Wartime verse
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Pre-movie: With mega-corp SomniCore attempting to regulate the world of dreaming, the Cobbs, still under the corporation's yoke, seek the help of a rogue, freelance forger to shake things up. Eames is the best there is; they know because their point man, Arthur, has tracked him for years. The point man and the forger put aside their years of quiet rivalry to work for a common cause: free the world of dreaming from the fist of the corporation, and protect the Cobbs.
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- Part 1 of Wartime verse
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Angst, angst, angst, smut, misunderstanding, smut, misunderstanding, smut, understanding, road trip. Warning: Graphic descriptions of Mal's death.
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- Part 2 of Wartime verse
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From this prompt on the kink meme: BAMF!Arthur is nonetheless caught by some bad guys or other, tormented and finally buried alive. Eames only knows he's gone at first, but his own research turns up Arthur's location. He gets there right in time, saves him, cue massive h/c of every imaginable level. Lay it on thick, I want Eames to be panicking, Arthur to be wrecked.
Bonus points for Eames using his pet names sincerely in his panic, he really can't stand to see Arthur broken.
BUT: Arthur is NOT an easy man to break. Please keep him unwimpy as possible. And that does basically sum it up.
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- Part 3 of Wartime verse
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Threatened by someone whose job offer they turned down on principle--to incept a gangster's son into heterosexuality--Arthur and Eames travel up the Eastern seaboard, in stolen cars, trains, and various hotels, to find out who is tracking them, and break some deserving teeth.
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- Part 4 of Wartime verse
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We dream because we have to. Arthur can't dream like a normal person anymore, and the Id starts to surface while he's awake. He goes to Yusuf for help, to shake the "lucid" out of his dreams. Eames shows up with some ideas of his own.
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- Part 5 of Wartime verse
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From this prompt: Arthur and Eames Cleaning each other's wounds after a fight. Picking out broken glass, washing scrapes etc. Tender but methodical, with an undercurrent of worry for each other. I ran it past anon OP if hard h/c would be a problem and OP said that would be fine, so. :)
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- Part 6 of Wartime verse
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Arthur wakes in a hospital with no memory of who he is or how he got there. All he knows is that someone messed him up pretty badly, and his dreams are violent and terrible. After weeks of wondering why no one has bothered to look for him, he just about gives up. Eames is the one who finds him. They have to discover what a mysterious group of people did to Arthur and his former team to make dreaming so dangerous for them. And they need to find the "Glitch Machine" that is the cause of mass dreaming hysteria, and undo its effects on Arthur and the dreaming community.
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- Part 7 of Wartime verse
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Like any of these stories, even though they are part of a verse, they are not dependent on each other. You can read it as a standalone. :)
Arthur finds a safe house for the two of them after a job. It's a gorgeous, gothic thing that Arthur kind of loves, and that maybe kind of loves him back. Eames doesn't find it amusing.
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- Part 8 of Wartime verse
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Arthur and Eames decide to take a vacation on the Trans-Siberian express. Old, (and a few new) unknown enemies lurk in every car. Even though these people seem quite familiar with them, Arthur and Eames have no idea who they are or what they want. The other passengers--elderly couples, high-toned society families, an unruly teenage thief and her exasperated parents--are all in danger, just because two dream-criminals wanted a vacation together. Arthur and Eames refuse to let innocent people become collateral damage. They have to try to protect everyone else and each other, while battling mysterious neurological symptoms.
Still, none of it is as dangerous as the emerging memories of the things they did to each other in the past.
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- Part 9 of Wartime verse
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A little girl who has spent lifetimes in limbo appeals to the team for help. Arthur and Eames, having recently decided to go halves on a safe-house, find themselves anything but safe as they try to bring the girl and her mother to Cobb's dream institute on the other side of the country. They are not the only ones with an interest in the girl, who is proficient in more than just dream-sharing. She challenges the idea that reality is as simply defined as "being awake." This story also follows the characters in a "through the years" ending, therefore, heed the warnings! I wanted to deal with loss, and in some cases, moving on, in a realistic way.
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- Part 10 of Wartime verse