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Dale didn't mean for this to happen. He didn't mean to hurt John. Not like this.
An angry verbal exchange between John Carter and Dale Edson over John's new intern, Lucy Knight, takes a violent turn. They are in the morgue. There is a walk-in freezer. Dale locks Carter inside and leaves him there.
It was only supposed to be for a few minutes. The pathologist was supposed to come right back. He was supposed to let John out.
That's not what happens.
OR: Carter nearly dies from hypothermia.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Attempted Murder
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- Part 1 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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20 Oct 2025
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Sicktember Day 21- Alt prompt: "I love you" and BTHB prompt "Who did this to you?"
Something isn't right, that voice tells him again, just like it had done all those years ago when other hands strayed and another voice whispered in his ear.
And he remembers- amidst Gamma’s curtness and his father’s shortness and his mother’s drunken confessions, somebody else spoke those words to him too. She did, hooking her index finger under his chin, looking down at him with those irresistible eyes, cat-like and sharp.
“Oh, I do love you, Johnny. You're so special. You know that, don't you?”
OR
Carter finds out what love actually looks like.
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- Part 21 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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22 Sep 2025
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"John, it’s really important that you don’t fall asleep right now. I've got Sandy on the radio, her team’s looking for you. We need you to help them find you.”
“Isn't…Deb said Luka?”
“We're sending everyone. Gallant’s on the phone with some of his buddies in the National Guard, too.”
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- Part 4 of ER Alphabet Stories
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04 Sep 2025
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Carter doesn't quite know what compels him to do what he does. Perhaps it's some misguided sense of heroism, his lifelong inability to just let things be when there's something- anything- he can do about it. Perhaps it's reckless stupidity brought on by yet another shift of doing anything but saving lives.
Whatever it is, he leans into it fully, and slips into the freezing depths.
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The one where Carter almost drowns.
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03 Sep 2025
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Carter clears his throat nervously, avoiding Benton’s eyes. Unable to take any more of the awkward silence, he eventually says, “It’s not as bad as it looks, I swear.”
“....What the hell happened, Carter?” Benton asks finally, sighing.
Carter shifts uncomfortably. The silence stretches on. And then, finally, the dam breaks: “Okay, so. I may have gotten on the bad side of a couple drug dealers."
Based on 4x12, when Carter is trying to help his cousin through heroin withdrawal. A brutal encounter with Chase’s drug dealers puts Carter in the ER as a patient and his personal family business on display for all his coworkers to see.
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29 Aug 2025