Across the Line - Chapter One
Things had been great before Crowley. Ezra had been living a perfectly ordinary life, getting his degree at University College and trying to work out how to open a bookshop after graduation. He’d been commuting back and forth to class for the better part of three years from the flat he shared with his best friend in the Mile End, and everything had been normal.
And then Crowley had shown up, singing a cover of a Beatles song — specifically the song “Yesterday,” which Ezra knew from growing up in a house where John, Paul, George, and Ringo could practically be counted among his family members — and smiling at people who dropped money into his guitar case. Ezra had stopped walking to listen and stare, pressing his shoulder into the wall a few metres down the way from where Crowley was playing in an effort to appear nonchalant. He stayed as long as he could, transfixed by a perfect stranger with a nice smile and beautiful hands and a tattoo of a snake that wound its way down his left arm. Ezra had dropped a sweaty pound coin into Crowley’s case that day, and Crowley’s answering smile had driven something hot into the center of Ezra’s chest.
Hello, friends! I’m so excited to finally be able to start sharing the work that @mehrto, @zepuffer, and I have done for the @do-it-with-style-events Mini Bang! They have both been such wonderful cheerleaders, and their art is beyond beautiful. Myrto’s piece (seen above) corresponds to this first chapter, and Ana’s (seen below) is a sneak preview of an event from a chapter that will be posted in a few weeks!
This fic is a Human AU featuring neurodivergent Ezra, musician Crowley, found family shenanigans, and lots of lovely ace romance. Updates every week!