Connor couldn't help but give a small shiver at remembering how that encounter had gone down.

"Take it that version is a bit more a bastard than I was?" Stephen said, trying not to be totally weirded out by the idea of having Cutter and Connor talk about him but not really be talking about him. "Sorry." Stephen didn't know why he was apologizing, wasn't like it was him who had done anything and he couldn't do anything to fix it... but it still felt like he needed to say something.

"It... was just a bad situation all around," Connor said with a sigh. "Helen seemed to have gotten a really tight hold on you by then... "