First Line Meme

Stolen from tejas: First line of the last 20 fics posted.
I cheated and did not include the ones f-locked on my journal.

1. Ronon blinked his gummy eyes open, the light sharp and painful before it was thankfully shielded by someone or something.

2. John struggled against his bonds, straining against his outstretched arms, feeling the ropes cut deeper into his wrists, tearing the already raw skin open to the cool night air.

3. “This is C4,” the small redhead at the front of the room was saying.

4. “Ooh, somebody has a crush...” a familiar voice whispered just loud enough for her to hear.

5. Though there is the tradition of naming a child after the leaders of a community, not to mention good friends, she could not bring herself to name her son after him.

6. It was her own fault really, she supposed.

7. The bright light burned his eyes and he blinked against it, trying to adjust after too many days without it.

8. “Rodney!” Teyla’s voice ripped through her throat as she rushed to her fallen teammate.

9. “Is this what it’s like?” he wondered in hushed contemplation.

10. It was Major Lorne that found him first.

11. Once upon a time in a village far, far away lived a young man by the name of Rodney McKay.

12. Laura lay spread-eagle on the bed, wrists tied to the headboard, naked as the day she was born.

13. He must be dreaming.

14. A scraped knee.

15. “Seriously, Jackson, you drink this stuff?” Mitchell asked in wonder.

16. “This is such a bad idea,” Rodney moaned, pacing the length of the barn where they had just stabled their horses.

17. “Shit!” Sheppard grunted as the bullet hit its target.

18. “Teyla is not amused.”

19. The bullet came careening at him, impacting with flesh, tearing through tissue, demolishing vital internal organs before coming to rest beside his spine.

20. The weapon hung heavy in her hand.