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Chapters: 8/19 Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device, Original Characters, The Bentley (Good Omens) Additional Tags: The Arrangement (Good Omens), 6000 Years of Slow Burn (Good Omens), South Downs Grand Designs, Historical Figures, Memory Alteration, England (Country), Art History, Aziraphale's Bookshop (Good Omens), Botanically Accurate, Gardens & Gardening, Post-Almost Apocalypse (Good Omens), Crowley's Flat (Good Omens), history of science, Genderfluid Crowley (Good Omens), Friends to Lovers Summary:
Aziraphale has hidden his regrets. Crowley has hidden his hopes.
One day they’ll unpack them together.
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As he wound up the Olympia path, he saw the figure underneath a large magnolia tree. Hard to miss, resplendent as a rich merchant, blue robe trimmed with gold to match a turban of silk. And a bejewelled horn.
“Gabriel,” Aziraphale sighed.
“You’re filthy,” the other angel intoned, while leaves overhead trembled and fell to the ground with the aural assault.
“Earthly voice, please,” Aziraphale winced, because you got used to a certain reduced timbre after a while away from Heaven. “And I’ve just escorted a group of pilgrims from Jerusalem on foot. A few splashes of mud is to be expected while doing the Lord’s work.”
