Star Trek Imagines

[DS9] Odo - I Never Hated You

"Why does everything blow up in my face, Julian?" you sighed, taking a sip of your drink.

"Figuratively or literally?" he asked, jokingly trying to lighten your mood. A deep sarcastic remark came from behind you. Knowing who it was, you didn't bother so much as to turn around.

"Maybe if you spent more time focusing on your job and less time with Doctor Bashir then perhaps you'd have succeeded." 

All you were trying to do was vent out your frustrations of an experiment in engineering not going to plan with Julian over a drink, and Odo just had to comment. Always, without fail, he'd have some form of quip or a jab at you where he could.

"Must you always be like this?" you asked, boredom and exasperation lacing your words. Every single day he did this, every single day he'd have something to say, and you were at your wits end with it all.

"Only for as long as you continue to fail at doing your job correctly." He huffed and walked away; you were seething. Everything about the way he was irritated you to no end. Snapped out of your thoughts by a hand coming to rest on your shoulder, you breathed out to calm yourself down.

"Lovers quarrels, there's something there with you two, I just know it. I'll be at your wedding one day" Julian commented, the smug smile he always wore and his eyes lit up with mischief. That look, however was met with a less than approving stare from you. You huffed incredulously.

"Or a funeral if he carries on."

You'd spent the rest of your day going about your daily tasks with ease, you were thankful it was one of your relatively stress free days. Though you couldn't help but mull over Julian's words back in Quarks, try as you might.

What did he mean by that? Couldn't he see that you and Odo despised each other, that you couldn't even be in the same room without a fight? You'd wondered if you had missed something, or wondered just what Julian saw that you didn't. Your mind wandered to Odo. He wasn't a bad looking guy, and he could be nice, at least to others, from what you saw. His intelligence and dedication to his job were obvious. 

'What am I doing?' You thought as you mentally slapped yourself. You were supposed to hate him, you were chalk and cheese, fought like cat and dog. Yet, here you were, thinking of him as though you were anything but. Shaking yourself out of your thoughts, you went about your business and pushed it out of your mind.

Odo was in Quarks, as always, keeping a close eye on the Ferengi. His usual. However, Odo found himself distracted too, by thoughts of you from earlier in the day. If he was honest with himself, he didn't know why he acted the way he did toward you. You were smart, a fool could see that. Odo couldn't deny that he found you to be rather beautiful too, despite the incessant need you seemed to have to argue with him. Catching himself in his thoughts, he huffed aloud and continued on his day, patrolling the Promenade, having given up spying on Quark.

A couple of days had passed and neither of you had seen the other, your work keeping you locked in the  engineering room, determined to get your experiment right. Odo was lying to himself if he said he didn't miss you, though he tried his best convince himself it was the argument he missed. 

It wasn't until you were given an away mission together, albeit a small and quick one, that you came together for the first time in around a week. 

"Not with Odo! / Not with Y/N!" You both protested at the same time to Commander Sisko, who just rolled his eyes and sighed. 

"You're going, and you're going together. I need you both to be on top form to finish this, we need to know what's going on down there. Your arguing and petty bickering won't get anybody anywhere. Dismissed."