for the fic prompt meme! 48 seems very quodo, but if anyone picked that already, 9 or 37 :)
@jazzypizzaz also requested 9 :D
9.) “I appreciate thethought, but I don’t need a thousand condoms, thanks.”
Odo reflected that it was past time that he learned to bewareDaxes bearing gifts.
True, Jadzia had seemed sincere enough when she had stopped byearlier to thrust a large wrapped package into his hands. Brimming with mirth, tobe sure, but sincere all the same.
“Quark wanted you to have this,” she had confided in asing-song voice. Instead of answering her directly, Odo had elected to open thebox. Inside were thousands of what looked like a malfunctioning replicator’sattempt at test tubes.
“What are these?” Odo had inquired – not unreasonably underthe circumstances, he thought. He had held one up to the light and given it a gentle shake.
“Ask him. I have no ideawhat they could possibly be.”
In retrospect, that had been his first clue.