Good Omens Holiday Exchange

HAPPY HOLIDAYS RiWriting!!

Thank you to Luna for the beta.

Rating: G 

PAIRING/PLOT BUNNY/RATING CHOICE ONE: Gen or Aziraphale/Crowley. One or both of Aziraphale and Crowley get a job as a historical interpreter. Their reason for getting this job is up to you – maybe it's a mission from Heaven/Hell, maybe there's a bet involved, or maybe one or both were just bored. Considering they both lived through the events they're portraying, they might be very good at it...or they might be utterly incompetent.

PAIRING/PLOT BUNNY/RATING CHOICE TWO: Gen (although Aziraphale/Crowley is welcome as a background ship). Adam's college roommate has been noticing that something is a bit off about Adam. He never seems to get in trouble for typical college shenanigans; suspicion slides right off him. No one even questions the pet dog he keeps in the dorm even though pets are not permitted. When a nervous man in sunglasses and sharp suits shows up and talks to Adam like Adam is his boss, the roommate decides there's only one explanation: Adam must be involved in organized crime. (Adam, Dog, and Crowley are in their canon roles; those roles are just misunderstood by the roommate, because “mafia” makes more sense than “the antichrist, his hellhound, and a demon.” Other GO characters welcome to appear). 

Help! I think my roommate is in the Mafia!

The snake and the angel
rating: general

Lemuria has fallen in the fury of a tidal wave;

The cities are drowned; the pitiless, all-prevailing,

Inhuman sea is Numinor’s salt grave.

C S Lewis – The last of the Wine.

Recipient: #22, scorpling

Title: The Glint of Light on Broken Glass

Wordcount: 13946

Rating: M (for disturbing imagery, body horror, general discussion of nuclear war)

Summary: They stopped the Heavenly (or Hellish, depending on whom one asked) Apocalypse and went back to their lives. They fed ducks and they ate decadent meals and drank expensive wine. And they did not notice as the humans hurtled closer and closer to disaster. When the true apocalypse happened neither Heaven nor Hell was involved in the slightest, it was all down to humans’ thoughts and humans’ ideas and the humans’ hatred of each other. 

And so, Heaven watched in horror and Hell in delight as the humans tore atoms asunder to kill and to desecrate and to destroy. Then, they very carefully decided it was maybe a good idea to give things a few years to settle, after all, they still had their agents on Earth. 

No need for further involvement. 

Thus, three decades pass. 

Today, Sophie Greenbriar decides to search the ruins of what was once Soho for salvage.
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Recipient: hoshi_ryo

Rating: PG

Word Count: 9,006

Summary: After helping to avert Armageddon and starting their own lives on Earth, Aziraphale and Crowley open an occult detective business. Their first case comes from Shadwell and is rather straightforward: scout out an isolated house with a strange woman living there who may or may not be a witch. What starts out as an easy investigation takes a much darker turn as they uncover the truth about the woman and the isolated house.

Characters: Aziraphale, Crowley, Shadwell appears in the first scene, OC

Warnings: Horror elements, mild language

Author’s Note: Thanks to Mod Luna for beta reading my story and providing great feedback! As a fan of Good Omens and the horror genre, this was a lot of fun to write. I combined the first and second prompt because I loved the idea of Aziraphale and Crowley investigating a case as occult detectives, only to realize the problem is a lot darker and heavier than they thought. To hoshi_ryo, I hope I did your prompts justice, and happy holidays!