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Four
Viviane
Viviane Martin had had a very long day and it was nice to spend the end of it at a club with her friends. It was a fairly small and intimate club with one dancefloor which every now and then had a live band playing, this was such a night. Then there was the bar area with several tables, sofas and so on. It was a comfortable place to hang out if you wanted a good place to hang out which wasn't too noisy or filled with drunken teenagers. Viviane and her friends went there about once a week so you could say it was their regular place. On this particular night Viviane was the first one of her friends to arrive so she stood by the bar and ordered a drink. What she didn't notice was the man whom was watching her from the entrance.
"How about a dance with a handsome man, Love?" asked Eames who came up behind Viviane
"No thanks mate, I'm not interested." she replied and took a step forward but Eames quickly put a hand on her waist.
"Not even if he's an old friend?" he asked. Viviane twitched for a short second and then turned around to Eames whom was smiling at her. Hang on, she thought.
"Eames!" Viviane exclaimed and threw her arms around him. It was certainly an unexpected surprise to see him but at the same time it made her all the more suspicious.
"So how about that dance?" asked the Forger as he took Viv's hand to lead her out onto the dancefloor.
"How about you tell me why you're here Eames?" replied Viv, because she knew Eames and could tell that whatever the reason for him showing up unannounced, it sure wasn't social.
"Oh I will love, just dance with me first."
Like we haven't done this before, thought Viv and found herself smiling.
"How have you been?" Eames asked
"I've been good. You?" Viv replied, although none of the small talk really mattered. Neither of them were particularly good at it.
"Oh you know me. I'm always fine."
"Yeah. So you decided just to pop in for a social call?"
"You know me well enough Viv. Take a guess."
"I don't want to play games Eames, just tell me why you're here."
"Okay fair enough. I'm here because I need to talk to you about a job. We need to talk about extraction."
Viviane pulled away from Eames and for a while she met his eyes. She ought to have known what it was about. Obviously she knew Eames wasn't there to just say 'hello' but she should have known it had something to do with a job.
"Whatever the job is Eames, my answer is no. You'll have to look for someone else." Viviane told him.
"Cobb doesn't want anyone else in the team. He wants you." Eames explained.
"You're working for Dominic? Of course, that explains it. My answer is still no though." Eames sighed. He thought it would be easier to get Viviane into the job but he had forgotten how stubborn she could be. He also knew that Cobb wasn't going to settle for a simple 'no' and knowing how much those two could argue it could end more worse than it needed to be.
"It's not just any job Viviane. We really want you in on this one. I really want you in on this one." Eames said, hoping to get through to her.
"You know I'm out. I don't do it anymore Eames. I have a normal life now, a normal job which I'm very happy with and I have friends." Viviane explained although Eames could hear that she didn't even really believe it herself. He knew you couldn't just walk away from that kind of lifestyle and just live your life as nothing had ever happened. All the same, he hardly recognized the woman in front of him. For starters, she wasn't blonde anymore, in fact she had dyed her hair a sort of dark brown colour with hints of red in it. She also looked older than the last time they saw each other, then again she ought to. After all she had only been twenty-one at the time. She was twenty-five now.
"You're telling me you just have normal dreams at night? That you don't think about it every day? That you miss it. Come on Viv, even I know you don't just walk away from it like that."
"Well here's me walking away now. It's been good seeing you again Eames." Viviane gave Eames a kiss on the cheek and turned around to walk away.
"We perfomed Inception you know."
Viviane quickly stopped walked and turned to face Eames again. Score, he thought as he walked up towards her.
"No you didn't. Don't be ridiculous. That's impossible. You cannot possibly do Inception." Viv told him. He had to be lying, there was no way yo could perform Inception. She knew the theory behind it but she had never heard of anyone who had actually succeeded doing it.
"We did. I'll tell you all about it if you want to."
I'm going to regret this. "Yeah okay." she said.
Cobb rushed his hands through his hair and sighed. He hadn't expected Yusuf to betray them to the other team, on the other hand though it wasn't exactly as if he owed any loyality to them. It was just a bit of a set back, if they had Yusuf they would be able to get to work right away. Now they had to hope that Eames would be able to get a hold of Viviane and if he didn't they would a problem on their hands. Sure there were chemists around but most of them weren't easy to find and often they were very expensive. No, Cobb wanted someone he knew, someone he liked and someone that he could trust. This job had to go right, he couldn't let people think that he couldn't do the job anymore. He was Dominic Cobb after all and he did have a reputation to live up to.
"God damnit." cursed Cobb as he leaned back against the armchair.
"God I hate airports." said Viviane as they went through security. She wasn't afraid of flying at all, in fact she quite enjoyed it. It was the airports she had issues with, but then again she had reasons for not liking them.
"Are you still dreaming about that one airport?" asked Eames as he looked at her curiously. There was a still a while left before the gate opened so the two of them sat down. Viviane tried to remember the last time she had been the US and realised it had to have been almost two-three years ago.
"So how's Cobb doing?" she asked, ignoring Eames' question on purpose.
"Pretty good I think. He's off his charges and has his kids again." replied Eames as he leaned back against the plastic chair.
"What about Mal? Is she still getting in the way?"
"She tried to sabotage for us when we did Inception. I'm not sure what happened afterwards but I think he somehow let go of her. I didn't ask for details."
"I still can't believe you managed to do it. I've never heard of anyone successfully pull it off. We certainly didn't."
Viviane hade lowered her voice to a whisper because she didn't want other people to hear what they were taling about. Not everyone knew about dream-sharing, it wasn't a particularly known fact unless you were in the kind of business that used it. For normal people it was just one of those urban myths that circulated everyone now and then. Sometimes it would be the topic of a conversation amongst friends at the pub or there would be something written in a book about conspiracies but no one really paid much attention to it. It was just something they brushed off their shoulders and then forgot about.
"Makes you wonder what we did wrong doesn't it?" asked Eames. He had wondered about that too ever since their former team had tried pulling it off.
"Maybe we just weren't specific enough. I bet Arthur didn't like that idea. I mean Inception is dangerous." said Viviane with a smile
"He's got a girlfriend now you know. Our new architect Ariadne."
"Oh does he? Good on him, he really needs one. What about her, is she any good?"
"She's very good. The best I've seen. Did you realise you didn't answer my question earlier?"
"Oh I realised it. I just wasn't planning on telling you."
Of course you weren't thought Eames and was about to reply when he looked over Viviane's shoulder. There were two men who had been watching them for a while but now they had left. Eames wasn't sure if he was supposed to be relieved or worried about it. He wondered who they were but then again he could probably assume that they were a part of the other team Cobb had mentioned. Either that or it was just their henchmen.
"Is there someone following us?" asked Viviane when she saw the expression on Eames' face and turned around to see what he was looking at
"There was just a moment ago." said Eames
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, flight 413 to Los Angeles is now boarding. Please prepare to show your passport."
"Hopefully we'll lose them now." Said Viviane as she reached for her passport and went to stand in the queue. Eames took one last look around him and wished he could be as certain as Viviane seemed to be.
To Be Continued…
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