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When at last she catches sight of him, all grievance in her voice evaporates.
“Carter?”
He's curled on his side beneath his comforter, eyes closed, evidently still deep asleep. The cause of his state is explained in the rosiness spreading across his cheeks and nose, the unmistakable flare of fever. Where the flush doesn't reach, there's instead complete pallor.
She sets her crutch against the wall and wanders to his bedside, the physician within her momentarily silenced as she stands over him, just watching the slow shallowness of his breaths.
He's sick.
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While Carter is renting from Kerry in S5, he falls sick one day, and things are far worse than they initially seem.
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The thumping bass line buzzes in Carter's ears, the smile on his face wide and uninhibited. He's drunk, giddily drunk, and the feeling of stray hands on his chest, his back, his arms as he wanders through the strobe-lit club is electric.
Carter is alive tonight.
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For a while, he'd kept it hidden beneath forced smiles, continuing to introduce himself to everybody in the hopes that once he grew accustomed to those around him, the nausea would die down.
Except it didn't, and now he's kneeling down in front of Peter Benton's toilet, praying to a God he doesn't believe in that this isn't what he thinks it is.
He cannot be sick.
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Post S1 E9, 'ER Confidential'- Carter attends Thanksgiving at Benton's place. Things, predictably, do not go to plan.
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Medwhump May Day 14- Alt prompt: Pain Medication
Part 2 to Day 13, 'floor collapsing, floating'
A sharp, lightning bolt shock tears through his spine, and he throws his head back. His plea for mercy- the ‘make it stop’ he forces through chattering teeth- comes out more like a guttural groan.
“Shhh, sweetheart. I know. We're getting something to help you, John, I promise.”
Please, he begs internally, not even bothering to search his mind for this speaker’s identity. Please. Please.
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Carter finally gets some rest.
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Medwhump May Day 13- Chronic Pain
Kerry knows something is wrong for days before anything happens. She sees it in the hunch of his shoulders, the dark circles under his eyes, the winces he lets slip when he thinks nobody is looking.
Nor does it surprise her when she ventures the question to him and is met with obfuscation on his first day back.
“John, are you still in a lot of pain?”
“It's not too bad.”
And she tries. She really does.
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A patient injures Carter shortly after his return to work. The façade falls.
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