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Things have been good, lately.
Trinity has been good. She likes going to work—likes the thrill of particularly difficult cases, likes the easy back-and-forth she’s starting to build with her coworkers, even likes arguing with Langdon. She likes her little apartment and she likes that she gets to share it with Dennis. (It’s way cleaner, now, and she eats real food half the time. And she has something to do in the evenings other than think about everything she’s lost).
Things have been good.
She should’ve fucking known what would happen if she let her guard down.
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Trinity is cornered on her way home from work. She gets out of it with a stab wound and a whole new wave of old trauma. (And of course, her least favorite coworker is the only one there to talk her down.)
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15 Feb 2026
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Sometimes your past comes back to haunt you in ways that give your coworkers and crush far too much comedy material. If only the ambulance would be kind enough to run you over.
Attending!Reader, SmallTown!Reader
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14 Feb 2026
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“Ah, John. There you are.”
His mother’s tone is the rubber band snap of a corporate manager closing a deal, and she barely throws him a glance as she adjusts the brooch on her cardigan, eyes glued instead to her own reflection. John half leans against the doorway, so many years of being forbidden from entering his parents’ room keeping him glued to the threshold.
“Are you ready for this evening?”
A gala. A real, extravagant gala with gallons of expensive alcohol that John can't drink with his meds, and hundreds of interrogative faces that scrunch in pity whenever he catches them staring.
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A week after John's released from the hospital, his parents throw a ball.
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30 Jan 2026
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"John, hey. What's up, man?"
But it isn't Carter's voice that greets him on the other end of the line. "Hi, Dr. Benton. It's Chuny from County."
"Hi, Chuny," he replies, unease settling over him even as the memory of the nurse's contagious smile floods his mind. "What's going on?"
A beat. Chuny lowers her voice. "It was Carter's first day back."
Or, Carter's first day back at work after his transplant is a bit more challenging than he expected.
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18 Jan 2026
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It was nice that he was glad to be back. She was so glad that he was. Because she liked him, despite the rumors. She liked his - their - stupid jokes. And she knew, already, that she would take just about any orders he gave her, whether they were signed as Dr. Langdon or otherwise. She trusted him. She had only known him for fifteen hours, if you ignored the 10-month gap, and she still trusted him. She didn’t trust a lot of people.
So she took ten minutes. And when she went out onto the floor eleven minutes later, feeling pressure at the back of her head, part of her wished it was still his hand.
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17 Jan 2026
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When Peter Benton wins concert tickets in a raffle, a spontaneous decision sends him flying to Pittsburgh for a weekend escape.
But when gunfire erupts at the venue and Peter is rushed to the ER, he comes face to face with someone he never expected to see again—someone he thought was dead.
John Carter.
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12 Jan 2026
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After months, they switch up his meds. The tongue twister that's pumped through his IV changes letters slightly, but John is too tired to really care when the oncology nurse points it out and asks if he's willing to continue. He signs the damn form, because really, what difference can it make? Regardless of the name you give the poison, it's still poison. It'll make him sick either way.
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Carter has a major setback in treatment.
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10 Jan 2026
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Harry's post-war life is hazy and sleep-deprived. He struggles- he struggles to connect with his closest friends and he struggles with feelings of claustrophobia and insomnia.
It's not all bad, though, as he wanders the grounds at night he develops a love for the quiet beauty around him.
In fact it's kind of lovely, just as long as he has his emotional support bear by his side.
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26 Dec 2025
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Weli - Terror.
It’s like sitting in the back of the car and seeing the crash coming but being powerless to stop it.
Danny, post cave bunker.
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22 Dec 2025
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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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08 Dec 2025
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"This is it,” The Ai thought as Carl was teleported from the Desperado Club to the gas station “The game I've waited to play. A game of true stakes.". The system AI's point of view on the eighth floor and a talk with a certain liaison.
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07 Dec 2025
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Carter knew he’d lose a few things in his self-imposed plunge into poverty.
Nice shoes. Takeout from that sushi place on the corner. That fancy Italian bar soap that smelled like mint and lemon.
But after four long days of trying to stay full on ramen and peanut butter sandwiches, there was still more that was slipping away. As he takes the first bite of his burger—stacked with enough meat and cheese to make a cardiologist faint—he closes his eyes, and a moan slips through his lips.
And in that moment he realizes that, along with life’s small luxuries, his dignity is gone.
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A missing scene from Season 4, Episode 19 envisioning what happened when Doug Ross took Carter out to dinner after the shift from hell. Features a freshly impoverished Carter, Doug Ross at his best, and Carter baring his soul over a burger that's to die for.
title inspired from "You're On Your Own, Kid", which is the most John Carter-core song I have ever heard
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07 Dec 2025
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“John, you have to stop! You’re going to hurt yourself!” Dale shouted above the cacophony of thumps, scratches, and grunts.
After several minutes, the door mercifully stopped quaking and the sound of muffled movements replaced it. Maybe he tired himself out.
“It’s so dark in here. Let me out, please.” Carter sounded so small and distant, Dale could barely make out what he was saying.
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Dale thought it would be funny to shove Carter into a closet. But what happens when he can't get out?
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06 Dec 2025
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John Carter and Dale Edson are having fun. Their relationship is casual, mostly just sex.
John never sees a reason to inform Dale that he's diabetic. Why would he?
That's what he thinks, until the day Dale leaves him handcuffed to his bed while he goes out to run a quick errand. But Dale's train breaks down. He's gone for over an hour.
John goes into hypoglycemic shock.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Handcuffed/Manacled
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- Part 9 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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06 Dec 2025
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Five times Peter Benton called John Carter, and one time John called Peter.
When Benton left County General, Carter told him "Call, and I'll come pick you up." What if Benton did call?
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I refuse to believe that Benton and Carter didn't stay in touch after season 8.
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06 Dec 2025
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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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06 Dec 2025
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What Peter should say is exactly what he’s thinking—no, it's different because I feel responsible for what happens to you and seeing you hurt scared the living daylights out of me.
What he says instead tastes like bile, spilling out of him like toxic waste. “Listen, like I said, I’m not the one who got beaten half-to-death by a lowlife with a ring fetish.”
The spring of regret is instantaneous.
Carter stares at him, expression frozen but far from empty. Deathly still water over tumultuous undercurrents. He bites the inside of his cheek, pulling the corners of his mouth under tight control as he nods slowly, considering. “Well," he says at last, voice bitter and hollow, "I’m sorry I ruined your evening by trying to save a girl’s life.”
Or, the Ugandan clinic AU no one asked for.
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06 Dec 2025
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Oneshots I write about the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. No need to read in order.
These can be anything from canon compliant missing scenes to AUs to pre- or post-canon stuff.
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29 Nov 2025
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It’s relatively simple for John to diagnose himself. Even if he hadn’t studied for years to practice medicine, the ailment is achingly familiar. An ear infection. And, judging by the lack of sound and his weeble-wobble walking, it’s a double inner ear infection. Fantastic.
As a child, he’d been relatively healthy. He’d stuck mostly to scraped knees or bloody noses, leaving most of the caretaking from his parents, his nannies and other staff, to fall upon his brother. However, John had a particular knack for developing ear infections. His doctors had prescribed antibiotics, ear drops, warm compresses, and other things that John could no longer name but were likely described to his parents as Hail Marys. Finally, he had surgery for ear tubes - not once, but twice.
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John falls ill. He babysits. He learns. He gets cared for.------
Ambiguously set within the fifth and sixth season of ER, although I've messed up with Reeses age for plot purposes.Bookmarked by Cleothare
09 Nov 2025
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The story of how John Carter ended up in soft restraints in the neurology step-down unit at County General Hospital is, if you ask him, the story of a gross overreaction on the part of his teacher, Peter Benton.
If you ask Benton… the restraints were a completely necessary medical intervention made on behalf of a severely concussed and extremely dizzy idiot.
OR: After getting attacked in the ER, Carter has a severe concussion and refuses to stay in bed.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Vertigo
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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09 Nov 2025