then that's it

Title: then that's it
Ship: Kira/Jadzia
Summary: Farmer!Kira and OnBajorForSomeReason!Jadzia fall in love and get married.
Length: 2.4k
Note: brought to you by my grandparents being homophobic, is Super Duper Gay Married Three Times, a Kira/Dax fic.

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Kira wondered, sometimes, if she’d ever stop working.

The soil split under her feet, the top layer still dusted in that dry, white salt the Cardassians had bombed the farmland with. Under her axe, though, she could see the rich black of loam. Though it had been almost a decade since the Occupation, the earth still survived. Whether it was the lack of rain in this usually-verdant area from the ash clouds that had protected the land, or something kinder, it survived.

Bajor survived.

She survived.

Another load of tainted soil went into the wheelbarrow, and Kira studied it. She might be able to fit another few shovel-loads onto it, or she could leave it as is and take the easier journey.

She closed her eyes. Breathed. Kira could smell salt, dirt, the flowering nerak bushes clustered at the edges of her field.

One more shovelful.


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Something was reading strange on Jadzia's tricorder.

True, the whole planet seemed to read off. Whatever toxic waste the fleeing Cardassians had dumped into the ecosystem lingered. In the depths of the sprawling jumja forest, Jadzia had a hard time believing it. To hear it told, it was a miracle plant life still existed on this planet.

Well. Not a miracle. A marvel of stubbornness.

Ahead, there seemed to be a concentrated patch of contamination. It was piled high, a few kilometres off the main way. The land around it was reading as… clean? But there weren’t any life signs reading past the small things: grass vipers and hara cats and barrow bugs. Either the farmer was out, or they had managed to install a life sign mask out in the middle of nowhere.

Either way, Dax was delighted. So she set her compass, combed the barrowbugs out of her hair, and set off.

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