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A man looked at the white ceiling wondering if he was dead yet. He looked around but felt consticted from a breathing he took it out, pain coursed through his throat and he looked for anything that told him where he was. He looked over at the nurse that looked shocked and bewildered but calm. "Where am I?"
She looked at him. "You're in the Looking Glass..." He looked at her and she went back to what she was doing and left him pondering many questions. He tried moving more but he felt himself constricted more. The nurse injected into the intervenous and he Panicked
"What is this place?" He tried fighting the drug and tried to reach up for the nurse who just backed away.
"You're in capable hands ." the nurse smiled at him as the senitive made him go back into a comma-like state after he said one thing.
"Let me speak to Lucifer..." and with that he fell back into a state of oblivion.
'Lucifer' watched in the next room as the other male slipped back into the abyss that he had made for the male in that state. He smiled and looked away.
"Kaine is not Lucifer, brother..." He looks over at the only thing that he was allowed in the room, a rosarie that he had bought for his own reasons.
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Yusuf heard the phone ring as he was working on a new chemical. He picked it up and answered. "Not many people know this number..."
"Well not many people make it seem like you're dead..." After Yusuf saw the dramatic effects of the drug, He pretty much dropped off the end of the earth.
"You have your way of dealing with failure... I have mine..." He looked at the bottle that was the problem. Even though Eames blamed Arthur for Cobb's coma but he quietly had blamed himself, but didn't want to cause more problems for the team by walloing in self pity. So he left the place that he held his many concotions and went to other countries to find other ways to get a senitive that will let someone wake up by killing themselves in the dream. "What can I do for you?"
"I need... a chemist... " Ariadne bit her lower lip and then said. "We're going to get Cobb back."
Yusuf silently looked at the phone then to the new bottle. "I just was working on a senitive..."
"How long will you need?"
"Only a month or so..." Yusuf picked it up and moved the liquid inside. He wanted to test it. "How many levels?"
"How many it takes to get to Limbo..." She thought about how many they had to go into to get to Mal and Ficher. "Four or Five levels?"
"I can do that I think.." Yusuf smiled and looked at his new drugs and special compounds to see how he could make it better. Sure, he was done with the pefect dream space drug, but there was always room for improvement. He looked at the pieces of dried ingredients and then took them. "I will need a subject to test it on..."
"Will do..." She looked at her arm and anticipated going back and creating worlds of her own. "Do you need anything else?"
"Just room, but I think that you have that already..." He packed the jars and carefully wraped them in newpaper. "Who else is joining?"
"Eames, Arthur, and me so far..."
"So far? We need more?" Yusuf stopped what he was doing.
"Just one more..." She looked at the bullintin board and then saw a stanger in the doorway. "Umm I'll see you at the airport. There's someone here." She hung up the phone and turned around to look at the newcommer. "Yes?"
Yusuf looks at the phone then hung up. He finished packing the items and called for his partner across the house. "I have to leave... the compound for the group is on the desk..."
The old man nodded and then went back to tending the 'group' trying to dream again.
"Are you Ariadne?" the man had a simple face yet his eyes held intelligence and composure.
"Yes..." She held her glance at him.
"I hope you're not too busy... I need your time and an open mind... I heard that you're in aquantice with Dominic Cobb..."
"Right now he's not -"
"I know..." He put his hands in his pockets and looked around. "He's always going to be one of the best..."
"He's not dead..." Her tone went defensive but she didn't want to piss the guy off.
"That's good..." He smiled and looked at her. "This isn't the place though to talk this though..." He motioned her to his car.
She looked at him cautiously and then went with him. She held in her hand a senitive in a specialized container and thanked Yusuf for having the foresight for one of these problems.
"Don't worry you won't be needing that.." He looked at the hand that held Yusuf's compound.
"What do you want then?"
"A job offer..." He walked away from the building as the chauffer opened the car. "You interested?"
Cobb jumped awake and looked aroud at where he was. He tried pushing on the car door and then kicking it. He wondered why he couldn't hear any police or why it was dark. He winced as the pain coursed through his arm and right then and there he looked over and saw a young male that he had never seen before. It seemed that he just appeared there, he looked confused and then saw Cobb there.
"H-help..." He looked at him pleadingly and then the male went into action. He ran toward him, wedged the door open and pulled him out of the car. They both were gasping on the ground and looked at the other. "Thank you. uh."
"... I dont know my name..." He looked at him and shrugged. "I don't even know why I'm here..."
"Do you have a place to sleep tonight?" He looked at the car and then watched as the young man shook his head. "Then you will..." After he got up and after tying his own arm in the sleeve that already was ripped beyond repair, held his hand to help the young man up.