Rambly. Very Rambly. Crowley has been in love with him since basically the beginning of the world, but that doesn’t mean he has figured out language or even thought about confessing to his angel. Because Aziraphale was never open to anything like that anyway, and also, Crowley likes to think about what could be but never actually imagines it happening. So they move in together and they live their lives and bit by bit, Aziraphale begins to seem less and less distant, he doesn’t keep pushing Crowley away at every turn and his puppy dog eyes become more insistent and more adoring and Crowley is just Really weak for them. Heart-racing and wobbly-knee weak. And they never talk about their feelings, it’s just not something you just start doing, so Crowley swallows down the urge to ASK, when Aziraphale kisses him one night, while they are both a bit too drunk for their own good. And he swallows it down again, when Aziraphale kisses him awake the next morning, and he pushes it aside again, when Aziraphale comes up behind him, hugging him , pressing gentle kisses to his neck in broad daylight when the neighbours could see, and he never brings it up, even when Aziraphale takes his hand when they walk to the pub where they have dinner once a month (the place, where they have that delicious self-made ice cream Aziraphale loves so much). Crowley never asks Aziraphale about his feelings or about how he imagines them to work or anything of sorts. And then, Aziraphale asks him instead and even though Crowley has given it all so much thought, and even though, it’s been several millennia, he has absolutely no idea what to say. It goes a bit like follows:
“You were always there, angel. You were always there and sometimes we met and I knew I’d never find anybody who would come even close to you - given that hell is populated by slimy, stinking bastards and heaven is just a bunch of stuck up jerks - but you aren’t like that, are you? And humans, they don’t live long enough anyway. So, I knew it had to be you and I know you’re asking yourself, ‘what exactly has to be me?’ and I can tell you that the answer to this is: the love of my life. It’s pretty embarrassing, huh, to chase after somebody for six thousand bloody years, spending about five thousand nine hundred and ninety without them, even though you knew from the very start that they were everything you could hope for and -”
He says all of this at a speed that requires some serious concentration to follow. So, at that point, Aziraphale has to literally - physically - put a hand over Crowley’s mouth to stop him from talking, because he tried to interrupt him before but Crowley just kept going, because if he stopped, he’d have to actually face Aziraphale in the knowledge that he just confessed to having been in love with him basically forever. But Aziraphale doesn’t ask any more questions; he only takes Crowley’s fidgety hands into his own and looks softly into his eyes, smiling that one special smile that is only ever directed at Crowley to calm him down. Then he says one sentence.
And Crowley nearly falls to his knees, crying and thanking God (pathetic), because he is so relieved and also, he finally knows that all those years of waiting weren’t for nothing.