GOHE 2018 BEGINS: HAPPY HOLIDAYS, ARGYLEHEIR!

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Title: An Invitation You Can’t Decline
Recipient: Argyleheir
Characters/Pairings: Aziraphale/Crowley
Rating: M (SFW, but there’s kissing, closeness, and innuendo)
Word Count: 1,730
Notes: The prompt I went with was good wine and bad ghost stories on Christmas Eve. I’m absolutely nobody to turn down the chance to have characters tell ghost stories, so thank you very much, dear recipient, for giving me the chance to write this for you! I’ll be the first to admit there’s indeed some Queen-related humor in play, starting with the title.

Summary: “You can ravish me later,” Crowley whispered with charming chagrin. “Let’s tell ghost stories.”

Aziraphale made an irritated noise and sipped his champagne. “I don’t know any ghost stories.”

“You, surrounded by books all the live-long day,” Crowley laughed, “don’t know any?”
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS, DEMONSADVOCATE!

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Title: Dancing Around It
Recipient: Demonsadvocate
Characters/Pairings: Aziraphale/Crowley (technically pre-slash)
Rating: M (SFW, but suggestive)
Word Count: 2,830
Notes: Hey, Demonsadvocate! Your prompt about Aziraphale and Crowley realizing they have feelings for each other, but proving inept in courting attempts, is the one I chose. It manifested differently than I imagined, by which I mean there’s a past moment paired with a parallel moment in the present. Thanks for the opportunity to approach this trope a bit differently.

Summary: “Az—ah, Mr. Fell says this place is discreet,” [Crowley] said curtly. “How discreet we talking?”

“Such as you might meet the occasional backgammon player, sir,” said the steward, pointedly.

Crowley ran that statement through his dusty catalogue of human slang. It pinged accordingly.
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