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eyesofaserpent ([personal profile] eyesofaserpent) wrote in [community profile] realityshifted2011-09-03 07:45 pm

008 | Blast From the Past

[Crowley steps backward onto the plane, looking white as a sheet. He looks like he's seen a ghost. Well, he has.

His world had been restoring itself since that night he saw the shooting star (against all odds, mind, as the starts in the sky were gone due to the celestial way). Over the last several days some buildings had reappeared whole and people had started roaming the streets as if they'd always been there. The blood disappeared from the Thames and the ducks reappeared in St. James Park. And then his flat was restored complete with his Bentley. And Aziraphale's bookshop. Every time he turned around, something new seemed to appear.

While in the angel's bookshop, moments ago, Crowley was tapped on the shoulder. He turned, expecting a customer, but instead found Aziraphale. He stepped backwards onto the Plane instinctively.

He looks around, stunned beyond belief. That is the last person he ever expected to see again. His Aziraphale. Alive and whole, in the flesh before him. His presence felt so right, unlike when he was with the Aziraphale he'd met on the Plane. What... How.... His brain doesn't seem to be able to compute this.

Crowley heads for the bar and grabs a bottle of scotch. He just starts drinking out of the bottle.]


Bloody hell... This can't be bloody happening...

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-04 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[In Conan's experience, you don't get that pale without experiencing some sort of a shock. As if Crowley's sudden appearance out of nowhere wasn't enough -- as a new arrival, Conan's yet to take the arrivals and departures from the Astral Plane for granted -- his expression and his actions were enough to capture the tiny detective's attention.

Hesitating momentarily outside the bar, Conan reasoned that if no one seemed to mind murder, they surely wouldn't kick him out of a bar, and pushed the door open.]

Mister -- are you all right?

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-04 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Conan takes that as invitation to climb -- and he really does have to climb -- up onto a stool near Crowley.]

Sounds complicated.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-04 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Bloody? That's UK slang, isn't it? Conan considered his companion thoughtfully.]

Ne ... is it something you can talk about?

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-04 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
[As a detective, Conan had heard a lot of fantastic stories. This one though ... this one really took the cake. He had to suppress a lot of questions, focusing instead on the current issues troubling his companion.

Different history -- apocalypse would cut it. As for different rules -- existence of biblical creatures in his world, someone he knows but is different here -- so far it all correlates. But can it really be true?]

And you know the Aziraphale-san you saw in your world wasn't the one you met here? I read a pamphlet that says sometimes people from the Astral Plane might appear in your world ... You're sure it's related to the star?

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-04 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
That's interesting. Ne, apart from the star and the things returning, has anything unusual happened to you lately? Here or in your world?

[personal profile] ex_oneiromancer912 2011-09-05 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Are you all right, sir? [Morgana does not enter the bar often; today, it was... perhaps to look for something flammable to test out more of Eithan's book. That Morgana had pyromania on the mind is clearly not important.]

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Another experiment?

... ne, are you sure it's over?

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
...

Not that I've noticed.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ha, I guess so ...

But if your world's been one way for 30 years without change ... and it's only since coming to the Plane that things have happened ...

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
You're telling me. This is all -- new.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
I've had things explained to me, but I'm still figuring everything out.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You're telling me.

Ne ... do you think that seeing your Aziraphale is one of the Plane's tricks?

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry.

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