LINKDING

<blockquote>"No, it's fine," Julian said automatically. "But, Garak, is everything all right?" "Captain Sisko wanted to see me," Garak said—which was so conspicuous a refusal to answer the question Julian had asked that it almost didn't qualify as an evasion. He pulled out the chair opposite Julian, and sat. "Captain Sisko? Why?" "Well, apparently," Garak said, "Cardassia has lodged a formal request with the Federation for my extradition." (Or: Garak has a problem. Julian marries him to fix it. Except that means Julian also has a problem, albeit of a very different kind.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Garak picked through the detritus that remained of his shop, and considered his options. It wasn't going to be easy. Of course it wasn't. The Federation had every reason to be exceptionally careful with the artifact the Bajorans had so courteously lent them—and every reason not to let a Cardassian in the same room with it. (Set during 1.01. Garak receives an unexpected visitor—and is taken to an even more unexpected place.)</blockquote> ➤ Garak receives a vision of the future, before his first meeting with Julian

<blockquote>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.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>What might have been if Julian Bashir had not “mistaken” a preganglionic fiber for a postganglionic nerve. A canon divergent Garak/Bashir meeting for the Deadly Sins G/Bfest.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cardassia is not always welcoming to its Federation helpers. Garak tries to smooth its rough edges.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An unexpected trip through time and a chance encounter has Julian Bashir contemplating the consequences of certain actions and their reactions.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julian wakes lying on his front, with a mild but insistent headache, an uncomfortably dry throat, and a dim sense that the bed he's in is not his own. And he's right: it's Garak's. Because he and Garak got possibly a little bit too drunk at Quark's, and then possibly also a little bit married on top of it, and there's just no way this is going to be anything but a disaster.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julian has no soulmark. He knows what that must mean, and he's learned to accept it. Meeting Garak, getting to know him, is almost enough to make him think—but it's not possible. Garak must have a soulmate, and there's simply no way it could be Julian. Right? (Or: five times Julian thought he was alone, plus the time he realized he'd been wrong all along.)</blockquote>