For the prompt “Outsider POV on their relationship”.
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Well, wasn’t that just about the prettiest thing since a fourth-quarter profit.
“Constable.” He leaned over the bar, lowering his voice, and Odo pulled back with narrowed eyes.
“What?”
“You ever seen latinum on legs?”
Deep Dish NIne Julian strikes gold on the ’Date Ideas For The Poor Student Seeing Clever Probable Ex-Spy’ front.
“average starfleet medical officer flirts with cardassians 2 times a month” factoid actualy just statistical error. average starfleet medical officer flirts 0 times with cardassians each month. dr julian bashir who lives on a space station and flirts 10,000 times with a cardassian every week, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Happy New Year with the last ‘New Start’ pair, Deep Dish Nine Julian and Elim dealing with the cold in Andor~
Your day is always improved when you remember that once Kira Nerys threw a cup in Dukat’s face
Grilka and Sirella become part of the Klingon High Council, and negotiate a trade agreement with Ishka, who appoints Pel as her liaison. At first this goes badly, because Pel challenges Grilka to a fight over Quark, but Grilka is so impressed by Tiny Ferengi Lady’s courage, and Pel is so taken aback but how much respect Grilka shows her, that they become really good friends.
They agree to both marry Quark on a timeshare basis, after which they inform him of their decision.
He’s like ‘okay, but Odo has to give me away.’
The Ferengi probably already have time-share marriage contracts on their law books.
Pff, and Odo is SOOOO uncomfortable, but secretly proud to be asked.
And honestly? Any excuse to get out of the Great Link. It was WONDERFUL to be part of the whole and have that sense of belonging… for about a week. After which his family really began to get on his nerves. His best enemy’s wedding is a perfect pretext.
The Great Link would be a drag after awhile. It must be like an endless holiday dinner with all your most bigoted great-aunts and uncles. And Odo keeps getting told off for telling the cousins about his adventures with the Solids, and making them want to go off and have adventures too, but when the great-aunts and uncles tell him off he just does whatever the mindlink equivalent of “HMNF!” is, and keeps on. Three cousins go with him to the wedding and cause a stir with the Ferengi guests by pretending to be bricks of gold-pressed latinum.
And he and Kira have a delighted reunion. With sparkles.
Okay, I just saw a post about how “Chief O'Brien can’t stand Dr. Bashir, let’s stick them together in every episode,” and the thought of it just cracked me up, like:
Maybe this is how you work your way into Miles O'Brien’s heart: by repeated, daily abrasion.
Maybe when he met Keiko Ishikawa on the Enterprise–on an ill-fated double-date? Who knows?–she was abrasive as hell and rode his ass about every little thing he did throughout the whole date and finished off by beating his ass at bowling, and when he got home he just shuddered, like, Thank God that’s over, because I cannot stand that woman.
But he kept running into her. Every day. The Enterprise is only so big, after all, and they both kept ending up in Ten-Forward at the same time, or sitting next to each other at concerts, or awkwardly running into each other at the gym, and of course they had the same friends, so he just couldn’t get away from her, and every time it was the same thing:
“Oh, hi, Miles.” With disdain.
“Nice shirt, Miles. Did you not know this was a formal event?” With a brow raised.
And he just grits his teeth and smiles. “Hello, Keiko.”
And it’s every day, every day, until one day he doesn’t see her, and that night he’s putting on his pyjamas and cleaning his teeth and climbing into bed and he can’t quite fall asleep, something’s wrong, something’s missing…
But the next day he sees her as he passes the botany lab. He leans in to wave a hello. She looks up at him and smiles for half a second before frowning. “Aren’t you going to be late for your shift?”
And he falls in love, right there. By slow, repeated, scraping abrasion, Keiko Ishikawa has tunnelled right into his heart.
And who knows. Maybe it’s the same with Julian. Maybe it’s I hate that guy, I hate that guy, over and over he sees him, God damn it, paired on another mission, and then one day Dr. Bashir’s gone off to do something and Miles says to Keiko, “Thank God, at least there’s one day I won’t have to put up with Dr. God’s Gift To Humanity.”
Keiko just smiles. She knows.
And then she gives him shit about something.
bee-squared-official
