Professor Nick Cutter

The last few months had been pure and utter chaos. Between Christine's death and what had happened at her black site and Helen disappearing with Cutter and Connor and Becker and Danny following, it had taken every last favour that Lester owed to keep the ARC up and running so that they could try and find them. Unfortunately that had meant going into partnership with Phillip Burton, a billionaire who had more than enough funds to keep the ARC going but at the moment if Lester could get Cutter, Connor, Becker and Danny back alive he would take it. Right now the ARC was under going a full security upgrade in the wake of the attack by Helen and Christine and new people were being hired since one of the new rules that Lester was insisting on was that field operatives had to have military or policing background and that ruled out most of his previous team with Becker and Danny still being trapped wherever they were. He was meeting with one of the new hires today, a Matt Anderson who had been working closely with Phillip and Phillip's team trying to open an anomaly and see if they could find their missing men. ( they couldn't give up hope of finding their team ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]

Helen was furious. None of this had gone to plan, she had Nick and Connor right where she wanted them and now they refused to give despite how badly they were hurting. She let out a scream of frustration and threw the cattle proud on the ground. ( Cutter never thought it would end like this ) [adapted in parts from series 3 episode 3 'Medical Mayhem'. Major CW for gunshot violence, injury and near character death. Preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]

Cutter didn't know how long it had been since Helen had left them in the cell, "Connor, do you think the others will be alright," he finally asked, still feeling guilty that they were all in this position because of him. ( Cutter couldn't believe this was happening again ) [the next part of the update. Adapted in parts from Series 3 Episode 3 'Medical Mayhem'. Major CW for violence, assault and emetophobia. Preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. NFB but OOC welcome!].

After a very long flight back to London, Cutter, Becker and Connor eventually made it back to the ARC. "It feels so weird to be back here after being away," Cutter remarked as they began to get cleared through security. ( the trip had come to an end ) [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

Now that Cutter had gotten some much needed rest, he was feeling a lot more alert and he wasn't cold anymore. It took a bit for him to reorientate himself but eventually he felt up to leaving the bedroom and see what was happening. As he put his jacket on and began to wander the hallway, he wondered where everyone was, there didn't seem to be anyone about. ( it couldn't happen again ) [preplayed with amazing anomaly_research_nerd. Adapted from Series 3 episode 5 'Future Epidemic'. CW for near character death.]

Cutter and Connor had been called back home now that their class was done for the session. Even though there were still a few stories about them in the press, there was considerably a lot less of them than there had been.

They had only just gotten to the ARC when the anomaly siren started blaring and it turned out there was an anomaly at the British Museum, Lester had been reluctant to let Connor and Cutter go on the mission with the press still interested in them but Abby and Cutter’s Connor were on another assignment and eventually Lester had okayed Cutter and Connor to go but they had to follow Becker’s orders and stay out of sight as much as they could.

So that was why Cutter was considerably surprised when they pulled up at the British Museum to see a pack of reporters there and his stomach lurched, “do you think they’re here for the creature sighting at the museum?” he tried, surely no one at the museum had leaked to the press that they would be on there way.

[for Connor and NFB due to distance]

A few more days had passed and the press weren't letting up on the stories and a few of them had started to run with the university investigating him for misconduct so he was staying away from anything to do with the news. Now that there didn't seem to be an a possible date for them to return to Fandom, Connor and Cutter had ended up moving to the break room - the office was starting to feel too small, like a jail cell and eventually they had stopped caring. They hadn't showered or changed since the day with the phone call from the university and while Cutter was at least making an effort to eat, it seemed Connor wasn't really even interested in that. They hadn't spoken much at all in the last few days, there didn't really seem to be much they could say that hadn't already been said ... everything was just terrible and until they could get back to Fandom, they were stuck both literally and figuratively. That day Cutter had woken up at lunchtime, which was something that had been happening more frequently these last few days and he'd helped himself to a bowl of cereal that was in the break room, he glanced over to where Connor was still sleeping and had been doing a lot more lately as well, and he wished there something he could do for Connor to help him but he didn't know what. ( everything had come to a stop ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. CW for mentions of trauma and grief and depression. NFB for distance but OOC welcome]}

Since everything had happened with Christine and her threats to start leaking stories to the press, Cutter had decided to bring forward his resignation and formally let the university know that he wasn’t going to be coming back to teach. He knew that any day now that the stories could break and he wanted to start clearing out his office and try to prevent getting caught in public media storm. He stood in the middle of his office at everything that they had to sort through and start packing, “I didn’t realise just how much stuff I’ve accumulated in here,” he remarked, Connor and Becker were helping him with clearing out his office and they definitely had their work cut out for them. ( things just kept getting worse ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. NFB due to distance but OOC welcome!]

It was the day before their interview with Christine and Cutter was finding it difficult to control his nerves, he had been going over the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 technique as he waited with Connor for Becker to arrive. They were meeting in his office at the ARC to prepare for the interview and go over the questions that Christine was likely to ask them. Cutter fidgeted on the couch where he and Connor were sitting, "this was not how I pictured our return to the team at all," he said softly. ( Cutter didn't like how this was going ) [preplayed with the amazing anomaly_research_nerd. CW for mention of torture. NFB for distance but OOC welcome!]