hc + aging
[headcanon prompts || always accepting]
Gene never used to think about getting older, because she never really… expected to Be Old. She couldn’t imagine herself older than twenty or thirty, and so she never really bothered to worry about it.
Now that she’s met The Master… she does worry about getting to a point where he decides she’s “too old.” Either because she physically can’t keep up, or because she isn’t young and beautiful anymore. She’s more certain than ever that she’ll probably die young — facing Daleks and Sontarans and The Doctor isn’t safe by any means, and The Master himself is plenty dangerous when he loses interest or is feeling cruel — but now she’s suddenly faced with the possibility that she might survive. And she might find herself forever shut out of the one place in the universe she finally feels certain she’s meant to be.
And it’s most prevalent with The Master, but I think it’s true of her in all her verses. She’s so used to moving on, leaving people before they leave her, that when she finds someone she loves, someone she wants to stay with, suddenly she develops this fear around growing into someone or something they won’t want anymore.
It scares her more than she’d ever admit.