Prompt Post No. 17
Welcome to Round 17 of the Inception Kink Meme.
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And then there’s a call from Arthur, like clockwork, and Eames says, “I’ve got an incoming call from Arthur, I’m going to take it, alright?” and puts Ariadne on hold before she has a chance to respond. Because that’s how he rolls.
Saito wants to do another inception.
“I thought we were done with him?” Eames asks. “Since Cobb got what he wanted and all.”
“The price is right,” Arthur says. Eames can see him shrugging, a smooth motion of the shoulders that ripples down his back.
“Who’s the extractor?” Eames asks.
“Yusuf, actually,” Arthur says momentarily.
“Yusuf--” Eames says. Yusuf was one of the best, before he decided he’d rather be the best at chemistry. But still. “How did you get him?”
“I imagine Saito made him an offer he couldn’t refuse,” Arthur says. “You know how it goes.”
Eames does, actually, and even though he doesn’t need the money, he says he’ll do it. Maybe Saito knew, or Yusuf, but if Arthur’s on the team Eames will go along with very nearly anything. It’s a stupid weakness, though at least he knows he has it and he knows it’s stupid. Eames likes to think that counts for something, but he supposes Achilles knew that his heel was a bit of a weak point.
“What am I eating?” Arthur says, after the business end of things is taken care of.
“What?” Eames asks, because it barely sounds like anything. Maybe Arthur is moving his jaw.
“I think your phone is shitty,” Eames says, but the noise on the other end continues to be soft and muffled.
“Give up?” Arthur says when he returns to the line, speaking around a mouthful of--something.
“Nothing,” Eames says.
“No,” Arthur replies.
“Cheese?”
“Nope.”
“Fucking kale chips, I don’t even care,” Eames says.
“Marshmallow,” Arthur says. “Dumbass.”
“I was going to guess that next,” Eames says, and earns himself a bright laugh. “What do I owe you?”
“I’ll let you know,” Arthur replies.
“So you took it?” Ariadne asks when she’s back on the line.
“Of course,” Eames mutters. “Not like I really had any choice.”
“See you in Stockholm,” she says, and Eames has to wonder why Saito got it into his head that he needed a Nobel Prize in economics.
After Ariadne hangs up, Eames reheats some of the curry from Yusuf. He wonders if, so long as they’re incepting members of the Nobel committee, Yusuf is going to try to snag himself a prize in chemistry. It doesn’t seem completely unlikely. But the fact that Yusuf is going back to extraction disturbs Eames--it makes him consider the possibility that Yusuf might not be as easy to predict as he thought.
And if that’s the case, Yusuf might be Anthony Ruske.
Eames rereads the first three books that evening, just to check. Not because he reads them obsessively or anything, because that would be pathetic. Everyone--or nearly everyone, Arthur continues to claim he hasn’t--in the dreamsharing community has read all the books in the Dreamers series, mostly to look for clues as to who might have written them. Everyone in the dreamsharing community also derides the books publicly and loudly, for making their (dangerous, extremely difficult) job sound like something a child could do. Eames would like to include himself in the group encompassed by “everyone”, except for the part where he’s read each of the books at least nine times, and there’s a point where you don’t really gain any insight into who Anthony Ruske might be.
For example, somewhere after the seventh description of Grey’s physique (it changes as he gets older, okay) and into third description of Grey’s eyes (which are, incidentally, also grey), Eames decides that Anthony Ruske still isn’t Yusuf. If Yusuf wrote prose, it would probably sound significantly more like his lab notes.
Eames also develops a plausible explanation as to why Oliver didn’t tell Grey about his father, and posts it on the dreamwalkers.com message board. Or, at least he thought it was plausible, until greybet4ever99 offers his or her extremely insightful comments.
Then Eames gets involved in a flame war, drinks some milk, and goes to sleep content.
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I am absolutely looking forward to reading more!
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I am eagerly awaiting more!
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