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Only secretly Arthur kind of likes it, right, he can't help but like it, because all his life he's had this place in him that was filled with a hundred people screaming and waving their hands. And for all he loves dreamshare, for all it's the best job in the world, it's hard to reconcile the slide of the needle into his veins in a quiet warehouse with Rosh Hashana dinner, his father laughing over the apples and honey. And his sisters have hated every guy he's ever dated, but Eames is so many different people at once that he fits in everywhere, fits with Arthur, and he knows how and when to be quiet but Arthur's heartbeat feels loud next to him, like he's drowning in it.

And Eames says, "I like your family," and Arthur says, "That's just because next to them, I look sane," and Eames says, "Only in the right light, love," and kisses him, right in front of the world and god and his mother.