Secret Saviors - Aziraphale X Crowley Fanfic (Finished)

10 - Lies

"Gabriel," Aziraphale spoke with his new found confidence. He slipped out from Crowley's warm arms. Crowley tried to reach back out for him, but Aziraphale smiled back, silently telling him that he needed a minute. Crowley hesitantly nodded, but Aziraphale stopped walking Any further away for his demon's comfort.

"What?" Gabriel hissed, annoyed.

"Something has been bothering me for a little while now. I'm hoping you can help me with it." Gabriel raised an eyebrow. "All I want is to know if a few things are true. Can you do that for me? I think you might be the only one who can." Crowley looked stupefied and Gabriel nervous, but with all the Angel's around, he knew he didn't have a choice. God's army was an honest bunch and he knew it.

"What do you want?"

"The spell that turns an angel into a demon. It has a side effect. What is it?" Aziraphale tried to remain innocent-sounding. Gabriel rolled his eyes as though it was the most common knowledge in the universe.

"The user loses all memory of when they were an angel."

"Right of course... And the day I completed my creation exam. I created a creature. Did you tell anyone what it was?"

"No, of course not! Why would I ever tell anyone about such an impure creature?" Both Aziraphale and Crowley flinched at that. Crowley was desperate to ask what his angel was getting at, but he knew that If he was patient, Aziraphale would do something really clever.

"So, that means, that other than yourself, Raphael, whose memories were lost due to the spell, and myself, there was only one other who knew about the creature I created. The creature, which for everyone's knowledge, became known as the serpent of Eden. Is this Correct Gabriel?"

"Yeah... Obviously... Lucifer knew, you know, the one who signed off on it?" He spoke snidely.

"Obviously though, Lucifer wouldn't remember the creature though right?" Little whispers were coming from the crowd as people were starting to piece it all together. Crowley however, was still completely clueless. "Gabriel, if Lucifer was the only other one who knew about the creation, and he can't remember ever being an angel, how could he give Crowley a second form as that same very creature?" Crowley's eyes widened.

"Of course." He stepped back up to Aziraphale's side. "He couldn't if he had willingly fallen, but if he was forced to fall... Then he might be able to."

"See Gabriel, Lucifer was always kind to me. When you told everyone why he fell, I was shocked. It just didn't sound like him. But first rule of being an angel... Never doubt right? But it wasn't the almighty he was doubting. It was you. He had found out that you had implanted several of us with demon blood and had planned to send us into hell to try to kill Satan. He knew we'd all die and when he told you to stop it, you forced him to fall." The murmurs in the crowd grew louder.

Aziraphale stepped away shutting his eyes, his wings expanded, his left wing still trying to recover. Then a cloudy smoke covered his body. When it dispersed his eyes were completely white, his hair longer, reaching down to his shoulders and the tips of the strands seeming to have been dipped in darkness. A second pair of wings had also climbed out of his back. While his normal white wings pointed upwards, these wings were an impossible black and pointed towards the ground below.

"This is what the man who leads you has done to me!" Aziraphale called into the crowd. "There are others among you who have suffered this very fate. To those of you, do not be afraid. You are not evil because of it, what was done to you is evil. To those who have been fortunate enough to remain free from this act, the proof that demons are not evil are among you right now. You have been working with them, been friends with them since the dawn of time and you never even knew!" Aziraphale's announcement caused absolute silence within the room. Suddenly, footsteps could be heard entering the room a small smile rose on the half breed's lips