the keenest pleasures by depraveddame
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Athens, Ancient Greece, 430 BC.
An unknown pathogen which would be known as The Plague of Athens has been ravaging the ancient Greek city, killing thousands and thousands with no end in sight. Just outside the walls surrounding the devastation, a guilt-wracked angel and a raging, despairing demon seek refuge from a violent downpour and the stench of death in an old abandoned dwelling.
And under the heaviness of what's happening just outside the hut and the relentlessly pressing weight of their forbidden desire for the other, they crumble.
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“No one will know,” he’s so close now, close enough for Aziraphale to smell the scorching furnace of him, the honeyed note of beeswax in Crawley’s hair and scented olive oil clinging to the infernal plane of his skin, his typical, intrinsic freshness of the very first rain and undercurrent of smoldering cedar now woven with cardamom and lily, incense and myrrh, “there’s no one else here; no one needs to find out. ”
Crawley’s whisper is almost sweet, then, almost tender, and when Aziraphale dares to meet his eyes, as he raises his chin slightly and meets Crawley’s gaze head on, he watches something dawn over the pale angles of his features, witnesses the blossoming of what might be a kind of understanding or perhaps an idea of some sort.
“Is that what you’re afraid of? Of Upstairs knowing?” Crawley cocks an eyebrow, a movement quickly mirrored by his head as he holds Aziraphale’s gaze with a scrutinizing eye, “you know, you could always tell them it was a means to subdue your wily adversary, if they found out…” he trails off, the possibility of what he’s implying dangling from his tongue like a length of rope offered to a drowning sailor; a rescue. Perhaps the rescue of a siren, but a rescue nonetheless.
Aziraphale seems to have lost the ability to swallow.