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“A stitch in time saves nine,” but what happens when you’ve spent years just admiring the thread? After receiving a shockingly honest letter, Dr. Julian Bashir rushes to a war-devastated Cardassia to find that his complicated friendship with Elim Garak is about to become something much more. But navigating a new romance is tricky when it's frequently interrupted by terrorist plots, political maneuvering, and questionable cooking. For their love to survive, the idealistic doctor must accept his partner’s lethal pragmatism, and the cynical spy must learn to trust a man who actually means what he says. It’s a story of healing, second chances, and finally admitting that after years of dancing around each other, they might just be perfect together.
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- Part 1 of Mending the Seams
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Garashir on Cardassia by SebastianMercier
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
25 Jun 2025
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A post-canon work set after A Stitch In Time.
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- Part 1 of Garashir on Cardassia
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He could have gotten there sooner, he thought.
He supposed that was going to haunt him now.
Julian Bashir arrives on Cardassia, eager to reunite with Garak after reading his letters.
He finds himself reflecting on their relationship and everything unspoken between them instead.
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While Garak is pondering just how to court Julian as he deserves, Kelas takes Julian to The Debate Society - and Garak follows.
Bad Things Happen Bingo: Natural Disaster
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- Part 2 of Impossible Comes True
- Part 21 of Bad Things Happen Bingo (dftea)
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In the desert, desertion by dftea (demon_faith) for Akane
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
17 Nov 2024
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When Julian arrived on Cardassia, he was expecting hardship and hard work. He was not expecting to be abandoned in the desert.
Bad Things Happen Bingo: Shackled Feet
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- Part 18 of Bad Things Happen Bingo (dftea)
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When a series of earthquakes hits the Northern Provinces of Cardassia Prime, Doctors Julian Bashir and Kelas Parmak head out to help with the relief effort, but find themselves in need of rescue instead.
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- Part 8 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2024
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I feel your lips opening in a smile against the naked skin of my neck. A simple, sweet gesture that sends electricity flying through my body. Do you know that, Elim?
“Always searching for the truth, aren't you? Those pesky Federations values-”
I finally get you to lift your head, or, much more likely, you allow me to do that.
Forehead to forehead.
“You wouldn’t have me any other way.”
“No, no I wouldn't,” you say, smiling.
Aka: what happens after Julian receives Garak's memoir.
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- Part 1 of Under the Cardassian Sky
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Hiding things from your doctors is generally a bad idea, as Castellan Elim Garak is about to find out.
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- Part 3 of Bad Things Happen Bingo 2024
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The world I close my eyes to see by dftea (demon_faith)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
08 Sep 2024
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Julian wants to come to Cardassia. Garak wants to make something of himself first.
Bad Things Happen Bingo: Broken Limb
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- Part 6 of Bad Things Happen Bingo (dftea)
- Part 1 of Impossible Comes True
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While taking a holiday from their respective commitments on Earth, Julian takes Garak to visit Scotland for a special reason.
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Julian Bashir is on Cardassia Prime and has not woken since being brought there following an incident during a mission. Garak and his physicians have been taking care of him and hoping that he will recover.
Just a fluffy fix-it, that takes some elements from Una McCormack's 'Enigma Tales'.
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“I’ve run every test I could think of, and all that has told me is that it really does seem to be just, well. A box.”
“A ‘just a box’ hidden away in the walls of Enabran Tain’s house,” Garak pointed out, with what was probably, in this case, entirely warranted paranoia. “So let us proceed with caution, nevertheless.”
“Hey, you’ll find no argument from me there,” Julian said, holding his hands up to signal his lack of protest. “If my time on DS9 proved anything to me, it’s that curiosity can do way weirder things to a cat than kill it.”
Garak and Julian make an unexpected discovery among the ruins of Enabran Tain’s house.
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Many losses did indeed lay at Tain's feet, but Tain never asked him to do such directly. The rift between him and Kelas was his to sit in, was carved by his own hands. If he hadn't—
No.
Thinking like that wouldn't do.
Two beautiful men with greyed hair stood in front of him, past and present loves. And yet, all he could feel was pain. Was this the pretty, 'young thing' Bashir fancied? He couldn't blame either of them for finding a suitable, kind, attractive partner. They worked together, and there definitely had been ample time for such attachments to grow.
Julian turned to him, and Elim caught the look in his eyes, the redness in his scleras. Doctor Bashir had been crying, was this because of him? Elim felt lost, thrown into the abyss without a rope.
And then it hit him.
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It has been years since the devastation of Cardassia in the Dominion War, and one Elim Garak, now the Castellan of his homeworld, is still coming to terms with his identity. Against all odds, he has built a life as a humble politician with his new lover, the gentle Doctor Kelas Parmak, but he is still haunted by what he has lost - and what he never had. Namely, the comatose Julian Bashir, presumed brain dead after an incident with Section 31, and headed straight for safekeeping at Garak's home.
An expansion on the unsent letters format used by Una McCormack in her brilliant Garak-centered books. Takes place immediately after Julian's coma begins.
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The sins of the father (shall be visited upon the son) by GoodLittleRobot
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
07 Dec 2023
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The Dominion war has since long passed, and Elim Garak is living the withdrawn life of an old man devoted to the Oralian Way. His life is interrupted when Doctor Bashir summons him to take a look at the excavation site at the old Obsidian Archives. There, Doctor Julian Bashir has found a stasis chamber containing nothing less than a genetically identical, but way younger, version of Elim Garak himself. And as if that's not enough, it turns out that out of the two of them, Elim is not the original
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Garak sends another letter to Julian.
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Julian and Elim share their body heat in bed one winter morning on Cardassia. And they talk. That's really it.
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Summary: After many years spent leading separate lives, Bashir and Garak reconnect on an isolated planet. Meanwhile, in a cubicle far from the final frontier, a call center worker tells their own stories to survive.
Written for those who feel wronged and aggrieved by the showrunners’ refusal to pursue the textualization of Garashir. This isn't fluff, but it is an attempt toward some kind of justice.
Also for those interested in: otherness, alienation, dubious Federation politics, rewritings, and surviving the here and now.
Explicit content is opt-in (you'll see) and the story is completely legible without it, hence the "M" rating.
…But if you're only here for sex, it's all in chapter 7, just follow the instructions. Bless. -
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For any good Cardassian, self-sacrifice is the purest expression of love. Garak has never been a good Cardassian, but for Julian...he is trying.