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Dark Fear, Chapter 1

A case file fic. Mulder and Scully investigate a couple's unique encounter with a spooky black-eyed being in Nevada. Set during season 5.

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Bright pink neon bounced excitedly off the face of Dan Lemmings. Propped by one arm against the metal support beam of the rest stop sign, he stood at a slight angle, admiring his surroundings in pure glee. Any other night, he’d have donned a cap out of embarrassment to mask his balding cranium, but tonight was different. The stars were out. A warm, playful breeze dusted the bare ground. He and his wife had just been on a wonderful vacation. An aura of bliss was spread on the air like a lovely thick butter. He basked in it.

“Cheryl, you out yet?” His gaze floated to the bright restrooms, that sat canopied against the neon by a cluster of palm trees. The doors had male and female aliens painted on them coinciding with the sex of the restroom. Nevada crickets chirped merrily against the peaceful backdrop. “Damn,” he mumbled, smiling. If he had to wait out here for another twenty minutes, he wouldn’t be too opposed.

Dan Lemmings’ mind floated to that of baseball. His favorite player was Chuck Finley. Dan visualized himself in the place of Finley. The pale metal support beam he leaned on was a giant baseball bat. The copious trilling that the crickets swarmed him with at that very moment was rapturous applause. The pink flash of neon was a camera’s bulb. He chuckled.

“Danny?” A woman meekly beckoned, emerging from the little aliens’ room. She clacked over to Dan, her purple pumps echoing eagerly off the cooled pavement. She gazed down briefly, straightening out her leather skirt, then smiled at Dan. “Decor never gets old, eh?” She joked, gesturing over to the restroom doors.

After living in Reno, Nevada for nearly 15 years together, one can grow accustomed to the extraterrestrial aesthetic that store owners cling to for tourist money. Dan looked up, his baseball bat falling to the wayside, and the neon sign returning to its normal, non-camera bulb state. The crickets grew less excited.

The woman’s cold, manicured grasp extended out to Dan, and stroked his right cheek. Her eyesight was trained on his forest green parka. A bent, tiny yellow tag stuck out from a bulky sleeve on his parka. “You never pulled the tag off, dear?” She said, batting a lock of bleached blonde hair out of her face. Her heel enhanced height left her at a disadvantaged, and she lobbed them off to her right. The dense plastic clicked against cement. She knelt down a bit, examining the tag. “We can pull that off right here,” The woman said, the r in “right” rolling off her tongue like a mischievous rattlesnake.

The crickets silenced.

Dan gritted his teeth. “Look at me.” The woman ignored him, continuing to fiddle with the tag. He cleared his throat. “I said, look at me.” The choleric tone in his voice ripped voraciously through the bubble of silence like a greedy child. The woman slowly raised her head to meet his. Her eyes were pure black. “Y-you-you’re not. Cheryl. You are not Cheryl!”

Dan Lemmings stumbled backward, further into the small garden he had been standing in that held the sign. Adrenaline strangled him. He gasped sharply against the dry dirt as he collapsed into it, unable to look away from the pool of black that recided in the being’s eye sockets. The thing stood stagnant, flecks of happy pink reflecting in its dark eyeballs. Fear loomed over Dan with an axe at its side, a vengeful grip on the handle. A numbness torpedoed down his spine. With one final vehement sigh, he head dropped with an empty thud to the dirt. He drew his last breath.

The black-eyed being eyed Dan blankly. The man lay motionless among the pushed up daisies that surrounded his body. The small daisies bent around his form in concern, like a team of surgeons quarreling beneath hospital light. Meanwhile, crickets were still shocked into silence.

The being’s gaze finally relinquished the man. With an abrupt flick of the wrist and waist bend, it quickly collected the purple heels. Not-Cheryl dashed with a slight skip outside of the familiar glow of the rest stop, and into the opaque inkiness of the desert. The stars didn’t dare to touch it.

Billboards raced with wispy streaks of clouds, as power lines hopped and leaped cheerily under the overbearing sun. Scully droped her head tiredly with a thump against the rental car’s headrest. She thought back to the Flukeman case that they’d encountered four years ago. She’d take that one in a heartbeat right now, she thought, tapping her manicured digits on the dashboard. Her stomach flip-flopped as they hit a pothole, and her rhythmic tapping snaps Mulder out of his steely squint to see the road.

“We’re in Reno, Nevada, Scully.”

She doesn’t look at him, instead choosing to scratch her damp scalp. Her glance drifts over to the horribly disfigured bumper of the vehicle adjacent to theirs. She wouldn’t be surprised if the disfigurement had happened as a result of the simmering temperature, and not a collision. Her head turned to him, finally. “I can see that, Mulder. I can feel it, too,” She grumbled, a smile hinted at her lips. “You know, just admit it. We’re only out here because of the proximity to Area 51. You could have taken any of the other cases A.D. Skinner recommended to us. But you chose this one.”

Mulder turned back to the bright strip of grey that stretched to the horizon. It was beginning to look almost white to him. “Hey, can I have my sunglasses?”

Scully shuddered internally, because she knew the exact ones he was referring to. The gigantic, obnoxious lensed pair that had a thin navy wire to hold it all together. She rifled through his duffel bag that sat between them, on the dusty floor. Sure enough, between a pair of black dress pants and atop a baby blue t-shirt, lay the wretched pair. He had told her that he thought they oozed a “mysterious appeal.” Scully knew that was Mulder-talk for “I think they make me look like a cool alien.”

Scully let out an exasperated sigh, and tapped the pair to the narrow steering wheel to get his attention. He quickly looked over, then threw them on in relief. “Mysterious?”

“Foolish,” Scully said, unsuccessfully stifling a grin. “Anyway...the case,” She said, now gripping the file that had been carelessly thrown to the floor an hour ago, “A man claims he saw a black eyed being masquerading as his wife while she was in the restroom. The man described a horrible dread washing over him along with a strong sense of fear that he has, quote, ‘never felt before’ un-quote, in his life. He dies on the scene, only to miraculously come to life a day later. His wife never saw a thing.” She looked up from the casefile, and back at her partner once more. “Well, what do you make of this?” Mulder stared ahead at the grey stretch, wordless. “Mulder…”

“In short? I think this casefile is promising for extraterrestrial meat.” Mulder said, popping a sunflower seed into his mouth with his left hand. “The police officer that filed the report also said he was at the scene and saw a bizarre object in the sky, hovering just approximately 50 feet off the ground. This is the stuff of Project Blue Book.”

Scully smiled into her own reflection in the passenger side window. “Please don’t ever utter the words ‘extraterrestrial meat’ in my presence ever again.”

Mulder looked at her again, turning the car into a side street. “What do you think of the man dying of fright, then coming back to life, though? Pretty uncommon, almost supernatural. Like the rising of Jesus. That must interest you from a medical stand-point.”

Buildings and dwellings began to crop up like weeds. The generic desert backdrop began to fade, and in its place, a town began to take form. It was a nice respite from the drab desert scenery, that was for sure.

“Uncommon, yes, supernatural, no.” She side-eyed him, raising an eyebrow. “The massive rush of adrenaline that Dan Lemmings experienced in his fright temporarily stunned his cardiac heart muscle into inaction. Lemmings is also of age 57, and overweight, thus putting him even moreso at risk for this sort of unfortunate occurance. Any highly emotional event whether positive or negative can set this kind of thing off. The human body is amazingly resilient, sometimes it can bounce back even aft--”

“But we don’t know what ‘highly emotional event’ did this to this man,” Mulder interrupted, easing the car into a big, bright neighborhood.

“And you think it’s aliens.”

The tall agent simply offered a shrug. With their trek over, he yanked the keys out of the ignition, threw his long limbs out of the car with a loud sigh of relief, and shot straight up. It felt good to be out of that hot box. He looked back at his partner. The poor-red head drenched in sweat. Her normally tidy, copper locks were now frizzy and damp, and he looked down at the hot pavement, guilty.

She flung open the car door in defeat.

“Well, we should question them now, shouldn’t we?”

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dazombi3fari3 · 4 years

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Hey doll hey!!! Welcome back to my blog!!! How are you? Fine I hope. This post, as you read in the title, is a makeup haul…. I have quite a lot to get through so I wont drum on and on about it. Let’s jump into my new makeup goodies….Side note … all swatches are done on bare skin with no primer and using only 1 pass to swatch.

ColourPop Big Box of Lippie Stix 48 shades with 3 different finishes for $115 on sale right now for $99 on the ColourPop website making them $2.09 each.

I missed out on the last Lippie Stix vault that they put out, so I was not about to miss out on this one. The shades that come in this vault are : dream date: pale warm nude, cookie: matte warm brown nude, slacker: soft salmon, oh snap: matte muted pinky nude, parker: matte mid-tone warm nude, at twilight: warm muted coral, with the band: peachy pink, topanga: crème dusty coral, goal digger: warm rose, brink: matte terracota, rose, cami: cool-toned mauve, lumiere: matte dusty mauve pink, happy thoughts: deep rosy mauve, byron babe: deep rose, after shock: classic pink, little tings: mid-tone mauve pink, westie: cool-toned pink, goodie bag: vivid blue pink, casanova: bold watermelon pink, songbird: muted berry, cherry bomb: bright pink lemonade, are you surreal: vibrant hot pink, runaway: hot raspberry, heart on: matte bright cool-toned magenta, i heart this: matte red fuchsia, jam sesh: true blue red, sky walking: classic blue red, trust me: vivid true red, love life: brownish brick red, parachute: vibrant coral red, daytrip: vivid pink coral, chi chi: matte true orange, who run this: vibrant rusty red, ziggie: dark terracotta, fly-fi: red terracotta, goldie: rich brick red, poison: matte brick red,, bichette: matte deepened red, ellarie: matte deep cranberry, infinite best: warm black cherry, thousand percent: rich chocolate cherry, grunge: matte mid-toned red brown, taurus: matte mid-tone yellow brown, candy paint: true terracotta, girl gang: muted terracotta rose, kapish: dusty warm brown, daydream: plummy brown,and aquarius: crème soft pinky nude. ColourPop makes my favorite formula of lipsticks ever so I am happy to have all 48 of these shades.

ColourPop Big Box of Lippie Pencils 40 shades for $79 on sale for $68 making each pencil cost $1.70

Once again ColourPop makes one of my favorite formulas of lip liners so I am glad to have all 40 shades in my collection. The shades in this vault are: as if pencil: creamy light nude, little one pencil: light pinky nude, another round pencil: rosey nude, good & plenty pencil: deep rose, dial up pencil: vibrant hot pink, shot clock pencil: mid-tone mauve pink, ex-factor pencil: bright berry, obvi pencil: light pinkish brown, oh sis pencil: smoked paprika, absolute zero pencil: bright orange, hoopty pencil: burgundy, on ice pencil: deep sangria, overtime pencil: cherry red, ctrl pencil: deep brown, alt pencil: blackened teal, whatchamacallit pencil: dusty denim, flattered pencil: deep plum, v cute pencil: bright violet, tbh pencil: deep violet, bff pencil 2: mid-tone nude, bff pencil 3: deep nude, brink pencil: terracota rose, 951 pencil: mid-tone warm nude, beeper pencil: greige rose, bff pencil: warm nude, bichette pencil: deepened red, bossy pencil: classic blue red, bull chic pencil: matte black, bumble pencil: warm rose, chi chi pencil: bright true orange, curvii pencil: warm beige, ellarie pencil: blackened cranberry, frenchie pencil: bright warm red, heart on pencil: bright cool-toned magenta, i heart this pencil: red fuchsia, lbb pencil: matte rich plum wine, love bug pencil: rich mahogany, lumière pencil: dusty mauve pink, mamacita pencil: deepened blackberry and oh snap pencil: muted pinky nude.

I finally purchased the full line of Believe Beauty. This is sold at Dollar General. Each product costs no more than $5.00. I will be reviewing the full line tomorrow.

Pretty and Primed Hydrating Primer: 1 fluid ounce. On the back on my hand i felt like a moisturizer… this is very hydrating and has no scent.

Skin Finish Foundation: .85 fluid ounces. This is a medium to full coverage foundation and I chose the shade Nude. This feels like it’s going to be a dewy foundation, it also has no scent.

Brighten Up Color Correcting Concealer : .07 ounces. I picked it up in the shade Light/Medium, I’m not sure how well this one will perform…. it felt a bit waxy. It’s a salmon based concealer so it should be good for the dark circles.

You’re Covered Liquid Concealer: .15 fluid ounces. I purchased the shade Light Beige. It was the lightest shade they had at the Dollar General I went to. It’s a spot on shade match for me so that means it will not help brighten my undereyes. It feels light weight and creamy without being too emollient.

Matte Blur Loose Powder: .14 ounces. In the shade Translucent.

Brow Defining Pencil: .02 ounces. This is a pencil that needs to be sharpened. I purchased the shade Dark Brown. This swatch is 1 swipe of the pencil, it seems very pigmented and creamy.

Long Lasting Eyeliner: .01 ounces. I purchased the shade Mystic, it’s a taupeish brown with a slight sheen to it. It seems creamy but I tested it on my waterline and it did not lay down. This is a self sharpening pencil.

Hi-Definition Skinny Mascara: .22 fluid ounces. I purchased the shade black. The wand is small and sort of reminds me of the brush on the MAC Gigablack mascara.

Eye Brow Styling Gel: .02 ounces. It’s got the standard eye brow brush. I purchased the clear one.

Satin Crush Lipstick: .13 ounces. I purchased the shade Moroccan Spice. It seems sheer but creamy.

Lustrous Shine Lip Gloss : .15 fluid ounces. I purchased the shade Georgia Peach. From the hand swatch I can tell this is one sticky lip gloss. I mean super sticky… not sure I’m going to like this product.

Get Glowing Highlight and Contour Palette: .2 ounces. I purchased the Light/Medium compact.

Believe Beauty Eyeshadow Palette: .14 ounces. I purchased the Nearly Nude Palette.

I purchased all 3 items on Amazon. Photofocus Dewy Foundation $2.79 for .95 fluid ounces, Photofocus Dewy Primer $2.79 for .84 fluid ounces, Photofocus Concealer 3.99 for .29 ounces.

This primer is a spot on dupe for the Marc Jacobs Dew Drops Coconut Gel Highlighter ($45 at Sephora). This primer leaves the skin looking so pretty.

I purchased the shade Soft Beige. I tested this foundation out today and really do like this foundation.

First of all, this shade is so light on me. It was great to highlight the center of my face with it but looked ghostly on my under eyes. I do not like this concealer. It just looked cakey and dry under my eyes. I will test it out 1 more time and if I still feel this way I will be decluttering it from my collection.

Loreal Infallible Full Wear Concealer ($5.99 at Target for .35 fluid ounces) I picked up the shade Cashmere. It’s the perfect shade for me. Like I said in my face of the day today. It just was too thick and to cakey, but that might have been because I used too much. I will try it again this week coming and see if i can get along with it, if not I will declutter it. On the right is ELF Hydrating Camo Concealer ($6 at Ulta for .203 fluid ounces) I chose the shade Light Sand…. it’s too pink based for me but I am going to try to make it work.

Too Faced Born This Way Foundation ($39 for 1 fluid ounce at Ulta) , Multi-use Sculpting Concealer ($29 for .5 fluid ounces at Ulta) , and Turn Up The Light Face Palette ($42 for .17 ounces at Ulta)

The shades from left to right are Glow, Soft Focus, and Dazzle. I’ve used this palette 2 times already and I can tell you I really love the Soft Focus powder, it reminds me of the Hour Glass Ambient Light powders. I like the Glow Highlighter, it’s pretty and not too heavy. I just don’t like the Dazzle powder. It’s too glittery and dry textured.

I purchased the shade Warm Nude. It’s the perfect shade for me. I love this foundation so much!!! It’s dewy and full coverage, and melts into the skin seamlessly.

I purchased the shade vanilla. It’s the perfect shade for under the eyes, however this is such a thick formula. It creased like crazy. It took forever to blend it in. Now I might have used too much, so with that said I will try it again under the eyes using less product. If that doesn’t work I will keep this one to highlight the center of the face.

Burt’s Bees Blush in Bare Peach. I purchased this off Amazon for $8.99 for .017 ounces. You can find this at Target, Ulta, and CVS as well. This is just the perfect peach blush ever. My God daughter convinced me to purchase it and to try it out. I am so glad she did. I think this might be my new favorite blush of life.

Benefit Cookie Powder Highlighter ($30 at Ulta for .28 ounces). This is the most amazing highlighter ever!!! It’s super reflective and leaves the cheeks looking like the are wet. I am low key obsessed with this highlighter.

ELF Baked Eyeshadow Palette (I received this free as a gift with purchase on the ELF website however you can purchase it for $10 on their website) This is in the color way California. This palette does not swatch well at all. The shadows felt dry and dusty and rough. I don’t have high hopes for this palette, but I will try it out next week.

ELF Ultra Precise Brow Pencils $5 for .002 ounces… In the shade Deep Brown. These are back ups. I am still working on the pencil I have.

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick ($34 at Sephora) and Lip Cheat Lip Liner ($22 at Sephora) both in the shade Pillow Talk (a nude pink). This hands down is my favorite lip color of life!!! This lipstick is very comfortable, doesn’t feather into the lip lines, and wears down evenly. The lip pencil is long wearing and doesn’t budge.

Well That’s all for now dolls. Thanks for hanging in there to the end. Stay tuned tomorrow when I test out the full line of Believe Beauty makeup. Until then I hope you have a great day/night and that you are in good spirits. Remember, Save a spoon for a bit of lipstick.

XOXO

February 2020 Makeup Haul Hey doll hey!!! Welcome back to my blog!!! How are you? Fine I hope. This post, as you read in the title, is a makeup haul....

#Beauty #Haul #Makeup #makeup haul #makeup review #Product Review

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