1 Work by ImSorryAngel
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While escorting his cousin Anathema through a London Season, Crowley becomes friends with the bookish Aziraphale and they are instantly attracted to each other. Being gay in Regency England borders on being a death sentence, however, so they are forced to keep their attraction hidden - even from each other. When Aziraphale's older brother, Gabriel, decrees that he must marry or join the clergy, Aziraphale sees only a bleak future with no way out ahead of him.
Anathema, naturally, is having none of this.
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Crowley leaned against the wall of the ballroom. Noise swirled around him, little conversational eddies, gossip ebbing and flowing, rumors trickling in and running off. All very boring. Anathema was currently off dancing. He glared at her partner behind his glasses. Nervous looking fellow, all awkward feet and blushing cheeks. Ana would eat him alive. Crowley let his gaze wander on. Mrs. Tracy, her absurd feathered turban hovering above the crowd, was talking to someone in the far corner of the room. Doubtless lining up yet another hapless fellow to parade before his cousin.