Chapter 4

Just eating worms

Bashir opened Sisko's door and laughed at the sight of Dax holding Sisko to his chair while Odo held a bag of ice to his head.

" Hey Dax!" said Julian. Dax looked up. Her hair was sticking up all over the place and she looked tired.

" Yes Julian? What can I do for you?"

" Would you like to join me for dinner tonight? We'll be just eating worms!"

" Can't you see I'm busy?"

" Doing what?"

" Doing this!"

" Which is what?"

" This!" Dax pointed at Sisko.

" Oh, so can you come?"

Dax rolled her eyes. " NO. I'm busy!"

" Doing what?" Dax couldn't take it anymore. She'd had enough. So she screamed.

Odo ran out the door.

Sisko screamed too.

Bashir clapped. Dax stopped and so did Sisko. Them out of the blue, Sisko said that he was tired and fell asleep in his chair.

Dax cheered.

Odo came back.

Bashir clapped again and when he was finished, he focused on Dax.

" So," he smiled. " Would you like to join me for dinner tonight? We'll be just eating worms!" Dax slapped him and left.

" Is that a yes?" Bashir called after her as he rubbed his cheek. He turned to Kira.

" So, would you like to. . . " But he didn't get to finish. Kira walked over to him and he cowered thinking that she was going to slap him as well. She didn't though and she smiled.

" I would LOVE to." Bashir straightened up. They agreed to meet in 2 hours and Bashir hopped away on a pogo stick that he had in his pocket. Kira looked after him and made sure he was gone.

" Mwa, ha, ha, ha, ha!" she laughed and stopped when she noticed that everyone was staring at her.

Two hours later, Julian and Kira were sitting just eating worms when Dax called Kira. Kira took her cell phone out of her pocket.

" Hello? Dax?" answered Kira.

" I need you down at the lab this instant!" yelled Dax's voice on the other end. Kira sighed then said,

" Alright, I'm coming." And she hung up. Then Kira turned to Julian and sighed.

" I'm sorry. But we'll have to cut this meal short. Dax needs me." She got up to leave and started to walk away.

" WAIT!" Julian took the pogo stick out of his pocket and tried to hop over to her. Before he reached her, his pogo-stick hit a bump in the floor and he fell off. Julian hit his head on the floor with a loud THUMP. Kira turned around to see Julian on the floor rubbing his head.

" JULIAN!" she ran over to him and helped him up. " Are you alright?" Julian turned to her and stared looking confused.

" Who are you?" he asked and looked around. " Where am I?"