"I'll check and see what I can find out, in the meantime before you're allowed back on duty you have two different meetings according to Dax and Bashir"

"Understood sir"

"Odo, meet me tomorrow at 0700, the same time as I met Lt. Commander Data, you know what will happen if you miss the session"

"Indeed I do, however if it needs to be rescheduled..."

"You know the arrangements for that as well"

"Understood"

As it turned out the 0700 meeting would indeed need to be rescheduled because of Ezri receiving emergency patients in the middle of the night

"Dax to Odo"

"Odo here go ahead"

"We'll have to reschedule the meeting for 1200 at the earliest, I got an emergency case on my hands"

"Understood, anything I can possibly help with even though I'm not cleared for duty?"

"Yes actually, I know that you generally don't have a bed or anyone in your quarters but...there are displaced people and Captain Sisko is asking everyone if they could share their quarters temporarily"

"I'll have to requisition a bed, but I can do that, I'll just sleep in my office while the refugees are here due to the fact that my regeneration cycle can make people...uncomfortable"

"Alright, the requisition is already taking place due to your unique circumstances and as such there should be a bed or two in your quarters within an half hour, could you get your quarters set up for the beds in the meantime?"

"Yes, but I'll need some help getting it all done quickly"

"Of course, help is on the way"

And so Odo's room was rearranged and later the next day he had his mandatory meeting with Ezri who cleared him mentally but he also knew that Bashir had to clear him physically, in the meantime Sisko had put the station and key meeting locations on high alert for bomb threats

"Has anything happened yet?"

"No, but if something does happen we're ready"

"The Enterprise is requesting clearance to leave"

"Tell them permission granted, by the way Captain Picard stated that he'd be leaving officers behind until further notice, has he done so?"

"Yes and they've been given quarters to stay in"

"What about the sudden refugees that we took in temporarily?"

"They've settled into their temporary quarters as well, Odo is sleeping in his office until further notice though"

"For the comfort of the others I assume?"

"Yes sir"

"Fine, I'm going to see if he's been medically cleared because I need my Chief of security back on duty as soon as possible considering what's going on right now"

Sisko arrives at the sickbay just as Odo is leaving

"Odo, how did things go with Bashir?"

"I'm on limited duty for at least two days, apparently there are minor inconsistencies with my other scans which might be the result of how Lt. Commander Data and I were brought back from being cloaked and then the further actions allowing me to regain my humanoid form, if nothing major happens in the two days I will be allowed back on full duty after another scan is completed"

"That's good to hear, in the meantime I want you to do a patrol and see if anyone's managed to get a bomb on board my station, you're more discreet than others I'm afraid due to your unique ability"

"Understood, I'll also be handing you a written report since that is overdue"

"Lt. Commander Data already gave me the report and due to the fact that you were together for the most part if you so choose I will accept just the three week separation period if you so choose to only write that portion"

"No, it's better that you have my full report as well since even together we noticed different things and also I can add some emotions that Lt. Commander Data is unable to express which will explain our actions a little better, besides it's already fully written"

"Odo..."

"I know that I was off duty but it was...better for me to write everything down, it was like a kind of release that I needed as a means to confirm to myself that the entire ordeal was truly over and that life was starting to get back to normal"

"Very well, give me your report later today then"

"Understood sir"

Two hours later and Sisko had Odo's report during the time that he and Data had been missing and presumed dead, he also stated that so far there didn't seem to be any explosives but that he was going to remain vigilant until the threat of danger had passed

"I know Constable, now then nothing is scheduled for another two days in any Starfleet or Federation location so we won't know until meetings start happening but so far they've taken your report seriously and are keeping vigilant as well according to daily reports I am getting"

"Then they are aware of mine and Lt. Commander Data's status?"

"Yes, they've been aware since the day after Lt. Commander Data woke up, though that conversation took more time than originally thought"

"I don't doubt it, we'd been dead for several months by that point so they had to make sure of his identity and most likely my identity while I wasn't even available for conversation"

"You have a point Odo, you have a point"

Two days later the vigilance paid off because an explosion went off on Betazed during a conference between two groups who were fighting and had chosen Betazed as the neutral ground and later that day there was a message that Betazed was only the first in an unspecified amount of targets. The only reason things weren't worse off was because of said vigilance, instead of death, mass confusion, mass injury and a breakdown of peace talking there was only mild confusion, one injury which wasn't even serious and the two groups that had chosen Betazed continued the talks and also started discussing with each other the possibility of joining the Federation once they were stable and had proven to be stable for at least 50 years since the two groups that were fighting were from the same planet

"Looks like you were right Constable"

"Indeed, I'll be staying on alert until we're sure the threat is over with...I would suggest increasing security measures if at all possible and I also suggest security drills on a regular basis until further notice as well"

"I'm afraid that the drills are not going to be possible right now for the simple reason that we have a delegation ourselves coming within three days and those drills take time to set up, as for increasing security measures consider it done, no one will get on or off this station without a thorough screening of their belongings and weapons of any kind will be confiscated unless they are a Starfleet or Bajoran officer with the standard phaser of choice for that particular security group"

"Acceptable under the circumstances, is it safe to assume that I have full authority over those checks?"

"Sorry, but I need you and a Starfleet officer to work together for this round, only because of the sheer volume of people coming for this conference, one person cannot arbitrarily say that someone is dangerous to this station you both have to agree depending on the evidence gathered"

"Understood, at least tell me that I am fully in charge of whatever happens on this station"

"That you are, primarily in the Promenade but if something happens on the station you're the one who ultimately decides if someone lands in a holding cell"

"Understood"

The next three days were definitely a hive of activity with ships coming and going depending on what they were doing, if they were simply dropping off supplies or delegates they were delayed for about two hours on average, if they were actually staying for a period for whatever reason they were delayed on average for four hours before anyone or anything was allowed on the station, the only exception being a couple of Starfleet vessels but that was only because of routine security checks done on board the ships, though other vessels didn't like the seeming favoritism not understanding the nature of Starfleet and thus why they were able to leave faster than anyone else, it also helped that for several of the officers coming on board the station they simply beamed aboard into Ops. But finally their own conference was underway and the first two days of a week long event was calm, and then even though a check had been made three different explosive devices were discovered just before they detonated and even that was by chance and one of the explosives was near critical systems

"How did they get passed our security?"

"I have no idea, but I'll be looking into that with the rest of security as soon as possible"

It turned out that Quark was the reason the explosives got past security, and security was actually lucky they figured it out in the first place, but they did and it turned out they were the only ones who currently knew and as such also knew that they needed to handle things delicately because there were times that Quark was not aware of being the reason behind something, it was rare and in between but it did happen (and that was precisely the case this time as well, he had legally imported beverages and a new game table for the game of dabo and unfortunately an explosive was mixed into the order and undetected in the screening)