Prompt Post No. 9

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arthur/eames

[anonymous]

brodway!au

with eames being the best thing since sliced bread as far as singers go! arthur may be an intern in the costume department (and aspiring fashionista attending fashion institute of technology or sth!) so that he would smash his head against the wall everytime eames makes a suggestion about clothes and stuff. the don't get along at first, duh, but it's just the matter of time...

bonus point if they have a fight over something stupid and break up somewhere along the way and then arthur still comes to see eames' preformance and eames can't look away from his face, which almost causes the whole musical to go to hell. and after the show's over they both come to their senses and have makeup sex in empty theatre :P

Filled: It wasn't Paradise, but it was Home [1/9]

[anonymous]

This is so horribly self-indulgent and off from the original prompt that I'm hesitant to post it...we have Eames the actor and Arthur the costume designer and they're working on a musical...and that's about it

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[anonymous]

His annoyance must show on his face, because Eames is directing that charm at him now and Arthur knows that his face must surely be red, and not entirely with anger. Eames is saying something, but Arthur isn't listening, instead stalking back to his makeup room-turned-prison

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[anonymous]

Eames shows up in the doorway of the costume shop a week later (he is wearing a pair of battered turquoise ill-fitting sweats which Arthur would desperately like to take off him and....er, hem), while Arthur is working on the finale costumes. These, at least, are tailored jackets, but that is a small victory considering they are covered in sequins. When Arthur looks up, raising his eyebrow in question, Eames holds up what Arthur recognises to be Mal's sewing kit in answer.
"Mal sent me to help. She said you scared off the freshman assigned to you, but since I'm here on her orders, you can't get rid of me" and Eames is smiling in a way that makes Arthur believe it.
"Can you even-” he starts to ask, but Eames begins rifling through costume sketches, so in the interest of the papers staying in something resembling an orderly stack, he switches to "yours is over here" instead, holding up the sketch labelled 'Paul'
"Giving my costume special attention? I'd be happy to make some suggestions" Eames says, leaning close, in a low voice

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[anonymous]

Arthur sees a run through for the first time two weeks before opening night and a week before costume dress. He watches Ariadne perform 'Nothing' and is struck by how much she's improved since her winter abroad in Paris. He watches a guy whose name he can't remember perform "I can do that" and makes a note to ensure he can actually do the splits in his costume. Behind him, he can hear the ferocity in Mal's note taking and turns to smirk at her. She rolls her eyes in the entirely unlady-like fashion that only French women like Mal can get away with and hisses

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[anonymous]

He ends up outside in the cool spring night, shoving his sweater sleeves down and folding his arms over his chest to ward off the cold. He stares up into the stars barely visible above the city lights and desperately tries to think of anything but Eames. Thinks about rooming with Dom his second year of college, because he hadn't made any good friends his first, and had thrown himself at the mercy of the housing lottery. Meeting Mal. Dom meeting Mal. How they had both gone to see her in 'The Last Five Years' and never looked back, Dom walking away from architecture and Arthur from pre-law. And...fuck.
He really needs to stop getting lost in thought, because Eames is right there, blowing cigarette smoke into the night. Eames offers a cigarette when Arthur draws near, which he accepts. There's something in the smile he gives Arthur as he hands over the lighter, something more open than flirtatious and the moment is so goddamn intimate that Arthur says

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[anonymous]

(sorry for the numbering fail

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[anonymous]

Arthur tells himself (and knows it's a bad sign when he can't even lie convincingly to himself) that he spends the afternoon of the costume dress in Eames's changing room because he has neglected his costume over the past week. Which is definitely why he spends most of the afternoon watching Eames put on flawless imitations of their classmates. And if he's smiling and laughing at the way Eames captures the way Mal abuses her feminine wiles (Eames’s choice of words, not Arthur's) to win every artistic disagreement she gets into with Cobb then, well, he can chalk it up to stress

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[anonymous]

After ensuring all the costumes are properly put away and in place for the next day, Arthur leaves the theatre to find Eames lounging against the stage door, waiting for him. Wordlessly, he brings out a bouquet from behind his back, presenting it to Arthur with a dramatic flourish

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[anonymous]

Most of their group ends up in the City after graduation, with Arthur and Eames sharing an apartment (but only because rent is so expensive, Arthur explains to everybody, and is believed by nobody). Arthur finds a niche in operatic costume design, Eames his place in experimental theatre

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[anonymous]

THIS! I LOVE THIS!

I'm not the OP, but dear lord does the theater!geek in me want to have your children right now! I love everything, your characters were wonderful and I love how you integrated them into the insanity that is the theater group. I love that everyone did a little of everything, I came from a small school so we all pitched in, made the whole experience a million times more fun. And then the Arthur/Eames scenes of adorable! They were fantastic and Arthur wears awful ties as an expression of his love!!!

I'm flaily and pretty sure this review makes no sense at all, but just know that this fic is brilliant and I LOVE YOU!

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[anonymous]

Heh, well, your comment is currently making me flaily!
Yeah, my current theatre group is the same way, so it's hard for me to write actors that only act, etc (some of the thing, like the pancakes, the unsafe sets, are definitely based on things we've done)

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[lilylines]

Oh! This is so lovely. I currently live with two fourth year stage management students so I got almost all the theater references. Score! Lol, but really, this is so charming. I love Arthur as a costume designer. Thank you.

<3

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[anonymous]

Hah, I'm glad you got the theatre references!

Thank you for the comment~

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[framedanddry]

oh man, LOVE this fill so much! i can't even start on what i liked about it cuz it was EVERYTHING. omg. the theatre nerd part of my brain is so satisfied right now, ahaha~ <3

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[anonymous]

I'm glad you liked it!
The theatre nerd part of your brain is a good part to have satisfied :D