Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elim Garak/Julian Bashir
Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir
Additional Tags: Community: slashfest
Summary:
Garak knows better than to think that this will ever work.
Race had been the largest issue in Garak’s mind. Cardassians were used to hard lives – from the constant state of war to the very nature of their skin, they were hard creatures. Perhaps that was why he found himself drawn almost magnetically to the soft-skinned creatures surrounding him. They would have been a rare treasure on his world in the old days, something strange and exotic, like a fragile flower so easily crushed beneath his palm. If soft-skin was all that he needed, anyone would do in theory but there was more to their current situation than just an attraction to exotic appearance. And yes, he did admit that any human who engaged in the carnal with a Cardassian had to be considered somewhat aberrant by his or her fellows. On Cardassia, captures of war had long accustomed his people to exotic ‘pets’ and an almost accepted exploration of foreign bodies.
Beautiful. I love the relaxed and languid feel of the story – it is somehow enhanced by the discussion of their differences and the war. You really do believe that even though the odds are against them, the relationship will endure. Lovely piece.