"I swore I'd never set foot on this horrible place, but here I am. I'm not going to cry, 'cause you wouldn't want that. Besides, I've come with good news-your daughter, Brianna, named after your father just as I promised. Jamie, I... was angry at you. Such a long time... You made me go and live a life that I didn't want to live. Do you right, damn you. Brianna was... safe, and loved, and raised well. Sometimes, when she turns and the light catches her red hair or seeing her smiling in her sleep, it takes my breath away. Because I see you. She was born seven fifteen on a rainy Boston morning... That's everything, everything I can remember. See, no tears, but you didn't think I could do that, did you? That day, at Craigh na Dun, I said a lot of things. There was one thing I didn't say. Couldn't, and haven't for twenty years. But I'm here, and now it's time.
Goodbye, Jamie Fraser.
My love. Rest easy, soldier."
Outlander 2×13 “Dragonfly in Amber”
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In chaos, there is fertility.
Anais Nin
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Wednesday 100: Secrets but not lies
“Wha’ssat, Mummy?”
Brianna grabbed her hand and pointed one pudgy finger at the scar at the base of her thumb. Claire swallowed roughly.
She’d made a promise to Frank, yes, but when she looked at Bree — so like him — how could she face down years of never telling her of the man who’d fathered her?
“There was a war, before you were born. Mummy had to say goodbye to… to your da…”
She kept her promise, never naming Jamie, but she still held Brianna close afterwards and whispered, “he loved you so much.”
Secrets, she’d promised once, but not lies.
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Day 8: Scene that made you cry the most
I had a couple of choices for Day 8 because Outlander just loves to make me cry, both happy and sad tears. I went with sad tears today. My choice is quite obvious with the goodbye scene in season 2 from Dragonfly in Amber. Honestly I would say the whole episode has me in tears most of the time.
I love this shot of Claire with the sun rising as she is learning that Jamie survived and her declaring she has to go back to him. It feels like a dark cloud that had covered her for 20 years had finally been lifted.
I started creating this post and had to drop everything to watch the entire episode, horse stalls be damned. I am now emotionally drained and will probably be pretty unproductive the rest of the day. Dragonfly in Amber is one of those episodes that leaves me speechless after watching. It is hard for me to turn my thoughts into coherent statements because it just brings about so many feelings. Thanks again for the tears Outlander!
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you guys went feral over bridgerton or whatever but no historical romance will EVER be claire & jamie from seasons 1-2 of outlander
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Day 3: “Like crying out in empty rooms; with no-one there except the moon.”
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You can't know that. It's much too soon. It... Oh, Sassenach, you have not been a day late in your courses in... in all the time since ye first took me to yer bed, but it's been two months now. You kept track? In the middle of this bloody war, you kept track? Aye. How long have you known? Not long. This child... this one is all that will be left of me... ever. But now, we must go, so I beg you, Claire... You heard me give my word to Rupert, and you made me a promise to spare Randall's life. You... you promised me that if it came to this, ye'd go back through the stones, back home.
But you are my home.
And you are mine, but this home is lost. And now you and the bairn... you must go to a safe place. To a man... A man that could care for you both. No. No, I... Claire. Claire, there's no time.
How will I explain all this? How can I go back? To Frank. All that I leave to you. Tell him what you will about me... About us. It's likely he'll no want to hear, but if he does... Tell him I'm grateful. And tell him I trust him, and tell him I hate him to the very marrow of his bones. The buzzing. It's so loud. I'm not ready, Jamie. I'm not ready. Come with me. Come with me through the stones. Na, I can't. You could try. You hear it, right? The buzzing? I don't hear anything, Claire. Even if I could... go back through the stones...
It's not my place. My destiny lies on Culloden Moor.
But I'll find you. I promise. If I have to endure 200 years of purgatory... 200 years without you, then that is my punishment that I have earned for my crimes, for I have lied, killed, stolen, betrayed... And broken trust. But when I stand before God, I'll have one thing to say to weigh against all the rest.
Lord... you gave me a rare woman... And God, I loved her well.
It has begun. Our wedding gift from Hugh Munro. You keep it with you.
Blood of my blood. And bone of my bone. As long as we both shall live.
Come on. This... belonged to my father. Give it to the bairn, when he's old enough. I will name him Brian, after your father.
I love you. I love you. And I you. Good-bye, Claire.
Outlander 2×13 “Dragonfly in Amber”💔
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