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1. 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.

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   English

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