Benchmark of Nothing

Title: Black Bottle: Chapter 1: The Gift Part 1
Author: Hermit9
Fandom: Star Trek DS9
Pair: Garak/Bashir
Rating: Overall: adult, This Chap: pg-13
Summ:  It was just a shared meal.  Julian and Garak have been doing this for six years, talking over lunch or enjoying each other's company over dinner.  This night should have been no different, but six years worth of unspoken words and unexpelled emotions threaten to break out all at once and set the two of them at each other's throats.  It's not all cut and dry though.  There are reasons for Garak's reticence which Julian will discover, and Garak will discover that there is no predicting when love will drop into your lap.
Warnings: Overall: BDSM*, supporting character death, anything is possible  This chapter: none
A/N: This was originally written for the Atomic Fiction challenge run by apple_pi over at LJ quite some time ago.  It was supposed to be a one shot fic, which was this chapter, my first g/b fic, but it took off in my head after this and at the time of this post is now over 80,000 words.  I estimate it will double in size before I'm done - if I really write everything on it that I want to.  Takes place during seasons 6 and 7 and beyond the end of the series.  I stayed with canon as long as I could and even after I stray out of it I try to run parallel with it as much as possible.
*The pain aspect of this fic doesn't really even get going until late chapter 5 to chapter 6 (yes it takes me that long to get to the sex), it stays light until chapter 8 or 9.  Later on there could be more violent chapters, but they will have separate warnings. 

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Black Bottle: Chapter 1: The gift Part 2
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Title: Black Bottle: Chapter 2: The Debt Part 1
Author: Hermit9
Fandom: Star Trek DS9
Pair: Garak/Bashir
Rating: Overall: adult, This Chap: pg-13
Warnings: None

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Title: Black Bottle: Chapter 2: The Debt Part 2
Author: Hermit9
Fandom: Star Trek DS9
Pair: Garak/Bashir
Rating: Overall: adult, This Chap: Adult-18
Warnings: Sexual situations, Suggestions of BDSM

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Title: Black Bottle: Chapter 3: In Trust
Author: Hermit9
Fandom: Star Trek DS9
Pair: Garak/Bashir
Rating: Overall: adult, This Chap: pg-13
A/N: Takes place during "In the Pale Moonlight."

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Title: Black Bottle: Chapter 4: Grey Anatomy Part 1
Author: Hermit9
Fandom: Star Trek DS9
Pair: Garak/Bashir
Rating: Overall: adult, This Chap: Adult

Warnings:  Suggestions, anatomical descriptions

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Title: Black Bottle, Chapter 5: Grey Anatomy Part 2, Or: The Gift of Anatomy Direly Indebted and Dipped in Chocolate
Author: herm42
Fandom: ST: DS9  EG/JB
Rating: very very very adult
Notes:  This is a very long chapter divided into multiple posts.  Canon is starting to crumble this chapter.  Also, I've taken some liberties with the Cardassian species.  Fleshed them out a little with some things that do not exist in canon, not even in fanon as far as I know, but seemed to me to be possibilities.  I hope you will look at my additions with an open mind.  I don't intend to make very many enormous alterations to the Cardassian paradigm, or any other Star Trek aliens, so I won't be asking you to integrate too much new information beyond what is in this chapter. 

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 Title: Black Bottle: Chapter 2: A New Day Part 1
Author: Hermit9
Fandom: Star Trek DS9
Pair: Garak/Bashir
Rating: Overall: adult, This Chap: Adult-18
Warnings: Sex, BDSM

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Title: Black Bottle Interlude: First Taste

Author: Hermit9

Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir

Rating: PG

Summ:  In the Black Bottle Universe, but has no bearing on the plot really.

Warnigns: None.

Disc: Not my characters, etc.

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Title:  Black Bottle  Chapter 8: A Lie for Love
Author: Hermit9
Fandom: Star Trek:DS9
Pairing: Garak/Bashir
Rating: Overall: Very Adult, This Chap: PG-ish
Warnings: Overall:BDSM, Violence, Angst, Canonical character death.  This Chap: just angst
Summ:  Chapters 1-7 saw the beginning of a new and unexpected love affair, now life throws a wrench in the works.
A/N: Takes place during Tears of the Prophets, just the parts of the ep. that I changed to fit in my universe and of course all the G/B stuff that didn't happen on screen. 

He is being kissed...

Chapter: 9: Aftercare (is this a cliche chapter title? I don't know, I don't actually read stuff that's anything like what I write.)

Takes place during Tears of the Prophets and beyond.

Rating: Adult (but only just barely, sorry)

a/n: Holy hell. I went digging through some of my old LiveJournal stuff and I came to the realization that I have been writing this series for two years now. I posted the first part in March of 2006! On the one hand I think to myself, "What the hell are you wasting so much time on something like this?" and on the other I think,"Wow, this is possibly the longest I've stayed with anything except my husband," and on yet another hand still, because I'm actually Zaphod Beeblebrox and thusly, three-handed, I think, "There is no way I'm giving up on it now, but I really really gotta finish it soon before it consumes another two years." So. That's my mission now. Finish this bad boy. After this chapter, and I realize that my chapter predictions have been horrible and I never stick to them, but after this one I think I have three or four more to do that occur within the boundaries of the DS9 series, one "final" chapter after that, but then the potential for say, three or four more after that if I decide I want to continue the story beyond the end of the series. So, since every new post is farther from the last post than the last one to the one before it, I should be writing this for the rest of my life, easy.

a/n2: I fear I may have unintentionally plagiarised a tidbit in this chapter. Possibly from an episode of DS9 or another source altogether, but I can't nail down what it's from. If you read it and go "hey, I heard that before" let me know. If nobody spots it I'll assume it came creatively out of my own head! ;)

Warnings: AAAAAANNNGGGST. I promise after this chap it'll get more fun, and for those of you who like the angst, there will be more a bit later. There is some stuff in this chap. that sort of starts to begin to think about maybe bordering on violence and non-con. Just a heads up. I think it still falls under the normal bdsm umbrella though.

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