Hi, everyone! I'm new here to FanFiction! I have a big interest in Marvel and I couldn't resist in doing a small crossover between Venom and the Avengers.
(BTW, the Venom movie was AWESOME. And to those who have not seen the awesomeness, there are some spoilers. So read at your own discretion.)
This story includes my OC as well as all of the Avengers. This takes place longgg before the events of the Infinity War. Also, it is rated T for some language and mentions of drug use.
I hope everyone enjoys! Reviews are encouraged and you may leave your opinions and constructive criticism is always welcomed!
"I'm hungry."
Tessa rolls her eyes as she strolls down the leaf-filled Manhattan streets. The air is chilly with the sudden season change, making Tessa tug her jacket close to her body as she walks.
She feels her stomach growl and the voice in her head becomes louder. "Are you listening to me? I'm hungry."
"And what would you like me to do? I have no money to go and get anything for us to eat. It takes a lot to feed you, you know," Tessa huffs angrily, walking down the street towards her rinky-dink apartment that she shares with her mother. Anyone looking at her would think she's insane- she's talking aloud to a voice who isn't audible to their own ears. They'd think it's a made up voice. They'd think she'd belong in a mental hospital or something.
Sadly, she wishes that were the case. Sometimes, she just wants the voice in her head to be just that: a voice.
The voice in her head pipes up once again and she feels her body being pulled to the side. "Come on. I want Mexican for dinner tonight."
"Food or the actual person?"
"Both wouldn't be bad, actually."
"Wraith!" Tessa scowls. Wraith has been with her for the last year. She is unsure how they have coexisted with each other, but she has grown to love Wraith in some sort of weird way.
Wraith chuckles darkly. "I'm not sorry."
"You can wait until we are home. You like peanut butter and jelly, right?" Tessa knows that her other-worldly friend is rather picky once it comes to human food. Wraith has a sweet tooth and enjoys ice cream, chocolate, and anything peanut butter flavored. His favorite food, though, happens to be baked chicken.
Other than that, he can eat just about anything that walks or breathes. Tessa, however, doesn't particularly enjoy that part of Wraith's food preference.
Wraith grumbles lowly. "Fine, but make it with more peanut butter than jelly."
Happy that her inner monster is satisfied, she makes the walk back to her tiny apartment. The apartment building is huge, yet overcrowded. It's not the safest place, either, but Tessa doesn't fear because of Wraith. She knows that the otherworldly creature will take care of her and she takes care of him. They care for each other in one way or another.
In reality, they're each other's only friend.
Tessa climbs the stairs leading to her third floor apartment. She moves towards the left side of the hallway, finding the fourth door marked as C34. She fishes her key out of her pocket, unlocking the door and she walks inside. Her eyes immediately find her mother, the woman exhausted and slumped down on the couch.
"Look at that. She decided to come home," Wraith says, his voice nearing a growl.
Tessa huffs. "Leave it alone, Wraith." She moves towards her mother, grabbing the throw blanket from the back of the couch to cover her mother.
Her mother, Leah, has always been in and out of Tessa's life. Her mother is an addict, and Tessa comes home more than often to see pill bottles on their coffee table or straws littering the floor and fine, white powder lining the table sometimes. Then, when Tessa least expects it, Leah will leave and stay gone for days at a time. When she comes home, it's almost as if she's dead and it worries Tessa to no end.
It's such a horrid habit her mother had developed, but Tessa is powerless to stop it. All she can do is love her mother and do her best to try and help her.
"I can eat her, you know. We'd be messed up for a few days, but it'd take care of your problem," Wraith says, obviously not a fan of Leah. He has often told Tessa that she only need rely on him and he'd get her whatever she wanted.
Tessa huffs. "No. I know that Mom isn't the best person, but she's my mom. I can't just let you eat her."
"Humans...you are so benevolent. Well, you are."
"I just can't leave her to suffer," Tessa says, going to the kitchen to make her snack. The sandwich would hardly hold them over, but it'd have to do without any food in the house. She, as promised, makes the sandwich with more peanut butter than her favorite grape jelly and she snags the bag of plain potato chips from the nearly empty cupboard.
She sits that the kitchen table, guzzling a glass of water and she sandwich is gone within a minute of her sitting down. Her stomach still rumbles hungrily and she frowns.
"You eat too much."
"I'm starving. I'm nearly contemplating going back out to find something to snack on. There was this German Shepherd that looked delicious."
"No! There will be no killing of any furry creatures," Tessa scowls.
Wraith releases a huff and grumbles something Tessa doesn't quite catch. Tessa can only laugh because for an otherworldly, all knowing alien, Wraith acts like the biggest child she has ever met.
Then, Tessa retreats to her room after cleaning up her mess. She also makes sure that her mother is alive and breathing before hiding herself away inside the room.
Her bedroom is a safe haven away from her usual insanity. It's tiny but cozy and safe- something even Wraith himself enjoys. Tessa has hung dark curtains over her window to drown out sunlight and the creeps who may try to look in. Old Christmas lights have been strung up around the room, lighting the room lowly. There are posters on the walls of rock bands and movies. It's everything a teenager's room should be, even though everything is second hand and salvaged.
Tessa goes over to her bed and flops down onto her stomach, arms pillowing her head. She sighs heavily with the rumbling of her stomach, deciding to just go to sleep than to live with the annoying hunger pains.
"Go to sleep, Tessa. I've got us," Wraith says softly.
Tessa smiles a little. "Thank you."
"No problem. Now shut it and sleep."
…
She watches the small television mounted on her nightstand.
She woke up in the middle of the night, unable to fall back asleep. This led her to turn on the television, flipping through the channels before landing on a news report talking about the Life Foundation. It talks about the trials done and the so called "aliens" they brought down from space.
Tessa knows they're referring to the symbiotes. She briefly recalls there being at least three or four. Five at the most. That's how Wraith found her- he told her he wanted a way out of the madness. He went from person to person, none of them able to perfectly host him up until Tessa. At first, she was mortified of Wraith. She was tired and ill due to her body working to accept the parasite. Then, she grew to enjoy the parasite's company over time and Wraith's presence stopped taking such a toll on her body.
Wraith protected her and she protected him.
"You should go to sleep."
Tessa sighs, rolling around to find a comfortable position. "I'm fine. I'm just watching a little T.V."
"It's a news report on Life Foundation. It's bullshit. It's the last thing you need to be watching," Wraith deadpans. "The news lies all the time."
"Do you think that it'll make me change my mind about you?" Tessa questions, her eyes watching as pictures of the victims of the other symbiotes flash on screen. Dead bodies are slumped over on floors and she sees black, slimy creatures lying limp on the floor.
"I don't want you to fear me, Tessa," says Wraith.
"I don't. I know you won't hurt me," Tessa mumbles, silently thinking of something that she has never asked since Wraith joined her. "Are there any more of you, Wraith?"
Wraith makes a sound that Tessa thinks is one of thinking. "I cannot say for sure. Many of my kind died during their horrid trials."
"What about that reporter who got into the labs. Eddie Brock?" Tessa questions.
"It may be possible that he could be a host, too," Wraith says. "We'll never know for sure, and it is best we leave it that way."
Tessa only hums in agreement, shutting off the television and she lets her eyes drift closed. Wraith goes silent and Tessa begins to fall into a peaceful oblivion when she hears a small crash coming from the living room where her mother is.
Tessa gets up, but she feels a foreign pull on her body. "Tessa, leave her alone. You don't have the energy."
"Just let me make sure she hasn't hurt herself." Tessa knows that her mother is a mess upon waking up after one of her benders. Leah stumbles and falls and wobbles all over the apartment, making messes all over the place. Tessa usually goes to round Leah up and she tucks her back into bed after coaxing her to drink water.
Tessa ventures from her room and down the small hallway, finding herself in the darkness of the living room. "Mom? Mom, are you okay?" She squints in hopes of making out her mother's figure and she doesn't see her on the couch. Frowning, Tessa walks into the kitchen. "Mom? What the hell are you doing?" She hears shuffling and she wonders what she'll be facing this time with her mother home.
Tessa feels something warm and wet on the bottoms of her feet and she frowns, fumbling for the light switch. The kitchen fills with dim light and she spies her mother sprawled in the floor. Her skin is pallid and drained of blood. Said blood is all over the floor, swelling from a bullet wound in her head.
A red dot focuses in on Tessa and she hears a quiet breath in the closet. She's trembling all over and her breathing comes in short, rapid gasps.
"Run, Tessa!"
Her body is flung backwards, the moment not her own doing. She feels Wraith taking over her body, sending her rocketing for the nearest window. Before she can reach the window, she hears screaming men and the whizzing of bullets. She screeches when one grazes by her legs, making her stumble. Wraith, however, doesn't let her fall.
Tessa releases a trembling sob. "Wraith! M-My mom…"
"She's gone, but we're not," Wraith says, flinging them both out of the window. The parasite's superhuman abilities land them in the alleyway between apartment building, but all Tessa sees is flashing blue lights and men crowding both exits.
Red lasers focus in on Teresa and the teenager shakes, her thoughts mingling with Wraith's of how they'll escape this situation.
"Teresa Travis, we are with the United States Department of Warfare. Come out with your hands up or we will not hesitate to shoot," a voice echoes from the streets on both sides of her.
Tessa shakes all over, thinking of her route of escape when she hears Wraith's voice in her head. "I've got us, Tessa. It's gonna be okay." Then, she allows Wraith to take over her body. She feels the black tendrils of the Symbiote to take over, wrapping around her arms and her legs. Then, Wraith's being slowly takes over and Tessa feels comforted by the Symbiote.
"We're going to be okay. Do you trust me, Tessa?"
"Always," Tessa replies, letting the Symbiote take her body over.
She watches the events like a movie. Wraith makes an attempt to escape, but he kills a few men in the process. He dismembers some and others he devours whole- just anything to escape. Then, he's scaling building and sailing through the air, sending him and Tessa far away from the violence behind them.
There are gunshots and Tessa can feel the bullets whizzing by herself and Wraith. A few tear few Wraith and she can feel his pain for a moment before he heals again.
Then, before Tessa knows it, she and Wraith are far away from the violence in a place she doesn't know. Wraith hides them in an alleyway when, finally, he grants Tessa control of her body. The shaken teenager stumbles through the alley, her bare feet stepping on glass and she doesn't know what else.
"This is far enough. We're safe," Wraith says, but Tessa doubts him a little.
Terror and exhaustion takes over and Tessa collapses. She leans heavily against the brick wall of a building, shaking from the cold air.
"You think we are?"
"I know we are."
It's the last thing she remembers before exhaustion pulls her under