Plotted starter for @ofginjxints [Crowley]
He had a choice to make, and precious little time to do it in before window closed on itself and the choice would be made for him. He was about to walk away! The problem was that, over the span of the past thirty minutes, Aziraphale had had a lot of information to process. Some might even say too much information.
"Crowley WAIT- ", the angel cried out, a slight tremble to his voice. For ages, there had been a war waging inside of him between what was right and what felt right. Today, the final battle in that war was being waged.
He didn't wait to see whether Crowley would stop, a few hurried steps closing the distance between them, hands reaching out and then balling into tight fists right before actually making contact. "-please...wait. I can't do this without you, but -"
The words lay on the tip of his tongue, but he almost didn't dare utter them again. He couldn't begin to count how many times he'd used that argument. It was useless.
"Even if I wanted to...It's the Metatron! I can't very well say: 'Thank you for the opportunity to become Supreme Archangel, but no thank you!' I don't think it's really a question when someone like that asks you to do something."