Fic: and be young men together - Looper/Inception, NC-17
Title: ...and be young men together
Fandom(s): Looper/Inception
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 500
Summary: It happens to Joe on April 15, 2044.
Author's Note: This had to happen. I knew as soon as I saw the movie. Before, maybe.
It doesn't happen often, but it happens. A looper lets a hit get the best of him, the mark goes running off around the past... like the future isn't waiting there, to get him, at the end of everything.
It happens to Joe. On April 15, 2044, a guy appears on Joe's plastic... yelling at him in French, and Joe raises his blunderbuss to blow the guy away. Joe usually moves too fast to hear what the marks have to say before he kills them... And when he doesn't, it's some fat, old fuck he hears promising him market tips if he puts his gun down. Anything if he'll just walk away. This voice is young and rough. Accented. Something gritty layered over something smooth- or maybe vice versa. Joe's been learning French, planning for retirement...
And what the guy says is: '-off my fucking head, you pussies, and we'll see then, won't we?'
Joe hesitates. Just long enough that the mark gets to his feet... lunges at Joe. Manages to get him to the ground... Joe doesn't know how the fucker accomplishes taking him down, but then- Joe doesn't know Eames.
But he will...
By the time Joe is forced to shoot him in the head, Joe knows Eames better than it's healthy for a looper to know a person.
And Joe survives. Barely. He loses a couple of fingers (unimportant ones) and some teeth; most of his silver. By the time Joe's loop closes, Joe has just enough money to eat off of in a smaller, crappier, apartment and give up dropping. He can't travel to France. Not at first...
But on April 15, 2074, Joe arrives in Paris. And he kills everybody.
It doesn't happen often, but it happens... that a Looper falls in love.
It happened to Joe, thirty years ago, and Joe's planned for this day ever since.
Eames doesn't know him, of course, but he's all for helping Joe take down the bastards who tried to take him out - and reap the rewards of their downfall. One of those rewards being the time travel technology that introduced them in the first place...
"You trust me, Eames?" Joe asks one day. Eames looks at him, and when he sees the look in Joe's eyes he says, "With my life, Old Man." Then he smirks. "Ironic, isn't it?"
Joe arms Eames with information... He straps Eames with Kevlar and sends Eames back.
On April 15, 2044, Eames appears on Joe's plastic. Joe doesn't know how Eames accomplishes taking him down, but then... Joe doesn't know Eames.
But he will.
As soon as that fucking bag comes off, Eames stares down at the face of the man pinned beneath him. The younger (and even handsomer) face of the man that he is apparently meant to stand beside, thoughout time. Eames ignores Joe's curses... and kisses the ornery bastard.
'Ready to change the world again, Old Man? Eames thinks. And he grins against Joe's lips as Joe kisses him back.
[End.]
Fandom(s): Looper/Inception
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 500
Summary: It happens to Joe on April 15, 2044.
Author's Note: This had to happen. I knew as soon as I saw the movie. Before, maybe.
It doesn't happen often, but it happens. A looper lets a hit get the best of him, the mark goes running off around the past... like the future isn't waiting there, to get him, at the end of everything.
It happens to Joe. On April 15, 2044, a guy appears on Joe's plastic... yelling at him in French, and Joe raises his blunderbuss to blow the guy away. Joe usually moves too fast to hear what the marks have to say before he kills them... And when he doesn't, it's some fat, old fuck he hears promising him market tips if he puts his gun down. Anything if he'll just walk away. This voice is young and rough. Accented. Something gritty layered over something smooth- or maybe vice versa. Joe's been learning French, planning for retirement...
And what the guy says is: '-off my fucking head, you pussies, and we'll see then, won't we?'
Joe hesitates. Just long enough that the mark gets to his feet... lunges at Joe. Manages to get him to the ground... Joe doesn't know how the fucker accomplishes taking him down, but then- Joe doesn't know Eames.
But he will...
By the time Joe is forced to shoot him in the head, Joe knows Eames better than it's healthy for a looper to know a person.
And Joe survives. Barely. He loses a couple of fingers (unimportant ones) and some teeth; most of his silver. By the time Joe's loop closes, Joe has just enough money to eat off of in a smaller, crappier, apartment and give up dropping. He can't travel to France. Not at first...
But on April 15, 2074, Joe arrives in Paris. And he kills everybody.
It doesn't happen often, but it happens... that a Looper falls in love.
It happened to Joe, thirty years ago, and Joe's planned for this day ever since.
Eames doesn't know him, of course, but he's all for helping Joe take down the bastards who tried to take him out - and reap the rewards of their downfall. One of those rewards being the time travel technology that introduced them in the first place...
"You trust me, Eames?" Joe asks one day. Eames looks at him, and when he sees the look in Joe's eyes he says, "With my life, Old Man." Then he smirks. "Ironic, isn't it?"
Joe arms Eames with information... He straps Eames with Kevlar and sends Eames back.
On April 15, 2044, Eames appears on Joe's plastic. Joe doesn't know how Eames accomplishes taking him down, but then... Joe doesn't know Eames.
But he will.
As soon as that fucking bag comes off, Eames stares down at the face of the man pinned beneath him. The younger (and even handsomer) face of the man that he is apparently meant to stand beside, thoughout time. Eames ignores Joe's curses... and kisses the ornery bastard.
'Ready to change the world again, Old Man? Eames thinks. And he grins against Joe's lips as Joe kisses him back.
[End.]