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• Pretenders by nebulouscoffee

  Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M, Gen
  • Work in Progress

  01 Jun 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
  • Elim Garak & Kira Nerys
  • Elim Garak
  • Julian Bashir
  • Kira Nerys
  • Kasidy Yates
  • Leeta (Star Trek)
  • Original Jem'Hadar Characters
  • Original Bajoran Characters
  • Post-Canon
  • POV Elim Garak
  • Re-exiled Elim Garak
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Reunions
  • Garak has an existential crisis
  • Cardassians aren't supposed to have those
  • Character Study
  • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • Getting Together
  • Identity Issues
  • learning to live with yourself
  • Two habitually performative people discovering authenticity together
  • or something like that
  • Angst
  • Friendship
  • Bajor
  • Jem'Hadar Rehab
  • Depictions of withdrawals
  • Depictions of past interrogations/torture
  • Unlikely family dinners
  • Julian's secret agent program
  • Bajoran Gratitude Festival
  • Hopeful Ending

  Summary

  Ten months after his disappearance at the end of the Dominion War, Elim Garak returns to the station with his life on a countdown.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  61,273

  Chapters:

  10/12

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