I don't own Inception in anyway
Ariadne opened her eyes and looked around her, for a brief moment she had forgotten where she was and how she ended up there. She sat up and looked around and everything came back to her Cobb, Mal, going into limbo, the Fisher job, the kicks, and Arthur. The smile that came to her lips as she thought about Arthur wasn't something her normal smile. But then she remembered that she hadn't seen any of them since immigration. She hoped that everything had worked out for everyone. She was sure it had and that Cobb was with his children. That was after all the reason why he had even had done the fisher job.
Arthur had told her before they got onto the plain that she had to lay low for a few weeks and that he would find her to look in on her. It had been three weeks, three weeks of this hotel room and no word from him. She wasn't sure how much longer she could do that, she wanted to get back to Paris, to her life, and back to school. And because of this desire to return home she knows that the job had not destroyed her love for building if anything she wanted to get back to building.
She sighed and got out of the big bed and walked into the bathroom she was going to book her flight home today and head back as soon as she could. Arthur had his chance to find her she was done waiting to be looked in on. As she brushed her teeth she looked at herself in the mirror and nodded her head. It was time to get back to life and forget the dreams she had no control over. She turned on the shower and walked back into the room to get cloths when she was looking at the back of a man in dark three piece suit.
"I don't know who tough you to lay low but they did a very good job" The man in the suit said to her as a way of greeting but he kept his back of her as he talked "I had one hell of a time finding you"
Arthur, he was here and he had found her finally. He turned around to look at her with a relived look on his face. She didn't know what to make of all this it was like she was standing in the middle of a good dream. When that thought entered her mind, she walked over to the bed side table and opened up the draw and pulled out her totem. She didn't care what Arthur thought about this she just wanted to make sure that it wasn't a dream. She walked into the bathroom put her bishop in the counter and gave it a genital tap to make it work. She gave a sigh of relief when it fell over with a smile she turned off the shower and walked back into the room.
"You look tired" he said as she stopped a few inches from him wanting to touch him "Are you having problems sleeping?"
"Not anymore I did at first but I'm ok now" She said as she looked at him "how did you get into my room?"
She felt stupid for asking Arthur that. After all he was the point man and she was conversed that he could do anything if he really wanted to.
"Oh I just told the front desk that I was your husband, I left my key in the room and I needed to get in to get some things for a meeting that I was running late for." She shook her head at him could it really be that easy for anyone to get into a hotel room "The 100 dollar bill I offered a long with ID didn't hurt either."
"Oh" she said thinking back to the fisher job "Eames"
Cobb had Eames make fake Ids for everyone for after the job. Eames had made her a Virginia State Drivers license under the name of Ellen Knight. When she asked him why Virginia all he said was 'why not darling'. Cobb made it clear that once you where through immigration that you where to use the fake ids and lay low under that name and gave everyone cash to pay for the room.
"Eames" Arthur said with a smile "So I found him, that wasn't hard he is always the easy one to find. I then asked him make me an id to match because no one know where to find you. After that it was only a matter of time tracking you down and here I am?"
"Here you are" she replied with a smile as I looked at my feet feeling out of place "Glad you found me I was planning to go back home in a few day"
He nodded his head and walked over to the chair he undid the button on his suit jacket and sat down.
"Go and take the shower I interrupted" He said as he grabbed the remote and turned on the TV and finding a new channel "I'll be here when you get out"
I blinked and felt my face grow red she wasn't sure why she was so shy around him but she was. She went to her bag and pulled out clothing to where. She was going to look real plain next to Arthur in his tie and suit. She sighed walked back into the bathroom cloths in hand and turned on the shower. As she washed her hair she thought about the fist and only time that they had kissed.
The fisher job wasn't going as planed but she felt safe at the moment as she sat next to Arthur in suits. She had asked a few questions about the Charles gambit that they were running with at the moment.
"There goes Mr. Charles" Arthur said to me her
"Who or what is Mr. Charles" she asked him as she shifted her weight to look around the room a little.
Arthur played with his fingers a bit but never looked at her as he explained to her what was going on.
"It's a gambit designed to turn Fischer against his own subconscious" he said as they watched a blond in a black dress walk by
"Why don't you approve?" she asked him wanting more insight into what was going on
"Because it involves telling the mark that he's dreaming" He explained "which involves attracting a lot of attention to us."
He put his hands back in his lap and looked at her out of the corner of his eye.
"Didn't Cobb say never to do that?" She asked still not looking at him just in the direction that Cobb had walked.
"Hmm" he said with a small smirk and now looking at her "So now you've noticed how much time Cobb spends doing things he says never to do"
They both laughed a little at what was going on but then the room started to move a little and she jumped a bit.
"What's happening?" she asked him looking around and going a bit pail
"Cobb's drawing Fischer's attention to the strangeness of the dream" he explained to her looking a bit odd even for him "which is making his subconscious look for the dreamer."
Sure enough as he explained this to her Fischer's subconscious was looking at them.
"For me" He said "Quick, give me a kiss"
She turned to face him and he leaned in for a soft quick kiss. As he pulled away she went back to looking around the room.
"They're still looking at us" she said a little surprised that it didn't seem to work.
"Yeah" he said not looking at her "it was worth a shot"
She couldn't help the slight shock that rolled through her. She still hadn't looked at him but she could feel his eyes on her.
"We should probably get out of here" he said as he got to his feet and she turned to look at him
She didn't know why this memory always seemed to play out in her mind whenever she thought about Arthur. It wasn't even that good of a kiss really, after all it was just quick and to the point it seemed very Arthur. The first time that she thought about it she was sure he had kissed her was for no other reason than he just wanted to kiss her. She washed the shampoo from her hair when it hit her when the door the bathroom opened and Arthur walked in looking like there was something wrong.
"What the" she asked as he closed the door and locked it "I'm kind of naked here"
She looked at him about ready to yell at him when through open the shower door and turned off the water and pulled her out of the shower.
"Arthur!" she demanded "Have you lost your god damned mind?"
"Quite" he snapped at me as he pulled me closer to his body and then shoved himself between her and the door "someone is trying to break into the room"
Ariadne felt like a fool standing there in the bathroom dripping went with a bit of shampoo still in her hair. She reached for a towel so that she could cover up as Arthur pulled out a gun from his jacket.
"Sure it's not housekeeping?" She asked him as she put a hand on his arm "don't you think that you're over reacting a little bit?"
"Mr. Knight?" A voice said into the room it was the young man that had helped Arthur get into the room "I'm sorry to intrude but I wanted to make sure that everything was alright. I didn't see you leave to go to your meeting."
Arthur sighed and gave a little laugh. He looked at Ariadne in just the towel and he winked at her. He quickly took off his jacket, the dark blue tie, and shirt. He placed his gun in his in the small of his back between his pence and his back. He pulled Ariadne into his arms and kissed her for real this time as he opened the door.
"Do you mind" Arthur said to the young man
The young man looked at Arthur and Ariadne in there state of undress and looked down at his feet as fast as he could.
"I am so sorry Mr. Knight" the young man said as he back out of the room "enjoy the rest of your stay"
Ariadne put her face onto Arthur's shoulder wanting to die this had to be the worst thing to have happened to her. Granted the young man didn't really walk in on them not really. There was a small part of her that couldn't help but wish that he had. Arthur still had a hold of her when the door closed. They didn't move they just stood there Ariadne's face in his shoulder and Arthur place leaned his face on her head as he closed his eyes enjoying just her being close to him. He felt her shiver to the door being open and the cooler air hitting her damp towel and body. So he pushed the door closed with his foot still keeping her close to him.
"I should let you finish washing your hair" he said as he let her go "I didn't know what was going on and this seemed like a good idea at the time."
"You seem to do that a lot" She said missing the warmth of his shoulder on her face "thanks for protecting me even if I didn't really need it."
Arthur collected his clothing and walked out of the bathroom giving the state of his shirt and suit jacket with a slight sad look. She followed him out the room a little and watched as he pulled out of his pocket a small red die that she know to be his totem. She had never seen him use it and she didn't really want to know what it did. But when she heard him give a sad sigh she wondered what the hell.
"Arthur" she asked poking her head out the bathroom
"Yeah" He asked
He didn't look up from his totem as she looked at his back. But she lost her nerve and sighed herself.
"There's an iron in the closet" she said feeling like a stupid child as the words came out of her mouth "I'm sorry if all this messed up you suit"
She walked back into the bathroom and closed the door. She kept her hand on the door just thinking about his body.
"Keep the door unlocked" Arthur told her through the door
She shook her head at the door and walked back over to her totem and pushed it back over again just to double check.
"Alright" she said to Arthur as much as to herself as she turned the water back on wanting nothing more than to go in and have a good cry "It's real"
Once she was clean dry and dressed she walked into the bed room. Arthur had put his shirt back on when they looked at each other. He gave her a small smile as he turned to look at her. He was in the process of buttoning up his shirt.
"Why are you here Arthur?" she asked him
His hands dropped from the button and he looked up at her.
"I phone call would have worked just fine" she said with an edge in her voice "I mean how hard would it have been to ask Cobb, Eames, or Sato for my phone number. But no instead you show up at my room and start kissing me like it's nothing."
"For someone who's so smart and talented" he said looking at her "you really aren't that bright. I have your phone number and your address hell I know your blood type. That is all part of what I do. You are right I could have done this over the phone but then I wouldn't have be able to see you"
Ariadne raised an eye brow at Arthur at the blood type comment. That really was an odd thing for him to say he knows. She wanted to ask a smart ass question life if he know that she was also allergic to mushrooms too. She didn't because her mind had gone blank because she was so mad at that moment. But she didn't really know why, it was his job to know these things wasn't it. But as she looked at his face she realized she was mad because of all the frustrations from the past events come through.
She had wanted to kiss him again before they split up to lay low. Then he shows up in her hotel room and acts like nothing ever happened. She normally would have written off their first kiss to the stress of the job. She would have been happy with that sooner or later but there was always something in the way that he had looked at her that always made hope for more.
But when he showed up and pulled her out of the shower and took his clothing off well she didn't know what to think. But the second that his lips meet hers she was putty in his very strong hands. She wanted answers and she wanted them now so she marched right up to him so that they where a mere inches apart.
"I don't understand you" She said to him
"Trust me" He said as he looked at her "Neither do I"
She started to reach out to touch him but she stopped. She was so unsure when it came to Arthur and this wasn't making things any easier for her.
"If it's not to look in on me" she asked him as she put one of her hands on his shirt "I really don't think that it's because you wanted to iron your shirt"
"I wanted to see you that you where alright for myself" He said as he look her hand in his "that you where coping with being back in the real world for myself. I don't know but I just wanted to see for myself, not get it second hand from Cobb."
Arthur looked down at their hands and pulled her closer to his body and all she could do was let him. She took a deep breath and as she turned her eyes up to look into his and felt her face blush as they stood there.
"Quick" he said to her with a shy smile "Give me a kiss"
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