Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!newsread.com!newsstand.newsread.com!POSTED.monger.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated Approved: ascem@earthlink.net Organization: Better Living Thru TrekSmut Sender: ascem@earthlink.net Message-ID: From: "Penumbra" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list ASCEML@yahoogroups.com; contact ASCEML-owner@yahoogroups.com Subject: NEW DS9 The Cardassian Creed (G, B) [PG] (drabble, challenge) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 44 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 04:55:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.142.218 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 1091681701 209.198.142.218 (Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:55:01 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:55:01 EDT Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated:82431 X-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:55:08 PDT (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Title: The Cardassian Creed Author: Penumbra Contact: penumbra at clinched dot net Series: DS9 Rating: PG Codes: challenge, G, B Archive: Wherever. Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't sue. Viacom/Paraborg is god. Notes: Post-Series. Stephen's Call of Duty Challenge combined with extreme boredom. "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." ~ Voltaire --------------------------- The Cardassian Creed by Penumbra (c) 2004 --------------------------- The room is deep underneath the ruined Cardassian capital, windowless and soundproofed. The air smells of the agonies he elicited there. "I don't understand, Garak." "Understand what?" "Why? How?" Bashir's words are confused and broken, like a child's. Garak sighs. "It's complicated." He doesn't want to talk of the drugs or his debilitating insomnia or Enabran's disappointment that broke his heart so often. "But...why?" Garak feels as old as the ancient, empty look in Bashir's eyes is. The room is full of lessons and skills he desperately wants to unlearn. "I'm a Cardassian, Julian. Duty was all that I knew." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ASCEM messages are copied to a mailing list. Most recent messages can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASCEML. NewMessage: