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Julian Bashir finds his place in the Great Cardassian Union through the humble influence of seven important individuals.
Part 3: The Seamstress
Chapter 5: Snare
“What do you really know of her?” Garak was so kind, so apologetic. A parent explaining to a child the inevitability of death. “Of her influence on Cardassia Prime?”
Julian blinked, trying to clear his eyesight. “I don’t care about her influence. I can only be grateful to her. Anything else would be an insult to everything she’s done for me.”
“Everything she’s done for you, my dear?” Garak spoke with heartbreaking gentleness. “You were starving when I met you.”
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30 Jun 2025
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Doctor Julian Bashir is living with Elim Garak on a rapidly transitioning Cardassia.
By now, half the galaxy has heard some snippet of the salacious rumors swirling around the good doctor's stay on Cardassia--that he'd defeated a rogue Starfleet agency; that he'd fallen into a coma only to come out of it to save the life of the Castellan of the Cardassian Union; that it had been revealed that Castellan Garak was madly in love with him.
Unfortunately, half the galaxy is a number which sometimes includes one's mother.
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- Part 2 of Enigma Tales
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18 Dec 2024
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At the end of the Dominion war, Julian leaves for Cardassia with Garak. They will have to build their relationship while facing the hardships of a war-devastated planet.
This story is a sequel to "what we are meant to be" and starts a few hours after its ending. You don't need to read the prequel to understand this fiction but it is probably helpful. Anyway, the prequel was canon-compliant until the end of season 7.
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- Part 2 of What we are meant to be
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25 Oct 2024
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An Argument About First Principles by NeurotropicAgentX
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
27 Apr 2025
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Really, the conflict starts when Julian gets back from his second involuntary trip to the mirror universe. It was a perfectly reasonable decision to help that universe’s Garak gain political asylum in Julian’s universe. He’d helped him escape… broadly. Well, it was more self-interest than altruism, but everyone deserved a chance to better themselves and staying in his own universe would likely have gotten him killed. Definitely Julian’s being objective and his intimate relationship with his universe’s Garak isn’t influencing his decisions at all.
The only thing that stops the two Garaks from killing one another when they first meet is the fact that Julian is literally standing between them and refuses to back down. The Garaks share three things: mutual distrust, the same taste in stubborn and hopelessly optimistic doctors, and an unshakeable conviction that they are in fact the same person.
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04 Sep 2024
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A fully canon compliant telling of their time on the station. They push and pull, wither and bloom, and fail to stay apart every time.
It takes them seven years to understand what kind of story they're in.
_______Year Six, Part ii
He never slept for long but when he did he dreamt of dying - of an antique bullet through the heart, of careening to the spinning earth, of a knife between the ribs. In the dreams he felt the pain of it in a way the safeties of the holoprograms didn't allow, and when he woke he was only mostly sure it wasn't real.
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27 May 2024