DS9 fic rec of awesome

[eponymous_rose]

agapi42 recced this fic at this week's ds9_rewatch, and I couldn't go on without linking it here:

Fairy Tales in Deep Space by airandangels (Garak/Bashir, G). It's inspired by that excellent scene in the show where Bashir tells Garak the story of the boy who cried wolf, and Garak promptly reinterprets the moral to mean "never tell the same lie twice". In this fic, Bashir makes it a regular experiment to tell Garak various fairy tales, and have him guess the moral of the story for each. I'm generally not a fan of script format, but it works brilliantly here, and the dialogue is just fantastically funny. Do check it out, if you haven't already!

Random sample of the awesomeness:

JB: In time, the king, too, passed away, and the queen ruled as regent until Snow White should come of age.

EG: Why did he die?

JB: The story doesn't say. It's not important.

EG: It sounds enormously important! Was it a natural death? Had he many enemies?

JB: Look, is the story called 'Political Assassination in Fairyland'? No, it's not.

Comments

[bimo]

Thank you for reccing! If it hadn't been for your post, I surely would have missed this wonderful bit of 'intercultural exchange' :D