20x first lines

[ndnickerson]

appropriated from suffisaunce



i'll try to go in reverse published order... (title, fandom, pairing, series if any)

1. "Mr. Mason scared her, those first two weeks." (all the rest, perry mason, perry/della)

2. "Ned found their youngest daughter on the ground, legs sprawled in front of her." (skinned knees, nancy drew, nancy/ned, mail order bride)

3. "'It's nothing.'" (helpless, nancy drew, nancy/ned, ~red label)

4. "Nancy had her arms linked in Bess and George's as the three of them broke through the double doors and spilled onto the manicured lawn at River Heights High, all in high spirits." (until, nancy drew)

5. "Nancy was crying in her sleep when her husband woke her." (admonition, nancy drew, nancy/ned, red label)

6. "Nancy had two options: start talking to Ned, thereby breaking her cover, and endure what was probably going to be one of the worst fights they had ever had, or get blind staggering drunk to avoid dealing with it." (a multitude of sins, nancy drew, frank/nancy/ned)

7. "She hadn't lied. Not really. Not exactly." (out of dodge, nancy drew, nancy/ned)

8. "He comes in humming something under his breath, but it isn't a happy song." (come closer, nancy drew, nancy/ned, red label)

9. "They were out on a commercial fire alarm call that turned out to be false." (trebuchet, nancy drew)

10. "Her head was still pounding a little from her unexpected trip down the waterfall, and the pounding beat a fierce tattoo against her skull when Ned's lips touched hers, his hands glancing over her cheeks before he gathered her to him." (undone, nancy drew, nancy/ned)

11. "She kept seeing a briefcase. It was a handsome briefcase, but a briefcase nonetheless; she saw its faintly transparent outline where the light changed between buildings, in the crack between a door and the frame, in the shadows under tables and chairs." (blue stars, nancy drew, nancy/ned, letters)

12. "Nancy sat at one of the picture windows, watching the snow beat against the glass." (worth the wait, nancy drew, nancy/ned)

13. "'Come on!' Nancy called from the passenger side of the car, her sunglasses pushed up onto her hair." (aside, nancy drew, bess/oc and nancy/ned, red label)

14. "Nancy walked through the front doors of the Morning Record building that cool Friday morning with her eyes down." (echoes, nancy drew, nancy/ned, the tallest tower)

15. "'Nan?'
'In here,' Nancy Drew called back, from the couch in her living room, keeping her gaze on the television set even as her longtime boyfriend and occasional coconspirator Ned Nickerson made his way around to sit beside her." (web of deceit, nancy drew, nancy/ned)

16. "She's all in gold." (mellitus, nancy drew, nancy/ned, rain on a tin roof)

17. "She wakes every morning thinking his name." (tidal breath, nancy drew, nancy/ned, the tallest tower)

18. "'I thought you said we were getting up at 9 a.m.'" (serendipity, nancy drew, nancy/ned)

19. "She already has the coffee waiting and the air conditioner going full-blast when he slides into the passenger seat of her Mustang, a homemade CD jewel case in his hand." (the tallest tower, nancy drew, nancy/ned)

20. "'She's not here.'" (the scale, nancy drew, nancy/ned, rain on a tin roof)