May You Find Comfort Here
It's finally here!! Dark Principality, part 3!! I'm so happy with the way this came out... I hope everyone enjoys it đź’–
Title: May You Find Some Comfort Here
Rating: E
Word Count: 10,664
Summary:
It's been a month since their disastrous fight, and Aziraphale is worried. Lucifer has been shirking his responsibilities in Hell and ignoring every attempt of the angel's to communicate.
Refusing to give up, Aziraphale summons Lucifer directly into the bookshop. But when the Morningstar appears, arrayed for war, will he be willing to listen to Aziraphale's apology? Or is there really only one way for this to end?
Excerpt:
“Well,” Lucifer said, his voice silk as he leaned on his weapon and sneered at Aziraphale. “The Supreme Archangel himself. To what do I owe this… pleasure?” He purred the last word, making it sound positively indecent, causing the color to leap into Aziraphale’s cheeks as the angel struggled to stop fidgeting.
“Thank you for coming,” Aziraphale managed to squeak out, clearing his throat nervously. Lucifer didn’t respond. He yawned as he lifted a hand to examine his fingernails, as though already dismissing Aziraphale. Aziraphale shifted again. “You look… that is to say…” Aziraphale cleared his throat again. All the things he had intended to say were vanishing from his mind upon actually facing the archdemon here in his bookshop.
“I had assumed that this would be a declaration of war, or some other official matter,” Lucifer drawled, not even glancing up from his fingers. “So I made sure to dress appropriately. Surely you didn’t call me here for some triviality about my incredible good looks like a wayward angel with too much time on his hands.”
Huge thanks to @ladybracknellssherry and @on1occasionfork for beta reading, hand holding, head patting and general cheering me on as I went!
And an enormous thank you to @gleafer for this amazing cover art! I still stare at it sometimes and wonder how it could be so perfect!
Read the rest on AO3 here!
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