Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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BTHB prompt- Misdiagnosis
Sicktember Day 1- "It's the middle of the night, why are you up?"
“God, John, you sound worse. How long have you been down here?”
He stifles another cough and lifts a trembling wrist to check his watch. The time- 2:28am- comes flashing up immediately, but it takes him a few seconds to answer her.
“I… I don't know, a couple hours m-maybe? Couldn’ sleep.”
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Carter's sent home with bronchitis, but it's actually pneumonia.
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- Part 1 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 2- Forced to work while sick
The thing about working in emergency medicine is that even your sick days aren't sacred.
Carter had suspected this, of course, but it's only now, stumbling through the ER doors as a surgical intern barely holding back vomit, that the theory is confirmed.
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A pileup on the expressway means Carter's called in to work during his first ever migraine. It goes predictably well.
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- Part 2 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 3- "Why are you so sweaty?"
She lifts his satchel up and over his head, then presses the back of her hand against his cheek.
“You're sick, sweetheart. You've probably got the flu.”
He blinks in adorable confusion and tilts his head like a lost puppy. “Sick?”
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Flynn comes back from a quest sick with the flu. Eve takes care of him.
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- Part 3 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 4- Pneumonia
The entire journey to the hospital, John cries. He's doing his best to hide it, keeping his head tilted towards the window and chewing on his lower lip, but he's apparently too feverish to realise that his reflection gives the game away. Every time they pass a streetlight, the brief glow illuminates the tear tracks on his cheeks. He looks so young it frightens Anna to death.
“Nearly there,” She murmurs, as if it's the length of the drive itself which is upsetting him. “Not long now, John.”
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Part 2 to 'you don't have to be on your own'. Anna brings Carter to the hospital.
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- Part 4 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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is it a cry i hear from the deep wood? by maisiec33 for Project7723
Fandoms: Falling Skies
05 Sep 2025
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Sicktember Day 5- Worst Possible Timing
“Hey, easy, Tom. Easy. You're alright, soldier, I've got you.”
When he turns his gaze to the stunned men behind him and gives his order, he can't quite hide his desperation.
“Get Glass, now. And keep his boys away, they don't need to see this.”
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In the midst of a battle, it becomes evident that the bug Anne removed from Tom's eye wasn't working alone.
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- Part 5 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 6- Alt prompt: Gentle Back/Belly Rub
“Take your shirt off.” She tells him. “And lay down on your stomach.”
He looses a small snort, tilting his head as he looks up at her, but any innuendo quickly dies on his lips.
“Deb, I… you don't have to-”
“I know. But I'd like to.”
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Carter's having a bad pain day. Jing-Mei helps.
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- Part 6 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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while i'm alone and blue as can be (dream a little dream of me) by maisiec33
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
07 Sep 2025
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Sicktember Day 7- Alt prompt: Lullaby
To whom it may concern at County General,
We are ill-equipped to deal with medical matters at the estate, and John is unwell. Please endeavour to treat him promptly and return him posthaste to the listed address when he is fit to travel.
Yours faithfully,
Jack & Eleanor Carter
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After being mysteriously absent for a week, Carter returns.
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- Part 7 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 8- Aches and Pains
“Dr Carter?” Jerry asks, brow furrowing in confusion. “I thought you left.”
Carter swallows past the razorblades. “I did, I just… I’m not feeling very well.”
Haleh, sorting through charts nearby, lifts her head at once and turns around. Her hands carded through his hair a few times today.
“What's wrong, honey? Asthma flaring again?”
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Following an asthma attack, Carter is too sore to go home.
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- Part 8 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 9- "Get your butt back in bed!"
Kerry pauses the TV when she hears those clumsy, familiar footfalls on the stairs, her chest heaving in a sigh. The static flickers. In the quiet that's left behind, she can make out the laboured sound of his breathing with each step, too, until at last the door creaks open, and there he is. Carter. Flu-shaky, arms wrapped around his middle, teeth chattering. Hair flopping limply over a shining forehead.
“You should be in bed.” She tells him, arching her brows, and he curls in on himself slightly. Chastens.
“I k-know, just n-needed some water.”
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After living in Kerry's basement for a month, Carter gets the flu, and is definitely 100% okay on his own (not).
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- Part 9 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 10- Red Eyes
Every time Peter has visited throughout the last week, his student’s eyes have been redder, the circles beneath them more pronounced. He tells Peter that he's fine, but the surgical nurses paint a different picture, of Carter laying awake at all hours of the night, restless, agitated.
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Carter isn't sleeping post-stabbing. Peter has an unusual solution.
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- Part 10 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 11- No Known Cure
Carter never remembers the seizures themselves. It's a mercy, perhaps, and one that his co-workers lack- while he chokes and gurgles back to consciousness, eyes rolling, confused and distressed, they sit by his side in full awareness of what they've just witnessed.
He wonders what that must be like.
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Mark, Kerry, and Jing-Mei each deal with the aftermath of a seizure.
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- Part 11 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 12- "You're adorable when you're sick"
“Y’know, you’re adorable when you're sick.” She mumbles.
John twitches in her grasp, like a rabbit caught in a snare, then falls still again. His eyes were closed a moment ago, but they're open now- she can feel them blinking, lashes tickling her skin. His breaths come slow and measured against her chest.
He waits. For what, she wonders?
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While looking after a sick John, Anna realises there are still some things she needs to show him about love.
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- Part 12 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 13- Chronic Illness
His body simply doesn't play by the rules. Which is why it's been pleasantly surprising, over the past few years, that he's been able to keep his malfunctions covert enough to avoid suspicion. Each faint at work has been in the lounge or bathroom, either hidden in plain sight feigning a nap, or curled in a cramped stall with his neck at an angle. When his GI issues play up, he blames bad takeout or, more profitably it seems, his anxiety. During migraine attacks and feverish spells, he tells the others that he's simply feeling a little ‘under the weather’.
And the good thing about County is that everybody's too busy to ask questions.
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Unbeknownst to the rest of the ER, Carter has POTS. During his first ever long shift as a surgical intern, it rears its ugly head to make his life a (barely) living hell.
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- Part 13 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 14- Bedridden
There is a gentleness to Dale Edson that few ever get to see. But Carter is lucky- in this one respect, at least.
“You gotta work with me, John. Hook your arm around the back of my neck. Like that- good. Now hold it.”
His heart is fluttering, and on its wings he is borne into the air, lifted from his rumpled, sweaty sheets and meeting sturdy warmth. He lets his head list against the solidity of his boyfriend’s chest. Shakily inhales the scent of expensive cologne. In turn, lips brush against his forehead, soothing and soft.
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The Dale-and-Carter-are-dating-and-Carter-has-POTS fic nobody asked for, except actually that's a lie somebody did ask for it.
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- Part 14 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 15- "This is the worst headache of my life"
What eats Mark up the most is that they didn't see it. That, as treacherous as their mistake was last time, they still managed to err so horrifically.
They thought he was lying.
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A few months after Carter returns from rehab, Mark suspects he's using again.
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- Part 15 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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the monster's gone, he's on the run and your daddy's here by maisiec33
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
16 Sep 2025
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Sicktember Day 16- Alt prompt: Warm Bath
“Your scars are healing nicely, man.” Peter murmurs. He drags the sponge gently over the fresh, pink skin of the surgical sites- Reese’s skin had been fresh too, during that first bath, and Peter had been careful not to irritate it. He's just as careful now.
“Lift your leg for me? That's it. Good boy.”
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Instead of going home to Gamma's, Carter recuperates from the stabbing at Benton's. Peter helps him bathe.
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- Part 16 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 17- Infection
Part 2 to 'hangman, answer me now'.
“He went home. There was a… a disagreement.”
“What sort of disagreement?”
“I thought he- there were signs that he was- that he might have been using again.”
A storm cloud settles over Peter’s face.
“What the hell are you talking about?”
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Mark and Peter grapple with the aftermath.
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- Part 17 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 18- "We're going to the hospital"
“Wait, hang on, just-” He presses himself up against the bars of the cell. The guard sighs and turns around, looking thoroughly unimpressed. “I'm epileptic. It could, uh, cause a seizure.”
Most of the time, when Carter points out a trigger, he's accommodated for. Perhaps that makes him privileged, but he's grown accustomed to the gentle smile and fix-it attitude.
An attitude it seems this guard does not possess in the slightest. He rolls his eyes, scoffs.
“Yeah, sure you are, pal. Sit down and shut up.”
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Carter is epileptic, and during S4 E9 'Obstruction of Justice', his stay in the jail cell proves more than simply inconvenient.
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- Part 18 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 19- Stomach Ache
“Robby? Hey, everything okay, brother?”
Robby shakes his head, then realised that's not something Jack can interpret over the phone. Clears his throat. Murmurs a gravelly,
“N-not great. Think’ve- fuck- think’ve got appendicitis.”
There's a muffled curse and a rustling on Jack's end. Robby lets his eyes fall closed, throat bobbing nauseously.
“Mikey?”
“Mm.”
“I’m coming.”
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Robby gets appendicitis.
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- Part 19 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025
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Sicktember Day 20- Fever Nightmares
His lips move incoherently. Every so often, however, they form the shape of a name.
Lucy.
Luka’s stomach roils slightly at the sudden remembrance of trauma rooms, blood, alarms screeching. The way one of the nurses stood when Carter was wheeled out to surgery, staring blankly down at gloved hands, tears in her eyes.
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John falls sick a day before they're supposed to leave the Congo, because of course he does.
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- Part 20 of Maisie's Sicktember 2025