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Author's Note(s): YAY~! Another update! Awesome, right?! XD Annnnnywho! Sorry I didn't update on Thanksgiving like I wanted to, but HAPPY BELATED TURKEY DAY to all of ya'll anyways and in case I don't say it, Happy Holidays for any other ones that come up that ya'll celebrate! LoL Okay, well that covers it I guess.
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"Thank You For the Venom"
"Struggles Harden the Hold"
Things didn't stay as hectic for too long thankfully enough, and they had been getting along considerably better as time passed. When they had an evening where they'd be able to spend some real quality time together, they agreed to meet up at Harry's place if all their affairs for that day went accordingly.
Harry had arrived at his penthouse (or whatever it is) a few hours before Rose was to show up and start their date, and that gave him plenty of time to get everything ready! He had Bernard make sure everything was clean and then gave the butler the night off; the elder man congratulating him upon hearing that Rose was coming over for a date, before he left.
Lately the young CEO had been feeling a lot more vivacious than usual. When he had the brief time during his day to get some exercise in, he noticed that he had improved in a lot of ways; like his increased strength, speed, endurance, stamina, and heck he was even getting better sleep!
The youth figured that perhaps this was how it felt to be in a good relationship with someone who actually cared about you, and thus never thought to mention it in depth to Rose. And if he did say so himself, he thought he was looking to be in better shape as well! It was too bad Rose couldn't see him naked now!
At thinking that however, Harry ended up blushing and trying to get those kind of thoughts out of his head. They were supposed to be taking things slow and that line of imagination was not really one that he should be thinking about just before their date; even if his mind had been drifting there more often lately. Yeah… definitely not wise he concluded, and then went about setting up.
Once he was sure he had everything in place, Harry went to get cleaned up for Rose, as he wanted to be at his best. Once in the shower, as he scrubbed up, the dark haired lad couldn't help thinking about how Rose was still upset over that symbiote creature having ditched her.
For the life of him, he could not think of one reason why anyone or anything would want to give someone like the ravenette up! But still… where had it gone? If it had found another host, wouldn't someone have heard about it by now? Heck, even Rose hadn't had it long before he'd seen her on the news!
So what was the little ball of goop up to? Harry contemplated a few theories as he began to rinse off. And when he stepped out of the shower and began to dry off, he frowned when he had dried off his leg and felt that it was still very much wet. Or at least that was what he thought it was…
Upon looking down, did he see that his skin was slowly being covered by a pitch black liquid! It was such a shiny looking black, that it appeared to be fluid in texture! And as he watched on in stunned horror, did he realize just where the symbiont had been hiding this entire time!
The creature must have been hiding on his clothes and slyly breaking down his defenses to form longer and longer bonds with him, that were just enough so that it could retreat when it needed to! Huh… he suddenly had a split second ironic thought that perhaps he should have paid more attention when Peter had been telling him about his whole trauma with the alien during that one time they'd spoken about it.
As the inky blackness crept over his skin, every bit of him that it touched was met with a strange sensation! At first it was wet, like lukewarm water was trickling over him. But as it began bonding to him, it felt like oddly enjoyable little jolts of static electricity; as one would feel when they had it built up and were about to touch a person to shock them or when touching one of those weird glass orbs that caused your hair to stand on end!
Harry shivered and slowly backed up until he felt his back against the cool of the wall; frantically trying to rip and tear the pitch-like substance from off of his body as he went, but alas it was in vain! Most of it slipped and squirmed it's way easily through his fingers; like water through a sieve, and the slivers that he did manage to tear off, began to slither their way back onto him!
Frighteningly pleasant tingles rippled throughout his body, that made him bite his lip to suppress a throaty groan despite the seriousness of the situation; his back arching as he had to take a moment to brace himself against the wall. Harry could feel the creature's bond began to take hold and the unwanted realization that there was absolutely NOTHING he could do to stop this was getting harder and harder to ignore as he fought the symbiote for control!
But it would take a lot more than sheer will and brute force to get rid of the alien. In fact, the more he managed to remove, the quicker and more eagerly it spread! Until finally… when he went to cry out for someone, ANYONE to help him, the blackness wound it's way up to his mouth to silence him, and the next thing he knew… Harry Osborn was engulfed in darkness!
Harry awoke with a start in a cold sweat; bolting upright and looking down at himself in a panic! The young man heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that he was completely naked, but that brief moment soon passed as he realized how dark it was… and how he was no longer in his bathroom!
The young man scrambled to his feet and began looking around some more; hoping to find something discernable in the gloom, that appeared to make up the entire room! When he went to take a step forward, he found that his foot felt a little heavy, and upon further tugging, did he glance down, only for his eyes to widen in familial horror!
"Damn it! Not again!" He cried in exasperation; attempting vainly to fight off the black tentacle snaking up his leg and holding him in place, while it's twin bound his other for good measure. In his struggle, he ended up falling backwards. However, instead of hitting the ground, his body fell against something soft and fluid; like the alien bonds that tethered him.
"Now, now little Goblin… that's-ss no way to behave. We jus-ssst want an audience with you." Teased an eerie voice from somewhere a little too close for comfort. And as if to make sure he didn't try to struggle anymore, two more tendrils sprang up from the darkness beneath him to restrain his wrists.
"What do you want with me?!" Harry demanded; his anger beginning to drown out his fear. There was a little pause, then a figure emerged from the shadows. It looked a lot like the Venom version of the symbiote that he'd seen that Eddie Brock fellow with, except it was built similarly to Harry himself; but taller and much more menacingly muscular! It stopped about half a foot from him; hunching down so that they were eye to eye as the tentacles lifted him up like a marionette. Blank white stared unblinkingly into wide emerald.
"You have what we want…" It stated with a hint of embitterment; the white narrowing for a second as it spoke. Harry quirked an eyebrow. Why were crazy people with tentacles always coming after him and demanding things?!
"And what might that be?" Was the lad's skeptical retort. White eyes glowered and it gave a low, warning growl. Then it held up a claw and waved it back and forth.
"Tssssk, tssssk, brat. Mus-ssst be nice or els-ssse you will be punis-ssshed." Harry stared at the creature and unconsciously gulped. Unlike Peter, Harry knew when he was in a dangerous situation and that one should try NOT to piss off the psychotic symbiote (or guy with mechanical tentacles, or really anyone else for that matter) when it had the upper hand, and was probably in control of his body this very second! The restrained former villain hoped it wasn't doing anything bad, and began to feel worried for Rose. Seeing Harry give a cautious nod of compliance, the symbiote grinned toothily; which did nothing to ease the dread he was experiencing.
"That's-sss better. It would appear that our Ros-sse has fallen for you… but we want her! And we will have her!" It said, hissing angrily at the end. Harry frowned, seeing that the alien must obviously feel upset. And though he was not all too fond of the idea of handing over Rose to an insane alien, he couldn't help empathizing with the creature, as he too loved the doctor.
"What are you talking about? Rose has been a mess without you! I know she does a good job of trying to pretend she's fine so she won't worry me, but I see it plain as day…!" Harry confessed; sighing some and shaking his head. That old insecurity began gnawing at him, and he wondered if she liked the symbiote more than him.
The symbiote was stunned! Even though it had been on Harry for all this time, it had been so determined to gain a body of it's own, so as to love Rose the way it so desperately wanted to, that it hadn't thought that perhaps the pretty physician had cared about it more than it had previously assumed!
Sure, it had noticed that the mutant girl was distraught about something, but what with her relationship going so well with the Harry human, it figured it couldn't be related to itself. Obviously it had been very, very wrong… Oh… why did humans have to be such complicated and confusing creatures?
First the males hosts fill it full of anger, hate and general embitterment, and then along comes that fascinating female to expose it to all the positive and much more pleasant emotions! And now that it knew what it was like to have someone care about it, the alien desired more, and from one very specific person in particular!
"We… didn't mean to hurt her…" Fin tucked it's head, and it was obvious the other was indeed quite regretful. Harry couldn't help taking pity on the poor creature; despite how unstable it seemed… not like he was one to talk though. Okay… he could maaaaaaybe kind of see why someone as nurturing and sweet, and so used to dealing with screwed up people (like himself) as Rose, could grow attached to the viscous goop, and possibly miss it.
"Then why don't you just go back to her? I'm sure she'll welcome you with open arms." He offered, but this did not appease the symbiote. It gave a frustrated growl and grasped the sides of it's head as it turned away; shaking it and sinking it's claws into the blackness of it's own face as it spoke in a tone of frantic desperation.
"No, no, NO! We've come s-sssso far! We need this-sss body, so Ros-sse will love us-ssssss!" Green eyes widened; hoping that the symbiote didn't plan on venting out that frustration on him physically as it did to it's own self. He could hear it begin muttering to itself and wondered if he was helping the situation or making it worse. But with his luck, he figured the latter.
"Mus-ssst have her…! Need our pretty flower… but… what if s-ssshe s-ssstill does-sss not want us-sssssss?!" As it debated with itself, going from anger to despair in no time flat and continuing on in a manner of other tones that Harry didn't even know the alien could feel (but figured it must have either picked up or learned from it's other hosts), and watched as it began pacing around on all fours like a lion; it's overall behavior growing more and more psychotic! Harry knew from experience that that was NEVER a good thing for anyone. So, he decided to try and reason with the alien goo again.
"Hold on… let me get this straight… you bonded with me just to use my body?" He figured a question might be distracting for Fin and informative for him. He was indeed curious as to what the other was planning. The symbiote halted abruptly and then slowly turned to him with what must have been a considering fashion.
"Yes-sss…" It said quietly with a curious little hiss. Wondering what the human was getting at.
"But what about me? Am I just going to be stuck here while you live my life?" Harry asked; trying very hard to keep his tone calm, but he couldn't help feeling irritated and down right ticked at the idea of having just gotten his life (for the most part anyway) in order and here was someone or rather some THING trying to take it all away from him! The alien contemplated this.
Apparently it had not thought this far ahead, but it was difficult to think straight when the symbiont's only desire was to obtain Rose and make her it's mate! It had been doing it's best to fight it's own primal urges and the confusing emotions it had acquired from it's hosts, so as to slowly take Harry over in a way that Rose wouldn't notice… and even if or when she did, it had hoped she would love it by then and would accept Fin as she did Harry. But it had grown impatient and decided that tonight was going to be the night it had it's mate!
"We s-sssupose we could do that… we don't really need you anymore." Oh crap! Harry didn't like where this was going!
"You can't do that! Rose will know! And once she finds out what you've done, do you seriously think she'll just be okay with it?!" Harry said; his voice rising as the panic began to rear it's ugly head again. The bound young man couldn't believe the alien would even consider that!
"Hmmm… the Goblin Boy has-sss a point." It said thoughtfully. The symbiote did not wish to do something bad, for it knew that Rose was a good person and she thought everyone should have a choice… after all, she HAD given the alien a choice to have her as a host and had been very patient with it… and it had only ended up hurting her like Peter and Eddie had done to the symbiote… Fin did not like this at all! No… it would not let her down anymore! It needed to make things right with it's mate… but how?!
"Damn right I do!" He agreed huffily; though the various little insulting nicknames the goo had for him did not go unnoticed, just ignored. He wondered if it had some sort of problem with him? Hmm… he surmised it had to do with the creature's obvious infatuation with Rose.
"But… but what can we do?! We need her!" The symbiote said pitifully; it appeared to be on the edge of having another fit. Harry sighed and shook his head a little. And he thought HE had clingy issues when it came to Rose! He was pretty sure the alien had him beat.
"Listen… I have a suggestion that might help us both..." Harry replied calmly with a touch of exasperation. The symbiote seemed to perk up at his words and stared at him with intense interest; one white eye a little bigger than the other like it was quirking a slightly skeptical eyebrow. However, if Fin didn't have Rose here to explain these confusing troubles it had and advise it on what to do, then it would have to settle for what the spoiled brat had to say and hope it helped.
"We are lis-sstening…" And with that, Harry began explaining an idea, and possibly the only mutually benefiting solution he could come up with under the circumstances; the black mass listening quietly all the while. By the end of Harry's explanation, it was grinning widely at him; those wicked teeth gleaming like a mouth full of small blades! Making Harry wonder if he'd made the right choice…
To be continued! DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!
Well, that's the end of this chapter! LOL! Poor Harry! He's always getting it, isn't he? Ah well! At least he's smart enough to know not to poke the bear! XD That's all I have to say for now...
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Until next chapter, tootles!