Chapter Nine: The Cardassian:

Author's Note: The time has finally come for me to update! So here! Enjoy! I don't own Star Trek but Zorek is all mine! Don't touch! XD!

Who thought a cardassian and romulan would be drinking together like best friends? Cardassians and romulans were not enemies but they barely tolerated each other. Zorek pulled out his hidden romulan ale for them to drink only because they couldn't get drunk on synthetics. They both were laughing and enjoying themselves within minutes. But it only lasted an hour...

(Star Trek. Star Trek.)

"So, Marq. How did a cardassian enter starfleet and become chief of security?" Zorek asked holding his glass and sipping the liquid inside slowly.

Marq looked pained.

"Cardassia was only my birth home. I was abandoned on a nearby planet because my legs were misshapen. It wasn't even major. Just a minor, mostly unnoticeable birth defect, but you could see it when I run. When I first ran, my parents eventually put two and two together and left me to die. I was just over a year old! And they left me! They left me!" Marq yelled beginning to cry.

"Hey, I had some hard times too." Zorek admitted.

"Like what?"

"I lost my first born son and my wife to a severe disease. None of the doctors could put a name to it and they just died! They never figured out what killed them! I would do anything in the world just to find an answer but its been years now. Every anniversary of their death, I would go get drunk at a tavern called The Little Rodent. I meet my first officer and best friend there, but that's a whole different story."

"I see. Well, a human couple crash landed on the planet and found me and adopted me. I joined starfleet as soon as I was old enough. It was hard but I earned the crew's trust."

"Maybe we could be friends?"

"Maybe."

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