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The body-swap has some unexpected life-threatening side effects for Crowley and Aziraphale does his best to save the demon he doesn't want to live without.
As the one-year mark of the Unpocalypse approaches, Aziraphale pointedly mentions to Crowley that he'd like to spend the anniversary doing "something lovely" with "somebody special". Thus, Crowley secretly plans a surprise picnic in Tadfield with Anathema and the Them. Of course, this comes served with a plateful of misunderstandings, a side of moping, and a seasoning of mischief... eventually followed by a deliciously pleasant afternoon.
After almost an entire century spent asleep, Crowley wakes in 1888 to find the world more changed than he thought possible. His first order of business is to find his angel.
Also concerning the origin of the Baroque gavotte (spoilers: Aziraphale was feeling thirsty).
Aziraphale has been made human, but with no memory of his several-lives-long friend. Crowley decides to hang around anyways.
Crowley is terrified of losing Aziraphale again, but unable to confess his feelings. He follows Aziraphale on an errand to America, where they end up invited to a seder and spend the next year being invited to other holidays and gatherings on both sides of the Atlantic. Is Crowley's pining painfully obvious to everyone but Aziraphale? (Yes.) Are the rabbi and her wife going to try and get them together? (Yes.) How many Jewish holidays will these two ineffable idiots be invited to before they finally admit their feelings to each other? (Read it and see!)
So it was fine. Even if Crowley couldn’t love him, he clearly liked him well enough, and that was almost the same thing.
It no doubt would have continued to be fine, or at least fine-adjacent, were it not for a narrowly averted apocalypse and several bottles of a really quite nice Riesling Aziraphale had found in the back room of his newly restored bookshop.
After the argument, when Crowley kisses Aziraphale, he tastes something strange - almonds. Suspecting there was chicanery with Aziraphale's coffee, he stops time, Aziraphale clears his system, and they talk quickly - but for the sake of the earth they have to separate. Now it's a race with time to find the Son of God and stop the Second Coming.
And as soon as they're done with that, they're going to have a very long conversation.
Once upon a time (in the year 1594), a playwright asked an angel and a demon to say some lines from a play he's working on. Several hundred years later, Aziraphale hasn't stopped thinking about them.
After spending the night together after Armageddidn’t, Crowley and Aziraphale completely avoid talking about what happened. It takes the excruciatingly long, never-ending span of three entire days before Crowley snaps and has to say something, and ends up admitting to his not-so-repressed love.
“What I’m saying,” said Aziraphale, looking fixedly ahead, “and please don’t take this as a personal insult in any way, is that an angel and a demon can’t be friends.”
“Why not?”
“Because,” said Aziraphale, firmly. “It’s against the order of things. You’re supposed to tempt. I’m supposed to thwart. We can’t go being friends.”
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A canon-divergent AU inspired by When Harry Met Sally.