What is the worst betrayal?
Set right after the events of :
"The Kick"
"Ariadne's Secrets"
"Ariadne's Birthday"
"Arthur's Ghosts"
"Ariadne's True Love"
"Hostage"
"Bedtime Stories"
"Arthur's Secrets"
"Never Hold Back"
"Deception"
"Arthur's Birthday"
"Ariadne's Thread"
"Arthur's Totem"
and...
"A Week at This Level"
Please read them or else you won't know what's going on. Don't worry kids. There is erotica.
Arthur's Betrayal
1.
~ Arthur was in love with a beautiful girl named Kathryn. She had the most enchanting face he had ever seen. When she slept, her face was so perfect and lovely the Point Man couldn't help but love her. He could watch her sleep all day.
~ "I don't know what's wrong with you people." Eames said as the Arthur held the newborn baby girl. "You keep having these babies like you don't know what's causing it."
Cobb laughed and looked over at his new daughter being held by his best friend. The infant smothered in pink and the Point Man obviously in love.
"Well, I hope this doesn't get Sadie talking about babies again. I'd hate to do another inception on her to get her to give up on that idea." Eames said.
Cobb jumped.
"You've done inception on Sadie?" He asked worriedly. That scowl back on his face.
The Forger nodded.
"Several times. Any time she wants to get married or have kids. I don't know why she wants to mess up a good thing." Eames said.
~ Arthur and his wife Ariadne had come back to Paris a few months ago from New York, only to find their friend Cobb and his nanny Sarah were expecting a baby.
They had denied even being together despite the fact that their closest friends were in favor of the relationship. Cobb and Sarah hadn't told anyone about the pregnancy until they couldn't avoid at any longer.
~ "Cobb looks so happy to be a father again." Ariadne said as her two boys played nosily on the living room floor.
Sarah looked out on the porch as the men were all talking.
"Yes, I'm really glad he loves the baby." She said nervously. The pretty nanny seemed distracted.
"Of course he does. You know better then anyone what a good father he is." Ariadne told her as Dominic yelled at his younger brother who had just stolen his toy.
Daniel being visually impaired didn't seem to slow him down. The boys were always together and they were each others best friend and worst enemy at time. Daniel was able to keep up with his older brother as he was learning to walk and talk.
"I know." Sarah said. "It's just, it's so cliche isn't it? Lonely widower falls for the nanny. How pathetic can you get?" She said sadly.
"Sarah." Ariadne said. She wasn't sure what to say.
"I've seen pictures of Mal. She was such a beauty. She's been all over the world and they were together since college. I just can't possibly measure up."
"He's not looking for you to measure up." Ariadne told her friend.
Sarah was a natural beauty. Her features were strong and her skin and hair needed little work to make her beautiful. The problem was; she didn't see this about herself. She saw herself as a plain girl who had a landed the Extractor simply because he was so lonely.
"I wasn't looking to get pregnant." Sarah explained. "I didn't want to trap him."
"You didn't trap him. The two of you have been together for two years now." Ariadne said.
"He want's to get married." Sarah whispered worriedly.
"Do it." Ariadne told her.
"How can I?" Sarah laughed. "The only reason he feels he has to ask me is because we have a baby together now."
"He want's to marry you because he loves you." Ariadne said as she could hear her boys start to fight. Again.
Sarah shook her head.
"If I marry him, he will meet someone he is truly compatible with and then feel I've tired him down." She told the Architect.
Ariadne couldn't say anything to this because a loud uproar had erupted from the living room. Daniel had stolen his toy back from his brother and was screaming.
"No!" Her youngest shouted as he toddled to where he knew his mother was. The baby of the family was not even 2 years old and even though he couldn't see, he had no fear about walking.
The little boy stood, walked, fell, stood walked, fell and reached his mother. He could always find her. The sound of her voice was the first thing he searched for.
"Mine!" Dominic screamed as he raced after his brother.
"No!" Daniel shouted as he waved a fist towards the sound of his brother's voice.
Both boys were shouting as the two women tore them apart.
It was at that moment, Darcy and Phillipa came into the room. Fresh from one of their many recent fights. Lately, the girls couldn't get along about anything. What the two former best friends were fighting about, Ariadne never found out because Daniel started to cry and Dominic was shouting.
The men heard the commotion from the balcony and came to see what was happening. James was running around the room and had knocked something off a table.
Sarah warned them to not step on the glass as the younger boys were in full temper tantrum mode now.
Eames excused himself and left. Cobb told Darcy and Phillipa to play nicely or play separately.
Sarah and Ariadne pulling the boys apart as they both shouted and screamed.
Arthur had walked back into the room ignoring the fray as he put Kathryn in her bassinet.
He turned to look at the commotion of screaming and shouting children. His wife looking harassed as James ran around the room. Enjoying the anarchy.
"Ariadne, what are you doing?" He asked.
"What do you mean what am I doing?" She shouted at her husband over Daniel's screams.
~ A few hours later, Arthur was driving the family home.
Daniel was sleeping in his car set. His older brother Dominic sleeping beside him. Their fighting forgotten and they loved each other once more.
Ariadne admitted that she loved her sons a little more when they were like this. Sleeping.
Darcy was still angry over her fight with Phillipa. The girls seeming to have grow apart while Darcy lived in New York.
"Kathryn is just so beautiful." Arthur said still remembering the sweet baby he had held.
Sarah had dressed her in pink and she looked exactly like a girl should look in Arthur's mind. The newborn opening her eyes to look at him before falling back to sleep.
He could still remember how warm her little body was in his arms.
"Yes, she is. Sarah is worried that Cobb will feel trapped." Ariadne told her husband.
"Nonsense." Arthur told his wife.
"That's what I told her." Ariadne said.
"You didn't spend a lot of time with the baby." Arthur pointed out.
"Because I was busy with the boys. Thank God their in school now. I don't think I could handle the both of them acting like this all day." She said.
She was so worn out from her overactive offspring, that the only thing she wanted to do was sleep when she dropped them off at school.
Daniel was doing very well at his school for the blind. The teachers showing him how to operate in his world of darkness. There were times, when he would play with his brother, that Ariadne forgot her youngest was blind. The little boy would play, walk and fight just like a sighted child.
Dominic and Darcy were both in school and she felt guilty for having the past few days to herself lately. Days when she did nothing but sleep and read. Enjoying her privet time.
"I can't wait to go back to work. Cobb told be a little about the client and I've already begun work on the mazes." Ariadne told her husband.
She had been looking forward to going into the field for a month now. She hadn't been able to participate in anything the Team did for a long time. Having two young children so close together had made her priorities change so suddenly.
But now the kids were all in school, she was a free woman. She could go back to work in dream extraction and not be the frazzled stay at home mom the boys had needed.
Now that the boys were in school, and she had eight hours a day free, she could go back to her chosen work of dream extraction.
"I think we should have another a baby." Arthur said suddenly. "Maybe try for a girl." He added hopefully.
Ariadne felt her daydream of working with the team fall apart.
She looked at her husband as if he had grown a third head.
"Arthur, are you crazy?" She snapped at him in disbelief.