"Chapter 3, Surprise"
"Surprise? Doesn't sound too good," Garak said to himself while walking along the empty corridors. Everybody was at the party and he was glad Valentina promised that they could spend the evening alone. They always needed to pay attention that nobody saw them together, the Security chief of Starfleet and the spy of the Cardassians.
He walked around the corner and encountered Valentina leaning against the wall. "Have I already told you that you're so beautiful in that dress?" he asked smilingly. His light blue eyes staring down at her pretty face.
"No, not yet," she smiled back. Her dress was knee-long, her back was mostly free and the black underpinned the contrast of her white skin and her black hair. Her black eyes made it look perfect and he had to admit, that the look of her eyes could lightly scare him.
"You're so beautiful in that dress," he repeated and put his hands around her waist.
"Thank you," she whispered and took his head. "Let's go somewhere where we can see the stars. Everybody is at the party, so we don't have to care much for not being seen."
He nodded and still his hand on her waist they walked away. They entered a corridor with windows on the right side.
"Isn't that beautiful?" she asked and they stopped, staring outside. She leaned her head on his shoulder and Garak must admit that somehow he had really developed a sort of feelings for her.
He was torn out of his thoughts, when suddenly a quake rocked the station. "What was that?" he asked surprised and looked around. He turned back to the window in time to see how a disruptor hit the upper docking pylon.
"Fucking hell," he cursed and they shortly looked at each other before running back to the party. They entered the promenade and saw that action has begun here as well. "What happened?" Dax screamed and a Bajoran woman was lying on the ground next to her. Another quake occurred, presumably another disruptor hit. "We're under attack," he screamed as an answer.
"Everybody to battle station!" Sisko screamed as loud as he could. He had managed to get to a console and was now noticing the attack himself. He pressed his communicator: "Sisko to everybody. We're under attack. All hands on battle stations."
Then he walked over to where Worf, Dax and Kira stood. "Let's go to ops," he proposed but before anybody could do another move, main energy was gone and suddenly all light went out.
It took just a few seconds before emergency energy was on again, but all doors were locked. Nobody could leave the Promenade. Garak looked around for any explanation but it seemed that also the senior officers didn't have one.
Everything went quiet all of sudden and Garak saw why. Several people were beaming on the station, on the upper deck and on the lower one. And there was no doubt they weren't also beaming on the other decks. But Garak's breathe stopped when he noticed that all the intruders with rifles in their hands were Cardassians.
And only seven meters away from him, exactly in front of Captain Sisko, Gul Dukat was now standing, in a Cardassian military uniform.
"Surprise," he said and smiled at the scared people he saw.