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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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"You eat?" Peter asks.
Carter looks at him vacantly for a moment, then offers a shrug of his own. "I pillaged the vending machine a couple times."
"When?"
Carter searches the face of his watch for several long seconds. "I don't know."
"Carter, I told you to eat."
"Believe me, I wanted to. The shift just got crazier and crazier." Carter rubs his thumb and forefinger against his temples.
"The girl?" Peter asks softly after a moment.
Carter somehow seems to sag even further. "No change." His eyelids sink like anchors.
Peter nods. Sighs. Pushes to his feet and squeezes Carter's good shoulder. He couldn't help that little girl, but he can help one of the other casualties of yesterday's war. "Lets get you out of here, man."
Episode tag for 5x08, "The Good Fight."
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- Part 2 of The Good Fight Tags
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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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When Peter reenters the lounge, Carter is standing in the same place he was when Peter left him, statuesque at the mirror, staring the dead-eyed stare of the once hopeful defeated. At the sound of the door latching shut he snaps out of whatever trance held him, putting on a smirk when he sees who has rejoined him.
"I thought you were going home."
"I am." The immobilizer swings unambiguously from his fist. Now that he's here, he's really not sure how to proceed. He looks down at the sling as if it will provide answers, catches himself, looks back up at Carter.
The kid has noticed the immobilizer, too. He frowns. "Is…that for me?"
Missing scene from "The Good Fight."
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September 14, 1998, is the hottest September day in Chicago history, beating out September 2, 1953, at a seasonally unprecedented and nauseating 102 degrees.
September 14, 1998, is the day the air conditioning at Cook County General Hospital goes down.
Noon on September 14, 1998, marks thirty hours John Carter has been on shift.
And September 14, 1998, is the seventeenth anniversary of Bobby Carter's death.
Written for the County General More Cake Challenge and Bad Things Happen Bingo Square "Put Down Your Gun and Step Away."
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- Part 8 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Rebecca has been in remission for just shy of six months when the headaches begin.
They start quietly. Subtle to the point of negligibility. A barely-there tightening of the lines around Tom's eyes when he looks at her, a deeper furrow in his brow when he studies, a rough edge to his voice when he reads to the boys before tucking them in. He smiles and tells her he's fine, he's just been studying too much. Been burning the candle at both ends in order to study and work and still spend time with the boys.
And he has.
So she believes him.
She believes him until she can't any longer.
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Carter has been missing for thirteen days when a rusted white truck, the bed of it full of Mai-Mai soldiers, pulls in front of the clinic. Luka stands in the doorway, hands freezing where they're still tangled in the towel he was using to wipe them. As he watches, the truck slows in its drive-by, but doesn't stop. One of the soldiers catches Luka's gaze and holds it, his expression unreadable, as he and another throw open the tailgate and a body is unceremoniously rolled out to tumble to the ground in a tangle of limbs and a cloud of dust.
The truck speeds away, and Luka stands frozen.
The man on the ground is white, his build familiar even with the apparent loss of weight.
"Is that…" Angelique has pressed herself against his back to peer over his shoulder.
Luka nods vacantly, unable to force words past the dread in his throat.
Carter.Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo square "pushed from a moving vehicle."
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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In which Benton is left to wrangle a very (accidentally) high John Carter.
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Harry getting kidnapped was part of the plan. What was not part of the plan was the mark knowing how to shake a tail—and a tail as good as Eliot.
At 10:47 a.m. on a rainy Tuesday in New Orleans, Harry Wilson drops off the face of the earth.Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo square "Interrogation."
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- Part 6 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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"What happened?" Luka hears himself ask, eyes locked on the fiery maw of the once-welcoming doorway as the heat of it hits his face.
Angelique looks at him without really seeing him. Her voice comes out reedy and flat. "He just ran inside. I couldn't stop him. He just ran inside."
Fear flashes through him, bringing clarity like a slap to the face. "Who?" He looks around, scanning the crowd of dark faces. "Angelique, where is Carter?"
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Luka returns from Kinshasa to find the clinic on fire.
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- Part 5 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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It's Hal who finds him, semi-conscious and writhing weakly, chest spasming against the vacuum of his desperate, broken breaths, fingers clawing at the concrete as if finding impossible purchase will somehow offer impossible relief. By the time Hal's cries for help are acknowledged, his breaths have faded to empty rasps, and his father's lips are tinged with blue, his meager grasp on consciousness long gone, his fingers curled loose in defeat.
In which someone tries to assassinate the president.
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- Part 4 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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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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A li'l fanart for Tessiete's Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
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- Part 3 of Fanart | The ER (1994) Edition
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Anne Mason wakes to a brave new world and a catatonic husband.
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- Part 3 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Tom stiffens, fingers clenching in the sides of Anne’s shirt as he pushes away, looks up at her. His eyes burn with the intensity of his stare as he takes her in, searching for discrepancies, afraid to look too closely in case he finds them.
Her brow crumples in concern, hands coming up to cup his face again, this time with all the tender caution of one reaching out to a wild animal. “Tom?”
His breath hitches; he swallows. Stares. “Anne, are you—” even to his own ears, his voice has all the self-assurance of a child waking up from a nightmare, “—are you real?”
Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt "collared and chained." I promise it's not what it sounds like.
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- Part 2 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Tom is pale when he kisses her goodbye that morning, his movements just a bit slower than usual, and she presses the back of her hand to his forehead as he pulls away.
He raises his eyebrows in clear amusement. “I’m not sick, Becca. I just didn’t get much sleep last night.”
She raises her eyebrows right back. “Well, you’re pale. You can’t blame me for worrying, with three boys just getting over the world’s nastiest flu. I’m shocked neither of us has joined the list of casualties, yet.”Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt "Scalding."
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- Part 1 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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“Oh, come on!” The outraged shout springs from right behind him, and he distantly recognizes it as the voice of Lyle, immediately followed by Crazy Lee’s, “He’s had enough!”
Pope swallows. It’s not his fault that Tom Mason is a fool. It’s not his fault that the man’s misguided sense of honor most often takes the form of brazen stupidity. He didn’t ask Mason to take this for him. It’s his own fault. If he had just kept his mouth shut like the rest of them, they’d all be happily going to bed without their collective supper right now.
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Angsty little illustration for chapter nine of my vignette series.
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- Part 2 of Fanart | The ER (1994) Edition
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Carter cracked his eyes open and looked at her, less-than subtly trying to gauge her reaction. “It happens sometimes,” he offered eventually, tone vague, as if he wasn’t sure what she was looking for.
Anna shook herself, eyes widening indignantly. “It happens somet—how often?”
A shrug. “Only four or five times since I’ve worked here. Not often.”Or, Carter participates in an impromptu blood draw. Anna is not pleased.
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The first Independence Day after they've won back the world, humanity celebrates its freedom like it has never been celebrated before.
The fireworks are incredible.
They almost kill Tom.