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    Post-season 2, post-second coming. Hurt/comfort, love confessions, first times, a journey to hell; Aziraphale rescues Crowley for once.

    It wasn’t until late that evening that Aziraphale found the note left for him in the backroom, scrawled in a spiky script that he recognized at once.

    Come find me, said the note, and then followed a sigil that burned fire-bright and hot when Aziraphale pressed his thumb to it. It was Crowley’s true name in the original alphabet from which all other alphabets descended. Aziraphale had never seen it before, but he recognized it at once.

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    03 Sep 2023

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    "Really," Crowley says, and laughs, sharp and mean. "They gave you the job and not the authority to run it? Well, isn’t that a surprise. If only someone had told you."

    "That's not how these things work! It's just—slow going, is all. Change takes time, Crowley."

    "Sure, yeah. Climb your way up, but not too much, ey?"

    "It's not about me," Aziraphale says, snappy, in that holier-than-thou voice. Crowley smiles mirthlessly, bares his teeth.

    "No, you're just a tool for the greater Good, are you. How's that working out, d'you think?"

    "Swimmingly, actually. The Metatron really appreciates my suggestions." He smiles—soft, wondrous, almost disbelieving. Crowley wants to scratch it out of his face. Wants to shake him until he comes to his senses and drops to his knees and begs him—

    "I always knew you were naive, but not this much," he hisses. "They're going to chew you up and put you through the grinder until you can't take it anymore and then, when you finally, finally snap, they'll cast you down like they did the rest of us."

    Aziraphale's eyes flick down once—to his mouth, Crowley realizes, and abruptly steps back, face prickling with shame. Shame, him. Imagine that. 

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    02 Sep 2023

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    “The thing is…the thing is,” Crowley swallows, his throat clicking, looks at the wine bottle clasped by the neck between his finger and thumb and rolls it slowly against the table. “The thing is, it’s a relief really, is the thing.”

    His throat catches again and he forces through another swallow. “No more hope. See? Weight off my shoulders, I can tell you.”

     

    {Or; after everything, Crowley builds a future while quietly breaking apart.}

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    01 Aug 2023

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    There's no world where Arthur wouldn’t recognise Merlin. Unfortunately, it's not the same the other way around.

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    13 Jul 2023

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    Five times Arthur celebrates Merlin’s birthday, and one time he actually celebrates it on Merlin’s birthday. (Arthur is a prat.)

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    04 Jul 2023