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[onlyanapple]

Who: Crowley and YOU
Broadcast: Fleet wide
Action: Malum
When: Forward dated to the 10th

[Crowley can be found behind the bar as normal. Unlike normal, however, he isn't here to give you a stupid time consuming network game, or pose a stupid drinking game or riddle. It's not a day for that kind of thing.

He manages to remain pretty laconic, uncaring - but today he is anything but. He also has a very large bottle of wine he's already half polished off. ]

So, today marks exactly ten years since I last saw home. Not just being here, of course. Adding in all my time in that fucking castle, too. It's a fart in the wind, time-wise, really. I've had longer naps.

[He's always been very vocal about not missing home. Hell is back home, recovering after the near apocalypse and waiting to see if they find him and punish him for what he did. Aziraphale has always been someone who's shown up once in a while, hung about for a bit and then vanished off home again. But...but, it's been an awfully long time since he last saw the angel. And for the first time in a long, long time, he's starting to feel a tug of homesickness.]

...But I guess ten years still counts for something, huh?

Comments

[ultima_mortis]

A DECADE IS A LONG TIME TO PASS ANYWHERE AND IN ANY WAY, NO MATTER HOW SMALL IT MIGHT BE COMPARATIVELY. THAT IS WHY SUCH A PERIOD OF TIME IS GIVEN A UNIQUE NAME.

[onlyanapple]

I suppose. But for being like us...well, it's like a spit in the bucket. Generally speaking.

[ultima_mortis]

GENERALLY. THAT DOES NOT PREVENT US FROM FEELING PAIN WHEN COMPREHENDING THE PASSAGE OF TIME.

[onlyanapple]

I suppose not, no. It was honestly a lot easier when the only other being I spent time with was also immortal.

[ultima_mortis]

TIME PASSES QUICKLY WITH COMPANY. I DON'T TALK MUCH WITH OTHER BEINGS LIKE MYSELF OUTSIDE OF THE OTHER HORSEMEN AND THE HOGFATHER.

[onlyanapple]

That's your worlds pig santa, right? I remember hearing about that one.

[ultima_mortis]

HE'S A JOLLY TYPE. MY GRANDDAUGHTER HELPED ME GET HIM OUT OF A PREDICAMENT SOME TIME AGO.

[onlyanapple]

Yeah? So you're telling me she technically saved not-Christmas.

[ultima_mortis]

JOHNATHAN TEATIME. [He carefully pronounces the teh-ah-tim-eh just as he did when he last saw the young man.] I COULD HAVE SAVED THE HOGFATHER ON MY OWN, BUT HE WENT THROUGH THE TOOTH FAIRY AND HER CASTLE. THE BELIEF OF CHILDREN KEEPS THE CASTLE GOING, AND AS SUCH, MY PRESENCE IS NOT SO MUCH UNWELCOME AS IS IMPOSSIBLE. CHILDREN DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I EXIST.

[onlyanapple]

That- I've met someone with that name, I'm sure. I remember thinking it was really weird then. Spelled like tea-time?

[It was in Paradisa, he remembers. And the guy was definitely a few apples short of a bushel. ]

That...weirdly makes sense. You're not exactly something they have a need to believe in, until...you know, someone or something they love dies. And with that, the rest of the belief stuff...kind of falls apart.

[Because once you have an understanding that things die a little bit of magic is lost forever. ]

[ultima_mortis]

PRECISELY. CURLY BLOND HAIR AND A AN EYE MADE FROM BLACK GLASS. I WON'T FORGET THAT MAN ANY TIME SOON. HE TRIED TO KILL ME AND THREATENED MY GRANDDAUGHTER.

[He shifts where he sits, bringing a hand to his jaw.]

SOME SORT OF TIMELINE WAS CROSSED OVER IF YOU MANAGED TO MEET HIM. A BEND IN REALITY OR SOME SHIFT INTO AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE I NEVER REAPED HIM.

[He shakes his head.]

EVEN CHILDREN WHO ARE INTRODUCED TO THE CONCEPT THROUGH THE LOSS OF A PET OR A FAMILY MEMBER DO NOT TRULY BEGIN TO COMPREHEND MY EXISTENCE UNTIL WELL AFTER THEIR BABY TEETH HAVE FALLEN OUT. I SUPPOSE IT'S SORT OF A NATURAL ORDER TO THINGS.

[onlyanapple]

Sounds about right. The guy always did give the vibe he was off his rocker. I mean, sure why not, let's try to kill DEATH, where can that go wrong?

Hmm probably. Or he was taken before you did. Places like that pull that shite all the time.

Guess so. Things got to follow the plan and all.

[ultima_mortis]

HE WAS TRYING OUT AN EXPERIMENT, NEAR AS I COULD SURMISE. I HOPE HE DID NOT PROVE TO BE DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH WHEN YOU CROSSED PATHS.

[Death nods gravely.] THERE ARE RULES, BUT I WOULD NOT GO SO FAR AS TO SAY A TRUE PLAN. MORE LIKE A VAGUE COLLECTION OF IDEAS THAT BASE ITSELF OFF THE RULES.