Crowley x Reader

"Love, what are you doing up at this hour?" His soft, familiar voice met her ears and she nearly tripped. She didn't though, and she kept walking. "It's dangerous, with things like me running around." He smirked at her.

She simply ignored him. He noticed the tears frozen to her cheeks.

"Oh, love, what's wrong?" His tone faltered and became concerned. He walked alongside her. "You can tell me." 

She shook her head. He took her hand. She felt her fingers twitch but his warmth was comforting. His hand completely encompassed hers.

"Well, my dear, I'm taking you away," he whispered. They appeared in a small house, out in the middle of a field. He snapped his fingers and a fire sprung to life in the fireplace.

___________ lay back on the couch. 

"Darling, please tell me." He looked at her with such pleading eyes that she finally gave in. His petty tricks still got to her.

"You'll leave me someday. I'll die. I'll never see you again. The war could kill you too you know, you aren't completely invincible."

"Oh, silly girl," Crowley said, stroking her soft hair. "Look into my eyes, tell me what you see." 

She did as he said, but saw nothing but blurred, dark swirls. "I see nothing." 

"Exactly," he said, cupping her cheek. "I've become what should be there, a demon."

"Crowley-"

"I've become what I hate." He smiled bitterly. "But power is everything? I have plenty of that." 

"I-"

"But I am so wrong!" He looked up at the ceiling. "Love is everything and who loves demons? Not a single soul and-"

"Crowley I love you," ___________ interrupted.

He fell into silence.

"Love, you just dug your own grave," he said softly, after a long silence.

"What?" 

"Demons aren't meant to be loved," he whispered. "There are people like you out there. There are people with eyes that have feeling in them and who-"

"Crowley, I mean what I say, and I love you and I don't want to wait for 'people like me' because I have you." She crossed her arms.

"I can't let you down. All you'll do is suffer, like I have for hundreds of years, and until the end of time. Love understand me, I love you too but-"

"Then why?" she asked.

"Stupid girl!" he shouted. "I cannot allow you to endure what I have. You have not seen what I have. You don't understand what that place is like. They will crush a beautiful soul like yours in a second!"

"You just got the bad end of it!" ___________ yelled. "There is something that you don't understand after being without it for so long."

"I need to let you go," he said urgently, holding her face in his hands, his face worried and desperate. "I can't let them destroy the pretty light in your bright big eyes, love. I can't just leave this place for you. I'm bound here. I'd love to run away with you and love you until the end of your days, but I can't! I just can't!" 

"I can help you," she said, reaching up to put her hands over his. She closed her eyes. "I can show you how." 

"I don't need your help," he sighed, kissing her cheek.