Come In, Please (Inception, Arthur/Eames, rated R)

[hansbekhart]

Title: Come In, Please
Author: hansbekhart
Rating: R (violence, disturbing imagery)
Summary: "Never Have I Ever" is never a good idea. Arthur/Eames, Inception.
Notes: So I'm not dead, still. This is unabashedly the most romantic thing I've ever written. It still has dead bodies in it. Thank you as always to essenceofmeanin for holding my hand and pointing out my overuse

Comments

[labseraph]

This fic has left me starry eyed. The lyrical prose, the evocative descriptions but most of all, how the whole story is imbued with longing and passion.

His movements around the flat are tidy, which is how Eames knows he’s already drunk. Drunk and still able to murder three men in an alley. Maybe that’s the point of Arthur showing Eames this memory, like Eames doesn’t already know that Arthur is a very, very dangerous man.

(...)
Not the sort that tends towards flowers and casual affection, but the sort that will stand up with a cheap microphone and a glass of wine to inform the world that although he has seen and done terrible things, the fact that love exists as it does between Dom and the brand new Mal Cobb makes him believe that all the pain in the world is worth it. That seeing for his own eyes that there could be two halves of a whole made everything worth it. And that even if it ended in pain and suffering, it would still be worth it.

I adore the way you write Arthur; very close to what I saw on the screen and yet with an extra dimension that continues to surprise and make me fall in love. Having it all from Eames' viewpoint just made the poignancy even more delectable.

Thank you for sharing.

[hansbekhart]

Thank you very much! I found Arthur a little hard to write, honestly - he's such a passive, pursued character for most of this that it was tough to, hmmm, wrangle him back into being a purposeful character. I'm really glad you enjoyed reading it :).