They love each other’s patterns, but incorporating them into everyday life is something else.
AHHHH YES. Of course it is, for anyone, and so much more so after 6000 years of not having to.
Love the image of Crowley slinking around in a kaftan, just on a very base kind of a level ;) :D And then facing down Gabriel -- excellent stuff.
there were certain things that could very obviously not be solved with poetry or sex. ‘I’m just so… tired,’ Crowley had said eventually. ‘And She never…’ He gestured helplessly, and the angel had studied him for a long moment, looking like he was going to speak — but had then instead carefully drawn the curtains, put a ‘Do not disturb’ sign on the door, before silently sitting down beside him on the bed, taking his hand and gently unfurling his wings until they were hidden in a tiny tent of white feathers. ‘This is what I did after the flood,’ was all he said, and Crowley simply curled up to him, understanding without further explanation: there was nothing they could do, but at least now they were on the same side.
ouch ouch ouch. I really really like this engagement with something that does crop up in canon but not at this level; and it does make a difference that they're both on the same side now, even if it is still hard to deal with or even to understand.
And then Crowley being the stronger one, 'the strength of your own convictions' -- yes this! Crowley's the one who is asking right from the start, and making decisions about his own ethics ("you can't kill kids"). I really love this idea that Aziraphale too has been trying to think about this for rather longer than canon shows us....
...and winds up here
“And I would do it all again, every bit of it, if I could be sure you would be there at the end, waiting for me.”
ahhhhhhhh (oh gosh I am a terrible sap). and this was NECESSARY. So gorgeous. Such a beautiful place to land.
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They love each other’s patterns, but incorporating them into everyday life is something else.
AHHHH YES. Of course it is, for anyone, and so much more so after 6000 years of not having to.
Love the image of Crowley slinking around in a kaftan, just on a very base kind of a level ;) :D And then facing down Gabriel -- excellent stuff.
there were certain things that could very obviously not be solved with poetry or sex. ‘I’m just so… tired,’ Crowley had said eventually. ‘And She never…’ He gestured helplessly, and the angel had studied him for a long moment, looking like he was going to speak — but had then instead carefully drawn the curtains, put a ‘Do not disturb’ sign on the door, before silently sitting down beside him on the bed, taking his hand and gently unfurling his wings until they were hidden in a tiny tent of white feathers. ‘This is what I did after the flood,’ was all he said, and Crowley simply curled up to him, understanding without further explanation: there was nothing they could do, but at least now they were on the same side.
ouch ouch ouch. I really really like this engagement with something that does crop up in canon but not at this level; and it does make a difference that they're both on the same side now, even if it is still hard to deal with or even to understand.
And then Crowley being the stronger one, 'the strength of your own convictions' -- yes this! Crowley's the one who is asking right from the start, and making decisions about his own ethics ("you can't kill kids"). I really love this idea that Aziraphale too has been trying to think about this for rather longer than canon shows us....
...and winds up here
“And I would do it all again, every bit of it, if I could be sure you would be there at the end, waiting for me.”
ahhhhhhhh (oh gosh I am a terrible sap). and this was NECESSARY. So gorgeous. Such a beautiful place to land.