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Chapter 1

She awoke instantly with a start. Her cheeks were flushed a bright red and she could feel the blood pulsing rapidly through her veins. She took a deep breath in and raised her hand towards her forehead, feeling the instant heat surface.

She closed her eyes briefly and tried to recall her dream. All she could remember was the color red. She panted and tried to calm herself down, quickly reaching over for the light switch to her dorm room.

Once the light fell upon her, she sighed in relief realizing that in fact it had been a dream. And nothing had happened to her. She breathed steadily for a moment and lifted herself up into a sitting position. "Jesus Christ." She muttered softly, her eyes widening at the memories of her dream resurfacing. "Why would I ever want to kill Cobb?"

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"Good morning," a clear and chipper voice of a young man in his early twenties said to Ariadne, while he sat beside her on the same school bench. Ariadne fought her eyes to remain open. After the nightmare she had had, she was not able to go back to sleep. It had been an extremely long night and the fact that she had school, did not make her feel any better whatsoever.

"Hi." She smiled at Jeremy, her eyes focused on the textbook she was holding. She twisted a pencil in between her fingers and turned to the boy beside her and asked, "Did you understand the homework? I couldn't figure it out."

Jeremy chuckled shortly at her and responded, "Have the tables finally turned?" Ariadne sighed briefly and nodded. The tables had turned. Ariadne was usually the one that helped him the few years before. And now that she had decided to take a summer school course to catch up on what she had missed during the Inception, she knew that she had to work much harder and concentrate on the task at hand.

"I tried to figure it out but then I fell asleep." Ariadne yawned and watched the other international students walk into the lecture hall.

"I just hope the Professor doesn't pick on you again." Jeremy smiled at her and crossed one leg over his other. Ariadne knew that it wouldn't happen this time. She would have Miles as her Professor. He had told her a week before about the program and she had insisted that he tried to enlist her. Which he had because of Cobb who had made a numerous amount of phone calls to help her.

"Fleur." Ariadne smiled at the petite blonde who immediately sat in the empty seat next to Ariadne. She hugged her friend immediately and asked, "Did I change your mind?"

Fleur nodded, grinning as she responded in her small French accented voice "Oui." Ariadne had begged her constantly to take the class with her and she now was truly happy that she decided for it. Fleur was an intelligent young woman with a sweet and very innocent personality. She had become Ariadne's closest friend in her years in Paris.

"I'm glad I did too." She smiled and took out her own books while she continued, "The Professor has a new assistant and this time he is tres magnifique."

Ariadne laughed at her friend and her eyebrows rose as she spoke "I hope he is better than the last one. He kept spitting at me."

Jeremy couldn't help but laugh and mock the old assistant "Ariadne, what (spit) kind of name (spit) is that?" Ariadne rolled her eyes while her two friends continued laughing at her misfortunes.

"I hope this one spits on both of you." She said in a strong voice, trying to keep in her own laughter. She missed her school life. But if she had to be honest, she missed her extraction team as well; especially the Extractor.

"I apologize Ladies and Gentleman for my tardiness-" Miles said in soft tone as he walked into the classroom. He had a briefcase in one hand and he held his glasses in another. "I had something that needed tending to."

He smiled up at the class, Ariadne and her friends in the front row like always. "Did any of you have trouble with the assignment from last night?" He placed his briefcase on the desk and placed his glasses over his eyes, as he watched the classroom full of students fall completely silent.

"I assume that all of you did." He chuckled and walked around his desk, opening a drawer and pulling out a piece of chalk.

"Well, I'm not sure how many of you know but I will be retiring this year." Miles bit down on his bottom lip, his eyes going to Ariadne who had a sad look in her eye. "And because of so, I am required to impart my wisdom on a new Professor in assembly. And so, this year I have chosen an assistant who has an unbelievable amount of wisdom that he cannot wait to impart on all of you. He will be joining us very shortly."

Ariadne sighed at the thought of a new assistant. Miles had said that same thing last year when Mr. Mc Spit had imparted some of his saliva onto her. She rolled her eyes and hoped that her friend Fleur was right that he was at least good looking. It could help the situation slightly.

"Please turn to page one hundred and twenty three and Irina, please take it from the top." Miles pronounced the words loudly, making Irina, who usually sat the top of classroom snap out of her daydream. She nodded and opened her book to the page. Ariande did the same.

"According to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible-" Irina, the red headed beauty as she was called in the class, stopped reading when a knock at the door interupted her.

"I'm sorry I'm late." A familiar voice said from the door way. Ariadne's eyes opened widely as she saw Cobb standing there, dressed in black pants with a black shirt. 'Was that a briefcase?' Ariadne noted, her eyes impeccably wide.

"Not a problem." Miles smiled at his son-in-law and pointed towards the door way while saying "This is Mr. Domenic Cobb. He will be my assistant for the summer." As Cobb walked into the room, he locked eyes with Ariadne and she blushed. 'What the hell was he doing there?'

Ariadne's eyes narrowed once she heard a few girls in the back giggling as he placed his briefcase down on Mile's desk. "Would you like to continue Mr. Cobb?"

Cobb nodded at Miles and picked up the textbook from the desk and said "Yes. Miss, please continue reading." He pointed to Irina and she nodded slowly, clearing her throat and then continuing to read.

Ariadne watched Cobb, standing with the book casually in his hands as if the fact that he was there (in her classroom) meant absolutely nothing. Her thoughts were interrupted when Fleur bumped her shoulder slightly and passed her a small note.

She opened the note carefully and read it 'Tres magnifque, non?' She smiled at Ariadne who crushed the piece of paper in her left hand. Ariadne looked over at Cobb for a moment who was walking towards the chalk board and drawing a low rise building.

She took a second to look over Miles, who was sitting at his desk grading papers. Since when did Cobb want to become a teacher? And his kids? He had just got them back. Had he already decided to leave them- again? "Can anyone tell me what Mr Andrews means by his quote?" His voice transferring loudly in the class room. Good god, he did sound like a teacher.

"Ariadne?" His eyes fixated on hers and she gulped looking up Cobb. She took a deep breath in and tried to remember what they were discussing. "Ugh, well-" she cleared her throat and replied "He is talking about the three attributes and explaning why exactly each architect should strive to keep them intact."

Cobb smiled momentarily at her and nodded while glancing over at the boy next to her. "And you. sir. What are the three attributes?"

Jeremy's eyes widened as he muttered "Ugh, well… earth, fire and water?" The entire class room full of people chuckled, including Miles at the answer.

"Not the elements. But I'll give you points for creativity." Cobb smiled at the young man who turned a shade of bright red as Cobb turned his back to chalk board and continued drawing a new building.

Fleur took the moment to pass her another note. This one said; how does he know your name? Ariadne held in a smile, bit down on her bottom lip and wrote back; It's a long story. And indeed it was.

"Domenic, why don't you walk around and assist those who needed help with the homework assignment from last night?" Miles looked up from his desk and said loudly "The rest of you read pages 125-160, quietly and to yourselves." Cobb obeyed the order and walked around to those who held their hand up high.

Irina was the first one to project her hand up high. As he helped her, he looked down at her and she was giggling and twisting a hand through her beautiful red hair. Ariadne watched the scene for a second before Jeremy grabbed at her hand and asked in a whisper "Read with me?"

Ariadne shook her head slightly and when Cobb walked away from the girl, she accidently knocked her pencil off her desk. Cobb was a good man and of course, he bent down and picked it up for her. Irina and her group of girl friends giggled softly as they appreciated the view.

Ariadne rolled her eyes and turned herself back around, focusing on the book in front of her. But she couldn't focus. Domenic Cobb was standing a few inches away from her. "Do you need any help?" He asked, his voice soft.

She shook her head at him slowly and watched as his blue eyes looked into her brown ones. She wanted to know why he was there. She wanted the answer to that and to many other questions. Well, there was always after class, right?

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