![]() "Where do you think it will all end?"Ĭrowley stopped his pacing and looked surprised. Come on, I'll even buy, where's your coat?"Īziraphale smiled wanly. He produced an alarming cheerful grin and marched across the room. Aziraphale in a pensive mood worried him. "Well, don't listen to it then." Crowley picked up the box and eyed the track name suspiciously. Someone left the tape in the shop and - well it makes me think - uncomfortable thoughts." The angel sniffed delicately and straightened up rather self-consciously. The figure on the couch opened his eyes, and Crowley was startled to see they were brimming with unshed tears. He did register, however, that it was about 100 years more recent than anything else the angel owned. He found him in the back room, leaning back on the patched leather sofa, eyes closed, listening to a melancholy music track that Crowley didn't recognise. ![]() He wondered where Aziraphale was, that he was apparently oblivious to the goings on in his shop. He generally approved of shoplifters, in an abstract sort of way. ![]() Taking in the cold, yellow-eyed stare the man dropped the book into the outstretched hand without another word and edged, terrified, to the door, trying not to turn his back on him.Ĭrowley tossed the book casually onto the counter. The man swung round, spouting simultaneous excuses and obscenities, but Crowley just slipped his sunglasses down a little way and glared. Thus, the scruffy figure slipping a first edition under its raincoat was wholly unaware of his presence until a hand descended on its shoulder. By rights, the bell should have announced his presence with a merry little tinkle, but he'd long ago terrified it into silence where he was concerned. Crowley persuades him to abandon the subject."ĭisclaimer: Not my characters, just shoplifting them.Ī/N: Lyrics from 'Fall, Fall, Fall' by Razorlight.Ĭrowley slipped silently in through the door to the bookshop. Summary: Prompt from jazzy_fay of "Aziraphale ponders the Fall (Man's, Crowley's, and his own potential) much to Crowley's horror.
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