Outlander S07 M4b ((full)) -

It is a strange thing, to be a physician who cannot heal the wound of a child’s absence. To know that William, our secret, breathing ghost, is out there, wearing a red coat, fighting a war we are trying to end. Every cannon blast from the distant siege of Yorktown feels like a heartbeat. His heartbeat. Or the final, shuddering gasp of the life we might have had.

“Aye. And when he does, he will hate me.” outlander s07 m4b

He knocked the soldier aside with the flat of his sword and hauled the boy— his boy—to his feet. For one crystalline second, they stood face to face. The mud. The smoke. The screaming. All of it vanished. It is a strange thing, to be a

Jamie Fraser loved his son enough to let him go. Claire Fraser loved her husband enough to watch him break. And William Ransom, the Ninth Earl of Ellesmere, rode away from Yorktown not with a victory, but with a question that would haunt him across oceans: His heartbeat

And William went. Because he was a soldier. Because he was afraid. Because sometimes, the truth is a heavier weapon than a musket.

“He has your stubbornness,” I said, laying a hand on his shoulder. “He cut his hand on a broken bottle at Helwater and refused to cry. I watched from the kitchen window. You were mending a fence. You both bled, and neither of you made a sound.”