I've never been the smiting type. Not that you would have known that before you met me.
[He blushes at Crowley's confession, smiling a little despite his embarrassment.]
I wished I'd noticed at the time, but I was too busy fretting over what I'd done. Angels don't go around giving their weapons away, you know.
[Or sheltering a demon from the rain with one of their wings, but that's what friends do, and by the time they parted ways, Aziraphale had decided that he liked Crowley, despite him being a demon, and would continue to be friendly to him. If Heaven never directly asked, he never had to mention it, right?
He smiles at Crowley when their eyes meet.]
In the very beginning? There were other angels I got along with in my sphere. But we were all very busy with out duties, we didn't have a lot of time for chit-chat. And then --
[He sighs, suddenly looking rather weary.]
Things weren't the same, after the war. Knowing that it was possible to be cast out of Heaven made everyone a little paranoid, I think. Loyalty to the Great Plan was much more important than loyalty to one another. There were angels with close ties to each other, but the fact that I spent so much time on Earth made me almost like a stranger to them. Certainly none of them understood me the way you do.
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:00 pm (UTC)[He blushes at Crowley's confession, smiling a little despite his embarrassment.]
I wished I'd noticed at the time, but I was too busy fretting over what I'd done. Angels don't go around giving their weapons away, you know.
[Or sheltering a demon from the rain with one of their wings, but that's what friends do, and by the time they parted ways, Aziraphale had decided that he liked Crowley, despite him being a demon, and would continue to be friendly to him. If Heaven never directly asked, he never had to mention it, right?
He smiles at Crowley when their eyes meet.]
In the very beginning? There were other angels I got along with in my sphere. But we were all very busy with out duties, we didn't have a lot of time for chit-chat. And then --
[He sighs, suddenly looking rather weary.]
Things weren't the same, after the war. Knowing that it was possible to be cast out of Heaven made everyone a little paranoid, I think. Loyalty to the Great Plan was much more important than loyalty to one another. There were angels with close ties to each other, but the fact that I spent so much time on Earth made me almost like a stranger to them. Certainly none of them understood me the way you do.