Prompt Post No. 19
Welcome to Round 19 of the Inception Kink Meme.
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...Moving on. A and E had a relationship or a fling before, and something happened that has set them up for their angsty and angry interactions now, to the dismay of the team. The actual meat of this prompt: Eames sees the aurora borealis (or australis) from space for the first time, and he calls Arthur over to watch it. Eames is struck by the sight, and maybe chokes up a teeny bit because it's that breathtaking.
"It's beautiful, isn't it," he breathes, and Arthur is watching Eames' face. Arthur is still looking at him when he says quietly, "It's lovely."
Weird prompt is weird and long. And floaty.
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So, I might've started writing it? Give me a few days and I'll hopefully have some sort of something up :)
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Really?! :DDDD /runs off squeeing
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It’s cold when he wakes up.
It’s always cold on the station.
Space is like that: at once, colder and hotter than you can ever imagine.
Arthur swings his legs out of bed and tries not to remember what it feels like to wake up wrapped in another’s warmth.
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He is monitoring their position and making his daily alignments when he hears Eames.
“...the engines have proven they can handle it, Yusuf, and Saito’s been telling me for weeks that the fuel levels are more than --”
“And I’m telling you, Eames, you have to ask Arthur. He’s our navigator, not to mention second in command.”
“Yeah, well we all know why that is, don’t we?” Eames retorts, sullen.
Arthur winces, that one stings.
They enter the pit together. Arthur spins his chair round and pretends not to have heard.
“Eames here has something he would like to propose to you, Arthur ( ... )
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Arthur and Eames meet first week basic training. Eames is broad, still wearing his dog tags and has the easy grace of someone who knows how to get what they want. Arthur is 22, has a black belt and a head full of facts; facts and Eames.
Professionally, they work well together, more than well; each making up for what the other lacks. It’s almost predictable, until it isn’t.
They fuck precisely once during that time, and for years afterwards whenever he thinks of it Arthur’s whole body floods and thrums with a warm fervour.
Protocol splits them up. Arthur and 39 other participants are dispatched to a new location to hone and show off their relative skills.
(And, for a good majority of his day, Arthur focusses on anything other than the way Eames’ thumbs had caressed his palms or how his voice had sounded as he’d panted out an “Arthur, love.”)
These things happen.
So, of course; of course after all Arthur’s hard work he lands himself in the same final team as Eames. Of course that happens ( ... )
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“Same as he was last time, Arthur” Ariadne quips.
“You know, I am technically your Captain.”
She gives him a mocking, two-fingered salute and Arthur smirks back; “Thank you.”
“So, oh great leader, Saito tells me you’re not coming to the viewing.” Ariadne tries to look uninterested by busying herself with her monitors.
Arthur shakes his head, “Nope, far too busy I’m afraid.”
Stock, standard answer.
He’s flashed an unimpressed look, at which he raises an eyebrow and nothing more is said.
Somewhere in the back of his consciousness, Arthur appreciates that avoiding Eames is childish, if a little bit pointless in a crew of 9 people (minus two Cobbs).
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Arthur likes the station at night.
Mostly for the silence; Space is never particularly loud, but during working hours the station buzzes with life. It has to.
Arthur appreciates it more when everyone is asleep and complying with their fictional daylight/nighttime schedules.
“Des yeux qui font baisser les miens,
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche,”He knows why he ( ... )
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[Arthur is struck by his own sheer brevity]
[Watching as the lights reflect off his skin and in the shine of his eyes]
And the little things in all the parts, from the station being cold, to space being quiet, the characters--I could just see them floating around in their suits (or walking, if this is the future with artigrav) and Yusuf being Yusuf and Arthur being scientific and stoic and Eames being so *Eames.*
!!! I just saw and read the epilogue. Oh my, again so beautiful and adorable and made me smile.
You know, the inspiration for this was from, of all things, playing Skyrim and watching Bethesda's version of the auroras, and then *I* went to youtube and watched the real thing for hours ;) and THEN I saw a video of them from SPACE and this prompt happened.
And then this gorgeous fill happened, and I am so happy. :)
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