4.
New Jersey
~ 'Special plane' was truly the only word for it. The aircraft waiting for the Point Man looked like something out of a science fiction movie.
"Are you Arthur?" A man asked him once the Point Man had finally reached the far away air field Genesis texted him.
"I am." Arthur said pulling out his bag and leaving his rental.
"I've been ordered to fly you to Paris. We can be there in a two hours." The pilot said.
"Two hours? That's all?" Arthur asked. "It's Paris France, you know."
"I know, sir. This is an experimental plane. We will be cruising below radar the whole way and land outside of the city." The pilot answered.
~ The plane was small and barely had enough room for the two men. The pilot was quickly given clearance to take off. Arthur had been in many planes before, but nothing compare to the speed and force which this plane took off at. It was like riding on a rocket ship. They quickly left the ground and were racing over the ocean before Arthur could count to down from 20.
Paris
~ "I studied French in school." Rebecca said scowling at Darcy. "Never try that again. Go back to your corner."
Darcy looked down at her shoes and slowly went back to her fortress of stuffed animals and toys.
~ Ariadne could hear the intruder coming back into the bathroom. She was still holding Dominic in her hands.
"Darcy is getting to be a handful." Rebecca said as if the little girl was an annoying pet who was not house broken. "I think I might try and talk Arthur into sending her to boarding school. It will be better for us if we can start fresh. I think she reminds him too much of the thing that drove us apart."
Still holding the baby, Rebecca snapped the towel off of the Architect's mouth.
"You mean your having an affair with his father?" Ariadne accused soberly. She glared at Rebecca. Despite being hog tied on her bathroom floor, she refused to cower to this woman.
"He told you about that?" Rebecca said in surprise. The color in her cheeks fading.
"Yes." Ariadne told her gruffly. "I think he's over it. He was more upset you were hurting his half sister. Your own daughter."
The Architect scowled at Rebecca as she was looking fondly down as Dominic's sweet face.
"Darcy, was never a good baby. It would have been better if Arthur had been there. Like he's there for Tom here."
"His name is Dominic!" Ariadne shouted as she struggled fruitlessly against the ropes.
~ Darcy knew her old mommy and her mama were in the bathroom. She wanted to call papa. A horrible feeling was settling into her belly. Making her feel like her old mommy was going to stay here. She didn't want that.
She quietly stole out of her nest and found her mama's cell phone.
She couldn't read yet but she had seen her mama use her phone many times. She wanted to call papa but didn't recognize the names. Her child's fingers managed to scrolled down and pressed one.
Los Angeles
~ Cobb was pulled from his thoughts by Ariadne's ring tone.
"Excuse me." Cobb laughed as the client looked at the Extractor in surprise. "I need to take this." He said moving himself out of the meeting hall. Eames giving him a strange look.
"Ariadne? What's going on?" Cobb hissed into the phone. He wondered why his Architect hadn't just texted him.
"Uncle Dom?" Darcy's scared little voice came over the phone.
"Darcy? Sweetheart, what's wrong?" Cobb asked feeling worried.
"My old mommy is here. She's hurting mama." Darcy whimpered.
~ Eames was trying to joke off Cobb's unprofessional manners when the Extractor barged back into the meeting.
"Eames. Time to go back to Paris." Cobb barked.
"Sorry about that." The Forger said to their potential high paying clients. "Have to go."
~ "Want to tell me what's going on?" Eames asked as the men headed out the door.
"Arthur's ex. She's in Paris and at their home. She has Ariadne tied up in the bathroom. She has the baby." Cobb explained.
"Who told you all this?" Eames asked in disbelief.
"Darcy just called me." Cobb said, his phone still to his ear. "Darcy, it's going to be alright. You just stay on the phone with me." Cobb said in that fatherly way he had.
He turned to the Forger.
"Call Arthur, he should be in New York by now. Then call the Paris police and tell them what's happening." Cobb said.
Eames nodded and started dialing as Cobb hailed a cab.
~ "Put my baby down!" Ariadne shouted as Rebecca turned off the bath water. She was still holding Dominic in one hand and smiling at him.
"When Arthur gets home, I'm going to show him we can be the family he always promised we would be. He promised me we would be a family and he broke that promise." Rebecca said sadly. "We've had our ups and downs, that's true, but I think it will bring us closer. The only thing keeping us apart now is you. Divorce is expensive and messy. And you would certainly try and get custody of Tom."
"Get your child abusing hands off my son!" Ariadne growled as the skin on her wrists began to wear away and bleed with her struggle.
"Arthur's son." Rebecca corrected her. Her voice eerily calm and collected. She looked at the baby. "He looks so much like his father." She said with a smile.
Ariadne knew what Rebecca was going to do. How she was going to clean up the thing that separated her from Arthur.
She watched with wide eyes as Rebecca took Dominic back to the bedroom, put him on the bed again and came back to the bathroom, shutting the door.
"I'm sorry it has to be this way. I really am." Rebecca said as she roughly pulled Ariadne to a sitting position.
"Rebecca, Arthur won't want you if you do this." Ariadne said as Rebecca pulled her to standing. The Architect vicariously balancing with her two feet bound. A deep tub of water that was meant to drown her inches away. An easy thing to fall into.
"Don't you tell me what Arthur will do. You don't know him!" Rebecca huffed.
Ariadne finally felt her ropes loosen and she desperately struggled harder. She pulled her hands free and attacked Rebecca. The taller, stronger woman grabbed both her hands and shoved her into the tub. The Architect fell backwards into the bath water, pulling Rebecca in with her.
Ariadne's breath was cut off by the short fall into the water. The tub, she once loved so much because she and Arthur would bath in it together, was large enough to drown her. Rebecca nimbly freed herself from the water as she tried to hold Ariadne down.
The Architect fought bravely as she tried to scratch and hit this woman who meant to kill her and take over her role as wife and mother.