Fic: Quid pro Quo [Inception]

[aimlesstravels]

Title: Quid pro Quo
Character/Pairings: Arthur/Eames, Ariadne, Cobb, Phillipa 
Rating: PG-13 (language)
Disclaimer: Mr. Nolan owns it all
Warnings: Character death(s)
Summary: Cobb has close to nothing left. He has only his children left to lose, and he'll be damned if he loses them too. So, stupidly, desperately, he gives up his other "children"

Comments

[falsebeginnings]

I am dead. You just totally killed me. Arthur rolling the die over and over again just broke my heart and Eames punching the guy and just...UGH. You just broke me. Your writing is beautiful.

[aimlesstravels]

Oh no! CPR! CPR! *revives you*
Better? ;)
*blush* Aw, thank you, bb.

[elliesmeow]

Oh. Poor Arthur. How sad. I think you wrote the ending really well. I don't like sad stories, but I can't deny it was well done.:)

Thanks for posting.

-Ellie

[aimlesstravels]

Thank *you* for reading, dear.

[tmix_archives]

I just finished re-reading this story, and it's just so poignant and beautiful and I feel like crying. The little things you put in there, about Saito's fate and Ariadne facing the General, and then where they caught Eames, buying something for Arthur, which Arthur probably never got...

Now I really feel like crying.

On a completely unrelated note, I loved the mention of Yusuf you put in there, and I fervently hope that the next day several of the Army officers involved in the apprehension become... oh I don't know, something horrible, like struck down with unremovable kidney stones or something... because of something put into their drink.

[aimlesstravels]

Oh, bb. *hugs* Tissue?

;) Oh, Yusuf. He's a crazy mad scientist; he really is.

struck down with unremovable kidney stones or something
brb, laughing forever. XD

[tmix_archives]

*takes tissue and blows nose*

Maybe Yusuf is so secretly mad-scientist!badass that he has Eames and Ariadne steal back Arthur's body, figures out that Arthur's Not Quite Dead, and magically revives him. And then Saito magically wakes up in time to buy out the U.S. military before they come after Arthur again. And oh to heck with it, Cobb comes back to life too, and everyone will sing Kumbaya and -

... OH, LEAVE ME TO MY DOOMED FANTASIES. *cries some more*

[zoi_no_miko]

*reaches for tissues ahead of time* I'm beginning to think that I'm, like... some kind of masochist. (AND you've got me wanting to write death!fic now ;____; )

;______;

Seriously, you had me at Saito not waking up. And then everything else and Eames, poor Eames! Having to loose Arthur and knowing that Cobb did it and being left behind to pick up the pieces - Cobb gets to die, he's got it easy. -_-;

.... bawwwwwwww. ;______;

[aimlesstravels]

You and me both, bb. You and me both. :)

...I'm beginning to think I should offer counseling/emotional therapy sessions after my fics or something. It's oddly flattering yet I feel a little terrible for my writing being the cause of so many tears. But it's Nolan's sandbox! So I'm not entirely to blame! Right?

*hugs* There, there now.

(I told you it was going to be a bad one after the almost-schmoop I wrote earlier!!)

[smilebackwards]

Oh my God. This is such a horrifying what-if and yet I love it intensely.

[aimlesstravels]

Worst case scenario, y/y?
Thank you for reading!! Glad you enjoyed. :)