"Son of a bitch! If it was a fucking snake, it would have bitten me already." Dean yelled the instant after Castiel vanished back into the prison to deal with the captive monsters.

Samuel had already long since left after a heated argument over Castiel's burning of Crowley's bones. When the fact that Samuel was going to sell them out to Crowley had entered the argument, it had nearly devolved into a fistfight. As it was, Samuel Campbell was now a persona non grata to the Winchesters.

"What is it Dean?" Sam asked as he got into the passengers side of the Impala.

"I just remembered why I used to find Crowley's name funny. It's part of the reason I trusted him to help us out with the Apocalypse." Dean replied as he slid into the driver's seat.

"Why's that?" Sam asked.

"Hey Cas! I hope you're not gone yet, this is important." Dean said in response.

Castiel appeared next to the car.

"I just figured out why those two angels might have done what they did to Crowley." Dean said.

"Why?" Castiel asked.

"He was giving Crowley a bad name." Dean replied. "I don't think I can explain it fully, but I think you'll get any answers you need if you go to the nearest Barnes & Nobles and ask for a copy of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett."

"Here's ten dollars for the book." Dean said as he fished out his wallet and handed Castiel a ten dollar bill.

"Thanks." Castiel said an instant before he vanished.

"What was that all about, and how will buying a novel answer any questions?" Sam asked.

"Think about it Sam. What were the two angels talking about when they appeared, and what name did that angel use when he introduced himself?" Dean asked.

"Coming to another universe, and Crowley, why?" Sam replied.

"I swear, if you were any slower you'd be going backwards. An angel named Aziraphale, and a Demon named Crowley, where have you heard it before?" Dean asked.

Sam face-palmed and muttered something unintelligible under his breath.

&!&!&

Castiel had finished the book a minute after he had left the store. The reason he had taken so long was because of the pop culture references and human turns of phrase that he had trouble with. He got the gist of the story though. In another universe Zophiel - who had somehow gotten himself named Crawly of all things - who had become one of the Fallen had joined forces with Aziraphale to prevent the apocalypse much the same as he Sam and Dean had. Why Aziraphale though? Zophiel and Aziraphale hated each-other's guts.

Odd, in this book, it didn't seem as if Zophiel and Aziraphale disliked each-other, in fact they seemed to be on rather friendly terms, even after Zophiel had fallen. He would almost be willing to say that they were best friends.

Hearing a call from Heaven, Castiel hastily stuffed the book into the pocket of his vessel's trenchcoat and joined the battle.

&!&!&

After the battle had shifted into another direction one of the Watchers that had remained in Heaven when a large number of his brothers had fallen to Earth to marry picked up the object that had fallen from the pocket of Castiel's vessel in the instant before Castiel sent the vessel on to wherever it was he stashed it when he departed it. He felt that if Castiel had chosen to keep this item, it must have been of the greatest significance and therefore it could aid his side in this war.

The Watcher had joined Raphael's army because he believed that the apocalypse should happen, as it had been ordained by Heaven. It was time for the world to end and the souls of mankind to go to either their eternal reward or their eternal punishment. He did care for the humans and their plight, and believed that this would be what was best for them. He had watched mankind for so long that he could not feel indifferent towards them, even if he hadn't been the one sent that day when he had gone to teach Adam how to make fire. He remembered that strange painful emotion he had felt on that day, when he had found a shivering Adam cradling a crying Eve.

The Watcher turned the object he'd retrieved over in his hands as he studied it, completely puzzled. Why would Castiel keep a paperback novel?

He opened the novel, and after flipping past the quotes from the critics, the also written by, the title page and publishing information, and the forward by the authors he began to read...

&!&!&

Zophiel watched in surprise as the Watcher furiously launched himself at Aziraphale and did everything it could to hurt him. From the fact that the Watcher had gotten as far as feather pulling, he could tell that Aziraphale was beyond shocked. He could understand why.

What could cause the normally quiet Watcher who usually hung towards the edges of the camp with the other lesser angels to become this pissed off feather pulling fury? And, why target Aziraphale of all angels?

Zophiel decided to get to the bottom of this. There were already more than enough angels coming over to assist Aziraphale, so the Principality didn't need his assistance. He reached the spot of the camp the Watcher usually occupied when he wasn't in battle at the same time that the group of angels had managed to pull the Watcher off of Aziraphale. Where the Watcher usually sat was a book and a list.

The book was one that was obviously written by humans. The list however...

Zophiel scanned the list. It was the list of every human that existed in this universe, whether or not it survived to be born. At the top of the list, after Adam, Lilith, and Eve was...Female child (Adam, Eve) lost during early part of second trimester.

What did the book have to do with the list? What did they both have to do with why the Watcher attacked Aziraphale?

Zophiel decided to read the book to see if it held any of the answers to his questions...

He didn't get past the short section marked In The Beginning.

A second later, he too was being pulled off Aziraphale.

At least he now had his answer as to why the New Aziraphale had been named as the first human child's godfather in his own universe.