Chapters: 4/37
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Julian Bashir/Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak, Julian Bashir/Kelas Parmak, Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak
Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Kelas Parmak, Kira Nerys, Original Cardassian Character(s)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Canon Cardassia, Xenophobia, Romance, Kid Fic, fostering, Minor Character Death, Violence, Riots, Classism, Slow Build, Slow Burn, Co-Habiting, courting, Post-War Recovery, Rating May Change
Summary:
How do you help someone that doesn’t want to be helped? Julian finds himself rebuilding Cardassia and grappling with resistant locals, a not-much-better-than-useless translator and the realisation that sometimes the frontier brings more than an opportunity to help to the table.