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Julian wants to know more about the gemstone decorating Garak’s scales.
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- Part 2 of More precious than gems
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Good Things (Come in Threes) by fadingintostarlight, stateofintegrity
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
14 Jun 2025
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Julian knows that there are aspects of having a nest on Cardassia that Garak misses. He has a suggestion for how to make up the lack.
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Julian and Garak attend a conference and create a stir.
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Haddar shoves her inside and closes the door behind her. Woman is being generous — she is hardly older than the age of Emergence. Her clothes are worn and dirty; torn in places. Tears trail down her face.
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Garak grinds the heels of his hands into his eyes. Will blinding himself help?
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More precious than gems by fadingintostarlight, stateofintegrity
Fandom Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
08 Jul 2025
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After The Hunt by fadingintostarlight, lucian
Fandom Supernatural, Supernatural (TV 2005)
26 Mar 2022
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The choices we make, or others make for us, change who we become. Or do they?
Julian Bashir was meant to be a doctor. But when his augment status nearly comes to light at Starfleet Academy, he pivots—quietly, strategically—into engineering, hiding among Starfleet's remote outposts. His latest assignment: a contested Class-P planet, where the days stretch to 27 hours and the company is limited to a handful of observers… including one Garak. Charming. Cryptic. Dangerous?
Cut off from the rest of the galaxy by atmospheric interference, Julian finds himself navigating more than the frigid planet surface. As he and Garak find themselves in close quarters—and closer conversations—the outpost begins to fail. Hidden agendas surface, and a fragile alliance may be the only thing standing between survival and ruin.
A ‘butterfly flaps its wings’ AU where Julian and Garak cross paths years before the events of DS9.
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03 Jun 2026
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Julian's heart pounded. Garak's eyes searched his face, and then his lips parted and a rumble emerged.
His eyes were too wild, too unfocused. His weight pressed Julian into the hard ground, and Julian felt every sharp edge of rock beneath his shoulder blades, his spine. A piece of gravel bit into his hip, and when he shifted to ease the pressure, Garak's grip tightened. A low sound built in his chest—a primal growl Julian had never heard from him before.
Oh God, Julian thought, his pulse thundering in his ears. What have I done?
The DS9 crew crash-lands on a planetoid that has a strange effect on Garak, reverting him back to a feral state. Thankfully, after all their holosuite hunts, Julian knows what to do.
... Julian hopes he knows what to do.
(Can be read standalone, but if you like Cardassian hunt/chase sex games, this is the series for you)
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- Part 2 of Better, to be Found
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12 Apr 2026
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Garak broke the kiss with a ragged breath, eyes locking onto Julian's with that raw gleam. "You ran so well, my dear," he murmured, that low rumble that vibrated through Julian's chest. "So fast. So agile. And yet here you are. Caught."
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Julian notices the way Garak looks at him sometimes during intimate moments, like he wants to follow him, chase him. It makes sense; Cardassians evolved from a predator species, after all.Who is Julian to deny him the hunt?
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- Part 1 of Better, to be Found
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12 Apr 2026
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On Cardassia, getting older is a sign of power and dignity. But Elim Garak isn't on Cardassia.
Julian knows just how to fix that.
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- Part 1 of Deep Space Birthdays
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10 Apr 2026
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Julian doesn't think about it much these days. Why should he, when it's been so long?
But when he does, if he does, well—he considers it part and parcel of Garak, that's all. Disconcerting at first, a little invasive. Awfully close to a line but not quite crossing it, and leaving Julian with absolutely no idea what he's meant to do in response. Garak in microcosm, summarized in a single unexpected gesture.
(Or: Julian has always thought Garak just had a weird little habit. Until another Cardassian does the same thing to him, and seems to imbue the gesture with a meaning Julian really had not anticipated.)
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10 Apr 2026