Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Tom is pale when he kisses her goodbye that morning, his movements just a bit slower than usual, and she presses the back of her hand to his forehead as he pulls away.
He raises his eyebrows in clear amusement. “I’m not sick, Becca. I just didn’t get much sleep last night.”
She raises her eyebrows right back. “Well, you’re pale. You can’t blame me for worrying, with three boys just getting over the world’s nastiest flu. I’m shocked neither of us has joined the list of casualties, yet.”Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt "Scalding."
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- Part 1 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Tom stiffens, fingers clenching in the sides of Anne’s shirt as he pushes away, looks up at her. His eyes burn with the intensity of his stare as he takes her in, searching for discrepancies, afraid to look too closely in case he finds them.
Her brow crumples in concern, hands coming up to cup his face again, this time with all the tender caution of one reaching out to a wild animal. “Tom?”
His breath hitches; he swallows. Stares. “Anne, are you—” even to his own ears, his voice has all the self-assurance of a child waking up from a nightmare, “—are you real?”
Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt "collared and chained." I promise it's not what it sounds like.
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- Part 2 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Anne Mason wakes to a brave new world and a catatonic husband.
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- Part 3 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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It's Hal who finds him, semi-conscious and writhing weakly, chest spasming against the vacuum of his desperate, broken breaths, fingers clawing at the concrete as if finding impossible purchase will somehow offer impossible relief. By the time Hal's cries for help are acknowledged, his breaths have faded to empty rasps, and his father's lips are tinged with blue, his meager grasp on consciousness long gone, his fingers curled loose in defeat.
In which someone tries to assassinate the president.
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- Part 4 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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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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The Recover Harry Wilson Job by Project7723
Fandoms: Leverage (US TV 2008), Leverage: Redemption (US TV 2021)
14 Nov 2025
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Harry getting kidnapped was part of the plan. What was not part of the plan was the mark knowing how to shake a tail—and a tail as good as Eliot.
At 10:47 a.m. on a rainy Tuesday in New Orleans, Harry Wilson drops off the face of the earth.Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo square "Interrogation."
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- Part 6 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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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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September 14, 1998, is the hottest September day in Chicago history, beating out September 2, 1953, at a seasonally unprecedented and nauseating 102 degrees.
September 14, 1998, is the day the air conditioning at Cook County General Hospital goes down.
Noon on September 14, 1998, marks thirty hours John Carter has been on shift.
And September 14, 1998, is the seventeenth anniversary of Bobby Carter's death.
Written for the County General More Cake Challenge and Bad Things Happen Bingo Square "Put Down Your Gun and Step Away."
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- Part 8 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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The nurse rests back against the wall and slides to the floor, her chest heaving. When she turns her ghostly white face up to Peter, his stomach drops.
This is no petty personal drama.
“They have guns,” she whispers.
Time seems to stop even as the elevator rumbles with the promise of motion.
“Who has guns?” Peter's voice sounds very far away over the high-pitched hum of dread in his ears.
She sobs. Takes a deep breath. Swallows and points at the door. “There are guys out there. They have guns. They're—they're—they're taking hostages.”
Peter's eyes flick once more to the number over the door just before the car starts to descend.
Eleven.
For a moment he stands there dumbly, abruptly lightheaded.
Carter is on the eleventh floor.
Or, the day after Carter's transplant in 15x19, there is a crisis at Northwestern Memorial. Written for BTHB square "revenge by proxy."
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- Part 9 of Bad Things Happen Bingo