Hey Guys! So this is my latest attempt at a story I hope you enjoy it , I plan to make it a multi-chaptered story but I cant guarantee ill update it regularly! My schedule as of late is super crazy! Regardless I hope you enjoy and ask that you PLEASE review! oh and I don't own Inception!
Arthur was walking down a crowded Boston street towards the teams new headquarters with a coffee in his hand and today's newspaper tucked carefully under his arm. As Arthur neared the warehouse and saw that it looked empty he sighed with relief, glad to have a few minutes to himself before everyone showed up for work.
Today made it officially one year and six months since the Fischer job he realized as he plopped down in his desk chair pulling out the newspaper. As he scanned the paper searching for the correct article he thought back to all that had happened in a year and a half. Eames had called him shortly after the Fischer job was over to ask if he would like to continue working as a team. Granted Eames hadn't worded it so politely, but Arthur had agreed none the less and was now working with Eames ,Cobb and Yusuf as a team centered here in Boston. None of them had seen Ariadne since the airport directly after they finished the job, when they had all gotten together they had agreed to not contact her in hopes of not brining her back into the dream business. It wasn't that they didn't like her or recognize her talent they just wanted to protect her from their own dangerous world .No one would admit it, especially Arthur himself, but they all missed the perky little brunette. Arthur was yanked out of his reverie when he found the article he had been searching for, it was titled Young Architectural Wonder Ariadne Black Announces Plans for a New Building!. Arthur smiled as he read the article, he wasn't
Surprised at how quickly Ariadne had been recognized in the Architectural scene.
His smile dimmed a bit as he looked at the picture of the small girl that accompanied the story. Obviously it was Ariadne , she looked exactly the same but something about her eyes and facial expression startled the Point man. All the life and happiness that used to be ever present on the Architects face was gone, instead replaced by a blank serious expression. The image for some reason deeply affected him; he hated to think of all the changes that had occurred within the small girl in just a year and a half. He wanted to believe she could still be the happy carefree girl he had first met but the picture made him remember the first conversation he had with Cobb on their return. Cobb had told him of his fear that they had really messed up Ariadne. When Arthur had asked him to explain Cobb had said the last time he had talked to Miles, his father-in-law had been worried about her. He had told Cobb of how upon returning from the mission she had blocked herself off from everyone including Miles himself and simply focused on schoolwork. She had soon graduated top of her class and dropped of the face of the earth, as it seemed, until after a few months she came into the Architectural world as this brilliant, serious women who stared at him from the paper.
Before Arthur could really realize how much this bothered him Cobb walked in with Eames and another short balding man accompanying him. Arthur raised his eyebrow at the man as if asking Cobb, Who is this?
Cobb ignored Arthur's look and instead introduced him to the man, , whose hand he cautiously shook. At this Cobb turned to Arthur and said, " is a friend of Saito's and had requested our help in an extraction of a competitor of one of his apprentices."
With this the short man grabbed three identical folders from his bag and handed them too the men before starting to explain the job. " As has said I am hiring you to perform extraction on one of my apprentices competitors. Saito assures me that you are the most competent team he knows and will do a good job. All we need for you to get is some kind of dirt from our mark that we can use make this women look bad. We want something that will completely destroy an hope of this her ever getting another job as an architect again." He said.
The word architect caught all three men's attention, " Who did you say the mark was again Darling?" Eames asked as Arthur flipped open his folder.
Before Arthur could tell Eames anything though explained, " You've probably heard of her work, her name is Ariadne Black."