Chapter Four

Jahzara folded her arms across her rib cage and under her breasts. She sighed loudly to let her uncle know that she was bored, but he didn't respond. Finally, they came to a door and Julian rang the door chime. Jahzara let her arms fall to her side, not wanting to make a bad first impression on whoever was inside these quarters. A faint "Come in," was heard through the door and Bashir and Jahzara walked in.

Inside the quarters, there were two young boys, talking excitedly together about some unknown topic. They looked up as the two walked in and set their activity down.

One of the boys—the only human boy out of the two began immediately.

"If you're looking for my dad, he's up in Upper Pylon Three, supervising repairs for the turbo lift." The boy was tall, thin and black with a buzz cut. The other boy was Ferengi and he was awfully short; bald too.

"Actually, Jake, I've been looking for you."

"You have? Why?" Jake asked.

"Well my niece here got kind of bored today and since I can't entertain her during my shifts, I thought I'd let you two take her around the station." Bashir explained. "Do you think the two of you are up to it?"

"Of course we are!" the Ferengi boy spoke up. "Aren't we Jake?"

"Yeah, sure, we'll take your niece around the station. Where is she?" Jake agreed.

Jahzara snorted. "I'm right here."

"Oh, well in that case, I'm Jake Sisko and this is Nog."

"Pleasure. Now shall get going? My clothes are already going out of style."

"Sure," And with that settled, Doctor Bashir watched his niece waltz out of Jake's quarters in her arrogant way followed by Jake and Nog.

With a satisfied sigh, he turned and walked out of Jake's quarters himself and headed back towards the infirmary.

Nog and Jake were obviously taking the long way around the station.

"Can we do something else?" Jahzara asked. "I'm bored."

Jake and Nog exchanged surprised looks, but nodded and headed off in a different direction.

They ended up in Nog's uncle's bar, heading into a holosuite. Unknowingly to Jahzara, the holosuite safety settings had been turned off and Nog and Jake were leading Jahzara into a Klingon battle simulation.

Nog replicated some bat'liths and handed one to Jahzara and another to Jake. The third he kept for himself. Than, he turned on the program and started it.

"Now," Nog explained. "The object of this game is to kill every enemy that comes into this area. If you get hit, than you lose a life. You have five lives, but don't worry, you won't really get hurt, the safety settings are on."

Some footsteps were heard up ahead.

"Here they come." Jake announced and they first wave of hand-to-hand fighters entered the cave.

Jahzara fought pretty well for a first-timer, but Jake and Nog were ahead of her by the first five minutes. They had already killed twenty-five opponents while Jahzara had only killed ten.

And then, something happened, something that made Nog remember that he had forgotten to check the safety settings just to be sure they were on.

Jahzara's arm slipped up and her opponent stabbed her with a dagger and left it there to continue on to Jake and Nog. But instead of the dagger disappearing and Jahzara using up one of her lives, she just lay there, breathing heavily and a pool of blood on the ground under her.

The faint sound of "Computer freeze program" was heard and then Nog and Jake rushed over to Jahzara's fallen figure.

"Jahzara," Nog laughed nervously. "You can stop pretending now."

"Um, Nog, I don't think she's pretending." Jake informed.

Nog slowly turned to face Jake, his eyes wide with horror.

"You stay here with Jahzara…and…um…I'll go and get Doctor Bashir." Nog offered and he slowly backed out of the holosuite and then turned and ran through his uncle's bar yelling for Doctor Bashir.

Doctor Bashir ran through the Promenade and back into his infirmary and than into the emergency room.

He dressed into a red surgery uniform and put the red cloth surgery mask on. After that he practically ran into the back room and into surgery.