A/N: When I refer to "the team" throughout the story; that refers to the general team of Ariadne, Arthur, Eames as well as some other, non-important characters.
Chapter1
It's been 3 days since anybody has last seen Cobb. The last time he left, all he said was that he wanted to take a walk around the area, he didn't want to take his cell phone because he just wanted to take time to enjoy nature and be disconnected from his phone for a few hours. Cobb is always on his phone due to the nature of his work. But, the thing is, he didn't come back that night. His family became slightly concerned when he didn't return, so they decided to give Arthur a call as maybe Cobb went to go discuss something with Arthur. Arthur said he hadn't seen Cobb, but that didn't necessarily mean that something was wrong; Cobb has many associates and could potentially be visiting any one of them. Everyone was obviously concerned but they figured he would return in the morning. The next morning though, Cobb still hadn't returned. Cobb's father checked his phone to see if Cobb sent a text from another phone or had left a voicemail; he hadn't. At this point is when Cobb's family started to fear the worst.
Real concern has developed about Cobb's whereabouts; nobody knows where he is and why he's there. A panicked Arthur decides to call Ariadne in hopes that she might have a clue where he could have gone.
"Ariadne!"
"Arthur, What is it?"
"Cobb has been missing for three days and nobody has seen him, have you?"
"No I have not; I don't know why he'd disappear like this…"
"Nor do I… Do you think he-?"
"He what?" She said
"He ended up like Mal…"
"No way, he's the leader of this team; he always has a grasp on reality"
"We need to meet and figure this out, call Eames; we'll meet in 2 hours at Cobb's house"
Everyone arrives at Cobb's house, the hope is to find a clue to point them in the right direction, but right now, nobody knows where he could be. The group decides to head out and just start asking people whether or not they have seen him. Since nobody knows which way Cobb went, the group doesn't even know if they're even looking in the right area, but they have to do something. After 6 hours of searching and the team is ready to call it a night, they finally get a break. Someone recalls seeing a man being abducted while walking. The man was just casually walking when a van zoomed up; a few masked kidnappers hopped out of the back, grabbed a man off the street and put him in the van. The witness was too far away to know what any of the people in the van or what the man being kidnapped looked like. There's no real way to know that this was Cobb who was abducted, but the team feels confident that it was Cobb. With this new information the team decides to call it a night and act on this information early the next morning.