Drabble #2 (Good Omens): Aziraphale in the 21st Century

[ekaterinn]

I managed to finish both my ds_undercover story (and the quality of the stories in that challenge is amazing - I suspect my one seems poor and melodramatic compared to the rest ^^;) and my drabble for remus_remix, as well as failing a biochem exam. *makes face*

Oh, yeah, and I've also wrote one of the drabble requests. *grins* I'm still taking requests, so if you want a drabbblet, just leave a comment on the original entry.

For daegaer, who wanted Aziraphale, Microsoft Windows, joy:



"Oh, how delightful, a Babbage machine!" Aziraphale cried, looked at the silver IBM laptop that Crowley had pressed into his hands. It shined back, rather malevolently, Crowley thought approvingly.

"They're called computers now, angel. Welcome to the 21st century." He said, rolling his eyes. "And there's a thing on that one which makes ordinary humans turn into homicidal maniacs." He grinned at Aziraphale, baring his teeth. "It's called Microsoft, and it's my best idea yet."

The angel frowned at him. "Now, now, my dear boy, nothing can be that bad. I'm sure the Babbage machine and me will get along just fine."

Two weeks later, Crowley stormed into the bookshop. "No more sssunden crassshes! People finisssshing projectsss before deadlinessss! No blue sssscreeen of death!" He hissed at a stunned Aziraphale. "What did you do?"

"Oh, dear me. I am sorry, Crowley." Aziraphale fluttered his hands uselessly, but Crowley thought he caught an unangelic glint in the other's eye. "I only wanted to make Babbage happier, but then it turns out there's this thing called the Interweb or something, and Babbage quite wanted to talk to other machines..."

Beneath Crowley's scream of rage, Babbage hummed quite joyfully, its screen displaying the Microsoft Windows logo - with a little halo perched on top of that ubiquitous window.

Comments

[amai.livejournal.com]

Hahahah! XDXDXD

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

*grins* Glad you liked, imouto!

[ohtori-akio.livejournal.com]

I thought that "exactly a hundred words" was implicit in the definition of "drabble." Not that the story's not great (Crowley *would* give someone a Windows machine), I'm just perplexed.

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm not actually that good at keeping to hundred words - I've started calling these drabblets, in recognition of the fact. ^^; If you like, I'll make sure yours is a precise 100, though.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Oh, I so need to download that version . . .

Hee hee hee! Thank you!

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Don't we all...*makes face at Microsoft*. Glad you liked!

[archangelbeth]

Me too! Me too! Well, not really; I like my Mac. O:> And I shouldn't get sucked into the PC MMORPGs, my MacEverCrack is enough...

But I could get it for my friends! O:>

[Thanks for pointing me here! Is fun drabblet!]

[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

This is great :)
Very funny

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ^_^ *Babbage hums happily in your direction*

[enigel]

(here via Daegaer)
lovely and amusing! I'd like to borrow Aziraphale's Babbage machine for a while...

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually called a Mac.
I love that icon, BTW. Love it.

[enigel]

he, thanks :D

a Mac? are they affected by this M*crosoft curse as well? I thought they had a different OS.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is a different OS (that was kind of the joke, though, apparently not a funny one). But we're still subjected to the horror that is Microsoft on a regular basis between Word and Excel and IE and all that stuff.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's called a Mac now because it works.;)

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thank you! And yes, if Babbage could have a little chat with my laptop, I would be most grateful too. ^_^

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

They're so cute. Good stuff.

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

*grins* Thanks!

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Ha! This is hysterical and sweetly in character.

"Babbage!"

*snort*

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you think it's in character - I haven't written GO fic for a while! *Babbage hums happily in your direction*

[vivien]

Hi, I followed a link here from Daegaer's LJ.

HA! This was very very funny. Now if only a real angel could fix Microsoft ;)

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Thank you! And I agree, it would be nice to have Aziraphale's fix for real.

[parke-matru.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Crowley should name his 'Ada'.

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

The programming language? *is confused*

[parke-matru.livejournal.com]

Ada Augusta Byron . . . she worked with Babbage when developing the first computer. She was sort of the first software programmer. Also, there are rumors of romantic tanglings between the two, so it would be appropriate.

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Ah, very cool! I didn't know that.

The evil and good laptops: Ada and Babbage, together they fight crime! (Forgive me, it's very late and I'm quite obviously on crack.)

[lovelyzelda.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious.

Crowley should know not to trust Aziraphale by now...

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks! And, yes, after all, Aziraphale is just enough of a bastard for him to like. *grins*

[tavalya-ra.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! Wonderful... now if only I can get my machine to talk to Aziraphale's.

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *smiles*

(via daegaer's rec)

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

OMG *love*

He calls it a babbage machine, and makes it happier! I knew computers couldn't like running windows...all those crashes have to hurt!

Unangelic glint! *laughs all over again*

*incoherent from the fic!love*

Re: (via daegaer's rec)

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thanks very muchly - I'm glad you liked it! *Babbage hums joyfully in your direction*