[ It's when he asks gone? that Claire realizes she might have made a mistake; did Claude not know? Christ, she assumed Hilda found out from him, and now she doesn't know what to say to try and make it better. When he asks a question, she's still trying to figure out how to make it better, though she suspects she can't. ]

It was, I—there was a war in his time and I knew, being from the future, that the final battle would be brutal, and bloody, and over in less than half an hour. I knew that everyone in his clan would be killed and we tried to stop it, but history wouldn't allow it. Jamie couldn't travel to my time. He tried, but it didn't work for him.

[ Even after all this time, even after being reunited with him, it still feels like shredding her soul to think about being ripped away from Jamie. ]

I was pregnant; we'd already lost one child, so...

[ Claire trails off; she hasn't even told Hilda that part, and she surprises herself by saying it now. ]

I'm sorry, Claude. I didn't mean to veer this conversation into something upsetting.

[ She's apologizing for her own sad story but also for potentially devastating him. ]