Hey guys, sorry for the long wait. These past two weeks have been hectic with preparing for finals and finals. So I haven't had time to write. But I finally am able to! My last final is on Thursday which means I can write more as long as I'm not working all the time. So here is the next chapter. I hope you all like it. I ended it where I did because it felt right for me. So anyways, read and review! I hope you all are still reading despite the fact that it's taken me so long to update! Anyways, without further ado, here is the next chapter!

I don't own Inception, but I do own it on DVD! YAY! :D


Ariadne woke up next to Arthur, which caused her to sit up in a rush, looking around her cautiously. If she woke up next to Arthur, there was a good chance Brendan was somewhere near. Sighing in relief she closed her eyes briefly before stealing a glance at Arthur, who was sitting up slowly, a worried look on his face.

"What?" Ariadne asked, alarmed. Arthur shook his head slowly and took her hand in his, kissing it softly.

"We need to hurry. Dom should be around here somewhere." Arthur told her, standing up and dusting off his neatly pressed suit. He held out his hand for her and she took it, pulling herself up and gasping when she saw Brendan walking around calling out for her.

"You need to go, Arthur!" She hissed, pushing him carefully out of view. "Make it to the computer room, find Dom, and I'll meet you there once I convince him that he has to change our information."

Arthur nodded, smirking at her bossiness. "See you soon." He said, waving over his shoulder as he broke into a jog towards the large computer lab just around the corner.

Ariadne tugged on her scarf and straightened up as she called out to Brendan.

"I'm over here Brendan!" She called out. Brendan stopped shouting and quickly made his way over to her.

"What happened?" Brendan asked curiously, no hint of suspicion in his voice.

"We were talking with Mr. White and we left, but we were tired so we decided to sleep on the train. I woke up before you and decided not to bother you while the train was idle so I wandered in here five minutes ago." Ariadne lied, hoping Brendan would take the bait.

Brendan's forehead scrunched up in thought and after what seemed like hours to Ariadne, he nodded in acceptance. She bit her lip and looked down, not wanting to lie to Brendan, but knowing this was necessary.

"Come on, we need to get onto one of the computers." Brendan tugged on her arm and grunted as she stood in place. "What's wrong?" He asked, becoming wary and looking around.

"Brendan, I need to get a hold of Arthur. I have to fix things with him, he can help us. He's a genius with computers." She replied, her eyes darting to Brendan in worry. She really hoped this wouldn't cause a weird outburst from Brendan, but if she could get him to trust Arthur, they could destroy the virus and she would be able to live an enjoyable life with her brother and husband.

"Do you want to give him a call and have him meet us here?" Brendan asked uncertainly. He exhaled and waited for her answer. She nodded and looked at him with nervous eyes. "He'll answer." He encouraged her.

"I hope so." She bit her lip and took the phone from Brendan's hand. "I'll be back in a few minutes. Don't go anywhere." Brendan nodded at her and leaned against the nearest wall, looking around. He spotted someone walking but decided to just let it go.

Ariadne quickly dialed Arthur's number and waited for him to pick up.

"How'd it go?" Arthur asked, worry etched in his voice.

"Good. He suggested I call you, so when you come back we have to be convincing enough. He has to know that we're a little cautious around each other but then we can do a big make up scene if you want." Ariadne told him.

Arthur chuckled and Ariadne smiled. "Whatever you want to do."

"Well meet us in ten minutes, I'll tell him that you followed us on the airplane. He should buy it. How are you feeling?" She asked quickly, remembering that he wasn't doing too well up top.

"I'm fine." Arthur quickly replied, too quickly for Ariadne's taste.

She sighed. "I know you're lying, but we need to get this done fast. Have you gotten together with Dom?"

"Yes, he's right here. We'll meet you soon." Arthur answered.

"Ok. See you soon." She smiled as she shut the phone and slowly turned around towards Brendan.

"So?" He asked, wanting to know that he didn't ruin Ariadne's best relationship.

"He's coming to meet us. We're going to talk some more in person." She smiled weakly, rubbing her shoes together.

"Good." Brendan smiled at his sister, glad that there could be a happy ending for her.

Ariadne grinned and looked around for Arthur. She knew that he was keeping how he was feeling from her and she wanted to get this done fast.

"There he is." Brendan told her after he spotted Arthur and Dom coming their way five minutes after Ariadne talked on the phone with Arthur. She turned around quickly and saw Arthur and Dom walking. Arthur looked pale, but his posture was perfect nonetheless.

"Arthur." She smiled weakly and walked up to him. Brendan stepped away from them and Dom moved to stand next to him.

"So you decided to give them a chance huh? Even after forcing Ariadne to leave us, to leave him." Dom whispered bitterly to Brendan. Brendan flinched, knowing he deserved that. He blinked a few times before slowly turning to Dom.

"I was stupid. I should have listened to Ari, but there's just some part of me that can't control my decisions sometimes and I don't know why." Brendan admitted to Dom, his forehead creasing as he spoke. Dom frowned and ran his hand through his hair.

"I think I know what's going on." Dom finally said. Brendan whipped his head to face Dom and curiosity was evident by the way his eyebrows were raised.

"What do you mean?" Brendan asked nervously.

Dom sighed, worried that if he said it out loud, projections would suddenly show up and attack them. He turned to Arthur, who he knew was listening to the conversation with Ariadne, and he nodded.

Arthur grabbed Ariadne's hand gently and kissed it, pulling her to stand with Dom and Brendan.

"We think Cobol planted a virus in your head. Some of the decisions you make aren't your own, but predetermined ones that Cobol incepted into your mind. This could have happened anytime when you were being interviewed for the job or recently when you were sent to capture or kill us." Arthur explained, his senses heightened knowing that there was a high risk of being attacked now.

Brendan swallowed nervously and turned to Ariadne. His eyes were wide with panic and she couldn't control the lump in her throat as she saw her brother in distress.

"Brendan…" She whispered, moving to him and pulling him into a hug.

"I suspected something was wrong, but everytime I thought about it, it would just go away. I would shrug it off and think it was just me being paranoid." Brendan trembled as he clutched onto Ariadne.

"Arthur and Dom are going to try to destroy the virus. We need to get to a computer fast though." Ariadne explained, she kept out the part about Arthur having been shot up in the second layer, not sure if telling him everything would be for the best, but Dom spoke up.

"Yes, Arthur was shot up in the second dream level, your projections seemed to get extremely violent when we talked about the virus. So it might not be safe here." Dom said and Arthur and Ariadne frowned. They didn't like the idea of telling Brendan he'd been dreaming all along.

"I figured I was dreaming." Brendan replied. "Something was a little odd when I woke up here when I know for sure I fell asleep in the conference room at Cobol. I do give you props for being convincing though."

Arthur and Ariadne sighed in unison and she quickly laced her fingers through his and turned to Brendan urgently.

"Come on, we need to go!"

Brendan nodded and followed Dom staying close to Ariadne.

"I'm sorry Brendan, but we knew that this virus could be potentially dangerous and we wanted to try to destroy it. I just hope we can." She whispered to him as the dashed through the hallway and entered into a large computer lab.

"Ari, I understand. Just stay safe. I can't control what my projections will do to you, and as you guys have said, Arthur was shot up there and I can't risk putting you in danger too."

"We altered the sedative. If we die this deep in the dream, we'll just wake up. We made sure Yusuf fixed that. There's no reason why we should end up in limbo because we get shot or killed in a dream." Arthur spoke up, his breaths becoming shorter.

Ariadne looked at him worriedly and frowned. "Arthur, stay with me. We just have to hack the computer and you we can go. Just don't leave me now. We need you."

Arthur nodded weakly and sat down at the computer Dom picked out. He began typing furiously as Dom, Ari, and Brendan stood by nervously. They glanced around to make sure no one was following them.

After ten minutes Arthur hacked into the computer. He was becoming more and more pale by the second and Ariadne was worried he wouldn't make it. When he suddenly slapped the desk and cursed she knew something was wrong.

"Arthur?" She asked quietly. He turned to her briefly and sent Dom a look. Dom's eyes widened and he nodded curtly.

"We have to go." Dom told them.

"What? Why? What's going on? Arthur?" Ariadne began panicking. Brendan clutched his head and Ariadne screamed. "Brendan!"

"Ari, we need to go now!" Arthur shouted pulling her towards him and tightening his grip on her arm as she struggled against him.

"We can't leave Brendan! Something's wrong!" Ariadne yelled.

Dom grabbed Ariadne too and both men were pulling the struggling Architect.

"NO! Brendan! We can't leave him!"

"Ari!" Arthur pulled her against him and turned her so she was looking at him. "There's nothing we can do. The virus is programmed to self destruct."

"What does that mean?" She asked, her voice quivering in anticipation of the bad news she was sure she was going to receive.

Arthur sighed and looked at Dom helplessly. Dom walked over to Ariadne and grabbed her shoulder.

"Ariadne, Brendan is going to kill himself once we wake up. Right now his mind is telling his body to wake up and his projections are going to go on a rampage. We need to get out of here fast." Dom explained.

"No. No, no no no!" She shouted, she began hitting Arthur's chest as tears began to fall. Arthur gently grabbed her wrists and pulled her into an embrace. She finally stopped hitting him and broke down crying.

"We have to go now!" Dom shouted as he heard some yelling from around the corner.

Arthur quickly picked up Ariadne and followed Dom. Arthur was weak, but he couldn't give up now, especially when all of them were in danger and Ariadne was hurting.

"We have to give ourselves a kick. We need to wake up before he does otherwise he might kill us in our sleep." Dom turned to Arthur, urgency dripping in his voice.

"What do you suggest we do?" Arthur asked, grunting as he shifted Ariadne in his arms.

"We're going to have to jump off the building, or out the window of the highest level."

Arthur nodded and they broke out into a sprint, searching for an elevator. Dom dodged a bullet as Arthur stumbled with Ariadne to move them out of shooting range. Dom motioned for Arthur to run over to him. Arthur glanced around and tucked Ariadne close to his body to shield her.

"Arthur, why don't we just let them shoot us?" Ariadne whispered as they hid in the elevator.

"They won't just shoot us, they'll shoot us and torture us. These projections are trained to torture. The virus programmed them that way. If we let them shoot us, they'll purposely miss hitting anything vital and we'll be suffering. The easiest way is for a kick." Arthur explained.

"But we have weapons." Ariadne mumbled.

Dom nodded. "Are you sure you want to go that way?"

Ariadne looked at Arthur briefly and closed her eyes. "Yes."

Arthur tensed, not wanting to have to see her get shot or shoot her himself. He didn't want her to try to do it herself. The first time is always the hardest and sometimes you don't always do it right.

"I'll do it." Dom spoke up, answering the silent debate Arthur was having with himself.

"Ok. I'll see you up there. Hopefully Brendan hasn't woken up yet." Arthur said as he closed his eyes and flinched when he heard the gunshot and felt Ariadne limp body in his arms. He heard another gunshot and everything went blank. His eyes fluttered open quickly and he sat up, looking for Ariadne. She was standing over Brendan frowning.

Arthur stood up and walked to her. Eames was watching them curiously.

"What happened?" He asked.

Arthur turned to Eames as Dom took out the IV and walked over to them.

"The virus was programmed to self destruct. We have to get out of here fast. If Brendan wakes up before us, he won't only kill himself, but he'll kill us too." Dom explained. Eames grunted in disbelief.

"Well that's something I haven't seen before."

"Come on, we'll discuss this later. Right now we need to get out of here. Eames, do you have a gun?"

Eames nodded at Dom and eyed the couple one last time before pulling it out and shooting both of them, Dom, and then himself.

All of them woke up on the plane. Eames rushed over to Arthur and Ariadne and his eyes went soft as he looked at Ariadne.

"The dreams are collapsing. He'll wake up soon. We have to keep moving. Once we wake up in the limo, we'll have to get rid of Brendan and get as far away from him as possible." Dom kept barking orders.

"Right." Eames turned around and looked for a pistol or something to wake them up with. Ariadne handed him her small handgun and Eames raised an eyebrow at her.

"Don't ask." She smiled weakly. Arthur frowned, knowing she was putting on her brave face right now.

"Alright love, let's get a move on." Eames softly said and pulled the trigger.

I feel like this wasn't my best chapters, but I wanted to get an update out...this is getting closer to the end. Perhaps three or four more chapters which includes the epilogue. Again, please review! I need feedback and it helps me become a better writer. Thanks for reading!