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vocab_drabblesTitle: Serendipity
Fandom: Good Omens
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG
Words: 250
Characters: Crowley
Summary: It was serendipity. Or was it?
Warning: Spoilers for season two.
Serendipity.
He'd never spoken the word aloud; that would stain his reputation. It was a frilly word for a demon, but fate was too dark for that beautiful moment at the beginning of Everything when Crowley had first met the angel Aziraphale. Just a chance encounter that led to more and more marvelous adventures spanning the centuries until they were all tangled up in each other, and untying the bonds seemed impossible.
Should have been impossible, but how easy it had turned out to be was so brutal it stole Crowley's breath away.
He knew better than to trust anyone, learned that long ago when cast out of heaven. Yet 6,000 years with the angel who'd stood by him despite his fall, his only friend, just them against heaven and hell… he'd let down his guard—begun to trust.
He supposed he'd missed all the warning signs, the little things Aziraphale had said showing he would side with heaven and leave Crowley in the end. Yet somehow, he still couldn't believe it even now after watching the angel return to heaven. The end had almost happened before – they'd weathered that storm together and defeated it.
So why now, after everything they'd been through?
"Why?" he murmured, staring at the door his angel had disappeared behind.
"What?" a passerby asked, thinking he was being addressed.
"Nothing," Crowley dismissed him, turning and heading to his Bentley. "Nothing at all."
It wasn't serendipity after all. It turns out it was the cruelest fate.
The end
7/30/23
Fandom: Good Omens
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG
Words: 250
Characters: Crowley
Summary: It was serendipity. Or was it?
Warning: Spoilers for season two.
Serendipity.
He'd never spoken the word aloud; that would stain his reputation. It was a frilly word for a demon, but fate was too dark for that beautiful moment at the beginning of Everything when Crowley had first met the angel Aziraphale. Just a chance encounter that led to more and more marvelous adventures spanning the centuries until they were all tangled up in each other, and untying the bonds seemed impossible.
Should have been impossible, but how easy it had turned out to be was so brutal it stole Crowley's breath away.
He knew better than to trust anyone, learned that long ago when cast out of heaven. Yet 6,000 years with the angel who'd stood by him despite his fall, his only friend, just them against heaven and hell… he'd let down his guard—begun to trust.
He supposed he'd missed all the warning signs, the little things Aziraphale had said showing he would side with heaven and leave Crowley in the end. Yet somehow, he still couldn't believe it even now after watching the angel return to heaven. The end had almost happened before – they'd weathered that storm together and defeated it.
So why now, after everything they'd been through?
"Why?" he murmured, staring at the door his angel had disappeared behind.
"What?" a passerby asked, thinking he was being addressed.
"Nothing," Crowley dismissed him, turning and heading to his Bentley. "Nothing at all."
It wasn't serendipity after all. It turns out it was the cruelest fate.
The end
7/30/23
