Siblings

Thanks to those who reviewed with suggestions, i am taking them into account, there could be possibly one in the next chapter. Well here's titbit number 2, enjoy!

Eames stood outside Ariadne's apartment door as he waited for her to come out and take him to lunch. It had been a month since he'd told her about his favourite football team and Eames had been trying to avoid her, however, she was persistent and finally wore him down to come and have lunch as a form of apology for invading his privacy.

She opened the door with a breezy smile and gestured him in, he saw that she was in the middle of a phone call with someone.

"Really? Katie's pregnant. That's wonderful! How far along is she?"

Ariadne motioned to take a seat on the couch; she was going to be a while by the looks of it.

"I'll be sure to send my congratulations on to her. I'll come and visit in the summer, I promise."

Eames mock sighed loudly to get her attention and when she looked at him he pointed to his solid silver Rolex watch.

"Mom, I know its half a year away but I've got work commitments here." She grabbed a cushion and threw it at him before walking into the kitchenette, he caught it and smirked as he knew it was getting under her skin, she was so much fun to taunt.

"I'm sure you're more than enough support for her. Katie doesn't need her youngest sister worrying over her as well as you, and I'm sure Juno's got it covered as well."

Eames got up from where he was sitting and sauntered over to the kitchenette at a lazy pace, he leant against the wall propped up by his elbow and watched her trace the outline of a cup on the counter; she liked to keep her hands busy at all times.

"It would be great to have everyone there but I can't right now. It's seven months away; I'll be there for the due date. Look, we'll talk about this later, ok? I'm going out for lunch and my friend looks like he's about to faint with starvation."

Eames couldn't help but smirk when he heard a change in Ariadne's mother's tone of voice.

"Yes, we're just friends." Ariadne hissed as she gave him a fake smile and turned away before she started blushing. "I'll talk to you later, Mom. Take care, bye."

Ariadne returned the phone to its cradle without looking Eames in the eye; her Mom could be so embarrassing at times and she wasn't even in the same country.

"So who's Katie?" Eames asked to breeze over her embarrassment.

"She's my sister, eldest sister."

"And Juno?"

"She's my other sister; she's also older than me, I have a younger brother too, his name is Alexander."

"Quite a big family you have there."

"Yup. All six of us. You should see the chaos at Christmas."

"I can only imagine."

She opened her mouth as if to ask whatever was on her mind but then closed it again. Ariadne had learnt her lesson from last time, she didn't want Eames to give out any more information unwillingly, she'd been racked with guilt the past month and she hated him not being around, it made her edgy.

Eames caught the gesture and knew exactly what she wanted to ask. It was time for trivial fact number 2.

"I have a younger sister; her name is Maddie. Madeline Eames if you want to be formal. She's about eighteen now, although I haven't seen her since she was four. There's a big age gap between us if you hadn't guessed, well, that's because my dad remarried when I was a teenager, but we won't go into that. Maddie lives with my dad in Islington, so far as I know. The last picture I saw was on her sixteenth birthday, a friend of mine from home sent it to me. She's pretty, she takes after her mother, although, she does remind me of you a little. She's small, about 5'2, like you, and she's got this long brown hair, about shoulder length, but it's not wavy like yours, its dead straight. She's got this beautiful wide smile, you can see it in the photo, you can't fake the happiness in it. It makes me happy to just focus on her smile. You wouldn't be able to tell we're related, we're like Ying and Yang supposedly, but we do have the same colour eyes, a genetic trait from our father no doubt."

"So you have different mothers, but the same father?"

"Yes." Eames didn't like to talk about his mother.

"Have you ever thought of visiting her, your sister? It sounds like you miss her."

"No, she's doing fine as she is. She's done without me for the last fourteen years the worst I could do is to go home now and stir up trouble."

"Are you really in that much trouble back home? So much trouble that you can't even see your own sister?"

"Well, yes and no. But once again I can't have you knowing all my secrets darling, so can we just drop it, please?"

"You should consider it, Eames. I know my family drive me crazy; especially my Mom but they're my family at the end of the day, I'm always gonna be there for them."

"I know she's fine, that's good enough for me. Now that's all you're getting, come on let's go before I really do feint from starvation."

Ariadne grabbed her coat in pensive thought, she wanted to know more but she wouldn't push him, he was as stubborn as a mule, maybe he'd tell her more someday, she hoped. They walked in companionable silence as made their way to a restaurant just five minutes away. Ariadne couldn't resist trying to get something out of him one more time.

"So, where did you live in England?"

"Nice try Ariadne, but the train to the past has already departed and there will be no more running for the foreseeable present." Eames said as he pulled the chair back for her.

"It was worth a shot." She smiled.

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