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The Voice Mail Meme

1. Your character just missed a call! Bummer. Was it their work number or their personal phone? What's their voice mail message sound like? Do they have an embarrassing ringtone? Say so in your comment! 

2. Others tag in with a message (or more) that they left after the tone! Is it late at night, or way too early in the morning? Was it was urgent or did they just want to say hi? Maybe they're not impressed with your character's answering machine message. Maybe it's just... heavy... breathing...

3. Call them back! (...or don't if it was the last one!) Text them a quick message if you're busy. Get caught up in phone tag if you keep missing each other's calls. Or, fuck calls, just arrange to meet up somewhere - even surprise them with a visit! Or... just ignore them entirely if you're avoiding them. Never mind that they left twelve messages on your phone...

4. Remember to say something after the beep!

[Beep!]

Comments

[isnt_the_same]

"On it!" Helena called out and then left.

Eames helped Arthur off the toilet. "You're looking a little pale there, mate," Eames said as they walked back out into the living. Arthur just grunted in response.

[inyourdreams]

She wrapped his jacket back around his shoulders to keep him warm and try to hide the blood stain that was spreading on his shirt.

"Let's go," she said as she grabbed her bag. "Do you have a fake ID on you?"

[isnt_the_same]

"Yes," Arthur replied. "Do we have money to pay off the hospital staff?"

[inyourdreams]

"I don't have that much cash on me," she said as they headed out of the suite quickly to get him downstairs. "One of us will go to an ATM once you're getting taken care of. We'll tell some story up front about how some guy tried to mug you and when you wouldn't give up your wallet he stabbed you and ran off. Or something."

[isnt_the_same]

"It happens enough in this city so that it won't seem out of the norm," Eames said as they took the elevator down.

[inyourdreams]

She had her arm wrapped around Arthur's back and was trying to keep pressure on the wound as they headed down and then out the side entrance to see if Helena had a cab waiting.

"How're you doing?" she asked Arthur, worried he might pass out soon.

[isnt_the_same]

"Tired," he breathed out as Helena came into view. She was standing by the opened door of a cab.

[inyourdreams]

"You have to stay awake for a little while longer, okay?" she said as they got him into the cab, Ari looking at Helena gratefully.

[isnt_the_same]

Helena nodded at her.

"Okay," he murmured as Eames got him into the back.

[inyourdreams]

She went around to the other side so Arthur was in the middle.

"Nearest emergency room please," Ari said, an obvious strain in her voice. "Quickly."

The cabbie looked at them in the rearview mirror.

"He's got a bad fever, some kind of flu," she said. "Please."

He just nodded. "Alright."

She wasn't sure if he believed her, but she didn't care as long as he got them there quick.

[isnt_the_same]

Helena stayed behind, texting Ariadne about doing some damage control.

[inyourdreams]

Ari was only focused on getting Arthur to the hospital, which they did about 10 minutes later. The cab pulled up outside the ER door and she paid the cabbie and let Eames get Arthur out of the car.

[isnt_the_same]

Eames went inside quickly to get a wheelchair for Arthur before pushing him inside. He went to get a nurse, telling her that his friend has been stabbed.

[inyourdreams]

She stayed with Arthur, holding on to his hand.

"You're going to be okay," she said as the nurse rushed over with Eames.

[isnt_the_same]

When the nurse came, she quickly ushered Arthur into the back, telling Eames and Ariadne to wait outside.

[inyourdreams]

She watched Arthur get wheeled away, worry on her face.

[isnt_the_same]

"Let's go sit down," Eames said, ushering her over to a chair in the waiting area.

[inyourdreams]

She let him guide her to sit down, her mind entirely on Arthur.

[isnt_the_same]

Eames rubbed her back, also worried.

[inyourdreams]

"He lost a lot of blood," she said, looking down at her hands she just realized were covered in his partially drying blood. "Why didn't he just come here in the first place?"

[isnt_the_same]

"I know, but he's Arthur, he'll be fine," he assured her. He shrugged at her question. "I don't know, love."

[inyourdreams]

She sighed and rubbed at her eyes.

"And who the hell did this? We're not even working a job," she said.

[isnt_the_same]

"I'll look into it," he replied, hoping that would make her feel better.

[inyourdreams]

"And did you know his meeting today was with Helena?" she asked, looking over at Eames.

[isnt_the_same]

He nodded. "I did know," he said, glancing at her.