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'Suicide' was a word tucked in soft quilt blankets and shoved in the deeper parts of his mind, even as he saw patients day-in, day-out who were outwardly, or in some capacity could be considered suicidal. [...] No one knows, never knew. Also, no one can be surprised. If they look further, they'll see just the extent of what he's hidden in plain sight from his childhood.
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Carter has struggled with suicidal ideation for years. A night shift is almost his undoing. -
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His brave soilder boy came marching home
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Two years after being kicked out of Mark Greene's apartment, John Carter finds himself standing in the familiar building once again.
(Sequel to Edge Of The Night)
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- Part 2 of An Old-Fashioned Word
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Standing with his back to the door is a behemoth of a man, grunting and snorting like a wild boar in a trap- and in the man’s grasp, pinned against the wall by the paws around his neck, is John Carter. Dead-eyed and slack as he dangles there like a marionette.
Mark's brain short circuits. He stumbles back. Yells for security, his own voice strangled, yet doesn't wait for the reinforcements to come, because the boy’s lips are tinged blue, and he isn't fighting like he should be.
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Carter gets strangled by a patient. Set in S1.
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After the stabbing, Carter's family gathers close.
It's foreign.
It's overwhelming.
It's the only place he's ever felt this safe.A collection of moments brief and long from Carter's journey toward recovery.
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Set in S3. John Carter is hospitalized with a bad case of pneumonia. Eleanor Carter arrives at County General to sit at his bedside. Her visit, however, is motivated not by love for her ailing son, but by something far more selfish. Peter Benton comes to realize that his student's family life is not just complicated, but in fact deeply troubling.
Eleanor Carter didn’t ask questions about how John was doing, about his prognosis, while Peter walked her to John’s room. She doesn’t reach out to him now, doesn’t hold his hand or comb his sweat-slick hair from his feverish forehead. She doesn’t soothe him with comforting, loving words.
She just… sits there. Expression wooden and disinterested. And her eyes keep looking at the door.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Faux-Affectionate Villain
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- Part 15 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Pathetic Life Forms by planesandgoggles
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
10 Dec 2025
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Jedi Knight Peter Benton is called back to Coruscant from the frontlines of the Clone Wars to take on a new padawan, whose partnership with his previous master has ended under mysterious circumstances.
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A follow-up to my post-stabbing catatonia fic "i will try to fix you" .
After two weeks in a catatonic state following the stabbing, John Carter faces a slow, painful, and complicated recovery. Peter Benton is unsure if his former student will ever be the same. It doesn't help that Carter hasn't spoken a single word since waking up.
Peter had accrued a massive amount of vacation days over the last few years, and he was finally cashing in, spending his days with Carter.
He couldn’t stomach the thought of the kid being alone, not even for a second. Not after everything that had happened. No. Peter was going to be there, through the physical therapy and the respiratory therapy and the occupational therapy. He supposes when the time comes for actual therapy therapy, he’ll get kicked out. But he’ll cross that bridge when they get to it.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Tongue-Tied
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- Part 14 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 6 of All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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the momentum threw him partially over the bed rail and towards some medical instruments, making it all clatter to the floor loudly—but to be honest? , he couldn’t give less fucks about the medical equipment right now—before the nurses and security swarmed to re-secure the restraints.
“Carter!” he heard Dr. Benton bark out as he ate a fistful of fists onto his ribs (hah!).
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Carter is probably having what's usually described in medical text books as a mental breakdown and also gets fisted (pun!) Peter benton has no idea wtf Carter is thinking
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This work could be read both as a ship fic and as a overall platonic (if you try hard enough)
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you are someone else, I am still right here by maisiec33 for Evilsilence
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
07 Dec 2025
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The grip the nurse has around his shoulders tightens as he buckles slightly.
“Dr Carter? John? Hey, not too far to go now.”
He almost wants to laugh.
If only she knew how far it feels.
He sinks, and the only one there to catch him is a staff member he doesn't recognise.
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Carter deteriorates rapidly before they can find a donor in s15.
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All throughout the procedure, Peter half expects Carter to burst in, panting, sweating, full of apologies and claiming some excuse: the El was delayed, he'd overslept, his apartment had burned down again. Peter would brush him off and kick him out of the operating room, then send him to do his scut work and really think about his commitment to this program.
But Carter never shows.
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After Gant's death, Peter shuts Carter out. When Carter goes missing, Peter fears the worst and vows to stop at nothing to find him.
An alternate continuation of season 3, episode 12: Post Mortem
For Bad Things Happen Bingo Prompt: Broken Rib(s)
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Carter didn’t mean to.
God, he didn’t fucking mean to.
He sat hunched on the floor of the dirty bathroom, knees up to his chest, arms wrapped around his middle like he could squeeze the truth out of him, like maybe he could wring the life back out through his pores. The pregnancy test lay on the cracked tile like a taunt. Pink. Positive. Final.
The overhead bulb buzzed like a dying insect. Flickered every few seconds like God was blinking at him—watching. Judging.
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Every instinct tells him to stand up and run. This isn’t Carter. He can’t bear to look at this lifeless husk that used to shine so brightly. The thought of never seeing those big brown eyes again, never receiving another toothy grin, sends a cold shiver down his spine. He wants to curse and scream and hide.
Then he remembers Carol’s words: Talk to him, it might help both of you.
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Something horrible happens to John Carter. Peter Benton must face his fear to help his student.
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- Part 10 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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A reimagining of 4x15 "Exodus", where it's Carter who gets exposed to the benzene instead of Kerry. And worse. Peter Benton refuses to leave his former student's side.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Poison/Venom
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- Part 13 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Peter went a whole month without seeing John Carter, the severely accident prone 23-year-old who liked to talk to anyone he could. When Peter removed his sutures a month ago, the guy chatted away to him, the nurses, and the patient on the bed next to him. He constantly had something to say, and it drove Peter crazy. But a month had passed, and Peter almost forgot about his head lac (and black eye) patient until Lydia was handing him a chart.
"Chatty kid is back with a hand laceration in need of sutures." Peter opened the chart to see 'John Carter' and he sighed. He thought about handing the case off to Brown (who had not improved in the last month) but decided against it. Peter needed to practice his sutures anyway.
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On shaky legs, John gets to his feet. The world tilts back and forth and spins around. He forces himself to take a deep breath. His bones shake. He feels a cold sweat on his forehead.
One step forward.
His vision grays.
And then… darkness.
OR: Carter has the flu, Benton feels guilty, and a secret is revealed.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Confined to Bed Rest
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- Part 12 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Carter knows it was wrong of him to lie to Carol, of all people. Lie and tell her that someone is home, when really, Gamma won't be back for another week and his parents are off God knows where. Carol, who's the first to ask him how his weekend was or ask after the few family members he's mentioned in passing to his co-workers. Carol, who always, without fail, brings him water and snacks after his anxiety kicks his ass or even if he's just forgotten to eat during a shift. The lie seemed to bother him more than his actual ailment.
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or, Carter gets really sick and leans on Carol (among others) for help.
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In which Benton is left to wrangle a very (accidentally) high John Carter.
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Carter Deals with a difficult relative. It doesn’t go well
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Carter is attacked by a disgruntled relative
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A fuck-up at work triggers bad memories and bad habits for John Carter. In the midst of a record heat wave, Carter goes for a punishing run on his family's property, with terrible consequences. Peter Benton to the rescue.
He puts his fingers to Carter’s neck, and is horribly unsurprised at the weak, thready, and extremely rapid pulse he feels beneath the skin. Tachycardic. Very tachycardic.
A hand on John’s forehead is all but confirmation of Peter’s fears. His face is blazing hot, more like touching a furnace than human skin.
Heat stroke.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Ambulance Ride
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- Part 11 of Bad Things Happen Bingo