Sarah's letter this time! :) but another short one I'm afraid.

I'm thinking of doing Becker's letter next and then moving on to Jenny's - thoughts?

4. Sarah

Sarah had gone to get some lunch when Abby went to give her Cutter's letter. Unsure of what to do, she left it on Sarah's desk next to the mysterious artefact, which had people baffled when they weren't grieving. It was strange for Sarah to sit back down again, and glance at an envelope that had come out of nowhere and was from a man who she thought to be dead. She looked around to see who had delivered the letter, but by the time she had returned the place was pretty much empty, everyone was off doing something else, leaving Sarah alone.

She carefully picked up the letter and tore open the envelope:

Dear Sarah,

It feels like only yesterday that I burst into your life and scattered normality to the four winds as you discovered a professor with a gun, a dead co-worker and an ancient monster on the loose. If it wasn't for you we may have never realised the importance of the beast to the Ancient Egyptians, and that they had discovered a way of containing anomalies, a vital piece of information we now have ourselves.

So I must thank you, but at the same time, I must apologise. I didn't think when I persuaded you to join my team the danger I was putting you in, I had been blinded by the excitement of our new discoveries about the anomalies, despite recently losing a friend to the same threat. It was the day Stephen died that I truly realised my own mortality, and how little time I might have left. And yet still I let you into this, I swung the doors right open and persuaded you to walk through. I can see in your eyes every day at work that you don't regret taking this job, but still I feel the need to say sorry I took you out of your world of safety and into one of monsters.

This is a job of a lifetime, but is it worth a life? Since you're reading this, I know I'm dead, and I know for me it was worth every second, so perhaps it was. But for you, or anyone else on the team, would it be worth it? No, I don't think so, so no more heroic sacrifices please.

I think the team members under-estimate your bravery and intelligence, they're happy to let you sit safely on the side while they take responsibility and battle the monsters. I don't want you to let them do that, I want you to show them the contributions I know you can make to the team while working on the field as well as in the lab. But please, stay safe.

Bravery is a great thing, but being a hero requires great and a few too many sacrifices. Knowing me I probably ignored my own advice and went to do something stupidly brave and heroic, and that will be the very reason you are reading this letter. At the end of the day, I'm sure we'd all like to be heroes, but I am no hero, and an attempt to be one has probably just cost me my life.

So please, be brave, but stay safe. Your life is too precious to sacrifice.

I wish I had the time to get to know you a little more, but I am glad I got the opportunity to work with you Doctor Page.

Take care and good luck with everything,

Yours,

Cutter.

Sarah could feel tears pricking at her eyes as she came to the end of the letter. She felt both humbled and privileged to receive this letter from Cutter. It saddened her however by how much regret she felt in his voice while reading this letter, but she felt taking on a job at the ARC was one of the best decisions of her life, and she would never look back.

And although Cutter denied it, he was a hero. No, he is a hero.

After a brief pause, Sarah put the letter away in her desk draw and began to continue working on the artefact, constantly thinking about what Cutter had said in his letter and knowing that she would never forget it.

However Cutter's warnings about bravery was not enough to keep Sarah safe for long. When Abby, Connor and Danny vanished through an anomaly, she was one of the first to volunteer to try and find them again, and the first to become victim of a ancient predator on one of the failed rescue missions.

I'm not sure how Sarah died, I looked it up and it said that she died on a mission to save Abby and Connor, so I sort of made it up from there! Hope you liked the chapter anyway.

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