Drink Count: 29 || Take a look in the mirror and cry Lord what you're doing to me

[eyesofaserpent]

[Aziraphale is gone. Or, well... A drone, more rather. He gets a sense that this might be permanent. It's been several days now and Crowley's gone by 852 Goldberg to check and see if the angel has come out of it yet. But even his wings are gone.

It breaks his heart to see Aziraphale like this. He can never bear to stay long when he comes to check on him. It's like his whole foundation is shattering more, the longer he stays with this shell that was once the angel he desperately loves.

And now also his not!wife is a drone. What the fuck, universe?]


A. [Park: Around Noon]

[Crowley is sitting alone on a bench and feeding the ducks some bread.]


B. [Olney's Tavern: Evening]

[Cowley's behind the bar and drinking a lot more than he usually does. And not even the cocktails he normally drinks, but just scotch on the rocks. Even his wings are starting to become a reflection of his mental state, the normally sleek and immaculate appendages are untidy with the occasional falling feather.]

Comments

[eyesofaserpent]

I keep hoping it's just temporary...

[bread_goes_bip]

There's always that hope, here.

[windows_hyliaedition]

"I see. Even from within the same household, this occurs?" Hnnnn. "...It seems I have much to learn concerning the workings of emotional beings then." ...Yeeeup.

Fi you're kinda creepy...

[eyesofaserpent]

[He looks up at his dearest human friend and can't even really find it in himself to offer a wan smile.]

I suppose you could say that.

[eyesofaserpent]

Sure... Something like that.

[He's gotten uncharacteristically used to letting Aziraphale groom his wings and without him around...]

What'll you have Grimsley?

[eyesofaserpent]

[Oh, it's that girl that helped him out a while back. He watches her a moment before returning to duck feeding.]

[eyesofaserpent]

I'm sure you've lost lots of friends since coming here...

[Of course, Aziraphale is more than just a friend to him.]

[eyesofaserpent]

"Sounds like it... Granted, the 'families' you find here aren't like ones you would find in the real world. These ones are just shoved together without any rhyme or reason."

[kingofshadows]

...One order of 'why in the world did you let that one slide', if you could.

[eyesofaserpent]

....

[Stare.]

I'm sorry, what?

[windows_hyliaedition]

"I have noticed. In my home realm, I observed that many of the living species had similar household constructions however- such a relationship seemed to exist between my current 'sibling' and the former mother figure. She did not react well to her droning, though it would appear that the lawn has recovered from its burned state."

...Wait Crowley, wasn't that YOUR lawn that Shana destroyed on her way out the door..?

[watchher]

[ With the shades making Crowley's expression that much harder to read, it's his body language that first clues Giles in. Something dark and cold collects deep in his chest; concern shows blatant on his face. ]

Has something happened?

[eyesofaserpent]

.... It's a good thing he'd been out at the time. If his Bentley had been burned...

"Er.... Where are you living?"

[windows_hyliaedition]

"My current residence is '852 Goldberg'."

[eyesofaserpent]

[Leave it to Giles to notice so easily. He looks back at the ducks and nods.]

Aziraphale's gone.

[eyesofaserpent]

"Oh.... Er.... Yeah, I can't imagine Shana taking Wilhelmina's droning well..."

He frowns, tossing some more bread.

"Sorry I haven't been home. I'm Crowley, your 'dad'."

[windows_hyliaedition]

She bows her head, expression and tone both unchanging as ever. "Greetings to you then. I am called 'Fi'." ...

Like an F-Sharp. Exactly like an F-Sharp actually. Hoh.

[eyesofaserpent]

"It's, er... Good to meet you.It's a shame it's under such terrible circumstances."

[windows_hyliaedition]

"Indeed. The timing is not at all appropriate, from what I have observed since arriving here.

"Is that why you have come to this precise location to feed the water fowl?" They are birds. They live in water. That is a good enough name for them then, yes.

[eyesofaserpent]

"I..." He looks down.

"I've lost a very close friend. This is something we would do from time to time."

[windows_hyliaedition]

"You have my condolences." Might have been a little teensie bit of emotion in that one. Huh.

[eyesofaserpent]

"Thanksss."

He appreciates it, really. Even if he is kind of bad at expressing it.

Fi's world only has weird monster toad things. =n= ...ohandLoftwings.

[windows_hyliaedition]

Well at least he's not the worst.

Looking back to the ducks now... "...What are they called? These birds." ...Fi why doesn't your world have ducks, what-

awwww

[eyesofaserpent]

He looks at the ducks, blinking behind his shades.

"Er... They're called ducks."

[uberboned]

[Oh... Gabriel never met Aziraphale, but it definitely doesn't make for fuzzy feelings when it comes to angels and this place.] And he's...

[Droned. If what Crowley told him before was true and there doesn't seem to be a reason why he'd lie about that.]