#106 More of a March than a Saunter or a Fall - Good Omens Big Bang 2019
Title: More of a March than a Saunter or a Fall
Story by D20Owlbear and art by @takamei team #106
Full Art Post by Takamei
Word Count: 17,156
Archive Warnings: None that apply
Rating: T
Pairing(s): Gen/Implied AziCrow
Character(s): Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), A Host of Supporting Characters, Adam Young (Good Omens), God (Good Omens)
Tags:
Crowley-centric, Pining, Snake Crowley (Good Omens), 10 Times Crowley Existed in the World Not Covered By The Series, Pre-Fall, The Fall - Freeform, Babylon, Epic of Gilgamesh - Freeform, Crowley is Mistaken for a minor Goddess at Least Once, China, Germany, France - Freeform, India, We're World Travelers Now, Demon's First Car, First Queen Concert, Desert of Time, Plane of The Sands of Time, Grains of Sand as a Metaphor, Trying to Explain the Metaphor Too Much, Whump, Crowley Whump, Hurt Crowley, the timeline is fucked, Too much research, Did you know you can find entire Queen Concert Setlists?, Aziraphale cameo, pine scented throughout the whole thing, Feelings Making Corporations Defective Since 4004 BCE (Good Omens), God ships it (Good Omens), Rated T for Difficult Feelings, And Tramua, Honestly Aziraphale isn't in this much, But Crowley thinks about him
Summary: For every grain of the Sands of Time there is a story, a moment or an eternity contained within it. Immortality, functional or otherwise, is an interesting sort of thing - gaining weights filled with this sand and never shedding it to age properly. But what happens when it falls from one, especially amongst the Desert of Time with its rolling dunes? For each of the sands that fall, like grains in an hourglass, another story and moment passes. Crowley-centric look through time, told in snapshots of times not covered in the show and book.
“And whatever happens . . . for good or for evil, we’re beside you.”
“I’m going to start time. You won’t have long to do whatever you’re going to do.” Crowley revved the tyre iron as if he were cranking an old car's motor with it, “And do it quickly!”
Sand whirled around three figures. Demon, Angel, and the Prince of Men. And suddenly it all fell away and they were back. In Tadfield, at the airbase, on a vast expanse of lifeless concrete that gave way to fire and brimstone as Satan clawed his way to the surface.
And Adam, the Young one, knew exactly what to do.
Crowley and Aziraphale believed in him so desperately that, even if Adam’s powers hadn’t been enough to shape this reality, he had the might of an agent of both Hell and Heaven at his fingertips.