All the Kingdoms of the World - Good Omens Fanfic by Raphaela Crowley
This is a gift fic for @lady-wallace by Raphaela Crowley.
I think Raphaela did such a beautiful job with my request, and I hope you guys will enjoy this fanfiction. Also, Raphaela really appreciates reviews so if you feel inclined to do so, please give her your feedback. :-)
Lady-Wallace, hope you will enjoy this story. <3
All the Kingdoms of the World
This angel was not Crawley. Not quite. But it was somebody Crawley had once been. Somebody long dead.
And this – what he was seeing as if from another pair of eyes – was that angel's death.
And what actually happened is it hurt. Outside and inside, it hurt.
The first water to fall from the eyes of man followed the rain over Eden, it followed the temptation of the apple, it followed human failure, but where had the tears of angels – the tears that tormented the red-haired angel – come from?
From the rebellion. The first mistake.
The Heart of Heaven torn apart, shattered like a mirror in millions of shining pieces. Pieces which, one day, would be called shooting stars.
The red-haired angel felt every moment of it. Not just the burn, but the change in his heart, the dimming and cracking and finally the breaking of his halo.
Why? Why go on existing after something like that?
You can't – at least not in the same way.
The angel who would be Crawley couldn't.
The stars – seen through his tears – were a foothold after all. Of a sort. He looked up at them, unable to turn his head or close his eyes, holding on against the dizzying pain as he sank down into the fire.
The angel was like an amputee, but what he had lost was so, so much worse than any mere limb.
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All the Kingdoms of the World
