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On this beautiful Tuesday, we're going to take a walk on the sanity-rending side. That's right, today's theme is Lovecraft! And don't worry, fandoms aren't limited to only H.P. Lovecraft's works, but prompts today have to have a decidedly Lovecraftian flair; dark gods, eldritch horrors, abominations from beyond space and time, and Things That Should Not Be.

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From:

classics-lover.livejournal.com

Author's choice, author's choice, discovering a peculiar book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon)

From:

icarus-chained.livejournal.com

[Not sure if Good Omens is any good to you, but figured I'd go for it. *smiles sheepishly*]

Dead Tomes

"... Angel?" the demon asked, very carefully.

Aziraphale blinked absently, looking up from his stock-taking. "Yes, dear? What ... Crowley! Put that down!"

He stood rapidly, moving to the demon's side and almost slapping the heavy book out of his hands. Crowley let it go handily, in favour of narrowing golden eyes in his direction.

"I thought you'd stopped hunting for that thing," the demon accused, softly, raising one elegantly questioning eyebrow. "Angel, you promised me, after all that fuss in San Francisco in '06."

"That was different," Aziraphale snapped back, dropping the heavy weight of one of the few remaining greek translations of the Necronomicon back onto the table. The tome thudded ominously. "That was the original Arabic copy, al Azif itself. These things are dangerous enough with translations mucking them up and fouling the magics. If someone got the original, untainted ..."

"Yes, I know," Crowley grumped. "That's why I bloody stuck around with you, in an earthquake zone, not to mention the bloody fire, to make sure it was taken care of!" He growled, slapping a hand off the table next to the book. "But this doesn't look like al Azif, does it?" Aziraphale winced guiltily, and Crowley sighed. "Angel ..."

"It's just ... I've been keeping an eye on it since he wrote it," he explained, softly. "I just want to make sure ... well, to keep people from going the way he did."

"Poor sorry bastard," Crowley agreed, gently, but still unimpressed. "Still. Aziraphale."

"I tried to steer him, you know," Aziraphale went on, eyes distant. "Men aren't supposed to look, to see. I tried to at least steer him towards the gentler aspects. But by the time I reached him ... The face of an angel was nothing to fear, by then. And the others ... the poor silly children. I did try, you know. Patriarch Michael, back in Constaninople. Making sure Dee's bloody version never made it to print. You know I hate ruining books, but that bloody stupid man ..."

"No arguments there," the demon said, very softly, reaching out with a wry smile to pat the angel very gently on the shoulder. "Hair-brained bloody Elizabethan. But you have to let this go, angel. So long as Miskatonic and Buenos Aires keep their copies, you're not going to get them all. Once was enough trying to break into those places. We agreed."

"I know," the angel said, slumping tiredly. "I know, dear. But ... there are still the others. I might not be able to ... to stop it utterly, but at least I can hold it back. I can at least ... I can at least try."

And if he'd wheedled, or looked beseeching, or given even the slightest indication that he was playing Crowley, the demon would have shot him down with only a narrowed glare, and nary a blink. But he didn't. Only stared at the floor, one hand resting beside the damned tome, and looked ... vaguely defeated. And Crowley may have been a demon, and a vicious bastard besides, but he did have his limits.

"Just ... be more bloody careful this time, won't you?" he sighed at last, and tried not to feel too much of a warm twinge when the angel offered him a tremulous smile.

From:

hobnailedboots.livejournal.com

ahhh, I love this!

From:

icarus-chained.livejournal.com

*smiles, ducks* Thank you!

From:

classics-lover.livejournal.com

I love it! Such a great vignette. I've not yet read Good Omens, but it is on my To Read List. (I'm the one with the Obscure List of Fandoms TM - seriously, I once wrote fic for ITV's The Royal)

I get the rapport between the two characters, the humour and irritation, the banter hits all my slashy buttons ;-)
As well as all that, the talk of dodgy translations into random languages just makes me giggle - having studied Ancient Greek I totally get how dangerous the wrong phrase can be in ordinary writing, let alone the Necromicon ;-)

Very cool fill. Thank you.

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icarus-chained.livejournal.com

*grins* GO is so worth it. Heh. And I tromp merrily through a range of fandoms myself (my favourite once-off fic I've written was a Horror/Adventure fic for The Pagemaster, if that gives you any idea).

Aziraphale and Crowley have fabulous banter (as does Madame Tracy with everyone, Anathema and Newt, Crowley versus anyone ... lots - GO is good for banter). And dodgy translations ... Aziraphale in the book collects obscure misprinted and mistranslated bibles, among other things. *loves on the bibliophilic angel*

Glad you enjoyed! Thank yoU!

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with-rainfall.livejournal.com

Oh, I love the chemistry between these two <3

From:

radondoran.livejournal.com

"Ah, Perry the Platypus," said Dr. Doofenshmirtz from the shadows of his unusually darkened loft-apartment-slash-evil-lair. "How unpredictable. And by unpredictable, I mean"--electronic arms shot out from the walls and grabbed Perry by every limb--"completely predictable!"

He did not flip on the lights, but emerged from the shadows to pace in front of his captured nemesis and deliver his evil monologue. Maybe it was only the lighting, but it seemed to Perry that he looked paler and the bags under his eyes darker than usual. The eyes themselves had an unsettling crazed look about them, too--but after all, perhaps that was just Doofenshmirtz.

"This will be my most evil scheme yet. You see, Perry the Platypus," he said, in his most menacing tones, "yesterday afternoon I took a little trip to the downtown branch of the Jefferson County Public Library!"

Perry blinked.

"All right, I know, that's not very evil. Hold your horses, I'm getting there. Sheesh! Anyway. While I was there, I decided to look up 'evil' in the card catalog. Did you know they still have a card catalog? And I found this really neat old book--check it out."

He went over to his desk and held up an ancient, weighty leather-bound volume with metal clasps. The effect was dulled by the decidedly modern stickers bearing the call number and bar code, but Perry's blood ran cold nonetheless. It couldn't be--

"It's called the 'Necro-no-MY-con', I think," Doofenshmirtz rambled on, "and it's totally evil! I was up all night reading it. Of course, it's all in Latin, and my Latin is a little fuzzy, and even when you understand it it's all pretty confusing." He rubbed his forehead self-consciously. "It kind of makes my head spin, woooo! But in a good way. I mean, good as in pleasurable. Not good as in good, obviously, because it's a very evil book. I found it in the card catalog under the subject heading Evil. Am I overexplaining this?"

Perry only stared at the hellish volume. He had learned about such threats in his O.W.C.A. training--this was true evil, the kind of evil you really had to watch out for.

"You're good? Okay. Anyway, Perry the Platypus, I found something really interesting in here. Apparently there used to be these beings called the Old Ones, and this book has what I'm pretty sure are instructions for bringing them back. I'm not really a hundred percent sure what they're like, but they seem, you know, evil. I figure I bring one back, it does my bidding, and together we take over the entire Tri-State Area! What do you think, Perry the Platypus? Pret-ty evil, huh?"

Perry strained to escape from his bonds. Doofenshmirtz was right; this would be his most evil scheme yet--the trouble was, he didn't understand just what that meant.

From:

classics-lover.livejournal.com

But in a good way. I mean, good as in pleasurable. Not good as in good, obviously, because it's a very evil book. I found it in the card catalog under the subject heading Evil. Am I overexplaining this?" This right here is great!

I love this, and I don't know Phineas and Ferb at all. But it's just so joyfully Evil! >:-D Mwahahaha!

From:

radondoran.livejournal.com

:D Thank you! If you like that, you should totally watch Phineas and Ferb--Doof is nothing if not joyfully evil.

Edited Date: 2012-03-28 01:40 am (UTC)

From:

winterjameson.livejournal.com

I could *so* see this happening! And Doof (and everyone else) is in one heck of a lot of trouble if Perry doesn't stop him...

(If you couldn't tell, I loved this. Great job!)