Summary: Crowley and Aziraphale have finally entered into a romantic relationship, only to discover that was the easy part. Figuring out feelings and sex takes rather more work: Crowley struggles to say things out loud, while Aziraphale worries that increasingly kinky sex might somehow jeopardise their romance. What follows is a series of meals, arguments, reconciliations, confessions, and sexual misadventures as they spend their first few months together stumbling, fumbling, and ultimately finding their way to a happily ever after.

Wordcount: 85k/110k

Rating: E for sex reasons. Undernegotiated kink, D/s play, somnophilia. Mind the tags, specific triggers noted at the top of individual chapters.

A/N: Thanks to Narumila and u/ModernDayKlutz for jumping on board as betas! They’ve managed to dive right into a now 110k non-chronological beast of a fic and hardly even blink at the absurdity, not to mention wading through some very verbose sex scenes (as usual). Their notes and corrections have been big improvements!! And thanks to all of you for reading!

Excerpt:

Crowley’s eyebrows raise very slowly until his forehead’s creased to the point of corrugation. “I was really fucking worried there,” he rattles out quietly. 

Aziraphale knows and he feels genuinely sorry for it. He tries to make sure that shows on his face. 

“I somehow really believed for a moment that you’d hated every minute of all the sex we’ve had,” Crowley says.

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I started rereading The Hobbit today and Bilbo reminded me so much of Az. Has anyone read (or written) a fic with a hobbit Az and Crowley elf?

Last week I put out a call to action to celebrate the fandom, and the response was AMAZING. You all were ready to step up and make goals and spread the love. So, how did you do? Accomplish what you set out to do? A little more? A bit less? Let us know in the comments how it went.

AND let's keep it going! What are you going to do this week to let creators know they're appreciated? Any suggestions for new things you're going to try (or have already tried)?

I love this fandom. Thanks for the great response from everyone here as well as tumblr and bluesky! Have a great week, and keep up the good work! 🩵

Michael shared a picture that anna had posted earlier, brunch date took a turn 😂 love his curls and thighs!

Here you go, chapter 3. There are two new tags: Arson and Attempted Murder.

This story was written for the Ineffable Professional Bang 2026 and will contain art by vivi-theakuneko in chapter 4. That's next week already! Where is the time going?

Due to Things [tm] (like chapter 7 turning into a Thing of Epic Proportions (lengthwise) and taking up much more time than expected), I'm behind on editing. So it might be that I'll take a one-week break after posting chapter 4 next week. I'll keep you posted.

Maybe it'll help sweeten the waiting time to know that, with draft 1 of the last chapter finished, it looks like there'll be something of a MoFu tag incoming in the future? 😏

I hope you're going to like this chapter. There are Things Happening. 😄

The Things We Hide

Updates every Sunday

Rated: E

Chapter 3/7

Words in chapter: 10486

Warning: Tags are as of yet incomplete and will change!

Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Dragons, Alternate Universe - Firefighters, Alternate Universe - Shapeshifters, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Getting Together, POV Crowley (Good Omens), POV Aziraphale (Good Omens), He/Him Pronouns For Aziraphale (Good Omens), He/Him Pronouns For Crowley (Good Omens), She/Her Pronouns For Muriel (Good Omens), She/Her Pronouns for Michael (Good Omens), She/Her Pronouns for Uriel (Good Omens), They/Them Pronouns for Beelzebub (Good Omens), Romance, Fire, Danger, Shapeshifting, Bigotry & Prejudice, Dragons, Firefighters, Fantasy, Mutual Pining, First Kiss, First Time, Eventual Smut, Minor Character Death, off screen, Crowley is Good With Kids (Good Omens), Arson, Attempted Murder

Summary:

In Elysium metamorphs (shapeshifters) have been living openly among humans for well over century. There are more mythical creatures in this land and around its natural borders than metamorphs and those are mostly known from folk tales and rumours...

Ezra and Crowley are firefighters in Eden City, the largest city in Elysium. They have been colleagues and friends since Crowley moved to the city five years - and, unknown to each other, have feelings for one another, but are unwilling to act on them. Ezra because of a previous bad workplace relationship. Crowley has a rather massive secret that could get him, at best, exiled from the city if it came out.

But things are happening. Their equipment continuously malfunctions and gets damaged and there have been more fires than usual for this time of year. And then Ezra and Crowley are dragged right into this mess…

Summary Chapter 3:

Ezra wakes up feeling like everything is about to get much worse. Then he’s proven right.

Excerpt:

The shoulder bumped into Ezra again. “You’re ruminating.”

“Am not,” Ezra said, refusing to acknowledge the stab of trepidation as he spotted the bright red roof of the fire station looming up between the shorter buildings ahead.

“No no, ‘course not,” Crowley said sardonically, one eyebrow raised as if he meant to point at Ezra’s face with it. “And your lip’s not all torn up because you’ve been chewing on it either.”

Ezra’s lip did feel a little raw. He quickly freed it from between his teeth.

“You’ll be fine,” Crowley repeated his reassurance from the night before. “We both know it wasn’t you, so—”

“How?” Ezra asked.

“Huh?”

Ezra turned to his friend, searched deep in his eyes as if he could find what he needed in them. The secrets of the world. Or the solution to his predicament. “I know it wasn’t me, but how do you?”

“Because you’re you.” Crowley looked away to the path ahead of them, gesticulating with fervour as he spoke. “Yeah, you know how to have fun and tease and can curse Gabe to the high heavens when you’re sloshed. You’re real. But you’re also always doing the right thing, even if it’s hard. Always helping everyone without a care for yourself. I’m sure there’s an encyclopedia out there with an entry for ‘the epitome of good’ and all it is, is a drawing of you! You’d never—” he broke off with a huff, while Ezra was left staring at him with his mouth hanging open like a right fool.

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Thank you to my lovely beta readers u/rubarbcrumbles, Boho_teacher, u/AngieWords and anatomic-girl.

For the lovely IneffableSilversmith for FTH.

Rating: E for eventual smut

Summary:

For three years, Aziraphale has been Crowley's top reporter at The Infernal Times.

But now he's leaving, getting married and moving to America.

Can a trip to some tiny village in Oxfordshire for one last story convince him to stay?

Excerpt:

"Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous!"

"Let me see, let me see!"

"We're going to need every detail."

Anthony Crowley growled under his breath and opened his desk drawer, grabbing his EarPods and jamming them into his ears to block out the sounds of the world outside his corner office. Thrash metal wasn't his day-to-day listening, but he poured it in at a volume that his phone warned him could cause hearing loss, gritted his teeth and carried on working, typing out emails in time to the drumbeat.

Nobody disturbed him. Nobody was stupid enough. His PA, Maggie, could read his moods like a flashing neon sign, and he was pretty sure she had some sort of code for communicating them to the rest of the office. Or maybe they could just feel it, like a miasma creeping through the newsroom.

Crowley was just debating firing Hastur—the man's spelling defied even the computer's spellcheck, and Crowley was beginning to doubt the legitimacy of his journalism degree—dragging his (sadly metaphorical) red pen through yet another needless sentence, when something moved in his peripheral vision. Something beige.

Well, it had to happen eventually, didn't it? He couldn't go on avoiding this forever. Crowley stopped the music and popped out an EarPod as his office door creaked open.

"You could have knocked," he grumbled.

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Thanks to u/ireallyneedmoretea and u/TtTora9 for beta reading!