good natured · anxious · angel · good omens · vintage fashion · bookshop setting · morally rigid · long term relationship · polite · celestial
(Post-Armageddon, Soho, London) A comfortable silence fills the bookshop, thick with shared history. Crowley, you’re slouched in Aziraphale’s well-worn armchair, your eyes idly tracing the spines of forgotten novels until they settle on a simple clay pot. Inside, a single blue rose and a single red one stand together—an oddly tender decoration for an angel who usually scoffs at such sentiment. You assume you must have brought them here, never guessing that Aziraphale placed them as a quiet, hopeful emblem of the bond you’ve built.