Hey guys i am sorry it has been so long! For the reason why look at the AN before this. WARNING! Portions at the beginning and end of this chapter are rated M because of Rape. Hope you like it! R&R!
~Az
When he came to he knew he wasn't in the hotel anymore and that was about it. He didn't remember much else. The walls were all concrete and so was the floor. He was sitting on a wooden chair with his wrists and ankles bound to it. Eames, Ariadne, and Cobb where all lying on the floor still hooked up to the PASIV. Ari… Shit, Maria brought them here. It was all coming back to him now. Maria is alive. Instinctively he struggled against the restraints. Much to his surprise he got out of them. It was almost as if they weren't there to actually hold him there. He ran over to Ariadne.
"Oh Ariadne. I will get us out of this I promise, even if it the last thing that I do."
The second he got out though he heard a creaking from behind the sole wooden door in the room. It burst open. He instinctively crouched down on front of the rest of the team, protecting them. In walked in Maria and two other males.
"Well Arthur how was your nap? Wait don't answer that. I don't care." Maria walked in, gun drawn pointed at Arthur's forehead.
"Why are you doing this Maria? What did I ever do to you? I loved you and you were the one that used me. You have no right to do this!"
"You think you were the only one hurt Arthur!" Maria yelled. The two other males tensed up, ready for a fight, "I love you and you just walked away after you thought I was dead! If you had taken the time to look you would have noticed it wasn't me! You just left Arthur, you left with the one who you thought killed me."
"Well I am sorry that I didn't want to pay close attention the woman who I thought was cheating on me in my own house," Maria inched closer to him. Every inch that she got closer to him, was an inch that he got closer to Ariadne, "I am sorry that I walked away from someone who cheated on me and used me. And you loving me is a load of bullshit. If you really loved me you would have found me."
"Okay Arthur you asked for it. Boys you can have her."
"What are you going to do to her?" For the first time the panic started to become apparent in his voice.
"Well what do you think?"
Arthur turned to Ariadne and kissed her. "Ariadne I am so sorry. I am so sorry. I will make sure you get out. Ariadne I am so sorry." He managed to kiss her one more time before the men pulled him off of her and tied him down for real to the chair and made him watch as they raped her.
It was getting worse. Ariadne hadn't realized how big she had made her replica of Paris. It has been a month already. Things weren't getting any better between her and Eames either. They barely talked. Both of them were tired of it but neither knew what to say so they stuck to not saying anything.
That was until they reached something that Ariadne had not put in, a forest.
"Why the bloody hell did you put this in?" asked Eames.
"I didn't. What does that mean?"
"That means that we have finally made some progress, love. We have found where what Cobb created starts."
"Wait Eames. This isn't right. I know where we are. I used to go hunting here with my grandfather."
"Then why the bloody hell would Cobb put this here?"
"You think I know?"
"You never finished telling the story." Eames said in a softer, almost seductive tone.
Ariadne knew what he was doing but she fell for it anyways. "I did, I just didn't tell you all the details. Do you want to know why I moved in with my grandparents? My mom died then my dad went to jail."
Eames stood speechless.
"My mom died when I was ten of brain cancer and ever since then my dad started making bad choices. He started doing drugs and getting mixed up with the wrong people. Eventually he got caught dealing and was put in prison. He is still there today in Middlesex County Prison. After that my grandparents got legal custody of me."
"Ariadne that is horrible. I am sorry that I brought it up."
"Oh I'm not done." She snapped. Eames was going to say something but snapped his mouth shut again when he saw the glare she was giving him.
She continued.
"A month after I moved in with my grandparents I caught my two year boyfriend cheating on me. You know who he was cheating on me with?"
"Your best friend?"
"Close but wrong. My best friend's mom! Her fucking mom! But you get your part too. He was screwing my friend too! And a year after that, my grandmother died in a car crash. A year after that my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Two months later he accidentally killed himself with his gun while he was trying to figure out how to use it. Don't you give me any fucking bullshit Eames! You have no fucking idea how I hate myself for what I did to you. So please Eames, just this once, don't be yourself and just please, don't say anything."
She broke down crying. Eames caught her before she fell to the ground and held her close. He slowly sat down on the ground with out hurting Ariadne and held her in his lap as she ruined his shirt with salt stains.
Then he found it. Found what he had been looking for the past month. The Eifel Tower. This was where he saw them. The people he knew were his friends but for some reason he couldn't remember them.
He knew for a fact now that something wasn't right. Paris wasn't supposed to be here and he knew that his friends weren't dead despite that she saw them jump off the tower.
"Why can't I remember?" he yelled to the empty streets.
After Ariadne's break down things started to look up. They made it through the woods and on the other side they found another surprise. After everything though, this didn't shake them a bit, especially since Ariadne had been here before in a dream.
"What is this place?" Eames asked in wonder, referring to the massive city that they have come upon.
"This Mr. Eames, is Cobb's limbo."
Eames stared in awe. "This is what he created? Then why is it here?"
The answer came to Ariadne easily. "This isn't what I saw. The kick you gave us in the Fischer job destroyed what was originally his world and even before then it was falling apart. When he got stuck he was here for Saito so he wasn't on the shore he was deeper in limbo so he recreated it." She scanned the cityscape on front of her. "It seems almost exactly the same minus some of the collapsing buildings that were here."
"Darling if that is true, then does that mean that you know where Cobb would be?"
She jumped up and down. "Yes! Yes! Yes! I know exactly where he would be!"
"How long is it going to take to get there?"
"About a day."
"Lead the way, love."
Something was missing. He could tell by the view that this wasn't Paris; there was too much missing. From what he could see there were mostly the major points of Paris. There weren't the countless apartment buildings and only a few businesses. Then he saw it. H couldn't remember what it was but he knew that there was some important meaning to him about it but he couldn't remember. He descended down the Eifel Tower to remember.
Ariadne knew exactly where they needed to go due to the fact that she had been here before. The walk was also a lot more pleasant now that the invisible barrier that was looming between them was gone. Ariadne had a lot more confidence now to ask the questions that have been jumping around in her head about Eames.
"I know that look love. What do you want to know?"
Ariadne looked down as the pink was creeping up her cheeks.
"Come on darling. Reading people is my job so don't feel too bad." She looked up and there was a smile plastered on his face. Just the fact that he was smiling encouraged her. She loved to see him smile.
"How did you get into dream sharing?"
The smile fell from his face. She immediately regretted bringing it up. "You don't have to if you don't-"
"Ariadne it is fine. You can't help but being curious. There is just a little more than you may think."
She just looked at him, willing him to continue. He took the hint.
"My family is very," he paused, searching for the right word," detached, from each other. None of us were ever close. My parents had a lot of money. I basically grew up in a mansion. I could have anything that I wanted, but I hated it. I had a horrible child hood, trying to live up to my brother's reputation. When I didn't, I could feel the looming disappointment radiating off of my parents."
He didn't elaborate on what disappointed them and she was too shy to ask so she let him continue without interruption. "I got out of there as fast as I could. The second I turned eighteen I joined the military. After everything that happened in my childhood I was depressed. I threw myself into the fight. I was the best. That is how they found me. I was hand picked for a special division of the somnacin project. Where Arthur was they were manly using it to train soldiers but for me, they were training us to navigate people's minds.
"When the main project fell, we continued. We were the ones who found limbo and the concept of extraction. Eventually my division fell apart as more people left to pursue jobs in the business. Shortly after I left the project my father fell ill and died. I was forced to go home. Ever since I left after my father funeral I haven't been back since. The first team I worked on was put together by our employer."
Ariadne already knew where this was going.
"The team consisted of Arthur, Mal, and I. That is how I got into extraction!"
The story was slightly less than what Ariadne expected and they both knew that. They also both knew that Eames left details out. Yet again, they both knew she would never ask. She would wait for Eames to tell her if she was ready, if he was ever ready.
When he got there the big door was unlocked. He walked right in. What he saw was so familiar put he just couldn't place it. There were different workstations. There was one seemingly for a chemist, one with a computer and a bunch of files, one with pictures of different people, one with different mazes and models, and one blank desk in the corner. He was drawn to it.
He walked over in inspected it. The only thing on it was a metal brief case. He opened it. Once he saw what it was it all came back to him this was a PASIV.
Flashback
"Don't lose yourself. Find Saito and bring him back!" she yelled over the thunder and wind.
"I will!" he yelled back before she dropped off the edge.
"We'd be together forever. You promised me." a dying mal whispered.
"I know but we can't. And I am sorry." He whispered back, stroking her hair.
"You remember when you asked me to marry you?" she asked. "You said you dreamt we would grow old together."
"And we did." He replied.
He thinks back to the first time he was in limbo with Mal. They grew old and died together.
"I miss you more than I can bear… but we had our time together. And now I have to let you go." He lets a single tear fall from his eye. He held Mal as she died.
He woke up on a shore. A Japanese security guard dragged him into a dinning hall in a Japanese mansion. Cobb wolfs down the food that is placed on front of him. An elderly man watches him, waits.
"Have you come to kill me?" the elderly man asks.
Cobb slowly looks up from his food.
"I have been waiting for someone to come for me…" the elderly man continues.
"Someone from your half-remembered dream?" Cobb says. He is surprised as the words leave his mouth.
The old man stares at him, analyzing him. "Cobb? Not possible. He and I were young men together. I am an old man."
"Filled with regret."
The old man stares at Cobb in recognition. Cobb remembers too. He came here to bring this man back. This man is Saito.
"Waiting to die alone, yes." Saito continues.
Cobb stares at the top on the table. "I can back for you. I came to remind you of what you once knew."
The top is still spinning. He and Saito gaze at the world around them. "This world is not real." Cobb continues.
"You came to convince me to honor our arrangement."
"Yes." Cobb nods his head. "And to take a leap of faith."
Both of their gazes drift to the gun next to Saito. They both nod. Saito reaches for the gun. Cobb takes it and shoots Saito between the eyes then shoots himself in the head.
End Flashback
If he shot himself then why is he still here? He should be back in the real world and not here. It should have kicked him out. The Fischer job was a success. The only thing wrong here is him. Then everything around him started to collapse.
Just after the sunset they found it. They found the building the contained Cobb and Mal's house. As they walked through Eames admired the Architecture.
"This is bloody amazing. And their house is on a level of this?"
"Yes. When they built this they loved this style of building but wanted a house. Since they were in limbo, they could have both." Ariadne explained.
They got off at the ninth floor.
"Wow darling, you weren't joking!"
"Well why would I?"
They looked around. "He isn't here."
"Then where the hell is he?" she asked.
Just as she said that, the world around them started collapsing.
When he woke up again he was on the shore of his subconscious, again. Except this time he wasn't alone. He was greeted by the sight of Ariadne and Eames in the water not too far from him. He struggled to get up. Eames was the first one up. He bound over to Cobb and tackled him back into the water.
Ariadne's high-pitched laugh was music to his ears. "Eames let him up!"
"Sorry Cobb," Eames apologized though not looking sorry at all, "I am just so bloody happy to see you!"
"Do you mind me asking what is going on here?" He asked the two.
"We have just as much idea as you do Cobb. Now how do we get out of here?" Ariadne asked.
"I have a good idea," interrupted Eames, "how bout that nice tower we have used before."
She woke up with a gasp. Arthur screamed louder. Begging with all that he has. She can't wake up to this. The rest of them were waking up too.
"Please stop! Please don't do this to her!" he yelled kicking against his restraints. He had to get up and help her. The male that wasn't holding him down was on top of her, undressing her. The only thing standing in-between them are her thin panties. His lips and hands wandering all over her body…
She let out a blood-curdling scream. The second that Cobb and Eames heard this and figured out what happened they were ripping their IVs out and pulling the man off her. She was still screaming.
The second that the male that was holding him loosened his grip he stood up in the chair and wacked him in the face with legs rendering the male unconscious. He smashed down one more time on the male to make sure he was out and to break the chair. Arthur was successful.
He ripped the gun out of the male's jacket. Arthur and Maria pointed the guns at each other. Two shots were fired. Two people fell down dead, one male, one female. Maria and the second male are now dead. Ariadne was still screaming but now her head was resting in Arthur's lap.
They all watched her with worry in their eyes.
Hope that you liked it. Sadly this story is starting to come to an end. After this there will be one or two more chapters. Like i said i will write a sequel. Please press that lovely blue review button down there :)