MHA #16 - Thursday Evening

[itsananomaly]

It had been a very long couple of days since Cutter had been called back unexpectedly to deal with an anomaly related emergency, that had turned out to be the disappearance of a young girl and her dog who had gone through an anomaly. When he had gotten back home and to the site, only the dog had returned.

That had left Cutter and Stephen to go after the girl through the anomaly and had ended up in the Silurian era, only they hadn’t been able to go through the original anomaly and had had to make their way to another anomaly while keeping the girl safe.

In addition to dealing with various Silurian creatures, they’d also found out there was another team operating in the anomaly and that cemented Cutter’s suspicions that someone higher up was involved … he was suspecting it was Lester but that seemed almost too obvious and Connor had told him at Christmas to keep an on both Lester and Leek.

Despite everything though it had given Cutter a chance to talk to Stephen, really talk to Stephen and while he knew things were never going to go back the way that they were before … it had been progress at least and they were more or less on the same page now, so despite spending most of the day trapped in the Silurian era … it hadn’t turned out to badly, they’d rescued the girl and got her home safely and Cutter and Stephen were talking again.

Now he just had to figure out what to do about the traitor at the ARC. He knew he should draft some kind of lesson plan but that was the last thing that he felt like doing, he sent a quick message to Connor to let him know he was back and sank onto the lounge, lost in thought.

[open!]

Comments

[anomaly_research_nerd]

"She was," Connor said with a nod, emphasizing the 'was' since he was pretty sure it was the same for Cutter now but couldn't know 100% for sure yet. "Orchestrated a good number of things too. "I know you and.. " Connor bit his lip to stop himself from adding a 'Stephen' in there too. "You still have feelings for Helen. To an extent. But... she's bad news Cutter. Possibly even more than you realize. None of us really started putting it all together until.. well... a lot happened that we might have been able to avoid if she wasn't a factor in things."

[itsananomaly]

Cutter sighed, rubbing the back of his neck as he tried to process everything, “I wonder if she’s said anything to Stephen?” he considered, which he knew would be a tricky topic to get back to after everything and they’d only just started talking again, “maybe she’s given him some kind of information that we can use to figure out who the traitor it, get to the bottom of everything,”

Well she had but she had tried to make it look like Cutter had been the traitor, not that he knew that.

[anomaly_research_nerd]

"It could be worth trying to find out," Connor said slowly. "How have.... how have Leek and Lester been getting on? At each other's throats as usual?"

It had been that way before, and without being there he was having to rely on the other Connor's updates to figure out what exactly was going on.

[itsananomaly]

"I think so," Cutter tried to remember what he had noticed between the two, "even though to be fair Lester doesn't really get along with anyone, I just thought the tension was just their normal interactions," he admitted.

[anomaly_research_nerd]

"The Leek I knew was a lot craftier than any of us gave him credit for. That odd vibe? Probably best to not ignore it.... If our shared timelines are similar enough."

[itsananomaly]

Cutter took note of that, "I'll definitely keep a closer eye on him then, or at least ask the others to look out for him for me," he realised keeping an eye on Leek while he was in Fandom was a bit more tricky, "hopefully, we'll be able to figure out what Leek is up to,"

[anomaly_research_nerd]

"Well at least for the here and now things seemed to have settled down a bit. That's good. Another anomaly disaster dealt with" Connor said with a nod because really, he had been worried about something happening to Cutter. "Rex is glad too" he said as Rex climbed up onto his shoulder and gave a happy chirp at Cutter.