lunchbreaks: (wishing she had never left at all)
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sauntered_downward: (armageddon yes)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-20 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, God.

But there are many things Crowley can do. He can stop time, he can unwrite mistakes, he can fix broken bones, he can create hell on a motorway. But right now, as he puts his arm around Aziraphale's shoulder and he cries into his shoulder, he can't help his friend. Can't fix whatever has broken within him over this situation. There's too much that has been lost.

"Let's get away from here," he says, moving to press his lips against Aziraphale's hair. "Just during the rain. Go somewhere else. We'll be right back."
sauntered_downward: (armageddon yes)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-20 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Crowley wants to counter with his usual bravado. And how would we do that, angel? he might say. What universe could we fix something this terrible? But he looks at Aziraphale, his Aziraphale, and he can't bring himself to pull him down like that. He can't hurt him, and he won't.

He can't stop time long enough to give Aziraphale a reprieve. He can't pull them away for more than a moment, and that isn't fair. But there is somewhere they can go, somewhere that he knows won't be touched by all of this.

"We'll come back to heal them," he says. "Show them where to rebuild. I can...set up a few good words with some celebrities. But you, you need to get away."

He offers the angel his hand. Transport miracles aren't Crowley's favorite. He's not very good at them, and they tend to take a bit out of him, but if he works at it, he can be anywhere he needs to in just a thought. It's how he's appeared in the nick of time to save Aziraphale a few times in the past. And right now, it's going to teleport them both a few miles away, to Crowley's flat. The one place that wouldn't be touched by this. The demons wouldn't go there, Crowley wasn't in. The angels wouldn't go there, too many demonic curses on it. It was a hole in the middle of the world, sitting vacant. A place to hide, just for a minute. A place for the angel to rest.
sauntered_downward: (it burned down)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-20 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Crowley allows Aziraphale to take off the armor because, well, he never really wanted to be in it to begin with. He's not a soldier, he barely knows how to fight anything. He fell into the demon gig, he didn't want to fight. And now here he is, a fighter for the human race. Suppose it was always going to be this way.

He wraps his arms around Aziraphale. How do you restore faith to an angel that has lost it? How does a demon restore an angel's faith? Crowley held onto his own sort of faith in an awkward kind of way, but he never kept very good care of it. Now he needs it more than ever.

"You saved the world," he says. "You do realize that, don't you?"
sauntered_downward: (to the world)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nowhere else in the universe I'd rather be, angel," Crowley replies. It's true, now that he thinks about it. He wouldn't go anywhere if Aziraphale couldn't go with him. It would be like losing part of himself. A big part, the better part. The part that cares and cries and wants things to go right. Crowley likes that part of himself, the Aziraphale part.

And Crowley doesn't correct the angel. Doesn't correct him when he says 'we', even though from Crowley's perspective, it's really Aziraphale who saved the world. Aziraphale who made it better. Truces can be broken, but Aziraphale's goodness won't be.

"And the world's not going anywhere either, as long as we have say in it," he adds.
sauntered_downward: (armageddon yes)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"There," he says, by way of trying to make the angel feel better. "That's good, right. We've got it. Well, you. I just sort of...supervise."

He looks down at Aziraphale, and the way he smiles. It's genuine, less pained. Protectors of Earth. He seems to like that, and it's a title that Crowley wouldn't lie if he said he didn't mind it so much. He'd be rubbish at it, of course. Drunk half the time and not at all competent at any other part of it, but he'd certainly try.

"The question becomes----what about us?" he says. "My side will want a trial. A traitor, they'd see me as. Double traitor. Can there be a double traitor?"
sauntered_downward: (Oh!)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sort of trials, they're not exactly what you'd call fair," Crowley says, taking a step back from Aziraphale to finish removing his armor. He feels more like himself out of it. His leg aches, and he puts weight on it experimentally. No good. He's going to have to talk to Aziraphale about it. He's going to have to handle it before maggots crawl out of his muscle or he starts to turn into sand or whatever Hastur had planned up for him. Later.

"Oh, no, don't tell me there's another prophecy," Crowley says, tossing one of the gauntlets aside. "What is it this time? More War? Great big phantasmic opera in the sky? Rehash of American Idol?"
sauntered_downward: (armageddon yes)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Crowley considers lying for one whole second. He's pretty good at lying, and they're in such a state right now that he's pretty sure that Aziraphale would believe him if he lied. Aziraphale has caught him on a number of lies over the many centuries, but right now, he's pretty sure he'd get away with it.

But how could he lie to Aziraphale now? All they really have is each other.

"When Hastur hit me," he says, wincing as he touches his thigh. "He didn't just hit me, he---threw something at me. I don't know. A curse, probably. Something demonic. Something that can't just be restored with a miracle. It's never that easy, not with someone like Hastur. He likes his curses old and boring and awful."
sauntered_downward: (nah)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Had Crowley imagined a moment in which Aziraphale was asking him to remove his trousers----and he has, of course, but he'd never admit it aloud no matter how much wine he'd drank---he would never have wanted it to be in such a medicinal and clinical situation. Injured by a bloody demon and he has to have his leg looked at. Great, that.

"All right, all right," he says, fumbling a bit with his belt. "It's probably something basic, he's not one for imagination. Think---flesh-eating, limb-rotting. The sort of turn-you-into-stone nonsense that demons are known for. He doesn't step out of the box, Hastur. And if he did, it wouldn't be tough to break it. Probably just a simple ritual to counteract it."

He hopes. It's all a hope. Hastur is boring, but dangerous. He was a Duke of Hell, after all.

He pulls his trousers off, to reveal a black spot growing beneath the skin on his thigh. Something unpleasant brewing there.
sauntered_downward: (armageddon yes)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"What are you going to do?" Crowley says, finally dropping into one of the stools nearby. Salt, wine? Is this an exorcism? Crowley doesn't know. All he knows is that he hurts, and he's supposed to be the one taking care of Aziraphale right now, which only makes the whole situation that much worse.

He clicks his fingers, and a cabinet full of spices opens up, all of them purchased sometime in the 1970s, none of them bad. Crowley purchased most of the food in this house around that time, but none of it has spoiled. He doesn't bother cooking or taking care of anything here. This place is more like a pit stop and somewhere to house his beloved plants.

"It can't be as bad as it looks," he says. "Really, Hastur's not that...I mean, he can be, but he's not all that good at cursing."
sauntered_downward: (you don't say)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Crowley pulls a face, and then reaches behind himself, grabbing the pair of thick rubber gloves, the ones he wore when he handled holy water.

"It's demonic," he says, offering them to Aziraphale. "And you don't know what my blood could even do to you, neither of us do. Don't risk yourself over me."

It can't hurt that bad, he thinks, looking at the pillow. Bite down on a pillow? He can't be so embarrassing that he's going to need to bite down on a pillow. Then, Aziraphale puts the ring of angelic grace around the wound, and it burns with the holiness of it. It burns like nothing Crowley has experienced before. He cries out, and tries to stifle it.

He takes a breath. If there's one person in the whole of Creation----"I trust you," he says.
sauntered_downward: (and that's how you do it)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Crowley can handle pain----to a point. Hastur's curse is revolting, disgusting, and but mostly painful. Had he been imaginative, he'd have hit Crowley with something festering, something that changed him, something unique. But no, he stuck him with something that ate at his flesh, something normal for a demon. Something easily fixable. What a waste of power.

"He had one solid hit in, and he hit me with this," Crowley hisses. "You know, I don't even think he was really trying."

The salt covers the disgusting creatures, and they shrivel under the dehydrating effects. That's good----prevents Hastur from suddenly reapppearing on their doorstep. That would be something to be seen.

"Couldn't have gotten out of every battle unscathed," he says, and he makes a bandage pack appear in his hand. "It'll need to heal."
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[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-07-21 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Disposal is above the lightswitch," Crowley says, absently, gesturing to the switch. Who wouldn't know what a disposal is?

He moves to stand, and promptly goes back down onto the stool. Nope, he's going to have to try that a little slower. He tries again, and sits. He can wait. He'll wash the wound out in a few moments. No need to rush it.

"I pushed Hastur into a blessed rain cloud," he says. "Didn't see him burn, but I really think his odds for survival are fairly slim."

He wouldn't put it past the demon, though. Hastur was sneaky, and survival was all he knew. He could go from discorporated to reanimated faster than anyone Crowley had ever seen, short of Beezelbub themself.

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