A more specific Hurt/Comfort Prompt -- Aziraphale has been having terrible awful nightmares (subject doesn't matter, likely heaven/hell related) and is very, very hesitant about asking comfort from Crowley
Aziraphale woke with a start, terror still heavy in his bones, still seizing in his muscles, and tried to take a breath through the constriction in his chest. He couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t call out for several minutes as the nightmare faded, leaving behind it only the bitter taste of adrenaline and an ache that wasn’t real, couldn’t possibly be real.
As soon as he had motor control back in hand, he rolled into a sitting position and picked up the small, fragile piece of technology he’d invested in since the world didn’t end. The screen lit when he touched it, and a couple of taps brought him into his image gallery. Almost all of them were of Crowley, many of them even smiling, and Aziraphale flipped through them until his heart stopped pounding. Gently, and without actually touching the screen, Aziraphale brushed a thumb across his favorite photo, one of Crowley looking up at him with a bit of a sly smile, ruined by the lack of his glasses and the fondness in his golden eyes.
Aziraphale tapped the screen a couple more times, switching to his contacts list. There was only one name, only one person he would want to call from anywhere except the comfort of his bookshop. And despite that he opened the entry almost nightly lately, he had yet to actually call. The time listed at the top of the phone read 3:14am, and Aziraphale was loathe to wake Crowley for such a trivial problem as a nightmare.
Their corporations had been more demanding lately, without the ability to recharge them in Heaven or Hell respectively. Crowley might have been having a little easier time of it, but not by much. He’d slept before, and eaten on occasion, but for the most part he was used to being as inhuman as Aziraphale was and while they were not, exactly, human, they weren’t exactly the same as other angels and demons anymore. Even if they could have returned to Heaven and Hell to recharge their mortal forms, Aziraphale thought they’d still be… different.
For one, they dreamed now.
Or at least, when Aziraphale had first broached the subject, to ask if Crowley ever dreamed, Crowley had told him yes, and that had been the end of it. Aziraphale had read some books on dreaming since, and decided that it must be considered a bit of a personal affair, and that sharing them was something most humans only did with their close friends. Crowley hadn’t seemed particularly keen on sharing anything more than that he had them, and so Aziraphale had not brought it up again.
Which also meant that he closed his contact list and set the darkened phone back on the night stand without calling Crowley.
As soon as he did, the screen lit up, Crowley’s name at the top and little red and green phone symbols over the top of Aziraphale’s favorite photo. For a brief moment, Aziraphale worried he had somehow pressed the call button, but this was definitely Crowley calling him, not the other way around. Quickly, he swiped at the green phone button, and lifted the phone to his ear.
“Are you alright?” he asked, instead of saying hello. There was absolutely no reason for Crowley to call him at quarter past three in the morning unless it was an emergency.
“Can’t sleep,” came Crowley’s voice, though it carried the scratch that came with having just woken up.
Aziraphale laid back against his headboard. “Me either,” he admitted quietly. There was something to these mobile phones, that he could be here in the softness and relative privacy of his bedroom and still talk to Crowley. Maybe he should have had one sooner. “Do you… that is, I wouldn’t mind company, if you like.”
Crowley let out a loud breath. “I’d like that,” he said, as earnest as Aziraphale had ever heard him be. “I don’t really want to be alone right now.”
Aziraphale frowned. “Did something happen?”
There was a long silence, so long that Aziraphale pulled the phone away from his ear to make sure he hadn’t accidentally disconnected it somehow, but when he put it back, Crowley said: “It’s just, nothing. Silly to let it get to me. They’re just nightmares.”
“Oh,” Aziraphale said, heart breaking. So that was it. That was what Crowley hadn’t wanted to tell him about dreaming- neither one of them were. “I have them too.”
“Yeah?” Crowley said, sounding a little… hopeful, almost. “You never said.”
“You never said either,” Aziraphale pointed out, then forced himself to relax. “Come over, Crowley. We can talk about them in person. Maybe get breakfast in the morning?”
He could hear Crowley’s smile in his words. “Be there soon.”