FrancyF94

Jamie and Claire | First scene and the last scene

Very few TV series have ever moved me the way Outlander has, and it feels right to write a few words to ease this tightness in my chest.

Jamie and Claire matter to me not because they are perfect, but because they represent love, home, refuge, goodness, family. And Sam and Cait gave us a love story that felt profoundly real.

Back in 2013, I was 19 years old. I was a college student, terrified of the future. Fragile, emotionally inexperienced, scared.

Many people will say it’s just a TV show, just fictional characters. But when I started watching Outlander in 2017, I felt at home. I fell completely in love with everything: Scotland, the landscapes, the atmosphere, the way Jamie and Claire loved and cared for one another. And now, after reading the books countless times, writing fanfiction, and rewatching every single episode over and over again, I truly feel as though a part of me belongs to that world.

This July, I’ll finally go to Scotland. It’ll be a girls’ trip with my mother. We haven’t traveled together in over ten years… because now I’m no longer 19, but 32, and real life is certainly messy. I bought a house and I’m still trying to get used to the idea of it. I may be changing jobs soon (pray for me!). My mother is getting older, and I’m beginning to see the first cracks of time. Outlander was our shared escape route. And that’s why I can’t wait.

So… Jamie and Claire are alive and nothing else matters. THEY ARE ALIVE, AND I WILL ALWAYS IMAGINE THEM THIS WAY: ALIVE, IN LOVE, SURROUNDED BY THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.

Here’s to new beginnings (maybe a movie someday? And definitely the tenth book!), to old and new loves, to new adventures even when they terrify us, to family, to life, and to all the small things that help us keep going forward.

Sometimes the stars align

Chapter 23

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65662507/chapters/223193811

Literally everything this man has ever wanted.

Literally everything he has never had.

This small, short scene in 8x08 broke my heart and put it back together, all at once.

A man out of time

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82522481

I haven’t forgotten the other fics I’m still in the middle of, but this one’s been itching at me ever since I heard Caitriona say she misses the Highlands in the mornings. Hope you enjoy it.

July 2026. A pre-dawn drive, a familiar climb, and a place that means too much.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82395966

After their breakup, Sam and Cait push through filming and promo on sheer professionalism, pretending the distance is manageable, until Sam flees to Hawaii for air, and the world shuts down behind him.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79156981/chapters/215455361

The act of directing

A fluffy Sam/Cait fanfic - one shot

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81383396

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79156981/chapters/213048261

My first and probably the last RPF I'm gonna write.

I hope you enjoy.

Behind closed doors

Sam and Caitriona season 8 premier - One shot

🚨🔥🔥🔥🚨

Heavy smut warning