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Doctor Julian Bashir ([personal profile] asklepian) wrote in [community profile] ten_fwd 2014-12-18 07:34 pm (UTC)

Not even four months ago, Julian would have vehemently, even violently denied any allegation that Starfleet--any part of it--ccould be involved in anything even approaching what Khan was talking about. Before he'd been abducted in his sleep by Sloan and his men, put through a simulation designed to break him, force him to admit he'd been turned into a Dominion mole. After his first experience getting spirited away from his bed in his sleep, he hadn't been able to truly rest for weeks. He'd had nightmares of his imprisonment, and that was bad enough. Sloan's little simulation had made him question the reality of being on the Enterprise for weeks.

He still opens his mouth to protest out of deeply ingrained habit and true belief. Section 31 was not Starfleet. But he bites his tongue, curses lowly. "Section 31. You mean them." The utter fools, they thought they could control one of the most brilliant, devious, and ruthless of a group that was feared after four centuries for those traits?

"They're not Starfleet." He goes silent for a few moments more, eyes hard, cold, and cautious. "And you're making rather large assumptions about me."

Not untrue ones, and it seems that no matter what he says, he's not going to be able to convince him otherwise. He'd blown that chance by showing off back in Ten Forward.

"I'm hiding because I'm eight years in the past, from my perspective, and I'd rather not risk getting my younger self kicked out of Starfleet before I can enter the service under a Captain who will defend my right to be here."

He tilts his head in a mirror of Khan's motion, subconsciously. "My crew knows perfectly well what I am. All of Starfleet does. But they don't yet."

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