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Eddie's human body had been with the symbiote for so long, that it started to recognize them as part of his body, biology working perfectly, the symbiote already had their "room", made their furniture and even had their scent on Eddie's body, he was their home in all senses. But something was missing. Something they don't know they need. Something that was starting to happen without either of them even realizing it.

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Eddie woke up that day doing his usual morning thing, the still-sleepy symbiote curled up on his bicep and laying their head on Eddie's forearm as he brushed his teeth. Eddie was too sleepy to notice too, had a night away yesterday against a gang of idiots that hurt kids and women, well, “hurt”, because now they were stuck.

Eddie went to get his old computer, a notebook that worked well until they bought it used. He felt his other tidying his messy blond hair and caressing their beloved's jaw as it began to grow a wispy beard.

"Thank you, Darling, without you I would be a trash"

Would still be our beautiful trash

"Heh- outch " Sounded when he opened the notebook and was going to type the password but felt something tapping before his fingertip.

Just now did he realize, his nails were long, sharp as a claw, he was already painting his nails black but this was different, it was black naturally. Instead of worrying he just took a closer look noticing that the other hand was also like that.

"Darling, did you do my nails yesterday without me noticing?"

Um? with a low growl they turned his attention to Eddie's eyes seeing through them the nails No Eddie, we didn't do that, but it turned out really cute

"Didn't you? Well, I didn't." turned his hand, searching the claws further. "Do you think that without you noticing we are in the grip of the Venom form?"

Don't feel like we're trying to make our fingernail like that, don't you like it, Eddie?

"N-no, I mean, yeah, I like it, it's just... it's new "

Eddie was quiet after that, and his other even more, although managed to feel restless through his body, fidgeting in his chest, to his stomach, through his head, seemed to feel guilty, felt it.

"Hey, don't worry, there must be some explanation, I'm not upset, let's find out together what's going on"

The symbiote didn't respond, it took a few minutes, still restless, Eddie took advantage of the silence to write the article, he would give the symbiote time. Of course, it made Eddie anxious about his quiet, agitated Love that way, but he was patient.

Your body- Our body, is acting differently than before, it's changing, we're changing

Eddie was startled by the voice, the voice he loved to hear, said suddenly, stopping typing.

"’Differently than before’?"

You always carried fused cells with me, because we were together for a long time, we did this to make our separation difficult but instead of having just a few, it's starting to multiply even more... And without me even knowing

"Without you knowing? Is that possible?"

Our symbiosis is unlike any other, Eddie, we give and take, both, a lot of time together and intertwined, that doesn't usually happen, you'd be dead if it was like the other symbiotes

"You mean... not even the hive knows?"

Not that we know, Eddie is perfect, his body acts unlike any host, his body accepts us, accepts us in atomic form, cellular

Eddie didn't know whether to blush or get more confused.

"Does it affect you?"

No... this... is good, symbiosis never like that before, closer and closer, very, v ery good , delicious

Eddie couldn't help but say he got… a little hot with the way the symbiote spoke.

"If it doesn't affect you, then that's fine with me, isn't that what we want? together? Forever? Us."

Y-Yeah, everything else we want, Eddie

"So you don't notice these changes?"

No...maybe it changes more, cell fusion unpredictable, hard to control

"Be prepared for surprises then"

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Eddie seemed to handle it all very well, sure, it was a little scary, but he knew his darling would never let anything hurt them. He even liked those nails, although they made it difficult in some situations. They were much stiffer and stronger than a human fingernail, he confessed that he had scratched many things or himself with his claws if you could call them that.  The symbiote already offered to try to get the nail back to how it used to be but Eddie refused "This is us now, I won't discard it" , a warm comfortable feeling he could understand in his chest.

 2 change:

 Its canine teeth ached a little, with no explanation, for now, the symbiote tried to stop the pain but all they could do was ease some of it.

 "It's okay love, you're trying. We should go to the dentist to see if it's something, you know, I'm still a human."

 We should be helping, it's our job to heal you, but we don't understand where this pain comes from

 "We're going to be fine, do you feel it too?"

Feel everything you feel, we feel

 "Of course we do, I'm sad about that, I didn't want you to feel it too, it must be some caries, do you know how eating too much chocolate affects your teeth?"

 ...

 "It's not your fault" he caressed his chest with a sigh.  "sorry, we'll have to work on more articles if we want to go to the dentist"

 As you wish, Eddie

The symbiote appeared to hide inside Eddie's chest. They didn't understand, how could they not help in that pain? What's wrong with them?

,

 Eddie made a pretty quick lunch, a chicken fillet, mashed potato (he tried) and salad, he promised to give his symbiote chocolate for dessert, as a joke of theirs, but the symbiote had no reaction.

 Eddie seemed to cringe in anticipation and started biting his own thumb trying to ease the pain in his canines, and… it helped.  As a baby dog started biting his finger, it hurt a little, as it was a generally sharper tooth, but it didn't matter. This caught the attention of his other who approached his brain watching curiously.

  What are you doing, Eddie?

 "Biting"

 Your finger?

 "I thought you felt everything I feel"

 We feel

A little tendril approached Eddie's hand and took it out of his mouth and closer to his mouth.

Bite.

 He blushed at that, but dutifully bit into the not-so-thick black tendril, it was a different feeling…sweet but stiff, like a…a little self-stress ball?  He couldn't find anything else like it, there never would be, not like this space being in his body.

 "Does it hurt you?"  He said still worried, even though he was actually relieving the pain.

  ..Don't worry about it Eddie, you would never hurt me

 Eddie grabbed the tendril with the hand that had been removed, squeezing lightly with his claws and biting again, it was good, a good feeling, not only for relieving the pain, he felt his other vibrating with those touches.

 He kept biting and sometimes even sucking the little tendril until he heard the microwave beeping, blushed realizing the situation and tightened his claws on the tendril releasing his teeth panting a little.

 "The... mash potatoes.." he cleared his throat releasing the tendril and picking up the pot of mash potatoes.

 The symbiote said nothing but satisfaction in their chest.

 Whenever you need us, we'll be here

 "I understand, yes." Still embarrassed, he prepared the dish and sat on the kitchen counter starting to eat.

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 A few weeks passed with this toothache, Eddie took a while to accept but soon got used to biting anything, but the symbiote insisted that it was their tentacle, Eddie could not refuse his symbiote's goodwill.

 But one day the symbiote finally reacted, letting out a growl, almost a moan, vibrating more than usual.  Eddie got a little hot with that reaction but just worry.

 "Sorry, did I hurt you?"  He felt his tooth had a little farther into the black mass than it should have.

 N-No Eddie, I like it that way, sharper

 "Sharp?"  He put his finger on his canine tooth, startled as if a pin had almost gone into his skin.  He got up from his chair went to the bathroom and looking in the mirror, his canines were sharp as if he were one of Venom's teeth but fatter more human.

"Ah... change ..." he finally understood.

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Adaptation started to get more painful, Eddie's gums started to bleed, the changes were a little more painful than they thought, but it was the price to pay to be with your love. He flossed and brushed most of the time, luckily he worked from home most of the time and didn't have to leave the house with his gums and sore teeth. He was biting a dog toy that was already wearing out, the symbiote insisted that it was okay to bite them again after that accident, but Eddie insisted he didn't want to hurt his darling.

"Ugrnn... soo hungry..." Eddie said sullenly laying his head on the chair behind dropping the notebook that was on the table.

...

"I think we'd better go out for a bite to eat, what do you think, darling?" Eddie said calmly even though the hunger was getting more and more uncomfortable.

Great idea, Eddie

"We have a little more money, we can have a good meal today" he smiled kissing one of the tendrils that constantly wrapped around Eddie when they were alone in the house.

Good meal

Eddie just smiled and stood up saving the article document and closing the notebook. The symbiote happily changed Eddie's pajama into a pretty flashy blue blazer, black pants, and a white dress shirt.

"Heh, great choice, Love" he straightened his blazer and kissed the shoulder affectionately.

They left the apartment as Eddie felt the symbiote fixing his hair.

"Why so worried about my appearance, um?"

It's been a while since we've been on a date

"Ah…I like the way you think" wasn't the initial idea, but a good meal was something special, why not a date? "Well thank you for making me beautiful, no one would ever make me more beautiful than you, just for you" 

The symbiote squirmed happily and hid inside Eddie as they walked out the front door of the little building.

"What do you want? Meat? Fish? Something more specific?" 

Raw... something raw... 

That desire wasn't just theirs, Eddie felt it too, and not because of the intimate connection of the symbiosis, that was… strange.

"Yes" that made Eddie salivate a little and then he wiped it with the back of his hand embarrassed, it's not like they hadn't eaten in a while... "sounds like a good idea" expensive but he didn't seem to care anymore, he just wanted some meat raw in front of him, of them.

They walked a little to a Japanese restaurant, luckily they could afford a carvery, could eat as much as they wanted and don't have to order more than one, less money spent. Doesn't seem like a bad idea.

As soon as they entered, Eddie hid his sharp ways in his mouth as much as possible, he could wear a mask but it would draw even more attention.

"Hello, I would like a table for tw-one" he said quickly correcting himself.

"Sure sir, follow me" the clerk guided them to a small table near a beautiful plant, Eddie asked for the most hidden possible, and the waiter just accepted despite being suspicious.

"Would you like what?"

"A rotation, please, as complete as you can"

"Would you like me to bring you something special?"

"Raw fish, anything that's raw" sounded weird, but cooking let that happen, right? Many loved the raws.

"No problem, wait and it will arrive soon"

Eddie was already stressed from hunger, he felt his stomach growling, but he waited patiently, fiddling with his napkin and folding it to try to distract himself.

Eddie, we're worried, you don't usually get like this... not long ago

Does this hunger not come from you?

No... exactly, it comes from us , both of us... Eddie needs...

"Here you are sir" the waiter smiled pleasantly and handed the salmon to the blonde.

"Yes, thanks," he said politely, or trying and saw the man leaving.

Eddie took the chopsticks and then ate it all quickly, he needed more...

What did you say again, Love?

Afraid we're in need of phenylalanine, keep eating it, meat contains a lot of it...

Ah... we always need to, but why so much now? Are the changes asking for more?

It's the best theory, Eddie

Eddie could see the waiter in shock that Eddie had already eaten everything in less than 1 minute, he smiled nervously and handed over more plates and left.

But wasn't it just part of you that needed the phenylalanine we were consuming?

... Eddie, I suppose now you need it as much as I do now...

“Oh…”

The host ate more and more, but nothing filled that hunger, not enough, at one point Eddie just gave up and left the Japanese restaurant, he had a full belly but was dissatisfied, that lack of phenylalanine that... he never wanted to feel again at that intensity. It was quite late when they left, around 9 pm

Sorry, Eddie...

"You do not need to apologize"

Ruined our date

"Um... it was a nice date, the food was at least good... right?"

Not enough, the hunger was there as if they hadn't eaten anything at all.

"Shit, look it's ok, let's find a way, ok? We’ll be ok, my Love, I promised I'd never let that happen again" said quietly.

They looked around and entered a busier street with more people, that smell again... no... their sense of smell seemed more intense, that smell they felt that night, where they soon after separated, it won't HAPPEN AGAIN.

It was right there, they could bite those heads, have that divine juice full of phenylalanine, they could, they could... no! NO!

No more Eddie, no more

I.. we're going to be fine, okay? Okay, okay

Eddie seemed to say that not only to the symbiote but to himself as well.

Eddie didn't hold out for long until he forced himself to take another, more secluded path, that smell, that damn smell, was almost jumping on someone, they're not like that, not anymore.

Eddie, we won't leave you, we were scared at the time... afraid... confused with love, with feelings

"I know, I know I love you so much for learning this for us" They were in an alley now, Eddie prayed he didn't look like a thug this time, it was so hard.

We can try eating more chocolate Eddie... or... or try pills again.

"You know that pills are expensive and do us more harm than good"

... We're sorry we needed this... It's all our fault

Eddie stops mid-walk and leans his back against the wall sighing.

"You know it's not your fault... You didn't ask for it either. Come out here please, I want to see you..."

Shyly tendrils came out of Eddie's clothes until a larger tendril appeared with big, weepy glowing opalescent eyes, resembling a planarian, a snake, how could that beautiful creature compare to something so mundane?

"My love..." Eddie placed his hand on the symbiote's cheek "Don't be sorry, I should be sorry for making you hungry..."

"We don't want to eat people either, Eddie... makes us sad, makes Eddie sad..."

"... You're perfect, you know that right?" He caressed the symbiote kissing between their eyes "So good, so sweet, too good for earth.."

"Eddie was the one who taught us to be like this..."

"Don't give me all the credit, you know Flash Thompson did the most, I saw it"

"If it wasn't for Eddie we wouldn't have even tried to understand this... Eddie makes us good, made us heroes, made Venom a hero"

Eddie was about to say something but was interrupted by a groan of pain that was heard not far away.

"No…no no no… " Eddie didn't know if he could help without eating that delicious brain of whoever was hurting him.

The symbiote quickly covered Eddie's body and Eddie closed his eyes being him, and opening being them, Venom.

"We won't let it happen" they drooled more than usual, their shape looked more "lean" in the belly, and their sharp teeth looked different now, mostly human and sharp. "We are heroes"

Venom jumped on the wall and climbed the building quickly looking for the source of the noise, it was a woman close to 30 annoyed with a man who was pulling her into the alley.

"Let go of me! You idiot! I won't! I won't let this happen! no no God can't be happening!" She tried to free herself in an attempt to look strong, but slowly she deviates into the despair of not being able to defend herself and let go.

The man had blood on his face that was probably a cut made by the... oh yes, it was a protective knife that the man was now holding, it looks like the woman tried to use it but it didn't help.

Blood, that smell was so good, so good, they drooled more, but they couldn't be distracted, the main focus now was protecting the woman.

"Shut up before I do this myself!" The man said angrily pinning her to the wall with two fingers on her cheeks squeezing her cheeks.

"You filthy man, I refuse… I don't-" she stopped looking up at us should the darkness stir and become paralyzed.

"Good girl, just be qui-"

"I don't think she's afraid of you"

The black figure with big teeth and glowing eyes and almost 3 meters tall was behind the abuser and placed a hand with sharp claws on his shoulder.

"We recommend that you release this woman, man."

It was a soft, verbal threat that danced across Venom's tongue when they spoke.

"F-fuck, no fucking way!" The man released the woman "I didn't think you were real!" He tried to break free as the woman escaped the prison in the wall and ran away without looking back.

"Oh yes fucking way" so close, so close, just one bite, the woman was already out of sight, no one would know, no one would guess, they'd eat the whole body, no trace.

NO, NO!!

Venom backed away with a startled look and closing their mouth as they tucked their tongue inside.

"What?" The man watched the big scary monster walking away and didn't know whether to run away or become more afraid to move.

"We're going to KILL you! no, NO! ARREST YOU!" They put their hands on their head trying to understand the confusion in their brain, hunger spoke much louder than reason.

"P-please, just do it soon" the man cringed, crying low, scared to death.

Venom panted low, moving farther away from the man in small steps, their form deflecting more and more into something amorphous.

"PLEASE HELP!" the man flinched.

Venom growled loudly and they threw a web into the man's mouth.

"SHUT UP!" they said in desperation salivating more and more, it was in front of them, eat soon, they couldn't know that, if they knew that Venom was out of control they would hunt them down again! One bite!

Only one!

They could only feel their teeth crushing something crunchy and their tongues licking that soup, soup! That delicious soup again.

NO NO THAT SOUP AGAIN NO NO PLEASE THEY DIDN'T DO THAT AGAIN DON'T SAY...

Venom gasped as they licked everything had in that skull, it wasn't enough, but it was so much better than any human food.

They pulled back when they realized it and looked at the dead man with his head open and now without a shred of a brain.

"NO NO NO, MY LOVE NO, I PROMISED" They said with screams and moans, grunts of anguish and pain, but the satisfaction they didn't want to feel. "I PROMISED WE WOULD BECOME HEROES, I AM WEAK" It was obvious Eddie was speaking those words, crying over the promises he couldn't keep.

Just as he felt a black flow into his eyes, Venom's human side was put to sleep by the symbiote that now took control of their entire form.

"Needs to rest Eddie...needs to think, " Venom said, more controlled, but in a melancholy way, they looked around to see if anyone had heard the screams.

"We’ll take care of this, for us..." The symbiote knew better to control that hunger, Eddie felt it now, he was afraid, and he didn't know how to control it, it was all very new. Didn't blame him, they made it worse.

Venom, or rather, the symbiote took the abuser's dead body by the head taking him even deeper into the dark alley, and finished the job, didn't do it with pleasure, but needed to take all the evidence that did that, they cleaned the blood left for him. Back with the absorption of the tendrils and took them home.

They went in through the window and laid Eddie on the bed voting inside him until just a few tendrils were just wrapped around Eddie caressing him and his face trying to relax the tension in his body.

Eddie's going to be fine... they're going to be fine...

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Black just the black Eddie could see, black… it was supposed to be a comfortable, safe place, but everything seems to soak in a red liquid, blood, there was blood in that dark room, filling it above Eddie's feet.

He took a step back, gasping and looking around, blood knew quickly from his heel to his knee. Where was his symbiote? Everything seems so quiet and empty, he tried to scream for them but all that came out was an inner painful groan, no no no he wants to be a hero, a hero like Spider and Flash, for his love, wanted to be a hero with them, like Venom.

The blood rose faster with every thought, it was in his chest already, he couldn't run away, the ceiling of the black room wasn't far from his head. He was going to drown, and he had absolutely nothing to do but feel the agony of that liquid enveloping him as he thought of all the ways he'd gone wrong.

His father would be proud of what he's become, exactly what he always said Eddie was, a monster, a curse, a demon on Earth who took his beloved wife, sometimes he understands his father, did horrible things for love too, he wasn't a good father either, he hunted his children when he was in a moment of anger, he hurt them, he hurt their Love, he became everything he didn't want to be, his father.

Blood was getting into Eddie's mouth and he tried to swim, but for a moment he just gave up, letting the water take him, what difference would the effort make if the end was the same? The cruel and painful ending.

Sometimes he had suicidal thoughts, but he never really managed to do that, something always interrupted or saved him. Well, a lot would have been better if the symbiote had just ignored him and let him die, wouldn't it? The symbiote would definitely find a much better host than the garbage person that was Eddie, that's for sure.

The blood reached the top, it was thicker than water, more harrowing, darker, darker than the room's own blackness. Eddie just accepted his death by letting the liquid flow through his lungs, even the body trying to avoid this soon surrenders to the impossibility of finding oxygen. It was just blood, filling the entire room.

But a light made his eyes open, how could he see light in that bloody darkness? He tried to breathe and finally managed, what…? He knew what that feeling was, yes, it was them, always them, the shadow that was the light in his life, the alien who understood him more than any human, his Love...

"Love!" Eddie finally managed to speak and reached out to the light, her warm feeling so good, so sweet, hopeful.

"LOVE!" Eddie opened his eyes panting, he was sweating and shaking, it was a nightmare, of course, it was… well, not so clear, he's been through things that not even nightmares could match.

The symbiote wrapped itself around Eddie, like a comforting hug, showing they were there, and always would be.

Eddie... we're here... we're fine... just a nightmare

"..." He kept panting putting his hand on his chest, his heart was beating hard, strong enough to hear inside himself, he felt the symbiote lying in his heart as a comfort, people would be afraid of that, but for Eddie, it was like a hug in his soul.

We are not angry

Yes, Eddie could remember, they... ate a brain, killed someone, again, not again... he couldn't even have had the first time...

"I failed"

Eddie is scared, we're scared, change is scary, new is scary

"... Yes... it's scary, the new is scary, but it's ok, we deal with this experience many times..."

Fear of Eddie getting hurt, we lost control of the changes, Eddie lost control...

"..." He hugged himself, or the symbiote, both perhaps, and cringed.

He knew what he'd done, and it scared him because this time it wasn't the symbiote he'd lost control of, but could he, the human side, still consider himself human?

"…um…" he felt a pain, groaning low and biting his own tongue. "These changes are killing me, I didn't think it would be this painful."

We can... we can separate, we can still reverse, we can get Eddie out of this...

"Don't even think about it, never again, I said it would be us together forever, and I won't break another promise…" He gripped his arms with his claws.


…Eddie hurt, we didn’t want Eddie to get hurt…

"You are too… I can feel it" Eddie opened his eyes again looking at another tendril "You try to hide it but I know something is happening to you too"

Eddie more important, more changes

"Darling… of course, you are as important as I am, we are equally important and I want to know and help you like you are helping me"

I'm not helping...

"Of course you are, what would I have done if you hadn't knocked me out last night? Would I have eaten more? You took us home, protected us, saved us from getting out of control."

How Eddie made one day for us… just giving back…

"It's still a help…"

Eddie bit his tongue again, which felt like it was in a painful cramp, biting harder and harder with the pain, the anxiety and still shaking with nightmare and last night.

Eddie... stop, you're hurting yourself

"Hmm.." felt the symbiote putting tendrils in Eddie's mouth preventing him from biting more, his tongue was bleeding.

That was helping the pain, let me do it

We know and feel our tongue hurting, but are you sure?

As long as the pain stops.

We have a theory, but maybe it hurts and we don't know if we can heal right away...

Do it, please... just..

The symbiote appeared in front of him with a face similar to Venom's, it looked sad.

"Love…" Eddie put his hand on the symbiote's cheek "there's something weird going on with me…"

"We know…"

"I shouldn't be acting like this."

"It happens, it's happened to me several times, you know that"

"But it's different, I never went through this myself, I just felt you like this"

"We'll be fine, we'll take care of you…"

"..." Eddie hugged the tearful black shape, he was just very confused now, his teeth, gums, tongue hurt, his eyes seemed to burn a little too, he couldn't take it anymore and pretend that everything was fine, not after having killed someone for it.

We're going to be fine, Eddie...

"Please end this pain… I don't care what needs to be done…"

"Let's rip off the tip of your tongue"

Eddie was in shock for a while, looking at the symbiote but then he just smiled.

"As you wish… I trust you"

"We'll help change the tongue if there's no way it can easily change… lengthen… we're not sure what might happen."

"Can you fix it?"

"If the change doesn't take long, we can get it back to how it was before..."

"So do it."

The hesitant symbiote approached Eddie and kissed him, this was a startle for Eddie, but he soon followed the kiss, confessing that they had already done this a few times, but it was never the symbiote that started it. Eddie growled low, feeling the tongue invading his mouth and moving up space until Eddie felt a sharp pain in his tongue, the symbiote had bitten and ripped off the tip of it, as they said they would, but it hurt more than he imagined until it just stopped hurting. and feel the kiss continue for a few more seconds, but now with the taste of blood in their mouths.

The symbiote pulled its head away from Eddie's and placed a big hand on Eddie's cheek.

"It was successful Eddie" They smiled proudly "Forgive us for the pain at first..."

"...Itiss ok (It's ok)" he blurted out, tongue curling, it was bigger than it used to be and more pointy, and more...movable?

The symbiote chuckled at the scene for a second seeing Eddie blush sullenly.

"Has the pain gone?"

"Yess, thle tlangle, yess.. (Yes, the tangue, yes)" Eddie tried to speak but I'm more hissed and slurred "Gosssh."

"Hehe… you'll soon get used to controlling it, Eddie was brave, our brave host"

The other laid his head on Eddie's forehead and snuggled there and purred, glad they were able to help a little.

"Hooul diild youul dooh thlaath? (How did you do that?)"

"We used the kiss to distract you, prevent you from choking on blood and easily have direct contact with the tongue, your cells talked to me, showed me how it should be done, and we arranged the structure as they wanted"

"Talk with cells?"

"Not literally, Eddie" The symbiote laughed, licking his cheek affectionately, the symbiote was quite physical these days, but not in that way, they seemed to try to comfort him with those touches, and didn't complain…

"Thankssss…" Eddie hugged the symbiote back closer, Little by little, I was able to learn to control the tongue. "I think we need a bath heh…"

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Eddie got up with a sigh and brushed his hair back. Pointy tongue, sharp teeth, hunger, what else could happen? Well, what matters is they need a good shower now, his head was still racing from what he'd done, they'd avoided it for years, didn't even do it with Tel'kar, though he would have done it anyway, that wouldn't do. He is a being who deserves mercy.

 Eddie is overthinking

 “I know…just…let's go” He walked to the bathroom, it wasn't very nice, but it did its job, it had a hot shower thankfully.

 He turned on the water letting it warm up and looked at himself in the mirror watching his tongue, it was strange, he could control it much more, like Venom, and ran the tip of his tongue through his teeth to the sharp ones. It was strangely… cool. Knew it would cause problems with this shit society, a man who sticks to walls, or a giant green guy can, but he likes this?  He would be treated like a monster…

 The symbiote wrapped themselves around Eddie's neck, stroking and spreading to both of them for a massage.

 “Lovely, you're trying to calm me down…thanks” He pets the black goo, taking a deep breath and feeling the hot steam already rising through the closed bathroom.

 Saw the symbiote melting his clothes and stroked Eddie's cheek, ready for the bath!

 Eddie chuckled at that cute feeling and stepped into the hot shower, moaning as his muscles relaxed with the heat.

 “We needed this… damn, these days have been… complicated… I know you're feeling guilty, but… I'm not sad or bothered by it, darling, it's just… It's different, weird, not even you know what's going on with our bodies…not exactly.”

 Your DNA is changing merging with mine, it seems your cells are following this as if…accepting this change, as something beneficial

 “… You weren't kidding when you said I accepted you, even on celular way”

 Eddie is perfect, but this perfection, this openness is getting to him…

 “You're doing it too, love, don't try to lie, you're giving your all to me too, you're also changing your DNA”

 That's right… but what else would we do?  Did we drop the best host the universe could give me?

 “Absolutely not…but… I'm just saying that… You don't want to leave, you don't want to break up, I know that, and neither do I, we'll not get separated because of it”

 Eddie felt the symbiote tendril taking the spent shampoo and running it through Eddie's hair, massaging his hair.

 “Hmm… I would really never let go of what we have” Closed his eyes enjoying that moment.

 Sensitive Eddie here, we love the noises he makes

 “Heheh… it's just pleasurable, like you massage my brain, not that you don't already literally

”

 He felt the water falling on his medium hair going down along with the shampoo rinsing.  For a moment he'd forgotten all about their problems… just them, nothing else around…

“I love you…thank you for being my angel…” said without thinking, getting out of his heart.

 All for you, for us , Eddie, Eddie could feel the symbiote combing Eddie's tendrils of hair.

 Pet the tendrils that were wrapped around his chest and shoulder as a “thanks”

 “Us…” the blonde just said that with a smile on his face.

 After the shower, they left and the symbiote handed the towel to the host, wrapping it around his shoulder.

 Eddie, can we see that musical again? The one with the church nanny.

 “The Sound of Music? Hehe… Of course, we can” Knew what the symbiote was doing, and thought it was cute, they were trying to distract Eddie from the guilt, but they both knew it wouldn't do any good, not for long.

 Soon Eddie was dry, and the symbiote wrapped him in comfortable, warm pajamas.

 “I will always thank you, I love your clothes, darling” Smiled caressing the blouse that looked like cotton.

 He took some chocolates and sat on the couch, that hunger was still there, but the phenylalanine from the… head they ate really helped a lot, maybe eating a lot of chocolate will help, it needs to help…

 He opened one of the chocolates and a bit into it, not satisfied he bit into it again, swallowing trying to figure out if it helped, yes it did, but not even close to what they needed.

 “Shit, looks like it's not working as well as it used to…” sighed and tried to distract himself when he felt one of the tendrils curl around Eddie's wrist.

 We'll be fine

 “Yes… we will…” Swallowed and put on the film the symbiote asked for.

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A few days had passed since that, Eddie was still a little crestfallen after that, but they continued on their patrols at night. They couldn't let this hunger stop them from helping innocent lives, needed to know how to control this multiplied hunger…

 They were on top of a building watching the city like Venom, eating M&M'S from a big bag meanwhile.

 “Looks like they released a new movie from that franchise we like, we can try to raise money to see it” , a part of Venom said to their other half with a toothy smile.  “Perhaps”

 The creature lowered its head a little and observed the city below, people walking in the night, they were close to the park, some tendrils curled the black shape as if trying to hug.

 “We're going to be fine, aren't we?”

 Some teenagers were walking on the sidewalk near an alley, a dangerous place, they need to keep an eye out.

 They swallowed the M&M's and jumped to the next building closer to the teenagers who seemed to just have fun together, one of them seemed more eager to be on that darker and more dangerous path.

 Camouflaged in the darkness of the night they watched until the young people were on a more protected street, nothing bad happened luckily.  They sat on the edge of the building continuing to watch, it was…  Even fun these quiet moments watching the world go by, some would say it felt lonely, but it's never lonely when they're together, sharing thoughts and ideas about some things they've watched.

 “That pole is blinking, it started blinking today, yesterday it was normal, maybe a nosy insect got in” Venom said talking uniquely, if you pay attention it's impossible to notice the change of opinions, ideas, and thoughts.

 “Hm” Jumped to other buildings through the web, looking to be elsewhere whenever they could.  “We're close to the center, maybe we can buy more chocolate, we don't have much in our pockets, but it is always good to have more phenylalanine. Oh look, they finally opened the pet shop that was being built.” They jumped in hands a building, stopping there. ” And the alley where… we killed that man…” the creature said wistfully and shook its head “No, we're fine, we're fine” The shape is quickly undone and solidified again.

 They jumped away from there, they've been out for a long time, luckily no innocent injured in the area, entered their apartment window and undoing Venom.

 “Fuck, we forgot to buy the chocolates ” Eddie slapped his forehead with a sigh.

It's alright, Eddie

 “No it's not, we're pretending, and it-it's not, I can't deal with this hunger, I don't want you to feel hungry”

 You very stressed…

 “These changes are unexpected, and it could be that in front of a lot of our energy without even realizing it, at any moment we can get out of control again because of me…!”

Eddie breathe

 “I'm pretending so, but I'm a useless host who can't even feed you, you were so much better with the others” He was starting to panic.

Eddie Knows this is a lie, never better than Eddie, never better than home

 “Well, your home is trash!”  Eddie growled and hugged himself, scratching his arms with sharp nails, “I'm useless, I'll never be the hero you want to be”

 The symbiote tended to the wounds Eddie had inflicted on itself and used tendrils to ward off Eddie's claws on its skin.

Eddie….

 “I should take care of you, but I'm only making it worse, I wronged you, I wronged everyone, I did horrible things, and you still forgave me, and now I'm making you go through these changes and making you starve… !”  Tears began to well up in the human's blue eyes as he squinted and gritted his teeth.

We're happy as we are Eddie…you're trying, only you did it for me…

 “But I can't !”

 Yes, you can, The symbiote's tendrils hugged the host protectively, carefully holding his hands, so he wouldn't get hurt anymore.

 “We don't even know what's happening to us, we're not going back to that damn lab, we don't have anyone to help us”

We don't need help, we know what's going on, but we're worried about Eddie… Eddie needs friends

“No, no, humans are dangerous to you, and I'm dangerous to them, we don't need anyone”

Eddie…

 The symbiote's face, like a serpentine planarian, approached Eddie's face, looking serious at him.

 “…” Eddie looked down, but still looking at the symbiote.

You need distraction, rest, and we know exactly what we can do that will give us plenty of food

 “What…?”

You need to trust us, Eddie…you need to let us take care of you…

 “… Alright, what's the plan?”

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The symbiote carefully wrapped Eddie up and pulling into the room, Eddie had his theories, which made him blush, no, you can't ask for something so human for your symbiote. They're an asexual creature and don't need these things to survive, so there's probably no system (if any) in their biological body that gives pleasure in doing things like that, just being logical. But honestly, there's so much you still don't know about your other.

“Overthinking again”

“I can't help it, love, I'm a journalist (or at least used to be one)” he smiled sadly at the symbiote that closed the bedroom door.

“We love your investigative intelligence, Eddie, but we need you to just relax”

“You didn't answer my question, it wasn't my fault”

“Eddie will feel fine, we've studied this a bit in case that happens”

“Studied…”

He was interrupted with a slight cry of fright as he was laid on the bed and his clothes came undone.

Heavens, was that really? No, Eddie, stop thinking about it. He swallowed hard, realizing his body said otherwise, feeling the heat on his cock.

“Look, darling, whatever you're doing, you don't have to-”

“Eddie, we want it, I want it, you want it, I'm in your head, I know you want it”

“Doesn't mean we want to have it” Eddie was just worrying about the symbiote's well-being.

More tendrils wound around the host's now naked body, biceps, thighs, neck, knew Eddie liked every part of it.

“G-God” Moaned low with the grips, the symbiote knew what it was doing, that he was sure of “ok, fine, we can do that, but I need answers first” he said in a louder tone that made the symbiote stop.

That was a silent So do the creature.

“You already know, you've obviously seen what sex is… I know that, but I need to know what exactly what you know”

The symbiote didn't quite understand the reason for that “question”, but answered without hesitation.

“Mating, is a system of sexual reproduction done by creatures of different genders to produce children, we've seen other hosts doing this, and we saw it in your thoughts and Anne's when you did too. But…”

“But… “

“It can also is a show of affection, bonding and comfort, especially for humans, and that's what we want to do with you, Eddie”

And right after answering, the symbiote went back to what they were doing, wrapping a few more tendrils around Eddie's wrists and forearm.

“W-wait, one more thing”

The symbiote stopped again, no problem.

“Can you do it? Like, will you enjoy doing it?” Obviously, Eddie's biggest concern was mainly whether his other was going to feel good about it.

“Eddie, not exactly the way you will, but yes, we will”

“How?”

“In addition to feeling what you feel, you, according to studies, will create delicious hormones, we can build phenylalanine with that, and we will be fed”

“Okay” makes sense, go trust them “I just worried you didn't get something in return for that”

“Oh I will” the symbiote's teeth were finally exposed.

“… You can go on, my love” now that it finally dawned on him. He started to get anxious, not in a bad way, he thought about it several times. He confessed, but they were always very busy, the most that happened was when they were on the island, where they kissed for the first time. After that they rarely did, since that day when their language changed and now…

The symbiote approached the blonde's face and purred.

“Eddie-full-head, will be your nickname now”

“Am I to blame for not being able to stop thinking about you?”

“I'm right here, Eddie”

“Thank god you're here” He laid his forehead on the other's with a happy smile.

And finally, with one hand approaching the side of the symbiote's head and kissing them, still shy and careful, but slowly starting to stir. Eddie opened his mouth running his long new tongue over his darling's not-so-sharp teeth, quickly in response they opened their mouth and touched their tongue to Eddie's, it was as good as that day, but now, with no intentions other than affection. The muscular man pulled the black creature closer to him, feeling the tendrils tighten on his body, while the kiss deepened in a fun sync, sometimes they curled up in inexperience and held back laughter.

The weight in Eddie's head was slowly fading away, only room for the love and comfort and trust of their connection was so… right.

More tendrils wandered through the human's body until finally the symbiote approached the hot cock begging for attention, Eddie moaned when he was finally touched there by the cold tendril, that shock of temperatures made everything even more delicious. The tendril curled gently around his member, which began to throb with the beginning of the touches.

W-well, that… right there, love held a little more in the hot kiss, trying to discount the desire and pleasure in something.

The symbiote vibrated with all that, it was much better than watching in movies, series, much more than watching inside its host doing with someone else, it was them, just them and Eddie, and that made it even better, the feeling of be participating in it.

Finally, or unfortunately, they broke away from the kiss, Eddie gasped between low moans at the symbiote's touches on his cock.

“Damn, You k-know how to do this like no one else”

“Only for Eddie”

“Only for me…” He moaned a little louder as he felt the symbiote begin to work there, with slow, smooth strokes, he loved how that creature that could be so frightening to some could be so sweet and affectionate with him. Maybe he felt a little privileged about it…

Eddie's claws sank deeper into the black goo as he felt them touching faster.

“F-Fuck, this feels so good” he rolled his eyes, moaning at his symbiote's precise touches. “ You're so perfect, darling”

“Eddie is being touchy-feely- A-ah”

Eddie came pulling the symbiote's face to his chest and opened his eyes when he noticed the symbiote's moan, he's seen them moaning in pain, or looking for him, but never pleasure, and that was… wonderful….

“This, H-hm, is new”. Eddie said lying still processing that feeling. He could have done it with other people, but… this time, with his other, his dear and beloved other, it was so, so much better, he felt their pleasure, and they felt his pleasure, as if it were all multiplying, and they haven't even started yet.

The tendrils were squeezing Eddie shakily with it all, wanting more, more of those hormones, more of those moans, more of Eddie.

“You're enjoying this more than I expected, it makes me happy- A-ah-love” he shifted, feeling a tendril going down his balls to his cheeks exploring that spot.

The creature was looking for more of those whirling hormones of a hunter, but Eddie knew they would never hurt him. Eddie saw the symbiote's face licking its sweat off his neck.

Delicious, Eddie, you taste delicious They licked their heads down his chest, belly, and his cock, the approach of those teeth making Eddie shiver, not with fear. No, never fear, but his body still reacted on its own with the terror of that predator's prey, and… that feeling was strangely addictive, her body betraying his brain out of sheer instinct.

They started licking that tasty hormone juice, it would be a waste not to consume it. When Eddie was about to approach his hand, he was stopped and was tied to a rope with the other hand behind his back.

Hush Eddie, just enjoy

“A-ah! I-I'm enjoying it more than ever” He had already accepted that it would be the passive there, and he didn't really bother with that.

They kept going until there was nothing left, and took the opportunity to keep going down until again touching Eddie's entrance that made the human shiver in a loud groan.

“Hey, D-don't be cruel” moaned low as the symbiote's tongue teased that sensitive spot.

Eddie likes to be touched here too

“Yes… for you, yes…”

Eddie… They purred, but kept touching that sensitive area of the host.

“Yes my love?” He said sighing, he knew that more would come from the symbiote with those slow touches, but he was enjoying it all with great pleasure and affection, even with his face and body hot and red.

Why do you feel empty? Here, the end of the tendril touching Eddie's hole began to rub carefully.

“M-hm…why don't you k-keep what you're doing and find out?” He couldn't formulate a better answer.

The symbiote curious with Eddie's shiver after that they decided to enter more with that tendril inside Eddie's hole making him moan, he felt pleasure there, as a female feels in her reproductive organ, but why? There he had nothing to do with sexual acts.

“Now I can call you a full-head-symbiote, too” said Eddie, noticing the symbiote thinking too much…

They stirred, squeezing the tendrils wrapped around the human tighter, holding his hands tighter.

Funny Eddie, Well, if they want to find this out, then they better get going.

Quickly, the tendril entered deeper and deeper, making the host move between moans and sighs.

“O-ok, o-ok I need to play more so o-oh my God, m-more love”

So vulnerable, so adorable, so pitying, they loved every second of it, but they continued exploring that hole in search of understanding the pleasure. They liked that reaction of their host's body very much, they slowly entered until they reached a place where it made Eddie moan loudly and arch his back.

“A-Ah! T-There, love, please” he said imploringly, not even that sturdy, serious giant. Much more reaction, Eddie looked very happy about it.

He pulled its tendril out of the hole by biting Eddie's neck.

“H-Hey why did you come out almost ther-uhm!” of already being completely inside him filling him.

“F-fuck just you to make me scream like that, a-ah! A-Ah!” The agony of not being able to grab the symbiote irritated, but was extremely pleasurable in a frustrating way. He felt the symbiote begin to fuck him slowly, but gradually advancing speed in his prediction in his paradise that is close to crashing without paying any attention to it.

We got you Eddie, we got you They said in the lover in the background of the curling more around they squeeze and catching as if they also needed him squeezing something in the middle, it was at the very least adorable.

The blonde drooled in disorientation at the extreme pleasure he received, moaning without caring if he was bothering any neighbors, fuck them.

“A-Ah love, approaching, approaching him, approaching him, approaching him, approaching pleasure, approaching pleasure, approaching him with his come finally reaching the edge.

“L-Love! H-hm, ah-ah” he let out in his pissed orgasm hearing in his mind the symbiote's moan again, it was music, a melody so harmonic it tasted, loved every second noise out of this world.

“Have I told you I love you moaning, love?” He said you are feeling the thrusts and even slowly stop your chest.

He'd just discovered that yes, symbiote can have orgasms, and it was just adorable, both of them so vulnerable and trembling with pleasure. Eddie felt the tights that held his hands loosening, Eddie's hands again mass and caressing.

“You were perfect, my love, simply…perfect” The host affirmed with affection, still panting in a shaky voice.

The coiled symbiote didn't respond vocally, which wasn't necessary, it felt the goo coiling around their wrist asking for more information as it desired love and fulfillment in their connection.

“I know… I know…” he felt the purring in response, how crazy… was in love with an alien and was the most adorable goo in the universe. “I feel it too… no hunger… pain…” maybe it was just a passing feeling, but it was enough to make them relax until they fell asleep between slow and comfortable caresses.

The hunger passed, but until when?

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It was quite different to have those sharp teeth, tongue, but luckily they had no problem walking in public with them, even people looked impressed, they hate looks.  Eddie liked the teeth touching his bottom lip, felt like he was so much closer than he could to his other. To be honest, it really helped, the… the symbiote plan, and it produced a considerable amount of phenylalanine, so it was easier to walk around in public…

 They were talking to a co-worker who had accusations from a man they were studying for an article. She was clearly looking at Eddie's teeth and nails confused, they hadn't seen each other for a year and had already changed a lot. His hair looked longer, too, reaching to the back of his neck.

 “What do we have then?”

 They were in a café, Eddie, despite having little money, asked for a considerable amount of food. He was hungry, they were hungry, so he ordered a lot of chocolate in the tail of the pancakes.

 “I have some photos proving the accusations” The woman who was called Lesley O'Ryan, she was not a recurring friend, much less close to Eddie, in fact Eddie avoided approaching ordinary people as much as possible after…

 “Fine, enough, I'll take care of the rest” Eddie said with a satisfied smile, his sharp canine teeth more visible.

 The waitress came close to the table delivering 2 plates of chocolate pancakes and a hot chocolate in front of the blonde, Eddie could feel the symbiote dancing on his chest with the smell of chocolate.

 “But we promise a trade” Lesley said seriously, the woman had pale to brown skin, brownish green eyes and a messy ponytail holding up her black hair with highlights.

 “Of course, I always keep my promises, you know how we work” Eddie cut a piece of pancakes and ate it smiling happily at the taste, he was already so used to the feeling of phenylalanine feeding his other, that made chocolate even more pleasurable.

 “Why do you like chocolate so much?” The woman of lights fixed her glasses curiously, trying to find a less complicated subject, like her teeth.

 “Um? I thought we had a confidentiality agreement, no?” The journalist said with a calm smile drinking hot chocolate and moving his face, it was very hot and ended up burning his tongue, he was distracted by the conversation and hunger.  Luckily, his other one quickly healed the burn. Eddie hummed silently as a thank you to his lover.

 “Sure, but I didn't think your liking chocolate would be something so personal.” Lesley shrugged as she ate her fruit salad.

 “We- I” he quickly corrected “I like chocolate, that's all” He ate another piece of the pancakes

 Yes, chocolate is good, but not to the point of eating as much as he does.

 “If you keep enjoying it like this, you'll have diabetes” she raised her eyebrows and took the photos, putting them on the table in a folder.

 “Well, since when is this your problem?” Eddie was nice, but he hated his disrupted personal space, maybe it's just an instinct to protect his other, or even being a journalist who depends on secrecy.

 “You're a complicated man, Eddie Brock” She crossed her arms waiting for Eddie's part of the exchange.

 “Right, right, as if you weren't” He pulled documents out of his overcoat and placed them next to the photo folder.

 “I still don't know how to get these documents”

 “We've got aces up our sleeves” Eddie looked proud of his made, their made, he stroked his chest thanking the symbiote for being amazing.

 “Um, I hope you're not a super-villain or something” Lesley joked and took the documents, and Eddie's big hand took the pictures tucking them into his overcoat.

 “Always a pleasure to bargain with you, Ms.O'Ryan” he was playful again and went back to eating, this time without interruption.

,,

After eating they were finally alone, alone, and together.

 “Lesley was looking at our teeth every 10 sec”

 The Symbiote said a little agitated.

 “They're cute, darling, like yours, like Venom” Eddie smiled, even though the symbiote wasn't seeing it he knew they felt the same when he smiled like that.

  She was curious, intruding

 “I would honestly do the same as a journalist, it's not very common to see someone like us Love”

 We're awesome, but we don't like people looking at us

“Same, but it was worth it, this article will be a great help to our income”

 What do we do now, Eddie?

 “Let's find this idiot and find all the evidence we need”

 ,,

 It was almost dawn, they were waiting above an alley, watching the henchmen walking around escorting, this man they were looking for was studying symbiotes. So far so good, but it is said that he is not a very nice guy, on the contrary, he wants to use the symbiotes, as usual.

 In some old-time irresponsibility they managed to harvest a piece of Venom, not a seed, but as if it were a dead body, and that was bad, very bad. Neither of them were sure what they could discover or do with this dead body, and if this can affect Venom, they will resolve it themselves.

 With the camouflage skill they entered the window of the building, it was an abandoned building, but that clearly had something underground, and after a few minutes finishing off goons silently entered the white area like a laboratory, it wasn't that fancy. They didn't want to risk them finding out something, they didn't want another baby around.

 They entered the main lab, looking around, there was only one idiot scientist there.

 We couldn't identify the piece, maybe… wait, there

 They looked carefully at a very technological closet, approached through the ceiling to the scientist and jumped in it, returning to normal color.

“Grrr, what do you know about us?”

 The scientist gave a high-pitched scream for milliseconds before they covered his mouth with a tendril.

“You'll have to cooperate, or you'll die” Of course they won't kill him.

 But when you were under a toothy, gooey creature it was easy to believe it was about to die, so he just nodded shakily, and the tendril slowly came out of his mouth.

 “I-I know you're Venom” He replied, swallowing hard

“AND?”

 “S-symbiote, alien from space, you have it” He regretted it shortly after saying that with the roar of the creature.

“We are them! And they’re us!”

 “G-gm of course hahah…symbiosis”

“You study us and still don't understand the least, where is it!?”

 The man cringed at the saliva that came out of Venom's mouth.

 “A-…closet”

 They trapped the man with black webs and went to the closet opening the force and opening the eyes more impressed, it wasn't a piece, it was…

 A white-orange goo wriggled irritably in the cylinder until it finally caught sight of the black shape.

“Scream?”