#outlander 3x6

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“Time doesna matter, Sassenach.”

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What's your absolute favorite interaction between Jamie and Claire?

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oh dear friend. how on earth do i decide?????? ye ken well enough, i am going to pick two because i can never settle on just one hehe. 

over time, i find myself consistently gravitating to jamie and claire’s “first” interactions whether that is back when they first met in 1x2 “castle leoch” or after twenty years apart in 3x6 “a. malcolm”

there is a pure, timid, innocence bewteen them. an effortless magic to both of these encounters. 

in the first, they did not know one another at all. thrown together by the string of destiny, they literally collapse into one another’s arms as they realize: you are what i have been aching for all of my life. 

in the second, they went from being complete lovers, to strangers as the whims of fate ripped them apart. yet, as if nothing as changed, they melt into one flesh. and they realize all over again, you are what i never stopped aching for all of my life.

bottom line: i love watching them love one another. 

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Other don't-touch-me-I'm-sobbing JAMMF moment: "I saw you so many times. You came to me so often..." DISCUSS!

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OH WITH PLEASURE. I love this moment. 

I actually havna really written about this particular scene because it is almost sacred to me. And to be blunt it is hard to describe it’s magnificence. 

BUT LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS FRASER BLISS.

Finally in each other’s arms after suffering apart for years, Jamie and Claire linger in the stillness of one another. Heart to heart—their souls mingle—intertwining in the destiny of their love.

“I saw ye so many times.” I never forgot you, Claire. 

“Ye came to me so often.” Ye never abandoned me when I needed you. Even then you’d appear. 

“When I dream sometimes…” My heart could find you even though your body was gone from me.

“When I was in a fever.” When I was sick and in need of my healer, you would show yourself to me.

“I was so afraid and so lonely I knew I must die.” When the thought of drawing another breath without you was beyond what I could bear.

“Whenever I needed you, I would see you…” Whenever you heard my calls through the skies, you—my greylag—would return to me.

“Smiling—yer hair curled around yer face.” And there you were, forever mo nighean donn.

“You never touched me.” But you weren’t actually there… I was alone.

“I can touch you now.” I am here. I am here. I can heal you now. I can love you now. 

OK OK MY WEE HEART IS EXPLODING. FRASER FEELS EVERYWHERE. 

I re-watched this scene for this recap and oh my goodness it touched me so deeply. I haven’t seen it in too long. 

This is such a moment of tender vulnerability between this man and this woman—they both have been through hell without each other. There’s a shyness between them because it has been so long, yet the intimacy is still there. It never left. 

This is the brilliance of Jamie x Claire: that no matter the suffering, no matter the distance, no matter the time—their love never fades. It endures and bears all things.

And here they stand together: exactly where they should be. 

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This. Shot. 

This shot is almost more beautiful to me than when Jamie & Claire see one another for first time in the print shop—for several reasons. 

Jamie and Claire are face to face. Skin on skin. 

Jamie and Claire have finally made love with the person they love for the first time in two decades. 

Claire cannot peel her eyes away from her husband’s face. She is transfixed. 

Jamie’s eyes are closed in a wave of being overwhelmed by his emotions. In all honesty, he looks as if he is crying. 

Their hands are intertwined. 

They are finally one again. 

This picture is a gift. 

Something that they never thought that they would ever have again. 

There is a sense of awe and wonder: Is this real? Are you real? 

And they can touch one another and know them to be so.

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You are a part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read.

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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