Professor Nick Cutter

Sarah gave them an incredulous look, "okay I'm going to give you to the count of three to really tell me what's going on, or I'm going to call my boss and have you arrested,"

Cutter sighed, raising his hands slightly in an 'I surrender' position, "look, we have authorisation to be here, we're here because your boss asked us to be here"

"I ..." Sarah began to count, not impressed with that answer.

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"Look, Connor was telling the truth... oddly enough" Becker said with a sigh. "The anomaly," he said with a nod, "it is a doorway to another point in time. And this is not the first one we have dealt with either. We're here with the ARC, to keep the anomaly from causing any damage to the museum or anyone here."

"The Ark?" Sarah asked looking even more confused.

"Not that one" Connor said with a small smirk. "A.R.C. Anomaly Research Center."

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"Look this might sound rather strange but have you noticed any strange creatures that don't belong in this time period?" Cutter looked at Sarah and then realised how that sounded, "trust me, we don't actually have an Ark," he added.

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"N-No... I haven't...." Sarah said still trying to figure out how much of this, if anything, she actually believed. "So what, this is all a big government coverup or something?"

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"Er ..." Cutter looked over at Becker and then back at Sarah, "well, we can't actually talk about specific details, we've signed the Official Secrets Act ... which I suppose to answer your question, does make it a government coverup?"

He was really bad at this, "uh ..Connor?" he tried, looking over at Connor since Connor was better about explaining conspiracy theories than he was.

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Connor nodded and launched into an overly complicated and long- winded explanation that did sound more conspiracy theory than anything else. At the end, Sarah still looked confused but maybe a little less likely to find the nearest phone and call the police or the press. So, mission accomplished? Maybe?

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Cutter relaxed just slightly when it seemed like Sarah wasn't going to report them, "please, trust us ..." he said softly, "I know how this all sounds, we are here to help you,"

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"So these things... they really do connect to another time in history?" Sarah asked finally pulling her gaze away from them and back to the anomaly.

"Looks like.... BC era to be semi-exact" Connor said as he looked down at the device in his hands.

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"BC era?" Cutter looked to Connor then, "so we are dealing with a past anomaly, do you have an exact location yet? It could tell us what kind of creatures could come through,"

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Connor looked at the device and to the anomaly and back a few times as he filed with the settings.

"Middle East I wanna say... maybe Egpyt area? Don't hold me to that last part. The more fine-tune a date I try to come up with the more variation there seems to be. Still working on finding tuning things."

Connor looked over at Cutter and gave a small nod. "But I'd say definitely the Middle East, early BC for sure, and possibly Egpyt area."

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Sarah's eyes were wide at that, "are you telling me this portal goes back to Ancient Egypt?" she all but fangirled at that, "maybe I could help, I'm an Egyptologist, I'm Dr. Sarah Page," she introduced herself.

"Professor Nick Cutter," Cutter replied, "this is Connor Temple and Captain Becker," he nodded back to Connor and Becker, "this work is very dangerous, are you sure you would not rather leave now while you had the chance?"

He already knew what her answer would be, he could recognise the same stubborn streak that he had in her.

This could definitely cause all sorts of problems later for sure.

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Connor could have sworn he saw Becker facepalm just then for some reason....

"I mean if it is ancient Egypt then we're still looking at fairly normal creatures right? Hippo, crocs, birds, the usuals right?" Connor asked looking at Cutter and then Sarah.

"Unless some other anomaly has opened somewhere else also linking to this time," Becker said with a sigh. All this time hopping stuff gave him a headache. "I mean, couldn't there be another anomaly somewhere else also linking to ancient Egypt that goes back to prehistoric times? Something could come in through that anomaly and then end up coming through this one too?"

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"It's possible there could be two anomalies," Cutter considered with a tilt of his head, he looked over at Sarah, "have there been any reports of anything strange or unusual happening at the museum lately ... any unexplained attacks or deaths?"

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"Unexpected attacks or deaths?" Sarah reacted, looking a bit incredulous. "Oh yeah sure we schedule those regularly and there's been nothing out of the ordinary there... No, there haven't been any attacks or deaths in the Museum!"

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"You know you could have just said," Cutter's lips twitched a little, "so we may need to do another sweep of the museum, in case there's a second anomaly or even one outside ..." he hesitated, "I'm not going back through the front way though," he said looking at Connor and Becker as he did.

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"I'll do a sweep of the building" Becker said signalling for the men, who had joined them by this point after being instructed to come in some other way than the front entrance, to start searching the place. "The three of you stay and make sure nothing comes through!"

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"So this is what you guys do?" Sarah tilted her head at the anomaly as Becker left the room to do the sweep, "you chase anomalies and stop creatures from coming through?"

"Something like that," Cutter nodded.

"Do you have any way of tracking when an anomaly will appear?" Sarah wondered, "I mean ... its seems pretty risky leaving it to chance like this,"

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"We're working on that, actually. Trying to find a way to predict at least where and then hopefully when, an anomaly might appear" Connor said. "We're also working on a way to lock the anomaly to keep anything from coming through, but that is proving to be more difficult than we thought at first."

Lester was likely facepalming somewhere just then and Jenny was probably starting to get a headache.

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Official Secrets Act? What official secrets act?

"Well have you considered an historical approach?" Sarah couldn't help but wonder, "I mean, if these anomalies link to the past ... then there's got to be a connection right? Myths and legends ... every myth starts because there's some element of truth right?"

Cutter tilted his head at that, "actually that might not be a bad idea," he considered.

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Official Secrets Act? Oh that thing Connor had never had much luck adhering to.... right....

"If anomalies have been opening up for all of earth's history.... then that could explain monster sightings and fanciful creatures," Connor said, his eyes going a little wide. "It's not aliens or anything... it's the anomalies. Thats where the sightings of things like the Lochness Monster, Yetties, and mythical gods have come from!"

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And now Cutter was beginning to see all the possibilities as he studied that anomaly, "if we can start matching up anomalies with the myths ... maybe we can begin to form patterns ... we can start predicting the anomalies ..." and then he turned to Sarah, "how do you feel about having a new job?"

Yes Lester was definitely face palming right now.

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"I mean I've been working in Egyptology and Mythology for a decade now" Sarah said. "My dissertation on myths and legends of the ancient world is here at the museum, actually."

"Oh that is blood brilliant" Connor said with a grin. "She definitely stays!"

"Hey, do I actually get a say in any of this?" Sarah asked, though there was a grin on her face as she asked.

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"I mean we'll have to get you vetted, you'll have to sign the Official Secrets Act but I'm sure between the three of us we can convince our boss to hire you," Cutter said excitedly and then paused as he considered that last question, "I mean you can stay here if you'd like, banished to the basement of the British Museum for the rest of your life or you can come work with us ...and be part of this," he indicated to the anomaly.

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Connor gave Sarah a look that clearly said, "are you crazy take the offer" and gave Sarah a grin.

Sarah thought for a moment, considered Cutter and Connor, looked back at the anomaly, and then grinned.

"Alright, I'm in!" she declared excitedly.

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