Chapter 9 still moments

"Oi, Hatty, step away from the detector!" Hatter quickly looks at him,

"What did you call me?" he said glaring at him and slowly walking to Connor. "There was only one person that called me that, and he's dead." said Hatter intensely.

"All right, mate." He said backing into Becker.

"Just leave it." Alice said taking hold of his right arm.

"I think it's about time these two get back to their holiday." Danny Said coming out of no-where. "Becker would you take them."

"Right."

"Come on hatter." Alice said quietly, pulling on his arm as Becker stepped out from behind Connor moving him out of the way. Hatter turned his head to Alice, changing his serious face to a calmer knob. He knew that this was not what he wanted to be doing on Alice's birthday/ proposal vacation.

"Hey Connor?" Danny beckoned. Connor watched as they left, before he moved.

"Ya?"

"Who's that guy at the detector?"

"What, O that's cutter."

"Cutter how is he here?"

"He came through the anomaly and it closed, were trying, Paul is looking into if it will open again."

"Right good, um everyone's here right?"

"Except for Becker, ya." Connor looked at him. "You're going to tell them now?"

"As I told Lester, with this job it's never a good time, I've put this off long enough anyway." Danny went over to the group. Connor held back thinking about what he said. 'Long enough… so he's been planning this from the beginning, that's why he's been so distant.' He looked over at cutter. 'He looks so lost.' He wanted to go over and say something but he didn't know what. He then remembered what he was really going through. This was the time he lost Claudia and found out about Stephen and Helen and also being in a changed world, now this. He walked back to Danny and the others.

"You're leaving?" asked Abby. "How can you leave, we need you here."

"No you've got Connor." He said looking to Connor who just walked up. Everyone looked over to him.

"What, me?"

"Ya, Lester agreed that you should be the team leader. You know more than anyone else, you're a great leader; you have done more than I ever could this past week. There's no better person for it."

"Lester agreed?" Abby questioned. Just then Lester walked over.

"So you know the news, Connors the new Cutter. Don't blow it." He paused. "Hopefully you can tell me that there isn't a clone over there."

"Eh, that's cutter from the past." Said Abby.

"We are trying to get him back." Added Sarah.

"And it would be much easier if you would stop interrupting me." Paul interjected irritated, who had just been sitting behind everyone still looking at the screen. "Maybe you could have your goodbye party somewhere else. As I try to see if there will be a way to see if a rip in time will appear."

"Yes, that would be good. You lot could learn from him, this isn't a social club. Get him back. O good more paper work." He said turning and walking off.

"That was odd…" said Connor as he watched Lester leave not even looking at cutter. He thought that Lester would want to talk to cutter or at least have somewhat of a reaction to him being here, but this seemed like nothing.

"I'm going to check on cutter, Abby come on." Connor said putting his hand on the small of her back leading her. She seemed as numb as cutter, he needed to get Abby out of here, she needed a break.

"Cutter you look like you could go for some fresh air, come on lets get out of here."

"But what about getting me back?"

"There's nothing I can do, no point in just sitting here and waiting. Come on, you hungry." Cutter didn't say anything. "Ok let's go to the flat. We can eat and relax, ya." Cutter mad the smallest of nods.

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"Glad to get away from those people." Alice said as they got in their car, back at the park.

"Hm." The rest of the ride to the hotel was filled with tense silence.

"So, that was quit an out burst." She finally said in the elevator, she had been thinking about it since they got in the truck with Becker.

"ya." Was all he said, she kept looking at him as he looked at the numbers change above the doors.

"Are you going to tell me about it?"

"No." he said after a beet, looking at his feet.

"No?" he sighed before he spoke.

"It's a part of my life I left behind. It doesn't matter"

"Well it seems it does, tell me." Hatter just shook his head, but after a moment of rubbing his forehead thinking of what to say.

"I wouldn't know were to start love." He said with his chin resting on his hands and looking at the floor. Alice softly captured his face to have him look at her.

"Just tell me who it was." The doors opened, after a long pause of hatter thinking of what to say.

"My brother." He said walking out going to the room.

"You had a brother, how come you never told me?" she said still in the elevator.

"Because of who he was, he wasn't the nicest guy, to say the least." He said unlocking the door.

"What was his name?" she asked following him in the room, he had to force him self to answer, he knew there was no way out of this.

"March…" he said not facing her, going over to the table in the corner.

"March? Mad March's your brother, I don't understand?" he sat in the chair at the table looking down as he leaned his elbows on his knees taking a deep breath.

"He wasn't always mad, there was a time he looked out for me, we were close, once."

"But wait." She thought of what he said at the arc and his first reaction when he saw March in wonderland. "Back in wonderland, the day we met, you said it can't be; what did that mean?" she never thought anything of it before, but now. He thought quickly.

"It was a man with a mechanical rabbit head, what else would I say?" he felt this was going to go on all night and his romantic vacation was unraveling, had to get it back on track. "Look its getting late, Could we drop this, and get some food?"

"Right, ok." She wanted to talk about this more, but she too felt the hunger pains and thought it better to leave it for another time.

ooOOooOOoo

"Eh, I don't think we have anything in the house." He thought out loud as they pulled up,

"I'll get something from the store; you two go on up, it wont take that long."

"Are you sure, I can go?"

"Con its fine, I got it, go on."

"Ya, so here we are, home sweet home." Said Connor as they got up stairs, Abby went to get some stuff for dinner. Cutter looked around blankly "are you ok?" Cutter had not really spoken much since he got to the arc. He wondered how did he get over all of this and just move on. Thinking three years back.

"Ya I'm fine. It's just been an inexplicable few days…" Connor didn't respond to this.

"So, you will be up stairs, in my old room." He motioned to the stairs on the other side of the flat, as he sat down on the sofa. "Abby, might be a while. Are you just going to stand there? Look, I know this must be hard, but you need to relax. That's what I learned, with my time in the, over the past year." He almost said something about the cretaceous. He was finding it hard to know what to say. He wished he knew what was important.

"So tell me what was the thing, action man had." Cutter asked sitting in one of the chairs opposite Connor.

"The handheld? You know about that."

"What does it do, I know it tracks anomaly's, but does it do more?"

"Well, it marks the times and keeps a record of the locations and more recently it scans the anomaly to determine what time is on the other side." He said stretching out with a yon. Rex flew over and sat him self down next to Connor.

"Hey mate, have a good day?" rex chirped back. "You hungry?" he said getting up, heading over to the kitchen. "Sid, Nancy? Supper time." he called out.

"Who's Sid, and Nancy?" cutter said as they came scuttling over from the bathroom. Nancy went over to cutter.

"Hey look she remembers you." Connor said with a laugh as he opened the refrigerator.

"Remembers me?" he said to himself as Nancy barked playfully at him.

"Nancy, dinner." Said Connor making her rush over, running into Sid, who barked at her.

"So you have diiactidons?"

"O ya, they got trapped here and I kept them. Never found an anomaly to put them back." He thought of what he just said and decided to change the subject. "Tea?"

"Ya, ok." Connor looked at the clock.

"I hope Abby will get back soon, I'm getting hungry."

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Next week I am going to be writing a story about March (cause there is not enough of good stories with him and I just like him), so look for that. I will have another chapter up in two weeks (hopefully).