Just because I love this movie so much!
It had been a month since he had returned home. A month since it all ended and he was with his children again. Sometimes he wondered if it was real or not. It was just too good to be true.
He didn't keep in touch with the team anymore. Not even Arthur, or Eames. It was just too painful for him to remember the past. He wanted desperatly to forget about it. It was the only way he could move on from Mal.
Mal. He refused to think about her for more than a minute. He didn't want her trapped in his mind again. The phone rang, jolting him back to this reality. Miles answered it. A look of confusion crossed his face.
"It's for you," he said. "It's Araidne."
Cobb frowned in surprise.
"Araidne?"
He could barley understand her, she was crying so hard. "Araidne, what's wrong?"
"They have him!" She gasped in between sobs.
"Who has who?"
"Saito's enemies...they have Arthur!"
The color drained from Cobb's face.
"What...why do they have him?" His voice was shaking. Arthur was in trouble...because of him.
"They want Inception," She sobbed. "They want to know how to plant an idea in someone else's mind. They are torturing him for information, on how to do it."
He closed his eyes.
"Goddamn it!"
"Eames is here, and so is Saito..." she paused, and her voice wavered. "But we need you, Cobb! Arthur needs you." She was on the verge of tears.
He sighed. He wanted to forget about th past but he couldn't leave Arthur like that. Not when Arthur had done so much for him. He swallowed and nodded.
"I'll be there as soon as I can," he promised.
"Thank you, Cobb," she gasped. "Thank you so much."
"You're leaving again," Miles said sullenly as he hung up the phone.
"Arthur's in trouble." He grabbed his jacket. "I have to buy a plane ticket."
"You JUST got back! Let them take care of whatever mess they are in!"
"Arthur is being tortured, because of me!" Cobb shouted to him. "Because I know how Inception works, because I made it possible. I'm not going to lose Arthur, too, Miles. I'm just not."
Miles sighed.
"The children..."
"They're used to me being gone," Cobb said shortly. "They'll adjust."
"They might hate you for this."
"I'm going to have to take that chance." Quietly he left the room to by the tickets, even though he wished more than anything to return home. To never leave his children's sight again. But he had too, for Arthur's sake.
Arthur screamed as electricity rushed through his body.
"How DOES Inception work?" One of the men growled. "How is it possible to plant an idea in someone else's head and have them think it's their own? And what are the tools involved in order to get to that point?"
Arthur closed his eyes. He had been showered with questions about Inception. About how going into the dreamworld works. About how they could use it for their own power, for their own greed.
He refused to answer any of them.
"WHAT is the process of Inception?" His kidnapper screamed at him. He remained mute.
"Fine," the man growled and had the wires removed from his chest. He then dragged Arthur off the chair and stood him up. Quickly he rose the arms above Arthur's head and chained him to the cealing. Arthur was too exhausted to fight.
He flinched as the wip first hit his chest and back. But then the pain got more and more intense. He wanted to scream but before they started the main kidnapper stuffed a cloth in his mouth. Tears ran down his face as the whipping got harder and harder.
Blood tricked down his back. He was thankful for one thing, though. That Cobb was away. That he didn't have to be a part of this anymore. That he was free. At least one of them was.
The cloth was taken out.
"HOW does Inception work?" Was repeated. Arthur still refused to talk. He was not surprised to feel the lashing of the wip again and the cloth stuffed back into his mouth. He cried out against the cloth and withered in pain and prayed for this nightmare to be over.