Happy Holidays, tomato-greens!

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Title: After all, Hell.

This is a brief narrative about an angel commanded to recover a damned soul from hell. And the demon that "helped" him. Rating: G

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Happy Holidays, niaocat!

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• title: (the composer has stepped into fire.)
  
• recipient name: niaocat
• rating: hovering somewhere between teen and mature.
• word count: 16,218
• pairings: aziraphale/crowley
• warnings: violence, blood, mild body horror, one scene focusing on vomiting, references to the second world war/child death during the aforementioned war, and language.
  

summary: “It was a nice night, crickets singing beyond the car park. No one was outside but for him, and there was something strangely, absurdly lonely about it. Like he was the last living creature in the entire world. In a way, it had always been a story about this: Crowley, alone. Time was not linear, and so in the end, this was the way things would begin and end and stay. And there, surrounded by the welcoming dark and the unbearable weight of the night sky, he let himself think it:

Something is coming.”

(or: they go on a road trip and things do not go as planned.)

1. additional note one: i am so sorry @/niaocat, you probably wanted something nice with a small dose of angst, and instead you got this borderline-horror story :’). that being said! i feed off of the tears of the innocent. bear that in mind.
2. additional note two: this is a fusion of both book and show canon, if that makes sense. the archangels are characters in this, but the character designs are what i imagined them to be as i read the novel. if you want a visual of this, i strongly recommend you look at this absolutely gorgeous art by @/niqx on tumblr that pretty much summarizes my designs: https://niqx.tumblr.com/post/179465876482/good-omens-took-over-my-life-yall.
3. additional note three: my title comes from anne sexton’s wonderful poem, “the kiss”, which I highly recommend you read.
4. additional note four: because I’m just that Extra™, i made a fucking playlist for this bad boy. here’s the link, hit it up, it’s what the kids like to call ‘fire’: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1n4nwvAFgaXwHBk67c7qUw?si=ATmXCqsTQMWjnaFHoLO4SQ. and now, without further ado: the content you signed up for. enjoy!

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror—which we still are just able to endure—and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. And so I hold myself back and swallow the call-note of my dark sobbing.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies”.
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