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So, no, angels don't sleep1. But some angels, it would appear, do share beds with demons. And those demons, for all that they're kind and thoughtful and charming and look especially handsome lately, haven't the faintest idea how to decorate a simple bedroom.

Aziraphale is standing inside the bedroom he has executively decided he shares with Crowley and squinting thoughtfully at the mahogany bookshelf he's just willed into being. It stretches to the ceiling, but is it tall enough? Or, more pertinently, wide enough? The question of whether it matches the bed is decidedly not pertinent. (It doesn't.)

Crowley is, presumably, somewhere out and about. Cavorting with his human friend(s?). Aziraphale has, in the past, gone literal decades without seeing Crowley, and been fine2. There's no accounting for the eagerness he feels for a certain lanky form to come slouching through the door just now, but he feels it anyway. He frowns at the bookshelf. Should it be a different material entirely? Does it need an armchair next to it? Why can't he merely summon the exact entirety of the inside of his bookshop and meld it perfectly with this ridiculous room?

1Unless they've temporarily had their consciousnesses transported into human bodies. Quite annoying.
2Basically true, actually. Mostly.
az_fell: (looking down)
Historically, there are basically, sort of, two or three basic ways to categorize angels. Think of an angel and what do you picture? Right: either you're thinking of an adorable cherub with cute little wings and a harp, or you're thinking of Gabriel descending benignly from on high to tell poor Mary that abstinence is not effective contraception1, or you're thinking of some kind of terrifying many-eyed wheel of flames and animal heads.

You're probably not thinking of an irritable Englishman in a waistcoat, trying and failing to sort the library of a vast and changeable mansion. These shelves are not responding to his attempts to impose order and it's starting to grate on Aziraphale. He's even got his shirtsleeves rolled up and his jacket off about it.

He mutters to himself as he bustles back and forth across the library, shuttling various stacks of books around. There will almost certainly be no lasting effect.

1The theological implications are dizzying if one applies this more broadly, so let's just be grateful that it was a one-off.

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