𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚜 - 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

Part Two: Unexpected Visitors

For a long while Crowley lay fast asleep, his now wavy mid-length hair was a fluffed mess as he lay spread across his new bedding like lazy butter on toast. Suddenly a knock rang out on the door of his flat, startling the demon awake. He slipped on his glasses and miraculously got his clothes and hair neat before answering the door.

Crowley walked to the door with a slightly annoyed hiss tied between clenched teeth before opening it. Standing at his mat were none other than Nina, Muriel, and Maggie.

In Maggie's arms was a small gift basket with various varieties of seeds and a couple of new pots and soil. On the other hand, Nina held a bottle of some sort of fancy wine.

"Welcome back Crowley! I brought Nina and Maggie. They wanted to welcome you back!" Muriel chirped, their voice, as bright and cheerful as they usually were.

Nina added, "I brought a little something to celebrate." While holding up the bottle of wine clutched lightly in her hand.

"Same here! I know you have lots of plants and such and I thought you may want to add some members to the family!" Maggie said excitedly.

Crowley looked at them all and opened the door welcoming them in with a soft grin. "Considerate of you all. Thank you."

"Yeah yeah," Nina said, a sassy smile barely tugging at the edges of her lips as she walked in along with the others.

They all came in, and Muriel talked with them for a while before sitting with Crowley's plants and reading. Nina and Maggie stood beside one another talking to Crowley over the wine Nina had brought. The three talked to each other about new aspects of their lives and the community along with recent changes.

Nina took a sip from her glass of wine, taking a moment before she spoke, "What's in the cards for you now you have moved back?"

"Now that I'm back I'm trying to get my life in order. I don't have a specific direction and I think that's what I need." Crowley admitted. The truth was he had wanted not only that but to give himself something to dwell on rather than what had happened and also work through it through things like gardening; painting (which he had recently taken up) along floriculture.

"Well, I do need some extra help at the cafe." Nina proposed, "It would be a good way to get you back into a schedule so you aren't in a place where you are..floating per se."

Crowley considered this for a moment before giving a convinced nod, "I'll give that a try."

Maggie smiled brightly, "That's the spirit! Now I don't mean to be rude but it is getting quite late and we should be going on our way."

"I suppose you are right dear." Nina sighed before focusing her attention on the demon, "How does tomorrow at 6 sound?"

"See you then."

"Muriel dear we are heading out," Maggie pronounced across the flat, and a sweet angel soon popped out from where the plants were, trotting back over to the others.

"Thank you, Mister Crowley, take care!" Muriel said, with Aziraphale's Distinctive light green book tucked beneath her arm.

"You too," Crowley said to Muriel.

The three then left and Crowley collapsed on the couch with an exaggerated sigh. He lay there for a moment staring at his ceiling. countless incoherent thoughts slipped in and out of his mind as he drifted to sleep.

The next morning he woke up early, rubbing the sleep from his vibrant amber eyes as he sat himself upright. He wore a pair of dark dress pants and a mahogany button-up that was tucked within the pants. Draped over that was a black buttoned-up cardigan. He wore his glasses with this along with subtle silver snake earrings. He maintained his usual demonic attributes, style-wise, but now with a much softer touch.