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pisces-swirlix · 5 years

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Before I start, I’d love to give credit to the inspiration of this fic to @starrose17 :)

There will probably (hopefully) be more to come. This is kinda written like the intro or the prologue to a longer fic, so maybe I’ll get to the rest at some point. This is the first time in years that I’ve written a fic for any fandom, so let’s see how it goes.

Hope you enjoy!

{4004 BC}

On the day the demon Crowley tempted Eve, Remiel was out on his eighth day of work. Like most things, the first day felt like forever. If he had known that he was just supposed to sit around and watch all day, he might’ve been a little more resistant when Michael had asked him to take the job. But then again, maybe not, since Michael had a way of asking things that made it clear that it wasn’t a question at all. It was an order.

Watching the Garden seemed like a stupid job to Remiel, because it’s not like Adam and Eve were hard to watch. They were in the same place most of the time. There wasn’t anywhere else to go but the Garden. Remiel used to think his jobs of filing paperwork were tedious, but this job was worse. This job was borderline frivolous, especially when he realized that the angel Aziraphale, who was much higher up than Remiel, was also watching the Garden. Remiel was infinitely frustrated by this. Sure, he was the one with the camera, he was the one doing actual documentation, but he figured Aziraphale was probably reporting right back to the top, so what did they need Remiel for anyway?

He was clearly watching more closely than Aziraphale though, because he was the one who first spotted the snake coiled around a tree and whispering sins into Eve’s ear. Remiel didn’t know what to do. He was supposed to keep a watch on the Garden, but fighting a snake wasn’t exactly in the job description. He tried desperately to get Aziraphale’s attention from where he was across the garden, but he feared making any noise around the snake. Instead, he just watched in shock as Eve took a bite out of the apple. He snapped plenty of pictures of that, and ran straight up to Heaven to find Michael.

Michael already knew by the time he got to Heaven, so she seemed slightly annoyed by Remiel’s report. She took the photos quickly and pushed past him, mumbling something about finding Gabriel and speaking to God. Remiel did all he could to keep from rolling his eyes. The higher ups were always so pretentious.

Remiel heard a voice call from behind him.

“Remiel! Why are you not on Earth?” Daniel looked at him pointedly.

“I came back to give Michael some pictures, you know, of the Garden,” Remiel answered, though he thought that should’ve been self explanatory. Daniel was his first boss, higher than Remiel but not quite as high as Michael or Gabriel. Daniel oversaw all of the records from Earth, which wasn’t much so far. Remiel supposed that it was about to get a whole lot bigger.

“Good,” Daniel said dismissively. “You may want to get back down there though. Big things are happening.”

Remiel nodded. Okay, so maybe this could be more interesting than his old paperwork jobs.

When Remiel arrived back at the Garden, he was a bit confused. It seemed that nothing at all had changed. He couldn’t see Adam or Eve, but the Garden itself was still flourishing with trees and flowers, just as it was before. After a moment, he realized something was different. Aziraphale wasn’t standing around the edge of the Garden. Normally, this wouldn’t seem particularly strange. He was here most of the time, but Remiel supposed that, as a higher up, he could go wherever he pleased. Today was different though. Shouldn’t he be here? Supposedly, big things were happening. Remiel scanned the Garden another time. It wasn’t till his fifth scan that he saw it.

Adam and Eve stood facing one wall of the garden. Remiel took a few quick pictures, then moved along to wall to get a bit closer. As he moved, the wall seemed to shake beneath him. He glanced down, then back towards the two humans facing the wall. His eyes widened as the wall began to split in front of Adam and Eve, opening up and out into the dangerous world beyond. They took cautious steps outside.

Did God really get so angry that She cast Adam and Eve right out of the Garden? Despite the trembling wall, Remiel moved in closer. He watched Adam and Eve walk straight through the newly formed gate. It was then that Remiel realized where Aziraphale had went. He was standing right outside the gate, and he greeted Adam and Eve as they stepped through. After saying a few words to them, he reached out towards Adam and gave him what Remiel could only describe as a flaming sword, burning bright and glinting in the late afternoon sun. Now, Remiel was no expert on God’s plans, let alone what She had in store for Adam and Eve, but he was pretty sure that Aziraphale was issued the flaming sword under the assumption that he wouldn’t just hand it out to whoever crossed his path. That alone had Remiel on edge. Should he call someone? No, he decided, best to stay out of that. It’s not really his business anyway. He supposed he should follow Adam and Eve, although he didn’t particularly feel like trudging through the desert after them. Plus, technically his job wasn’t to watch Adam and Eve, it was to watch the Garden.

Remiel sat inconspicuously on the wall, taking pictures of Adam and Eve as they walked away, off into the unknown. It was almost peaceful. The sky was clear. There wasn’t a sound in the air but the wind whistling lightly and—Hold on. There was another noise. Voices, and they were fairly close to him. He glanced around. At first, he breathed a sigh of relief. It was only Aziraphale, and he was far enough away that he wouldn’t notice Remiel, especially not when he already seemed preoccupied. Remiel felt the need to move closer though. His job was to watch the Garden after all, and Aziraphale was technically in the Garden. He inched closer and closer, and that’s when he noticed. Aziraphale had his pure white wings stretched out behind him, but they weren’t the only pair of wings extended over the wall. A pair of jet black wings hung loosely in the air. A demon? Remiel peered further around the wall. It wasn’t just any demon. It was the demon Crowley. The snake in the Garden.

Remiel immediately scrambled for the phone. As he was desperately trying to find it, he overheard bits of conversation.

“Didn’t you have a flaming sword?” Crowley inquired.

There was a long pause, and Aziraphale’s eyes flitted away nervously.

“You did, it was flaming like anything. What happened to it?” Crowley’s words hung in the air for a moment as he waited for Aziraphale to answer. When no answer came, Crowley said smugly, “Lost it already, have you?”

At this point, Remiel had found his phone at last, and it was ringing, ringing, ringing. He silently begged Daniel to pick up. He glanced back at the two figures standing on the wall.

From Aziraphale came a small murmur, so quiet that Remiel almost didn’t hear it at all.

“Gave it away.”

“You what?”

“I gave it away!”

Remiel almost laughed out loud. The look on Crowley’s face when he heard that Aziraphale gave the sword away was priceless. He looked so stunned, so amused, so, so…

Shit.

“Remiel? What is it? It’s Daniel. Are you-”

Remiel hung up the phone. He couldn’t report Crowley now. Sure, Crowley was a demon, but he was also helpless, pathetically in love with the angel in front of him. Remiel could practically feel the love from here, although Aziraphale seemed somehow completely oblivious. After all, who would even expect a demon to feel love? Yet the more Remiel watched Crowley, the more obvious it became.

“I do hope I didn’t do the wrong thing,” Aziraphale worried aloud.

“Oh, you’re an angel,”Crowley said with admiration. “I don’t think you can do the wrong thing.”

He watched as Crowley and Aziraphale talk a bit more and chuckle together, though Aziraphale seemed to think that Crowley’s statement wasn’t a laughing matter at all. Right as Remiel was about to leave for Heaven, he observed something strange, yet brilliant. Rain began to fall on Earth, the first rain as far as Remiel could tell. Crowley used this as an opportunity to inch closer to Aziraphale. Then, unexpectedly, Aziraphale held up one of his feathery white wings to protect Crowley from the rain. Crowley stepped in closer. Remiel stood smiling from afar.

Needless to say, that was Remiel’s most eventful day at Eden, and it was also his last.

Now that Adam and Eve weren’t in the Garden anymore, there was no need to watch over it. When Remiel got back to Heaven, there was a large meeting held to discuss new positions.

“So, we’re going to be taking a lot more angels onto our team,” Daniel said. He was almost boastful about it. His previously small department was about to become largely important.

“We’re going to have to watch Adam and Eve wherever they go now, and eventually they’ll have children and those children will have children and those children will- well, you get it. We’ll have a lot of people to watch over, tomorrow you’ll get your new assignments,” Daniel concluded. Remiel turned to leave, but he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Daniel.

“Remiel, you did an excellent job reporting back to Michael and I today. Lucky for you, I’m going to ignore the fact that you hung up on me earlier. I’ve switched over your assignment. You’re going to watch over all of the angels that are sent down to work on Earth, starting with Aziraphale. Actually, Gabriel came directly to me to tell me about Aziraphale, so he must have beef with him or something. Just keep watch. I’ve paired you up with a some other angels, you’ll be a team. Sound good?”

Remiel stuttered, but Daniel nodded and walked away, not waiting for an answer.

He hadn’t even started this job yet, but Remiel was willing to bet that it would be his most exciting job yet.

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There is now a Part 2 to this fic that hopefully doesn’t disappoint!

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stevethehairington · 3 years

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Tagged by: the lovely @scimitar-and-longsword 💕💕

Name(s): my name is Mack, and if this also includes like usernames too then my ao3 is macksdramaticshenanigans and obviously yall can see my tumblr url lol. i have a fandom twitter but i hate twitter so i barely go on it lmao.

Fandom(s): oh boy haha this is a loooong list. as of right now, the main fandoms i’m involved in are The Old Guard and Trust FX, but in the past i’ve written for Skam, Marvel, Good Omens, Love Simon/Simon vs., Shameless, and IT. and ofc there are some fandoms i have not written for that i casually enjoy as well.

Where you post: all my fics are posted on ao3! or are sitting in my wips folder lol. i’ve ocsasionally posted some snippets of writing here to tumblr, but none of those are like full on, proper fics, mostly just me rambling off some thoughts i had about whatever characters in whatever scenarios

Most Popular One Shot (by kudos): Imagine Being Loved By Me (918 kudos) ((so close to 1k holy shit!!!! if it got to 1k i think i’d actually die of happiness omg)) this is my Good Omens smut fic lmfao, crowley is fantasizing and aziraphale makes it a reality skgjsd. i’m actually pretty damn pleased with how this one turned out, and i never expected it to get that many kudos so that makes me ridiculously happy sfjgfg. (and also podfixx made a podfic of this fic which made me INSANELY happy like that is the coolest thing ever)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter (by kudos): I Have Hella Feelings For You (697 kudos) ahhh this one!! this one is actually my very first ever chaptered fic!! it’s a skam fic, and i have the most distinctive memory of me sititng in my dorm bed freshman year of college, furiously typing away at my laptop everyday for a week because i somehow managed to post a chapter every day until it was finished, which meant i was writing a new chapter everyday. like damn, i really peaked with that huh? lmao

Favorite story you’ve written so far: ahh okay not to like. toot my own horn kgfldg but this question is HARD bc i have a lot of favorites. i’m going to pick a favorite from each of my main fandoms i’ve written for because i’m an Indecisive Hoe okay fdjdf.

- From Marvel: Just Called To Say I Love You this one is my wrong number stucky fic and i actually adore this one so much, and also it actually ended up being WAY more popular than i expected it to? like i was lowkey shook by how many people liked it

- From Skam: If You Love Me, If You Hate Me so. about this one. it’s probably my favorite skam fic that i’ve written. but. it also is the utter bane of my existence bc this is the one and only fic i have ever written and posted that i haven’t fnished gskgjfdlfs. it’s going on soon to be a little over 2 years of sitting on my account as an unfinished wip, but i REFUSE to mark it as abandoned bc i really genuienly DO want to finish it, i just havent written for this fandom in a while and inspiration/motivation is tricky yknow? but anyways. this fic is my soccer au!! it was a gift for a secret santa exchange i believe to a dear friend of mine and i still feel awful that i never finished it but. one day!!

- From Love Simon/Simon vs.: Where I Like You Best i am actually obsessed with this one. is that weird to say about your own fic? i enjoy reading a good soulmate au, but writing them has always been SO daunting to me bc i never feel like my ideas are original enough or like things that havent been done a lot for that trope. but for this one!!! omg i found the BEST prompt for it and it fit these characters SO well and i wrote it and i ended up absolutely loving how it turned out, and i was so proud of myself for writing a pretty successful soulmate au.

- From Shameless: Wooden Floors, Walls, and Window Sills so this one was my second ever gallavich fic, and it’s probably my favorite because i think it’s the best characterization i got of them in all of my fics, and good characterization is one of the most important things to me when i write fic.

- From IT: To What We Might Do is my favorite reddie fic i’ve written! i definitely projected onto richie a teeny tiny bit in it for some parts lmfao, but yeah idk i just love how this one turned out a whole lot, and i enjoyed how i ended it too (esp since endings can be very difficult for me lol). ((BUT also a special shoutout to my fic Imagine Me and You, I Do bc that one is just pure fluff and i adore the concept of someone being just so absolutely in love with someone doing something so incredibly simple and it just rocks their world)

- From Good Omens: I Want To Know What Love Is (did i use the most cheesy title ever? absolutely. do i love it? absolutely.) anyways this fic is one where crowley the demon experiences love and promptly thinks he’s dying.

Fic you were nervous to post: ooh, i mean i’m always pretty anxious about any fic i post because i never know if it’s going to be recepted well or if people are going to like it or hate it or if anyone is even going to read it or repsond to it. especially if the fic is a gift for someone, because i just really want that person to like it yknow? but yeah idk if theres one in particular i was more nervous to post than any others... i guess maybe any smut fic? just bc i never know if the smut is even any good lol

How do you choose your titles?: eaaaaasy, i usually pick song lyrics lol, ocassionally i’ve used lines from a poem, and a few times i’ve gone with a pun, but mostly it’s song lyrics. i usually find a song with lyrics that i think will fit, or if there’s a particular song that vibes well with the fic or that i listened to repeatedly while writing the fic i’ll try to pick the best lyric from that one.

Do you outline?: yes and no lol. it honestly depends. sometimes i outline extensively, but other times i just sit in front of a doc and let whatever happens happen.

Complete: on my ao3 account i have 80 works completed (will be 81 once i finally finish that one single unfinished wip i have posted gahhh). but i know in my wips folder i have a at least one finished fic that i have not and probably will not post. there are also some other things in my wips folder that like technically could be conisdered finished too, but it’s not up to my posting standards so until i fix it so it is it’ll just sit there lol.

In-Progress: honestly there are too many to count lol. i have a shiiiiiit ton of wips (as yall will know if you saw that one ‘tell us about ALL your wips’ tag game post that was going around that i did lol).

Coming soon/not yet started: tbh see above answer bc it’s pretty much the same lol.

Prompts?: so the thing about prompts is that i would LOVE to take them, but it’s very very tricky bc i’m a super specific kind of gal and if i don’t vibe with the prompt it’s very difficult for me to write anything for it. but then there’s also the fact that inspiration/motivation are fickle bitches and they come and go as they please and so taking prompts is hard bc i never know if the stars will align and all that jazz for me to be in the ~ right mood ~ to work on a prompt. this is the exact reason why i have SO MANY sitting in my inbox right now, and i feel so bad for just letting them sit there but ughhh brain function?? how?? lol

Upcoming work you’re most excited about: sooooo i don’t necessarily have any specific works in progress right now (i’ve been so busy lately that writing has been the last thing on my mind and so i haven’t touched anything in weeks) but. i guess if i can ever get my shit together and finish the primo fic i’m close to finishing i’m pretty excited to post that! or honestly if i can actually get myself to finish any of the tog wips i have i’d be suuuper excited to post any of those bc i have not yet posted any tog fics!!

anways!! if you made it to this point thanks for sticking w me and reading through my long winded rambly answers lmao

Tagging: @peachykoya @wandering-scholar-lad @raynertodd @cluelessheroes @pinesboi @thewolvesrunwild @1derspark

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