Only Time

Chapter 1 - Only a Week

An Ariadne/Arthur romance written by Tulzdavampslayer

Disclaimer: Inception belongs to Christopher Nolan. I am only borrowing it. I can't promise when I'll return it though...


It has only been a week. A week to get her head together as much as she ever will be able to. The past few months seem like a dream, and she fingers her totem once again. It still falls the way she designed it to. She still doesn't trust it. Nothing feels the same as it did before.

A week is hardly enough time for anything, but it's certainly not enough time to start to miss someone you hardly knew to begin with. Working and dreaming in such close quarters with Cobb, Arthur, Eames, and yes even Yusuf, had created a bond she had not expected. She lies in the dark, staring at the ceiling of her childhood home, and she misses them all.

She has spent the week visiting her parents, killing time before the dreaded return to Paris. How could she ever go back to being a student after becoming as powerful as God? But she has her ticket booked anyway and her bags packed just in case and she lies in her bed, her one week up, waiting for the ball to drop. She knows that, if the only other option is offered, she would leave behind her life and disappear into the world of dreams and extraction and marvels and creation without a second's thought. But she's running out of time.

When her mother knocks softly on her door, Ariadne knows it's time and her heart skips a beat.

He's here.

Here to give her a different choice.