Then it's just a little white lie
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When he was younger, when he had learned what the name written on his skin meant and how to form letters into sound, he had spent one night tracing the shapes and whispering the name to himself.
El-im, he had murmured over and over, committing it to memory.
Julian hadn’t been aware he was memorizing the wrong name nor that the next time he would hear his soulmate’s name out loud it would be to hear that Elim is dead. Dead by Garak’s hand.
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- Part 1 of Then it's just a little white lie
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Julian’s mouth forms the name, remembering how it fell so nicely from his lips the first and only time he has said it. His heart thumps. And then he presses his lips into a hard line and takes a sip of tea to hide it.
Elim may not be Garak’s secret anymore, but it’s still Julian’s.
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Or five times Julian thinks about telling Garak of the name on his skin and the one time he does
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- Part 2 of Then it's just a little white lie