Author: Bitterfig
Title: Living in Sin
Fandom: Good Omens
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Summary: Aziraphale found that while Paradise had been simple the world made by mankind was much more complicated.
Beta Reader: Fedink
Word Count: 400
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Implied sex, religious themes (including a bit of snarking aimed at the Christian Right). .
Author’s Note: I wrote this for slashthedrabble challenge #160: Snake right after reading the Ted Hughes poem “Theology” which veleda_k had posted on her journal for National Poetry Month.



Living In Sin


Perhaps what had made paradise a paradise, Aziraphale reflected, was how simple things were. In Eden, snakes had been on one side, flaming swords on the other, God was on hand in the evening to sort things out, and apples were strictly forbidden.

The world made by mankind was so much more complicated, so full of ambiguities. The grocer down the street carried five kinds of apples not counting organics, God seemed to have removed himself from the equation entirely and while Crowley was still something of a snake, Aziraphale had become rather fond of him.

Fond enough that he and Crowley would occasionally indulge in what the Old Testament defined as a sin and an abomination in the eyes of God. “Knobby knees and a slight paunch hardly qualify me as an abomination,” Crowley quipped. And while Aziraphale was somewhat irked by Crowley’s deliberate misreading of the scriptures he secretly agreed that the “abomination in the eyes of God” passage did seem a bit over the top. He honestly couldn’t see God peeping into people’s bedrooms and if he did, he was hardly in a position to take offense.

Somewhere in the course of human history the concept of sin had softened. Victimless sin and sins between consensual adults no longer seemed quite as damnation-worthy as they once had. Aziraphale had come to find the once unthinkable act of sharing his bed with a demon quite as comfortable as spending an evening with a good book, a pot of tea and a warm sweater (Crowley would have been extremely offended to hear this).

Mankind had changed; was it so far fetched to think God had changed as well? Perhaps man had changed because God had changed. Aziraphale certainly hoped so because if not there would be hell to pay.