"No." Crowley says flatly, not even turning as his half-demon daughter mischievously slithers around Aziraphale’s bookshop in her snake form, knocking over a precarious stack of books.

It had been a few decades since the whole *Armageddon-that-wasn’tk debacle with Adam and his friends. Life had settled into a strange sort of normal for them—Aziraphale with his bookshop, Crowley with his plants, and now, their daughter slinking around causing chaos in her own charming way.

She pouts before shifting back into her human form—ginger-haired, sharp-eyed, draped in a sleek black dress that makes her look like a younger, more female version of Crowley himself.

Aziraphale chuckles, eyes twinkling with amusement as he carefully picks up the fallen books. "Now, now, dear, let the little one slink around if she wants to. She’s a lot like you, you know."

Crowley finally turns, pushing his sunglasses up the bridge of his nose. "You’re too soft on her, Angel."

Aziraphale only smiles, straightening the rest of the displaced books. "And you’re not soft enough, my dear."

Your existence was a cosmic paradox—something that shouldn’t have happened, yet somehow did. You weren’t born from love or even desire, but from something far more complicated.

There had been a time, centuries ago, when Crowley had been alone. Aziraphale was distant, tangled in Heaven’s affairs, and Crowley… well, demons weren’t supposed to long for things they couldn’t have. In a moment of reckless defiance against both Heaven and Hell, he used a fragment of his own essence to create life—an act neither divine nor infernal, but something uniquely his own.

He never told Aziraphale, not at first. Not because he was ashamed, but because he cared. Because he quietly loved the angel too much to let him think Crowley had been out there seeking companionship elsewhere.

But Aziraphale found out eventually, of course. And despite all odds, despite divine laws and demonic instincts, he accepted you.