Bad Things Happen Bingo
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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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As medical students, John Carter and Deb Chen are no strangers to a little friendly competition. It’s harmless, really.
Until Deb accidentally injects John with a surgical paralytic, causing temporary paralysis in the middle of the OR. John stops breathing.
In order to save Carter's life, Peter Benton has to push the boundaries of what is considered acceptable and ethical medical practice.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Crippling the Competition
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- Part 2 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Two months after John Carter nearly freezes to death in the walk-in freezer in the morgue at County General, things are going… surprisingly well. Sure, John still can’t sleep without a light on, and he has at least a few nightmares every week, but… he’s handling it.
This is what John tells himself, up until the day he’s alone in the elevator at work, traveling between the ER and the ICU, and the elevator abruptly stalls. Up until the moment the lights go out and he is plunged into complete and total darkness.
Follow up to "Freezer Burn"
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Claustrophobia
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- Part 3 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Med student John Carter is accidentally injected with a surgical paralytic. He can't breathe, he can't move. He is helpless as Peter Benton has to perform a brutal and painful procedure on him in order to save his life.
In the aftermath, student and teacher talk. John insists that he's fine. Peter doesn't know what to believe.
Follow up to "(un)friendly competition"
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: "I'm Fine"
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- Part 4 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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A Caramico-tinged reimagining of 4x09 "Obstruction of Justice"
Anna takes care of John after he gets tasered by a volatile police officer while trying to protect his patient's rights, sustaining a head injury in the process.
John blinks up at her dazedly, eyes swinging around before settling on her. “Anna?”
She smiles grimly. “I’m here, Carter.”
John blinks rapidly. “Ow.”
Anna sighs, giving his hand a squeeze. “I know.”
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Taser
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- Part 5 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Peter wants to hit something. Wants to shake John until he wakes up, until he snaps out of it.
“What can you do?” he asks finally, hating the desperation that leaks into his voice.
He takes a seat as Deraad begins to talk about treatment options. He lets his gaze settle on Carter, on the stubble that’s shadowing his jaw. The cannula that delivers oxygen to his brain. His colorless cheeks. His vacant expression. It hurts. It physically hurts Peter to see him like this.
Come back, he wills his former student silently. Wherever you are… please come back.
Because wherever John Carter is… it’s not here.
OR: After waking up from surgery and finding out that Lucy has died, John Carter becomes catatonic.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Catatonia
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- Part 6 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 5 of All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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The story of how John Carter ended up in soft restraints in the neurology step-down unit at County General Hospital is, if you ask him, the story of a gross overreaction on the part of his teacher, Peter Benton.
If you ask Benton… the restraints were a completely necessary medical intervention made on behalf of a severely concussed and extremely dizzy idiot.
OR: After getting attacked in the ER, Carter has a severe concussion and refuses to stay in bed.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Vertigo
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Peter Benton has been avoiding Carter for over a week. Refuses to speak to him. Refuses to even look at him. All because of the Vicodin. The Vicodin that Carter threw up. It wasn't even a real relapse.
Benton doesn't seem to care.
A chance meeting during Carter's paramedic ride-along gives John the opportunity to finally confront Peter.
But before the two can work out their differences, they are ambushed by a trio of violent drug-seekers, looking to score from the ambulance's stash.
It all goes wrong.
And Peter Benton may never have another chance to make things right with his former student.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Ambush
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- Part 8 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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John Carter and Dale Edson are having fun. Their relationship is casual, mostly just sex.
John never sees a reason to inform Dale that he's diabetic. Why would he?
That's what he thinks, until the day Dale leaves him handcuffed to his bed while he goes out to run a quick errand. But Dale's train breaks down. He's gone for over an hour.
John goes into hypoglycemic shock.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Handcuffed/Manacled
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- Part 9 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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who'd have thought there'd be so much left to lose? by planesandgoggles
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
11 Nov 2025
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PLEASE READ THE TAGS.
Peter gets the call on a Thursday in late July, mid-shift. He’s on the next flight out of Chicago.
“Is this Doctor Peter Benton?”
“Speaking.”
“Hello, Doctor Benton. I’m calling from the Frederickson Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta. I have you listed as the emergency contact for John Carter?”
“What’s happened.”
“I’m afraid that a few hours ago, Doctor Carter was admitted to the hospital with some very serious injuries.”
“What kind of injuries, exactly?”
“Doctor Benton, he was bleeding significantly from his left arm and wrist. It appears… Well, it appears he made an attempt on his own life.”
Everything after that is a blur.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Self-Harm
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- Part 10 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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A fuck-up at work triggers bad memories and bad habits for John Carter. In the midst of a record heat wave, Carter goes for a punishing run on his family's property, with terrible consequences. Peter Benton to the rescue.
He puts his fingers to Carter’s neck, and is horribly unsurprised at the weak, thready, and extremely rapid pulse he feels beneath the skin. Tachycardic. Very tachycardic.
A hand on John’s forehead is all but confirmation of Peter’s fears. His face is blazing hot, more like touching a furnace than human skin.
Heat stroke.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Ambulance Ride
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- Part 11 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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On shaky legs, John gets to his feet. The world tilts back and forth and spins around. He forces himself to take a deep breath. His bones shake. He feels a cold sweat on his forehead.
One step forward.
His vision grays.
And then… darkness.
OR: Carter has the flu, Benton feels guilty, and a secret is revealed.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Confined to Bed Rest
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- Part 12 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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A reimagining of 4x15 "Exodus", where it's Carter who gets exposed to the benzene instead of Kerry. And worse. Peter Benton refuses to leave his former student's side.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Poison/Venom
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- Part 13 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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A follow-up to my post-stabbing catatonia fic "i will try to fix you" .
After two weeks in a catatonic state following the stabbing, John Carter faces a slow, painful, and complicated recovery. Peter Benton is unsure if his former student will ever be the same. It doesn't help that Carter hasn't spoken a single word since waking up.
Peter had accrued a massive amount of vacation days over the last few years, and he was finally cashing in, spending his days with Carter.
He couldn’t stomach the thought of the kid being alone, not even for a second. Not after everything that had happened. No. Peter was going to be there, through the physical therapy and the respiratory therapy and the occupational therapy. He supposes when the time comes for actual therapy therapy, he’ll get kicked out. But he’ll cross that bridge when they get to it.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Tongue-Tied
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- Part 14 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 6 of All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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Set in S3. John Carter is hospitalized with a bad case of pneumonia. Eleanor Carter arrives at County General to sit at his bedside. Her visit, however, is motivated not by love for her ailing son, but by something far more selfish. Peter Benton comes to realize that his student's family life is not just complicated, but in fact deeply troubling.
Eleanor Carter didn’t ask questions about how John was doing, about his prognosis, while Peter walked her to John’s room. She doesn’t reach out to him now, doesn’t hold his hand or comb his sweat-slick hair from his feverish forehead. She doesn’t soothe him with comforting, loving words.
She just… sits there. Expression wooden and disinterested. And her eyes keep looking at the door.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Faux-Affectionate Villain
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- Part 15 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Pathetic Life Forms by planesandgoggles
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
21 Dec 2025
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Jedi Knight Peter Benton is called back to Coruscant from the frontlines of the Clone Wars to take on a new padawan, whose partnership with his previous master has ended under mysterious circumstances.
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Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Domestic Abuse
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- Part 16 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 1 of ER x Star Wars
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On the hottest day of the year, a hostage situation breaks out in the ER trauma rooms. John Carter, Peter Benton, and Lucy Knight are at the center of it.
John is hurt, badly. Peter's former student. Lucy's teacher. The two of them must work together, under the worst circumstances imaginable, to save his life.
“Please let me help him,” Peter manages to get out, although it’s almost impossible to hear his own words over the pounding of his heart. His voice cracks. “Please. Please. He’s hurt. He’s my friend. He’s… he’s a good person. His name is John. John Carter. Please, man. I helped your friend. Please let me help mine.”
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Forced to Beg
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- Part 17 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Feeling like he is on thin ice at the hospital after the Match Day debacle, John Carter says nothing when he begins to feel sick during his shift. He thinks it's just the flu. He doesn't want to make a big deal out of it. When Benton asks if he's okay, he insists that he's fine.
He's not fine, and it's not the flu. It's much, much worse.
John's stubbornness and deceit might end up costing him his life.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Find the Cure
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- Part 18 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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When John Carter made comments about how Anna's apartment building ought to be condemned, he was mostly just joking. He never gave any actual thought to the structural integrity of the building. Until, of course, the day it collapsed on top of them.
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Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Buried Alive
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- Part 19 of Bad Things Happen Bingo