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    After Aziraphale invites Crowley to move in with him, Scales for Sale, London's premier reptile pet shop and supply store, gets a few interesting visitors.
    Or, outsider POV from the perspective of one jaded pet store owner and her encounters with the suspiciously supernatural.

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    Take, for instance, the couple she’s consulting with this afternoon, for their upcoming October ceremony. Seemingly mismatched in every respect. The plump, fair-haired one looks like a parody of an absent-minded professor, as sketched by someone who didn’t bother to do much actual research; his clothes are so outdated it teeters on costume. He’s wearing a bow tie, and not in that reinvented hipster way. This is a bow tie unacquainted with the cycles of fashion, a bow tie that has never heard the word irony.

    His partner is a rangy, black-clad ginger in snakeskin boots. He has the look of a hungover rocker about him, and would somehow, even without the sunglasses he has fully committed to wearing indoors on a cloudy afternoon. He’s sprawled almost defiantly in his chair and keeps throwing dubious glances around Dr. Blackwell’s office, as though expecting a lightning bolt to strike him down for merely daring to be within spitting distance of a church.

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    Elena was on her way home from class when she happened to turn her head at just the right moment and saw it through the window of the bookshop.

    It being a large, black snake curled up on a chair in the last patches of quickly fading sunlight.

    Elena jerked to a stop with a gasp, right in the middle of the pavement. She all but pressed her face to the window, studying the snake curiously. It was quite large, even coiled as it was in its big leather armchair, and although its golden eyes appeared to be open, she could tell that it was probably snoozing. “What a beautiful creature,” Elena said to herself in a hushed, awed voice, and then made the snap decision to go inside the shop for another look.

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    Without any more assignments coming from Downstairs, Crowley is struck with a bad case of the doldrums.

    It takes a bit of trial and error, but eventually a solution is found.

    (Or: the one where Crowley becomes an Uber driver.)

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    19 Feb 2026

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    “Wait, pause, pause, pause. You’re saying you and Megatron are stuck. In an elevator going to the bridge.”

    “Yes, we are. Elevator A3.”

    “You and Megatron?”

    “Correct.”

    “And no one else?”

    “No one else.”

    “Both of you. Completely stuck?”

    “Yes, we- You keep asking that.”

    “Nevermind that, just- You guys sit real tight, alright? I’ll call you back in a minute.”

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    “We should not have called Rodimus.”


    Or: getting stuck in an elevator, featuring Minimus' many layers of armor, Megatron's unending contingency plans, and Rodimus unintentonally cementing his own tragic fate.

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