*Found: Multi-chapter A/E fic. Young Eames is in Arthur's care, runs away, reunited later on a job.
Thanks to charybidis who found this for me: Here's a Thing that Isn't Happening by Helenish.
I'm looking for a bunch of loosely connected stories that make up this great multi-year Arthur/Eames arc. Arthur is in the mind-heist business, but somehow ends up looking after teenage Eames. They have some chemistry, there might be some fooling around and definitely some angst, and Eames runs away. They meet up several years later and . . .
Several plot details that are sticking with me from later sections of this fic:
-Arthur goes to visit a booty call OFC, a professor of something literary, somewhere in Europe while he trys to work out all his Eamesy feelings. He accidentally damages a book (spilled wine? bathtub? I don't remember) and promises to replace it.
-The job where they meet is somewhere in very cold Scandinavia. At one point Arthur breaks into a pharmaceuticals plant and steals a bunch of meds to help frame their mark.
-Arthur is injured from a previous job, and Eames ends up changing a dressing on his back.
-There is a vague possibility Eames begins this fic as an underage rent boy. Or perhaps that was a different story. I think he was already involved in shady dealings when he came under Arthur's care.
I'm looking for a bunch of loosely connected stories that make up this great multi-year Arthur/Eames arc. Arthur is in the mind-heist business, but somehow ends up looking after teenage Eames. They have some chemistry, there might be some fooling around and definitely some angst, and Eames runs away. They meet up several years later and . . .
Several plot details that are sticking with me from later sections of this fic:
-Arthur goes to visit a booty call OFC, a professor of something literary, somewhere in Europe while he trys to work out all his Eamesy feelings. He accidentally damages a book (spilled wine? bathtub? I don't remember) and promises to replace it.
-The job where they meet is somewhere in very cold Scandinavia. At one point Arthur breaks into a pharmaceuticals plant and steals a bunch of meds to help frame their mark.
-Arthur is injured from a previous job, and Eames ends up changing a dressing on his back.
-There is a vague possibility Eames begins this fic as an underage rent boy. Or perhaps that was a different story. I think he was already involved in shady dealings when he came under Arthur's care.