#Steve Laurant

[avengerscompound]

Shared Experience - Chapter 16

Shared Experience - A Captain America Fanfic

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Rating:  E

Warnings:  nothing really

Pairing: Steve Rogers x OFC Rose Astor

Word Count: 1931

Summary:  Rose Astor met her end in 1920, joining the ranks of the living dead two years after the birth of Steve Rogers.  A century later the two meet in battle - a beacon of light clashing with a creature of the night.  Despite their differences, the two bond over their shared life experiences.  Can a vampire become an Avenger?  Can two such different beings create a life together?

Chapter 16

Steve and Rose followed Elsa down the stairs into the cellar of an old stone house at the edge of the town.  Steve and Elsa had pulled their coats tight around them and each breath they exhaled came out in a puff of condensation.  Rose felt bad for them.  It had to be difficult to be that cold, but if either of them were uncomfortable, they weren’t saying it.

The cellar was dimly lit and sparsely furnished.  A group of five vampires, two men, two women, and one that looked like she must have been turned when she was twelve, were sitting on four brown leather Chesterfields surrounding a large square hardwood coffee table.  A sixth lounged on a wingback chair, one leg swung over the arm.  He wore leather pants and his black silk shirt was unbuttoned low, like he got his style from Vegas shock magicians.

Each member of the group was wearing a matching amulet around their neck.  It looked like a flower made of red stones.  The Lightbender Amulet.

Rose was struck by how tired the group looked.  Not hungry.  Not worn out.  Tired - like they’d been woken up recently from actual sleep.

“What did you wake us up for, Bloodstone?” the Vegas vampire asked.

“Calm down, Raizo,” Elsa scolded. “No one is impressed.”

The child Vampire stood up suddenly and pointed at Steve. “Captain America,” she said, pointing at him.

The other vampires all shifted suddenly, some sitting up straight, one standing, Raizo stood and walked around the back of the couches toward Steve, Elsa, and Rose.

“This is why I woke you all up,” Elsa said.  “Children, this is Captain America.  Captain America, these guys.”

Raizo offered Steve his hand.  “I’m Raizo, this is Eliza, Sebastian, Narcissa, Laurant, and Cristina.  What brings you to Romania?”

Sebastian and Laurant rolled their eyes as they watched the interaction, and Rose resisted the urge to do the same.

“This is my friend, Rose,” Steve said, shaking his hand. “We were told by the Moon Knight that you had an amulet that would help her walk in the day and suppress her cravings.”

Razio looked back at the others and then approached Rose, he walked around her, his eyes gliding up and down her body, before looking at Elsa. “Are we sure he’s not compelled?”

“You can see for yourself,” Elsa said.  “But he’s fine.”

“I can’t compel him anyway.  You can try.  Something about the Super Serum makes him immune to it,” she said.

“And why did you want to compel him?” Razio asked suspiciously.

“So he’d forget I existed,” she said. “Like I’d been trained by my maker.  Not because I was trying to feed off him.”

He looked Steve up and down too then returned his gaze to Rose.  “You must be fighting those urges of yours very well if an Avenger is here to vouch for you.”

“She’s not just fighting them, she’s out doing good.  She’s part of the team.  She’s helped save the world,” he said.

Razio raised an eyebrow.  “Well, well, well...”

“Enough, Razio,” Laurant said with a thick French accent.  “She clearly meets the criteria.  Give her the amulet and let them be on their way.  I want to go back to bed.”

Razio huffed and went to the far end of the room, pressing on a brick.  The wall shifted in and slid to the side revealing a safe, and he began spinning the combination wheel.

“Who was your maker, Rose?” Narcissa asked.

“Marcellus Lakatos,” Rose said.  “When he was in New York at the turn of last century.”

Eliza, the child vampire stiffened and sat forward in her chair.  “Rose Astor?”

Rose startled.  “Yes.  Do you know me?”

“Oh, darling,” Narcissa said. “Eliza is your little sister.”

Rose was reeling.  It felt like she’d been slapped.  Guilt and anger came bubbling up like bile in her throat.  The monster that had turned her and tortured her had gone from her to someone even younger.  It was Rose’s fault that Eliza had been turned and god knows what else he’d done to her.

“What?” she asked.

“When you sent him away, he returned here but grabbed me on the way.  I think I was supposed to be a snack, but…” Eliza shrugged.  Rose didn’t need more than that.  She was here, he’d decided to keep her because he was a sadist who liked torturing girls.

“I’m so sorry,” Rose said.  “I should have…”

Eliza shook her head. “What?  Kept him there so he could keep torturing you?  He’d have gotten bored eventually.  We’re not the only ones he’s done this too.  When we got here, Dracula was pissed.  They’re not supposed to turn people as young as me and apparently, it’s been a theme of his.”

Razio approached her, holding out his hand and letting the amulet fall from his fingers, so it dangled from the chain two inches from his hand.  The amulet was beautiful.  A dark red garnet sat in the center with twelve rubies arranged around it so they looked like sunflower petals.  Rose reached for it, but as her fingers went to close around it, he pulled it from her reach.

“Something really needs to be done about him,” he said.  “He can’t keep getting away with this.”

“Give her the amulet, Razio,” Elsa scolded.  “It’s not her job to take out her maker.  She’s an Avenger.  She has nothing to prove.”

Razio turned and began to stroll around the room.  “True, true,” he said.  “She’s proven herself.  No one else here has gotten the approval of Moon Knight, notable monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone, and the Avengers.”  He flopped down into the winged back chair, flinging his leg over the arm again while he held the amulet out in front of him, watching it spin on the chain.  “But what if we could take care of this Marcellus?  You all said it.  It’s one thing if one of our kind is just drinking blood.  We can hardly help it that we need it to live.  I’m not about staking every vamp I see just trying to live their lives.”

“I am,” Elsa interrupted.

He waved her off.  “But Marcellus is a whole different kind of monster.  It’s a game for him.  He’s like a cat who enjoys toying with its food before it eats it.  And his prey are just getting younger and younger.  I know he’s one of Dracula’s progeny and they’re usually off-limits, but going off what happened with Eliza, he might even look the other way.  But even if he didn’t, with Elsa and our new Avenger friend, we could carry this out and he wouldn’t even know if we were involved.”

“Oh, so you’d just throw me under the bus?” Elsa asked.

He scoffed.  “He already wants to kill you.  That’s not going to change anything.”

“The Avengers would be willing to help,” Steve said.  “I’ve been hoping to take a shot at this monster for a while.  If you know how to get to him, we’ll take him out.”

Rose turned and looked at him with surprise.  Steve was so against killing people outside of battle, and even then he usually tried not to kill anyone.  She wasn’t sure what to make of this reaction.  Was it some kind of protective rage toward the man that had hurt her so badly?  A resignation that this was necessary to stop him from hurting other people?  Or did he just not consider killing a vampire as killing someone?

He smiled at her and squeezed her hand.  She might have to bring it up later, the problem was, she wanted Marcellus dead.  She’d wanted him dead since he turned her.  If she questioned Steve about his feelings about vampires before that happened, he might have a change of heart and decide to lock him up or something.

“There are other Avengers here?” Razio asked.

Steve nodded.  “A few.  Black Widow, Iron Man, and the Scarlet Witch.”

Razio flicked his wrist so the amulet began spinning on the chain.  “You know this could really work.”

“What are you thinking?” Steve asked.  “Shall we go in during the day?”

“No use, love,” Elsa said.  “If I could clear out that den during the day, I would have a long time ago.  That castle takes in tourists during the day.  It’s heavily secured, particularly the crypt they sleep in.  My family has considered just setting fire to the place during opening hours, but I’m sure that all that would happen would be a lot of innocent tourists would die and the crypt would remain unharmed.”

“Regardless, we can not enter,” Sebastian said.  “While public places are usually accessible to us during opening hours as the invitation is implicitly open to everyone to enter, in this case, the tickets to the castle explicitly restrict our ilk.  At night, the building is closed to everyone, so we cannot enter without being invited.”

“What Bas is saying is, we’ll have to draw him out,” Eliza said.

“How would we even do that?” Rose asked.  “That ruse of Elsa being a helpless potential victim isn’t exactly targeted.”

Razio flipped the amulet into his hand and leaned back in the chair.  “That will be the trick.  I’m sure we can think of something.  Use bait that’s more to his taste maybe.”

“Wanda might fit?” Steve suggested.  “She’s fairly young and has a kind of innocence to the way she holds herself.  Maybe we can use makeup to make her look younger?”

Rose shrugged.  “It still feels like that might just end up attracting any random vampire as much as it will attract him specifically.”

Razio drummed his fingers on the amulet and then sat up, tossing it to Rose.  “We’ll think about it.”

Rose snatched the amulet out of the air and clutched it against her chest.  She could feel the power of it pricking against her skin.  Holding it in her hand somehow made her more nervous.  What if it didn’t work?  What if this was a trick and it ended up hurting her?

Yet, she could see six vampires sitting around the room, all wearing one.  They could be in on the lie, but it was too elaborate.  If Blade, Moon Knight, or Elsa Bloodstone wanted her dead, they’d had their chance.  They didn’t need to create an elaborate prank to force her into the sun.

She slipped the chain around her neck letting the amulet sit on her chest.  “Thank you,” she said.

“They’re right.  We think you’ve proven you’re like us,” Razio said.  “Now I know you don’t feel ready for sleep yet.  But the rest of us were woken up for this.  We’ll sleep on the issue.  We can meet up here tomorrow morning.  How’s ten sound?”

It sounded crazy and implausible.  She could only imagine being awake at ten in the morning if she was up closer to the Arctic Circle during winter.  She nodded.  “Sounds good,” she agreed.

“Bring those other Avengers,” Razio said.

“We will,” Steve agreed.  He slipped his hand into hers and squeezed her hand reassuringly.  “Thank you again. And see you tomorrow.”

They were just moving to the stairs when Razio called out to them. “Oh and Rose,” he said. “Enjoy the sunrise.”

Rose smiled and nodded.  While she’d seen a few since starting to feed from Steve, they usually came with fear, pain, and that animalistic pull to get underground.  If this worked, she wouldn’t feel any of that.  If that was true, she would cherish every moment of it.

// NEXT

[kiddo-sulk]

💄 Inventaire makeup de fin d'année p.2

💄

Partons à la découverte de la deuxième partie de mon inventaire makeup ! Il faut vraiment le terminer 😅

Catégorie 5 : produits lèvres 👄

Plus jeune, j'étais attirée par des couleurs plus "excentriques" comme les violets flash, les verts sapin pailletés, etc. Avec le temps, je me tourne de plus en plus vers des classiques nudes marronés et M. me préfère avec des rosés et rouges. 💋

Lipstick mat Rose boisé - Peggy sage

Butter gloss Praline - NYX

Pout bomb Sauce - Makeup Revolution

Smart 435 - KIKO

Smart 434 - KIKO

Sandstorm 1440E - Wet & Wild

edition Red Valentine Babe 303 - Mesauda

edition Red Valentine Honey bee 301 - Mesauda

Liquid lipstick Lolita - KVD

Liquid lipstick Hot hippie - Huda beauty

Silk Balm Toasted - Huda Beauty

Cream lip stain mat Marvelous mauve - Sephora

Matte Allure Haters - Sheglam

Matte liquid lipstick Maven - Sheglam

Lip tint Good habits - Sheglam

Liquid lipstick Hot cider - Sheglam

Liquid lipstick Macaron - Sheglam

Liquid lipstick Topaz - Sheglam

Lip & kiss pro contour 01 -Adopt

Lip & kiss pro contour 04 - Adopt

Lipliner First coffee - Sheglam

Lipliner Concret jungle - Sheglam

Crayon levre Muffin 344 - Max&More

Lip liner Fall 2.0 04 - Kiko

Prime universel - SEPHORA

Lip stain liner Marvelous mauve - SEPHORA

Lipliner Toffe - PS

Lipliner Toast - PS

Lipliner Spice - PS

Cette catégorie ne DEVRAIT pas beaucoup évoluer dans l'année 🤞

Catégorie 6 : les oubliés 🥸

Oubliés car ils n'étaient pas dans ma coiffeuse mais dans une trousse au fond de mon bazard de sac à main😅

Shadowstix Sip&Sparkle - Fenty

Huile à lèvre - Steve Laurant

Cushion (référence ???)

Hydraliner Panda - SUVA beauty

Pro/base foundation stick 142 - MUA

Duraline - Inglot

Colle à faux cil - Sheglam

Ils rejoignent maintenant leur catégorie respective dans la coiffeuse 😁

Catégorie 7 : les liners cakes 🖌️ Ils méritent une catégorie rien qu’à eux 🥹

Split liner @glisten_cosmetics Teintes de gauche à droite : Peach Melba Rasberry punch Buff Olive tree Blue heaven Tortoiseshell Wink Slushie Green tea Beach Gateau Mondays Split peas Wine time Pretty in Camo The royals Red velvet Delight Turtles

J'ai eu une période où je ne faisais rien d'autre sur mes paupières que des liners colorés/graphiques... La marque Glisten Cosmetics propose même des métallisés/duochromes/pailletés, il n'est pas impossible que je craque encore chez eux 😏🙄

[ziola34]

Check out this listing I just found on Poshmark: New variety makeup products. 12 items.

[samanthakatinka]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Steve Laurant Rose Gold Loose Powder Pigment.

[sdlee1983]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: STEVE LAURANT.

[lotionsandlipsticks]

For a change, today I’m going to be writing about two make-up products I’ve had for many months now - one which I love, and one which I just can’t get on with. Both products are from different price points and brands, so let’s dive into it!

LOVE ❤️

The product I love is Steve Laurant’s Wild Thing eyeshadow palette, which I received in my May glossybox. This palette contains 9 shades - 4 matte and 5 shimmers. The colours are mostly everyday nudes, so it’s great for versatility but also fab for turning a day look into a night look due to the gentle radiance of the shimmer shades.

The best things about this product are:

👍 The pigmentation is amazing - the colour stays put all day long even after napping for an embarrassingly long time! It doesn’t take much to create a strong, eye-catching look.

👍 The colours work well together and make up a great basis for so many eye looks.

👍 While these are pressed eyeshadows, they have a slightly creamy texture which makes them feel velvety upon application.

👍 Because of this, they are so easy to work with! Building up a glam make-up look has never been so simple.

This palette retails for about £31, which is a LOT of money for such a small palette. To be honest I wouldn’t want to spend that much money myself on a product like this, but if you want to splurge or put it on your Christmas list then it’s really worth it.

HATE 💔

The product I’m not so fond of is Revolution’s Curl Elevation mascara. I absolutely love Revolution as a brand on the whole, so I’m really disappointed that this mascara just doesn’t float my boat.

The reasons I don’t like this product is because:

👎 The formula is very, very clumpy. I always have to pick at the ends of my lashes to get rid of the clumps after applying this product, and nobody wants to do that!

👎 I wouldn’t say it makes a big difference to my lashes in general. If I’ve been wearing it all day and want to go out in the night, I have to reapply it to get some definition back. But even then there’s not that much of an improvement 🤷  

👎 This mascara is meant to give a curling effect to lashes, but doesn’t do that as effectively as other mascaras I’ve tried in the past. Plus it doesn’t fan lashes out very well, so they just curl straight upwards and bunch together.

👎 I’d say this mascara started feeling dry after only a month or two of use, whereas other mascaras I’ve used in the past have lasted far longer.

This product costs £6 so it’s definitely a bargain, but I’d personally rather spend a bit more to get a mascara that truly delivers.

[ladykatrinaslooks]

Eye Shadow- The Zulu by Juvia's Place

Mascara- The Feathers by Pretty Vulgar

Highlight - Banana Split by Kylie Cosmetics

Lips- Posie K Velvet by Kylie Cosmetics

Blush- I'm Blushing by Steve Laurant

Contour- Contour Palette by ELF

Foundation - Honey by Bésame Cosmetics

Concealer - Driftwood by Sephora

Powder- Translucent Setting Powder by Airspun

[buntebloggerei222]

🥳10th Birthday Edition 3. Variante🥳

🥳10th Birthday Edition 3. Variante🥳

*Unbezahlte Werbung durch Produktnennung/Verlinkung- Box wurde von mir gekauft!* Glossybox.de/ monatlich ab 12,50 (Einzelbox, bzw. flexibles Abo 15,-/monatlich) Da einige der Glossyboxen in letzter Zeit nicht nach meinem Geschmack waren, beendete ich mit der Aprilbox mein Abo- als ich dann aber die ersten Unboxings der letzten Box sah, reaktivierte ich im Mai das Abo und eben kam meine aktuelle…

[m0bypenis]

messy hair is kinda my thing. but mostly cuz I don’t like doing my hair

[giastark]

December Glossybox

Another year is coming to an end with festive holiday paloozas left and right (or, you know, putting on heaps of makeup for the fun of it whilst walking around the house in your PJs and drinking copious amounts of tea). However you decide to spend your holidays, Glossybox has got you covered with their beautiful Merry Metallics December edition.

Glossybox December 2019

Lasplash…

[madsmakeuplooks]

August 30, 2017

Eyeshadow: Tarteist Pro Amazonian Clay Palette (Mod & Drama) & L'oreal Infallible Paints Eyeshadow Metallics in Violet Luster & Rose Chrome Eyeliner: Steve Laurant Precision Tip Liner in Black Eyebrows: Anastasia Beverly Hills Dip Brow in Ebony Primer: Benefit Porefessional Face Primer Foundation: Milani 2-in-1 Foundation + Concealer in Light Beige Concealer: NYX HD Studio Concealer in 03 Light Setting Powder: Maybelline Fit Me Loose Finishing Powder in Fair Light Mascara: NYX Stacked Mascara & e.l.f. Mineral Mascara Lashes: Andrea Lashes in Style # 21 Mascara Primer: Urban Decay Subversion Lash Primer Highlighter: Pixi by Petra Glow-y Powder in Light Gold Blush: Estee Lauder Pure Color Blush in Pink Ingenue Contour: Maybelline Face Studio Master Contour Stick in Medium Bronzer: Pixi By Petra Beauty Bronze in Summertime Lips: NYX Super Cliquey Matte Lipstick in Chain Reaction

[house-of-crows]

Not a phase. Not apologizing. 20GAYteen motherfucker! Gay boys in makeup!!

[queen-ishura]

Makeup Monday: Soridormi, Prime Consort of Nozdormu

Bronze look for a bronze dragon! Soridormi is something of an obscure person in the game, but she’s actually a pretty big lore character next to Nozdormu. WoW has so many good dragon characters to do for looks, I’ll probably never see the end of them. 

Products below the cut:

Face:

touch in SOL No Poreblem Prime Essence Primer

Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation in shade 105

Makeup Forever Ultra HD Concealer in shade 20

Fenty Beauty Match Stix in shade Amber

Autograph from the Tarteist Pro Glow 3 face palette

Laura Geller Blush in shade Tropic Hues

Colourpop Super Shock Cheek in shade Thimble

Eyes:

Crown Pro Fuego Collection Palette

Ace Beaute Glimmer Eyeshadow in shade Iced Latte

Colourpop Creme Gel Liner in shade Prance

Kat Von D Tattoo Liner in shade Trooper Black

Colourpop Brow Boss Gel in shade Dark Brown

Lilly Lashes’ Rome lashes

Tarte Big Ego Mascara

Lips:

Steve Laurant Lip Liner in shade Chic

Urban Decay Comfort Matte Lipstick in shade Stark Naked

Alamar gloss in shade Mother of Pearl Gloss

[deborahnmiranda]

SUBSCRIPTION REVIEW: NO filter bellabox April 2019

SUBSCRIPTION REVIEW: NO filter bellabox April 2019

The Bellabox for April is here #No Filter

Bellabox is an Australia & NZ beauty subscription service and if you haven’t checked out my earlier post you can read it here

They have subscriptions with either monthly payments at $19.95 or $18.52 monthly on annual subscription of $222.22 and you can subscribe here

Now straight to the details of the box

#No Filter BellaBox

Inside my box: