#sassenachthroughtime

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THX, fanfic writers [repeating myself, end of year]

Inspired by the post from @saygoodnightlove about fan fic recommendations, I want to know as @juli-81 asked, “Whatfics made you fall in love with Outlander in a new way this year?” My first answer was “Power Jam” by @isthisclever and I’ll stick with it, because of the way this writer uses detail to make things new, especially the love story that never gets old, Jamie meets Claire, this time at a roller rink in Edinburgh. The other nine, in no particular order, sprinkled I see with many WIPs: 

#2, “Wee Herbs” by @jesuisprest. OK, I have a problem with feisty Jenny, always barging in to “protect” Jamie. In “Wee Herbs,” Jenny is none too pleased to find that her brother has married the proprietor of a weed shop [it’s medical marijuana,Jenny] in California, and that California Claire has a child (Fergus, age 6, blooming nicely in West Coast soil). Claire fights fire with fire, beats Jenny at the primal battle of “family first.” WIP. 

 #3 “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” by @sassenachthroughtime. Is there a more romantic scene in fan fic than the one in this story when Claire, unwilling trophy wife to Fronk in oppressively staid South Carolina society, helps new next-door neighbor Jamie with clean-up after his housewarming party and he whispers, Scottish burr on fire, “Dance wi’me?” WIP.

            #4 “Game Changer” by @the2ofusnow. Jamie’s the rookie of the year with the NY Mets; Claire is the team doctor, written with emotional intelligence. WIP. 

            #5 “Atonement” by @smashing-teacups, for its quiet scenes in the hospital when horribly-injured Jamie and compassionate-nurse Claire get to know one another. The writer gets the most out of dialogue, small moments like the one when Claire washes Jamie’s hair.

            #6 “Market Price” by @desperationandgin. Both Jamie and Claire are witty and strong, despite (of course) having weathered some life-challenges, and they’re funny and sweet, unable to keep their hands off one another. 

            #7 “Saorsa” by @scapegrace-74. Jamie escapes Black Jack by touching the stones, lands in the midst of WW II at Lallybroch whose chatelaine is a pregnant widow, Claire, the legatee of the Randall estate. The way the two come together, inevitably, is told with grace and verve—a description that fits “anything by” @scapegrace-74, especially the stories in the “Metric Universe.” Thanks also to @scapegrace-74 for pointing to a perfect novella, “The Stars Will Sing for Us” by @fallofrain. No drama, just strong characterization when Dr. Claire moves to Broch Morda and falls in love with, guess, the sweetest, hottest guy in town; he’s good with horses too. No bland inevitability: the writer allows the reader to discover the characters as they discover one another. 

            #8 “Loving Jamie” by @JillianK, an 18thcentury story in which Jamie has lost inheritance when he’s rendered mute from an axe blow (Dougal?) The MacKenzie brothers arrange a marriage to Claire. The story has a fairytale quality leavened with humor, e.g ch 7 when Jamie wonders if his new wife loves him and Clarence nudges him not to get maudlin. “Christ. Now he was taking life lessons from a mule.”

            #9 “Something to Believe In” by @caitrinwrites.  Claire is a chef in Santa Fe and when a Scottish distiller turns up to purvey his wares at her resto, he very much resembles her daughter Brianna, age 5. WIP. This story of introducing Jamie to his lost child shows signs of rising to meet the top of the class in the genre, “Downhill” by @wickedgoodbooks (who can forget five-year-old Willie on “The Puffin Trip” with his reunited parents, Claire and Jamie?) and “Flood My Mornings” by @bonnie_wee_swordsman (Jamie’s observations about the mores of America in the 1950, all the tut-tutting about working mothers, and his comment about how the Pope can just get out of women’s way when it comes to reproductive choice). And “Written in the Stones” by @lenny9987, one of the best father-and-child reunion stories in which Jamie arrives at Craig na dun and reclaims Claire and ten-year-old Brianna, in part when she teaches him to bake chocolate chip cookies at Mrs. Graham’s house during a thunderstorm. 

More than a top ten, I can’t omit “One Summer” by @missclairebelle, the glorious variant on Jamie and Claire as a bantering couple who would give Hepburn and Tracy a run for their money in their heyday. And “Jimjeran” by @betweensceneswriter, which manages to convey new love in the most heated yet nuanced fashion. Jamie and Claire are Peace Corps volunteers on a Pacific island, which shows among other things that this story is truly universal. And then there’s “In My Daughter’s Eyes” by @preciouslittleingenue, Jamie as a riding therapist to autistic Faith, four-year-old child of Claire and Fronk, who rejected his “imperfect” child. And You’ll Be in Mo Chridhe by @CrossingInStyle. Claire goes to Africa with Uncle Lamb and meets Tarzan, who is, guess ... Another good one by this prolific writer, “First Time Here?” Jamie is a bartender in Inverness who asks the question of Claire on her sequential bad dates. Nice past-present cross-stich. And “Back to You” by @balfeheughlywed. Claire is Leery’s roommate at Edinburgh U…but the writing is good. Jenny is the Worst. And “Queen’s Gambit”by @AbbeDebeaupre. Lord John is private eye, Jamie trains polo ponies… And the “Basia Mille” series by @JRC10…

 This list is threatening to exceed top 20, so many good stories. Thank you, writers!

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TBT: Today’s story is a riveting read from 2020 by @sassenachthroughtime. “Lovers In A Dangerous Time” is an emotional journey that has no epilogue. Enjoy this multi-chapter tale.

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Kidnapping is 90% crafting.

Dougal Mackenzie

[veryfaintveryhuman]

“I know you know it but / How do we show it / There's too much to lose / But tonight we choose / So we dance alone in the moonlight / Just you & I / And the stars and I'm falling through the sky”

• LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME || dedicated to @sassenachthroughtime‘s story of love that settles in a part of your heart that you didn’t know existed. •

1. In the Moonlight - Susie Suh || 2. Bedroom Ceiling - Sody || 3. Lovely - Fly By Moonlight, Betty Who || 4. Next to You - Of Rust & Bone || 5. The Wire (Alternate Version) - Patrick Droney || 6. Ghosts - Willow City || 7. Chariot - Jacob Lee || 8. My Own - Trevor Hall || 9. Something More - Joshua Hyslop || 10. Remind Me - Emily King || 11. 3:00 AM - Finding Hope || 12. Make These Colors Real - Hush Kids || 13. Pink Confetti - Tow’rs || 14. Rose of Sharon - Mumford & Sons || 15. Show Me - Alina Baraz, Khalid || 16. This Will Be Our Home - John Lucas || 17. Electric (feat. Khalid) - Alina Baraz || 18. I Should Go - Levi Kreis || 19. All I Want - Kodaline || 20. Hey Baby Hey - Greg Brown || 21. Heaven - Cheat Codes || 22. Across the Sea - The Sweeplings || 23. Something Like This (Acoustic) - Gordi || 24. Vertigo - Time for Three || 25. When I Fell - Canyon City || 26. Lover, Please Stay - Nothing But Thieves || 27. On and On - Thirdstory || 28. Must Be Dreaming - Bien || 

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[sassenachthroughtime]

Interesting Find

Jamie comes across a plant he's never seen before in the woods surrounding the Big House and has to show Claire. Hilarity and sweetness ensue. Rating: M Chapters: 1/2 

For the Pot Brownies square on my @outlanderbingo2020​ card. Not brownies, but the logistics of making colonial pot brownies got to be ridiculous. Thanks to my lovely beta Susan - and hop onto my twitter (@claimieclan) or tumblr (sassenachthroughtime) to see her gorgeous moodboard!

    "Sassenach!"

    I heard him before I saw him, bellowing my name as he bounded around the side of the house. He came to stop in front of my garden plot, where I had been kneeling long enough for it to ache, seeing to a few cabbage plants that stubbornly refused to thrive despite my efforts.

    "What is it?" I asked, glancing up only long enough to see his tall leather boots caked in mud nearly to his knees and deciding I didn't have any particular desire to see the rest of the mess just yet. Though we had a fine entryway where such things could be taken care of so as to avoid tracking the mess straight into the house, it didn't seem to occur to Jamie that that, too, needed to be swept from time to time. At fifty he was still boyish that way, still so much like the young ruffian I'd first encountered in the wilds of Scotland so many years ago. Then again, my time spent in the air-conditioned, vacuumed luxury of the 1960’s had likely heightened my awareness of the dirt between the floorboards or the stickiness that covered the table after a spill. Sometimes, between the two of us, it seemed I was the only one who even noticed that I had to pry my sleeves from the polished wood, but I never really minded being the one to take care of such things.

    "I've a new plant for ye," he answered, clearly pleased with his discovery. At that, I lifted my eyes to meet his, and they were shining bright blue with excitement. What kind of excitement, I couldn't yet decipher.

    "Did you now? And where might this new plant be?" I asked, brows raised in question, and pouted my smirking lips just enough for him to notice. He had used similar ruses before, a patch of wild flowers or a meadow I simply must see, in order to convince me to abandon my tasks and follow him out into the woods, only to reveal that there was no such sight and he only wanted me to himself. It rarely bothered me—often they were the only moments we had to ourselves, save for the end of the day when one or both of us was often too exhausted for much of anything to happen.

    "Och, some eight hundred yards or so back intae the forest, west o' the stream. Came across it on my way back from the Lindsay's."

    Jamie extended a large hand and I couldn't resist. He'd been gone when I woke that morning, off to see to some tenants, and I was eager for a kiss from my husband. He pulled me up and into his arms as if it required no effort at all—damn the seven years that had me creaking and sore but left him as yet untouched. He tasted of whiskey and salt pork and I could feel him humming with excitement. Perhaps this wasn't a scheme, after all.

    "And what does this plant look like?" I asked, my hands clasped at the small of his back as I looked up with brows raised. I would go with him, that much I had already decided, but he didn't need to know that yet. I had already followed this man two hundred years we spent apart. I'd follow him eight hundred yards into the woods, too, even if the only thing he had to show me was just how much he wanted me, even after all this time.

[ashmarie1687]

Fic writer shout outs 🎉

I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile and since I might be on the quieter side for the next week with my mom coming to visit (I haven’t seen her since January) I wanted to give a shout out to all the fic writers out there. Mind you I haven’t read everyone but little did I know what kind of Jamie-Claire AU fic world I’d be introduced to. I’ve seriously lost count as to how many I’ve read or are currently reading. I think a banner that says “Fics got me through 2020” should be made.

Not all fic writers are on here, some are on Twitter only, but I wanted to tag some of the writers whose works I have read or are currently reading: @thistlesandherbs, @ladyviolethummingbird, @silfraser, @curlsgetdemgurls, @sassenachthroughtime, @magnoliasinbloom, @prairiefarmgirl, @lallybrochloser, @audramh, @smashing-teacups, @wickedgoodbooks and I HIGHLY recommend stories by JeSuisPrest, balfey, luvofmylonglife, melodyheart and more. I have the same user name on Ao3 as I do here with several subscriptions and books marks,and everyone I tagged above I’ve read most if not some of their fics. I know I’ve missed some, sorry!

Thanks for giving me a fluffy smut-tastic escape. I greatly appreciate your works and maybe one day (not anytime soon) I’ll write a fic because you’ve been inspirations.

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Hello beautiful people! We are back and ready to rock and roll! I would love to challenge everyone in the group to throw off the shackles of our oppressors and consider writing a new entry in time for Independence Day!

Who is in?

@lallybrochloser @visionarygalaxy @narastories @iihappydaysii @mistresspandorawritesthings @scapegrace74-blog @tinyfrenchowl @sassenachthroughtime @rentchica10 @levisqueaks @carpelucem @missdevon

[ejjavdo]

As I head off to the beach, I can’t help but wonder if we’ll get our beach dose of Claire and Jamie in #LIADT and #TheScottishManny soon 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 @ladyviolethummingbird @sassenachthroughtime (I really don’t mean to be rude or pressure with this post. I just really love both these stories)

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Top 10 Fan Fics and Why

Inspired by the post from @saygoodnightlove about fan fic recommendations, I want to know as @juli-81 asked, “Whatfics made you fall in love with Outlander in a new way this year?” My first answer was “Power Jam” by @isthisclever and I’ll stick with it, because of the way this writer uses detail to make things new, especially the love story that never gets old, Jamie meets Claire, this time at a roller rink in Edinburgh. The other nine, in no particular order, sprinkled I see with many WIPs: 

#2, “Wee Herbs” by @jesuisprest. OK, I have a problem with feisty Jenny, always barging in to “protect” Jamie. In “Wee Herbs,” Jenny is none too pleased to find that her brother has married the proprietor of a weed shop [it’s medical marijuana,Jenny] in California, and that California Claire has a child (Fergus, age 6, blooming nicely in West Coast soil). Claire fights fire with fire, beats Jenny at the primal battle of “family first.” WIP. 

 #3 “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” by @sassenachthroughtime. Is there a more romantic scene in fan fic than the one in this story when Claire, unwilling trophy wife to Fronk in oppressively staid South Carolina society, helps new next-door neighbor Jamie with clean-up after his housewarming party and he whispers, Scottish burr on fire, “Dance wi’me?” WIP.

            #4 “Game Changer” by @the2ofusnow. Jamie’s the rookie of the year with the NY Mets; Claire is the team doctor, written with emotional intelligence. WIP. 

            #5 “Atonement” by @smashing-teacups, for its quiet scenes in the hospital when horribly-injured Jamie and compassionate-nurse Claire get to know one another. The writer gets the most out of dialogue, small moments like the one when Claire washes Jamie’s hair.

            #6 “Market Price” by @desperationandgin. Both Jamie and Claire are witty and strong, despite (of course) having weathered some life-challenges, and they’re funny and sweet, unable to keep their hands off one another. 

            #7 “Saorsa” by @scapegrace-74. Jamie escapes Black Jack by touching the stones, lands in the midst of WW II at Lallybroch whose chatelaine is a pregnant widow, Claire, the legatee of the Randall estate. The way the two come together, inevitably, is told with grace and verve—a description that fits “anything by” @scapegrace-74, especially the stories in the “Metric Universe.” Thanks also to @scapegrace-74 for pointing to a perfect novella, “The Stars Will Sing for Us” by @fallofrain. No drama, just strong characterization when Dr. Claire moves to Broch Morda and falls in love with, guess, the sweetest, hottest guy in town; he’s good with horses too. No bland inevitability: the writer allows the reader to discover the characters as they discover one another. 

            #8 “Loving Jamie” by @JillianK, an 18thcentury story in which Jamie has lost inheritance when he’s rendered mute from an axe blow (Dougal?) The MacKenzie brothers arrange a marriage to Claire. The story has a fairytale quality leavened with humor, e.g ch 7 when Jamie wonders if his new wife loves him and Clarence nudges him not to get maudlin. “Christ. Now he was taking life lessons from a mule.”

            #9 “Something to Believe In” by @caitrinwrites.  Claire is a chef in Santa Fe and when a Scottish distiller turns up to purvey his wares at her resto, he very much resembles her daughter Brianna, age 5. WIP. This story of introducing Jamie to his lost child shows signs of rising to meet the top of the class in the genre, “Downhill” by @wickedgoodbooks (who can forget five-year-old Willie on “The Puffin Trip” with his reunited parents, Claire and Jamie?) and “Flood My Mornings” by @bonnie_wee_swordsman (Jamie’s observations about the mores of America in the 1950, all the tut-tutting about working mothers, and his comment about how the Pope can just get out of women’s way when it comes to reproductive choice). And “Written in the Stones” by @lenny9987, one of the best father-and-child reunion stories in which Jamie arrives at Craig na dun and reclaims Claire and ten-year-old Brianna, in part when she teaches him to bake chocolate chip cookies at Mrs. Graham’s house during a thunderstorm. 

More than a top ten, I can’t omit “One Summer” by @missclairebelle, the glorious variant on Jamie and Claire as a bantering couple who would give Hepburn and Tracy a run for their money in their heyday. And “Jimjeran” by @betweensceneswriter, which manages to convey new love in the most heated yet nuanced fashion. Jamie and Claire are Peace Corps volunteers on a Pacific island, which shows among other things that this story is truly universal. And then there’s “In My Daughter’s Eyes” by @preciouslittleingenue, Jamie as a riding therapist to autistic Faith, four-year-old child of Claire and Fronk, who rejected his “imperfect” child. And You’ll Be in Mo Chridheby @CrossingInStyle. Claire goes to Africa with Uncle Lamb and meets Tarzan, who is, guess ... Another good one by this prolific writer, “First Time Here?”Jamie is a bartender in Inverness who asks the question of Claire on her sequential bad dates. Nice past-present cross-stich. And “Back to You”by @balfeheughlywed. Claire is Leery’s roommate at Edinburgh U…but the writing is good. Jenny is the Worst. And “Queen’s Gambit”by @AbbeDebeaupre. Lord John is private eye, Jamie trains polo ponies… And the “Basia Mille” series by @JRC10…

 This list is threatening to exceed top 20, so many good stories. Thank you, writers!

[audramh]

@thistlesandherbs @smashing-teacups @missclairebelle @abbydebeaupreposts @sassenachthroughtime @albatross1013

@mistresspandorawritesthings @faeriechild You all got me through 2020. Whether it's one-shots or 100 chapters, you're my faves.

A message to all the fanfic writers: Thanks for sharing your creativity with us during this time when we needed it most. It has been a tough year for most with everything going on in the world and droughtlander. I wanted to post this message to show my appreciation for their hard work and beautiful imagination in sharing their art. I'd like to start this thread on this wonderful site that gives the writers a platform. Tag a fanfic writer to show your appreciation. Thanks LL and Happy New Year!

We love this idea!

Fandom, please feel free to reblog this and shout out some of your favorites authors and more! We’d also like to open this thread up to ALL forms of fan art, because sometimes writing isn’t the only way to express all our feels! 

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Miss Manners Told Me to Write This

Newbie at Tumblr, I’m sending the same letter to my top-whatever-number of writers of Outlander fan fics, prompted by a lovely nod from a writer whose books are more available in hardcover, in ye olde conventional bookstores. Outlander blogs and fan fic make the best meals during social starvation time, thrashing through U.S. election angst, pandemic staying-in-place. Bye, Miss Manners, hoping to learn how to do this group-messaging in Tumblr’s way soon

Thanks writers,

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Yesterday in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/13/helen-macdonald-am-i-refusing-to-read-bleak-house-out-of-sheer-contrariness-possibly    Helen MacDonald, the author of H Is for Hawk said, “The last writing that made me cry wasn’t technically a book at all, but a work of fan-fiction, a genre that includes some of the most moving works I’ve read over the last few years. It infuriates me how often people sneer at it.” I want to send this affirmation to missclairebell who wrote the breathless banter of “One Summer”; and to CrossingInStyle who wrote the Tarzan story with the inexplicable title “You’ll Be in Mo Chridhe,”[why Crossing, why? nevermind, Jamie-raised-by-gorillas is irresistible]; and to BetweenScenesWriter who came up with the counterintuitive marvel of Peace Corps-volunteers Jamie and Claire, “Jimjeran” in Melanesia; and to PrairieFarmGirl, currently writing an R-Rated “Little House on the Prairie” called “The Proposal”; and to bonnie_wee_swordsman whose “Flood My Mornings” pulled many provocative threads out of the contrast between 1746 and 1945, showing that Jamie is wise enough to know that hot showers are not everything; and to wickedgoodbooks  who gave Willie to Jamie and Claire in ”Downhill” on “the Puffin trip” to the outer isles beyond Inverness, leaving behind the most genuine parent-child scenes ever, without neglecting the parents in their private time. Then there’s the foodie universe with endearingly sassy-yet-vulnerable Jamie and Claire in “Market Price” by desperationandgin, and the Charleston SC socialites who behave as though Scarlett O’Hara may waltz into their yacht-club-party in “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” by SassenachThroughTime. Scratch Scarlett, it would be mewling Melanie Wilkes who’d waltz onto the social scene that ThroughTime nails with a silver hammer in “LIADT.” Melanie would make friends with meddlesome Aunt Jocasta—enough! Also, where have you gone, hardblazesong, with “Noir Nocturne”?

 Outlander, fan fic, love these writers and so does a bestselling author according to The Guardian

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@sassenachthroughtime Claire shooting guns is pretty bad ass!

Jamie and Claire: Braving the New World Together 🌎

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Hurray!!! So happy to have chapter 20 of LIADT...thanks sassenachthroughtime..❤

Lovers in a Dangerous Time Chapter Twenty

It’s back! Your patience, kindness and support as I worked this chapter out was truly mind boggling. I’m so thankful for this fandom and my absolutely wonderful readers - as a side note, you can also find me on twitter now, @sssnchthrutime. Come yell with me about this fic or other fics or Caitriona Balfe’s existence! I’m here for it all. I’m also so so excited to finally debut Susan’s gorgeous moodboard for this fic! Check it out on the bird app or tumblr. And an extra special shout out to Susan and Ness, my fantastic new betas who are just the best, and have already made this story (and my life) a million times better. Happy reading! 

     Jamie woke that morning reaching for Claire beside him, crestfallen when he found emptiness in the place she’d lain just hours ago. She had been right to leave, and the fact that it was for the sake of his daughters only made him love her more, but that was hardly enough to negate how badly he wanted her there. He imagined she looked bonnie in the morning, with sleepy eyes and wild curls that would tickle his face when he pulled her close. 

     When it occurred to him that the house was still quiet, he settled back in beneath the covers, content to luxuriate in the memory of her until his attention was demanded elsewhere. Their hours together still felt a little like a dream, touched with a rosy pink high that buzzed within him. He had thought that he would never know that feeling again, the warmth that spread outward from his chest when she smiled at him or nuzzled into his embrace. Worse than that, he had convinced himself that he could live without it, but he knew now that that had been a lie. One can’t live without their heart.

     Thank God he could stop trying. 

     He thought of her, on the other side of the wrought iron fence, waking alone in her too-big house. Did she reach for him, too, in that space between sleeping and waking? It struck him as fundamentally wrong, that a woman so deserving of love, and with so much of it to give, should ever be alone. She was so close, it would take all of three minutes to scoop her up and bring her back home where she belonged, but while God had gifted him with love, He had not seen fit to gift him with ease. There was so much at play that required planning, and patience, before they could truly be together. It wasn’t liable to get easier as time drew on, but it would all be so worth it when the end did come.

     Still aching for some kind of connection with Claire, tangible proof that the previous night wasn’t a figment of his imagination, Jamie took his phone off the bedside table and scrolled down to find their text thread. The sight of their last messages sent a pang of sadness through his chest. They had been sent on Halloween, nearly a month ago, when he was still sleepless with missing her. All that time lost, and through no fault of their own. But before he could get angry—that, he would save for later—he reminded himself that amongst all the precious things Claire had given him was time. Time to wait, and keep loving her from afar, yes, but after that, time unending, to make up for what they had lost. 

     He typed out a text—Good morning, I love you❤️— but hesitated as his thumb hovered over the send button. Was it too much, too needy? Despite the fierceness with which she had loved him the night before, her gentle reassurance that he didn’t need to worry about what the morning would bring, a dark little corner of his mind wondered if it had all been too good to be true. 

     A little bubble with three dots popped up almost as soon as he had sent it and washed away all of those worries. 

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[ashmarie1687]

Holy mother... 🥵 🔥 one of the hottest and dirtiest one shots I’ve read! 👏🏻 👏🏻 @sassenachthroughtime

Unwind Me

I’m on the board, y’all! Just my humble wee take on what I think ought to have happened after the Scottish Barbarian scene in 209. Plot? What plot? I’ve never heard of a plot. 

    Sheltered by our small cabin from the gusts of wind that blew across the open lands that served as our current encampment, I huddled beneath the threadbare blankets and sought the sleep that so slyly evaded me. First it was concerns about the men in the immediate sense; Angus’ trench foot and how the rations were doing, how much longer before we would join with the larger army. Then it was concern in a greater sense, the overwhelming fear of what was to come.

    Jamie’s promise to me that afternoon and the silent strength he offered me even from afar had comforted me considerably, and I found myself bolstered by a new sense of resolve. I had been helpless, on that long night in the French countryside, alone with Max Lucas’ weakening cries for his mother. But I was not helpless now, nor would I stand for becoming so by wasting away into my memories of the future. I knew what was to happen, that fateful day on Culloden Moor: death, by the thousands, and the extinction of the highland culture. I had come to know a handful of the men who were to be among those thousands, the women and children who would mourn their loss. I had come to love the MacKenzie tartan just as dearly as they, and it felt like nothing less than my responsibility to fight for it with all I had.

    Still, I couldn’t be completely without fear. I knew the ugly thing that loomed before us intimately where they did not, and I knew that it was awful. On D-Day, I had thought to myself that the most horrendous experience of my life was now behind me, that nothing else could possibly compare. And perhaps that would have been true had I stayed in the 1940’s, but seemingly by divine intervention I had found myself here. The reward was well worth it, but the cost was not cheap, and the knowledge I held—blessing or curse, I never quite knew—weighed heavily on me.

    Rolling toward Jamie’s side of the cot, I sighed and curled in on myself. He was with Dougal and the men, I was sure, making plans and ensuring the camp was secure after the previous night’s transgression. Where he needed to be. Selfishly, though, I wanted him here. I wanted his arms around me, his furnace-like heat seeping into my bones to ward off any chill, the soft Gaelic murmurings that could see me to sleep after even the most abysmal of days. I wanted his body pressed against mine, his touch obliterating everything outside of our small room, just for the night.

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[nandan11]

The above three fics above are fantastic! Another one is written by @sassenachthroughtime entitled, Lovers in a Dangerous Time. I highly recommend.

hi! i'm looking for some modern aus of claire&jamie. do you guys have any suggestions for me? thank you. ❤

Hey @mmaryfraser.

There are so many wonderful Modern AUs in Outlander Fanfiction that is is hard to narrow down!

Here is a short list of some classic Modern AUs that you definitely need to check out if you haven’t already!

Modern Glasgow by @gotham-ruaidh

Loss by @missclairebelle

Escape by @notevenjokingfic

Also, head over to AO3, and you can search using the Modern AU tag. Keep in mind that not every author uses this tag, but its a great place to start finding new fics! I have run the search for you and you can find the results here.

Hope this helps! Happy Reading!