[video] In which Arthur screws up spectacularly.....

[t_point_man]

[Arthur looks pretty annoyed even before he notices the community recording him. He frowns at the screen for a second and then talks.]

Apparently this thing thinks I'm ignoring it, or maybe I should add my two cents in regards of Eames's post. No, I'm not cheating on Ramona because I am a loyal man and, you see, they happen to be the same person.

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[forgerofdreams]

[Eames is just staring, looking like he just got kicked in the teeth.]

Arthur, what the hell are you doing??

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[t_point_man]

[Arthur is very close to hit his head against a wall. But intead he will just punch the wall. What the hell did just happen. Why had had to tell them that...]

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[forgerofdreams]

[And Eames is coming to find you and following the sounds of punching. Because if he's freaking out, he knows Arthur is freaking out twenty times more.

A minute later he's walking in to their hotel room, looking half freaked out and half concerned.]

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[t_point_man]

[He's hating himself like you have no idea. he knew that soon or later the comm was going to screw them, but he didn't expected it to be so bad. And *his* fault.]

[He stares at Eames, a million of different thoughts and concerns in his mind. But all that comes out is...]

Fuck.

[He's swearing. You know it's bad when he does that.]

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[forgerofdreams]

[Oh, he can tell. Eames runs his hands through his hair, but it almost seems easier to be calm when Arthur's freaking out, because it means he can focus on talking him down and not on the fact that this is really bad.]

Alright, look...I mean, it's not the end of the world. Fischer's gone, there's no one else on our world on the community anymore. So it's not like anyone's going to come after us.

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[t_point_man]

[That will be hard. He moves around the room like a caged tiger.]

Fischer had friend on the comm, they might connect the dots. Ariadne can be in danger, you can be in danger. And Cobb specially. There's a lot of 'if's and 'perhaps', and it's my fault.

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[forgerofdreams]

It's not your fault. [His voice is much more serious than it ever is, partly because of how bad the situation is, but partly because if Arthur is losing his cool, somebody needs to stay calm and think this out.] It's a virus, Arthur, the whole community's getting smacked with this.

As far as anyone knows, we just were all on a plane with Fischer one time. If someone asks, we can say we were all traveling together to get to a job; they don't have to know the job happened on the plane ride.

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[t_point_man]

Just as much the other post wasn't yours, but still. [He notices, and pinches the bridge of his nose, trying to think.]

That could...work. [He looks up at him, tired.] I'm sorry.

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[forgerofdreams]

[He shrugs before walking a bit closer.] You don't need to apologize. Like I said, it's not your fault, and I don't think anyone's going to blame you for freaking out a little bit.

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[t_point_man]

[Oh he doesn't need anybody to blame him, he can do that all alone. Arthur shakes his head.]

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[forgerofdreams]

[Eames steps ever closer, reaching up to touch Arthur's face, letting his thumb run over his jawline.]

Stop beating yourself up over this. The whole thing was out of your hands. At least it happened after Fischer left and we'd gone legit. I don't think anyone'll come after us with guns for this.

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[t_point_man]

[Arthur scoffed. His hand went up and grabbed Eames's wrist, but he didn't push away the others man's hand.]

Spike was his friend, and he already suspected that something was up. Do you want an angry vampire after Ariadne or you? I don't you two to get hurt.

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[forgerofdreams]

[Eames smiles the tiniest bit, just because he always likes hearing Arthur say things that show he cares. He keeps his hand where it is, cupping the side of his face.]

If he asks, we tell him the same story: we were on a flight once with Fischer and that's it. Inception's supposed to be impossible, anyway, so it's not like he'll necessarily put together what we did to Fischer's head.

If you want, we can move on. Find another city to lay low in and have Ariadne meet us there. It'll be harder to find us if no one knows where we're supposed to be.

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[t_point_man]

[Of course he cares. He doesn't mention it often but he does. Arthur gives up finally, they will need to wait and see how this goes, is not like he can analyze the damage now, it's too soon.]

Let's pray that works. [Arthur squeezes Eames's wrist for a second, but finally moves away to run a hand over his hair.] We should get on that now. The sooner we leave, the better.

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[forgerofdreams]

Alright. [He nods, thinking.] Most of my things are still in my suitcase anyway. It shouldn't take us too long to pack.

After that, we can just hail a cab and head to the airport and figure out where we're going from there.

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[t_point_man]

I only need a few things. Ariadne seems to be safe for now.