20. Teacher au and 70. Locked in a room ,:3c
okay okay i’ve been thinking about a teacher au in the back of my mind for a while. crowley teaches physics and chemistry. he’s tough, but fair. he has very strict lab policies. students in sandals are not permitted.
aziraphale is an english teacher and his advanced courses are brutal to pass. kids complain about him constantly, poke fun at him for his old vintage clothes, and tease him about his angel wing mug. aziraphale adds a hundred words to their final paper every time they do this without telling them, so final papers have different word counts from class to class.
on the outside it appears crowley and aziraphale don’t even know one another, but they’ve in fact been good friends for some years. one evening they get stuck in a supply closet while working late and can’t get out. they have to suffer through the night together, but they wind up having a pretty decent time. aziraphale falls asleep with his head on crowley’s shoulder and crowley’s heart soars a little.
over the next few weeks we see the relationship develop from the students’ perspective. someone breaks aziraphale’s mug and he’s distraught. one day a new one appears on his desk. “who did this?” he asks, but no one will fess up. no one will admit they saw a small box sitting on mr. crowley’s desk a couple days before either, though.
there’s a school dance in the spring. everyone thinks that mr. crowley and mr. fell should co-chaperone and finally just admit that they’ve got big ol’ crushes on one another.
after it finally happens, kids thing they’ll be easier to deal with. they are not. they are, somehow, even worse.
