“…I
still would make the same choice”. This story was a labour of love. Mine,
to this vision I so wanted to write. Yours,
to me. To the ones who saw something in this and stayed until the end, slàinte mhath. To the ones who had to
leave at some point because they didn’t identify with it any longer, slàinte mhath. To the ones who engaged
in respectful dialogue and conversation, slàinte
mhath.
Every single one of you is in my heart, but
three people held me together. @xlisaleinx, my champion and friend and the only person who knew ALL OF IT. @notoversc who sees through me. @missclairebelle spectacular
hand-holder and rant-master and a hell of an example in the writing department. Love, always.
His hands, her hands, working in
such closeness to achieve a common goal – not completion of their bodies, but
wholeness to another. The way they communicated without words, with simple
glances above the rim of their masks and subtle movements of half-curved
fingers.
In the operating theatre they saw each other for what they really
were; and on the nights following days of shared work, they would always seek
one another with renewed desire. Certainty. You and I are the same.You love me as I need to be loved.
Claire remembered those moments with longing, flashes of dirtied scrubs and bloody gloves, interspersed
with fragments of a walk in the park or a new book under the shelter of fresh sheets – kids in a tent, the moon outside so
close, those centimetres of tangled bodies theirs
alone.
Oh well, I am happy to, as in my opinion this is the most important receipt shippers have.
I also want to point out before I launch into this that everything I will write about is based on what Sam and Cait themselves posted. There has been no illegal digging here and no information from “sources” except Sam and Cait and a simple Google search.
1. Cait’s place
Cait tweeted in Nov 2017 that she was moving offices. It was thought at the time that she could be moving. Indeed, in her grand desire to prove she and Sam did not share an abode (please, Cait…smh) she posted an Eddie video on IG and tweeted a picture of a snow covered Audi in front of “her house”. Also, she posted a video of walking in the snow, reasonable to assume close to her house. It literally took people about a day to find her new address based on that information. It is publicly listed by property sites when this place was sold, Nov 2017. So there you go, Cait likely bought this new place in Nov 2017.
2. Sam’s place, Cait’s old place
I have no idea how people knew where Sam and Cait lived, that was before my time in the fandom, but my guess is also based on Sam and Cait’s post they figured it out.
That being said, Cait’s old apt, which she rented (did not own) was put on the market in Nov 2017, so when she moved out, makes sense. This is based on public property sites and sales history, like zillow or redfin in the US. The apt had previously been purchased before OL had started, so we know Cait didn’t own the old apt. That apt was sold in Jan 2018. Pictures of that apt were listed by the realtor, as would be normal for any realty listing, and you can recognize furniture and apt features that we have seen many times in Cait’s posts. Since Cait was renting the place, none of the furniture etc was technically hers.
In January 2018, conveniently when the apt is listed as sold, Sam tweeted a picture of a cheetah statue (so ugly) which he gave to Wendy as I joke I’m sure. This cheetah we knew came from Cait’s old apt. because as I said, there are pics on the realtor’s website of this cheetah in the living room. There is also the dog statue that Eddie likes..lol. In Feb, Sam then also tweeted a pic of making pancakes, which matched Cait’s kitchen we had seen before. He also tweeted a pic of his snowed in car, lol in front of Cait’s old apt. Finally, he posted a pic of Eddie during Cait’s marathon from the bedroom that we recognize as part of Cait’s old apt.
All this lead people to conclude that Sam now lives in Cait’s old apt. and in fact bought it in January 2018 for half a million pounds with furniture and all from the previous owner. Which is why he was able to get rid of the ugly cheetah and remodel the bedroom.
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Now, why do I say this is the biggest shipper receipt? Because, no guy would buy the apt of his costar bff who he has seen naked and simulated sex with if there was not something going on, cause that’s weird. Also, it is half a million pounds, that is serious money. That trumps whatever that ring she is flashing around cost!!! A guy doesn’t do that unless he is serious about a girl, just sayin. And no, Sam imo is not gay, because he is too comfortable with gay tropes to be a closeted gay man desperately trying to hide it. So… yes, friends, in the end, money and real estate talk, and there is no easy way to explain this purchase of Sam’s or Cait’s comfort in still going there and leaving her cat in his care at the “old” apt.
a/n:GITS is slowly coming to an end (actually, this is the last chapter before the epilogue) and we really wanted to thank everyone who enjoyed this story! xx PS: this chapter has a little time jump.
In the blink of an eye, I realised I had been at Helwater for almost two years, tending to people, taking care of William and secretly being married to Jamie. Our days were punctuated by quiet meetings in my surgery, letters passed through John or Isobel or even Jamie sneaking into my room during the night. After Geneva died, we had agreed to keep acting like two simple acquaintances in front of the rest of the estate so Jamie could keep William, and it seemed to be working so far. Another letter had come my way this morning and sitting at my desk, I fondly read his content.
In these exclusive new images from season 4 of Outlander, the Northern Inuit puppies who take turns playing Rollo the dog demonstrate how comfortable they are at playing man’s — or in this case, Ian’s — best friend.
For those who aren’t familiar with the canine character from Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling book series, Rollo is a wolf hybrid who becomes a beloved member of the Fraser clan. Starz began training two Northern Inuit puppies during season 3 so they were fully prepared to play Rollo, an unpredictable pooch who “gets into trouble, often sticking his large, wet nose into places it doesn’t belong,” said a spokesman.
Bouton, who? It’s Rollo’s world now!
Rollo first comes into contact with Ian (John Bell) In Drums of Autumn, Gabaldon’s fourth book, on which season 4 is based. “Rollo and Young Ian met on the docks in North Carolina, when Young Ian won the dog in a card game, and a life-long bond was formed between them, meaning that Rollo became a member of the ever-growing Fraser family,” Gabaldon told EW in 2017.
“They’d need to growl and look menacing on command, I think, and carry back prey of one kind or another to their master,” Gabaldon said about the then-puppies. “I assume they wouldn’t let them catch things on camera… especially fish, of course.”
WHAT A GOOD PUP! I think Bouton might have something to say about that comment, though!
Tori