1 - 20 of 21 Works in Sick John Carter (ER TV 1994)
Navigation
Listing Works
-
Tags
Summary
“The Joshua Carter Center has a dedicated branch for fertility and reproductive science, with particular focus on high-risk populations and geriatric pregnancies. In fact — and you may not know this — it’s one of the highest rated fertility treatment centers in the country, with one of the highest success rates. Even in medical circles, it’s known as a bit of a Hail Mary option, and a referral here is, generally, for those patients who have hit the end of the road everywhere else.”
“And you’re…looking to refer someone in particular? Because I —”
“Yes,” she says. “Me.”
OR
Twelve years after she left without telling him, Anna Del Amico returns to Chicago and John Carter's life. Both of them are eager to catch up, but neither of them are prepared to admit that happily ever after hasn't come as easily as they'd once hoped. After hearing about the loss of Joshua, and feeling the desperation of her own failed attempts at having a child, Anna asks Carter to be her sperm donor.
This, he thinks, is a terrible idea...and yet...when has he ever let that stop him?
-
Tags
Summary
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.
-
Tags
Summary
The hospital starts a new initiative to encourage interns from various disciplines to talk to one another. Unfortunately John's pod leader has some kind of bone to pick with him. If only someone would listen when he asks for help.
-
Tags
Summary
Carter knows it was wrong of him to lie to Carol, of all people. Lie and tell her that someone is home, when really, Gamma won't be back for another week and his parents are off God knows where. Carol, who's the first to ask him how his weekend was or ask after the few family members he's mentioned in passing to his co-workers. Carol, who always, without fail, brings him water and snacks after his anxiety kicks his ass or even if he's just forgotten to eat during a shift. The lie seemed to bother him more than his actual ailment.
---
or, Carter gets really sick and leans on Carol (among others) for help.
-
Tags
Summary
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.
-
Tags
Summary
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. -
Tags
Summary
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!!!
-
Tags
Summary
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.
-
Tags
Summary
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.
-
bitter medicine (i think it's making me sick) by beenicetobees for maisiec33
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
15 Oct 2025
Tags
Summary
Peter’s annoyance comes back with full force. He knows logically that he’s just tired, and that Carter isn’t doing anything wrong, but he’s just being so loud!
If he had let the doctor part of his brain come to the forefront at this point, he would have caught it. Carter’s breathing was always accompanied by a lot of noise, it had been like that since he started at County. But in the silence of the room the whistle that was present in it today was very apparent. If he had thought about it at all, Peter could have told him to go take a seat and take a hit of the inhaler that he’s sure must be in his pocket. But he doesn’t.
______
Carter has severe asthma and has an attack during a particularly difficult shift while he's still a med student. Dr. Benton is NOT worried about him at all, thank you very much.
-
Tags
Summary
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.
-
Tags
Summary
“Benton’s looking for you.” Carol places a hand on her hip as she waits for Carter to rise and leave.
Instead, Carter tries curling in on himself. “Lights…turn ‘em off. Too bright,” He grits out.
Carol’s demeanor changes immediately. This is not the Carter she knows. “Oh. Okay,”
or,
Carter gets sick. Carol looks after him.
-
Tags
Summary
All things considered, the end of the world wasn’t as bad as she’d thought it would be. The plague was awful. That’s true. By now, she can admit that much without the thought crumbling her, but give it any more weight and she knows it’ll kill her more surely than any sickness.
OR
The zombies were bad, but life after everyone else dies is worse. Anna's living on the edge of survival, doing her best with a core group of County doctors to find a place they can be safe and rebuild. She thinks she finds that when she stumbles upon an old, abandoned mansion, but what's inside is scarier than any zombie. It's the saddest living boy in Chicago!
-
Tags
Summary
“You did spend all night out in the rain without a coat,” Lucy volunteers, which earns a glare from Carter aimed in her direction.
“Lucy, that’s a wives’ tale and you should know that. You don’t get sick from the rain.”
“No,” Dr. Greene interjects, “but you are a sleep-deprived resident who spent your day off running yourself ragged on the streets of Chicago instead of sleeping. Which, while noble, probably didn’t do your immune system any favors.”
set post s5e08 "The Good Fight" in which, after a night running around in the rain looking for Keith Nelson, Carter gets sick, Lucy looks after him, and everyone learns the difference between wants and needs.
-
Tags
Summary
Carter refuses to stay in bed like he was told to.
----
Day 9 Prompt: "Get your butt back in bed!" Title from "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid.
Series
- Part 5 of Sicktember 2025
-
did i ever tell you that i'm not doing well? (stomach's all in knots) by this_is_my_over_the_moon_face
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
09 Sep 2025
Tags
Summary
Carter has had chronic back pain for years, and self-medicates with ibuprofen. Unfortunately, long-term ibuprofen use increases the risks of gastric bleeding, something Carter discovers firsthand.
---
Day 8 Prompt: Aches and Pains. Title from "lacy" by Olivia Rodrigo.
Series
- Part 4 of Sicktember 2025
-
Tags
Summary
John Carter isn’t a doctor… Not yet at least. He is a 5 year old, quiet little boy. Invisible to his parents. Forget by most. Lost in a world that can’t hear his voice.
Luckily, there’s a couple people who see him.
Series
- Part 1 of The Things We Can’t Say
-
Carter Goes Off The Tracks by InkByNemo
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994), John Carter - Fandom, Peter Benton - Fandom, Doug Ross - Fandom, Carol Hathaway - Fandom, Suzan Lewis, Greene Mark
25 Jun 2025
Tags
Summary
After a long shift at County, Dr. John Carter boards the El-only for the train to crash deep beneath Chicago. Injured and trapped, he becomes the only doctor among the survivors. With lives depending on him and time running out... Will Carter survive long enough to be saved?
-
Dancing to alarm bells (no wonder my ears are still ringing) by muramaasa
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
04 Jun 2025
Tags
Summary
Bad Things Happen Bingo | Prompt: Ear Injury
Doug watched it happen–he saw Carter come stumbling in, barely able to hold himself up as he dismissed Mark’s questions, and almost bumping right into Benton.
He didn’t hear the conversation, but he saw the sway that indicated Carter had stopped listening, and the stumble just slightly too far to catch himself, and how Benton had finally cut himself off as he realised what was happening.
OR
Sometime during Season 1, Carter gets a sinus infection that spreads to his ears, but is too stubborn to go home before his eardrum bursts
(Title from Aqua Regia by Sleep Token)
Series
- Part 1 of Bad Things Happen Bingo: 2 Bad 2 Bingo
-
Tags
Summary
I don’t actually know