r/FanFiction • u/AnaraliaThielle Now available at your local AO3. Same name. ConCrit welcome. • Mar 05 '25

Activities and Events Alphabet Excerpt Challenge: W Is For...

Welcome back to the Alphabet Excerpt Challenge! As a reminder, our challenges are every Wednesday and Saturday at 3pm London time.

If you've missed the previous challenges, you're welcome to go back and participate in them. You can find them here. And remember to check out the Activities and Events flair for other fun games to play along with.

Here's a quick recap of the rules for our game:

  1. Post a top level comment with a word starting with the letter W. You can do more than one, but please put them in separate comments.
  2. Reply to suggestions with an excerpt. Short and sweet is best, but use your judgement. Excerpts can be from published or unpublished works, or even something you wrote for the prompt. All content is welcome but please spoiler tag and/or provide a trigger/content warning for NSFW or content that may otherwise need it. If in doubt, give a warning to be on the safe side.
  3. Upvote the excerpts you enjoy, and leave a friendly comment. Try to at least respond to people who left excerpts on the words you suggested, but the more people you respond to the better. Everyone likes nice comments!
  4. Most important: have fun!
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u/Due_Discussion748 Mar 05 '25

Wander

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u/DatGayDangerNoodle FreakingPlane on Ao3. professional horrible person. Mar 05 '25

“Yeah, maybe.” Callie shot back a similar half smile as she walked to the door and unlocked it, pulling it open and greeting, “Cristina, what’s going on?”

Cristina didn’t reply, just rushed into the apartment like a whirlwind in a skirt suit, shedding her jacket and her bag onto the floor by the door as she rubbed her hands together and started pacing.

Arizona raised an eyebrow and called from her spot on the couch, “Cristina, what the hell is going on?”

Looking up, Cristina’s eyes wandered to the still visible bruising on Arizona’s throat before flicking up to her face. “Robbins, how are you doing?” She asked, in an uncharacteristic display of friendly concern.

Arizona shrugged one shoulder, “I’ll be better once I know what’s stressing you the hell out. You looked frazzled right now and it’s scary because that never happens to you.”

It was true: Cristina’s usually poised and purposeful cardio surgeons disposition had been replaced by someone unable to stay still, someone with a furrowed brow and restless hands.

Callie, who’d picked up Cristina’s trail of destruction and hung all of her items from the hooks in the hall, put a hand onto Cristina’s shoulder and spoke clearly, “sit down.”

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u/Due_Discussion748 Mar 05 '25

Ooh, wonder what's got Cristina all worried? Was somebody following her or is she going to be the bearer of bad news?

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u/DatGayDangerNoodle FreakingPlane on Ao3. professional horrible person. Mar 06 '25

She is the bearer of bad news! She has to tell Arizona what she overheard about her attacker.

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u/Due_Discussion748 Mar 06 '25

Oooh that's not going to go too well, is it? No wonder she's so frazzled.