Discussion Post: Underrated Fics Week: In Progress and Absence, Again

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This week we are reading:
Title: In Progress and Absence, Again
Author: sevenimpossiblethings
Rating: Teen and up (PG-13)
Author's Summary: In Progress - Arthur felt as if he’d been watching Eames out of the corner of his eye for years, just catching glimpses, and he was ready to turn his head and really see. To stare, full on. He hoped Eames would hold still so he could drink in the whole picture.
Absence, Again - Eames reads the emails.

These fics are the first two parts of "The First Minute is for Hello Kisses" by the wonderful sevenimpossiblethings. They are another product of the amazing group of fics written for Inception Bingo during inceptiversay this year! I love so many things about these fics, but I'll cover that in the comments and discussion topics I post below in the comments. As always, please feel free to add your own!

PS - part three is an Ari/Yusef story from the same universe, so feel free to check that out as well. Doing all three put us over the word limit, but I still encourage you to read it!

Comments

Re: Emails that were never meant to be sent

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I'm glad Eames responds to the e-mails, because I feel like that could be sketchy otherwise. But he responds slowly, giving Arthur plenty of time to stop him if he wanted to, and I think that makes it better.

Also, I like to think they know each other *really* well. It seems like Arthur might be more comfortable with Eames learning these things through the text intermediary, and Eames might know him well enough to know Arthur would prefer this but also would hate to admit this out loud.