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Title: 30-Day Cheesy Tropes Challenge - 04. Angel/Demon AU
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Genre: Gen
Rating & Warnings: G this part, PG-13 overall?
Words: 366 this part, ?? overall
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Summary: Jules isn't very good at being a demon.
Author's Notes: Can anyone tell I'm a fan of Good Omens?

Also, I had intended the use of "Jules" as more of a concept than anything else--the ages of angels and demons are rather hard to pin down--but it seems to have influenced me subconsciously, so this is more of a friendshippy fic than a shippy one, really. Oh well.

Jules isn't very good at being a demon. He just can't seem to manage anything truly evil. While all his peers are out corrupting souls or discovering increasingly creative ways to inflict suffering and torment on humans, he . . . isn't really doing much of anything. He doesn't have the heart.

Or rather, he does. That's the problem.

For the first few dozen centuries of his existence, he'd been fine with muddling along as best he could. He'd get the hang of being a demon eventually. But when he overhears his parents discussing the possibility of casting a spell to turn him into the kind of demon they want him to be—at the cost of everything he is—Jules decides to take his fate into his own hands. That very evening, he goes to the one being he thinks could help him.

His friendship with Garak is the source of still more disappointment to his parents, but Jules wouldn't give it up for anything. They had met on Earth one day, when Garak had noticed him admiring his beautiful white wings in the kind of envy Jules didn't dare admit to himself. (What kind of demon would want to swap a perfectly intimidating set of bat wings for something so . . . heavenly?) Rather than shunning him as one of the Fallen, though, Garak had struck up a conversation. As it turned out, he has a talent for making Jules laugh, which is often all that keeps his miserable existence from being the wrong kind of miserable entirely.

Worryingly, Garak also seems to have a talent for evil. He has all kinds of suggestions for starting Jules off small and building him up, like spilling water on the stairs or taking people's names off telemarketer no-call lists. He finishes off his advice with an "At least, that's what I'd do—if I were a demon" and a serene smile, but all the same, Jules can't help but wonder if maybe there was a mix-up between heaven and hell when they were born.

And maybe his friendship with Garak will turn out to be not nearly so much of a disappointment to his parents as he'd thought.

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