“So, I’m to understand that you’re upset because — barring further daring heroics in the name of frontier medicine — you may only attain the average human lifespan?”
Julian inspects his own toes. “A bit, yes.”
After a moment, Garak says, conversationally: “The meteoric trajectory of your medical career may have to be compressed, I suppose. Carrington Award rescheduled for, what, forty-five or so? Admission to the Interplanetary Consortium of Physical Medicine bumped up to seventy? Now, don’t scoff, my dear Julian. If anyone can do it, it’s you.”
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Julian’s actions on Cardassia have bargained-for consequences, and Garak grapples with ghosts.
Words: 6862, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Rating: Not Rated
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Original Cardassian Character(s)
- Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
- Additional Tags: Illness, Cultural Differences, The lizard has issues, Established Relationship, Post-Canon Cardassia, Language Differences, scientifically inaccurate treatment of radiation, Julian is a hubristic idiot at times, Illustrated
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