Repossession (Good Omens story)

Repossession is a popular Good Omens fanfiction where Crowley is kidnapped and enslaved by the Archangel Gabriel. The majority of the story focuses on Crowley and Aziraphale's attempts to free Crowley completely, while pretending Crowley is Aziraphale's slave. The novel-length story focuses heavily on emotional trauma. 
Repossession belongs to a newer wave of Good Omens fic written after the release of the Amazon Prime miniseries. It has been translated into ChineseTranslated Work on AO3 and spawned numerous inspired works, including a graphic novel. The author is co-writing sequels focused on trauma recovery.
==Author's Summary==
==Plot==
The prologue shows an alternate timeline where Aziraphale and Crowley start a romantic relationship after the church situation in 1967, long before the apocalypse. A distraught Crowley comes to Aziraphale's door, after a seemingly harmless temptation ordered by Hell results in the death of a family. They successfully hide their relationship from Heaven for 14 years, until Crowley disappears into thin air. 
Crowley is kidnapped and tortured by several angels, until Gabriel decides to take over. Crowley realizes that Gabriel is far more competent and frightening than the angelic henchmen. Back on Earth, Aziraphale gets desperate and attempts to summon a demon. He coerces information out of a minor demon and then kills them. Around a week later, Gabriel comes to Aziraphale's bookshop with Crowley in tow. 
Gabriel transfers ownership of Crowley over to Aziraphale under the pretense that Aziraphale will punish Crowley. Crowley lies to Gabriel and says that he was attempting to seduce Aziraphale for Hell. Crowley is wearing an obedience collar that has settings from 1-10. One is disorientation; 10 is a pain as extreme as falling. 
The significant remainder of the story focuses on Aziraphale and Crowley attempting to outwit Gabriel, help Crowley mentally recover, and maintain the pretense of Aziraphale as Crowley's owner. The story is interspersed with intense temporal flashbacks to Crowley's time with Gabriel, which included temporary blinding, repeated sexual assault, wing trauma, and a test in front of Archangel Michael, to demonstrate Crowley's complete obedience. A major plot revelation occurs when Aziraphale goes through the records on the collar and discovering that Gabriel stopped time repeatedly, meaning Crowley was gone for two years. 
Aziraphale discovers a neutral ground ward to prevent other agents of Heaven or Hell from entering the shop. Eventually, they invite Gabriel in, but only after contacting God Herself. God talks to Crowley personally, emphasizing that members of Heaven and Hell are both her children, bringing the canonical apocalypse to a halt. God allows Crowley to choose Gabriel's fate. After realizing Gabriel will never change, Crowley chooses death.
==Reactions & Reviews==
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==Inspired Works==
===Fanfiction===
* Reparations by Daeclin. A novel-length canon divergence fic.
* Paralyzed with Fear by CuddlyHawk
* Repossession Recovery series by dreamsofspike (the original author) and boughofawillowtree. 
* Little Serpent by ineffablebastard 
* Hush Little Baby by onc3uponatime
* Invalidations by Latromi -- an alternate ending
* Favouring Fire by PrincexPhoenix
* In Dreams by CuddlyHawk and LoudAlligator
* Lapdog by PrincexPhoenix
===Translations===
* Chinese Translation of Repossession by curlia
===Other===
* Repossession - The Graphic Novel by THISisGREAT
* Repossession Chapter 37 Comic Dub by LovingLovelyLoners
* dreamsofspike has posted a casting call for actors in a potential podfic
===Fanart===
Content Warning: Some images imply violence. 
File:Blinded_Crowley.png| by cuddlyhawk of Crowley based on an AU scenario where he is blinded by Gabriel.
File:WhiteleyFosterRepossession.jpg| by Whiteley Foster.This image features the collar that forms a significant plot point in Repossession.
==References==
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2019 Fanfiction
Category:2020 Fanfiction