"I'm looking for a good bra," she smiles again, "I'm sure you hear that every day."

Ariadne needs a vacation. So does Arthur, but he doesn't know it yet.

Could you take my picture? ('Cause I won't remember)

In the months after the inception job, Ariadne slips from one life to another.

Ariadne works out something's going on between her two colleagues. She just can't work out what, exactly.

"Is it possible for someone else's memories to get in your head?" Ariadne asks.

Saito's job referral draws Arthur, Eames, and Ariadne together for an extraction in Finland that proves unexpectedly dangerous and difficult, pushing the three of them past all limits and into a precarious and tender three-cornered relationship. In which Ariadne loses the future she'd planned, Eames loses the past he thought he'd already thrown away, and Arthur loses his distance, secrets are revealed and a dance for two becomes a tango for three.

Circus AU. Yusuf is the magician, Ariadne is the equestrian vaulter, Arthur is the fire-dancer, Eames is the trapeze artist, Dom is the ringmaster, Robert is the horse-whisperer son of rival circus Fischer and Friends owner. Espionage and popcorn ensue.

Ariadne will only construct maze settings that logically require Arthur to wear suits, a la the hotel dream layer.

"He wants you," Eames whispered into her ear, "and I want him. What do you say we split the difference?"