someone who thinks the word โbreadthโ was invented just to describe his back
dear kelli,
thank you for raising this concern. i, too, share in your questioning of this matter. despite my best efforts i am yet to discover the answer to our query.
i have uncovered but one explanation for the nigh-sinful breadth of james alexander malcom mackenzie fraserโs back, chest, and shoulders. i offer it to you below:
The memory came to you unbidden, as though summoned forth by the same gust of wind that brought a chill slowly seeping through your layers.
it has been a day like today, the last time you had been out with Jamie and the men before your marriage โ cold, but clear, until the weather turned and it brought delight to the heavens for lashing rain to cover you all.
many of the men had simply covered themselves in their tartans, but you had no such luxury; another reminder of your sassenach status. you had not earned through feat or birth the right to wrap yourself in the colors of any clan. there was nothing to do but bear it and pray that their was no ill-will as the rain plastered your clothes to already-slick skin.
Jamie had found you, later that night. he always finds you. but this time, he had approached from behind, wrapping his own tartan like a blanket around your shivering shoulders.
โach, whatโll we do with ye, Sassenach,โ he had said fondly, chest still firmly at your back. was he always this warm, you wondered, before your mind answers that question for you, thinking about those first encounters after youโd fallen through the stones โ setting his shoulder, the all-night ride, escorting you back after a glass too many of Columโs fine rhenish. he had been close then โ Christ, your hands had been on his skin โ but this was somehow more intimate than any touch. This was the language of understanding, he & you, within which touch was only a key, a register, a means to an end, an expression of its own self.
โI just got sent to Scotland with three days to pack my bags, and all of a sudden I was thrown into the Outlander world. And in a sense as confused as Claire was finding this world, so was I. Itโs nice in that way. Itโs a nice little parallel that we have together.โ
requested by Anon:ย Caitโs words about Sam in her last interview for the television academy and Samโs interview with Kristin Dos Santos 7 years ago, saying he knows when she is not happy
