Good Omens: Our New Beginning (Bad Omens Prequel Novella)

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"How are you feeling now angel?" Crowley asked when Aziraphale woke up a while later. Crowley was relieved to find that his husband's fever had gone down and Aziraphale ate the toast he made for him.

"Much better but now I think we better talk about what happened today…." 

"With Tracy?" Aziraphale nodded. "Yes, she had some very….interesting insight on this whole situation but I'm not really sure." 

Crowley watched as Aziraphale pulled something from underneath his pillow and gasped. "Wot the fuck are you doing with that?" 

"Um…well…" How the hell could he say this? "Tracy seems to think that this illness isn't really an illness….that my symptoms are identical to…..pregnancy…." Aziraphale shuddered when the word was uttered out loud.

Crowley just stared at Aziraphale dumbly. "But you're not even a female…."

Aziraphale nodded. "I know."

"And we're not even human! We can't reproduce!" Crowley began to pace. "It's a whole ordeal involving paperwork in order for a new demon or angel to even be considered to be conjured into existence…."

"You don't think I don't know that?" Aziraphale suddenly snapped, feeling overwhelmed again. "Crowley, I don't know what to do!"  Aziraphale shoved the pregnancy test away and began to cry.

"Oh shit no no no, don't cry it's okay." Crowley pulled Aziraphale in a hug. "I've got you…." Crowley held his angel close for several minutes, doing everything he could to comfort his husband.

Finally regaining his composure, Aziraphale rasped, "I don't understand….I was feeling so happy…but then I began to feel strange…then I became ill…"

Crowley tensed. "What do you mean, "feel strange"? 

Aziraphale shrugged as Crowley dried his tears. "The day of our anniversary….something was different…."

"Do you think I hurt you?" Crowley began to panic. "Do you think having sex-" 

"No no nothing like that." Aziraphale quickly reassured him. "It was when….we gave each other our gifts…remember?"

Crowley thought carefully. "Yeah. You started crying because you were happy….my sappy angel…" Crowley said fondly.

But Crowley suddenly remembered. "And you weren't in the mood for wine, in fact you haven't had any wine since then…" 

"But there's more to it than that." Aziraphale continued. "I remember feeling a surge of warmth flow through my body….it…" Aziraphale placed his hands on his stomach. "It came from my stomach and then it spread…..then I started to cry…" 

Crowley thought for a moment. "Maybe you ate something…" 

Aziraphale playfully smacked his shoulder, "I'm sure it's not that!" Aziraphale then added, "And you have been strangely…horny…recently and rather clingy before I became sick."

Crowley shrugged. "I can't get enough of you."

The two were quiet for a moment then Crowley spoke. "What do you want to do Aziraphale? I'm fucking worried about you." Crowley grabbed the pregnancy test. "Do you want to try this?"

Aziraphale shook his head. "Not now." Aziraphale grabbed Crowley's hand. "Can….can you try to see if you can sense what is….different about me?"

"Wot?"

"Place your hand on my stomach and see if you can sense something….maybe there's an internal source and only someone of our kind can sense it. I'd do it myself but I'm too out of sorts." 

"Of course angel anything for you." Crowley placed both hands gently on Aziraphale's stomach and closed his eyes, concentrating. 

Crowley almost instantly felt a bolt of warm energy shoot up his arm. It was a life force…but life forces don't radiate from the stomach. Like humans,  demon and angel life energy emanated from the chest region,  where their corporation's heart was…

Crowley gasped and yanked his hands away startled.

"Crowley what's wrong?" Aziraphale gasped. 

"Aziraphale, feel this." Crowley guided Aziraphale's hand to his stomach.  
"Concentrate."

Aziraphale concentrated for a moment and gasped.  "This can't be possible…"

"How have you not sensed this sooner?"

"I told you that I've been feeling strange!!" Aziraphale snapped, starting to panic. "Give me that infernal pregnancy test!" 

"Aziraphale…"

"I need answers Crowley."