Chapter 3

Odo's first, and final, lesson

Odo wandered into Quark's quarters. Every piece of furniture was moved to make a big space on the floor. Odo called out.

" Hello? Is there anyone here?" Quark peeked out from behind a door.

"No. Nobody's here." He laughed. Odo turned towards the door.

" Okay," he sighed. " I'll go then." And he started to leave. Quark jumped out from behind the door.

" Where are you going?" Odo paused and turned around.

" Nobody was here a minute ago. How did you get in here without using the door?"

" Odo, it was a joke." Odo just stared looking confused. Quark waved his hand.

"Oh, forget it. Are you ready to learn how to dance?" Quark jumped up and down.

" No." said Odo. Quark stopped jumping.

" Your not? Why? You were supposed to come here prepared.. . . what are you doing?" Odo grabbed Quark and started to tango. Quark pulled away.

"I read all about dancing!"

" In three hours?"

" Yes."

" then why did you come here?"

" So I could tell you that." Odo turned to the door and started to leave.

" You still have to pay me for this lesson!" Odo took out three gold bars and handed them to Quark and left. Quark looked at the money in his hands.

"Awesome!" he yelled. Quark danced.

Odo walked down the empty hallways back to his office. He was almost at the door when O'Brien called Odo over. O'Brien explained that the captain had been looking for Odo and wanted to speak to him. Odo sighed and followed O'Brien. When they reached Sisko's office, O'Brien turned to Odo and patted him on the back.

" Good luck. He's angry." And left Odo to stand in front of the door. He looked through the glass door and saw and heard Sisko yelling at Dax about something. He took a deep breath and rang the doorbell.

" Ding - dong." Said Odo. He waited but there was no answer.

" Ding - dong." He said again this time a little louder but there was still no answer. Kira turned to Odo.

" You'll just have to walk in." She said. " He's not answering the door. Sisko's in quite a tizzy about the aliens. He's going on about how they won't leave Sisko alone and how they keep asking him about when their ship is going to be done." Odo nodded and opened the door.

"WHAT!" yelled Sisko as he turned to Odo. Dax handed Sisko a glass of water and motioned for Odo to step into a quieter part of the office. Dax closed the door behind him and ran a sweaty hand through her hair.

" I'm sorry about having to call you. You were probably in the middle of your dancing lesson."

" No, I wasn't. He's usually so calm about problems like this. What made him so angry?" Dax took a bottle out of her pocket and shook it.

" He forgot to take his pills. I've been trying to get him to take them but I can't get him to calm down enough."

" This happened 2 weeks ago! Sheesh, what are we going to do? Lock him in his room?" Dax shook her head and put the bottle away.

" We did that last time, remember? O'Brien didn't know so Sisko pulled his old sympathy trick on him and O'Brien let him out." Odo thought for a moment.

" Maybe we could. . ." Odo was cut short by a loud CRASH and Dax put her hand on her head.

" What's wrong?" asked Odo. Dax sighed.

" I knew he would start to throw his chair around! I knew it. Excuse me, Odo but you might have to leave." Odo put a hand on her shoulder.

" I understand." They both walked out and closed the door.

" DUCK!" yelled Dax.

" Where?" Odo looked around.