measured_words | More inception drabbles....@

First, one that I wrote this morning, and then missed the deadline for posting for Inception100, and a second unrelated one for the current challenge - a crossover with any fandom. I've been sitting on this idea for awhile :) Both G or PG, no real warnings, other than movie spoilers for the first.

Aftermath

A long moment passes before Ariadne’s eyelids flicker open. Dom and Saito’s do not. Fischer’s either, but this is expected.

“What happened,” Arthur demands, looking to Eames.

“You think this is my fault? Fuck you, friend. Mal happened.”

“Damnit.”

“No,” Ariadne puts in groggily. “Dom was going to look for Saito in Limbo. There should have been time…”

All three men shake their heads, but Arthur answers. “There was no way for him to know the real Saito from a projection. He knew that.”

“So …he lied?”

“Yes.”

Yusuf hovers over their comrades, and eyes Fischer before asking “What now?”

(The) Dreaming

They notice the raven first.

“Is that your work?”

“Could be – I did throw in some background birds.”

“Well, it’s staring at us. Projection?”

“Odd, but possible.”

“Project this!” The bird squawks before it flies away. “Bloody tourists. You’re lucky the old Lord’s gone!”

When they see it again, it is seated on the shoulder of a young man, robed in white, with white hair. In his eyes shines the promise of a thousand passing stars. They cannot recall how they have come before him. He speaks.

“Go and tell your kind – I will stand no more for these intrusions.”