Circumstances

By, Gonah Hawking Inaraku

Hey guys, sorry it's been a while. Hope you haven't missed me too bad. (Yeah right) well, here's my latest, a little story I came up with in typing class. It's azzy/crowley so if you don't like it don't read it bla bla bla…

Disclaimer: Don't own (if I did you'd see a lot more of those heavenly bodies) They are owned by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman.

Aziraphale couldn't believe his ears. Here, the demon he had known for over half a century was asking him on a… d.. a…a date? This was impossible, they weren't drunk, maybe he had imagined it and heard the wrong word… "Excuse me dear, what was that?"

The demon blushed in a very out of character way, "I was wondering if you wanted to go with me to see a movie and grab some food. I don't know, like… a date?"

"Are you, sir, asking to court me? It's been two-thousand years, and now you decide to take up the offer(1)?" The angel started turning red in the face, whether it was from anger or embarrassment was beyond Crowley (after all, he had hoped the angel had forgotten the whole incident). "You… you, insolent little cretin."

"Well… at least you know that I've thought it all the way through." The suave hellion felt he was starting to loose what little grip he had when he saw that the angel was not amused. He plunged on digging his hole deeper, "I figure, first we go to the Ritz; I know you love their Double-devil-chocolate-cakes." he gave a sly grin toward the angel, remembering his partial addiction to the cocoa bean(2), "Then, we'll go see that new movie, you know the one Johnny Depp(3) is staring in, ummm… what was it called…P- something…"

"Pirates of the Caribbean?" the angel asked with a flicker of hope.

"Yeah, that's the one, and then I'll go grab some bread and we'll finish the night at the pond, with a little music… that isn't 'The Best of Queen'," he said with a half grin. "And then… I don't know, we finish the night at your place or mine." He blushed so violently at this that the blonde angel would've sworn he was choking, if it had actually been a possibility.

He pondered this, rolling it over in his mind, trying to think whether he wanted to forgive his 'friend' of six million years or tell him to shove up his nose.

"I mean, you can forgive me one indiscretion right?" the demon continued, "I mean, I wasn't running away from you, I just didn't see why we had to jump into a relationship." Crowley started to chuckle to himself. "And besides it was pretty funny seeing your face when I jumped on the boat." he ignored the fact that the angels face began to fall at remembrance of that feeling, "And then, when I saw you on the mainland, it was like seeing a ghost." Know his face seemed to be taking a suicide mission off of his head. "I'm glad we'll be able to go out now though, I just wasn't ready, and I figured you could wait a few years. So, whadya' say angel?" he smiled hopefully at his companion.

With no hint of emotion on his face, Aziriphale stated coldly. "Tell you what, dear, I'm going to take a boat over to America and I'll get back to you in say… two hundred years, ok?" With that the angel stood up and started to walk out the door.

Crowley could feel his heart, however fake it may be, leap into his throat. Or maybe it was just vomit, either way he began to get a sick feeling at the prospect of what he was hearing. What the angel was saying was close enough to being rejected. "Azzy, Ziri, c'mon, that was like, forever ago, I didn't mean it, I.. I was just.. O fer cris-… I mean, o what the hell, fer Christ's sake Azzy, I'm sorry"

He started to chase after his friend when an old waitress stopped him by tugging on his black, leather duster. "Oi, you, where dya' think yer going?" her face was blushed pink with the weezing-puffyness of the old ladies you often find in diners who can't seem to keep out of other peoples' business. "You ain't leavin' withou yer bill!" she exhaled in a wheeze of greasy onion breath.

Crowley's eyes seemed to be glowing behind his black shades(4). "The bill isss paid now shove-of." he hissed at the woman, who couldn't find anything more enjoyable at the moment other then letting him go and cleaning up the table for another couple.

The angel was already a block and a half away by the time Crowley righted himself from the puffy-wheezy lady. Looking up and down the street he figured it was safe enough, and he snapped his fingers. Immediately a black Bentley drove sweetly by his side, like a dog heeling to its master. He jumped in and drove up to the angel, "C'mon, Azzy, I didn't mean to leave you like that, I swear to… umm, I swear." he gave a sheepish grin that, at any other time, would have made Aziriphale giggle like a small school-girl.

But, instead, the demon got a look that could freeze the fires of hell, "You know, it is one thing to turn down someone and want to be their friend again, even to ask forgiveness, after all, to err is human, to forgive, divine. But to dash away ones feelings by leaving on a boat without so much as a tip-of-the-hat is just… inexcusable! And then, to come back and ask me the same question? I know you are a demon, but I thought you had some civility." and he turned smartly on his heal and started marching off to his bookshop.

"Shit," Crowley said as he sat back dejectedly, "I sure did fuck that one up.", he started to turn of to the highway to his own apartment.

(1)back in the seventeen hundreds, when Aziriphale and Crowley had been reinstated in America, the angel got up all of his courage and asked his demon friend out for a date, maybe go and see the fireworks, if he wanted watch some of the wars going on, things of that nature. Crowley had, as politely as a demon could, hopped a boat back to Merry Olde England and only found the angel again after about a hundred years, at which point Azzy still wasn't talking to him.

(2)Referance to 'An Amusing Account of Angelic Addiction' made by H.J. bender

(3)One of the best actors on this planet and in both worlds. (Heaven and Hell still can't figure out which way he'll go.)

(4)Or more likely were

And that's it, should I continue? please read & review. I would be really pleased, thank you.