and i'm...i'm not full of shit

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

M/M | for meownacridone | 100 words | 2022-09-15 | the lamb | AO3

Julian Bashir/Elim Garak

Julian Bashir, Elim Garak

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"Don't get snippy with me, Garak. I may not be able to follow you, with all your false truths and your rotating stories and your true lies, but I'm not completely brainless. Augment or not."

"I never said you were."

He would take that defense, wouldn't he.

I never said-! But I am always implying, dear doctor, you know how I simply love to imply, and yet talk and talk and talk incessantly anyway, saying nothing and everything at all.

It's maddening. It's tantalizing.

It's bewitching, and oh, Julian is so totally under his Cardassian('s) spell.

"So you didn't."