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Eames (dream_bigger) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2012-01-19 23:36:00

Entry tags:

ariadne, eames

WHO: Eames and Ariadne
WHAT: flailing, drinking caffeinated beverages, the usual
WHEN: After this
WHERE: The "Welsh place", as Eames calls it.

Eames arrived before Ariadne, and ordered himself a pot of tea and a sandwich. He told the girl who had served him that he was waiting on someone else showing up, and that her order should just be added onto his own, and then he found a cozy spot and settled in with a few essays he still needed to read over before he could start marking them properly.

He couldn't concentrate on them, though. He tried reading them all, and just about managed to get past the abstract each time before he'd realise he had no idea what he'd just read. Someone left his food down on the table, and he absently nodded his thanks at them, then continued to not-read his essays. Mainly, he was berating himself for somehow being blind to Arthur's dilemma. When Cobb had been there before, Arthur hadn't cared at all about the fact that Cobb knew his Point Man was happily bedding both Eames and Ariadne, and Eames had just naively assumed that things would be the same now that Cobb had returned.

And then there was the fact that while Eames would be happy to hire sky-writers and brass bands to let people know he was with Arthur and Ariadne (if they'd let him), it seemed that Arthur had somehow kept his previous relationship with Eames a complete secret. And to be honest, that hurt.

To put it bluntly, Eames felt like a stupid twat.

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dream_bigger
2012-01-20 09:17 pm UTC (link)

"Not even before," he agreed, then watched her as she went through his options.

At her last question, he tilted his head very slightly and nodded. "Yeah. Like, a whole lot," he told her, before smiling at her. It didn't last long, though, and then he sat back and studied the spinning clump of small bubbles in his tea.

"I'm being stupid, aren't I? I mean, I've forced his hand, and that was never going to go well, and yet... I understand not telling people back home, but. Yusuf knew. Yusuf was pissed off with me within a week of Arthur and I getting together because I kept telling him. And Mal knew, because... because she was Mal... I thought he knew."

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labyrinthine
2012-01-20 09:38 pm UTC (link)

Ariadne kept rubbing soothingly over Eames' wrist as he talked, unsure what to say. She hadn't been there for any of this, hadn't known this history. Sure, she'd known that Arthur and Eames were together before they were brought here, but she hadn't seen it in action. Would Arthur have an entirely different perspective, something to justify what he'd done or not said? Did that even matter?

"I don't think you're being stupid," she said eventually. "I would've assumed Cobb knew about him as well. I know Arthur keeps things quiet, but not that quiet. Unless there's something else about this that's bothering you."

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