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In 04x02, Jocasta says to Claire: “You're a lively one, are ye, no? It's no wonder my nephew is drawn to you.”
How much do you think Claire reminds Jocasta of her sister Ellen - and, by extension, how Jamie’s bone-deep love for Claire reminds Jocasta of Brian Fraser’s deep love for Ellen MacKenzie?
specs!
Finding solace and comfort in each other.
Hands tightly linked.
Jamie is open about his fears and guilt. Claire assuages it. Supports him. Reassures him. Loves him.
Makes sure he knows she doesn’t love him - or respect him - any less because of what happened.
Pledges herself to him, yet again.
Affirms that today, now, always - and for what is about to come - she is at his side.
Claire and Jamie are the ULTIMATE TEAM. Unquestionably backing the other up. Implicitly trusting each other, and each other’s abilities. Doing *everything* together. Supporting each other with small reassuring touches. Finding something positive amid so much horror. Standing steadfast through it all. For whatever it is they want together - it’s definitely *not* this.
Jamie goes with Jocasta to meet the men representing the Law...literally with blood on his hands. He is complicit, now. Like it or not. How naive he must realize he has been.
"What do you need, Sassenach!?" You, Jamie. She always needed you to do exactly what you're doing. Defending her while she is answering her calling. Knowing who she is and the situation and letting her be who she is. That is who and what she looked for when returning to you.
AMEN, WISE ANON!
Jamie’s specs have returned!
And there was much rejoicing!
Colum MacKenzie wanted Jamie to be his heir, and lead the men at Leoch. When he disapproved of Jamie’s marriage to a sassenach, he tried to have her killed as a witch.
Dougal MacKenzie wanted to be Colum’s heir - so he tried to kill Jamie. When that didn’t work, he brokered Jamie’s marriage to a sassenach, to remove him from the line of succession. Then realized he’d rather have the sassenach for himself.
But in both cases, the sassenach finally claimed the upper hand. By earning the brothers’ respect for her healing, Colum turned to her for a painless death. By making a foolish decision to threaten her, Dougal lost his life at her - and his nephew’s - hand.
Jocasta MacKenzie Cameron wanted Jamie to be her heir. Took him off guard. Did not quite share the respect for the sassenach wife’s healing - for her views on slavery had poisoned Jamie’s mind.
But it is precisely because of the love and respect and trust that Jamie has in Claire, that he sees Jocasta’s offer for what it is. A gilded prison, built on the backs of people whose lives are very similar to what Jamie experienced himself at Helwater.
He cannot, in good conscience, become the leader that Jocasta - or, for that matter, Colum and Dougal - want him to be. He needs to be - must be - his own man, who lives by his own deeply-held principles.
A decision that would undoubtedly make Ellen MacKenzie Fraser incredibly proud - not just for standing up to the family that all but abandoned her, but also for never failing to do the right thing. With the love and support of his sassenach wife - much like Ellen had the undying support of her outlander husband, Brian Fraser - at his side.
