All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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Episode tag to All in the Family, covering the time between Carter's surgery and when we see him talking with Benton in recovery.
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“It’s gonna be okay, man,” Peter whispered in his student’s ear. “You’re going to be okay. You’re going to get through this.”Series
- Part 1 of All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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John Carter struggles to adjust to his new reality in the days after the stabbing. Peter Benton is at a loss as to how to help his former student.
“I think you’re scared, Carter,” Peter says finally, as he ties off the last stitch. “I think you’re scared, and you’re hurting, and you’re grieving, and you’re frustrated. And I don’t know what to say to you to make you feel better. But I can do this procedure for you. I can be the one to stitch you up.”
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- Part 2 of All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change by planesandgoggles
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)
28 Aug 2025
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Grief and trauma over one dead son shouldn’t preclude a parent from caring for their living, hurting one. From being there for them. If Reese was hurt, Peter thinks, you couldn’t make me leave his side. Peter had held Carter’s guts in his hands. Kind, sweet Carter, who keeps sick children company well into the night, long after his shift is over. Carter, who searched the entire city of Chicago to find a blood donor for a dying little girl. Carter, who deserves better than this, and who doesn’t seem to realize it...
Or, three weeks after the stabbing, Carter has his takedown surgery. Benton meets Carter’s parents. No one is particularly happy.
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- Part 3 of All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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One year to the day he was attacked by Paul Sobriki in Curtain Area 3, John Carter is knifed in the back. Again. Trying to help a woman who looked just like Lucy Knight.
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- Part 4 of All in the Family/Stabbing Tags
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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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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