Fergus Fraser - Voyager Events Timeline
Fergus Fraser
Significant Moments in Voyager:
1752:
When Ian is arrested for the fourth time under suspicion of being a Jacobite sympathiser, Jenny asks Fergus to ride to Inverness with Ian's discharge from the army and the Deed of Sasine proving that Young Jamie is the owner of Lallybroch so that Lallybroch cannot be confiscated and Ian can be released (V, chapter 3)
1753:
Fergus is taking a cask of ale to Jamie in his cave when he is waylaid by English soldiers. Instead of dropping the cask and running away, Fergus taunts the soldiers, insulting them in gutter French and waggling his backside at them. Four of the soldiers run after him and one takes his sword out and brings it down, probably aiming for the cask, but instead he slices off Fergus' hand (V, chapter 6)
The soldiers take Fergus back to the farmhouse. The Captain apologises to Jenny and gives her a gold sovereign for Fergus. Jenny dresses the wound (V, chapter 6)
Jamie arrives 48 hours later and apologises deeply to Fergus. Fergus tells him not to trouble himself as he has been lucky. He then reminds Jamie of the bargain Jamie made with him when he first employed him. Jamie promised that if Fergus should lose an ear or hand while doing service for Jamie then Jamie would support him for the rest of his life and therefore he was now a gentleman of leisure (V, chapter 6)
1765:
Fergus works with Jamie at his smuggling operations in Edinburgh. Fergus handles all the smuggling dealings in the taverns on the docks and never goes to Jamie's print shop so that no-one will know that Jamie Roy and Alec Malcolm are the same person (V, chapter 28)
At Hogmanay, Marsali tells Fergus that she loves him, and Fergus admits he loves her too, but he knows that Laoghaire will never agree to their marriage. Marsali thinks this is because he is French and missing a hand and assures Fergus that those things don't matter. Fergus tells Marsali that it is because of his past and he tells her how he was born in a brothel and was a pickpocket before Jamie took him under his wing. Fergus tells Marsali that he won't see her anymore, but Marsali is determined and their relationship continues (V, chapter 46)
1766:
Fergus goes searching for Jamie at Madame Jeanne's on the day after Claire has reunited with Jamie. Fergus rushes into the room Claire is in and is shocked to see Claire there. Claire doesn't recognise him, but Fergus recognises Claire and throws himself down on his knees, wraps his arms around Claire's thighs and hugs her. Understandably taken aback by this Claire commands him to let go, but in his joy Fergus ignores her. When he smiles, Claire suddenly realises who he is and they embrace enthusiastically. Jamie then bursts in the room and tells Fergus to come quickly as he has smuggled brandy in the alleyway and excisemen on his heels. They both rush out to deal with that (V, chapter 26)
Fergus hears a gunshot and comes running out to the stairwell to find Claire sitting on the floor with a dead exciseman on top of her. Claire tells him Mr Willoughby shot the man and Fergus reaches out to grab Mr Willoughby with his hook. Claire is shocked at the sight, but Fergus just tells her it was the English. He throws Mr Willoughby into the cellar and then goes to guard the front of the building when Jamie arrives (V, chapter 26)
After the shipment of brandy is unloaded, Fergus takes it to MacAlpine's tavern for a quick sale. He puts the exciseman's body inside a cask of creme de menthe and leaves that at MacAlpine's as well, knowing that it will be loaded onto a ship the following day (V, chapter 28)
When Jamie and Ian are discussing where Ian is to sleep the night, Fergus asks why he can't go with one of the prostitutes. Jamie is scandalised and replies that Ian is only fourteen, but Ian is very interested and states that he is almost fifteen. When Fergus informs them that he had taken both of Ian's elder brothers to the brothel at that age, Jamie gives up in defeat. Fergus and Madame Jeanne choose a young prostitute called Mary for Ian to spend the night with and he goes off with her (V, chapter 28)
About a week later Fergus travels with Mr Willoughby to the cove where the rendezvous with the smuggling ship is to take place, meeting up with Jamie, Claire, Young Ian and Jamie's men. Just as the ship is about to reach shore, excisemen burst from their hiding places in the sand and the smugglers take flight (V, chapter 30)
Jamie and Fergus and six of Jamie's smugglers cross paths with Claire when they leave the beach. When Claire tells Jamie about the excisemen, Jamie goes looking for them and finds one of them hanging from a tree. Jamie suspects that the murder will be pinned on him. Ian returns and they all leave for Lallybroch (V, chapter 30)
Jamie sends Fergus back to Edinburgh to warn Tom Gage that the customs men are after Jamie and to be wary. This is odd because the customs men are after Jamie Roy the smuggler, and Tom Gage knows Jamie as Alex Malcolm the printer and has never met Fergus. Nevertheless, Fergus and Tom warn others and they escape a trap laid by the customs men in a tavern (V, chapter 38)
Fergus then returns to Lallybroch, arriving about five days after Jamie has been shot (V, chapter 38) Fergus has fallen in love with Marsali and he asks Laoghaire for permission to marry her, but Laoghaire refuses telling Fergus he is a bastard and a criminal and therefore not suitable for her daughter (V, chapter 41)
Claire finds Fergus moping about outside. He reveals to Claire that he is unhappy because the destruction of the print shop has put paid to his plans for the future. Fergus had invested some of his smuggling profits in the print shop and was hoping to become a full partner in time, thus achieving some sort of respectability which he does not have as a one-armed, bastard smuggler. Respectability is important to Fergus as he has fallen in love with a young lady and knows that he is not be an acceptable suitor in his current state. Claire suggests that Fergus asks Jamie to help him, but he vehemently asks Claire to say nothing to Jamie (V, chapter 38)
When Ian is kidnapped from the seal's island, Jamie sends word to Fergus to gather together his small group of smugglers and to wait for Jamie's return at Cape Wrath in the north-west of Scotland. Once Jamie and Claire have a ship in France they will return to Scotland to pick up Fergus and the smugglers (V, chapter 41)
Fergus collects the six smugglers, but sends them on ahead, telling them he has business to attend to. He then returns to Balriggan and collects Marsali and they are secretly handfast in front of witnesses. Together they rush to Cape Wrath arriving just as the Artemis is about to set sail. Jamie is furious with them both when he discovers what they've done and tells them he will put Marsali ashore when they stop for provisions. Marsali refuses to obey and tells Jamie that she doesn't care that Fergus is a propertyless, crippled, criminal bastard - she wants him. Marsali argues fiercely with Jamie and starts to get abusive but Fergus brings her up sharply, saying that Jamie has done a lot for both of them and she owes him respect. Marsali calms down and tells Jamie that she will not go back to Balriggan, and if Jamie puts her ashore she will tell everyone that Fergus has slept with her, thus ruining her name. Jamie realises she has him over a barrel and lays down the law. Marsali may stay onboard, but she and Fergus are to be married properly in the West Indies and Fergus is not to touch her until that happens (V, chapter 41)
Jamie's edict to Fergus has immediate consequences. With only two private cabins on the ship, Jamie and Fergus have to share one, and Claire and Marsali the other. This is particularly awkward for Claire as Marsali hates her. Fergus isn't much better off sharing with Jamie, as Jamie is crippled by seasickness and vomiting constantly (V, chapter 41)
On the second day of the voyage Claire seeks out Fergus as Jamie has told her that someone is trying to kill him and Fergus can tell her more. Fergus informs Claire that Jamie has been involved in two suspicious incidents that appeared to be accidents but may not have been. In one case a shed he was working in burst into flames, and in the second Jamie was almost crushed by falling casks in his warehouse. Even more worrying is that the man who Mr Willoughby shot at Madame Jeanne's was carrying a copy of the New Testament which Jamie had printed in his printshop, raising the possibility that someone knows that Jamie Roy the smuggler and Alexander Malcolm the printer are the same person. Add to these events the ambush on the beach at Arbroath and it is possible that one of Jamie's smugglers is a traitor (V, chapter 41)
Fergus explains that they don't know for certain if there is a traitor amongst the smugglers, but if there is it will be one of the six on board the Artemis as they were all present during the other events. And as Jamie is sailing under his real name, they now all know his true identity so it is imperative that if one of the smugglers is a traitor that he is flushed out (V, chapter 41)
Go back to Fergus's Dragonfly in Amber timeline
Significant Moments in Voyager:
1752:
When Ian is arrested for the fourth time under suspicion of being a Jacobite sympathiser, Jenny asks Fergus to ride to Inverness with Ian's discharge from the army and the Deed of Sasine proving that Young Jamie is the owner of Lallybroch so that Lallybroch cannot be confiscated and Ian can be released (V, chapter 3)
1753:
Fergus is taking a cask of ale to Jamie in his cave when he is waylaid by English soldiers. Instead of dropping the cask and running away, Fergus taunts the soldiers, insulting them in gutter French and waggling his backside at them. Four of the soldiers run after him and one takes his sword out and brings it down, probably aiming for the cask, but instead he slices off Fergus' hand (V, chapter 6)
The soldiers take Fergus back to the farmhouse. The Captain apologises to Jenny and gives her a gold sovereign for Fergus. Jenny dresses the wound (V, chapter 6)
Jamie arrives 48 hours later and apologises deeply to Fergus. Fergus tells him not to trouble himself as he has been lucky. He then reminds Jamie of the bargain Jamie made with him when he first employed him. Jamie promised that if Fergus should lose an ear or hand while doing service for Jamie then Jamie would support him for the rest of his life and therefore he was now a gentleman of leisure (V, chapter 6)
1765:
Fergus works with Jamie at his smuggling operations in Edinburgh. Fergus handles all the smuggling dealings in the taverns on the docks and never goes to Jamie's print shop so that no-one will know that Jamie Roy and Alec Malcolm are the same person (V, chapter 28)
At Hogmanay, Marsali tells Fergus that she loves him, and Fergus admits he loves her too, but he knows that Laoghaire will never agree to their marriage. Marsali thinks this is because he is French and missing a hand and assures Fergus that those things don't matter. Fergus tells Marsali that it is because of his past and he tells her how he was born in a brothel and was a pickpocket before Jamie took him under his wing. Fergus tells Marsali that he won't see her anymore, but Marsali is determined and their relationship continues (V, chapter 46)
1766:
Fergus goes searching for Jamie at Madame Jeanne's on the day after Claire has reunited with Jamie. Fergus rushes into the room Claire is in and is shocked to see Claire there. Claire doesn't recognise him, but Fergus recognises Claire and throws himself down on his knees, wraps his arms around Claire's thighs and hugs her. Understandably taken aback by this Claire commands him to let go, but in his joy Fergus ignores her. When he smiles, Claire suddenly realises who he is and they embrace enthusiastically. Jamie then bursts in the room and tells Fergus to come quickly as he has smuggled brandy in the alleyway and excisemen on his heels. They both rush out to deal with that (V, chapter 26)
Fergus hears a gunshot and comes running out to the stairwell to find Claire sitting on the floor with a dead exciseman on top of her. Claire tells him Mr Willoughby shot the man and Fergus reaches out to grab Mr Willoughby with his hook. Claire is shocked at the sight, but Fergus just tells her it was the English. He throws Mr Willoughby into the cellar and then goes to guard the front of the building when Jamie arrives (V, chapter 26)
After the shipment of brandy is unloaded, Fergus takes it to MacAlpine's tavern for a quick sale. He puts the exciseman's body inside a cask of creme de menthe and leaves that at MacAlpine's as well, knowing that it will be loaded onto a ship the following day (V, chapter 28)
When Jamie and Ian are discussing where Ian is to sleep the night, Fergus asks why he can't go with one of the prostitutes. Jamie is scandalised and replies that Ian is only fourteen, but Ian is very interested and states that he is almost fifteen. When Fergus informs them that he had taken both of Ian's elder brothers to the brothel at that age, Jamie gives up in defeat. Fergus and Madame Jeanne choose a young prostitute called Mary for Ian to spend the night with and he goes off with her (V, chapter 28)
About a week later Fergus travels with Mr Willoughby to the cove where the rendezvous with the smuggling ship is to take place, meeting up with Jamie, Claire, Young Ian and Jamie's men. Just as the ship is about to reach shore, excisemen burst from their hiding places in the sand and the smugglers take flight (V, chapter 30)
Jamie and Fergus and six of Jamie's smugglers cross paths with Claire when they leave the beach. When Claire tells Jamie about the excisemen, Jamie goes looking for them and finds one of them hanging from a tree. Jamie suspects that the murder will be pinned on him. Ian returns and they all leave for Lallybroch (V, chapter 30)
Jamie sends Fergus back to Edinburgh to warn Tom Gage that the customs men are after Jamie and to be wary. This is odd because the customs men are after Jamie Roy the smuggler, and Tom Gage knows Jamie as Alex Malcolm the printer and has never met Fergus. Nevertheless, Fergus and Tom warn others and they escape a trap laid by the customs men in a tavern (V, chapter 38)
Fergus then returns to Lallybroch, arriving about five days after Jamie has been shot (V, chapter 38) Fergus has fallen in love with Marsali and he asks Laoghaire for permission to marry her, but Laoghaire refuses telling Fergus he is a bastard and a criminal and therefore not suitable for her daughter (V, chapter 41)
Claire finds Fergus moping about outside. He reveals to Claire that he is unhappy because the destruction of the print shop has put paid to his plans for the future. Fergus had invested some of his smuggling profits in the print shop and was hoping to become a full partner in time, thus achieving some sort of respectability which he does not have as a one-armed, bastard smuggler. Respectability is important to Fergus as he has fallen in love with a young lady and knows that he is not be an acceptable suitor in his current state. Claire suggests that Fergus asks Jamie to help him, but he vehemently asks Claire to say nothing to Jamie (V, chapter 38)
When Ian is kidnapped from the seal's island, Jamie sends word to Fergus to gather together his small group of smugglers and to wait for Jamie's return at Cape Wrath in the north-west of Scotland. Once Jamie and Claire have a ship in France they will return to Scotland to pick up Fergus and the smugglers (V, chapter 41)
Fergus collects the six smugglers, but sends them on ahead, telling them he has business to attend to. He then returns to Balriggan and collects Marsali and they are secretly handfast in front of witnesses. Together they rush to Cape Wrath arriving just as the Artemis is about to set sail. Jamie is furious with them both when he discovers what they've done and tells them he will put Marsali ashore when they stop for provisions. Marsali refuses to obey and tells Jamie that she doesn't care that Fergus is a propertyless, crippled, criminal bastard - she wants him. Marsali argues fiercely with Jamie and starts to get abusive but Fergus brings her up sharply, saying that Jamie has done a lot for both of them and she owes him respect. Marsali calms down and tells Jamie that she will not go back to Balriggan, and if Jamie puts her ashore she will tell everyone that Fergus has slept with her, thus ruining her name. Jamie realises she has him over a barrel and lays down the law. Marsali may stay onboard, but she and Fergus are to be married properly in the West Indies and Fergus is not to touch her until that happens (V, chapter 41)
Jamie's edict to Fergus has immediate consequences. With only two private cabins on the ship, Jamie and Fergus have to share one, and Claire and Marsali the other. This is particularly awkward for Claire as Marsali hates her. Fergus isn't much better off sharing with Jamie, as Jamie is crippled by seasickness and vomiting constantly (V, chapter 41)
On the second day of the voyage Claire seeks out Fergus as Jamie has told her that someone is trying to kill him and Fergus can tell her more. Fergus informs Claire that Jamie has been involved in two suspicious incidents that appeared to be accidents but may not have been. In one case a shed he was working in burst into flames, and in the second Jamie was almost crushed by falling casks in his warehouse. Even more worrying is that the man who Mr Willoughby shot at Madame Jeanne's was carrying a copy of the New Testament which Jamie had printed in his printshop, raising the possibility that someone knows that Jamie Roy the smuggler and Alexander Malcolm the printer are the same person. Add to these events the ambush on the beach at Arbroath and it is possible that one of Jamie's smugglers is a traitor (V, chapter 41)
Fergus explains that they don't know for certain if there is a traitor amongst the smugglers, but if there is it will be one of the six on board the Artemis as they were all present during the other events. And as Jamie is sailing under his real name, they now all know his true identity so it is imperative that if one of the smugglers is a traitor that he is flushed out (V, chapter 41)
Go back to Fergus's Dragonfly in Amber timeline