First lines post

@khorazir tagged me to share the first lines of my most recent 10 fics, so in order of least recent to most, here are my 10 most recent opening lines: 

1. It initially began as concern, though Sherlock wondered even then if the excuse weren’t a little thin. - In the Still of the Night

2. They’re drinking tea in front of the fire one afternoon when Mrs Hudson comes up, her step a little heavier than usual to Sherlock’s ear. - Home for Christmas

3. PS. I know you two, and if I’m gone, I know what you could become, because I know who you really are. A junkie who solves crimes to get high and the doctor who never came home from the war. Well, you listen to me: who you really are, it doesn’t matter. It’s all about the legend, the stories, the adventures…

Mary’s words go on, but somehow John stops listening. - The Bells of King’s College

4. It starts with an email on a Tuesday afternoon sometime in April. - Isosceles

5. When the text comes, John closes his eyes and sighs. - Rebuilding Rome

6. “The National Defence of Traditional Marriage Coalition,” Sherlock reads aloud. - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

7. Interesting, that soldier fellow. He could be the making of my brother. Or make him worse than ever.

Mycroft purses his lips and moves the cursor back to the start of the surveillance video, beginning it at the precise moment where John Watson rushes forward and begins to beat his brother to a bloody pulp. - Sine Nomine

8. John has a secret. - The Secret of Hazel Grange

9. It starts with an event that takes John completely by surprise. - Nocturne

10. Sherlock squints across the narrow, wobbling table and wishes for the seventeenth time that some idiot from behind the bar would come and shore it up with a wedge of serviettes or else just make the floor level, or whatever it would take to keep the thing from swaying precariously every time he forgets and puts his right elbow down onto it again. - Cupid’s Venom

Tagging: Any of you who write!