[Perhaps he is young, but he is a soldier. This is not the first disaster he's lived through, and though he might not admit as much to either her or Jamie, he had been there at Culloden. At the age of seventeen, no less. Of course, Hal had kept him off the battlefield, but he had put a pistol in his hand after the fact and sent him to help clean up the field thereafter. And then of course there was that time that his former lover had drugged and kidnapped him and nearly forced him to join his underground cult of murderers...
No, this is not his first rodeo. Though it isn't quite like anything he has experienced thus far, to be sure.]
If I'm being honest with you, madam, I'm having a hard time following just what all is going on. It seems like only yesterday my own world was supposed to have ended, and now...?
[Said with a sad smile, if only to not add to any more upset with a frown. With a sigh, she sits beside him, but this time there's not really anything she can do to help anyone. The end of the world is not something she can fix.]
Given the circumstances, I do believe you can just call me Claire.
[Given the circumstances. It makes him want to laugh at the phrasing, it's so terribly British of her to say so.]
Given the circumstances. Very well, Claire. If we are to die together on this day, it's just as well we do so as close to friends as we might hope to become.
[He flicks her a crooked smile. He honestly doesn't know how close to friends they'd come, in her timeline, seeing as how he hadn't gotten the chance to live it yet. He's going to assume it hadn't been too far, given some of the looks she still gives him at times.]
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ALL THESE FRASERS IN HIS INBOX
No, this is not his first rodeo. Though it isn't quite like anything he has experienced thus far, to be sure.]
If I'm being honest with you, madam, I'm having a hard time following just what all is going on. It seems like only yesterday my own world was supposed to have ended, and now...?
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[Said with a sad smile, if only to not add to any more upset with a frown. With a sigh, she sits beside him, but this time there's not really anything she can do to help anyone. The end of the world is not something she can fix.]
Given the circumstances, I do believe you can just call me Claire.
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Given the circumstances. Very well, Claire. If we are to die together on this day, it's just as well we do so as close to friends as we might hope to become.
[He flicks her a crooked smile. He honestly doesn't know how close to friends they'd come, in her timeline, seeing as how he hadn't gotten the chance to live it yet. He's going to assume it hadn't been too far, given some of the looks she still gives him at times.]
And you may call me John.
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John it is.
[There's a silence for a moment.]
My husband has a bad habit of getting into trouble with redcoats. You rescued him from imprisonment. I'm willing to be friends for that alone.