Professor Nick Cutter

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.]

The last several hours had been a lot with Captain Ryan turning up and he wasn’t entirely sure how he felt about it but talking to Ryan had helped.

After a while, Ryan had taken one look at Cutter’s kitchen and had decided to go into town to fully stock up and he had said he was going to cook Cutter a home cooked meal. His old apartment may have been a mess but the one thing he did know outside of the military was how to cook. So taking Lester’s credit card, which Cutter was honestly still surprised that he hadn’t been cut off from after Becker’s birthday trip. Maybe James was waiting til he was back at the ARC before he started yelling about that trip.

Cutter was not expecting any other visitors, he had thought that maybe Stephen would visit but so far there seemed to be no sign of him so he took that to mean that only Ryan was his visitor. Which was fine, really, it was probably for the best if he didn’t have a visit from Stephen, there were a lot of unresolved issues and the visit would have just been really awkward.

In the meantime, as he waited for Ryan to come back, he decided to start thinking about his future at the ARC, he had promised Ryan he would give it serious thought and he knew that whatever decision he made he would need to talk to Connor about it but he could start to seriously consider whether or not he wanted to return to the ARC in an official capacity either as the team leader or a research assistant.

{for a visitor but can be open!]

It had been a week now since Connor had left for his trip and ever since Rex had found Connor's hoodie, he had ended up refusing to be anywhere without it so Cutter found that the only way he could get Rex to sleep or eat was to have the hoodie with him so he could curl up in it.

Tomorrow was the first day of their class for the second session and while Cutter was confident it was going to go a lot better than last session, he still couldn't help but feel a little nervous about.

[for Connor!]

Cutter had made handwavey arrangements with Connor to have him look after his flat while he was gone for the week. He was rather nervous about this trip but he was going to be with Becker and Dr. Taylor told him that this trip would be good for him and that he needed to spend time away from his teaching and his work at the ARC.

He was leaving for his camping trip early tomorrow morning and he was double checking and triple checking everything he needed for a week in the Scottish Highlands and he was going over the list Becker had sent over since Becker had taken care of the arrangements of the trip, making sure he had all his camping supplies and his cameras since Dr. Taylor had given him a scrapbooking assignment to work on while he was on his camping trip and there were a few challenges he was going to have to try and complete as well.


[establishy. Connor modded with permission!]

Cutter made it back to Fandom late Monday night, the trip to the ARC had been exactly what he needed and his talk with Becker had helped him. The team had been patient with him, only asking how Connor had been doing and not asking about their relationship, he wasn’t sure if Becker had given them the heads up but he appreciated not being asked about it and how badly he had screwed up. He had even gotten his haircut while he had been back, a few days into his stay and Abby had gotten sick of looking at the state of his hair so he had taken her up on her offer to cut it like she had at the hospital.

He’d also had his first therapy session with Dr. Taylor, Becker had gone with him and the session had gone a lot better than the first one with Dr. Jones had had. Dr. Taylor had done most of the talking and Cutter had only had to answer a few questions.

Once he had gotten back in, he stopped by his mail box and got his mail, once he got to his flat, he started to go through his mail and noticed that he had received something from Central Metropolitan University.

He quickly opened it and read it and he couldn’t help but smile as he read it. Connor had been accepted to the program and then he hesitated, he wanted to go over and tell Connor the news himself but then it was late and Dr. Taylor had impressed the importance of giving Connor his space and respecting his wishes about what he wanted in regards to their relationship if it was something he still wanted.

Cutter put the letter down, he would tell Connor after class tomorrow when he saw him next.

[establishy. That Cutter received mail is fine for broadcast but the contents are NFB please!]

Cutter had not left his apartment since he had got back from his workshops on Thursday, he hd mostly stayed put on the couch, not eating anything and barely sleeping.

Until he had received a Chinese food delivery yesterday that he knew he hadn’t ordered but it had already been paid for and since it was from the place that he and Connor had liked to order from before everything happened … he knew it had to have been from Connor.

He stared at his phone, debating for several moments before he finally sent a text message to Connor thank you for the food… he hesitated I … it helped a lot, thank you he added, he had said thank you already but it was the only thing he could think of to say.

[post is open!}

It had been hard but somehow both Cutter and Connor had managed to behave at Prom until they’d ended up making it back to Cutter’s flat and then ended up having a lot of fun taking off those very nice, very expensive suits and ended up back in the bedroom.

Now it was morning and Cutter was just taking the time to enjoy cuddling up with Connor in the bed, last night had been nice and now he was looking forward to spending the rest of the weekend with Connor and spending as much time with him as he could.

[for the boyfriend, who is modded with permission as well as the eventual visitors]

It had been a really nice couple of days, Connor had ended up staying over Thursday and Friday and there had been a lot of kissing, sometimes a bit more than kissing and it had been really, really nice spending time with Connor and it had been a welcome change after how his last two relationships had ended.

When he woke up Saturday morning, he was feeling a little confused but feeling a lot better on the whole than he had after this past week and that was when he rolled over and noticed that he had company.

“Oh,” he blinked a bit, realising Connor was sleeping in the bed next to him.

Even though he wasn’t really in any hurry to move or to wake Connor, this actually felt rather nice and he was content to just lay there for a while.

[for Connor, who is modded with permission!]

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!]

Cutter had plans to head home later that evening and had a portal booked, Jenny had asked him if he could return to the ARC for a few days and help out and while he still wasn’t ready to deal with everything that had happened with Stephen and Helen, he figured a few days back couldn’t hurt.

He didn’t have much to pack, so he was mostly reviewing some of the more recent data that he had gotten from the ARC and writing out some reports, since he had not been doing any of the reports that Lester had asked for and he figured he should probably get at least one of them done before he headed back home.

[open!]