The Start of the Story Game - a fic game for Thursday

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msmoat posted a fic guessing game last night, which reminded me too of the Fic Quotes Games noblesentiments used to post in the discoveredinalj Christmas challenges, and I thought it might be fun to have one here today too, in lieu of a Reading Room discussion, so...

Can you guess these fics, titles and authors, from the beginning paragraphs I've posted below? They're all pretty classic Pros stories, by classic Pros writers - if you adore Pros fic then the odds are high that you will have read them! As MsMoat did at her lj, I won't edit the answers into the post in case late-comers want to play - but I will add in the names of the first people to guess each one!

And no cheating with search engines, as Brownie would say - Now that's not nice...! *g*

( Ten stories to guess... )