Stars Meant To Fall

No one said it will be easy

Atlas sat on the sofa his hands clutched around a big mug of hot chocolate while watching Crowley walk up and down in the living room. The young Starmaker just explained the demon the same thing what he showed Muriel in the bookshop.
"So... let me get this straight. You poked around in Raphael's perfectly planned and well detailed work and now the Universe is falling apart because of that?"

"Hey! Don't be so mean" the young Starmaker glared at Crowley. "I didn't touch anything which were fully finished... but I found a blueprint to a galaxy which was never finished. I thought I would honor Raphael's work by finishing it"
"Uhm I see. You did it for promotion didn't you?"
"No! Absolutely not! An angel doing something just to get into a higher rank? Yes I did it for a promotion" Atlas sighed with a shameful look on his face seeing that Crowley won't fall for his lies anymore.
"Good! Time to kick those old fucks out of there chairs" the red head demon nodded.
"Can you please not curse this much?"
"I'm a demon. I do what I want"
"Good lord give me strength because I'm stuck with you who doesn't even know what a star is... it will be a piece of cake really" Atlas murmured sarcastically under his breath.

Moments later the young angel realised what he just said his face immediately went red.
"I...I didn't mean to offend you sorry"
"It's okay Kid. You are not in Heaven and while you're in this flat you can say whatever you want" Crowley grinned at the young angel then shouted at the ceiling. "Former Archangel Gabriel reads pornography in secret!!!"
"What are you doing Mr. Crowley?! That's not even true" Atlas jumped up from the sofa. "Oh nonono. How will I explain this?"
"Hey Earth calls kid...kid? Kid?! Oh for fucks sake... Atlas!"
"What!?"
"Calm down! Look around! There's no one here besides us. No angels nor demons. Relax. Why did you wanted the promotion?" the red head demon tried to get the conversation back to safe waters.
"Ohhh that? I did it because I wanted to change things up there" the young angel explained with a smile while Crowley grunted.
"Heard that one before. Don't do it. It's impossible... higher rank makes you a dick"

"That's not true... well not always true. For example Heaven's new Supreme Archangel is very nice"
"Aziraphale? No he is exactly the previous category. He dropped everything we fought for and went back to be the 'perfect angel' in Heaven" the demon grumpily answered.
"Oh right! You two stopped the Armageddon together! It was incredible. I was so greatful because... I'm not that warrior type of angel"
"Yeah... we were friends for 6000 years... but that was long time ago. You're not here for that story right? You want to know more about that former Archangel... uhh..." Crowley tried to change the topic.

Talking about 'Raphael' was not easy for him either but everything was better then a reminder that the person he loves the most left him alone without a proper explanation. The demon knew that the kiss was too sudden and it only made things worse but this time Aziraphale was the one who went too fast. He didn't let Crowley think this whole 'become an angel again' thing through. The demon would have needed a few weeks maybe a two month long power nap to even consider going back to Heaven but what Aziraphale asked him was crazy. To decide his whole future in what? Two minutes? Of course the red head panicked and did the first thing which came into his mind. Kissing worked in movies and apparently in Jane Austen books as well but Crowley only sees it now that kissing Aziraphale in that situation wasn't exactly the brightest idea.

"Archangel Raphael yes! You said you know something about him!" Atlas's excited voice bought back Crowley from his thoughts.
"Yeah... but it's not the best news for you"
"He died didn't he?" the freckled boy sighed. "It's okay I prepared myself to... to the worst" the boy's eyes filled up with tears.
"No! He didn't die! We just don't know where is he" the red haired man shrugged "You know where Raphael is. You are fucking Raphael! Quit lying and help the kid out!" his inner voice scolded him but the demon didn't listen to it.
"Oh what a relief. When did you last seen him"
"Every day in this twisted mirror of reality" Crowley answered in his mind. "Before the Antichrist was born" he told to Atlas.
"That was twelve years ago! Oh how will I find him just with two months in my hand" the young angel asked finally drinking the last sips of his hot chocolate.
"I... I don't think he wants to be found Kid"
"I need to find him Mr. Crowley. Only a Starmaker can fix an other Starmaker's mistake"