"Pants on Fire" by helenish, read by anatsuno | Arthur/Eames | "Ah," Yusuf says, lifting a reproving hand, "are we calling less than 24 hours of memory loss amnesia now?" | 1hr. 58min.
A part of him doesn’t want to go to sleep in case it is a dream, but he’s pretty sure it’s not at this point. He’s pretty sure this is his life: Cobb squared away with the kids, comfortable, interesting job, jawdroppingly fuckable boyfriend who’s in love with him, who cooks for him, not bad, Arthur congratulates himself. Not fucking bad at all.
In the morning, he opens his eyes and remembers.
Seriously, the part above, where Arthur thinks he really does have this, a happy life, everything he ever wanted - and then he wakes up and remembers, made me all teary-eyed :(