Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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A really remarkable story that weaves all the history of the series with a plausible post-canon scenario. Plus lots of feeeeeels.

call me by the old familiar name (40302 words) by simplyprologue
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Elim Garak & Kira Nerys
Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Kira Nerys, Miles O'Brien, Ezri Dax
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Dominion War (Star Trek), Angst with a Happy Ending, Fake Character Death, Espionage, Lizards, Politics, Garak Can't Pick His Feelings Out of a Police Lineup and that's Very Valid of Him
Summary:

Fourteen years after the end of the Dominion War, Bajor and Cardassia are finally poised to enter the United Federation of Planets, together. But when Castellan Garak and Military Minister Kira find the body of Julian Bashir—with a heavily encrypted datarod containing the last fifty years of covert operations by Section 31 in his hand—on the eve of the treaty signing on Deep Space Nine, negotiations fall apart.

There is some nuance to it, of course, but what is nuance when your friend’s dead body has been found in a stasis container in Cargo Bay Four?

Or, Julian dies in the name of service to the Alpha Quadrant, but does a poor job staying dead. It does get his friends back together in one place, though.