I don't own Inception. Not one mind blowing bit of it.
"Hey, Arthur?" Ariadne's voice was feeble through the wall. "Can you…can you come here, for a second?"
Arthur straightened up at his desk and strode to the door to the dream room. "What is it?" he asked, closing the door behind him as he entered the room.
"I'm having a problem designing the new dream for the extraction."
"What sort of problem?"
"The projections keep attacking me the second I come into the dream."
Arthur frowned and sat on the cot next to her. "Are you having any especially strong feelings currently?"
"Um…not consciously?" she said, shrugging.
"Have you noticed any of the projections looking a lot like someone you know?"
Something dawned on Ariadne. "Oh."
"Who?" Arthur sat calmly, taking in information like a sieve, like usual.
"Um. Can I show you?"
"Sure. Hang on." Arthur reached for the PASIV IV of Ariadne's, gently putting it into her wrist. She fell asleep, and Arthur put himself under soon after.
When he got there, Ariadne was pressed up in the corner of a long alley, waiting for the projections to break through a tall fence. "Right there," Ariadne whispered, pointing.
"-O-Oh." Arthur gaped slightly. A near-perfect representation of himself was slamming himself against the fence.
"I'm sorry. I know you're not supposed to let memories and real people in. I didn't realize I was doing it. I'm so sorry." The projections burst through, clawing at the two, until the fake Arthur stabbed them.
When they woke in the PASIV room, Arthur immediately pulled out the IV and sat up. "Ariadne. It's okay. I've had real people appear in my subconscious before, too. It happens to all of us. It normally means that you feel like you did something bad to the person, or need to tell them something, or anything like that. So. What do you need to tell me?"
Ariadne frowned and stood, moving to Arthur's cot. "I think…I think I need to do something, actually."
"And what is that?" Arthur asked, cocking his head to the side.
Ariadne wordlessly leaned forward and kissed the point man.
