Disclaimer - I don't own Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This was written for International Fan Work's Day for 2022 where the goal is to remix older stories. This is a remix of Guilty Pleasures by Queen IX.

How did I remix?

I actually decided to do a remix of the story based on what I could glean from the summary and tags, but my reason for not reading the story I was remixing before I did the remix was so that the two stories were as different as possible while still having that connection a remix needs, which I'm glad I did because I ended up going in a very different direction for the remix than had I actually read the story - one that was more similar to the story being remixed.

As for my reason for picking this story, I was browsing through the IFD stories for 2016 and the first story I saw featured one of my favorites from Star Trek - Odo - getting fannish over stuff and Kira being involved. My story also ended up being pee-relationship for the two.

Odo-Sey

Reading provided a lovely requiem from the daily going on on the Deep Space Nine space station. Reading literature from Earth also offered an interesting insight into the inner workings of the human mind—and sometimes not.

The Harry Potter series, after all, was a whimsical chance of escape, nothing more and nothing less, although Odo did find himself drawn to the concept of the Metamorphmagus. From there, he drew exciting parallels between the relationship of Tonks and Remus and his interest in Kira. However, he didn't for one moment hold out hope that his relationship might end up going in the same direction. Part of him said he wanted Kira to be happy, while another part of him wished to—should death be in their future, for Kira to live on, rather than both of them dying as heroes. And, oddly, the fact he related to both Tonks and Remus Lupin made such a thing fitting in his mind that it should be him and not Kira.

On the other hand, Sherlock Holmes provided quite a bit of insight, if not outright formulated some of his ideas regarding solving cases on Deep Space Nine. There was something about the character that Odo could never place his finger on that felt relatable. Perhaps that all lay in the similar past of not having any friends, much, in the same manner, Sherlock Holmes didn't appear to have any friends, how things changed with time.

Twilight—" I can 't fathom why anyone would like this, let alone why the father, who is a police officer, wasn't attempting to arrest the young man breaking and entering his daughter's room. Does him being a vampire make him invulnerable to the consequences? Of course, from what I can tell, vampires are made-up creatures and not based on any Alien race that we know of, so does that make sense? "—was best left forgotten.

There were also the classics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, which he'd read quite a few times. The language was complex, but how storytelling adapted and changed from one time period to another was fascinating, to say the least, what with how the narrative went from the format of the Greek epic to the prose of Shakespeare's time. However, the changes over time didn't offer much insight into how humans think.

For that, he found himself turning to non-fiction works, which ranged from historical pieces to psychology papers. Strangely enough, those psychological papers made him sometimes think about and compare human psychology to that of the Cardassians or even the Ferengi. Sometimes what he read explained a lot, and other times it explained very little.

Eventually, Odo found himself having to return to work, his reading material put aside.

Kira glanced over at Odo, who was looking down at his PADD as she went about her business. Every so often, she'd catch him looking at the device—times when he found a break and his head would tilt to the side, an indicator she learned to mean he was interested in what he was reading on the screen.

She'd thought to ask him once what he was reading, yet thought better of it, thinking he was going over the manual for the space station regulations, which asking him would end up in a very awkward conversation given the fact, while she didn't have any issues with her job, the technical jargon was honestly dull.

She brushed the thought aside, returning to her work.