Dying to read any of your Muriel and Crowley relating to each other snippets
Well shit okay please enjoy the first two chapters of what I am definitely calling All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Also please pretend I linked the "that's not constructive criticism" meme bc I can't find it but I like to think I'm funny
One year.
It had now been one year since that day. That awful day. That fucking roller coaster of a day that Crowley had dared to believe might be the greatest day in more than six millenia of existence.
Won't make that mistake again.
If life had taught him anything over and over and over again it was that faith is bullshit. Faith in God, faith in... shit even the ?-damned Bentley had betrayed him on occasion.
Well FUCK God and--okay he could never stay mad at his car--but most of all
FUCK. AZIRAPHALE.
Crowley had learned his lesson. He'd had his year of constant, uninterrupted contemplation over an eternity of heartbreak and betrayal with nothing and no one to distract him.
He was done. Three-hundred and sixty-five days later he was done moping and crying and mourning a life he was never going to have. He was done. He was over it. He was over A--
The doorbell rang.
Was...could...is it...? The timing was too perfect. Or terrible. A sick joke. But still...
Crowley cautiously approached the door. For a moment he paused, took a deep breath, and opened the door.
Shit.
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Crowley slammed the door before the angel on the other side could see him break. How had he let this happen again?? He'd literally just told himself not five minutes before that hope was stupid and he was done with it. Fuck.
It was then that he processed fully what he saw outside the apartment.
Well fuck, he thought, I think someone else might need to break down more than I do.
Crowley composed himself before opening the door again. Standing there on his not-particularly-welcoming welcome mat was Muriel, dressed 100% more like a regular human than the last time he had seen them, but also with 100% more tears than he had ever seen pour out of a human's eyes.
"Come in," Crowley said, and Muriel immediately ran to wrap their arms around his waist and sob into his shirt.
"Oh-okay. Ow. Um," Crowley choked out as the very small angel managed to squeeze breath he didn't even really need out of him. Muriel made no indication of hearing him. He sighed and awkwardly patted them on the head.
Crowley didn't know Muriel all that well, which was by choice as there was only ever one angel he really cared to know any any of the others were just thorns in his side. But Crowley always had a soft spot for kids, and Muriel's wide-eyed trust and optimism and fascination with everything had an innocence to it, and they had always trusted him even when he was manipulating them.
"What happened?" he asked after a few minutes of letting Muriel clutch him and cry on his chest.
Muriel let go and stepped back, sniffling and wiping their eyes. "It's gone. The bookshop is gone," they said. "It's all gone."
Crowley felt a pit in his stomach. "What do you mean 'gone'?" he asked.
"I went out to the park to read because the weather was so nice," they said, "and when I came back it was just gone! The sign, the books, everything, and it had a big 'for lease' banner where it used to say 'A. Z. Fell and Co.'"
After letting out another sob they continued, "and I thought there must be some mistake up at Headquarters but suddenly I couldn't even feel them anymore and couldn't contact Heaven or even call the elevator and now I don't know what to do! They never gave me any instructions for this!"
A wave of confusion and fear and rage washed over Crowley all at once. Gone? The bookshop couldn't be gone. Aziraphale would never allow that to happen and he certainly wouldn't have allowed poor, sweet, idiot Muriel to slip through the cracks.
Yeah. Just me, he thought, before shaking his head as if that would make him stop thinking about it.
"What were your instructions for running the shop? What was going on in Heaven leading up to this?"
Muriel shifted uncomfortably. "Well a year ago the Metatron put me in charge of the shop when Aziraphale," Crowley winced at the name--"took over as Supreme Archangel and then Aziraphale sent me a binder full of guidelines on how to run the shop."
Crowley snorted. Of course he had made a whole binder for Muriel to ensure not a single book was ever out of place.
"Okay, and then?" he prompted.
"And that's it."
"That's it??"
"Yes," said Muriel. "That was the last time I heard from them."
Crowley let out a big sigh. It was one thing to do it to him. To cast him out and beat him down and reject him over and over again. But Muriel was innocent. Innocent and naïve and simple. He pulled them back into a protective embrace. They were now just an angel and a demon alone on Earth, abandoned by everyone they cared about.
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No but is it really one of your favs ships if u don't have a playlist for them
Yes I wrote this post only to share my ship's playlist if any of y'all care so WHAT anyway here they are
Merthur Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7qC8kcwkTy8zUwwMtNdHEJ?si=4CarnOY5T1ewqmF8mhQnXA&pi=u-SN42Cs1oTvei
Nandermo Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2e9mFwufBGWVoMK7f6XvuX?si=xZk2rdD2QXSmEZnYNXR6UA
Innefable Husbands Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WikaxxtH3Ng8XzF0O8FHJ?si=aHVR_0sLQiaj1D2eIj16mQ
Spirk Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4O0QIOgqo7XqudFnVwqgNq?si=JKO0dVzrRrS8MCgEUfPT1Q&pi=u-AQYOd9ueTZGa
HaiYin Addicted Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1tFgmi573GBCl6S4WmcdV2?si=QZrvfnFzRTqC6duWC7FFSA&pi=u-8vZmJe-7QKWC
Starsky and Hutch Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3b1mBG9fLViODX8RGgvcyU?si=blQ2LemBR6OuBx6hDEjtGQ&pi=u-L0oTCcAvQ1aA
HiraXKiyoi MBM Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pqPVCBF4MA150J5p46Lkl?si=I50S8qSvRSiS0ZetP0LiWg&pi=u-XKj5oLVNRCWT
MoonjoXJungwoo SFH Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/629rkeb2aOZGivxbOZtD1V?si=UEt6bwZjTTCnj3KiS8sRFg&pi=u-0hbm4T-hSRmh
Johnlock Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FQcrmLVlmLw5hK4PHlNbm?si=22Yt14mrSXyfTTvZN-dWsw&pi=u-HaXVuA4bTc2x
JuwonXDongshik BE Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1CCdkdJnhPFGRSNsdEPDgV?si=lJQpUXWoThyP4QeKDkzuFg&pi=u-2-ueYj5xSOOs
This is my legacy
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