Fandom: Inception
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Eames, Arthur/OMC, Eames/implied others
Length: 26,700 words

Summary: Set in the Steinway!Verse, after Chantant sur le mode mineur.

“The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.” ~ Andre Segovia

Coming unravelled in your senior year is practically a tradition at the conservatory. Arthur's never been one to do things by halves.

Content Notes: Contains references to musician injury, open relationships, long distance relationship (failure), insomnia, and huge amounts of senior-year angst. Musicians live large, and that carries over to pain too, I'm afraid. All I can say is: in the grand scheme of things, the boys get their happy ending. But you already knew that if you've read the previous fics.



Read it on AO3 here (if you dare) or click through the cut below to check it out right here on DW.

( I Will Forget the Light )

Fandom: Inception
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Length: 21,400 words

Summary: Takes place in the Steinway!Verse, after Whither Thou Goest.

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going" ~ Beverly Sills

Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is a good working definition of insanity.

Warnings/Content Notes: (skip) References to and plot points around mental illness, mental breakdown, post partum depression, and threatened harm to children (though no serious injury to children.) Read at your own discretion!


Read the story on AO3 or below the cut here on Dreamwidth.

( Du bist die Ruh )

...for anyone who doesn't follow me on Twitter. Or who does, but has me filtered out because I tweet a lot about my niece. (Fair. I'll allow it.)

I've finally just posted the two last big pieces of the Steinway!Verse, making the grand total wordcount break through the 150K mark. (I...cannot actually process that.) In any case, these are the fics most requested in the comments after I posted the mid-point Cobb wedding sadfic of DOOM: namely, the one where they break up and (better yet) the one where they get back together. Both are quite angsty. Sorry about that. *coughIblamemybetaLately*

Be sure, by the way, to read these two big-ass stories in the order posted here, i.e. I Will Forget the Light first, and then Du bist die Ruh. I suppose you could reverse the order, but why multiply the angst? :P

One last thing - while this does mark the last of the major instalments I had planned/plotted, I am not necessarily calling this 'verse completed as it stands. Your curiosity should be satisfied, I hope, by these two pieces -- but I don't intend to close the door on writing more Steinway. (In fact, I have at least two or three ficlets in progress -- active progress -- even as I type this.)

Thanks to all of you who've come along for this ride, who have shared your feedback along the way, and who are still here to finally finish out this last flourish with me. ♥ you all.