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1. Freezer Burn by planesandgoggles

   Fandoms: ER (TV 1994)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   17 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • John Carter & Lucy Knight
   • Peter Benton & John Carter
   • John Carter & Dale Edson
   • John Carter (ER TV 1994)
   • Lucy Knight
   • Dale Edson
   • Peter Benton
   • Doug Ross
   • Carol Hathaway
   • Mark Greene (ER TV 1994)
   • Kerry Weaver
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Sexually Explicit Language
   • Sexist Language
   • This is technically gen but there are Carcy vibes that i feel are consistent with canon
   • Jale????
   • Hurt John Carter (ER TV 1994)
   • it's popsicle time
   • Hypothermia

   Summary

   Dale didn't mean for this to happen. He didn't mean to hurt John. Not like this.

   An angry verbal exchange between John Carter and Dale Edson over John's new intern, Lucy Knight, takes a violent turn. They are in the morgue. There is a walk-in freezer. Dale locks Carter inside and leaves him there.

   It was only supposed to be for a few minutes. The pathologist was supposed to come right back. He was supposed to let John out.

   That's not what happens.

   OR: Carter nearly dies from hypothermia.

   Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Attempted Murder

   Series

   • Part 1 of Bad Things Happen Bingo

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   English

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