Prompt Post No. 17

[inception_anon]

Welcome to Round 17 of the Inception Kink Meme. Prompting System

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[anonymous]

Mr. Eames & the Story of His Life as Told by Another

When it comes to light that the title for the fourth book in the Dreamers quartet is Inception, Eames knows within the hour. When Anthony Ruske sells the film rights for the quartet to Warner Brothers for an undisclosed amount, Eames knows immediately

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[anonymous]

Eames comes up with the idea that Anthony Ruske might be Robert Fischer based primarily on the fact that he’s eliminated all the other individuals involved with the inception job. It’s worth a try, anyway; Fischer shouldn’t remember the inception, but he could, and who knows what ridiculous career path he selected for himself after dismantling his father’s empire. With that as evidence, Eames tries and fails to locate Fischer, and that’s when he realizes he needs to call Arthur

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[anonymous]

“Arthur says it’s not Fischer,” he offers.

“Oh, brilliant,” she says. “That’s so helpful. I totally thought Fischer was Anthony Ruske.”

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor,” Eames says, and hangs up on her.

Ariadne calls him back.

“I don’t understand why you trust Arthur, anyway,” Ariadne says. “It could be him.”

“Oh, absolutely,” Eames says. “I’m sure Arthur wrote a kids’ book.”

“It’s not a kids’ book,” Ariadne says. “It’s a young adult series with huge crossover potential. And I thought sarcasm was the lowest form of humor.”

“It is when you use it,” Eames snipes. He returns the gherkins to the fridge and takes a moment to stare at it again: milk, gherkins, meat, leftover curry from Yusuf, if he doesn’t get a job soon he’ll need to go grocery shopping, and he has a policy against being at the house for more than three trips to anything that might constitute a grocery store. In Mombasa that usually means some combination of small stores and markets, but it’s the thought that counts

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[stalker_magnet3]

He considers going to the washroom to make morose faces at himself in the mirror.
O_O OMGOD, I also do this when I'm sulking!

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[anonymous]

Ariadne comes back on the line, “Arthur--he’ll probably be calling you in a sec

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[jibrailis]

Anonthor, this is absolutely delightful. It contains all of my favourite things. 1) Writers, 2) Meta on writers and fiction, 3) Meta that then doubles back to be meta about Inception, 4) Eames being particularly dogged, 5) Internet debates about whether fictional characters are sleeping together or not, 6) A hint of mystery, and 7) Clever and delightful humour.

I am absolutely looking forward to reading more!

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[stalker_magnet3]

Amen :)

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[staticlights]

Nonny, this is really lovely. I love the humor and the metahumor and Eames starting flame wars and Saito wanting a nobel prize and basically everything about this.

I am eagerly awaiting more!

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[silentsiren47]

This is so excellent! Can't wait to read more.

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[anonymous]

I'm enjoying this so much! I love the humor and the interaction between the characters. I'm looking forward to reading more!

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[anonymous]

This is great! I'm looking forward to more :)

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[anonymous]

Awesome

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[anonymous]

Eames and Yusuf share a flight to Stockholm. More rightfully it’s a series of flights, but they share them all, moving through terminals with the greatest of ease. They don’t actually sit together on any of the planes, though, because Yusuf got upgraded to first class

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[anonymous]

From the airport they go to the warehouse; Annelise Nelson, an extractor based in Stockholm, found it for them as a payment for some favor she owed Arthur. It’s big and spare, precisely as a warehouse should be, but as of yet there’s no furniture

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[anonymous]

The size of the warehouse does not at all explain why Eames has abandoned his shirt by the time Arthur shows up. It’s summer in Stockholm, but it’s not warmer than Mombasa, where he tends to keep his shirt on. But somewhere in his attempt to put up the first wall Eames thwacked his thumb with a hammer, and then it started bleeding and at the time it made sense to sit down under one of the windows and swaddle his hand in the cotton of his shirt, to staunch the bleeding. Then he drifted off, the way one does, and then there was someone coughing above him

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[anonymous]

When the walls are finished, Arthur steps back for a moment to admire his fine craftsmanship and Eames’ sloppy handiwork.

“You know,” he says, sloe-eyed, “these walls won’t block noise very well.”

“I guess we’ll have to be quiet, then,” Eames replies. His voice comes out uncommonly soft, edging intimate, and he’s looking at Arthur, who’s looking at him.

They share a moment there. It’s hard to quantify; it’s the sort of thing Eames and Arthur have shared before in brief flashes, though not for some time. Moments like this are why Eames has always come away from Arthur more uncertain than when he began. Because Arthur, yes, of course, Eames will take any job Arthur’s on, because he likes Arthur. Not in a stupid, primary school way, but in the way that grows out of layered experiences, sharing things in common, lazy conversations in the late night haze of work, competitiveness that allows the pair of them to be somewhat better than they were before. Yes, yes, yes. And Eames had rather suspected Arthur liked him, because you don’t