Part Three
Author's Note: So I'm getting this part out much quicker than I thought. We have a bit of Vee in this one and some more of Raya(inspired by one of my best friends). Hope you guys enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Venom, Eddie Brock or any of the characters within the franchise. I own the original characters and the plot that are not directly tied to the movie.
"Vee, I told you not to do that!" Eddie couldn't believe how fast the night went from amazing to a complete nightmare. He wasn't prepared for the conversation that was to more than likely follow once Emma came to.
"BUT EDDIE!" a deep voice rumbled.
"No! No buts, Vee! This wasn't how she was supposed to find out!" Eddie was ready to rip his hair out. Finally he found a great person, the first person Venom actually took a liking to who wasn't Anne. It seemed it took longer for Venom to move on from the idea of Anne and Eddie ever getting back together. Now it didn't matter because everything wasruined.
"WHAT WERE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? LET THAT TURD HURT WHAT IS OURS?" Venom hissed. "MAYBE IF YOU WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO ME WHEN I WAS TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED!"
Venom continued, "OR MAYBE IF YOU WERE NOT SUCH A PUSSY AND TOLD HER ABOUT US BEFORE!"
"Vee," Eddie sighed. "Telling someone the person they're seeing is host to an alien that has an appetite for bad guys isn't something you just drop on a person. It has to be the right time."
"BUT IT IS NEVER THE RIGHT TIME FOR YOU EDDIE!" Venom growled.
"It doesn't matter now, Vee?" Venom whimpered at that.
The moment Eddie was dreading came quicker than he wished. Emma stirred awake opening her dark eyes and looking around the area in bewilderment.
It took her a moment to remember where she was and what happened.
Emma jumped up only to fall back down because she moved too fast too soon. "YOU," she started while staring at Eddie with wide, fearful eyes.
"Babe, I can explain everything if you give me a chance," Eddie pleaded holding his hand out to help her up.
Ignoring his hand, Emma stood up and looked like she really just wanted to run away. "EXPLAIN?! How do you explain turning into, I don't even know what that was, Eddie! And then completely devouring that man whole?!" She started pacing. "I'm crazy. I must be crazy because there is no way what I saw was real."
Emma was shaking. Her mind was racing a mile a minute with thoughts. All these thoughts that were telling her "I told you so" and "everything is always too good to be true." She felt like she couldn't breathe.
"I'm going home. I can't do this..." She whimpered. There was no way she could deal with this. Whatever this even was.
The look in Eddie's eyes almost killed her. She knew that look all too well from the rejection she's faced in her life. She hated herself for being the cause of that look on his sweet face but she just couldn't bear to find out what happened.
"If it's okay with you, I'll walk you home to make sure you get there safe?" Eddie asked softly. Emma nodded. They walked side by side in the direction of Emma's apartment in silence.
"I'M SORRY, EDDIE." Venom rumbled softly as Eddie walked away from Emma's apartment door.
Eddie sighed, "maybe this is how it was always going to turn out." He turned the corner of her street possibly for the last time. "Maybe it's supposed to just be us, Vee."
The tears wouldn't stop flowing. She felt like she couldn't breathe and every time the tears slowed down she would think of Eddie and the tears would start right back up again.
Raya found her sitting on the floor against the door to their apartment. Stopping what she was doing, Raya knelt down next to Emma and just held her.
"I'll kill him." Raya said. She knew her best friend wouldn't be a sobbing mess on the floor for any other reason. "You know I will."
Emma sobbed even harder and Raya wrapped her arms around her best friend even tighter.
"He didn't do anything," Emma hiccuped while rubbing her already sore eyes. "Well not like what you're probably thinking."
Raya pulled back someone confusion and stared her hazel eyes into Emma's. "If he didn't do any of the number of things that are running through my brain right now, then what did he do to have you like this right now? I have never seen you like this over a guy before."
"I wouldn't even know where to begin because I don't even know exactly what happened." Emma spoke softly unsure if she should even bring up the night's events to Raya. 'What if she thinks I'm crazy?' Emma thought.
"Try me." Raya replied. "We've been best friends for what 10 years if not more? You know you can come to me about anything as long as your comfortable."
"I don't even know where to start, Ray." Emma said. Raya rubbed Emma's back while saying, "probably at the beginning."
Emma turned and glared. "Sorry, sorry. I know. Now's not the time to be a smart ass," Raya chuckled half heartedly. "Take your time. We have all night." Raya said.
Sighing, Emma ripped her jacket off and started toeing the checkered vans off her feet to try and get at least a little more comfortable for what was about to be a hard enough thing to bring up a second time tonight.
She truly couldn't believe her luck. Finally finding a great, no, AMAZING guy and now he's anything but normal. But, what really was normal anymore?
Shaking her head, Emma started. "It really was a great night. You know I'm always telling you how easy Eddie is to talk to right? And how I really felt that things were different with him."
Raya nodded her head listening trying to figure out what could possibly have gone wrong. "So what happened, Em?"
Remembering the first half of the night, Emma couldn't help the smile that crossed her face. "Ya know, I mustered up the courage to ask if he wanted to spend Thanksgiving here together? I felt so silly for asking thinking I was moving too fast too soon. And you know me when I get anxious, I just ramble."
"I do," Raya chuckled. Emma smiles sadly, "and he just sat there with that little grin of his that I love so much and said yes with no hesitation."
"Well." Emma was afraid to even say aloud what happened next.
Raya was confused. Completely. "Not to be a dick, Em. But, how did we get here? It sounds like you had an amazing night so how did it go from that to you walking through the door a sobbing mess?"
Seriously, how did she get here? She still couldn't wrap her head around it.
"We were leaving Battery East Vista and I was going on about what desserts we would have." Emma began. "All of the chocolate. Ya know, I've never met someone who loves chocolate as much as that man does but that's besides the point."
She shook her head hating the next part. "Out of nowhere this man comes up holding a gun and wanting everything we had on us that he could take."
"Oh my GOD?! What the hell, Em. Are you okay? I mean.." Raya trailed off with a mixture of shock and concern crossing her face realizing that was probably a dumb question to be asking right now.
"I know, my luck right?" Emma couldn't help but laugh now. If she didn't laugh she would start crying all over again. "Not really thinking there was any other option, I started to pull my purse off my shoulder to give the man because I just wanted to him to go away. Hoping he would leave as soon as he had my purse in his hands."
Raya listened still trying to figure out how this adds up to Emma being the sobbing mess that walked through their door. I mean she could understand that incident would be a valid enough reason for anyone but she knew it had to be something else. She was afraid to hear what could be worse than that.
"I didn't even get my purse off my shoulder before Eddie was just, he was consumed by this black mass thing. I don't even know what it was, Ray. Just saying this out loud I feel crazy. I have to be crazy because there's no way. HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVEN HAPPEN?" Emma started breathing fast thinking back to what happened and that maybe somehow she made the whole thing up in her head.
She really wished she had.
Ray now more confused than ever squeezed Emma's hand, "Em you're rambling. Just breathe for a minute. What do you mean by a black mass?" Trying to catch her breath, Emma looked at Raya while saying, "Ray, whatever it was it covered his entire body and it was just."
Emma paused. She knew she sounded like she was off her rocker now. And the look on Raya's face, bless her for not interrupting at any point, told her as much.
"The worst part is he ate the guy, Ray. He ate him whole."
The apartment was filled with silence. Complete and utter silence.
Emma was ready to cry all over again as Raya started giggling. Raya stopped as soon as she saw the look on Emma's face. She really didn't mean to laugh but the story sounded like something out of a movie.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to laugh but you know how this is sounding.." Raya bit her lip trying to not sound like an asshole. "Are you sure that's what you saw, Em? I mean maybe from what was happening you.."
Emma scoffed. "I know I sound crazy, Ray! Believe me. I feel absolutely fucking crazy, but, I know what I saw."
"And I'm guessing he didn't explain what was happening?" Raya asked. Emma frowned thinking about everything that happened afterwards. "For starters, I passed the fuck out."
She could tell Raya was about to start laughing again. "Stop that! It's not funny. You can't tell me if you were in my position you would've be standing there calm, cool and collective like it was something that happened everyday."
"Well, you got me there. But, being the lover that you are of horror movies I would think.. Okay, I'll stop." Raya could tell Emma wanted to smack her because she thought Raya wasn't taking her and the situation serious enough. "So what happened when you came to then?" Raya questioned.
"I was horrible, Ray." Emma started crying again remembering the look on Eddie's face because she dismissed him so quickly. "He asked me to hear him out about whatever it is that's going on with him and..I just couldn't, Ray."
Raya wrapped her best friend in a hug again as she sobbed even harder. "Baby girl, why not? We know how great of a guy he is and I've never seen you happier than you've been with him. So why didn't you at least want an explanation?"
Emma looked at her sadly and replied, "I'm scared."
While she still couldn't fully comprehend what it was that happened or even believe it, Raya understood why Emma would be scared.
"Are you afraid of what he could be or are you afraid of being hurt again?" Raya asked. "Because if it's either, baby girl, I don't think Eddie would ever hurt you intentionally." Emma just listened and nodded because she knew Raya was right. "I'm not taking up for the guy because I'd like to kick his ass right now but he cares about you, Em. A lot. You can tell just by the look on his face when he's listening to you ramble on about whatever it is that's on your mind."
Emma looked at her best friend like she was the crazy one now. Raya laughed, "you act like that's so hard to believe that a guy would think you basically hung the stars up in the sky. I've been telling you for as long as I've known you how great you are. It's about time someone else finally realized it."
Raya cleared her throat. "Maybe, you should think about letting Eddie explain himself. Even if it's not right now. Give yourselves both some time to breathe and then reach out to him?"
"But, what if I don't want to?" Emma tried but Raya knew her better than that.
Standing up from the floor, Raya held her hand out for Emma, "come on let's find something to watch on Netflix to try and take your mind off of things even for a little bit."
Emma takes Raya's hand so she can help her up. "Only if it's Stranger Things for the 100th time."
The distraction helped for a little while but Emma couldn't get the look on Eddie's face out of her head.