In Which Tea Fails

Jackie Tyler would never make the same mistake again.

She had no idea why she had thought that it would work, that it would always work, but somehow she got it into her head that tea did solve everything. Bring a dying man back to perfect health, it did that. Taste good and help calm nerves for both humans and Time Lords, it did that too.

What it can't do is cure simple illnesses.

She had been drinking so many cups of tea she seemed to need to go to the loo every other minute. All because she had the odd thought, after the whole Christmas fiasco with the Doctor, that it could cure anything. And save the world in an offhand manner. Her tea did that, so why couldn't it cure this?

This was a normal run of the mill cold. Well, she had heard that there was no cure and you just had to deal with it, but...she wanted to be better so she could continue on looking for a job. Her hairdressing wasn't doing too well right now, and she needed the money.

It didn't help that she was home alone, because the Doctor and Rose were off somewhere else in the universe. Mickey had recently joined them by the looks of it, since he hadn't been back in a while, and she was utterly fed up with telly.

No, she would definitely not think that tea was a cure all for anything short of death ever again.