story, the main question that's been driving me is "how does Cassandra go from a toxic but otherwise ordinary woman to the absolutely unhinged housewife we know and love". Brainwashing explains part of it, to be sure. Her mistrust of men and women alike becoming a worship of men means her hatred of other women becomes a lot more intense. Her crush on Doctor Sang is slowly morphed into feverish obsession, but it needs to have something to kick it off. I hope that I've done an adequate job of justifying her eventual characterization so far.
But this chapter also shines a spotlight on Marion and Siobhan! So let's chat about them.
Marion is just someone who, as you may have guessed, I love to humiliate and torment. She's a great target for it, I think, and as of this chapter we're getting a good idea of why she ends up so, well, All Pent Up~
Siobhan, of course, is meant to evoke the most sympathy. She's a troubled girl, and she's struggling to withstand everything. It's a character idea that I'd never actually considered before, but she basically emerged fully formed in Chapter 1 for me. I knew exactly who she is, what happens to her, how she struggles at Sunny Skies, and why.
Thanks again to Aubree for beta reading all these chapters!
Comments
Smokey
Thank you!
vasily26
Love the structure here of three dr appointments with the three patients we’ve been following. Fun to see the similarities and differences!
Smokey
Thank you so much!
Jakitron
This chapter felt super dark, in a really fun way, I loved it
