ABC.
Words: 438 Couple: Andy McNally and Sam Swarek.
TV Show: Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer: All characters you recognize do not belong to me.
AU.
Established Andy/Sam.
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Prompt: Xis.
(Prompt sort of from ForRomance [fanfiction] who suggested the Scrabble thing)
"So you'll name a dog after a character from To Kill A Mockingbird," Andy McNally laughs, staring at the Scrabble board, "But you can't think of a better word than 'hello'?"
"I'm ashamed of you Sam Swarek, ashamed!" Traci Nash cries with a laugh as she enters the D's office again.
"I think it's stage fright," Oliver remarks with a grin.
"Yeah, Andy's here so he'd afraid of being to nerdy," the female detective agrees as she takes her seat.
Watching him rolls his eyes, Andy smirks. They have been at the game for hours, going back and forth between it and the door that leads to where they're sitting, listening to Frank Best's announcements on how they're going with getting out of the quarantine.
This time around, Andy wasn't going to let herself be fazed by the quarantine. With nowhere to be and no one to see outside of the Division, with her father away for the week, she was content to sit there and watch her boyfriend lose – miserably – at Scrabble.
Her eyes fell to her own letters and then back to the board. For a moment she was annoyed with her lack of vowels and her sum of x's and y's, but when she came across one of Sam Swarek's lazy attempts at a turn, she let a smile form.
"Yep, Andy's got it," Traci groans, pushing her tiles away, "Oh I'm out."
"So easily will you admit defeat Detective Nash, so easily."
"No, I just know that right now you've got really strange letters and you're gonna start bringing out those god damn words that make my brain hurt. I mean. Qi. What the hell is that!"
"Something about life energy in Chinese philosophy," Andy shrugs, waving a hand at her friend, "Maybe you'd know that these words are allowed if you had actually read the book."
"You suck Andy McNally. Just play."
She fingers the x tile for another moment, her eyes going over the board once more before she finally places the letter.
"Xis?" Oliver questions.
She looks up in time to watch Sam frown before saying, "That's not a word."
"Sorry Swarek, it is," Traci sighs, "She's done it before, and she had the book to back her up. It's the 14th letter of the Greek Alphabet, and it most definitely is a Scrabble word."
"You're cheating," he accuses her.
"Me? Cheating? I would never."
With a smirk she just watches as he scowls at her, and she's watching his eyes haze over as Frank Best's voice booms through the division again.
"We'll discuss this later."
"I guess we will Detective."
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Next Prompt: Yes.
It was three letters, and the word had rolled off her tongue so easily before.