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Benton lifts an eyebrow. “What is this?” He gestures at John’s splayed-out form on the exam table, shirt undone and pulled up almost to his shoulders. Needles in his back. John feels a brief flush of self-consciousness. He’s quite exposed.
Stanley answers for him. “I was helping Doctor Carter with his back pain,” the younger man explains, while John tries to gather himself.
“His back pain,” Benton repeats, eyes narrowed.
Oh, Christ, John thinks.
OR: Carter and Benton have a much-needed conversation about addiction and chronic pain. Set in Season 8.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Needles
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- Part 24 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Walking through the city on his way home from work, John Carter somehow ends up hanging from one of the many bridges that dot the Chicago River. It’s almost December. And it's a long way to fall.
Water fills his mouth. He kicks himself back up, choking on it. More screaming, from up above. Oh god. Oh god. It’s getting harder to tread water. His hands and feet are numb. His kicks are getting weaker. He can hardly keep his head above water as he wheezes in between coughs.
There’s a strange buzzing in his ears. Everything is dulling. He’s supposed to cover the ER for Benton tomorrow. What is the surgeon going to think when he doesn’t show up?
Everything is going gray. He can’t think. He can’t see. He can’t breathe. He can't breathe.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Hanging
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- Part 23 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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After a disastrous final shift on July 4, Robby leaves for his sabbatical.
Eight days later, somewhere in the Badlands, he awakens to a dozen missed calls and messages from back home. Something terrible has happened. Frank Langdon has been shot, and he might not make it.
Consumed by worry and by guilt, Robby returns to Pittsburgh, the memory of his last, terrible conversation with Frank playing on a loop in his head.
He hopes it is not too late to make amends of his own.
“Is he dead?” Robby manages to rasp out. His body is curling in on itself. He can feel himself unravelling. It’s too familiar. It’s all too familiar. This can’t be happening. “Is Frank fucking dead, Dana?”
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The Rains of Kethos by planesandgoggles
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
10 Feb 2026
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During his first solo mission on the uninhabited planet of Kethos, Padawan John Carter gets caught in acid rainstorm. While Peter, his master, is stuck in orbit above, unable to assist, John must find shelter, and fast.
No man, not even a Jedi, is built to survive the rains of Kethos.
The Force screams out in warning, electrifying his whole body. And then another clap of thunder sounds, directly overhead. Deafening. Rocking. John feels his knees give out, sending him tumbling to the jungle floor, wrist deep in mud. He tries to get to his feet, but he keeps slipping. Mud everywhere, all over him. He chokes on a sob of terror as he grapples with the vines hanging above him.
He’d insisted that he could do this mission alone. Benton never should have listened to him.
He's only just managed to haul himself back onto his feet as the rain begins to fall.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Acid Burns
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- Part 22 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 2 of ER x Star Wars
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After John Carter quits surgery to restart his residency in the ER, Peter Benton is furious. He refuses to hear Carter's apologies, his excuses. Empty words.
But then Carter is brutally attacked on his first day as an ER resident. Strangled by a patient. His injuries are terrible. The boy cannot breathe on his own. He needs surgery to repair his vocal cords.
With Carter unable to speak, Peter must make the extra effort to repair what has broken between them.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Language Barrier
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- Part 21 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Carter woke up late, like late, late. He's rushing through the ambulance bay doors when he skids to a stop right behind Dr. Benton. He holds his breath, praying to every God he can think of that he won't turn around, but, when has God ever been kind to John Carter?
or, Carter's no good, terrible, very bad day
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16 Feb 2026
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The first year of Carter’s emergency medicine internship has been tough. He misses working with Benton more than he cares to admit, and he can’t quite figure out how Doctor Elizabeth Corday so effortlessly commands Benton's attention. When Corday offers Carter the incredible chance to present a case at a prestigious medical conference in London, it feels like everything might finally be coming together.
Spoiler alert: he never makes it to London.
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A devastating accident derails Carter's plans and his skills as a doctor are put to the test, but in the wreckage, he and Benton might find a way to start rebuilding what he so desperately misses.
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After a difficult shift, Carter comes down with a stomach bug and tries to work through it.
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or 5 times Carter wanted a hug from Peter after getting stabbed and the one time he got one
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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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