Snektember Day 04: Sneks on a Plane
It had been such a nice day, really. Strolling into the airport, hand in hand because they could. Crowley had cheerfully - and in some pointed cases quite spitefully - informed anyone who would listen in increasingly less subtle ways that they were on their honeymoon. It was charming, endearing, precious... A culmination of things they’d both wanted for millennia and simply hadn’t been able to express.
They were free to do exactly as they liked now. They could and had married, though it was really only symbolic to them. They’d exchanged rings and a quiet little handfasting ceremony at the Third Alternative Rendezvous Point. A little way to make up for the hurt feelings they’d experienced in the heat of the impending Apocalypse. A little way to change poor memories.
Aziraphale rather adored thinking of the bandstand now, the way Crowley’s eyes had shone with tears he’d denied and still did deny whenever Aziraphale teased him for being an emotional wreck. Aziraphale hadn’t been able to stop smiling long enough to get teary, hand locked with Crowley’s and private promises exchanged right alongside wedding rings. It still made him smile just thinking of it, of the way Their Side had become something so solid.
Of course, that didn’t mean Aziraphale had forgotten who he’d married.
It had been such a nice day and such a nice flight until some woman in business class with them had sniffed and rather pointedly complained to her husband that they would just let anyone in first class nowadays. That would’ve been enough to warrant Aziraphale looking the other way on a little demonic mischief resulting in her having an unexpected ticket mixup or her bag mysteriously disappearing. But then she’d added something negative about “the homos” and “ugly snake tattoos.”
Crowley muttered something under his breath about “show her an ugly snake.”
After assuring him that, “Darling, you couldn’t possibly. You’re a lovely serpent,” Aziraphale retrieved his book. “You know, I believe I’ll get in a bit of reading.”
The screaming started three and a half minutes later.
