Professor Nick Cutter

A couple more days in the hospital and they'd finally been given the all clear to head back to Fandom. It would still take a bit of time before they fully recovered but they were now right to return to Fandom and get everything set up before their house arrest began. They had to be fitted with their monitoring devices. Cutter was rather nervous as he waited with Connor in Lester's office, after this they would be saying goodbye to everyone and heading back to Connor's flat to get set up, "I can't believe we're going back to Fandom," he said softly. ( it was time to head back to Fandom ) [and we're nearly at the end of the plot. Adapted in parts from Series 3 Episode 6 'For the Birds'. Preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]

Cutter and Connor had been brought to James ... well now Christine's office by a couple of her soldiers and had been instructed to sit and wait. It felt like an eternity, Cutter's stomach was lurching and he couldn't stop trembling. He glanced nervously at Connor, how on earth were they going to get out of this one? He was also aching from the several beatings he had taken from Wilder and he wasn’t sure how much longer he had left in him before he did finally break. He reached over to take Connor's hand, he couldn't say anything at first but he wanted Connor to know that he was there and as long as they were together then surely everything would be okay? ( Cutter and Connor weren't sure how much more they could take of this ) [adapted in parts from Series 3 Episode 6 'For the Birds'. CW for violence and torture. Preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]

Lester had helped Connor to his office and they’d been left to have a rest on the cot that he had there, even though he was tired Cutter hadn’t been able to get much sleep. He knew they should really get a move on, they weren’t going to have a lot of time to pack up his office once Christine found out that they’d already lost their security clearance but this was his office and he wanted to take as much time as he could to remember his office before they had to pack up what they could of it. He lay awake in the cot, Connor sleeping beside him and it just felt weird to think that it was going to be the last time he would get to see his office for a while at least. ( Cutter didn't know if things were ever going to go back to normal ) [the final part. Preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. Adapted from Series 3 Episode 5 'Future Epidemic'. NFB for distance but OOC welcome

Lester was not having a good couple of days - between Cutter nearly freezing to death in a lab and then Connor getting infected and nearly freezing in another lab … and Connor was still asleep and in quarantine and Cutter had refused to leave his side. Now he had the hard task of choosing a new team leader … since his call with the Minister and finding out that Christine intended to put in one of her own men to replace Cutter … he had to act fast, he had managed to delay Christine coming to the ARC til tomorrow but that didn’t give him a lot of time. This was going to be messy and he hated that he had to remove Cutter but the Minister was very specific about that and if he still wanted the team to be his and not Christine’s … Cutter was going to lose the leadership and his security clearance to the ARC. Now he had to choose someone to replace Cutter … he had asked Jenny and she had already said no, now his next choice was Becker and he had asked for him to stop by his office. ( there were going to be some changes ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. Adapted from Series 3 episode 5 'Future Epidemic'. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]

Cutter had stormed out of Lester's office, not sure where he was going to be going but he wanted to be as far away from Danny as he could be because otherwise he would end up punching him ... he found himself at the lab where his Connor was analysing some fungi that he and Abby had found while they'd been investigating an anomaly. He needed a distraction, lab work might help. He took a deep breath as he entered, "hey Connor, need any help with that?" ( it seemed like a good idea at the time ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. Adapted from Series 3 episode 5 'Future Epidemic'. NFB for distance but OOC welcome.

The anomaly was still open but Becker’s men had secured the site and there were someone who was going to guard it until the anomaly would close. There hadn’t been too much damage to the house, so Jenny was able to smooth out the details with the real estate agency who had been trying to sell the house and now all that was left was to gather all the data that Connor and Cutter had been able to get from the anomaly. “Do you think we’ve gotten all the data we need?” Cutter asked Connor as they stood near the front steps of the house, Lester was going to be stopping by the site shortly to see the anomaly site for himself and in the meantime they had been going over their devices at what information they'd recorded.. ( it was mostly a successful mission ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. Adapted from Series 3 episode 2 'Haunted House'. CW for mention of kids going missing. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]

It had taken another couple of weeks but finally the press lost interest in Cutter and Connor, the stories eventually fizzling out and that meant that they could focus on the new anomaly prediction model. Cutter wanted to get more work done on the anomaly prediction model with Sarah, who had been made really good with the research and now that they were able to move freely to and from the ARC, he had been able to set everything up in the lab and begin attempting to work on putting past anomalies in place and then future ones he had begun to work out based on Sarah’s research. It was time consuming but it had been so long since Cutter had been engrossed in his work like this and he only became aware of other people when they tried to touch the anomaly prediction model. The only exception to his ‘no touching the anomaly prediction mode’ was Connor, who had been helping him with getting what supplies he needed. “I can’t believe we’re nearly finished with this,” he said excitedly as he looked up at Connor from where he was sitting on the floor underneath the anomaly prediction model. ( it was nice that things were getting back to normal ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. Adapted from Series 3 episode 2, 'Haunted House'. NFB for distance but ooc welcome!]

It had felt like forever but it seemed that Becker and Lester had been able to work out a plan that could get Connor and Cutter back to Fandom. The stories hadn’t let up in the press and it seemed Christine had gotten even bolder in her attacks and had started to lend her name as the trusted source, which only seemed to encourage the press more. They were in Lester’s office where Lester and Becker were briefing them on the logistics for how they planned to get them to the portal for Fandom. It was going to be risky but it was the best window of opportunity that they’d had for the last couple of weeks. “I can’t believe that we really get to go back to Fandom,” Cutter was anxious but he was also excited about getting to go back to his apartment and being in Fandom. ( it was time to head home ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. That Connor and Cutter arrived back at Fandom is okay for broadcast but the rest is NFB due to distance. To be continued in the comments.]

It had been a couple of days since the stories had started to appear in the press. The phone calls had started and like they’d been instructed to, they answered ‘no comment,’. They’d been staying in Cutter’s office at first, even though Connor had started to move his clothes and things to the breakroom and Cutter was thinking of doing the same, he was starting to get more angsty being cooped up in his office. At the moment he and Connor were in his office, going through old reports that Lester had given them to keep them occupied and then Cutter received another call. At first he thought it was the press and he ignored it, then the phone rang again and he sighed and he answered. ( he hadn't thought it was possible for things to get even worse ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. Major CW for mentions of trauma, suicidal ideation, recovery from gunshot wounds, mention of loss of a child. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]

Cutter barely remembered anything from the last few hours, since his interview with Christine, he had gone to the med bay with Connor to get his hand and finger checked out - luckily they weren’t broken, his hand would have some bruising and his finger was dislocated so he wouldn’t be able to use his hands much and he was going to have to wear his hand braces again for a few days to help keep them steady. He didn’t like the idea of having to wear his braces again, even for only a few days, it felt like a major step backwards. After he had been checked out by the team’s medical staff, Lester had insisted that they spend a couple of days in his apartment, away from the ARC and less chance of running into Christine again. So they were now at Lester’s apartment with Becker, who was providing security but after everything with Christine he wasn’t letting them out of his sight until they got to Fandom. Lester had decided that everyone needed a break and he had ordered Chinese takeaway since he knew how much Connor and Cutter liked it and after the day they'd had, he knew they needed something nice and comforting right then. Cutter sat numbly on Lester’s couch the Chinese food in front of him, it was the same couch he had stayed in when he and Connor had originally stayed after the hospital but he found he couldn’t eat. He just stared blankly at his wonton soup but all he could do was stare at his now braced hands. ( Cutter was tired of this ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]