Outlander Forever

by Kazroo

Summary:

While not a cross-over in the strict sense of the meaning, I have appropriated several plot devices from both the current show about immortals, Forever, and another earlier show about an immortal, New Amsterdam (which starred Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) that I actually preferred the back-story for, and pulled them into a purely Outlander character-scape. The Outlander references are a mix of the books and the TV series, so don't jump down my throat on date differences!
Simply put, Jamie Fraser is immortal, and his path is about to cross once again with Claire, and Brianna, the daughter he has never had the chance to meet. Picking up where Dragonfly in Amber left off, what happens if Claire can't go back, but Jamie never dies?

Chapter 1: Prologue

Outlander Forever

Prologue

I’d seen him before, twice, but I thought it was just a trick of the light, a reflection of what I wanted to see. We were each on our own train, separated by the teardrop-shaped platform of Government Center. His broad smile merely one of thousands that I had seen from behind the semi-clean windows of a Greenline trolley. The first time had been his birthday, two months ago. I had taken the B train to make my way to Brianna. She was moving out of the dorms into her own apartment, and until the congregation of roommates returned in the Fall, I was to be staying with her.

She was nearly on her own, but I was clinging to these months, holding on, perhaps, too tightly. It was hard to believe she would be twenty-one soon. Wasn’t it only yesterday I ran headlong into the cleft of the stone at Craigh-na-Dun? Perhaps if I had gone at a more measured pace. But, no. Jamie’s touch was still fresh on me, and redcoats were at my heals. I could not allow them to stop me. I could not put Jamie at risk by letting them stop me from going back.

As strange a place as I had spent the previous three years, where I landed was no less foreign. I had expected things to change – much could happen in three years, but it was clear very quickly that I had not returned to my own time. Jamie had thought he was sending me back to Frank, back to a life, a man I had known, and loved. Perhaps, in truth, I could no longer think of Frank as my husband. My only thoughts, as I felt torn apart by the noise and vibration of the stones, were for Jamie. Jamie, and the child he was sending me away to protect.

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