The Highlander and the Sassanach Agent

Chapter 5

Summary: Set after the third season of Outlander and the tenth season of Criminal minds. When Claire goes back to 18th century Scotland and finds Jamie he decides he wants them to go back to the 20th century to meet his daughter. But they overshoot it by about 40 years and end up in the 21st century in Virginia, why did the stones send them there? And why does Jamie feel drawn to SSA Jareau in a totally platonic way. Two people; Black Jack Randall, and Tivon Askari.

Chapter Summary: From Jamie's POV. Just after the last chapter, his thoughts and feelings about being there and the revelation. Also an interaction between him and Hotch.

I watched as the man kissed his sister-in-law. Although I understand the world and the feelings after the death of a wife, or the supposed death, I couldn't understand the feelings of the man and the sister-in-law.

Claire looks at me, my Sassanach searching my face. She was looking for any sign I was understanding, I stared right back desperately trying to communicating I understood perfectly.

I went out to the dining area with my skin and my scars. 'Twas time to meet Aaron Hotchner, the man who'd looked at me so stoic from across that table in the jail had been through a lot. And although part of me needed to know how he coped another, more desperate part of me wanted to know how he moved on. How he moves past all the hurt and the anger of all the things that bastard Foyet did to him.

I pulled him aside and looked him in the eye; "I want tae know one thing: did you avenge yer wife's death at the hands of this Foyet bastard?" a curt nod was all the reply I got so I chose not to push it. "Good...good…"I stood in silence for a while then blurted out "How do ye do it? How do ye live with hearin' her last words tae ye? Even after killin' him, I ken you still hear it no doubt…" his raised hand stops me mid rant and I see him point to Jack.

"If Jack weren't here I'd have lost it by now." He looked at me. "Without Haley I went crazy, but each time I thought I were going to fully go crazy Jack was there. He reminded me I was still needed, still blessed." He looked directly into my eyes. "I fought to protect him so anytime I see him I'm reminded I've got what I fought for. What do you have to remind yourself that you suffering was worth it?"

I knew immediately what he was saying as I looked to Claire who was elbow deep in dishwater at the sink.

If I hadn't fought to come back after what Randall had done to me we wouldn't have made our wee Brianna.

"Brianna" I breathed. "Our daughter…" I reached into my sporran and pulled out the photos Claire had given to me. "If I hadnae a fought to regain my sanity and come back to Claire, Brianna would ne'er a been born...mo nighean ceann dearg...my red headed daughter, wouldn't exist...That's who I fought for. When you boil it down." I looked at the agent, he had tears in his eyes.

"That's right. And that's what you need to hold onto."

I went back to Claire and I kissed her forehead sweetly, as sweetly as I did on the day we were wedded and I held her close. "Tha gaol agam ort, mo nighean donn." The English words of 'I love you, my brown haired lassie' didn't seem enough so I whispered it in Gaelic.

Closing my eyes I remembered the words I'd shouted to the guards at the jail:

"Leig leam falbh" (Let me go)

A struggle, my face is pushed further into the wood.

"tha thu a 'dèanamh mòran de bhatailean"(You bunch of bastards)

Hot tears threaten to spill, but I refused to let them see me cry.

"Càit a bheil mo bhean?" (Where is my wife?)

My eyes darted around the room that I could see, my sassanach was nowhere in sight, panic begins to rise up within me.

"Feumaidh mi mo bhean" (I need my wife)

"Claire!" The name is ripped from my throat in my panic and several more times, I pray she can hear it.

Then, as if in answer to my prayers the door bursts open and in comes a Sassanach whirlwind. She expertly convinces the guards to let me go and strokes my face.

As usual I turn into clay on a potters wheel around her, I stare into her eyes and beg her to help me, she assures me that if I cooperate I will be released. They leave shortly after and I'm left alone with my thoughts.

Brianna, my daughter, I will find a way to find you. You should meet your Da after all.

A/N: I know I said doctors in the pevious chapter where the scene inside the police station takes place but this is from Jamie's POV and he wouldn't recognise them as doctors so I plumped for the jail term he'd most associate them with: guards.