a d and d flavoured quest to save the world.

Can Aziraphale and Crowley, who have been at odds for their working lives, work through the years of misunderstandings' and unkindness to save the world?

ZehWulf has posted it complete so the only wait is caused by your life.

When Crowley opens the hotel room door and gets a full look at the dom he's hired, his first very uncharitable thought is that this is never going to work. It's the beaming smile, the untidy mop of cherubic curls, the rather twee outfit. There's an overall aesthetic of a kindly, gay caricature from a vintage greeting card come to life, and nothing about that lines up with the sort of person Crowley's successfully gone under for before. His second thought is that he knows a lot bloody better than to judge someone's ability to dominate him by looks alone, and that he's only being such a hypocritically judgmental dick because his anxiety's got him doomsdaying everything again—which is why he's hired someone to help him achieve his own version of meditation in the first place. OR Crowley's anxiety is interfering with his kink life so badly that he decides to hire a professional dom to help get him into subspace. It goes horribly until it goes absolutely amazing.

Length: 19,115 words

AO3 Rating: Explicit / Spice Level 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Best for: At Home, After Dark

Triggers: None

Read it here, fic by ZehWulf

*Minor Spoilers* I am failing the, "Read something other than Sub Crowley/Dom Aziraphale" challenge. But how can I try anything else when this dynamic is just so good for them?? I can't help it! I'm weak your honor! Aziraphale was meant to take control and care of a Crowley who needs to be praised and have his brain turned off. I didn't make the rules! And you guys are just straight up indulging me now, I'm so spoiled for good stories.

So, obviously a sub Crowley story, but this is also a sex worker story. I found it really interesting that in this version, this is a service that Crowley has been seeking out for years. Submission isn't just something that's fun for him, he needs it. But things haven't been working out, and finally he meets his perfect match, The Conservator. This story follows their first session together. From a tense first introduction, to the boneless bliss of being fully satisfied.

I'm very taken by these specific iterations, I want a million words of this universe. Like I said, they were made for this. They're the perfect match, and they take care of each other so well.

Crowley lays quietly, eyes open but unable to make out much now that it's properly dark outside and his view is the dark rock of the cave wall. He does his best to relax, but can't help the anxious tension that clings to his muscles and joints, locking his body and brain up in wakefulness. He needs rest, and this bizarrely accommodating creature has provided the space and opportunity for it, but he's finding it difficult to just trust and accept. In the relative peace, all the delayed fear and gibbering questions he's had to shunt aside to focus on surviving each moment come clamoring back for their due attention.

He wishes he could just accept—for the next several hours he is warm, he is safe, he is even comfortable—but that's never been a strength of his. He needs to know. What is this creature? Can Crowley take their apparent kindness at face value? Or is he being secured as a convenient snack for later? -Don't Wake the Sleeping Bear(Dragon)

I know of several, dear!

Like a Moth to the Flame by Hemera7437 (T)

Running from his former pack, shapeshifter Crowley comes upon an abandoned castle in the woods, that resembles more a library than a residence, and finds himself enamored by its mysterious occupant.

Aka: The beauty and the beast AU no one asked for, but I wrote anyways.

Choose Your Princes Wisely by ZehWulf (T)

“There’s an enchanted castle West in the Hellian slopes, and apparently it comes with a prince looking for a bride or bridegroom to free him from a dark fae’s curse.”

“I see,” Aziraphale says finally, when he realizes both Gabriel and Uriel are staring at him expectantly. “You want me to marry a beast?”

Gabriel's mouth flattens. “I want you to take this gods’ blessed opportunity to secure your family’s future for good."

OR

Aziraphale is a professional quest hero who just wants to sit by the fire and read a book, if his overbearing family will ever let him; Crowley is a serpent demon who needs a gullible hero he can con into gathering some critical ingredients for a human corporation spell. Hijinks and a lot of terribly inconvenient feelings ensue.

The Rose and the Serpent by Atalan (M)

AU, retelling of “Beauty and the Beast”. Quite honestly, sending Aziraphale off into the forest to be held hostage by a giant snake in a cursed castle isn’t even the worst thing Gabriel’s ever done to him, and at least it means a change of scene. But then neither the snake nor the castle turn out to be quite what he’s expecting…

The Serpent and the Angel by Slow_Burn_Sally (M)

“I hope the library pleasssses you.”

Aziraphale shrieked, jumped and whirled around. Behind him, at the entrance to the library, sitting in a coal-black glimmering coil of shining scales, sat the largest snake he had ever seen in his life, twice as large as the average man. It’s angular head and bright yellow eyes regarded him curiously and calmly, and its thin, forked tongue flickered out, as if to taste the air.

Aziraphale felt the blood rush from his head and his vision grew white around the edges and he promptly lost consciousness.

The Good AUmens AU Fest is an event of over 100 authors and artists, all producing new alternate universe works based on a prompt that was assigned to them. They’ve been at work since early March and the works will debut during the month of June. This is the first of five weekly masterposts.

Works arranged by date posted June 1

Fairy Tale AU: Choose Your Princes Wisely by @zehwulf

Time Travel AU: Hard Way Home by @curseundone  

Soulmate AU:  A Snake with a Halo by @sivan325 

Cooking AU:  Sweet Temptations by @soft-october-night​ and @weatheredlaw  

June 2

Single Parent AU: A Fine Line (Between Love and Hate) by @bpash89​ 

Apartheid-era South Africa AU: Weeping by @sani-86​

Hitman AU: Steady, sure hands by @halfofmysoulistrees​

June 3

Spies AU: Unremarkable by @sameoldsorceress​

Ghosts/Supernatural AU: The Roads We Walk Together by @thetimemachinejellyfish​

Art Heist AU: the art of stealing (hearts) by @asideofourown​

Professors AU: Classics and Moderns by @joyandotherstories​

June 4

Avatar the Last Airbender AU: The Burning Sky by @braver-stronger-smarter​

Single Parents AU: Crazy Ineffable Thing (Called Love) by @tawnyontumblr​

Beach AU: Don't Cry Over Spilled Coffee by @waffleironbiddingwar

June 5

Pen Pals AU: He Loves Me by @eveningstarcatcher

Pet Shop AU: Fur Get Me Not by @bisasterdi​

Spies AU: Covert (mis)Communications by @ineffable-human​

June 6

Angry Customer/Employee AU: Will Call by @sabine-aubergine​

Tattoo AU: Indelible Marks by @theeinkibus

Choose Your Princes Wisely

By ZehWulf ( @zehwulf )

Summary:

“There’s an enchanted castle West in the Hellian slopes, and apparently it comes with a prince looking for a bride or bridegroom to free him from a dark fae’s curse.”

“I see,” Aziraphale says finally, when he realizes both Gabriel and Uriel are staring at him expectantly. “You want me to marry a beast?”

Gabriel's mouth flattens. “I want you to take this gods’ blessed opportunity to secure your family’s future for good."

OR

Aziraphale is a professional quest hero who just wants to sit by the fire and read a book, if his overbearing family will ever let him; Crowley is a serpent demon who needs a gullible hero he can con into gathering some critical ingredients for a human corporation spell. Hijinks and a lot of terribly inconvenient feelings ensue.

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Loved this! Just read it all today, put it off a bit bc I thought I’d read enough Beauty and the Beast AUs (I haven’t). It was very sweet and I loved both Aziraphale and Crowley in this! Definitely recommended. 😊

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