#ifof: find out how much love the world can hold

[ineffablefool]

Find Out How Much Love The World Can Hold

“So I have successfully tempted you, right? Not going to come pick you up for dinner, and instead get roped into helping you unpack a bunch of new old books?”

Aziraphale clicked his tongue and hoped the telephone would make him sound disapproving rather than endlessly fond. “That was only the one time,” he said, “and it certainly taught me a lesson about asking you to help.”

“Exactly,” Crowley said easily. “Demon. Inherently unhelpful. Pick you up at nine, then?”

“I’d like that very much. Goodbye, Crowley.”

“Ciao, angel.”

“I love you,” Aziraphale murmured into the handset.

Crowley, of course, had already hung up.

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Aziraphale starts saying "I love you" at the end of phone calls with Crowley, after Crowley has hung up. Then one time Crowley doesn't actually hang up.

Spoiler: it ends very well for all parties concerned.