WeyQoun.
hello all! and now for the part of the story which nobody reads! the part where i babble about the fact that i do NOT own Deep Space Nine, or anything else for that matter, and the part where i tell you this is my second in-progress fanfic and about how i will try to update frequently, and last but not least i need to add a few more words for you to skip over entirely, which are to please leave a review! and enjoy! ;)
"Captain, a Cardassian ship has just entered sensor range." Captain Benjamin Sisko stepped out of his office into Ops.
"what do they want this time?" Sisko asked.
"looks like we're about to find out, it looks like they're hailing us." Major Kira replied.
"onscreen." Said Sisko.
With a small bleep, two familiar faces appeared onscreen. Sisko felt like groaning at the sight of Gul Dukat, and Weyoun.
"Captain, what a delight to see you again." said the smiling Vorta in his usual, we're-all-best-friends voice.
"what do you want?" asked the Captain, in his usual forget-it-Weyoun-we're-at-war voice.
"Now Captain," said Dukat in an offended tone, "we don't mean any harm, we're here to propose an offer the Dominion is willing to make."
"why go to me then? Why not Starfleet?"
"we notified Starfleet about it and they sent us to you, you mean to say they havn't notified you yet?"
just then the comm. Beeped.
"Captain." Said Major Kira, "incoming message from Starfleet."
Sisko rolled his eyes, "in my office." He said.
He hopped up the steps, went inside, sat at the desk and activated the small screen that was there.
"Benjamin," said the important looking admiral on his comm. Line, "we wanted to let you know, the Dominion has sent some ambassadors to discuss some kind of 'offer', I want you to hear them out."
"we already know." said Sisko.
"excellent, be sure to report when you know what they want."
"understood."
The admiral terminated the link.
Sisko marched back into Ops.
"what was that for?" Kira asked.
"Starfleet wanted to inform us that we should be expecting a Cardassian ship in a few days."
Kira snorted, then Dax reported, "Captain, there was an unusual energy burst just outside the station." She paused, tapped some more on her console, then said "and it seems to have brought the Cardassian ship here early."
By the end of the meeting, most of what Weyoun was saying had turned to mush in Sisko's mind, Dr. Julian Bashir was trying to give a report to Sisko, Chief Miles O'Brien was tugging on Bashir's sleeve as they were late for their holosuite reservation, Kira was trying to ask O'Brien to fix her replicator, Dukat was hitting on Kira, and Odo looked like he was going to throttle Dukat.
All in all, everything had gone much better than Sisko expected.
"please take as much time as you need to consider our offer." Said Weyoun understandingly. And the two Dominion representatives (plus a couple Jem'Hadar), went back to their ship.
Sisko sat in his quarters the next day, staring at a star chart and turning the Dominion's offer over in his mind. Some adjustments regarding territory and some suggested trades of prisoners. He had contacted the admiral again earlier, told him what had been offered. No one had bothered to call him back, so he was baisically left on standby for the time being. There was a small flash behind him, of which he took no notice.
"My, my, my, that really was QUITE clever of them, if I do say so myself, do you see it?" Sisko jumped, and whipped around, he hadn't heard anyone come in, he had assumed he had been the only one in his quarters. but now someone stood just behind him, reading over his shoulder. And not just anyone either.
Sisko stood up, stared at the intruder, and tapped his communicator badge, "Sisko to Ops."
"yes Captain?" asked Kira.
"red alert."
"now CAPTAIN, if that's the way you Starfleet go on treating me whenever I show up, I just might get offended!" said Q.