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the wallpaper (slowly, slowly peeling off) by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
02 Feb 2024
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Aziraphale should put the letters away, he knew. He should just scoop them all up and slip them back into the box. No point dilly-dallying. Muriel was waiting, and so was Heaven.
And yet -
And yet he found himself scanning the contents of the first one in his hand, his back finding a rest on the shelf behind him, his legs crossing neatly beneath him, all without a single thought to his perfectly clean trousers. What did they matter? He hated them, anyway.
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A falling book leads Aziraphale to find a box containing all the letters he and Crowley have exchanged through the years.
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perspectives on reality by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
03 Feb 2024
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It’s hard to tell exactly where it all began, if Maggie is being honest. The more she thinks about her life, the more certain things seem a little out of place. She can remember pieces of her past, but so much feels nebulous. And why is it that in more recent times, there are periods when she can’t remember her life being about anything other than her shop?
Oh, she wouldn’t want to point any fingers, but considering the fact that she knows an angel and someone who must be a demon, she had to conclude that those two things are likely to be linked. How, she’s not sure, but they must be. Her life is not her own, and it hasn’t been for a long time.
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Maggie’s life as told through five conversations with Aziraphale, and one conversation with Crowley.
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we built our castles by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
04 Feb 2024
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“Aziraphale,” Crowley manages after a long moment. “Did you… did you steal a baby?”
A pause, then a hushed, sheepish, “yes.”
“Aziraphale,” he says again. “Did you steal the baby?”
This time, the answer comes in a wail, “yes!”
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A missing half dozen of donuts leads Crowley to discover an angel and a baby squatting in his flat.
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in the dawn by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
05 Feb 2024
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“I can think of someone,” Aziraphale whispers, and then he’s tilting his head up, his lips puckering just slightly -
And time stops.
He must be misreading the situation, mustn’t he? Except Aziraphale is all but outright telling him what to do. All the hints are there, he’s been carefully led to this point in the conversation. The point where he can make a move.
And by God - no! No, not God. And certainly not Satan. By Someone. No, by them, he’ll do it.
He’ll take the leap.
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Part 3 of 1941, or what led to Aziraphale’s “you go too fast for me, Crowley” comment in 1967.
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wild blue yonder by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
06 Feb 2024
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“Yes,” Aziraphale concedes, “but all that arguing and getting arrested was terribly tiring. I rather think that I would like a rest.”
Silence falls over them for a while, Crowley just letting himself enjoy the gentle rocking of the waves. He’s certainly not a big fan of ships, he’s long since decided, but he does enjoy that much - the gentle rocking, the sound of the wood creaking, the water sloshing. And the smell, he thinks he rather likes the smell of the sea as well.
Eventually, though, Aziraphale breaks the silence by asking, “do you remember the last time we were on a boat together?”
“‘Course,” Crowley replies back. “The Ark. Won’t be forgetting that in a hurry, will I?”
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Getting thrown into the brig of a ship in His Royal Navy is not, in fact, the first time Crowley and Aziraphale have been in close quarters on a ship together.
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to the world by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
07 Feb 2024
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Crowley’s problem is quite simple - he’s already proposed.
Aziraphale, in an act of what Crowley can only assume is meant to be kind, painful as it might be, has simply failed to answer and ignored the question entirely. Which he has to assume means that the answer is no, that it was no then - and of course it was no then, they were barely into the acknowledging-their-friendship phase at the time and Crowley had just really stuck his foot in his mouth - and continues to be no now.
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Every human in Crowley’s life thinks he should propose. Crowley would agree if it weren’t for the fact that he already has.
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blessed be by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
08 Feb 2024
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Trembling fingers run over the barbs of the feather, and Aziraphale can feel it, he can feel the confirmation of what he already instinctively knows. This feather doesn’t belong to a bird, this feather isn’t even of Earth. It’s celestial, angelic in origin, belonging to a very familiar, very dear fallen angel.
This feather, lightly scorched around the edges, mailed to him from an unknown address out of the blue, is Crowley’s feather.
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A temptation gone wrong leads Crowley to fall into the hands of some humans determined to find forgiveness for a demon.
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hanging off the chandeliers by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
09 Feb 2024
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Little by little, the living room has been transforming into a more livable space, and Aziraphale has been dutifully pretending not to notice that Crowley has yet not to immediately put a gift to use. So really, he thinks it’s perfectly reasonable that the sight of it calms him down.
It also has the unfortunate effect of immediately stripping away his filter.
“I need you to pretend to be my boyfriend,” he says, apparently deciding to discard the speech he’d spent the better part of the night composing.
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A wedding, a tiny little lie to his family sustained over many years and an unfortunate panic reaction lands Aziraphale in the complicated situation of having to find someone to pretend to be his boyfriend for a few weeks.
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what a wicked game we play by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
10 Feb 2024
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“It’s me,” Crowley whispers. “‘S alright. I’ve got you.”
It takes a moment, an excruciatingly long moment, but eventually, there’s movement. Wings unfurl ever so slightly, and a head peeks out from between the mess of ruffled, ruined feathers. It’s a shock of pale blond hair, and -
Oh, God.
(Yes, You, why, why, why? Why him?)
Aziraphale has Fallen.
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Aziraphale Falls. Crowley, down in Hell following the Edinburgh incident, does his best to catch him.
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quiet existence by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
11 Feb 2024
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Warlock studies Crowley for a long moment, before slowly asking, “are you… bad at riding a bike, Nanny?”
“Bad at riding a bike? No, I’m - “
“My dear,” interjects Aziraphale, “I’m afraid we’ve both just seen that you do seem to be rather… unsteady on a bike.”
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Warlock’s first attempt at riding a bike without training wheels has mixed results for those involved.
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- Part 10 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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we can be heroes by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
12 Feb 2024
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Crowley, there to help him, all because Aziraphale may have started a little rumor about someone matching his description being locked away in a tower in the area. Oh, he never even named any names, for fear that it might reflect poorly on his rather gracious hosts. He’d just - well, he’d rather wanted to know what would happen, when he heard that Crowley also happened to be in the area. He’d just… he’s not sure. But ever since that time in the woods, how happy Crowley had seemed when he’d been able to help him, how wonderful a feeling it had been to have him march in and save the day - or at least try to - he’s been thinking about this.
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Five times Crowley came to Aziraphale’s rescue, and one time Aziraphale went to Crowley’s, featuring six meals shared.
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- Part 11 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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always darkest by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
13 Feb 2024
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Out there, the night still seems awfully dark, even with the light of day starting to break.
Crowley shivers, and knows that it has nothing to do with the frigid winter night. Still, he takes the tartan blanket that’s offered to him, and -
Wait, what?
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It’s the dawn of a new year, the first one since Aziraphale left for Heaven, and Crowley has a surprise visitor.
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- Part 12 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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against the dying of the light by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
14 Feb 2024
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Crowley has been talking to Her for as long as he can remember existing, and She’s never answered before, but he’s never needed it like he does now. Not even when he Fell. So this time, this time She needs to listen. This time She needs to give him something.
She’s forsaken him, he knows that. He got the message loud and clear a long time ago. But not Aziraphale, She hasn’t forsaken him yet. She can’t abandon him now.
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Aziraphale is dying. In a moment of desperation, Crowley strikes a bargain with God.
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- Part 13 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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in the end times by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
15 Feb 2024
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“You see,” explains Aziraphale, “they said the dead would rise from their graves, and I thought that meant they would be on Earth as spirits. But it rather seems like they meant it quite literally. The dead are… rising from their graves. In their bodies. At least as far as I can tell, it’s - well, it’s only just started a few minutes ago. I wouldn’t have asked you over if I knew.”
“You’re not - “ Crowley frowns and glances out the storefront window, brows knitting together. There’s quite a commotion still happening outside, but he can’t see anything out there that screams zombies. “You can’t mean there’s a literal zombie apocalypse happening outside.”
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Weeks after Aziraphale leaves for Heaven, Crowley receives a phone call asking for them to meet back at the bookshop. In the time it takes for him to get there, the world changes.
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- Part 14 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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ducks, ponds and other miracles by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
16 Feb 2024
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The nightmarish part, Meredith always told herself, were the requests and the faults they found in any property. Too big, Mr. Fell would say. What the heaven have they done to this garden, Mr. Crowley would add.
Meredith had wanted to cry by the end of it.
So yes, she’d sold her worst customers the house across from hers. Now that they’re moving in, she can see the fruits of her mistakes.
It’s not just about the duck pond.
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Aziraphale and Crowley purchase a nice little cottage in the South Downs. It doesn’t go unnoticed.
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- Part 15 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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words unsaid by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
17 Feb 2024
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“There could be an accident! Or they could use the holy water against you! I can’t - I can’t take that risk,” says Aziraphale.
Crowley lets out a growl of frustration, and suddenly he’s on his feet again, vibrating with an energy that Aziraphale has long since learned means that he’s doing his very best not to start pacing. “Why? Why is this so important to you?”
“Because I love you!”
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Following the argument in 1862, Aziraphale goes back to his bookshop, and resolves to forget it. He’s less than successful.
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- Part 16 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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blossoms (of hope) by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
18 Feb 2024
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The human raises an eyebrow at Crowley. “You’re not a couple?”
“Yeah. I mean, no. We’re not. A couple.”
She lets out a small hum, her eyes moving from Crowley to Aziraphale, who’s still browsing the stacks with enthusiasm, completely absorbed in the task. They linger on him for a moment, then turn back to Crowley. “I know it’s none of my business, but… why not?”
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Aziraphale takes Crowley along to a bookshop, and the shopkeeper has some observations to make.
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- Part 17 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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after desperate measures by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
19 Feb 2024
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise, really, but Aziraphale still stares at the demons gathered outside his bookshop with a mix of shock and utter displeasure.
If Crowley had taken the job with Hell, things might have been different. If Aziraphale had taken the job with Heaven, things might have been different. But neither of them had, and he finds it hard to really regret it. Hell - and Heaven, for that matter - want a war. There’s no telling whether any number of factors would have changed their mind, especially after the incident with the halo. They would not look kindly on that.
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Hell returns to the bookshop. Aziraphale and Crowley stand their ground.
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- Part 18 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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faded memories by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
20 Feb 2024
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Aziraphale has been very carefully looking at the specific dots on the map, never focusing on the full picture. It’s easier that way, it avoids uncomfortable truths and difficult conversations. It lets him keep on believing in things that he thinks might be rather difficult to truly have faith in, should he allows himself to contemplate the likely explanation.
And yet there must always come a time when it’s impossible to ignore important truths, must there not? Aziraphale has been slowly but steadily learning this over the course of his existence.
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After thousands of years skirting the issue, a new photo from the European Space Agency is the push that Aziraphale needs to ask Crowley about his memories.
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- Part 19 of do it with style presents - highway to pail
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the return of the act by rainbowumbrella
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
21 Feb 2024
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“Fine,” Crowley agrees through gritted teeth. “But promise me that there’s no risk of discorporation this time. I am not doing that again.”
“Oh, of course not! No, this is just a children’s party, it should be far easier to amuse them, I expect. Some card tricks, rabbits being pulled out hats, that sort of stuff. And, of course, for the grand finale, I’ll saw you in half!”
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The return of Aziraphale’s magic act, and of Crowley’s anxiety - not that it ever really left.
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- Part 20 of do it with style presents - highway to pail