Jamie Fraser - Dragonfly in Amber Events Timeline
Jamie Fraser
Significant Moments in Dragonfly in Amber:
1744:
Jamie is asked to go to France and assist Prince Charles for which King James will cover his travel expenses and provide a small stipend. Jamie and Claire first travel to Le Havre in February to meet with Jamie's cousin Jared Fraser. Jared asks Jamie to run his business for him for about 6 months while he travels throughout France inspecting wineries and establishing new contacts for his business. In return Jamie will receive a salary and use of Jared's Paris town house and staff (DIA, chapter 6)
Claire and Jamie move to Paris and start forging the connections they need to move into Bonnie Prince Charlie's inner circle. Before Jared leaves on his business trip he takes Jamie to meet Charles Stuart. Jamie is introduced to King Louis at his lever (DIA, chapter 7) Jamie pays weekly visits to Charles Stuart pretending to be a loyal Jacobite (DIA, chapter 9)
Jamie and Claire attend a ball at the Palace of Versailles. After Jamie dunks the Vicomte de Rambeau in the fountain for making advances to Claire, he and Claire are invited to stay the night. The next day the King's English visitors arrive. Claire and Jamie both mistake Alex Randall for Jack Randall. Terrified that Jamie will kill him in front of the King which would mean instant death, Claire faints (DIA, chapter 9)
Three sailors try to murder Jamie in the streets of Paris. Fleeing them he ends up in a brothel where he meets Fergus. Jamie employs Fergus as a pickpocket to steal letters. He promises to support Fergus for the rest of his life if he is caught stealing and loses an ear or a hand as a result (DIA, chapter 12)
Jamie enlists the aid of Mother Hildegarde to help break intercepted messages to Charles Stuart which are encoded with a musical code. The letter says there is fifty thousand pounds waiting for Charles Stuart once he sets foot on English soil (DIA, chapter 15)
While at Versailles for a function Claire is poisoned with bitter cascara. Claire confronts Raymond to find out who he has sold cascara to and finds that the most likely suspect is the Comte St Germaine. Raymond tells Claire and Jamie they may still be in danger and gives Claire a white crystal which is sensitive to poison (DIA, chapter 16)
Jamie spends the night with Charles Stuart, Glengarry, Millefleurs and the Duc di Castelotti going from tavern to tavern. (DIA, chapter 17) When they end up in a bawdy house and can't understand why Jamie won't bed with a prostitute, Jamie tells Glengarry and Castelotti that Claire is 'La Dame Blanche' - a sorceress (DIA, chapter 20)
Fergus runs to get Jamie when Murtagh, Claire and Mary are attacked in an alleyway. By the time Jamie arrives Mary has been raped. Jamie and Claire are hosting an important dinner party that evening which cannot be cancelled without a good explanation and they must keep Mary's rape hidden to save her reputation. They take Mary back to Jared's house, dose her with poppy syrup and put her to sleep in an upstairs bedroom while they attend to their guests. Alex Randall is left to stand guard over Mary. At the dinner party the Comte St Germaine reveals that Charles Stuart has secured a loan to enable him to invest in a shipment of high quality port with the Comte. Mary wakes in a drugged stupor and hallucinates that she is being raped. She runs screaming out onto the upper landing with her bruises showing clearly through her torn nighshift and with Alex running after her trying to restrain her. Mary's screams disrupt the dinner party and to them it looks like Alex is trying to rape Mary. Jamie is forced to punch Alex out to stop the situation turning into a complete melee (DIA, chapter 18)
In the aftermath of the dinner party and Silas Hawkins's outrage, Jamie agrees to go with Alex Randall to the Guard's Headquarters in the Bastille to explain what has happened. Jamie is allowed to leave the Bastille on the security of Monsieur Duverney until such a time as Mary Hawkins is well enough to say what happened to her. Back home Murtagh approaches Jamie. Ashamed at his failure to protect Mary and Claire, and sickened at the result, Murtagh asks Jamie to take his life so he no longer has to live with the shame. Jamie refuses but asks Murtagh to swear him an oath that he will hunt down the men who attacked Claire and Mary and take vengeance on them. Murtagh agrees (DIA, chapter 19)
Claire and Jamie go to visit the Duke of Sandringham, ostensibly to discuss investments, but in reality to try and extract information from him. While Jamie and the Duke are engaged in business Claire slips away to look for Alex Randall. The Duke tells Jamie that he has dismissed Alex Randall from his employment and Jamie leaves to find Claire and tell her. Jamie arrives just after the footman has given the news to Mary and Claire but Mary refuses to believe it and runs off. Claire takes after her in pursuit and runs slap bang into Jonathan Randall. Jamie follows Claire and when Jamie appears behind Claire, Randall looks as if he has seen a ghost. Jamie shows no emotion, takes Claire gently by the arm and leads her away. Randall calls out 'Jamie' and Jamie tells him that he may never use that name until the day he begs for his life at the point of Jamie's sword. Jamie takes Claire to their waiting carriage, hands her in, slams the door, tells the coachman to take her straight home and runs off (DIA, chapter 21)
Jamie returns to the townhouse while Claire is at the police station. He cuts his hair to ensure it won't get in his eyes while he duels, takes his sword and goes back to the Duke of Sandringham's house to issue a formal challenge to Randall but finds that Randall has been arrested. Jamie then goes to the Bastille where he discovers that Randall was arrested because of Claire's accusation against him.
Jamie returns to the townhouse intending to collect some clothes and move to an inn to prepare for Randall's release. When he finds Claire at home he demands to know why she had Randall arrested. Claire begs Jamie to delay killing Randall for one year to allow Frank's ancestor to be conceived. Jamie is so angry and betrayed by Claire that he demands that she choose between Randal's' life and his own. If she wants him to spare Randall for a year then she must kill him now because he cannot live while Randall does. In desperation Claire tells Jamie that as she has saved his life twice he owes her a life and she is calling in that debt. After much thought Jamie concedes to Claire's demand but smashes a hole in a stained glass window to show his anger and frustration. Jamie refuses to let Claire touch him that night and does not come to bed but sits all night at the table with his cut hand. In the morning they make their peace (DIA, chapter 21)
Jamie, Claire and Fergus accompany the Duke of Sandringham to the Royal stables in Argentan as the Duke wishes Jamie to advise him on the purchase of some broodmares. During the journey to Argentan Jamie reveals to Claire why he agreed to spare Randall's life long enough for Frank to be born He tells Claire that if anything happens to him he wants Claire to go back to Frank and that is the only reason he is letting Randall live a bit longer (DIA, chapter 22)
Dougal believes that Jamie is also a Jacobite and starts sending him letters which are supposed to be passed onto Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 22)
While at Argentan Fergus jumps on the back of a young Percheron colt which is not fully broken to saddle. The grooms are herding the horse towards a paddock to contain it when one of the stable boys whom Fergus had previously thrown manure at takes his revenge and drops a load of hay on the horse as it passes beneath the loft where he is hidden. The horse takes off in a fright straight towards the picnicking nobles and starts bucking to try and dislodge Fergus. Jamie leaps from a tree and knocks Fergus off the horse's back while the horse takes off.
Jamie pulls a muscle in his thigh during the rescue and is limping badly by the time they return to Paris. While Claire massages ointment into Jamie's leg she tells him of the offer the Duke of Sandringham's made to her at Argentan - if Jamie will sever all contact with Charles Stuart he will be pardoned for the murder charge that is hanging over him. Jamie decides that he can't accept the offer as he has to stop Charles Stuart. Later that night Claire starts to bleed slightly. Jamie offers to get someone from the L'Hopital but Claire knows there is nothing that can be done except pray (DIA, chapter 22) Claire's bleeding has stopped by the morning and she decides to stop working at L'Hopital des Anges (DIA, chapter 23)
Jamie concocts a plan to have the cargo of the ship carrying the port being imported by the Comte St Germain and Charles Stuart destroyed. Murtagh will take passage on the ship and Jamie will board the ship at Orvieto when it puts in for water. Once at sea Murtagh will fake the symptoms of smallpox by taking herbal concoctions prepared by Claire. The Captain will not be willing to take his ship into Le Havre where it would be destroyed and hopefully will agree to sell the cargo to Jamie instead (DIA, chapter 23)
Monsieur Forez calls on Jamie and Claire with the outward excuse of delivering a herbal package to Claire from Mother Hildegarde. His real purpose is made clear when he gives Jamie and Claire a graphic description of exactly what occurs when a traitor is sentenced to the traitor's death of hanging, drawing and quartering (DIA, chapter 23)
Jamie receives a note from his warehouse foreman who has got into a spot of bother at a brothel and asks Jamie to come and assist him. Jamie decides to take Fergus with him to carry messages (DIA< chapter 24) While Jamie deals with the foreman's financial problems, Fergus goes upstairs to visit the prostitutes. Jamie hears Fergus cry out and rushes upstairs to find Jack Randall buggering Fergus and marking him with his ring (DIA, chapter 28) Jamie throws Randall down the stairs. When Randall taunts him, Jamie challenges him to a duel. Jamie returns to Jared's house to get his weapons and remove to an inn for the night. Claire is sleeping and he leaves her a note inside her medical kit which says "I am sorry. I must!" (DIA, chapter 24)
Jamie meets Randall in the Bois de Boulogne the next morning and manages to disarm him in the duel. Mindful of his promise to Claire not to kill Randall, instead he cuts off Randall's genitals. As he finishes he realises there is a commotion on the side of the clearing and discovers it is Claire who has collapsed and is bleeding badly (DIA, chapter 24) Jamie runs to Claire and seeing all the blood thinks she is dead. The guard arrest him for duelling and although he tries to fight them and beg them to let him stay with Claire, Jamie is taken away and imprisoned in the Bastille at the King's pleasure. Wracked with guilt and pain believing that he has killed Claire the guards bind Jamie to stop him from harming himself. Jules de Rohan visits him the next day and tells him that Claire is alive but not expected to live for much longer (DIA, chapter 28)
Jamie is pardoned by Louis and released from the Bastille on the condition that he leaves France by mid-September (DIA, chapter 29) He goes at once to L'Hopital des Anges to find Claire. Mother Hildegarde explains to him that Claire has secured his release and passes on Murtagh's note to him. Jamie travels to Orvieto and with a slight tinkering to the plan, with Jamie playing the smallpox victim and Murtgah the merchant, they manage to fake smallpox and the captain of the ship sells the port to Murtagh who sells it to a broker in Bilbao (DIA, chapter 28)
Jamie returns to Paris and walks to Fointainebleu to see Claire. Claire runs from Jamie when she sees him, but ends up inside an arbor and is forced to face Jamie. Jamie begs her to tell him about the baby as he doesn't even know if it was a boy or a girl. Jamie gathers all his courage and asks Claire to let him comfort her. Claire gathers her own courage to accept his offer and they make their peace. When Jamie expresses anger at the method of his release, Claire tells him about the role she had to play in the trial of the Comte St Germain and Master Raymond (DIA, chapter 28)
Jamie realises that Claire did lie with Louis and is lying to him by pretending that she didn't. He is more hurt by the fact that she doesn't trust him to love her anyway than by the fact that she has lain with Louis. The next day they ride out to the countryside and Jamie confronts Claire with his pain. When Claire offers to be beaten for what she has done Jamie realises how much her pride is worth to him and they are both able to confront their pain and hurt and heal themselves. Jamie reveals to Claire the truth of Jack Randall's injury. While Claire contemplates this Jamie explores the hillside and finds a cave which contains the entwined skeletons of two people who had died there in each other's arms (DIA, chapter 29)
Jamie and Claire leave France and return to Lallybroch with Fergus (DIA, chapter 30) They preside over the first potato harvest which is a success and celebrate with a feast for all the tenants in the field (DIA, chapter 32)
1745
Jamie and Ian go to Broch Mordha for the day. Ian steps in a molehole and breaks his wooden leg and they are forced to spend the night there while they carve a new one. They share a pallet in front of the fire and while both are asleep Ian unconsciously puts his arm around Jamie and kisses the back of his neck. Jamie wakes from a sound sleep thinking that Ian is Jack Randall. He punches Ian in the face and tries to throttle him before finally waking up fully and realising what's happening. The next day when Ian and Jamie travel back to Lallybroch, Jamie tells Ian about Randall and what he did to him. Ian gets very angry and demands to know how Jamie could let Randall do that to him. After a lot of shouting they ride off in silence, until Ian, with tears running down his face, reaches out a hand to Jamie and squeezes it (DIA, chapter 33)
Jamie and Claire settle into life at Lallybroch and welcome a new niece in spring. But their peace is shattered in August with the arrival in the post of a broadsheet stating Charles Stuart's intention to reclaim his throne, which has been signed by the Jacobites who support him, and to which he has added Jamie's name. With his name on the broadsheet Jamie is publicly branded a traitor and thus has no choice but to go and fight for Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 34)
Jamie has to decide how many men to take from Lallybroch and how many to leave behind to tend to the fields and protect the women and children. He decrees that no women or boys under 18 will accompany them, except for Claire and Fergus (DIA, chapter 35)
After four days march, Jamie, Claire, Fergus and the 30 Lallybroch men arrive in Calder on the 17th September. Claire and Jamie move towards their tent and Jamie is attacked from behind by sixteen year old John Grey who has recognised Jamie as a wanted outlaw and assumes he has abducted Claire. Jamie wrestles John into submission and begins to question him. When John refuses to talk, Jamie threatens him with a heated knife. When he still refuses to talk, Jamie rips Claire's bodice so that her breasts are exposed and says that if John doesn't talk, Claire will be raped. John agrees on the condition that Claire is released. (DIA, chapter 36)
John tells Jamie that his name is William Grey, that he is with a company of 200 men on their way to join General Cope and that they have cannon and mortar with them. Once he has this information Jamie tells John he must kill him as he is a spy. When John demands to know whether Claire will be safe once he's dead Jamie reveals his deception and that Claire is his wife. Claire pleads with Jamie not to kill John. Jamie orders two of his men to take John in the direction he says his camp lies. If he is telling the truth they are to tie him to a tree where he will be found in the morning, if he is lying they are to kill him. Jamie tells John - I give you your life. I hope ye'll use it well" John regards this gift as a debt of honour and tells Jamie that once it is discharged he will kill him. (DIA, chapter 36)
Jamie demands to know which men were on sentry duty and punishes the two who were by flogging them with a leather strip. He then asks Murtagh to flog him as it was the carelessness of his unguarded fire that drew John Grey to their camp. After taking his punishment Jamie returns to Claire and explains his actions to her. Claire accepts his reasoning and they make up (DIA, chapter 36)
That night, Jamie and most of his men sneak into the English camp and remove the cotter pins and wheels from all the cannon carriages. They burn the wheels and rapidly leave camp and march to Tranent where they join the Highland Army. Jamie meets with Lord George Murray, commander in chief of the Highland Army, and learns that the army is in quite a shambles, with bickering between clans and Charles Stuart missing with half the army. The Highlanders hold a ridge just south of the town, but the land below is boggy marsh preventing them from getting to the English (DIA, chapter 36)
A local called Richard Anderson shows the Highlanders a safe route through the marsh helping the Highlanders to victory at the following Battle of Prestonpans. During the battle Jamie is trampled by a horse which leaves a large hoofprint on his back, just above the waist. He also receives a sabre-slash across the ribs that leaves him with an eight inch flap of loose skin. Jamie returns to the village of Tranent with his Lallybroch men, three of whom are wounded, and is soon tied up helping with heavy work involving the wounded. It is late in the day before Claire learns about Jamie's trampling injury and even later before she learns he has a saber slash that needs stitching as he doesn't tell her (DIA, chapter 36)
One of Jamie's Lallybroch men, a young man called Kincaid, dies after the Battle from chest and belly wounds. Jamie carries him outside so that he can die in the open air rather than under a roof and he tells Claire that he would have someone do the same for him (DIA, chapter 36)
In October, after Prestonpans, the Highland army returns to Edinburgh. Colum comes to Edinburgh and meets with Jamie & Claire in private to ask Jamie whether he thinks the MacKenzies should join Charles Stuart. Jamie advises him to go home and keep his men at Leoch. Colum dies that night without telling Charles Stuart his decision, leaving the choice in Dougal's hands and the MacKenzie clan become committed to the Jacobite cause. Claire and Jamie realise they now have no choice but to try and ensure that Charles Stuart is victorious (DIA, chapter 37)
Jamie buys a beautiful sword from master swordmaker, John Simpson (DIA, chapter 37) Jamie removes all his funds from the bank fearing they may be seized by the Crown. He converts them to gold and sends some to Jared in France for safekeeping, while the remainder is hidden in the farmhouse at Lallybroch (DIA, chapter 42)
Charles Stuart decides to march into England and claim that land as well as Scotland. He instructs Jamie to go to Lord Lovat and return with the men of Clan Fraser to join the Jacobite army (DIA, chapter 39) Charles asks Jamie to leave Donas behind for him to ride and Jamie agrees as he fears Lord Lovat may steal him (DIA, chapter 41) Jamie tells Charles Stuart that he will go to Beauly with Claire and Murtagh only. Jamie then tells Ross the smith of his plans for his Lallybroch men and Fergus. They are to slip away quietly from the Highland army, one by one, and make their way to a rendezvous. Once they are all gathered, Ross the smith is to lead them back to Lallybroch (DIA, chapter 40)
Jamie and Claire arrive at Castle Beaufort and are met by Lord Lovat himself who wastes no time in insulting them both. After washing up they are shown into the Beaufort Castle library to find more than twenty men seated around the room. Lord Lovat's son, Young Simon, insults Claire by calling her Mistress Honeylips to test her Gaelic and is punched in the jaw by Jamie (DIA, chapter 40)
Claire leaves the room and Jamie explains to Lord Lovat and his men what he knows of the state of the Highland army and Charles Stuart's plans. Lord Lovat won't commit to anything and consults his seer, Maisri. She refuses to tell him what she can see of the future and he throws her out into the hallway. Jamie speaks hastily to Lord Lovat and he shows him who's boss by having three men hold Jamie down while Young Simon punches him in the stomach. Jamie tells Claire this is just play acting and nothing to worry about (DIA, chapter 40)
Lord Lovat spends two weeks with Jamie questioning him about Charles Stuart's cause. He then asks Jamie to swear an oath of loyalty to him. When Jamie refuses, Lord Lovat threatens harm to Claire if he doesn't. Jamie tells Lord Lovat that no man would dare harm Claire because she is a white lady like Dame Aliset. Lord Lovat is shocked into silence and Jamie throws his false teeth on the fire (DIA, chapter 40)
A few more weeks pass and still Lord Lovat won't commit himself to the Jacobite cause. But Young Simon's initial suspicion of Jamie fades into a reluctant respect due to Jamie's obvious expertise in the art of war, and Young Simon is keen to join the Jacobites and at odds with his father (DIA, chapter 41)
Lord Lovat uses his prostatitis as an excuse not to join Charles Stuart, but sends Young Simon and his men. Jamie and Claire leave Beauly in mid-December to rejoin Charles Stuart in Edinburgh. They are accompanied by Young Simon and the Fraser men but intend to part company with them at Comar with Jamie telling Young Simon that he is taking Claire back to Lallybroch before rejoining the army, but he has no intention of going back to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 41)
Lord Lovat has told Charles Stuart that he is sending 200 men to him, but Jamie counts only 170. When Jamie checks the clerk's army rolls he discovers that Lovat has included Jamie's 30 men as part of his regiment. If Charles Stuart wins then Lord Lovat can claim Lallybroch as his land because he raised men from the estate to answer Charles Stuart's call. Jamie tears the list of names up in anger so that there is no proof of the Lallybroch men being part of the Lovat regiment (DIA, chapter 41)
Jamie and Claire arrive in Lallybroch a week later only to find that none of Jamie's men have arrived back (DIA, chapter 41) Murtagh arrives to report that Jamie's men were all caught deserting and are locked up in the Tolbooth under sentence of death. Jamie and Claire return immediately to Edinburgh (DIA, chapter 42)
Young Simon tells Jamie he will accompany him to Stirling Castle to plead with Charles Stuart to release Jamie's men. He also suggests that Jamie take Dougal, as Dougal has given Charles Stuart 10,000 pounds in sterling and consequently is much in Charles's favour.
Jamie, Dougal and Simon ride to Stirling Castle to plead with Charles Stuart to release the Lallybroch men from prison. Jamie eventually secures their release and sends word with orders for them all to ride to Stirling to join him (DIA, chapter 42)
1746
Jamie and his men take part in the Battle of Falkirk Muir. Jamie tells Claire to wait in a kirk during the battle, and if things go wrong she is to claim sanctuary there. Jamie arrives at the kirk later in the day after seeing all the footprints made by Dougal's men leading up to it. He tells Dougal that the English are very close to the kirk (DIA, chapter 43)
Early next morning, the English approach the church and demand that the Scots surrender. When they refuse the English threaten to fire the thatch roof. Claire shouts out in protest at this and on hearing her English accent the English soldiers demand to know if there is an Englishwoman in the church. Dougal seizes the moment to pretend that Claire is an English hostage and he will release her in exchange for his men's freedom. Jamie is furious but Claire convinces him that it is the only option open to them. Jamie thinks Claire will be taken to Callender House and promises to come for her that night (DIA, chapter 43)
Many days later Jamie finally tracks Claire down at Bellhurst Manor, the Duke of Sandringham's home. Jamie and his men find Hugh Munro's eldest stepson, Ewan Gibson, waiting on the edge of the moor. He tells Jamie that he was with Hugh when the Duke's men discovered them but he managed to get away and was waiting there for Hugh. Ewan takes Jamie and his men to the house where Claire is imprisoned and Jamie can tell which room Claire is in from the bars on the window (DIA, chapter 44)
Jamie steals the keys to Claire's room and enters in the middle of the night, telling Claire to get dressed as they have to leave quickly before someone notices. Mary Hawkins insists on coming with them and when Jamie refuses she threatens to scream the place down, leaving him with no choice but to take her too (DIA, chapter 44)
As they leave down the servant's stairs they hear someone approaching. Jamie steps into the shadows but there is nowhere for Claire and Mary to go. The man who appears is Albert Danton and when Mary sees him she recognises him and calls out in shock that he is the man from Paris. Danton sees Claire and whispers 'La Dame Blanche' in horror. Jamie grabs Danton and tells him that if he had the choice Danton would die a slow death. He then slits Danton's throat and Danton's blood sprays all over his shirt and spatters his face. Mary is violently sick (DIA, chapter 44)
They make it out of the house and meet up with Jamie's men. Jamie notices Murtagh is missing and says he must have gone to look for Hugh Munro. Claire tells Jamie that Hugh has been killed when Murtagh reappears with a string of sausages around his neck, a large ham under one arm and a blood stained cloth wrapped bundle under the other (DIA, chapter 44)
When they make it through the park they meet up with Ewan Gibson again and Jamie has to tell him that Hugh has been hanged. Jamie sends two of his men to retrieve Hugh's body and they leave. After riding through the night they arrive at Hugh's impoverished home and Jamie takes Hugh's body to his widow. Jamie swears to Mrs Munro that he will provide for her family. Just as Jamie is about to leave, Murtagh steps into the house with Mary Hawkins and carrying one of his saddlebags. Murtagh bows to Claire and tells her he has brought her her vengeance. He then bows his head to Mary and Mrs Munro and says he has brought them justice for the wrong done to them. Mrs Munro opens Murtagh's saddlebag and draws out the Duke of Sandringham's head (DIA, chapter 44)
It takes Jamie, Claire and their party several weeks to make their way back to Edinburgh. When they arrive Jamie goes immediately to the army headquarters, while Claire and Mary go to visit Alex Randall. Alex asks Claire to return the next day with Jamie and when they arrive Alex tells them he is waiting for one more person. Claire and Jamie are shocked when that person turns out to be his brother Jack. Alex asks Jack to do one last thing for him and Claire realises that Mary is pregnant and Alex wants Jack to marry her, and that Alex is actually Frank's ancestor and not Jack. Alex performs the ceremony himself with the last of his strength, with Claire and Jamie as witnesses. He then fades away with Mary by his side (DIA, chapter 45)
In an act of incredible generosity, Jamie takes Jack Randall back to his rooms while Claire stays with Alex and Mary until Alex passes away. When Claire finally returns to their rooms she foolishly says to Jamie that at least they know that Frank is safe now. That comment is a touchstone to Jamie's taut emotions and he erupts, damning all Randalls and asserting that Claire is his, and his alone and he will not share her. Claire asks him to take her to bed and they heal each other sexually. Claire wakes in the night to find Jamie crying quietly over the depth of his love for her (DIA, chapter 45)
Jamie and Claire join the general retreat of the Highland Army northwards to Culloden House where Charles Stuart has his headquarters. When they arrive at Culloden House on April15th, Auld Alec is the first person they see. They find him close to starvation, lying in the hay in the stables. Alec tells them that the Highland Army has run out of food, all the horses have been slaughtered and eaten, except for Donas who was kept for Charles Stuart to ride on his triumphal return to Edinburgh, and that Charles Stuart has ordered the Highland army to take a stand on Culloden Moor (DIA, chapter 46)
While Jamie goes to see Charles Stuart, Claire seeks a place of refuge from the impending doom, and finds herself in a small room at the top of Culloden House. Jamie arrives and angrily informs her that despite the fact that the men of the Highland Army have not eaten for two days and have no ordnance for their cannon, Charles Stuart is proceeding with his plans to take a stand on Culloden Moor (DIA, chapter 46)
Jamie is defeated and in despair at Charles Stuart's pig-headedness. Reluctantly Claire suggests to him that there is one way left in which they might prevent the slaughter at Culloden - she could poison Charles Stuart. Jamie is shocked and appalled but does give consideration to Claire's proposal. He tells Claire that he cannot do it and Claire is greatly relieved. As they comfort each other Claire looks up and sees Dougal staring at her with revulsion from the doorway (DIA, chapter 46)
Dougal accuses Claire of being a witch and grabs her to kill her. Jamie frees Claire and tries to calm Dougal down but Dougal will not let Jamie stop him from killing Claire. Dougal rounds on Jamie with his dirk. Jamie is unarmed and they end up struggling together. In the course of the struggle Jamie gets Dougal's dirk off him and stabs him in the base of his throat. Dougal dies in Jamie's arms, speaking words that only Jamie can hear (DIA, chapter 46)
As Dougal breathes his last breath, one of his men, Willie Coulter MacKenzie, appears in the doorway and witnesses him die. Jamie asks Willie to give him one hour to see Claire safe and then he will come back and answer for what he has done. Willie is so frightened he agrees, and Jamie asks him to stay with Dougal's body until he returns (DIA, chapter 46)
Jamie is in shock, but manages to takes Claire outside and find Murtagh. He tells Murtagh what he has done and produces a document that he wants Murtagh and Claire to sign. The document is a Deed of Sasine, predated to July 1745, before Jamie's signature appeared on Charles Stuart's declaration, making him a traitor whose property would be subject to forfeiture by the Crown. The Deed cedes Lallybroch to Young Jamie, to be held in trust by his parents until he comes of age. Claire and Murtagh sign it as witnesses and Jamie asks Fergus to take it to Lallybroch. He gives Fergus his ruby ring to show to Auld Alec and tells him to ask Alec to give him Donas to ride. Jamie then asks Murtagh to gather the Lallybroch men and wait for his return (DIA, chapter 46)
Jamie then takes Claire and rides to Craigh na Dun. Claire is alarmed to see where he has brought her and struggles as Jamie drags her up the hill to the empty cottage. Once in the cottage Jamie tells her she must go back. He is now both a traitor and a murderer and will be hunted by both the English and the clans. Jamie tells Claire that he will see her safe, lead his men away from the battlefield and set them on the road to Lallybroch and then return to Culloden himself (DIA, chapter 46)
Claire tells Jamie that she won't leave him. She will dress as a man and ride at his side into battle. Jamie is horrified and tells Claire she must go back because she is carrying his child, and that is all that will be left of him. He begs Claire to see the child safe. Claire's heart breaks but she agrees to do as Jamie has requested. Jamie tells Claire that he will find her through time and then they make love slowly and passionately. Exhausted they both fall asleep and wake near dawn.
Claire asks Jamie to cut her so that she will have his mark on her forever, and they both carve their first initial into each other's palms. Jamie tells Claire to tell Frank that he is grateful and trusts him because he must, and also hates him to the marrow of his bones. He asks Claire to bless him and she starts to say a Celtic prayer but they are interrupted by the sound of the approaching English and Jamie pushes Claire towards the stones. Claire turns back to look at Jamie and he grabs her and claims her with his body in a brief, fierce coupling. With his last kiss he tells Claire to "name him Brian" and Claire runs for the stones while Jamie draws his sword to face the English. Claire turns to look back, but an English soldier is in close pursuit so she flings herself at the stones (DIA, chapter 46)
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Significant Moments in Dragonfly in Amber:
1744:
Jamie is asked to go to France and assist Prince Charles for which King James will cover his travel expenses and provide a small stipend. Jamie and Claire first travel to Le Havre in February to meet with Jamie's cousin Jared Fraser. Jared asks Jamie to run his business for him for about 6 months while he travels throughout France inspecting wineries and establishing new contacts for his business. In return Jamie will receive a salary and use of Jared's Paris town house and staff (DIA, chapter 6)
Claire and Jamie move to Paris and start forging the connections they need to move into Bonnie Prince Charlie's inner circle. Before Jared leaves on his business trip he takes Jamie to meet Charles Stuart. Jamie is introduced to King Louis at his lever (DIA, chapter 7) Jamie pays weekly visits to Charles Stuart pretending to be a loyal Jacobite (DIA, chapter 9)
Jamie and Claire attend a ball at the Palace of Versailles. After Jamie dunks the Vicomte de Rambeau in the fountain for making advances to Claire, he and Claire are invited to stay the night. The next day the King's English visitors arrive. Claire and Jamie both mistake Alex Randall for Jack Randall. Terrified that Jamie will kill him in front of the King which would mean instant death, Claire faints (DIA, chapter 9)
Three sailors try to murder Jamie in the streets of Paris. Fleeing them he ends up in a brothel where he meets Fergus. Jamie employs Fergus as a pickpocket to steal letters. He promises to support Fergus for the rest of his life if he is caught stealing and loses an ear or a hand as a result (DIA, chapter 12)
Jamie enlists the aid of Mother Hildegarde to help break intercepted messages to Charles Stuart which are encoded with a musical code. The letter says there is fifty thousand pounds waiting for Charles Stuart once he sets foot on English soil (DIA, chapter 15)
While at Versailles for a function Claire is poisoned with bitter cascara. Claire confronts Raymond to find out who he has sold cascara to and finds that the most likely suspect is the Comte St Germaine. Raymond tells Claire and Jamie they may still be in danger and gives Claire a white crystal which is sensitive to poison (DIA, chapter 16)
Jamie spends the night with Charles Stuart, Glengarry, Millefleurs and the Duc di Castelotti going from tavern to tavern. (DIA, chapter 17) When they end up in a bawdy house and can't understand why Jamie won't bed with a prostitute, Jamie tells Glengarry and Castelotti that Claire is 'La Dame Blanche' - a sorceress (DIA, chapter 20)
Fergus runs to get Jamie when Murtagh, Claire and Mary are attacked in an alleyway. By the time Jamie arrives Mary has been raped. Jamie and Claire are hosting an important dinner party that evening which cannot be cancelled without a good explanation and they must keep Mary's rape hidden to save her reputation. They take Mary back to Jared's house, dose her with poppy syrup and put her to sleep in an upstairs bedroom while they attend to their guests. Alex Randall is left to stand guard over Mary. At the dinner party the Comte St Germaine reveals that Charles Stuart has secured a loan to enable him to invest in a shipment of high quality port with the Comte. Mary wakes in a drugged stupor and hallucinates that she is being raped. She runs screaming out onto the upper landing with her bruises showing clearly through her torn nighshift and with Alex running after her trying to restrain her. Mary's screams disrupt the dinner party and to them it looks like Alex is trying to rape Mary. Jamie is forced to punch Alex out to stop the situation turning into a complete melee (DIA, chapter 18)
In the aftermath of the dinner party and Silas Hawkins's outrage, Jamie agrees to go with Alex Randall to the Guard's Headquarters in the Bastille to explain what has happened. Jamie is allowed to leave the Bastille on the security of Monsieur Duverney until such a time as Mary Hawkins is well enough to say what happened to her. Back home Murtagh approaches Jamie. Ashamed at his failure to protect Mary and Claire, and sickened at the result, Murtagh asks Jamie to take his life so he no longer has to live with the shame. Jamie refuses but asks Murtagh to swear him an oath that he will hunt down the men who attacked Claire and Mary and take vengeance on them. Murtagh agrees (DIA, chapter 19)
Claire and Jamie go to visit the Duke of Sandringham, ostensibly to discuss investments, but in reality to try and extract information from him. While Jamie and the Duke are engaged in business Claire slips away to look for Alex Randall. The Duke tells Jamie that he has dismissed Alex Randall from his employment and Jamie leaves to find Claire and tell her. Jamie arrives just after the footman has given the news to Mary and Claire but Mary refuses to believe it and runs off. Claire takes after her in pursuit and runs slap bang into Jonathan Randall. Jamie follows Claire and when Jamie appears behind Claire, Randall looks as if he has seen a ghost. Jamie shows no emotion, takes Claire gently by the arm and leads her away. Randall calls out 'Jamie' and Jamie tells him that he may never use that name until the day he begs for his life at the point of Jamie's sword. Jamie takes Claire to their waiting carriage, hands her in, slams the door, tells the coachman to take her straight home and runs off (DIA, chapter 21)
Jamie returns to the townhouse while Claire is at the police station. He cuts his hair to ensure it won't get in his eyes while he duels, takes his sword and goes back to the Duke of Sandringham's house to issue a formal challenge to Randall but finds that Randall has been arrested. Jamie then goes to the Bastille where he discovers that Randall was arrested because of Claire's accusation against him.
Jamie returns to the townhouse intending to collect some clothes and move to an inn to prepare for Randall's release. When he finds Claire at home he demands to know why she had Randall arrested. Claire begs Jamie to delay killing Randall for one year to allow Frank's ancestor to be conceived. Jamie is so angry and betrayed by Claire that he demands that she choose between Randal's' life and his own. If she wants him to spare Randall for a year then she must kill him now because he cannot live while Randall does. In desperation Claire tells Jamie that as she has saved his life twice he owes her a life and she is calling in that debt. After much thought Jamie concedes to Claire's demand but smashes a hole in a stained glass window to show his anger and frustration. Jamie refuses to let Claire touch him that night and does not come to bed but sits all night at the table with his cut hand. In the morning they make their peace (DIA, chapter 21)
Jamie, Claire and Fergus accompany the Duke of Sandringham to the Royal stables in Argentan as the Duke wishes Jamie to advise him on the purchase of some broodmares. During the journey to Argentan Jamie reveals to Claire why he agreed to spare Randall's life long enough for Frank to be born He tells Claire that if anything happens to him he wants Claire to go back to Frank and that is the only reason he is letting Randall live a bit longer (DIA, chapter 22)
Dougal believes that Jamie is also a Jacobite and starts sending him letters which are supposed to be passed onto Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 22)
While at Argentan Fergus jumps on the back of a young Percheron colt which is not fully broken to saddle. The grooms are herding the horse towards a paddock to contain it when one of the stable boys whom Fergus had previously thrown manure at takes his revenge and drops a load of hay on the horse as it passes beneath the loft where he is hidden. The horse takes off in a fright straight towards the picnicking nobles and starts bucking to try and dislodge Fergus. Jamie leaps from a tree and knocks Fergus off the horse's back while the horse takes off.
Jamie pulls a muscle in his thigh during the rescue and is limping badly by the time they return to Paris. While Claire massages ointment into Jamie's leg she tells him of the offer the Duke of Sandringham's made to her at Argentan - if Jamie will sever all contact with Charles Stuart he will be pardoned for the murder charge that is hanging over him. Jamie decides that he can't accept the offer as he has to stop Charles Stuart. Later that night Claire starts to bleed slightly. Jamie offers to get someone from the L'Hopital but Claire knows there is nothing that can be done except pray (DIA, chapter 22) Claire's bleeding has stopped by the morning and she decides to stop working at L'Hopital des Anges (DIA, chapter 23)
Jamie concocts a plan to have the cargo of the ship carrying the port being imported by the Comte St Germain and Charles Stuart destroyed. Murtagh will take passage on the ship and Jamie will board the ship at Orvieto when it puts in for water. Once at sea Murtagh will fake the symptoms of smallpox by taking herbal concoctions prepared by Claire. The Captain will not be willing to take his ship into Le Havre where it would be destroyed and hopefully will agree to sell the cargo to Jamie instead (DIA, chapter 23)
Monsieur Forez calls on Jamie and Claire with the outward excuse of delivering a herbal package to Claire from Mother Hildegarde. His real purpose is made clear when he gives Jamie and Claire a graphic description of exactly what occurs when a traitor is sentenced to the traitor's death of hanging, drawing and quartering (DIA, chapter 23)
Jamie receives a note from his warehouse foreman who has got into a spot of bother at a brothel and asks Jamie to come and assist him. Jamie decides to take Fergus with him to carry messages (DIA< chapter 24) While Jamie deals with the foreman's financial problems, Fergus goes upstairs to visit the prostitutes. Jamie hears Fergus cry out and rushes upstairs to find Jack Randall buggering Fergus and marking him with his ring (DIA, chapter 28) Jamie throws Randall down the stairs. When Randall taunts him, Jamie challenges him to a duel. Jamie returns to Jared's house to get his weapons and remove to an inn for the night. Claire is sleeping and he leaves her a note inside her medical kit which says "I am sorry. I must!" (DIA, chapter 24)
Jamie meets Randall in the Bois de Boulogne the next morning and manages to disarm him in the duel. Mindful of his promise to Claire not to kill Randall, instead he cuts off Randall's genitals. As he finishes he realises there is a commotion on the side of the clearing and discovers it is Claire who has collapsed and is bleeding badly (DIA, chapter 24) Jamie runs to Claire and seeing all the blood thinks she is dead. The guard arrest him for duelling and although he tries to fight them and beg them to let him stay with Claire, Jamie is taken away and imprisoned in the Bastille at the King's pleasure. Wracked with guilt and pain believing that he has killed Claire the guards bind Jamie to stop him from harming himself. Jules de Rohan visits him the next day and tells him that Claire is alive but not expected to live for much longer (DIA, chapter 28)
Jamie is pardoned by Louis and released from the Bastille on the condition that he leaves France by mid-September (DIA, chapter 29) He goes at once to L'Hopital des Anges to find Claire. Mother Hildegarde explains to him that Claire has secured his release and passes on Murtagh's note to him. Jamie travels to Orvieto and with a slight tinkering to the plan, with Jamie playing the smallpox victim and Murtgah the merchant, they manage to fake smallpox and the captain of the ship sells the port to Murtagh who sells it to a broker in Bilbao (DIA, chapter 28)
Jamie returns to Paris and walks to Fointainebleu to see Claire. Claire runs from Jamie when she sees him, but ends up inside an arbor and is forced to face Jamie. Jamie begs her to tell him about the baby as he doesn't even know if it was a boy or a girl. Jamie gathers all his courage and asks Claire to let him comfort her. Claire gathers her own courage to accept his offer and they make their peace. When Jamie expresses anger at the method of his release, Claire tells him about the role she had to play in the trial of the Comte St Germain and Master Raymond (DIA, chapter 28)
Jamie realises that Claire did lie with Louis and is lying to him by pretending that she didn't. He is more hurt by the fact that she doesn't trust him to love her anyway than by the fact that she has lain with Louis. The next day they ride out to the countryside and Jamie confronts Claire with his pain. When Claire offers to be beaten for what she has done Jamie realises how much her pride is worth to him and they are both able to confront their pain and hurt and heal themselves. Jamie reveals to Claire the truth of Jack Randall's injury. While Claire contemplates this Jamie explores the hillside and finds a cave which contains the entwined skeletons of two people who had died there in each other's arms (DIA, chapter 29)
Jamie and Claire leave France and return to Lallybroch with Fergus (DIA, chapter 30) They preside over the first potato harvest which is a success and celebrate with a feast for all the tenants in the field (DIA, chapter 32)
1745
Jamie and Ian go to Broch Mordha for the day. Ian steps in a molehole and breaks his wooden leg and they are forced to spend the night there while they carve a new one. They share a pallet in front of the fire and while both are asleep Ian unconsciously puts his arm around Jamie and kisses the back of his neck. Jamie wakes from a sound sleep thinking that Ian is Jack Randall. He punches Ian in the face and tries to throttle him before finally waking up fully and realising what's happening. The next day when Ian and Jamie travel back to Lallybroch, Jamie tells Ian about Randall and what he did to him. Ian gets very angry and demands to know how Jamie could let Randall do that to him. After a lot of shouting they ride off in silence, until Ian, with tears running down his face, reaches out a hand to Jamie and squeezes it (DIA, chapter 33)
Jamie and Claire settle into life at Lallybroch and welcome a new niece in spring. But their peace is shattered in August with the arrival in the post of a broadsheet stating Charles Stuart's intention to reclaim his throne, which has been signed by the Jacobites who support him, and to which he has added Jamie's name. With his name on the broadsheet Jamie is publicly branded a traitor and thus has no choice but to go and fight for Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 34)
Jamie has to decide how many men to take from Lallybroch and how many to leave behind to tend to the fields and protect the women and children. He decrees that no women or boys under 18 will accompany them, except for Claire and Fergus (DIA, chapter 35)
After four days march, Jamie, Claire, Fergus and the 30 Lallybroch men arrive in Calder on the 17th September. Claire and Jamie move towards their tent and Jamie is attacked from behind by sixteen year old John Grey who has recognised Jamie as a wanted outlaw and assumes he has abducted Claire. Jamie wrestles John into submission and begins to question him. When John refuses to talk, Jamie threatens him with a heated knife. When he still refuses to talk, Jamie rips Claire's bodice so that her breasts are exposed and says that if John doesn't talk, Claire will be raped. John agrees on the condition that Claire is released. (DIA, chapter 36)
John tells Jamie that his name is William Grey, that he is with a company of 200 men on their way to join General Cope and that they have cannon and mortar with them. Once he has this information Jamie tells John he must kill him as he is a spy. When John demands to know whether Claire will be safe once he's dead Jamie reveals his deception and that Claire is his wife. Claire pleads with Jamie not to kill John. Jamie orders two of his men to take John in the direction he says his camp lies. If he is telling the truth they are to tie him to a tree where he will be found in the morning, if he is lying they are to kill him. Jamie tells John - I give you your life. I hope ye'll use it well" John regards this gift as a debt of honour and tells Jamie that once it is discharged he will kill him. (DIA, chapter 36)
Jamie demands to know which men were on sentry duty and punishes the two who were by flogging them with a leather strip. He then asks Murtagh to flog him as it was the carelessness of his unguarded fire that drew John Grey to their camp. After taking his punishment Jamie returns to Claire and explains his actions to her. Claire accepts his reasoning and they make up (DIA, chapter 36)
That night, Jamie and most of his men sneak into the English camp and remove the cotter pins and wheels from all the cannon carriages. They burn the wheels and rapidly leave camp and march to Tranent where they join the Highland Army. Jamie meets with Lord George Murray, commander in chief of the Highland Army, and learns that the army is in quite a shambles, with bickering between clans and Charles Stuart missing with half the army. The Highlanders hold a ridge just south of the town, but the land below is boggy marsh preventing them from getting to the English (DIA, chapter 36)
A local called Richard Anderson shows the Highlanders a safe route through the marsh helping the Highlanders to victory at the following Battle of Prestonpans. During the battle Jamie is trampled by a horse which leaves a large hoofprint on his back, just above the waist. He also receives a sabre-slash across the ribs that leaves him with an eight inch flap of loose skin. Jamie returns to the village of Tranent with his Lallybroch men, three of whom are wounded, and is soon tied up helping with heavy work involving the wounded. It is late in the day before Claire learns about Jamie's trampling injury and even later before she learns he has a saber slash that needs stitching as he doesn't tell her (DIA, chapter 36)
One of Jamie's Lallybroch men, a young man called Kincaid, dies after the Battle from chest and belly wounds. Jamie carries him outside so that he can die in the open air rather than under a roof and he tells Claire that he would have someone do the same for him (DIA, chapter 36)
In October, after Prestonpans, the Highland army returns to Edinburgh. Colum comes to Edinburgh and meets with Jamie & Claire in private to ask Jamie whether he thinks the MacKenzies should join Charles Stuart. Jamie advises him to go home and keep his men at Leoch. Colum dies that night without telling Charles Stuart his decision, leaving the choice in Dougal's hands and the MacKenzie clan become committed to the Jacobite cause. Claire and Jamie realise they now have no choice but to try and ensure that Charles Stuart is victorious (DIA, chapter 37)
Jamie buys a beautiful sword from master swordmaker, John Simpson (DIA, chapter 37) Jamie removes all his funds from the bank fearing they may be seized by the Crown. He converts them to gold and sends some to Jared in France for safekeeping, while the remainder is hidden in the farmhouse at Lallybroch (DIA, chapter 42)
Charles Stuart decides to march into England and claim that land as well as Scotland. He instructs Jamie to go to Lord Lovat and return with the men of Clan Fraser to join the Jacobite army (DIA, chapter 39) Charles asks Jamie to leave Donas behind for him to ride and Jamie agrees as he fears Lord Lovat may steal him (DIA, chapter 41) Jamie tells Charles Stuart that he will go to Beauly with Claire and Murtagh only. Jamie then tells Ross the smith of his plans for his Lallybroch men and Fergus. They are to slip away quietly from the Highland army, one by one, and make their way to a rendezvous. Once they are all gathered, Ross the smith is to lead them back to Lallybroch (DIA, chapter 40)
Jamie and Claire arrive at Castle Beaufort and are met by Lord Lovat himself who wastes no time in insulting them both. After washing up they are shown into the Beaufort Castle library to find more than twenty men seated around the room. Lord Lovat's son, Young Simon, insults Claire by calling her Mistress Honeylips to test her Gaelic and is punched in the jaw by Jamie (DIA, chapter 40)
Claire leaves the room and Jamie explains to Lord Lovat and his men what he knows of the state of the Highland army and Charles Stuart's plans. Lord Lovat won't commit to anything and consults his seer, Maisri. She refuses to tell him what she can see of the future and he throws her out into the hallway. Jamie speaks hastily to Lord Lovat and he shows him who's boss by having three men hold Jamie down while Young Simon punches him in the stomach. Jamie tells Claire this is just play acting and nothing to worry about (DIA, chapter 40)
Lord Lovat spends two weeks with Jamie questioning him about Charles Stuart's cause. He then asks Jamie to swear an oath of loyalty to him. When Jamie refuses, Lord Lovat threatens harm to Claire if he doesn't. Jamie tells Lord Lovat that no man would dare harm Claire because she is a white lady like Dame Aliset. Lord Lovat is shocked into silence and Jamie throws his false teeth on the fire (DIA, chapter 40)
A few more weeks pass and still Lord Lovat won't commit himself to the Jacobite cause. But Young Simon's initial suspicion of Jamie fades into a reluctant respect due to Jamie's obvious expertise in the art of war, and Young Simon is keen to join the Jacobites and at odds with his father (DIA, chapter 41)
Lord Lovat uses his prostatitis as an excuse not to join Charles Stuart, but sends Young Simon and his men. Jamie and Claire leave Beauly in mid-December to rejoin Charles Stuart in Edinburgh. They are accompanied by Young Simon and the Fraser men but intend to part company with them at Comar with Jamie telling Young Simon that he is taking Claire back to Lallybroch before rejoining the army, but he has no intention of going back to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 41)
Lord Lovat has told Charles Stuart that he is sending 200 men to him, but Jamie counts only 170. When Jamie checks the clerk's army rolls he discovers that Lovat has included Jamie's 30 men as part of his regiment. If Charles Stuart wins then Lord Lovat can claim Lallybroch as his land because he raised men from the estate to answer Charles Stuart's call. Jamie tears the list of names up in anger so that there is no proof of the Lallybroch men being part of the Lovat regiment (DIA, chapter 41)
Jamie and Claire arrive in Lallybroch a week later only to find that none of Jamie's men have arrived back (DIA, chapter 41) Murtagh arrives to report that Jamie's men were all caught deserting and are locked up in the Tolbooth under sentence of death. Jamie and Claire return immediately to Edinburgh (DIA, chapter 42)
Young Simon tells Jamie he will accompany him to Stirling Castle to plead with Charles Stuart to release Jamie's men. He also suggests that Jamie take Dougal, as Dougal has given Charles Stuart 10,000 pounds in sterling and consequently is much in Charles's favour.
Jamie, Dougal and Simon ride to Stirling Castle to plead with Charles Stuart to release the Lallybroch men from prison. Jamie eventually secures their release and sends word with orders for them all to ride to Stirling to join him (DIA, chapter 42)
1746
Jamie and his men take part in the Battle of Falkirk Muir. Jamie tells Claire to wait in a kirk during the battle, and if things go wrong she is to claim sanctuary there. Jamie arrives at the kirk later in the day after seeing all the footprints made by Dougal's men leading up to it. He tells Dougal that the English are very close to the kirk (DIA, chapter 43)
Early next morning, the English approach the church and demand that the Scots surrender. When they refuse the English threaten to fire the thatch roof. Claire shouts out in protest at this and on hearing her English accent the English soldiers demand to know if there is an Englishwoman in the church. Dougal seizes the moment to pretend that Claire is an English hostage and he will release her in exchange for his men's freedom. Jamie is furious but Claire convinces him that it is the only option open to them. Jamie thinks Claire will be taken to Callender House and promises to come for her that night (DIA, chapter 43)
Many days later Jamie finally tracks Claire down at Bellhurst Manor, the Duke of Sandringham's home. Jamie and his men find Hugh Munro's eldest stepson, Ewan Gibson, waiting on the edge of the moor. He tells Jamie that he was with Hugh when the Duke's men discovered them but he managed to get away and was waiting there for Hugh. Ewan takes Jamie and his men to the house where Claire is imprisoned and Jamie can tell which room Claire is in from the bars on the window (DIA, chapter 44)
Jamie steals the keys to Claire's room and enters in the middle of the night, telling Claire to get dressed as they have to leave quickly before someone notices. Mary Hawkins insists on coming with them and when Jamie refuses she threatens to scream the place down, leaving him with no choice but to take her too (DIA, chapter 44)
As they leave down the servant's stairs they hear someone approaching. Jamie steps into the shadows but there is nowhere for Claire and Mary to go. The man who appears is Albert Danton and when Mary sees him she recognises him and calls out in shock that he is the man from Paris. Danton sees Claire and whispers 'La Dame Blanche' in horror. Jamie grabs Danton and tells him that if he had the choice Danton would die a slow death. He then slits Danton's throat and Danton's blood sprays all over his shirt and spatters his face. Mary is violently sick (DIA, chapter 44)
They make it out of the house and meet up with Jamie's men. Jamie notices Murtagh is missing and says he must have gone to look for Hugh Munro. Claire tells Jamie that Hugh has been killed when Murtagh reappears with a string of sausages around his neck, a large ham under one arm and a blood stained cloth wrapped bundle under the other (DIA, chapter 44)
When they make it through the park they meet up with Ewan Gibson again and Jamie has to tell him that Hugh has been hanged. Jamie sends two of his men to retrieve Hugh's body and they leave. After riding through the night they arrive at Hugh's impoverished home and Jamie takes Hugh's body to his widow. Jamie swears to Mrs Munro that he will provide for her family. Just as Jamie is about to leave, Murtagh steps into the house with Mary Hawkins and carrying one of his saddlebags. Murtagh bows to Claire and tells her he has brought her her vengeance. He then bows his head to Mary and Mrs Munro and says he has brought them justice for the wrong done to them. Mrs Munro opens Murtagh's saddlebag and draws out the Duke of Sandringham's head (DIA, chapter 44)
It takes Jamie, Claire and their party several weeks to make their way back to Edinburgh. When they arrive Jamie goes immediately to the army headquarters, while Claire and Mary go to visit Alex Randall. Alex asks Claire to return the next day with Jamie and when they arrive Alex tells them he is waiting for one more person. Claire and Jamie are shocked when that person turns out to be his brother Jack. Alex asks Jack to do one last thing for him and Claire realises that Mary is pregnant and Alex wants Jack to marry her, and that Alex is actually Frank's ancestor and not Jack. Alex performs the ceremony himself with the last of his strength, with Claire and Jamie as witnesses. He then fades away with Mary by his side (DIA, chapter 45)
In an act of incredible generosity, Jamie takes Jack Randall back to his rooms while Claire stays with Alex and Mary until Alex passes away. When Claire finally returns to their rooms she foolishly says to Jamie that at least they know that Frank is safe now. That comment is a touchstone to Jamie's taut emotions and he erupts, damning all Randalls and asserting that Claire is his, and his alone and he will not share her. Claire asks him to take her to bed and they heal each other sexually. Claire wakes in the night to find Jamie crying quietly over the depth of his love for her (DIA, chapter 45)
Jamie and Claire join the general retreat of the Highland Army northwards to Culloden House where Charles Stuart has his headquarters. When they arrive at Culloden House on April15th, Auld Alec is the first person they see. They find him close to starvation, lying in the hay in the stables. Alec tells them that the Highland Army has run out of food, all the horses have been slaughtered and eaten, except for Donas who was kept for Charles Stuart to ride on his triumphal return to Edinburgh, and that Charles Stuart has ordered the Highland army to take a stand on Culloden Moor (DIA, chapter 46)
While Jamie goes to see Charles Stuart, Claire seeks a place of refuge from the impending doom, and finds herself in a small room at the top of Culloden House. Jamie arrives and angrily informs her that despite the fact that the men of the Highland Army have not eaten for two days and have no ordnance for their cannon, Charles Stuart is proceeding with his plans to take a stand on Culloden Moor (DIA, chapter 46)
Jamie is defeated and in despair at Charles Stuart's pig-headedness. Reluctantly Claire suggests to him that there is one way left in which they might prevent the slaughter at Culloden - she could poison Charles Stuart. Jamie is shocked and appalled but does give consideration to Claire's proposal. He tells Claire that he cannot do it and Claire is greatly relieved. As they comfort each other Claire looks up and sees Dougal staring at her with revulsion from the doorway (DIA, chapter 46)
Dougal accuses Claire of being a witch and grabs her to kill her. Jamie frees Claire and tries to calm Dougal down but Dougal will not let Jamie stop him from killing Claire. Dougal rounds on Jamie with his dirk. Jamie is unarmed and they end up struggling together. In the course of the struggle Jamie gets Dougal's dirk off him and stabs him in the base of his throat. Dougal dies in Jamie's arms, speaking words that only Jamie can hear (DIA, chapter 46)
As Dougal breathes his last breath, one of his men, Willie Coulter MacKenzie, appears in the doorway and witnesses him die. Jamie asks Willie to give him one hour to see Claire safe and then he will come back and answer for what he has done. Willie is so frightened he agrees, and Jamie asks him to stay with Dougal's body until he returns (DIA, chapter 46)
Jamie is in shock, but manages to takes Claire outside and find Murtagh. He tells Murtagh what he has done and produces a document that he wants Murtagh and Claire to sign. The document is a Deed of Sasine, predated to July 1745, before Jamie's signature appeared on Charles Stuart's declaration, making him a traitor whose property would be subject to forfeiture by the Crown. The Deed cedes Lallybroch to Young Jamie, to be held in trust by his parents until he comes of age. Claire and Murtagh sign it as witnesses and Jamie asks Fergus to take it to Lallybroch. He gives Fergus his ruby ring to show to Auld Alec and tells him to ask Alec to give him Donas to ride. Jamie then asks Murtagh to gather the Lallybroch men and wait for his return (DIA, chapter 46)
Jamie then takes Claire and rides to Craigh na Dun. Claire is alarmed to see where he has brought her and struggles as Jamie drags her up the hill to the empty cottage. Once in the cottage Jamie tells her she must go back. He is now both a traitor and a murderer and will be hunted by both the English and the clans. Jamie tells Claire that he will see her safe, lead his men away from the battlefield and set them on the road to Lallybroch and then return to Culloden himself (DIA, chapter 46)
Claire tells Jamie that she won't leave him. She will dress as a man and ride at his side into battle. Jamie is horrified and tells Claire she must go back because she is carrying his child, and that is all that will be left of him. He begs Claire to see the child safe. Claire's heart breaks but she agrees to do as Jamie has requested. Jamie tells Claire that he will find her through time and then they make love slowly and passionately. Exhausted they both fall asleep and wake near dawn.
Claire asks Jamie to cut her so that she will have his mark on her forever, and they both carve their first initial into each other's palms. Jamie tells Claire to tell Frank that he is grateful and trusts him because he must, and also hates him to the marrow of his bones. He asks Claire to bless him and she starts to say a Celtic prayer but they are interrupted by the sound of the approaching English and Jamie pushes Claire towards the stones. Claire turns back to look at Jamie and he grabs her and claims her with his body in a brief, fierce coupling. With his last kiss he tells Claire to "name him Brian" and Claire runs for the stones while Jamie draws his sword to face the English. Claire turns to look back, but an English soldier is in close pursuit so she flings herself at the stones (DIA, chapter 46)
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