"some ineffable fates need a little push..."
In which the adopted daughter of Heaven and Hell's representatives on Earth is the only one who can see the chemistry between them.
GOOD OMENS
SERIES ONE - ???
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FIVE YEARS AND SIXTY-SEVEN DAYS LATER...
Everyone has their interests, though very few have an active imagination. When it came to Maren's interests, she had a tendency to hyper-fixate. For each term at her primary school, her class focused on a different topic -- the ones she enjoyed became one of her many fascinations.
Pirates took her interest when she turned seven. Whilst the other girls dressed up as mermaids, she showed up in full swashbuckling gear to her school's "Nautical Day". From there, she managed to become the captain of the "Jungle Gym Crew". With a team of ragtag boys and girls, they had swordfights with rulers and looted other kids' pencilcases. Their adventures only lasted a few months until the teachers banned everyone from playing on the jungle gym. It was fun, though. Her obsession with the sea fizzled shortly after, but she wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
When she was eight years old, she fell in love with Arthurian legends and the medieval aesthetic. Maren crafted her own suit of armour out of cereal boxes and Aziraphale gifted her with a wooden sword. She listened to her fathers' stories about their time as knights and how they once faced one another on a foggy day. It wasn't fun when Crowley began pointing out inconsistencies in Maren's favourite television show at the time: Merlin.
"Merlin was not that young!" Crowley would declare. "He was an old git who waved his arms around a lot. You know, he did a lot of gestures -- most of them were inappropriate, actually."
Aziraphale didn't believe in television, thinking all it did was rot people's brains, so they didn't have one in the bookshop. "Books are far more practical than what's shown on a tiny screen." Her father would say. "However, I do enjoy the cinema from time to time. But let me tell you the theatre is so much more engaging."
Either way, she could only watch her favourite television shows at Crowley's flat. On Saturday evenings, they took to watching Richard Curtis films. Though he would never admit it, the demon had a fondness for romantic comedies. Notting Hill reminded Maren of her parents. Aziraphale and Crowley were from two separate worlds who found each other by pure chance, like Will and Anna.
Maybe, in time, they would both see they were made for each other.
What followed after watching various fantasy films came Maren's next obsession -- witchcraft. Seeing as her parents could do magic, she wanted to do it, too. And she tried everything to make that dream come true.
She read every book in Aziraphale's collection that referenced witches and attempted a few spells she'd read online -- nothing happened. Maren set up candles, bought crystals, and invested her time writing rhyming couplets. She even let Aziraphale demonstrate a couple of his magic tricks, but she'd suffered enough by that point.
