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1. Prelude to a Fall by LoneFish

   Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M, Other
   • Complete Work

   24 Feb 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
   • Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens)
   • Crowley (Good Omens)
   • Aziraphale (Good Omens)
   • Mrs Sandwich (Good Omens)
   • Pre-Fall
   • Angst
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Aziraphale/Crowley - Freeform
   • Crowley is not ok
   • Canon Divergence
   • Heavy Angst
   • Emotional pain
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Unresolved Ending
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • destructive love
   • Self-loathing Crowley (Good Omens)
   • Crowley POV
   • crowley needs help
   • Crowley is his own worst enemy
   • Aziraphale has low self-esteem
   • Aziraphale is not as okay as he seems
   • Loving someone who pushes you away
   • Unreciprocated love (emotionally)
   • Loving Too Much
   • Emotional abuse (unintentional)
   • Verbal Cruelty
   • Self-Sabotage
   • Fear of Corruption
   • Love as a moral crisis
   • "I love you" is not enough
   • Mutual Devotion
   • Mutual Destruction
   • Love that cannot be spoken
   • Holy Water
   • Fear of Falling
   • Heaven vs Hell
   • Angels and Demons
   • The Arrangement (referenced)
   • Classical Music
   • Piano
   • Music as Emotional Expression
   • Slow Emotional Collapse
   • Long form angst
   • Confessional dialogue
   • Interior monologue
   • Love Confessions Gone Wrong
   • Parallel Pain
   • This is not a fix-it
   • We could have been an us
   • Loving you is the punishment
   • No one is having a good time
   • Everybody needs therapy
   • This hurt me to write

   Summary

   Aziraphale thought love was enough. That it could heal, that it could fix, that it could save.
   But in a dimly lit piano bar, drowning in the notes of a song never meant for him, he begins to understand—love can wound just as deeply.
   And Crowley has been bleeding for centuries.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   11,401

   Chapters:

   4/4

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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