I was on the side of the street in the rain. Joy. What more I was with Fischer! Even better! I had to think quickly.
"Mr. Fischer, Mr. Browning says that the car that was supposed to pick us up won't be coming. Apparently it broke down. We'll have to call a cab." He gave me a weird look,
"What are you doing Sherri?"
"I'm your head of security sir. I'm doing my job." I add a laugh and a reassuring look. I had to sell this to him. Make him trust me. "I wouldn't send one of my men to go with you to New York when I'm supposed to be your head of security."
"Uh, right. Yes, well… carry on then." I smiled, being around Eames has paid off.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Arthur pov~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sat in the car with Cobb, Yusuf, Ariadne, and Saito.
"Where's Sherri?"
"I don't know. We'll run into her and Eames later right now you and Saito need to high jack a taxi. In this rain he'll defiantly be looking for a taxi." Cobb rammed the taxi in front of us and the driver got out and so did Saito and I. Cobb pulled a gun out, "Walk away." He did and we got in. We drove down the street and found Fischer standing on the side. With Sherri? She hailed us down and we pulled over.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sherri pov~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I watched as the cab pulled over and I saw Eames come running towards us. I opened the door and Fischer climbed in and then I did. Eames got in the other side,
"What are you doing?"
"I thought It was free."
"Look get-" Eames pulled a gun out and so did Saito. "Oh God." He rubbed his face. Eames pointed at me,
"You, gun. Hand it over."
"What makes you think I have a gun?"
"You're his head of security are you not?"
"Give it to him Sherri." I did as Fischer said and handed it over. Then gun shots rang out. Eames made Fischer duck and handed me my gun back. We were firing out the back window now. Projections were coming after us with guns now! The back window was gone and Arthur was driving around like a maniac trying to avoid the cars that were trying to run us over. We got trapped and I fired out the front window killing one of the guys. Arthur backed up into one of the guys and Eames shot him. We drove off to the warehouse as quickly as possible. When we got there. Eames grabbed Fischer and shoved him to Cobb then he came around to me and yanked me out of the car.
"Put him in the back."
"What are you going to do to her?" I was surprised Fischer actually cared, but then I remembered that he thought I was still his head of security. Cobb didn't know what to say so Eames did instead,
"Nothing of your concern."
"I'll be fine Mr. Fischer. Just do as they say." Once they were gone Eames let go of me, "Dang it Eames could you have yanked on me any harder!"
"Sorry love needed it to be more convincing." Cobb came back just as Arthur and Eames were pulling Saito out of the car.
"What was that? How did you not see this coming? That Fischer had training to prevent extractors from breaking into his mind, and having a militarized subconscious that will find the invaders and destroy them? This was your responsibility! We are not prepared for this!" I pushed Cobb back a little trying to get him to calm down. How was Arthur supposed to know?
"Let's put him out of his misery." My brother brought his gun up and aimed it at Saito's head. Cobb made him put the gun down and backed him up,
"You can't kill him!"
"Sure we can. We shoot him he wakes up."
"We're too heavily sedated." My attention shot to Yusuf.
"What…"
"If we die here we go into limbo."
"Limbo. What's limbo?" I looked to Ariadne who had fear etched across her face,
"Your brain basically becomes mush and you'll be stuck in a dream state with anyone else who's been in limbo before." I still knew my stuff,
"Which in this case is Cobb. I can't believe you. We're you in on this? How much did he promise you? Half his share.?" Arthur was ticked but Yusuf was calm and collected,
"All of it." I squeezed my eyes shut. Eames was angry too,
"That's great. Just great. Now we're stuck in Fischer's mind and we'll be dropped in limbo if we fail. If we fail we'll be killed no doubt."
I didn't realize how close Arthur was until I turned around. He opened his mouth to say something but never got to say it because Cob threw him a black mask. "Come on." Arthur let out a sigh and followed Cobb. A few minutes later Cobb came back out and looked to Eames,
"You have one hour."
"What happened to you have twenty four hours?"
"Well that was before we had people shooting at us. You have one hour." He began to shout with Browning's voice. Cobb dragged him in and in less than a minute Arthur and Cobb came back. I went up into the upper room to think and didn't realize I wasn't alone until I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist and warm breath on my neck,
"Sherri… are you going home to a boyfriend." I turned around in his arms and looked into his eyes. I knew he was kidding but I wanted to play along,
"Depends…am I." He was close. Really close. His lips just grazed mine and I wrapped my arms around his neck. His lips were so close.
"If we're going to die in this dream…then I want to tell you that…I love you."
"Oh screw it." I pressed my lips to his and he smiled in the kiss before deepening it. His arms tightened around my hips as I found my back against the wall. I pulled away slightly but his lips begged for me not to, "I love you Arthur." His lips danced over mine and I almost lost it when he tugged on my lower lip. Our tongues fought against each other and we kissed back and forth for what seemed like forever until we heard someone clear their throat. We pulled away to see Eames standing there. I groaned as my brother simply laughed.
"About time! Hey Dom!" I made it across the room fairly quickly and slapped my brother in the back of the head,
"Shut it Eames. Shouldn't you be with Fischer?" He grinned at us,
"Shouldn't you be down stairs? They've got a code and Fischer's in the back of the truck. He's been asking about you. Wants to know what we've done with you." I rolled my eyes as we went down stairs.
"There you two are! Where were you?" Of course Dom was looking for us.
"Upstairs."
"Oh don't be modest sis. These two were upstairs in a lip lock." I punched Eames in the shoulder who simply laughed. Heck even Dom was smiling. I climbed in the back of the van and pulled my totem put. My totem was unique to the others. Mine was practical. It was a black handled switch blade with a blue dragon on one side and a gold one on the other. In reality the blade was steel; in a dream the blade was crystal, almost glass like, with a red dragon on the handle instead. The handle had a red dragon on it and when the blade flicked out it was crystal. I sighed, so this was still a dream. That kiss was good, but I wanted to kiss him in reality.
We loaded up and hooked up to the machine. My eyes slowly began to fall and I fell into the next dream. Arthur's dream.