Chapter 5

For the last few hours Odo had spent his time reading the crew and passenger manifests of all the ships that had left DS9 within that last day or so.

There was only one real possibility, the Cardassian ship Goroolk. Almost all of the other ship where transports and cargo ships. The others, with the exception of the Goroolk, had been going to Bajor.

Now that Odo knew which ship it was he could predict the heading of they would be taking. The Goroolk was meant to go to Cardassia, but was heading in the wrong direction. Maybe one of the outlying colonies then. Odo plotted a course to the nearest colony, Haspar.

If only this tin can had a computer, he wished silently. As it was the system would not be able to tell him if the Goroolk changed course. He would have to trust himself. Now was not the time for self doubt, he had to regenerate.

Not long later, Odo awoke, well that wasn't quite the right word for it; he felt that something was wrong. He reformed himself feeling less than refreshed. Kira had moved, the ship was not following Odo's predicted course, in fact it had stopped dead. Strange, he thought.

As he got closer his ship's sensors told him that there had been a problem with the warp core and the system had shut it's self down. That was all he could tell, was Kira onboard? Odo had no way of knowing. He would have to risk it.

Now there was another problem, how? Odo had rushed into this all, not thinking of how he would get Kira out of it. His ship had no transporters, little defence and nowhere near enough to fire power to take out the Goroolk. If he could get the ship to dock with the Cardassians he might have a chance.

On the Goroolk, a bad converasation was in motion.

"What happened?"

"Warp core is unstable, its shut it's self off."

"Well, get it working again, now."

"I'll have to divert power from non essential systems."

"Do it."

Meanwhile, out in space, Odo saw a welcoming site. The shuttle bay doors were opening, there must be a larger problem on the Goroolk that the sensors showed. It was now or never, Odo piloted his ship into the Cardassian docking bay and hoped that the internal sensors where also off line. Odo wondered were Kira was. he would have to use his feeling.

Kira sat in the darkness wondering. What was going to happen to her? How much more pain would Ivek provide for her before she was eventually killed? A noise outside brought her out of her painful muse.The door to her cell swung open andshe expected another visit from Ivek. The sight she saw was most defiantly not the one she expected.

"Kira, come on, we have to get out of here."

Her mind told her that it was only Odo, that he would never do anything to hurt her, her body screamed louder. She was afraid of him.

"Nerys, please, come with me."

The tone of his voice and the look in his eyes, his clear blue eyes, made her stand and walk across to him. "Let's move then."

Relief flowed over his worried face, "This way."

Half way along the corridor the pair heard a sneering voice.

"Well, well, just look what we have here. An escapee and accomplice."

"Jalsa Hared? Why aren't you in the brig?"

"Because I sold your friend out Mr. Shape Shifter. Does that get you angry? It does, doesn't it. You were willing to sell me out, why shouldn't I do the same?"

"You are a criminal, Major Kira has done nothing. To sell out one of your own, you are guilty of that at least."

Major Kira has done nothing? She was willing to sell me out, to sell out one of her own people, as you put it."

"I'd love to stay and chat, but we must be going."

"Not so fast, changeling. You're going nowhere"

"I beg to differ," with that he punched Jalsa in the face, knocking the surprised Bajoran to the ground. Jalsa was on his feet quickly, but not quick enough to stop Odo using his full force to knock him out.

"Nice work, Odo."

Odo grinned at her, that was more like his Kira Nerys.