20 Works in John Carter & Luka Kovač (ER TV 1994)
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Carter has been missing for thirteen days when a rusted white truck, the bed of it full of Mai-Mai soldiers, pulls in front of the clinic. Luka stands in the doorway, hands freezing where they're still tangled in the towel he was using to wipe them. As he watches, the truck slows in its drive-by, but doesn't stop. One of the soldiers catches Luka's gaze and holds it, his expression unreadable, as he and another throw open the tailgate and a body is unceremoniously rolled out to tumble to the ground in a tangle of limbs and a cloud of dust.
The truck speeds away, and Luka stands frozen.
The man on the ground is white, his build familiar even with the apparent loss of weight.
"Is that…" Angelique has pressed herself against his back to peer over his shoulder.
Luka nods vacantly, unable to force words past the dread in his throat.
Carter.Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo square "pushed from a moving vehicle."
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Carter didn’t mean to.
God, he didn’t fucking mean to.
He sat hunched on the floor of the dirty bathroom, knees up to his chest, arms wrapped around his middle like he could squeeze the truth out of him, like maybe he could wring the life back out through his pores. The pregnancy test lay on the cracked tile like a taunt. Pink. Positive. Final.
The overhead bulb buzzed like a dying insect. Flickered every few seconds like God was blinking at him—watching. Judging.
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"What happened?" Luka hears himself ask, eyes locked on the fiery maw of the once-welcoming doorway as the heat of it hits his face.
Angelique looks at him without really seeing him. Her voice comes out reedy and flat. "He just ran inside. I couldn't stop him. He just ran inside."
Fear flashes through him, bringing clarity like a slap to the face. "Who?" He looks around, scanning the crowd of dark faces. "Angelique, where is Carter?"
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Luka returns from Kinshasa to find the clinic on fire.
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- Part 5 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Carter is a med student. A broke, burned out, barely-holding-it-together father of two. Rotations were brutal. The hours were long, the pay was non-existent, and the patients kept bleeding, coding, and throwing up all over his scrubs.
But damn… he was the luckiest Son of a bitch.
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he takes the pills during the MVA.
doesn't throw them up. doesn't tell anyone.
just swallows it down like it's nothing - like he hasn't done this before.(he has. he knows exactly how this ends. but that doesn't stop him.)
starts at 7x05 with a major canon divergence from 7x09.
slow collapse. quiet relapse.
painkillers, guilt, and the kind of unraveling you can hide under your scrubs. -
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Dr. John Carter thought becoming a doctor would involve white coats, polite patients, and maybe the occasional cup of bad hospital coffee. Instead, he’s been drafted into the Korean War, shoved through a crash course on “don’t get shot”, and sent straight from med school to a MASH unit thirty miles from the front lines.
Now he’s at the 4077th, where the coffee is strong enough to dissolve scalpels, the nurses run the place better than the officers, and the surgeons range from slightly eccentric to completely unhinged. Between Kerry Weaver barking orders, Peter Benton acting like drill sergeant and trauma god rolled into one, and Doug Ross somehow flirting with literally everyone including the supply tent, Carter is just trying not to pass out, screw up, or cry in front of Carol Hathaway (who, for some reason, keeps calling him baby).
Oh, and there’s also the small matter of keeping wounded soldiers alive while artillery shakes the ground and helicopters rain chaos on the camp. No pressure.
At the 4077th, the motto is simple: “Sleep is optional. Sarcasm is mandatory.”
… what the FUCK!!!
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Joan struggles with touch and pain when she returns to work.
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- Part 2 of Joanie-Verse
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Carter picked at his arm as the social worker’s crappy Toyota pulled off the main road and onto a long, cracked driveway. The house loomed at the top of a small hill—big and old and too cheerful for how dead he felt inside.
He didn’t want to be here. But apparently, living on the streets and doing drugs makes people feel just bad enough to do something, but not bad enough to actually care.
Four months on the street. Four. And it took a trip to the ER with a fever of 104 and an infected abscess before someone finally decided, Huh, maybe we shouldn’t let the heir to the Carter family fortune rot behind a dumpster.
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It started small. Real small. Barely a whisper.
Doug noticed it first. Carter had that look. That look that wasn’t just tired or stressed or “I’ve-been-in-surgery-for-eight-hours,” but that weird haunted thing, like he was trying not to be. Trying not to be seen. Head down, stethoscope all tangled like he didn’t have the energy to fix it. Caffeine on his breath, skin pale, lips just a little too blue.
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Her parents' voices echoed in her head like a broken record. “If you walk out that door, don’t you dare come back.” She’d slammed the door so hard the frame had rattled, her heart pounding with a mix of rage and defiance. She didn’t need them. She didn’t need anyone. And then he’d been there, waiting in the shadows of the parking lot, his blue eyes gleaming like a predator spotting prey.
“Hey,” he’d said, his voice smooth, low, and far too confident for someone who should’ve been a stranger. “You okay?”
She hadn’t been okay. Not even close. But something about the way he looked at her—like she was the only person in the world—made her nod. Made her follow him to his car. Made her let him take her to his place without a second thought.…
Now… shes got a crazy ex, absent parents, three boys, rent, and medical school. Did she mention she was working as a stripper and doing rounds?
To bad she’s too busy to get to know the tall dark handsome man that’s making her life a living hell Dr. Peter Benton.
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Luka can’t sleep, the day’s events keep playing through his mind. He decides to do something about it instead of letting it fester, not hiding it away like Carter had had to do for so long.
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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
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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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It’s a crisp October morning and John is feeling particularly stressed about the state of Joshua’s cough. It started a couple days ago, just here and there, he was up most of the night last night with the him. There wasn’t much he could do other than suction the snot out of his nose and turn on the humidifier, and lay on the floor beside his crib so he was a little less scared.
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Joshua gets sick, its a bit scary as John takes care of him. Then John gets sick, and he's the one who has to be taken care of.
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Carter replaces one addition to other additions.
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After a great pain, a formal feeling comes by cartersfrontlefttooth
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
14 Jul 2025
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He’s been in a state of general anxiety since Joshua was two lines on a piece of plastic. That had become his baseline, and it had ramped up a bit since the birth. Most of it, he thinks, he’d been able to tamp down, chalking it up to new dad nervousness. He’s doing better now, he thinks, today he’s just a little nervous about having Joshua in public, hoping they won’t disturb anyone.
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Life goes on for John and Joshua, even if the grief stays. Sometimes you need a friend to help you along.
This is Part 2 of my Sad Dad Carter Series
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Doug had the idea of having a movie night… it goes as well as you expect…
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Luka and Carter in the zombie apocalypse.
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Luka notices that Carter has quite a few scars.
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“When did you lose your virginity?”
The question hits him between the eyes. His mouth tastes of ash.