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Chapter Thirteen: What Just Happened

Odo

Gathering himself together once more, Odo "looked" around the room he had been placed in. There was a very small surveillance camera in the corner, so he was being watched. Perfect. Slowly but noticeably, he shrunk into a gnat that he was sure couldn't be detected by the camera.

In a few minutes, the Cardassian guard returned to the room. His eyes widened as he saw Odo was, in fact, gone. He ran to the console near the table, no doubt thinking that Gul Dukat would blame him for this escape. In his panic, he didn't think and deactivated the force field. He opened the tube in unbelief and Odo took the chance. He flew out of the tube and hid behind the console, where he thought no one could get him.

Evidently, the guard had seen him as soon as he moved. He ran to the console and started to reach behind it, swiping across its flat surface. Odo quickly flew to the other side of the room as the guard continued to reach behind the console. Odo ventured slowly across the room, trying not to make movements that the Cardassians might detect.

"Hey!" the guard yelled. Odo made a break for the vent in the corner, dodging the Cardassian's large, desperate hands as he went. He was almost there when her was stopped by some unseen barrier. He tried again to get through the slits of the vent, but the invisible wall still held him back. What was going on?

The Cardassian guard yelled, "Gotcha!" Odo was jerked away from the vent forcefully and slammed down on the familiar table once again. What just happened? Odo wondered.

Odo hovered in the air, turning until he faced the door. The Cardassianguard was stalking triumphantly out of the room, away from Odo and the table on which he sat. Odo reverted once more to his liquid state, not seeing much point in being a gnat any longer. It was then that he noticed he had flown into a jar in his attempt to escape throught the vent. Still inside of that jar, he sat with the large glass tube still surrounding him as well, and the force field most likely still engaged.

Odo rested for a while, cooking up a new plan. Aha! If he couldn't get away by stealth, perhaps he could use force.

Dax

Back on the station, Sisko was pacing in his office. Dax knew this not because she could see him in his office, but because she had seen him do it before. When she couldn't take the deafening silence any longer, she stood up from her post in Ops and walked right up to Sisko's office.

With his permission, she entered and wasted no time before saying, "For goodness' sakes, Benjamin, stop pacing!"

Sisko stopped dead in his tracks. "How did you know?" he asked.

"Benjamin, I known you for years," Dax said, exasperated, "and I can tell that you're worried. It's spreading all over the station!" Dax softened her tone and said, "Odo will be fine."

Sisko walked around his desk and stood by his chair. "But what if he isn't? I shouldn't have let him go. How is he going to get away? He didn't even have a plan when he left!"

Dax sighed. "I don't know, honestly," she said. "But he can handle himself. You have to show the crew that you believe in him, go about your normal day in all confidence. Now more than ever, they need encouragement."

Sisko gripped his chair and sighed. "Okay, old man, you've got me. Let's go." They both left together, Sisko's face drained of emotion and Dax's face twisted into a smirk.

I've started Voyager! It's. . . okay so far, I guess. I'm only on the first season, and it's not too exciting. That's okay, though. I'm used to it. It was the same with DS9, and here I am writing fanfics about that! It's a great concept, this find your way home thing. If they ever stop investigating and actually try to get home, they just might actually get there. Seriously, they stop to look at something new every time. They'll never get home at that rate! I didn't realize how much I missed having a Vulcan around until now. Now I'm so happy I've got Tuvok! I think Voyager will be good! (PS: Sorry this chapter was so short, but I don't have much to say right now!)