Unwilling to admit that Gabriel's barb about being unfit had hit home, Crowley sneered.
"They don't know I'm following you? It's more plausible to think that I just happen to keep ending up in all the same places as a sodding archangel with an unnatural interest in an ex-Crown of Hell? Most demons are dumb, but not all of them and not that much. Underestimate the wrong one at the wrong time and you're fucked." He smacked the table with the heel of his hand. "If I'd had any indication that I didn't have to come after you and save your sorry arse again, I'd be halfway across the planet right now and we could have done this right."
The demon sank into a chair, suddenly tired from his emotional outburst. "I've been keeping an eye on the news," he explained, his voice rough. "I spend half my day reading bloody papers from around the world, trying to find patterns of unexplained deaths or disappearances. Probably disappearances. Belial's too canny to leave bodies around. I thought that in that way, I'd either find him and be able to avoid his location, or find enough evidence to logically go somewhere else when something like this happened. But rather than use my months of apparently pointless research and look good for the cameras in doing so, I've been wandering aimlessly around Northern Europe and ended up in this dump. With you."
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Date: 2007-07-27 07:38 am (UTC)"They don't know I'm following you? It's more plausible to think that I just happen to keep ending up in all the same places as a sodding archangel with an unnatural interest in an ex-Crown of Hell? Most demons are dumb, but not all of them and not that much. Underestimate the wrong one at the wrong time and you're fucked." He smacked the table with the heel of his hand. "If I'd had any indication that I didn't have to come after you and save your sorry arse again, I'd be halfway across the planet right now and we could have done this right."
The demon sank into a chair, suddenly tired from his emotional outburst. "I've been keeping an eye on the news," he explained, his voice rough. "I spend half my day reading bloody papers from around the world, trying to find patterns of unexplained deaths or disappearances. Probably disappearances. Belial's too canny to leave bodies around. I thought that in that way, I'd either find him and be able to avoid his location, or find enough evidence to logically go somewhere else when something like this happened. But rather than use my months of apparently pointless research and look good for the cameras in doing so, I've been wandering aimlessly around Northern Europe and ended up in this dump. With you."