starter for @lietwice
It was a truly remarkable sort of accident--one of the sort that got written about for decades after. One minute, they'd detected a temporal anomaly, and the next, there'd been a wide-eyed boy in a green shirt and no shoes standing in the place Dr. Bashir had been. No one had been able to come up with any leads for fixing the problem in the extra two weeks the Defiant stayed to investigate the incident.
"The thing is, Garak," Miles said, one hand protectively on Julian's shoulder, even though Julian apparently wasn't paying any attention, and was instead looking down at the padd in his hands, his ears covered by sound-reducing headphones. "I'd take him in in a heartbeat. Me and Keiko, we'll take him. But he gave you power of attorney. In the case of anything. He's not your Julian. Not anymore. Or- or not yet, I suppose. But your Julian would've wanted- I hate it, but he would've wanted me to respect his wishes and give you the choice. So. Are you taking him? Or can I?"














