Crowley grabbed Aziraphale by the shoulders as the ship creaked loudly. "If we are going to live you have to listen to every word I say, understand?" Aziraphale's nodded his head like a bobble head doll. Crowley then grabbed his hand and they sped through the hallway to the stairways. "We have only a few hours till this vessel sinks. We need to get to the top deck where the lifeboats are. I convinced the architect that he didn't need too many lifeboats because they would look tacky." Aziraphale gave Crowley the stink eye as they both fled up the stairs. "What? It was my job! Anyways, we need to stay on the top deck at all costs because the whole bottom floor we were just on will be submerged in thirty minutes or less." The two men reached a door after several flights of stairs. They swung it open and looked around for a sign for where they were. second class a brass lettered sign said on a wall. "Second class? After all that?" Crowley sighed and continued to run up the stairs with Aziraphale. "I am going to get us on one of those lifeboats even though they are going to only allow women and children. Ok Aziraphale?" Crowley paused and looked around "Aziraphale?" Crowley couldn't see Aziraphale anywhere. "Now is not the time to get lost Aziraphale! Where are you? Angel?" Crowley stomped down a few stairs and back up again. He stopped onto the stair landing and put his hands on his hips. "Hello mortal, I'm afraid Aziraphale is unavailable at the moment." Crowley turned around to see Gabriel leaning against the wall in his lavender beige pressed suit. "What did you do with him you disgusting mangy son of a-" Gabriel miracled Crowley's mouth shut before he could utter another word. "Shh shh shh I need you to listen to me Crowley." Crowley squirmed to try and separate his lips but was unable to. "Bezzlbub is talking with Aziraphale as well so I suggest you be like your companion and just relax." Crowley saw that there wasn't really any other option so he gave up resisting and sat down on one of the stairs. "Good lad, now let us begin." Gabriel formed a ball of light in his hands that swirled many different colors. He then through it in the air and let it explode into the walls. Crowley closed his eyes from the bright fiery explosion and then open them to see an entirely different scene.It was Eden as he had seen it all though eons ago. It had seemed that Gabriel and himself were at a tree that view just over where Eden and the earth met. "Life consists of order Crowley as well as cause and effect. Every genome, cloud, and flower occurs due to its perfectly balanced nature. You destroy that balance with unforseen variables you are not wrecking the chances for just one life but for all." Gabriel looked down at the silent Crowley then back out towards the wall where Crowley as a serpent was tempting Eve. "You demons were an unforseen variable and luckily we were able to create boundaries which result in balance." Aziraphale then flew down in his white garb and angelic wings and landed right outside the garden wall. Gabriel pointed at the old angel. "That right there, is raging essence of chaos. What should have been order turned into a whole new issue, one in which we cannot derail." Aziraphale then gave his flaming sword to Adam and Eve before they ran off into the wilderness. "Those humans were meant to die off so the Good Lord could start anew. Instead we were left with an infestation." Gabriel's knuckles clenched so hard that they turned white. "I gave him another chance so may learn from his actions. I made rules to keep my angels safe yet he still defied them." Gabriel almost had a saddened look upon his usually blank face. He snapped out of whatever had been going through his mind and brought Crowley back to the ship stairwell. "You have a choice now Crowley. You can either go around frolicking with that man while the world continues to suffer...or you may end his suffering and possibly save every last man, woman, and child aboard this ship." Gabriel then unzipped Crowley's lips so he could speak, though Crowley did not utter a word. "It is your choice sir." Gabriel then snapped his fingers and disappeared into thin air.
The room was dark that Aziraphale appeared in. "Sorry to grab you out of nowhere buddy." A pair of hands clapped which activitated several torches that lined the stone walls. Bezzlbub and Aziraphale were no longer on the Titanic but in a very unfamiliar and errie chamber. "What do you want from me you larvae infested bully?" Bezzlbub had a very different demeanor compared to what Aziraphale had experienced with Gabriel. They stood in a bent over and relaxed state with their hands in their pockets. They spoke in a cool and almost kind tone rather than the sharp and sarcastic words of his previous superior. "We just need to chat Aziraphale. I am not here to harm you." Aziraphale settled down a bit and listened to reason. If Bezzlbub intended to hurt or kill him they would have done so in an instant. "What do you want to tell me demon?" Aziraphale said in a condescending voice. Bezzlbub began to levitate and their eyes turned scarlet as they chanted an unknown language full of hisses and huffs. The torches that resided on the walls began to have their flames move to the right. The room was filled with a hot breeze that then lifted the licks of fire off of their sticks and they blended together into a funnel of flames around them. Aziraphale crouched down on the ground and covered his head with his arms to guard him from the burning heat. Bezzlbub stopped chanting and landed back on the ground. They walked up to the shivering Aziraphale on the floor and offered him a hand to help him up. Aziraphale peaked through his hands at the action surrounding him. He was no longer in a dark room but in...well...Heaven! He helped himself up declining Bezzlbub's hand. Bezzlbub took back their hand and walked down a corridor that had crystal clear windows on either side that reached up into infinity. Aziraphale scurried to catch up with his demonic guide. Bezzlbub walked untill they stopped in front of a room labeled paperwork. Bezzlbub pulled open the rose gold and pearl crested gate that guarded the room. The two then strolled into the room which had no ceiling just like the corridor they had exited. There were metal filing cabinets that went on for miles. Each clump of organizers were placed in alphabetical order. Where Aziraphale had entered there was a banner that was as big as the Eiffel Tower with the letter A painted on it. Bezzlbub went up to a certain rusty cabinet and tapped on it three times. The drawer burst out by its seams and began to break and bend into a shape. It finally stopped creaking and moving and Bezzlbub hopped into their newly formed elevator. "Get in." Bezzlbub said as they tapped the inside of the frame. Aziraphale slowly walked in. Bezzlbub gave a quick chant and the elevator lifted up. The elevator was not like the ones on Earth because it zoomed in an instant to their destination. Bezzlbub strolled out directly in front of their desired locker under the label "The Fall." Aziraphale stepped behind the demon and waited for instruction. Bezzlbub opened the locker and then moved to the side. "Jump in" Aziraphale gave Bezzlbub and understandably skeptical look. "You're kidding." Aziraphale said in a fearful voice. Bezzlbub gave an annoyed sigh and then pushed Aziraphale into the drawer. Aziraphale screamed as he fell from the sky. His hands reached out for something to grab but the clouds became further and further out of sight. His skin began to blister and burn as he plummeted fast through the atmosphere. His white hair turned ash black as it caught fire from holy light. His tears floated upward as his body felt pain beyond words surge his body. Then he made impact to the ground. Dirt and ash filled the air around the crater where he lay. Bezzlbub strolled up lightly kicking rocks as they went and bent down to examine Aziraphale. "How do you feel?" They said in a soft airy voice. Aziraphale was choking back tears and managed to spout out a few words. "Why did you do this to me?" He asked in a weak voice. Bezzlbub entered the crevice in which Aziraphale laid motionless in agony. They put their foot on Aziraphale's chest and pushed down to lean forward. "No no, angel. You did this to us. This feeling of hurt, anger, pain, and suffering is exactly what you did to us all those years ago." Aziraphale stared at Bezzlbub before taking his last breath. He then appeared back at Bezzlbub's side at the filing cabinets. He patted his body in search for any sign of injury. There was to his appreciation none. Bezzlbub closed the drawer that still had mist rising out of it and locked it with a golden key. "We were only curious beings. We wanted to learn more and understand more. The superiors were threatened by this concept of us wanting knowledge instead of orders. So they threw us out like stray dogs to the street." Bezzlbub loaded into the elevator and gestured to a traumatized Aziraphale to do the same. The elevator traveled a bit slower on the way back to the entrance giving Bezzlbub time to speak. "There will always be a balance Aziraphale, a counter to every action and opinion. Where there is love there is hatred, where there is pain there is joy, and where there is good there is evil." The elevator came to a stop and the two walked out through the gate and Bezzlbub locked it up. "Aziraphale, good and evil are only determined on your point of view. You never know which side you are on until it is too late." Aziraphale took a look around at the hallway. "What was the point of this...um...exercise?" Bezzlbub placed their hand out and gave Aziraphale a lock of the ash black hair that had grown from his skull. "Do not choose a side and most importantly do not trust anyone. If you do you will be damned by either." Then with the blink of an eye Aziraphale was back in the stairwell with Crowley. They both suddenly remembered where they were and what was happening. "How much time has gone by?" Aziraphale yelled to Crowley. The ship had seemed to be creaking louder. "I have no damn clue!" Crowley shouted back. They both ran up the stairs to the final door. They were almost to the dock when the two men heard a flood of screams come from one side of the ship all the way across to the other. Then at the the speed of light the Lights. Went. Out.
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Sapphire Tides
FanfictionIn an alternative universe the demon Crowley and the principality Aziraphale have been assigned to both protect and destroy the vessel known as the Titanic. Watch as two born enemies blossom into inseparable lovers.
