#outlander 5x07

[jemscorner]

Outlander Parallels | Jamie Fraser | 5x07 ~ 7x13

At least this time, it's the right color.

[sassenach77yle]

||COUNTDOWN || SEASON 5 EPISODE 07  ||THE BALLAD OF ROGER MAC ||

#83daysofoutlander☆

Jamie was standing by Gideon, whom he had tethered to a tree. He would go into battle with his men, on foot. He was taking his pistols from the saddlebag, putting away the extra ammunition in the pouch at his belt. His head was bent, absorbed in the details of what he was doing. I felt a sudden, dreadful urgency. I must touch him, must say something. I tried to tell myself that Bree was right; this was nothing; likely not even a shot would be fired—and yet there were three thousand armed men here on the banks of the Alamance, and the knowledge of bloodshed hummed and buzzed among them. I left Brianna sitting on her rock, burning eyes fixed on the wood, and hurried to him. “Jamie,” I said, and put a hand on his arm. It was like touching a high-voltage wire; power hummed inside the insulation of his flesh, ready to erupt in a burst of crackling light. They say one can’t let go of such a line; a victim of electrocution simply freezes to the wire, helpless to move or save himself, as the current burns through brain and heart.

He put his hand on mine, looking down.

“A nighean donn,” he said, and smiled a little. “Have ye come to wish me luck, then?”

I smiled back as best I could, though the current sizzled through me, stiffening the muscles of my face as it burned. “I couldn’t let you go without saying . . . something. I suppose ‘Good luck’ will do.” I hesitated, words jamming in my throat with the sudden urge to say much more than there was time for. In the end, I said only the important things.

“Jamie—I love you. Be careful!”

He didn’t remember Culloden, he said. I wondered suddenly whether that loss of memory extended to the hours just before the battle, when he and I had said farewell. Then I looked into his eyes and knew it did not.

“‘Good luck’ will do,”

he said, and his hand tightened on mine, likewise frozen to the current that surged between us.

“‘I love ye’ does much better.”

He touched my hand, lifted his own and touched my hair, my face, looking into my eyes as though to capture my image in this moment—just in case it should be his last glimpse of me.

“There may come a day when you and I shall part again,”

he said softly, at last, and his fingers brushed my lips, light as the touch of a falling leaf. He smiled faintly.

“But it willna be today.”

[themusicsweetly]

Jamie x Claire x ✨this move✨

[xmichaeljacksonx]

My Favorite Jamie and Claire Love Scenes, in Order

For ✨ science ✨

1. The Reckoning

2. The Wedding

3. Full English Breakfast

4. Eye of the Storm

5. Turtle Soup

6. Would an Angel do This?

7. Warm Bath by the Fire

8. Happy Birthday, Jamie

9. A. Malcolm

10. Law of Thermodynamics

[manders1984]

Happy Birthday, Colonel

[jamiedornaniseverything]

[thewanderingace]

Outlander 5x07

[murtaghsbeard]

Season 5 Ep 7 - Ballad of Roger Mac

I feel like the nickname Roger Mac is not doing Roger any favors...

It’s war time for regulators in Carolina. The regulators know how to blow up gun powder supplies, but can they fight an all out battle? Jamie worries about Murtagh

Brianna is staying with some sympathetic family. Still no one asks about her accent. Like, literally no one in the world talks like her yet.

Brianna finally remembers something from history! She gets on a horse and rides fast!

Jamie plays some sort of auto-christening John the Baptist in the river. He is asking the spirit of Dougal for advice. Claire is skeptical of spirit Dougal’s willingness. We did murder him after all, Jamie.

Brianna arrives with her very important message. A battle will be fought! Duh. The regulators will lose! Also duh. This battle is the spark of the American revolution! Yes, we have already sensed this, but thank you for putting a very fine point on it. God, Brianna. What type of history did you even study? They again contemplate the butterfly effect for 40 seconds but decide they can’t be arsed about it and will want to warn Murtagh anyway. Roger volunteers himself for this mission because he is tired of being regarded as a talentless worm. “It’s dangerous!” the women mutter. Jamie says, yes, let’s run with this plan though where you, Roger, shoulder the danger because I am not invested in your character, son. Better to lose you than my wife or daughter.

Murtagh is giving his stump speech by the fire. Roger delivers Murtagh this threadbare historical prophecy. Murtagh is obstinate though. The men will not turn back now. He just gave a really excellent stump speech and those are really hard to counteract.

On his way back Roger runs into the lady Mackenzie that he met on the boat ride over. Sensing there is some sort of family tree historical predicament afoot, Roger warns her and tells her to get her husband out of there. Then he hugs her, which is much too familiar. Husband rolls up and is none too pleased. “What’s this pathetic letch doing hugging my wife!”

Jamie is forced to wear a red coat. How did they get it tailored? Jamie shoots lasers out of his eyeballs and incinerates Governor Tyron for this humiliation.

Is the lady Mackenzie’s husband Dougal with a curly wig? Ha! Roger throws a punch, which is something. He forgets there are three men there, so it goes poorly for him. His militia florette is discovered. Curly Dougal spits some line about how Rogers wife must be ill favored surely to have Roger all in her business. He is very astute.

Grumpy dad smashes Claire’s penicillin syringe. I hope she finds a sneaky way to kill him

Oh no! Murtagh gets shot and dies! I knew it would happen, but I don’t like it.

Jamie let’s loose his tongue and throws his red coat on the ground

They think they find Roger hung from a tree by the redcoats. There is a sack over his head, so clearly it won’t be Roger. I would be glad to be rid of him, but this would be too terrible a way for him to go.