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Tagged by the fantastic @hollyjinx!

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (or however many you have altogether). See if there are any patterns. Then, tag your favorite authors.

Anyone I would have tagged has already been tagged (I’m pretty sure) so if you want to do this fine but otherwise I’m not tagging anyone. Except @royalvciens ily.

1. The Search Party - Harry Potter; Harrymort

It was a black and misty Forbidden Forest that they entered in search for Harry.

Voldemort’s corporeal patronus- they hadn’t even believed he could cast one before now- had burst into the Great Hall only a short time ago, and they didn’t have to hear his message to understand that something was wrong, for the patronus itself… was a stag.

2. Untitled (WIP) - Harry Potter; Mortal Immortals

Tom and Sanguini were arguing again. And while this wasn’t new, it was extremely annoying.

More annoying than usual, actually. Harry frowned. He looked around at his surroundings- the library, currently, but he’d moved twice already to avoid his two lovers- and noticed that everything seemed… darker, faded. His depth perception was off, and it felt like it was raining in his head despite the weather outside being sunny.

3. Valour (WIP) - Harry Potter; Harrymort

The dream came every night, and it was always the same.

Lying in a coffin, expensive, fit for someone more deserving. Inside the coffin, blood. Filling. Overflowing. Hands clutching a lily. The lily floating to the top but the hands remaining still. Cold. Dead.

A name.

4. The Teaching Assistant (WIP) - Harry Potter; Tomarry

Third year had started off, well, pretty horrible to say the least. So far Harry had blown up his Aunt, ran away, found out that the notorious serial killer and former servant of Voldemort, Sirius Black, was after him, and he’d also managed to faint on the train after being drained of happiness by a dementor.

Not a good start by any means.

So it really shouldn’t have surprised Harry to find that, upon entering the Great Hall, things could get worse.

5. Kings of Flowers and Skulls - Harry Potter; Tomarry

The King of Flowers ruled in the Garden. His rule was peaceful, for his subjects were every variation of every plant in his vast, beautiful garden. Many paths wound their way through tree-lined arches and bridges of vines over the rivers where the water hyacinth grew, but the only path that lead to the King’s throne was the one lined with poppies.

His throne was elevated in an atrium of fountains and sunflowers, with lilies wrapping around his plinth and resting against his feet. Those who whispered about him and his garden, for he was known as a cautionary tale that only few believed, knew him as the King of Flowers. But his plants knew him as Harry Potter.

6. Did You Find Your Bitch in Me (WIP) - Harry Potter; Tomarry

One could argue that Alpha, Beta, and Omega status was somewhat important in the society Harry was used to- the so-called muggle society as he’d learned to call it. Naturally, it became just another thing the Dursleys could punish him for.

7. Untitled (WIP) - Harry Potter; Tomarry/Harrymort

Harry thought, from what the Dursleys said, that it would be dark and dingy. Dungeons, hanging chains, no respite from the cold and damp.

Well, so far he was partly right. As he stepped out of the car, he was drenched immediately in the cold evening air. Little Hangleton, and most importantly, Riddle Manor.

Little Hangleton had once been a quiet twin village to Great Hangleton, Harry knew, but since Voldemort had risen to power the two had merged into a large, bustling city that rivalled even London. As the day was darkening, the night lights were switching on to reveal glamorous skyscrapers some distance away from the manor that they were parked by. Harry could even make out the silhouettes of the three biggest pagodas in the city.

He shuddered.

8. Everything’s Fine in the Beast Division - Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts; Tomarry

It was raining outside when Harry took the lift up to Level 4 of the Ministry of Magic, except it wasn’t technically actually raining and ‘outside’ meant in the fake windows of each of the ministry’s department levels.

9. You Know Me - Harry Potter; Tomarry

“Ron.”

“Not now, Harry, I’m-”

“Ron.”

“Give it a minute-”

“Ron.”

“Honestly Harry, stop hitting me-! Fine, what is it?”

10. To Be Set Free - Harry Potter; Tomarry

The day started, as days usually do, with breakfast. If Harry Potter’s parents hadn’t died in a carriage crash when he was a baby, he might have been eating said breakfast, but Lily and James Potter had died, and so Harry was making breakfast for the Dursleys instead. As he always did, he accidentally made a little bit too much so that he could eat the leftovers later, seeing as the Dursleys hadn’t let him eat with them since he was very young. The Dursleys knew about this, but didn’t stop him as long as he finished every other chore they gave him first.

11. I Could Have Been With Him Forever - Harry Potter; Tomarry/Harrymort

It was not drawn out, nor was it peaceful and accepting, but by this point Tom was used to Harry defying all of his expectations.

Harry’s hands clutched futilely at the bunch of cloth over his wound, trying to keep the blood from pouring out to no avail. His eyes were wide and panicked, and this almost gave Tom hope, for Harry wanted to live and he was not one to lose battles like these so easily.

But Harry wasn’t quite fighting anymore.

12. Untitled (WIP) - Harry Potter; Tomarry

Harry noticed the mysterious, handsome man lurking around the village before it started. ‘It’ being the snakes, of course.

He had seen snatches of the man here and there, just enough to recognise him every time Harry caught a glimpse of him. It wasn’t often. Weeks went by without Harry seeing him, and then on a dewy morning on his way to the shops there would be a flicker in the shadows, and for a second Harry would gaze into those dark eyes before they disappeared again.

13. Thank You Shakespeare - Harry Potter; Tomarry

Harry looked up from his comfortable position in his armchair to find Tom staring at him once again, an indecipherable look on his face.

They spent a lot of their evenings in the Room of Requirement, as neither could enter the other’s common room. The Room itself had subsequently morphed itself into a cosy mixture of the two dorms. Harry felt mildly guilty for not spending quite as much time with Ron and Hermione, but he saw them every day and they insisted they understood, though neither were truly comfortable with Tom yet. Privately he thought they could use the time without him to finally come to terms with their less-than-platonic feelings for one another. When Harry mentioned this to Tom, Tom snorted and then tripped Hermione into Ron’s arms the first opportunity he got. It was endlessly amusing to Harry, but unfortunately (and not so surprisingly) the flushes on his friends’ faces weren’t enough to clue each other in, so they were still dancing around each other.

So yes. Evenings in the Room of Requirement. With Tom. Who Harry certainly wasn’t harbouring deeper feelings for.

14. All Because of an Orange Sky (WIP) - Harry Potter; Tomarry

It began mid-day, as far as anyone could tell. It started with the sky turning orange.

“An illusion,” some said. “It’ll be gone by tomorrow.”

It was not gone by tomorrow.

The three villages- that is to say Little Hangleton, Little Whinging, and Godric’s Hollow- did not panic yet. A small superstitious few lay flowers and other tributes at the shrine in the centre of the three villages, but most remained adamant that the bewitchment would pass. This time, the deadline was the end of the week.

At the end of the week, the sky remained orange.

15. Just a Normal Tuesday Night - Teen Wolf; Stallison

“What time is it?” Allison groans, stretching out and knocking into Stiles, who’d arranged himself into a sitting position next to her. Her neck aches a little but she’s still in the hazy bubble of sleep and doesn’t open her eyes, instead reaching out for Stiles’ hand.

Stiles turns his head, if the sound of his head moving against the stone wall tells her correctly, and Allison still doesn’t open her eyes. “It’s half past twelve. Probably a.m.”

It’s not Stiles’ words that break through to her, nor the oddness of his action, but rather the tired and slightly miserable way that he spoke, and only a few seconds after does it occur to Allison why. She opens her eyes and bolts straight up as her memories return to her.

16. Songs of the Day and Night - Professor Layton; Descolay

They’d been expecting the invasion from the neighbouring kingdom for a while now. King Descole’s army had started to overrun King Bronev’s after months of fighting and Hershel just wanted it to be over. Despite what the servants had to say about it, Leon made him stay in the palace. None dared argue with their cruel King, and he pointed out that since Hershel was his son, the prince, he had an obligation to stay.

And so the invasion grew closer. Leon became more frantic, often even absent, and Hershel became quieter in his presence. He often slipped away in the dead of night to visit the lower, poorer regions of his city while he still could. It was hard to imagine that this was better than most of the rest of the kingdom. He’d heard rumours that King Descole was ruthless and unmatched in battle, but from what Hershel had seen, Descole’s growing kingdom fared much better than his own.

17. The Only One - Supernatural; Samifer

Sam had a dilemma on his hands.

It had been a few months since Lucifer had broken out of the cage again, bringing Michael and Adam with him. It appeared that they had come to an understanding of sorts, as Michael just nodded to them both and Sam before fluttering off, presumably to heaven, leaving Adam staring wistfully at the empty space he’d left.

18. Untitled (WIP) - Merlin; Merthur

It’s been around two minutes since Merlin got on the bus. It’s also been, Merlin believes, around 1,000 years since Arthur died. He’s not quite sure at this point the exact amount of years- he stopped counting his age after he reached 300. No-one would believe him if he told them his real age now anyway. He’s also not sure of how long he’s been on the bus, as he’s broken his watch. He’s not very happy about it.

19. Give Me Back My Body - Captain America; Stucky

Bucky had broken a record by bringing Steve from the Potomac River.

It seemed he was gaining his ability to think again, and he’d gone to the Smithsonian to take back a sense of self. He stayed away for a few weeks, checking in on Steve in the hospital when he was still there (not going in, just in case). He tested himself, made sure that he was safe around civilians by going about a ‘normal’ life, observing them and exposing himself to as many possible triggers as he could.

Nothing triggered him at all, and he was physically doing fine.

20. Come Sweet Death - Captain America; Stucky

The first time Steve Rogers tries to commit suicide is in the winter of 1931, when he’s 13 years old. It’s when Bucky finally finds out about his partial deafness, and his…different version of colour blindness. It’s not much of a big deal to Bucky- he takes it surprisingly well, and is so supportive it makes Steve feel like crying.

Which he does. A lot.

It’s when he’s so sick, literally and figuratively, of his many afflictions, that he’s had enough.

Patterns I’ve found: I’m really melodramatic and I take a long time to get to the point, which is why a lot of these first lines seem like an imperfect cadence. Also I have a lot of unfinished documents.

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