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M/M | for meownacridone | 100 words | 2022-10-06 | the lamb | AO3

Elim Garak/Julian Bashir

Elim Garak, Julian Bashir

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

"Garak, I love you."

"My dear doctor Bashir, you love everything that smirks. I hardly believe you're so singular as to love just one solitary Cardassian."

"Well, I didn't say that. You seem rather triumphant for a man pinning another man up for something he didn't say."

"You said you love me, and you said it with that hopeless dream in your eye that says you've momentarily forgotten about everyone else there has ever been. Only momentarily, of course."

"Only momentarily? Is that right? And I suppose when you forget everyone else there's ever been, you go all out?"

"Unquestionably."