Lavender Haze (Actor!Steve Rogers AU)

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Is this acceptable to wear to dinner? 🧐 Arizona text as she attached the picture of her outfit and sent it to Steve.

Rogers: Depends on who's gonna be taking it off at the end of it 😏 - and since when did I become your fashion consultant? Came the irritable reply.

Arizona huffed, and typed her message back. He could at least be useful for something other than their current situation.

Since you don't give a fuck about what I wear anyway, I know you'd be honest - so what do you think?

Rogers: More ass, that's what I'd say - who you dressing up for anyway? A random one nighter?

Bastard. But she'd expected nothing less when it came to insults.

Going to dinner with Thanos and Eros 😊

Rogers: Oh a threesome! 😂 Definitely more ass needed then!

It's not a threesome you pervert! It's just dinner!

Rogers: what's dinner without dessert? You're in for a boring night then!

I'm not asking what you think so I can get laid! I'm asking what you think of the outfit in general! 🙄 By now she was getting annoyed, all she wanted was a straight answer and yet he'd given her anything but that.

Rogers: Looks fine. 🤷🏼‍♂️

So enthusiastic 😑

Rogers: yep that's me, the epitome of enthusiasm

The epitome of stupid as well but she couldn't be bothered with him anymore, she already had the car waiting for her and grabbed her bag. No doubt that there would be paps waiting outside the restaurant if they hadn't already been called, usually they made reservations  under a fake name and by the time the meal was over, fans and photographers lay in wait.

That was something she missed. Being able to walk down a street without getting hounded, but that was what came with the fame. That was how it went for everyone who was recognised in this industry, even poor Eros was in the same boat and...so was Steve...

Getting to the restaurant, her security quickly escorted her in while she was pictured by the few lurking paps that had already been called. Thanos and Eros were sitting waiting, the latter getting up and embracing her, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"Well look at you gorgeous, missed you".

Arizona smiled. They'd always had friendly relationship and even through everything, he'd been there to listen when things got rough.

"Missed you too". She said, pulling away and sitting down opposite him and his brother. "By the way. They've already called the paps".

Eros rolled his eyes. "Didn't take too long".

Thanos smirked, "comes with the job, dunno about you but sometimes I wish I could just snap my fingers and they'd all disappear".

"Agreed". Eros nodded, "oh well, let's worry about that later - right now I wanna hear all about how Arizona managed to get Steve Rogers for her video..."

**

"You've been on that thing since you got here, you got some girlfriend I don't know about?" Sarah Rogers stared at her son as she drank her coffee out where they sat in his back yard. She'd flown in from Brooklyn some hours earlier, coming to visit while Steve had some well earned time off.
The film had wrapped just a couple of days before and she'd immediately booked her flight, not having seen her son since before shooting had begun. Sarah understood that he was always somewhere, but missed him terribly as any mother would.

"I don't have a girlfriend". He stated, now looking to her and putting his phone down on the table in front of him before then putting it back into his pocket. The last thing he needed was her seeing Arizona's name flashing up on the screen. 

"Well you'd better hurry up and get one - I want at least one grandkid before I die".

"Mom!"

His mother had no filter. She spoke her mind if needed and the subject of a girlfriend was one she had discussed with him many times. He knew her opinion, and also knew how she'd play the guilt trip card like she had just then. "What about that lovely girl Sharon? Don't think that you can keep shit from me, James tells me everything".

He was going to kill Bucky when he next saw him.

He groaned inwardly and muttered something to himself before answering. "She's just a friend".

"That who you're texting now?"

"No, I'm texting another". He told her flatly and sipped at his soda, now knowing a can of worms was about to be well and truly opened.

She raised a brow quizzically at her son. "I see...and is she..."

"No mom" he insisted. "She is definitely not". Making sure that she knew that he and Arizona (even if she didn't know it was her) would not be happening. Good job no one knew about that, because Bucky would blab to his mom and then she'd be questioning him more.

Sarah let out a rather exaggerated sigh in his opinion. "Well I just want you to find someone and have something like James and Nat have. You deserve to have that, not to be here in this house alone".

"I'm rarely here Mom". He pointed out. "And as for Nat and Buck? They've only been dating a few months. I'm not ready to settle yet, I still have things I wanna do". He didn't know how many times he had to say it.

"You're not getting any younger. You may miss your chance sooner than you know it".

"I'm heading towards mid thirties, that's not exactly..."

She cut him off. "Fine. I can see you're set on not wanting it yet, but I just want you to be happy".

Steve sighed. "I am Mom, if I wasn't then you'd know it.

"So this other 'friend', is she an actress too?"

"No, she's in show business but not an actress - that's all I'm saying on it. We just talk that's all". Yeah, and when they did it was usually insulting one another in an effort to make the other cum. His mother really didn't need to know about this, or the fact that it was Arizona.

The conversation on the subject was well and truly over.