Odo and Major Kira both leave medical walking across the promenade deck. Kira is still upset at the young federation doctor.
"Odo of all these Starfleet officers that I have to deal with on this station the doctor is the most naïve when it comes to Bajor!"
"Major the doctor is just doing his job, but all of the federation is naïve except for Sisko. They could no more stop an assassination attempt than Quark could stop cheating."
"Don't you think I know that Odo? That is why I am fighting so hard for Bajor's safety."
"Kira I am in charge of security and I will do all in my power to keep this from happening, but you need to work with Sisko. You must convince him. I will say this when the Cardassians ran the station an attempt like this would never have been made."
"Odo if they still ran the station we would not even be allow to celebrate this holiday."
"The good with the bad then huh major." Odo says stiffly as they both continue walking.
Back in the operation command center Commander Sisko was sitting at his desk holding on to the baseball he keeps there. Whenever he is in deep thought about something that baseball helps brings a calmness about him. He looks up as Dax walks in his office.
"Old man what brings you here?"
"Benjamin you look like you have the whole world on your shoulders."
"With this holiday we have so much traffic on and off of the station, space freighters and transport vessels jamming up our space lanes. On top of that we have to try to prevent this assassination and the only lead we have is that it is someone from Cardassian space."
"Benjamin that is a very good lead, Odo just has to check the manifest of every vessel coming from there."
"Old man its not that easy, I seriously doubt that the assassin will be a Cardassian that would be too obvious. If they hired a third party like I suspect they would not come to the station directly from Cardassian space because it would give them away. No they hired an expert for this, and I don't think we will see them coming until its too late."
Quarks could best be describe as the Las Vegas of space because the party never ends and the proprietor himself never sleeps much but when he does Quark dreams about gold press latinum. He was in the middle of such a dream when an alarm went off behind his secret panel in his room. Quark had this communication device installed away from the station's main communication array and from Odo's view. Only those clients with questionable needs knew of this line and that meant more latinum for Quark. He answers and a familiar Cardarssian's face appears on the view screen that he had not seen since the days of the occupation onboard the station. Quark eyes grew as large as his ears as he listen to the offer being made to him.
A Romulan freighter making its final approach to DS9 with its weary passengers from the long trip and the solar storm that detoured them from their normal route. Everyone on board was happy to hear the captain say that it would not be long until they were on board the famous federation space station that was closed to the worm hole. One particular passenger sitting to the rear that had kept to himself after he boarded the freighter while they were making repairs from the solar storm seem anxious. He had important business on the space station that would change the balance of power on Bajor forever.