Fells

"Idle Hands are the Devil's Playthings"

Good Omens Fanfic - Canon Divergent AU

Rating: Explicit

Length: 3,340 words

Prompt: Regency

(I was inspired by a post by @fellshish about Crowley finding a demon-loving smut book hidden beneath a Jane Austen cover in the bookshop)

Summary: Crowley is stress cleaning the bookshop flat while Aziraphale is away on a book collecting adventure. His boredom and anxieties are getting the better of him. But while inspecting some Jane Austen books, Crowley discovers a hidden saucy book bearing the author name of A. Z. Fell. And the demon can’t help but take a look at the story of Ladies Angelica Felling and Antoinette Crowleigh. But what happens when Aziraphale returns to catch his beloved demon in the act of reading…

Excerpt: The dark red covering of the book held a different title and author than its abandoned dust jacket. In golden scripted letters it read: Status and Seduction. A. Z. Fell. Well, well, well—the angel did some moonlighting as an author it seems. Let’s see why you kept this book of yours hidden, shall we? Crowley sat down, leaning his back against the bookshelf and opening the book...

Reblogging my fic because, after two and a half years, it is finally, indulgently, gratifyingly done!

I started writing it in December '23, inspired by the idea of heavenly surveillance watching everything Aziraphale saw on earth from @gingiekittycat's 'We Can't Keep Meeting Like This'. I set out purely to write something filthy in which Aziraphale had to keep his eyes closed and they couldn't talk because heaven was watching and listening. it got angsty... too angsty to enjoy sexy times in a oneshot. It needed longer.

So I left it, unpublished, for several months and then started to pick away at solving it. Honestly, someone, somewhere (I forget who) - they'd read it for me while it was in beta, i think - misremembered it as published and was trying to track it down. And seeing that it had stayed with them, I felt the need to try to get it into some sort of shape.

Enlisting @lemon-tart-221 and @gaiaseyes451 to help (because they were exceedingly silly and said yes and are exceptional writers in their own right) I ended up with 60lk words of something with a proper Second Coming plot and angst and fluff and so much smut built around variations on the theme of sensory deprivation.

And then I kind of couldn't finish it... and left it hanging... until season three. I came back and I finished it: happily, indulgently, softly. Yay them!