~ Voyager Quote ~ “But how shall I tell ye all these things,” he said, the line of his mouth twisting. “And then say to you—it is only you I have ever loved? How should you believe me?” The question hung in the air between us, shimmering like the reflection from the water below. “If you say it,” I said, “I’ll believe you.” “You will?” He sounded faintly astonished. “Why?” “Because you’re an honest man, Jamie Fraser,” I said, smiling so that I wouldn’t cry. “And may the Lord have mercy on you for it.” “Only you,” he said, so softly I could barely hear him. “To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie—and yet ye love me.” I did touch him then. “Jamie,” I said softly, and laid my hand on his arm. “You aren’t alone anymore.” He turned then and took me by the arms, searching my face. “I swore to you,” I said. “When we married. I didn’t mean it then, but I swore—and now I mean it.” I turned his hand over in both mine, feeling the thin, smooth skin at the base of his wrist, where the pulse beat under my fingers, where the blade of his dirk had cut his flesh once, and spilled his blood to mingle with mine forever. I pressed my own wrist against his, pulse to pulse, heartbeat to heartbeat. “Blood of my blood…” I whispered. “Bone of my bone.” His whisper was deep and husky. He knelt quite suddenly before me, and put his folded hands in mine; the gesture a Highlander makes when swearing loyalty to his chieftain. “I give ye my spirit,” he said, head bent over our hands. “’Til our life shall be done,” I said softly. “But it isn’t done yet, Jamie, is it?” Then he rose and took the shift from me, and I lay back on the narrow bed naked, pulled him down to me through the soft yellow light, and took him home, and home, and home again, and we were neither one of us alone.
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