DW Drabble: Service
Title: Service
Author: nancybrown
Rating: PG
Spoilers: DW, "A Good Man Goes to War"
Characters: Vastra/Jenny
Summary: There's no shame in being a servant.
There's no shame in service, her mother taught her. Jenny has heard the chilling tales: cruel and vain mistresses, masters demanding their servants' bodies. She has great pity for the girls who find themselves in such households. It could have been her.
She readies Madame Vastra's bath, to wash her mistress clean of tonight's bloody work. She knows many would recoil from the rusting crimson on green scales, would pity her. They understand nothing.
Jenny helps scrub the difficult places on Vastra's back, then settles in to join her in the water, embracing her tired lady.
Service has its joys.
Author: nancybrown
Rating: PG
Spoilers: DW, "A Good Man Goes to War"
Characters: Vastra/Jenny
Summary: There's no shame in being a servant.
There's no shame in service, her mother taught her. Jenny has heard the chilling tales: cruel and vain mistresses, masters demanding their servants' bodies. She has great pity for the girls who find themselves in such households. It could have been her.
She readies Madame Vastra's bath, to wash her mistress clean of tonight's bloody work. She knows many would recoil from the rusting crimson on green scales, would pity her. They understand nothing.
Jenny helps scrub the difficult places on Vastra's back, then settles in to join her in the water, embracing her tired lady.
Service has its joys.