MerleTheEarl

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    Crowley works in a coffeeshop, which Aziraphale frequently visits. They are both very attracted to each other, but are certain that the other is completely out of their league. So... they continue to stare at each other from a distance.

    But what happens when they’re forced to talk?

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Sleeping was more complicated than Aziraphale first thought. It was hard to figure out what was real and what was a dream. Crowley wasn't making it any easier either, grinding against him in the dead of the night and making the angel feel things that he didn't understand. He'd like to say that he didn't give in to the Temptation, but the angel was so weak when it came to the demon he loved. In his defense, he thought he was dreaming. At first.

    (In which Crowley is a teasing little shit as he sleeps and Aziraphale makes a lot of bad choices.)

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    17 May 2026

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    Said I, a few weeks ago: "I feel there’s also room for e.g. bedsharing fic where the apocalypse has Not Happened and they’ve fallen into queerplatonic (or so they think) bedsharing and Crowley thinks he’s alone in being driven slowly to distraction by it, so he says nothing. Then one night he wakes when it’s still dark, and at first he doesn’t know why, until he hears Aziraphale’s breathing a little raspier than usual, and feels the very slight trembling of the bed."

    And lo, that is exactly what this is.

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    17 May 2026

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    Aziraphale knew Crowley was desperately in love with him; he heard it straight from the source one incredibly drunken night. He was just the only one who remembered, and was too afraid to do anything about it.
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    He stared at him for a long moment, and then suddenly surged forward, grabbing Aziraphale by the coat and shoving him hard against the bookcase. Their noses were centimeters from touching, his breath hot on Aziraphale’s skin. “You knew the whole fucking time?” he repeated, growling. “And never said a God damned thing?”

    Not at all the response he expected, Aziraphale only blinked dumbly a few times, hands instinctively grabbing Crowley’s, but not pushing him away. Humiliated? He didn’t understand. All of the anticipation he had before was replaced by ice in his veins. “Yes?” he croaked.

    Crowley’s trembling fingers tightened around the lapels of his coat. “How could you?”

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    17 May 2026

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    “Perhaps we should think about retiring together, somewhere by the sea,” said Aziraphale, as if this was an ordinary proposal, not a change in the fundamental structure of the universe.

    Crowley glowered and shrugged one thin shoulder. “S’pose it makes sense,” he said at last. “No sense keeping up headquarters if we’re retired.”

    He slouched out of the bookshop, and only broke into a run a few steps from the Bentley.

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    04 Apr 2026