Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Domestic Abuse
Everybody at County thinks Carter lives a privileged life. They don't know what being part of his family really means.
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- Part 1 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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and if i glued myself shut, you would find your way in by maisiec33
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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BTHB prompt- Fainting
When he turns up in his jacket, hair over his forehead already slightly damp, Dana frowns at him.
“Christ, Robby. It's like 80 degrees out, what are you wearing that thing for?”
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Robby is sick, and very, very stubborn. Unfortunately for him, this means his body gives out before his will to carry on does.
Fortunately for him, though, he has people to look out for him.
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- Part 2 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB Prompt- Intubation
This is an exceptionally bad panic attack, and he…
Oh. Oh God.
He can't breathe.
There's a man on the gurney outside, writhing as the hazmat-suited workers try to hose him down of contaminants, and he's shouting it as much as his damaged lungs allow.
“I can't breathe! I can't breathe!”
Carter isn't having a panic attack at all.
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An alternate ending of S4 E15, "Exodus", where Carter doesn't escape the benzene spill unscathed.
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- Part 3 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Terminal Illness
An AU of S5 E13 where Carter discovers his own diagnosis while helping the med students practice, and tries to cope on his own while hiding the truth.
Peter, as always, peels the layers back.
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- Part 4 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB Prompt- Soup for the Sick
Dr Bogdana Livetsky Romansky has found many unlikely companions throughout her time in the US, but it would be a lie to say she doesn't have favourites. Connie, Haleh, and Carol have been particularly accommodating. Dr Greene is soft spoken and patient.
John Carter, the sweet and clumsy medical student, though- he might be her favourite American of all.
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Bob brings Carter soup.
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- Part 5 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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do not weep, do not wail, i am coming home to you by maisiec33
Fandoms: The Librarians (TV 2014)
14 Jul 2025
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BTHB prompt- Trail of Blood
“For the θυσία- the sacrifice we lay at her feet- goes far beyond any mere heifer or calf. For tonight we grant her yet another meal of the wisest blood, o mystai, to show her that no mortal can ever hope to match her!”
A cheer erupts from the crowd, but Eve's pulse thunders in her ears and drowns it out.
The wisest blood.
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Flynn is captured by a cult.
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- Part 6 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Attempted Murder
In the moment it takes Dale to gather his wits and lurch over to the spot where John was standing, the black ocean has swallowed his enemy whole.
Somewhere, back on the more crowded part of the deck, someone erupts into a high-pitched peal of laughter. The music keeps on playing. The planks beneath Dale’s feet creak and groan.
He just pushed a man overboard.
He just pushed John Carter overboard.
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Carter almost drowns (again).
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Race Against the Clock
Flynn is poisoned with Hydra venom, a substance so potent it drove Heracles to suicide. While the other librarians search for the cure, it's up to Eve to remain by his side.
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- Part 8 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Prank Gone Wrong
“Raul?” He calls. His voice is breathy and odd.
And now that he thinks about it, his breathing itself is odd too. Fast. Shallow. And his pulse. And-
“John? Hey, what is it?”
The medic glances back and forth between the road and the wing mirror- he's the one driving now, which at least makes this request a little easier.
“Could you…” Carter clears his throat. It changes nothing. “Could you pull over? Think I might b’about to throw up.”
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It's Carter's first actual paramedic ride along, and Shep's hazing goes too far.
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- Part 9 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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and i blink in sight of your blinding light by maisiec33 for Project7723
Fandoms: Falling Skies
18 Aug 2025
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BTHB prompt- Hiding an Injury
She glances up ahead, eyes falling upon Tom near the front of the pack, trudging onwards as before. The smile slowly fades from her face.
He's… he's swaying.
Nobody else seems to notice, either focused on the road ahead or each other, but Anne has seen it now, and she can't unsee it.
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Tom gets injured and is predictably stubborn about admitting it
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- Part 10 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Doctor's Visit
“Alright Dr Robinavitch, what seems to be the problem?”
Robby squints up at Jack from his perch on the edge of the exam bed. Shoots him a faux glare even as the corner of his lip twitches up with amusement.
“You know what it is, Jack, because I texted you about it this morning.” His voice sounds rough, breathier than usual, and perhaps it's this proof of Robby's genuine illness that brings the gravity back into Jack's voice.
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It was only supposed to be the flu.
(Part 1)
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- Part 11 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Language Barrier
Robby's brows knit, nostrils flaring, and the groan gives way to something else. A few barely audible words that make Jack’s heart break- not from understanding, but the initial absence of it.
“G-ggde… gdeh maya mama?”
Jack stills. Swallows. “Mike?”
“Gde… mmmayamama?”
Где…
моя…
мама?
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Robby gets worse. Jack frets.
(Part 2)
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- Part 12 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB Prompt- Drugged
Carter will be fine, because Carter is stubborn, and surprisingly sturdy, and the kind of guy who will willingly get his arm broken just to defend a little girl from her abusive dad. He hadn't cared to wait for security to step in. He'd jumped in between the man and the hospital bed, arms raised not in violence but in defence, and for his troubles he'd been thrown against the wall.
Idiot. Ridiculous, gentle, incredible idiot.
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Carter breaks an arm in a patient altercation and has to have surgery. Benton (and Keaton) are there in the aftermath.
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- Part 13 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Eating Disorder
Instead of soft restraints, Peter holds Carter's hands. Feels them tremble, their owner too weak now to attempt resistance, but still unmistakably afraid. The surgeon wants to vomit.
“I know, man. I know. I'm sorry, Carter.”
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A snapshot post-stabbing, where Carter isn't eating.
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- Part 14 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompts- Chicken Pox and Comfort Object
Cassie stretches. “Dad’s out getting medicine, Mom’s up with Ask, and Charley’s… I never know where Charley is.”
“Mom’s up with Ask?” Tom parrots.
She nods. “Yeah. He's sick.”
This tidbit of information, as small as it may be, suddenly recontextualises everything. Of course the house is quiet. Ask is like the sun to the Warren family’s solar system, pulling them all together, keeping them moored and jolly and agreeable. And Ask is sick.
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Yeah, you heard it right, the very first Crooked Hearts fic to exist on ao3 is about Ask getting sick and being babied. DEAL WITH IT.
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- Part 15 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Cradling Someone in Their Arms
It strikes Peter that perhaps this is a serious cardiac event. There could be a serious arrhythmia that he currently isn't picking up on because his hands are shaking too much to provide objective truth, and he needs to get Carter inside, now, because if he doesn't then he's going to lose another student, and he can't even- God, he can't even think about- there's no way he can-
He dispels the thoughts with action. His left arm slips beneath Carter's shoulders, his right beneath the boy’s knees, and he lifts.
Dead weight. Carter's head tips back, neck incapable of holding it up anymore, so Peter has to manoeuvre it against his shoulder, tuck it beneath his chin.
“Alright, man. Hold on, Carter, I've got you. Stay with me, man.”
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A POTS AU of the rooftop argument in S3 E13 where, after Carter tells Peter he's leaving for Hicks' team, he passes out.
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- Part 16 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Banished
Lucy is drunk when the idea is suggested. She's sitting in the dorm common area with a few of the other med students, knees tucked to her chest, nursing a bottle of beer, and amongst the hazy half-formed fantasies it's the one that somehow takes flight.
Doctor Carter is strict when it comes to dorm parties- but what if he didn't have to know about them?
She arches her brow, struggling to keep Willy’s ever swaying gaze. What?
Well, think about it. If we made sure there was no evidence in the morning, and somehow kept him out all night… he wouldn't have a clue.
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In an attempt to keep Carter from vetoing a dorm party, some of Lucy's fellow students decide to drug him with sleeping pills.
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- Part 17 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Sleep Deprivation
There was a second, John thinks, when he knew the elastic was going to snap, right before it actually did. His eyes had been closed, he remembers, and his muscles tensed for the impact of the rubber on his hand. Right before the slingshot broke. Right before. Right before.
Right before he snaps, John knows something is about to happen too.
His vision falters. His hearing grows distant. His stomach swoops, and the world tilts.
And then he's on the ground.
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The one where Carter is sleep deprived in S3, except it goes catastrophically wrong.
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- Part 18 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025
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BTHB prompt- Asthma Attack
She forces her breaths to remain even. “I’m… I’m sorry, could you repeat that?”
“Of course. We have you down as the emergency contact for Mr Flynn Carsen, is that correct?”
“Mhm. Yes. Yes, it is.”
“I’m afraid Mr Carsen was brought in via ambulance a little while ago in the middle of a severe asthma attack. His usual rescue inhaler appears not to have worked, and paramedics found him in a bad way after a bystander called them in.”
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Flynn has an asthma attack. Eve is predictably chill about it (not).
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- Part 19 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2025