Good Omens Holiday Exchange

Title: What Happens to the Heart
Recipient: vulgarweed
Characters: Aziraphale & Crowley; mentions of Leonard Cohen & Freddie Mercury
Pairings: Aziraphale/Crowley (starts pre-relationship; ends post-getting-together)
Rating: M (to be on the safe side)
Word Count: 3,070
Notes: My recipient’s third prompt (Something Aziraphale/Crowley inspired by the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, any song but “Hallelujah”) is the one I knew I’d be filling no matter what—especially given Cohen’s posthumous album release on 22 November 2019. Cohen’s son, Adam, says of the first track on Thanks for the Dance, “[My father] was hell-bent—or heaven-bent—on completing it, and we just were unable to get a musical accompaniment that he was satisfied with. I think it’s one in a long line of songs that have his essential thesis in life, which is the broken hallelujah. Everything cracks, and this is what happens to the heart.”
Summary: From the moment Aziraphale met Crowley on the curb out front and noticed Crowley surreptitiously shoving a tape into the Blaupunkt, he was sure he’d been on this sort of ride before. With Crowley, the latest musical releases were always cause for debate.

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