Rules: Share the first lines of 10 of your latest fics, and tag others.
1. In Tight Places (All For The Game, incomplete)
It started out as a joke. At least, thatβs what Allison tells Renee during her first week after initiation.
βSomeone put it there a few months ago,β Allison says, waving a hand toward the bright orange dildo in the shower stall. Theyβre standing a few feet away from it, doing their makeup side by side at the long wall of sinks. The dildo hangs off the white tile of the shower wall, held up by a suction cup. Renee vaguely wonders how it hasnβt fallen down yet. βWe still donβt even know who it was, but heβs like our mascot now or something. We call him βKevin Dayβ.β
2. Seeing Double (All For The Game, collab with @aceadoxography, incomplete but all written)
Andrew Minyard flicks his lighter, closes it, flicks it open again and watches the flame burn.
The TSA agent nearby gives him a stern look, and he stares flatly back until she turns away with an eye roll. He wonders, in a detached way, what Wymack would do if he got himself arrested for burning down the airport instead of retrieving his shiny new teammate. Especially considering Wymack doesn't even know Andrew is the one picking Neil Josten up today. It was supposed to be Nicky, because apparently their coach wants their new teammate dead in a car wreck before the season even starts. Well unfortunately for him, Andrew has his own plans.
3. walk me home (All For The Game, complete)
Nathaniel Wesninski is still technically twenty years old, but tonight, Neil Josten is celebrating his legal twenty-first birthday.
Andrew had wanted to go to Eden's, which Neil would have been perfectly fine with. Frankly he would have been fine with nothing at all. But Nicky and the upperclassmen insisted that they all go out in Palmetto today, since the youngest of them was finally of legal drinking age. Obviously the freshmen don't count.
4. hear those horns, you're finished (All For The Game, complete)
It's not until the third time Neil sees him that he realizes Aaronβs twin is dead. Maybe he should be embarrassed about this lapse in judgement, but in Neilβs defense, he didn't know ghosts were real.
5. show you how it's done (Homestuck, complete)
Dave leans against the counter in the farmhouse kitchen, squinting blearily at his cup of black coffee. He slurps at it, grimaces at the bitter taste and wonders if thereβs a single espresso machine within fifty miles of here.
Itβs way too goddamn early to be awake. He canβt even remember the last time he was awake before noon, let alone at dawn. But heβd been shaken awake bright and early by the grumpy farmer heβs staying with, who reminded Dave very bluntly that heβd agreed to work to earn his keep here, hadnβt he? Dave was just glad he wore pants to bed, he had no idea the door didnβt lock, or that the farmer himself would be acting as Daveβs alarm clock.
Not for the first time, he wonders if heβs made a horrible mistake.
6. The Loser Has To Fall (Stranger Things, complete)
Itβs December and the halls of Hawkins Middle School are bursting with excited nerves in anticipation of the Snow Ball. Rumors about whoβs asking who to the dance are flying left and right, and people keep asking Steveβsome more subtly than othersβwho heβs going to ask, and Steve keeps brushing them off. Deflecting.
The thing is, he knows who he wants to ask. Itβs someone heβs been wanting to ask out all year long, actually, but he hasnβt been able to work up the courage.
7. Kings of the Banished (Stranger Things, collab w/ @aceadoxography, incomplete)
(posting the first lines in it that were written by me, since it's a collab)
When Eddie Munson came home with his final grades last month, clutching the sheet of paper that condemned him to repeat senior year for not a second but a third time, Wayne gave him one look and left him alone. There was no way to conceal the stink of shame and anger practically steaming off him, but there was nothing to talk about, either. And Eddie appreciated being able to stew in his room, pissed off at himself, at his shitty teachers, at the whole fucking world, without having to explain himself to the one person he really cared about disappointing.
8. No Expression (Homestuck, complete)
"I'd like to try something new this time."
Rosebot uncrosses her legs and leans forward slightly as she speaks, and you note with pride how her metal joints slide smoothly without the slightest hint of a squeak.
What can you say? You're a devoted father who requires only the best robot bods for his kids.
9. watch my back and keep the blade
The first thing heβs aware of, after the lightning-cracked sky behind Dustinβs tearful face faded away into black, is the warmth. Itβs such a startling feeling, being warm, that it brings him fully into consciousness. He blinks his eyes open and the world is horizontal. His face is smushed against the sun-baked pavement, and he thinks this must be a dream because he hasnβt been warm inβhe doesnβt know how long itβs been.
Someoneβs running over and shaking him by the shoulders, ow, shit, Henderson. Eddie could cry, heβs so relieved to see that little shit alive, but all he manages is a grunt of pain as something on his back scrapes painfully against the ground.
βDustin, get away from him,β he hears a low, unfamiliar voice bark out. βWe donβt know if heβs still possessed.β
10. save me a saturday night (Homestuck, collab with @davekatprompts, incomplete)
(posting the first lines in it that were written by me, since it's a collab)
Dave rubs shampoo into his hair with one hand while he brushes his teeth with the other, half paying attention to the story Dirk is telling him from the other side of the shower curtain.Β
β--and he said My Little Pony is lame, so I kicked him in the dick,β Dirk finishes proudly.
βGood for you, dude,β Dave says, forgetting about the toothbrush in his mouth, which hits the shower floor with a wet clatter. βShitdammit.β He picks it up and sticks it under the shower spray for a moment, then shoves it back in his mouth, talking around it more carefully this time. βNobody goes around insulting a Striderβs taste. You tell him itβs ironic?βΒ
βYeah, but I don't think he really got it,β Dirk admits.Β
βEh, kids are idiots,β Dave says. βPresent company excluded, obviously.βΒ
Thanks for the tag @laurasauras!! I'm tagging @davekatprompts, @aceadoxography, @davidstrider and anyone else who wants to do it :)