He spins the top. He stares at it intently. It has to fall. Another older man in the room calls to two children. The children take all of the man's attention. Too much to notice, the top doesn't fall.

She blinks. It takes her a few seconds to realize where she is. She is in a plane on the way to the United States. The team just successfully completed inception. But there were complications. She looks at her team member's faces. There is nothing happy there, so she knows what she is going to see next. In the chair, He is still asleep. Cobb is stuck in Limbo.

Her heart sinks. It takes her a few seconds, minutes, hours, she doesn't know how long, to let this fully sink in. Cobb didn't make it. She has felt nothing worse than this in her life. The silence was heart breaking. It needed to end.

"What do we do know?" her voice cracked as she asked the inevitable question. She clears her throat, trying to compose herself. She does not succeed.

No one said anything for a few minutes, so the voice they heard next surprised them all, "I can still get Cobb into the country."

It was Saito. Saito had made it back but Cobb hadn't. This was even more disturbing because they were in Limbo, together. No one thought Cobb could get stuck there. It wasn't possible. It couldn't happen, not to Cobb.

The voice that spoke next was Arthur. "I am afraid that does not matter now. We wont be able to get Cobb out of the plane without being noticed. It is all over." This was a rare moment of weakness for Arthur. Another indication of how dire their situation was.

Cobb. The brilliant extractor, who had done everything he could to get back to his children. Who took the impossible job and succeeded. Who was now not here to get back to his life, everything that he worked for. He was stuck in limbo. Stuck there with nothing to hold him to reality. Stuck in just the endless space of his mind. Alone.

"Not necessarily." Eames spoke, with a nearly noticeable gilt of hope in his voice.

"Eames. Just don't. No one is in the mood." Arthur groaned.

"Just shut up for a second," Eames snapped, "I actually have a plan. Could we sneak him out of the plane in one of the stewardess's carts?"

"Well it is worth a try." Admitted Arthur.

"God damn it Arthur it is worth so much more than just a try. This is Cobb. He has given us so much. We could do everything we can to get him back and it still wouldn't be enough. So this is worth more than a god damn try." Yelled Eames.

Eames sudden out burst surprised Arthur. He had never seen Eames this serious. Never. He only managed to nod.

Ariadne was still shocked at how fast everything is happening. It was a good thing that Fisher was still sedated. He would be waking up soon, which meant they had to work fast. It was a good thing that Saito owns the airline, or else they would have never been able to get the cart.

This was all too surreal. Cobb stuck in limbo. Trying to get Cobb's body into a stewardess's cart with out breaking any of his bones. Ariadne has knocked over her bishop an uncountable number of times in the past five minutes. There was just no way that this could be real, but her bishop clanking against the tray every time proved her otherwise.

They were still trying to fit Cobb into the cart. It was harder then they first anticipated. Eames and Arthur were moving like robots. There were no humans there. Ariadne couldn't watch any longer. There was a nagging part of her telling that this was her fault. She was the one who went with the kick, and left Cobb there alone.

But the rational part of her brain was telling her that it was Cobb's choice to stay there. He was the one who wanted to stay and try to save Saito. She was going to have nightmares about this for months, if she could still dream.

They had finally gotten Cobb to fit inside of the cart. Not without injury though. They thought he at least had a broken wrist and ankle. It was a good thing too the got him in when they did. Fischer had started to stir. For him, this would all just be a dream.

The first class stewardess took the cart back to the kitchenette. The cart would stay there until they landed. For now they all had to sit down and buckle up for landing. It seemed to take hours when in reality it only took five minutes to complete their descent. Reality. Reality hurt.

They made it off the plane. They had the stewardess take the cart off while the rest of the team went through customs. The made it through without a sideways glance. The little idea of a plane they had was going well so far, as well as a plan that involved sneaking a 'comatose' man into the country could. Now they just needed to figure out where they were going and how they were going to get there.

This was all too much for Arthur. He was not normally this unorganized. But this was Cobb. Cobb was stuck in limbo. Arthur was surprised that they weren't attracting any suspicious glances. He knew how the others looked, like they were in such complete shock and denial. He could only imagine how he looked. He had known Cobb the longest. He knew Mal before Mal knew Cobb.

Thankfully the airline was able to lend them a company car. That way it didn't look too suspicious loading the cart into the back of a van. Oh how Arthur was kidding himself. How does loading a stewardess's cart into the back of a van in the front of an airport not look suspicious? But they didn't really have a choice did they? This was they only way that they were getting Cobb out of here. He stopped at an empty table in a cafe. He cast his totem. It landed on four. This was reality after all.

They figured they would try to reduce suspicions by splitting up in the airport. This made them all vulnerable but they didn't have a choice. Someone was bound to notice that seven people got on the plane in first class and only six of them got off.

He had reached the van. The stewardess was there with the cart. Ariadne arrived seconds after him and Eames and Yusef were right behind her. It took Arthur, Eames, and Yusef to get the cart in the back of the van. Saito went his own way. Eames is going to drive and Yusef is going to sit on the passenger side. Arthur and Ariadne were in the back keeping the cart from moving too much. They all got in. They still had no idea where they were going.

Sorry this was so dry. I just had to get it all out of the way so in the next chapters I could add more action and less fluff. Reviews are appreciated.

~Leah