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ER (1994-2009) 2x02 What Life.

Author’s Note: This article is heavily adapted from a tumblr post I wrote on the same topic in November 2025. I was encouraged to crosspost to substack to improve accessibility in light of recent conversations about the exits of Tracy Ifeachor and Supriya Ganesh from The Pitt, and have rewritten and expanded on some points from the original post.

I spent some time soul-searching last year about what my particular interest is in this topic considering that events in question all took place decades ago, do not involve me, and are likely very typical in the television industry. In the end I decided that I primarily wanted to collect together what sources exist on what happened to dispel some frustrating fandom myths and, although I found it difficult to be objective, I wanted to correct the record about those things at least.

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i love that scene of elizabeth, anna & carol drinking cocktails, waiting for pizza delivery, and just relaxing in lizzie’s apartment. them wanting to hear about carol’s sex life! them all talking about their family!! er needed more girl’s nights like that :(

#i wish the women got to interact together more than they do in the show #this trio is cute!!!#elizabeth corday #anna del amico #carol hathaway #er 1994 #er nbc

sturstead

my personal top 5 er side plots so far:

kerry and carter’s roommates era

del amico tamagotchi parent

kerry’s in-universe rpf erotica book

the great crash carts heist

carol and the worms in radiology

sapphirebluejewel

Endless List of Platonic Relationships I Love - Carol Hathaway and John Carter

"I don't know. Somebody call a doctor!" "You are the doctor."

#siblings!!!

drac-harrington

Hellooooo, Nurse!

#love!!!! <3 #carol hathaway

#john carter #er 1994 #er nbc

knightslucy

5.18 - Point of Origin

merpinglilac

The Silly

#i’m sorry for er fans who don’t like carol like ur missing out!#er 1994 #er nbc #carol hathaway #gif

lucy-knight

I never got around to posting links to my stories individually on tumblr so I thought I might as well just round them up in a few posts for this blog, starting with this series.

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Title: in the end, the ship sinks Author: perihadion Fandom: ER Characters: John Carter, Lucy Knight Pairings: John Carter/Lucy Knight Rating: E Words: 6,208 Series: in the end, the ship sinks (#1)

Carter leans over her to push the door open, an action which causes him to brush up slightly against her. Lucy inhales. It’s just Carter. “We’ve made great progress,” he says, giving her shoulder a gentle nudge with his free hand to indicate she should go in ahead of him. She used to hate the way he did things like that, placing his hand on her shoulder to direct her this or that way through the ER, but recently she found that she had been starting to enjoy it. Carter loses a bet, and Lucy makes him watch Titanic.

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Title: you jump, I jump Author: perihadion Fandom: ER Characters: John Carter, Lucy Knight, Chuny Marquez Pairings: John Carter/Lucy Knight Rating: E Words: 8,821 Series: in the end, the ship sinks (#2)

If he thought about the past month he wasn’t sure now what had possessed him to agree to that bet in the first place, or how he had blithely walked into her dorm room and even got onto her bed as if it wasn’t in hindsight obvious from the beginning how the evening would end. But she had been so excited to show him the movie, and he hadn’t wanted to disappoint her. Carter changes his mind about Titanic.

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Title: unable to stay, unwilling to leave Author: perihadion Fandom: ER Characters: John Carter, Lucy Knight, Elizabeth Corday, Mark Greene Pairings: John Carter/Lucy Knight Rating: E Words: 12,061 Series: in the end, the ship sinks (#3)

Generally speaking, she was pretty sure this was largely out of her system now. Maybe that’s all they had ever really needed to do, just get it out of their systems, and things would be better between them. Normal, professional even. The way they should have been from the beginning. Lucy has an unfortunate realisation about her relationship with Carter.

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Title: you’re in my blood like holy wine Author: perihadion Fandom: ER Characters: John Carter, Lucy Knight Pairings: John Carter/Lucy Knight Rating: E Words: 11,240 Series: in the end, the ship sinks (#4)

On occasion he would catch Mark watching them from across the ER, or Chuny would make a sly comment, and he would remember that all of this was still technically wrong, forbidden, against the rules—and, when it came down to it, he was taking advantage. Carter tries, and fails, to do the right thing.

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Title: you could be my remedy Author: perihadion Fandom: ER Characters: John Carter, Lucy Knight, Kerry Weaver Pairings: John Carter/Lucy Knight Rating: E Chapters: 2/2 Words: 10,683 Series: in the end, the ship sinks (#5)

He closed his eyes and nodded. It was almost reassuring in a strange way to hear someone else say out loud all the things he had been going back and forth on since he and Lucy had started sleeping together, and even before that, since the incident in the radiology lab, since before even that probably. Lucy and Carter get found out.

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