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Here’s a few Christmas human aus:

Snow Angel by Vagabond (T)

Human!AU. Aziraphale needs a date to his brother's Christmas party to avoid getting set up with someone. Anathema suggests Crowley, the office bad boy. They go, get snowed in, and have a heart-to-heart that ends in a Happy Christmas.

From a prompt: Human!AU: Aziraphale needs a date for family Christmas. He invites the office rebel/bad boy, Crowley.

muddle through somehow by curtaincall (T)

Aziraphale Fell runs a successful food blog, Celestial Comestibles, where he shares mouthwatering recipes and heartwarming stories about his happy domestic life in a cottage with his husband and son. As promotion for his upcoming cookbook, his publishers run a contest: one lucky winner will get to spend Christmas with Aziraphale and his family.

What the publishers don't know is that the real Aziraphale Fell is a single city-dweller. And if he wants to keep up his happily married persona, he'll have to acquire a cottage, husband, and son before Christmas.

As it happens, his friend and neighbor Anthony Crowley has his nephew staying with him for the holidays. One fake marriage proposal later, and everything seems tickety-boo--as long as Aziraphale can keep from developing inconveniently real feelings for his pretend husband...

Taking the Cake by Caedmon (T)

Aziraphale has noticed his handsome neighbor, but hasn't had an excuse (or the nerve) to talk to him. He gets his chance, though, when a bakery delivers a package to the wrong door a few days before Christmas and his neighbor comes knocking.

The Grinch Who Sold Christmas by darcylindbergh (T)

Anthony J. Crowley, a big-time attorney from London, is sent to small-town Tadfield to close a deal before Christmas that would sell out half of high street to a fancy developer and put him up for partner at his firm. The deal will run the local businesses out and change the landscape of the town forever, but that’s none of Crowley’s business; he’s just doing a job.

But as the town invites him to share in their lives, their hopes, and their holiday celebrations, and as the enigmatic Aziraphale invites him to share in something more, Crowley starts to wonder: if everything has its price, is he still willing to pay what this deal will cost?

And here’s some canon-verse fics!

Holidays in the South Downs by TurnipTitaness (G)

After stopping the apocalypse, Aziraphale and Crowley have retired to a little cottage in the South Downs. This is their first holiday season together. It's fluffy.

Deck the Bookshop with Decorations by Elphen (G)

Not one to decorate the bookshop for Christmas, Aziraphale nevertheless finds ornaments, baubles and other decorations hidden among the medley of items, not clutter, of the shop. What's more, he discovers that more is added over the course of December. There can only be one culprit, but why? Of all the things to Aziraphale is going to find out, one way or the other. Even if it means he has to actually ask outright. Set post-canon. 

Christmas Gifts by Amaranthology (E)

Crowley has plans for Christmas this year.

It's posted so that you can read Chapter 1 and get no smut or continue with Chapter 2 for the full experience.

A Christmas Miracle (A Very Smutty Christmas) by IneffableScript (E)

After the Non-Apocalypse, Aziraphale feels he can finally enjoy Christmas. He thinks the only thing to make it perfect, would be to spend it with Crowley. But Crowley has a secret that might ruin Aziraphale's plans! Lots of fluff and smut, only a dab of angst.

Hungry for more? Here’s a link to the Christmas tag on AO3!

As always, if any of our follower have any recs, feel free to leave them in the notes!

Word count: 8k Rating: Explicit

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Louis only nodded, still smiling. “Right, okay. As much fun as this has been, I really doubt the lovely heated seating of my car will dull our banter. Or...” he dragged out the ‘r’, eyes mischievous. “Are you really going to let a…” he assessed Harry. “Twenty? Twenty year gap,” he confirmed. “Be the reason you get hypothermia? Is that really the hill you want to freeze on, Mr. Principled?”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley (side) Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley Additional Tags: auror!Harry, auror!Ron, Unspeakable!Draco, Unspeakable!Hermione, Oblivious!Harry, Angst, top!draco, Bottom!Harry, pining!Draco, sappy!Draco, Fluff, Happy Ending, Secret Relationship, Established Relationship, smitten!Draco, Hurt Draco Malfoy Summary:

Draco thought they were in a relationship. Harry thought it was just sex.

Excerpt: And then Harry’s eyes and nose are hurting from crying as he reviews the angry encounter in the Ministry prison.

“—That I thought we were in a relationship? That you didn’t want to tell anyone because you just wanted make sure it was on a firm base, so that nothing the papers say will make us break up? That I was expecting to move in any day now? I was stupid, and it took me six months to realise that, while I thought we were making love, you believed I was just some easy fuck.”

Harry knows that sometimes can’t see things, that he isn't that good with emotions. Harry blames that on the Dursleys and on Voldemort, but this time, even Ron saw it.

Draco loves him.

Or maybe—loved— him—because Harry doesn’t know if Draco loves him anymore. And of course sex with strangers could not compare, because Draco was making love, and a plain fucking lacked everything that mattered—Draco.

And Harry had been stupid enough to make him go.

All the Dracos are running in repeat in Harry’s mind, all narrowing down to the fierce concentration of Draco in battle, beautiful even then and it hurts so much.

He does the only thing he can think of: he fire-calls Hermione. The moment Hermione’s face appears in the flames, Harry is blubbering, “Hermione, ‘Mione, I—Draco—”

Her face hardens, then softens. “Step through, Harry.”

Harry nods, and barely forces out the words to Hermione’s place. He stumbles straight into Hermione, burying his face in her hair. Hermione’s a saint, as she lets him smear her hair with his tears and his snot.

“I was an idiot, I told Draco—that—we—”

Hermione pats him. “Don’t tell me this. Tell Draco.”

“How?” He sounds like a wailing child, but he’s desperate. What if Draco’s found someone else? It’s been over a month already, and Draco is handsome, and rich, and charming.

“Owl him. Floo call him. Visit the Manor,” Hermione says. “If you’re willing to sign a stack of documents, you can visit him in Level Nine."

Harry will do anything.

Of course!

The Nice and Not Very Accurate Cookbook by BlackPrism (G)

A Cookbook full of Good Omens inspired recipes and Illustrations. There are 21 recipes, each with a large Illustration, step by step Illustrations, and a few little, handwritten comments by our two favourite occult (and ethereal) beings. As well as hand holding.

Thank you!

An Angel who did not so much Fall In Love as Settle Into It Gradually by TheLadyZephyr (G)

 Crowley was standing in the middle of the room, hands in his pockets, looking a little lost. Aziraphale eyed the distance between them. Five steps. Five steps, and six thousand years, and a battlefield spanning an eternity.

The story of the little moments over the millennia that shape an angel’s regard for a demon, and the way he slowly, with great reluctance but inevitable surety, falls in love.

Thank you!

if you don’t say it by AllThisAndLoveTooWillRuinUs (G)

after aziraphale helps crowley sober up post spanish inquisition, gabriel puts a "blessing" on aziraphale that prevents him from saying how he feels about crowley. once the armageddidn't is over, aziraphale tries to find other ways to get the message across. technically canon compliant.

Of course!

in keeping with tradition by Phoenix_Soar (E)

Running into Aziraphale in Rome during the notoriously debauched Festival of Saturnalia gives Crowley the chance he's hardly dared to dream of

OR

Crowley accidentally invented the New Year's Kiss tradition as an excuse to kiss Aziraphale

Hello!

I used this tag to find no/low angst human au Ineffable Bureaucracy fics. Here’s some of what I found!

Polar Opposites by summerofspock (T)

Gabe and Bee are hapless zoo interns just trying to wrangle Aziraphale and Crowley, a polar bear and penguin who won't stop breaking into each others enclosures.

The Manager by gypsyweaver (T)

Gabriel and Aziraphale DiAngelo are working at the Chez Mall because their parents think that they need to learn a sense of responsibility. Gabriel got a job at the GAP. The Hot Topic across the hall from his store is going to be a problem, and Gabriel is, above all things, a problem solver.

Hell is A Pile of Greasy Chips by FernStone (T)

It had become a bit of a tradition in the past few weeks. Gabriel would come in and they would argue. Then he'd order the same thing (a double cheese burger with a large chips and coke) and complain about how disgusting it was, even when he ate all of it.

Honestly Beez didn't understand it.

"I think he's scouting us out," Dagon narrowed their eyes suspiciously after he'd left.

"That's ridiculous," Beez snorted at their floor manager. "We don't even directly compete. That's no reason to eat food you hate."

"I don't know then," Dagon shrugged. "But I'm pretty sure Ligur spat in his food this time."

According to Policy by Shift7 (T)

It started with a passive-aggressive note.

Well… It was actually less passive and more just straight-up aggressive.

The “Thing” by Tenukii (T)

When co-managers Gabriel and Beelzebub meet for their weekly evening at the bar, they realize there's a disturbing rumor about them floating around the office.

and a WIP:

something to blame by Prostidude (NR)

two dumbass bitches run rival nightclubs and fall in love (if your here for aziraphale and crowley this aint it chief)