aziraphale waking crowley up in the mornings by curling around him and pressing soft kisses to the back of his neck; crowley grumbling in protest even as he presses himself further into aziraphale’s hold. time to wake up, dear boy, aziraphale tells him, between kisses, nuzzling into his hair a little.
crowley stretches, groans, and collapses back into aziraphale’s arms. don’t wanna.
yes, you do, aziraphale says, and there’s such fondness in him, such unbearable affection, that crowley has to turn in his hold and bury his face into aziraphale’s chest. you want to get up and come to breakfast with me, i think. i’ll take you somewhere with runny eggs, just like you like.
s’warm here, crowley answers, but that’s not a no. food is aziraphale’s passion, of course, but crowley can be tempted – oysters in rome, crepes in paris, angel food cake at the ritz – particularly when it’s coming from aziraphale. you’re cosy.
aziraphale smiles against crowley’s temple, pulling him a little closer and rubbing a hand up and down his back. he can’t resist crowley like this, with his defenses down, his limbs loose and heavy with sleep, his face soft and unlined as though a cocoon of blankets and a soft awakening has melted away the last six thousand years, the fear and the hiding, the questions and the fall.
maybe it did, a little.
stay here with me, crowley mumbles into aziraphale’s chest, threading his own temptation into it – aziraphale can hear it in his voice, can feel it in the way it tugs, like a hand curling into the dark spaces underneath his ribs. just for a little while. eggs afterwards.
all right, aziraphale agrees, kissing crowley’s forehead, his temple, coaxing crowley’s face upwards – he follows those kisses like a sunflower turning toward the light. a kiss to crowley’s eyelids, terribly gentle against their flutter; a kiss to his cheekbones, his jaw, the bridge of his nose. just for a little while. eggs afterwards.
when his kisses find crowley’s mouth, crowley sighs, and presses into him, and kisses him back, and it feels like that hand curled under his chest releasing just long enough to find aziraphale’s hand in return, like fingers slotting together, like palms pressed to palms, like the flicker of a pulse in wrists held to wrists. it feels like crowley, giving in; it feels like crowley, taking of. like balance; like finding equilibrium. the eye of the storm. the crest of the sun.
it feels like home.