Cutter stared down at his hands as he tried to think of how best to broach the subject of telling this Stephen what his counterpart had done, it wasn't fair for Stephen to have this burden ... this Stephen didn't do those things but at the same time, there were obvious questions that needed answering and they might not have this chance again.

He took a deep breath and looked up at Stephen, "Neither Helen or my Stephen took news of my relationship with Connor well ..." he began finally, "we ... they ended up kidnapping us and ... and torturing us for a week ... it was most Helen that did the torturing but ..." he glanced uncertainly at Connor, he knew that he had born the brunt of Stephen's anger at the time and he didn't feel it was his place to say what his Stephen had done to him.