Eat, Eddie...our seed needssss it...

Eddie was busy stuffing his face at an abrupt rate at dinner just a few weeks later, eating the entire dish of complementary bread the waiter had just brought to their table.

"Eddie! It's not going anywhere!"

The brunette looked up, swallowing the last bit of his eighth baguette.

"Sorry babe...I've just been so hungry lately," he smiled gently, the picked up the pitcher of water and downed it.

"Eddie!" Anne frowned, leaning over the table.

Eddie gulped and beltched, covering his mouth with the cloth napkin he had beside him. He apologized to her and everyone nearby.

"Sorry...I was thirsty I guess.." he half chucked.

"I thought you had his eating under control by now, Eddie..."

Eddie shrugged, "...Guess not.." he smiled awkwardly as Anne seethed.

"Damnit, Eddie..." she pouted, spotting the waiter bringing their plates.

"FOOD!" Eddie yelled. The symbiotes excitement bled into Eddie's emotions when Venom was too caught up, and the brunette couldn't stop it—but worse yet—he didn't notice when it happened.

"EDDIE!" Anne yelled as the brunette seemed to want to leave the table and tackle the waiter, "Down, boy!"

"What is up with you?" Anne questioned as they drove back home. The brunette sat in the passengers seat, his hand on his cheek staring out the window.

"Anne...it's not just me in this body...I have to let Venom have some freedoms.."

So we can eat people now, Eddie...? Venom purred inwardly.

"No, Venom. You can't eat people."

Then I have no freedom. You are an asshole.

Eddie chuckled as Venom fussed in his head. He was used to their back and forth, and it actually calmed him down. Although Anne was not pleased, nor was she calm...

"Eddie! Stop talking to your infection and listen to me..."

Hay!

"Hay!" Eddie echoed, "Venom is at very least...a parasite..."

Take it back you bitch!! Venom screeched.

Eddie laughed, "I'm teasing babe..."

Anne turned to look at Eddie who looked just as shocked as she did.

"I...it was a slip..." he mumbled. He looked completely confused as he ruffled his hair. "I'm sorry.."

Anne turned her head stiffly and stared out the windshield. They said nothing else the entire car ride..

"Anne?"

The blonde paused at the doorway, dumping her coat and satchel into the available chair near the entrance.

"Not now, Eddie.."

Eddie stood alone in the living room as Anne disappeared upstairs into the bedroom.

She is angry. Why is she angry, Eddie...? I wonder...if she is jealous... Venom hissed in laughter.

Eddie frowned, hiding his face in his hands. "Shut up, Venom..."

She wishes she were us...We are so close...We are in love...

Eddie's eyes widened, "What...?"

It was starting to happen again. Another warping of his mental state...he felt himself slipping. He was loosing touch of his past...of Anne...

He looked into his hands suddenly, feeling his pores opening and allowing Venom to push through until it filled his hand—with another hand. One mimicking his own.

Their fingers interlocked. The brunette gave a smile that grew from the corners of his full lips.

Do you love us, Eddie? I will always protect us...Always...

The brunette felt a shudder start from his stomach all the way up his spine. He lurched and held his mouth with his opposite hand, his right hand occupied with Venom...

Eddie, it's time...

Eddie gagged, running to the bathroom. He couldn't explain the feeling that was overtaking him as he fell to his knees in front of the toilet, gasping.

"V-Venom..." he sighed weakly.

I am here for us, Eddie...

The sound of Venom's voice helped soothe his mind, but not his body, as he cried out suddenly, doubling over in pain.

"F-fuck! It...fucking hurts!"

Eddie clinched his teeth, grunting as he started gagging again, his body uncontrollably lurching towards the toilet. His body was sweating with the effort as Venom tried to coach Eddie through the pain.

Don't bitch out, Eddie...!

Eddie, half screaming half gaging croaked our, "F-uuck...yo...yo.."

The brunette stuck his head over the toilet and vomited, gasping as he pushed his body away from the bowl, falling onto his ass and up against the wall... his eyes rolled into the back of his head and shut, just as Anne frantically opened the door.

"Eddie! I heard you..."

Out of the toilet stuck out a slimy ball of wet, semi-blackish purple that growled deeply.

Anne screamed at the top of her lungs, waking Eddie up from his sudden nap.

"H-huh?!"

The slime suddenly looked at Eddie who frowned with his brow covered in sweat. "Uh..."

"Sssssssss!"

Eddie...look! It is our child together! Venom purred, already speaking to it telepathically.

Eddie sighed as Anne kept screaming in the background.

"Eddie! EDDIE! Wake up!"

Anne was trying to get the brunette to awaken as the slime crawled all over Brock's body. It was trying to get back into the mans mouth.

"Aah! Get out of here!" She swatted at it, and the thing hissed at her, showing it already had teeth...and a forked tongue.

Eddie! Wake up you bitch, she his hitting out child! I will kill her if you do not wake up!

Eddie's eyes shot open, "N-no..." the brunette sighed, dizzy as he tried to sit up.

But as soon as he did the little symbiote took advantage and leapt into Eddie's mouth.

"ACK!"

"Eddie!" The blonde screamed, watching as Eddie swallowed it.

The brunette looked completely confused, "Make it come out, Venom!" Eddie said, looking frantic.

He is just afraid, Eddie..and he needs a body. Also, he needs a name...

Eddie tried to explain what had happened...but understanding was not easy with Anne. She was a prosecutor...a lawyer and even before she passed the bar, a strong woman who never backed down. Trying to get her to allow something to get past or get over on her, was not a possibility...

This lead to her leaving—again.

Eddie pleaded with her to be understanding...

But the door shutting in his face told him everything he needed to know.

He continued to go to work as usual, after he successfully landed the job. Venom kept him up most nights as he instructed his host how to take care of the small symbiote—who for now was living in the brunettes throat...

Eddie sat up in bed one night, coughing and hacking until a slow stream of black ran down his chin and onto his stomach.

"Bleh..! Damn it, Snake...stop tickling me..."

The symbiote cackled, much akin to Venom's laughter..

He needs a body, Eddie... Venom purred. Get him a body...

"Well I can't kidnap someone to be his...host.."

Find a way, Eddie! Snake needs usss...

It was the most caring the brunette had seen the symbiote since he believed Eddie had died...

"Alright...I might have an idea..."

"Welcome to St. Francis Animal Orphanage.."

Eddie smiled, "Hi ma'am. Could you show me your dogs..?"

The portly woman lead him to a back kennel where the room was full of barking. She showed him several dogs: Golden retrievers, pugs, a small shivering chihuahua...until Eddie paused at a kennel, coughing loudly.

"Ahem...sorry...I think this ones good..Can I see this one?"

Venom had stopped Eddie in front of a large black German Shepard who looked intensely up at Eddie.

"Yes, of course! He's been here a while...I'd love to get him adopted..."

Once the woman disappeared, Eddie grabbed the bars of the cage and opened his mouth, letting Snake run down his lips and out onto the floor where the dog whined softly.

"Don't be afraid...it'll just be for a while.." Eddie tried to soothe the dog, as Snake glued himself onto the dog, finding his way inside through one of the animals ears.

"So were you still interested in Motley?" The woman asked, holding a clipboard.

Eddie presses his hand up against the dogs nose, who was now licking his fingers happily, a forked tongue gripping a finger—unseen by the woman who held the paperwork.

"Can I rename him...Snake?"