Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Length: 12,800 words
Summary: Arthur's one of the bright lights of the conservatory, but he's sharing the stage with a star about to go supernova.

Notes: This takes place after Between the Notes, during Eames' final year at school. While I can't in all fairness label this as angst, I feel I should perhaps warn for something of an ambiguous ending, at least until I complete and post the next story in the series (which is mostly done, actually, but not quite ready for prime time.) I had planned to wait until all the big remaining story pieces were done but it occurred to me at last that this part is quite ready to go and putting it out there can only inspire me to work harder on getting the 'verse completed.

Also, Arthur is playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, which is a crazily ambitious thing for a 21 year old pianist to tackle.

Chantant sur le mode mineur (link to AO3)