Title: A gun is not discursive
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Eames/Arthur
Categories: Romance, Angst
Length: Medium (9,101)
Warnings: Off screen murders and mention of torture, but no graphic descriptions

Author on LJ: hungerpunch | thehungryheart (Fic Journal)
Author Website: AO3

Author's Summary:
Arthur deals with his unrequited love by making a hit list. Eames finds out.

Review:
Sooooo, for my kind-of-messed-up rec of the day--I kid. Sort of, haha.

This fic is exactly as it sounds. It's in Eames's POV and he's just discovered that Arthur's made a hit list of the people who have betrayed Eames. And he has been rather methodically going through it because Arthur is apparently bugfuck crazy and in love with Eames. Except no, because the fic is actually more serious than I make it sound. What Arthur does isn't right, exactly, and Eames is more at a loss at how to process this bit of information than anything else.

What I liked best about this fic is the little details, the small hints of things that you never get the author outright telling us--that this is what happened and this is what he felt. Arthur's this enigma who would have probably gone his entire life without Eames knowing that Arthur loves him and that just sort of wrenches at my chest because that is definitely a trope I adore. Eames is kind of at a loss. He actually doesn't like what Arthur is doing for him and Arthur doing this for him is more than just a little surprising and baffling.

And underneath all of Arthur's deadly coolness is this person who is completely in love with Eames, would kill at his mere thought, and ugh, I love that kind of Arthur too. Which is probably wrong, but eh, I love what I love, and hopefully other people do as well, haha.

A gun is not discursive