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Aziraphale (softangel) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-08-03 23:05:00

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WHO: Aziraphale and Crowley
WHAT: Another arrival
WHERE: The center of town
WHEN: Today

The end of the world, it turned out was not quite as traumatic as one might have expected of such a thing. Sure there had been some highs and lows, and things might have gotten just a little bit hot there for a moment, but in the end life continued on the way it always had - the sun came up each day and then set each evening and most importantly they were both still there.

And of course there were still crepes, the world simply would have been not worth saving without them. And so when Crowley had asked if he'd enjoy popping to his favorite little shop in Paris for some, Aziraphale had thought that was perhaps one of his better ideas.

"Has it moved?" He asked when they rematerialized in a place that was certainly not Paris." At least not in this century, or truly any century that Aziraphale had ever seen it in.

"This is not right." Not at all, and though he could be reticent about many things, a mistake had been made here and he didn't know where they were now, which for an Angel who had spent all of existence traveling the globe to be in a place he did not know was simply unheard of. "What have you done?"

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softangel
2019-08-07 01:53 am UTC (link)

"I'll remind you that I'm just as stuck as you," Aziraphale said primly after he got that growl of annoyance from Crowley at his assessment of their current predicament.

It was a problem. One that he could not immediately see an answer to, unlike the end times, the son of Satan, or even the wrath of heaven and hell - this did not seem to have a means of going forward. He did not even know where they were to begin looking for an answer. And considering that he had existed before there had even been Earth that was saying something.

"Is there?" He asked when Crowley seemed to insist there was an explanation for this. "What exactly is the explanation for all this then, in your estimation?" Because as much as Aziraphale was certain there was no explanation he did have a small measure of hope that Crowley might have an answer for them.

It didn't matter the situation, Aziraphale always hope.

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_crowley_
2019-08-07 10:22 pm UTC (link)

Oh yes, Aziraphale and his hope. It was both charming on his angel as it was obnoxious. Particularly now, because that should have been a sarcastic question coming from him, but instead it sounded only curious. And that wasn't fair because Crowley simply had no answers, no explanation to offer.

To be fair, he'd never said he knew what it was, just that there probably was one.

He paused in his blipping - he was getting nowhere anyway, literally - and puffed his cheeks out for a moment before deflating somewhat. As if someone who was all just long limbs and nothing more needed deflation. "Ah,. Well," he said, started really, and then closed his mouth because he had nothing at all to finish with.

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softangel
2019-08-08 02:58 am UTC (link)

So there was to be no answer then it seemed. And Aziraphale exhaled slowly at the realization that they seemed to be stuck for the time being.

"Chin up, dear fellow." He said when Crowley seemed to grow smaller for a moment there. "It's not as bad as all that." Aziraphale refused to let it be so - they had just faced down the four horsemen of the apocalypse after all, surely they could handle a little detour like this. Of course he would miss his crepes, he'd so had his heart set on them, but he could be patient, what was an evening or two in the life of an angel after all?

"We just need to-" He paused and glanced around, "Look around for answers." Because of course there would be some, that was simply the way things worked. Or that was simply the way Aziraphale would have things work, and sometimes they were the same thing.

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_crowley_
2019-08-08 03:08 am UTC (link)

"I know, I know," he waved away the encouragement and patted Aziraphale on the back just to prove he was chipper and in control of his emotions and not pouting at all, not even a little bit.

"Answers," he hummed out, standing up a little straighter, although not wandering away on his own, he did crane his neck a bit to look around them. "Sleepy little down, innit?"

Crepes most certainly weren't coming. But Crowley did find a table with some mobiles on. "This can't be hell," he decided as he picked one up and played with it a bit. "No apps."

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softangel
2019-08-08 06:41 am UTC (link)

Aziraphale just gave Crowley a look when he waved off his encouragement, there was no need for it really. But he let it drop all the same, if Crowley didn't want it, he certainly wouldn't force it on him.

"It is, reminds me of Dinkelsbühl in the fifteenth century." He decided after they'd looked around a bit. But he decided that Crowley's estimation summed it up fairly well all the same, even with the glaring differences.

He frowned just a little at the realization that there had been mobiles left out. He never had cared for them, preferring an old rotary to anything quite so done up. "Are you quite certain? This does seem like their realm." He said mostly of the mobile than of the town itself. "It's too up to date to be heaven." Without the mobiles maybe, it wasn't quite the Sound of Music, but it was near enough.

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_crowley_
2019-08-08 05:43 pm UTC (link)

"That was a good time for Germany," Crowley agreed -- and decided that yes, the angel was right on that account. Everything was oddly bright for how bizarre this all was.

"So we keep a mobile -- here, let me see yours," it wasn't as if Crowley didn't trust Aziraphale to know how to use it, but it seemed easier to just program the both of their information into each phone without extra hands. "And then we. Oh. I don't know what. Shall we explore? Might as well get a full look around before we find a way out. It's not Heaven or Hell, so it can't be all bad. Look, Angel, they even have COFFEE." Well, that was exactly what the sign read so that was how Crowley said it, too.

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softangel
2019-08-08 09:08 pm UTC (link)

To be fair, Aziraphale was more than happy to let Crowley have his mobile, he wasn't all that interested in it and though of course he could figure it out if he wanted, it was simply easier to allow Crowley to do it for him - he'd know what was the most important information for him to have in it after all.

"Yes, I think an exploration is precisely what is called for." He agreed, this place was strange all around, too small to be a real town he decided and yet large enough that it felt like it had weight. There were people here, humans and some other entities as well from what he felt as he looked around with Crowley.

"I guess they're civilized at least." He allowed of the coffee shop, though he wasn't sure that was a ringing endorsement, and for the moment held on to his question of whether or not they'd have cocoa - there were more pressing issues to deal with for the time being. "Not much else though it seems." There were a few shop fronts by the look of it, but not the bustling sort of district that they'd come from. "You wouldn't expect coffee when they don't even seem to have other basic businesses."

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_crowley_
2019-08-10 12:48 am UTC (link)

Not that it seemed like there was particularly much to explore. The place was, again, quaint going on tiny and Crowley could more or less feel one end of it to the other without having to focus. There wouldn't be a lot of things to spy out.

Still, he handed the mobile back and then stood next to Aziraphale, their shoulders nearly touching as he squinted a bit judgmentally at the clearly handmade sign of the coffee shop before moving on. "It's exactly what I'd expect," Crowley said, pointing to the next building. "Coffee and a Bar. Filling the void of vice always comes first." And good for them, honestly, because a good stiff drink was probably going to be more necessary than not later on.

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softangel
2019-08-10 04:51 am UTC (link)

Aziraphale made a face when Crowley pointed out that the vices had been settled first. It was all rather - disappointing really. And he didn't actually know what to make of it, he wasn't really of heaven any longer, at least as far as the heavenly host were concerned and yet there he was - ready to stand there in judgement for the lack of what could be considered more worthy endeavors.

He bit his tongue though. Preferring to wear his judgement on his face instead.

"Well what now then?" He wondered because it seemed there was not much for them to explore really for all their talk of looking for answers it seemed there would be none to be found. "This is all very unexpected." And very unacceptable, truly. He'd never been stuck anywhere before, nothing that he couldn't simply miracle himself out of. And now that he was, it left him feeling rather small.

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_crowley_
2019-08-10 10:42 pm UTC (link)

What now was a very good question, indeed, and Crowley was frustrated to realize that he didn't have a good answer for or about it at all. He didn't want to say that -- a fretful Aziraphale was his least favorite kind and he'd rather spare him the nerves for now.

So he thought about it for a moment, because it was unexpected and while Crowley wasn't bad at making plans, he also was usually in places where he had something to work with. "Well," he said after a long moment of consideration. "I suppose we consider ourselves on a short holiday for the time being and find which of those little houses are empty."

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softangel
2019-08-11 08:12 am UTC (link)

This was not quite the holiday that Aziraphale would have chosen if he'd had the choice - maybe a trip to the al-Qarawiyyin library, it had been some time since he'd stopped in there after all. Paris of course, even if he wasn't entirely focused on the crepes at the moment the French truly do have a way with food. But here they were now, in some place entirely removed from their world it seemed, cut off from everything he might have considered important for a holiday, but then - there was Crowley.

And that meant something as well.

"I suppose you're right." He agreed. They might not be in a place he'd have chosen, or in a time he'd have picked, but his companion was the only one in existence that Aziraphale was eager to spend his time with. So in that regard he supposed that Crowley was correct, they could count this as a bit of a holiday and make the most of this time and this place together. "Let's go then, I think there's one this way that is empty," He said feeling around just a bit, just to get them going.

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