FIC: Tea on Mount Ida

[silverr]

Title: Tea on Mount Ida
Author:silverr
Rating: T
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Madame Vastra/Jenny, Sebastian Melmoth/Jack Harkness, Eleven
Warnings: None really. a few pinches of spicy talk and innuendo
Spoilers: One tiny oblique reference in the story to an event outside the episode (you'd have to be spoiled to get it, I think).
Summary: Silurians live for centuries, humans not nearly so long. Vastra knows she'll lose Jenny someday, and it's a loss she's  already bracing herself against.

Author's Note: Though I've been a DW fan for a long time, this is my first story for the fandom. Written as a pinch hit for the rarewomen  2012 challenge.

Fake cut to Ao3

Comments

[evilawyer]

This is quite lovely. I very much enjoyed how you juxtapose the Doctor's and Vasta's acceptance of aging and old age against Jenny's genetically-human viewpoint that youth (and therefore reproductive capacity as pointed out in her reference to menopause being coupled with senility). I'm fascinated by the/whether there is a provable link between sexual selection/drive to reproduce and Western cultures obsession with youth/discomfort around if not abhorrence of the elderly. It was wonderful seeing two non-humans say "Getting old? BFD!" Thanks for including it in there.