A slash of red paint against a canvas. His hand is gripping the paintbrush with force, his knuckles are raw and pink. His eyes are half shut. Another slash of paint, he doesn't care that it's getting all over his walls. He likes the way it looks, a bright flash of red on a pristine white wall.
A halved pomegranate on a plate. It's four 'o clock in the morning and he can't seem to bring himself to eat it. Instead, he grabs it and squeezes it as hard as he can just to feel the juice run through his fingers and drop onto the cracked white plate and the laminate floors.
He's still trying but he's starting to weaken, he's still asking himself the same questions he asked six months ago and there's still no answers. What had caused the kick? Why had it have to come at that exact moment?
It's painful for him to imagine her trapped. Dead but still somehow alive. It's taking all he has to stop himself from attempting to join her but he doesn't want to dream again. He's too scared, too fragile.
And so all he is left with are his own creations. Thousands of paper cranes, hundreds of wishes but none of them are going to come true. Paintings, sketches, broken pencils. Canvas showing two people huddled together in a storehouse, or kissing under a chandelier while paper cranes rain down from up above, or holding hands and skating over the ocean. It sickens him to look at them but he can't stop.
They are his portraits. Portraits of a pretty young girl with a paisley scarf tied 'round her neck and big, bright eyes that used to look up at him so helplessly.
Portraits of an illusionist.
AN: Scarlet here, hello all! I'm sorry this final chapter (yes, final chapter) was so lame and I understand if you are all disappointed but I just, I'm kind of tiring of this story. It's not that I don't LOVE Inception, I do. Oh god, I do. And I love this couple as well, it's just, I don't feel like I have any more to contribute to this storyline and I hope you guys understand that. I do hope you're not all bitter about the not-so-happy ending, but hey, not every story can end with a happily ever after, right? That being said, I'm still inspired and I do hope to write more fan fiction in the future, but this is it for this story (for now.)
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To end this, I'd just like to once again thank everybody who has read this entire story and alerted and favorited and reviewed, I've been on Fanfiction for a bit over two weeks and you have all been so kind and spectacular in helping me get set up on the site and supporting my work and this story. So thank you very very very much, and I hope to see some amazing fics out of all of you soon! And on an ending note, AriadnexArthur forever!