A/N: Sorry this update is shorter.
Venom/Lilith, making out, alien tongue stuff, impreg, you know where this is going.
Part three
Her dreams are chaotic. A white room with too bright lights that smells so sterile her nose burns. She tries to ask what's happening, but her body won't respond. All she can do is dart her eyes around frantically.
What the fuck is going on??
She looks down as best she can and screams in horror as black tendrils crawl across her chest. Some part of her mind says not to worry, but she doesn't hear it. Panic has set in and she tries to squirm away while her body ignores her commands.
Mine
The room dips and twists, warping into a deep black so dark she feels blind. Her body moves now, but there's nowhere to go.
"Hello?"
She speaks and immediately feels stupid. There is no one here. She's just hearing things, her own thoughts echoed back. She is alone. Always alone.
Liliiiiith
Or maybe not. A voice hisses from somewhere in the darkness, both in her ears and her mind. She clasps her head trying to decipher anything, but her brain feels like mush.
Liliiiiith
The voice whispers again, this time white hot fire dances through her neurons. She screams, at least she thinks she does. Muscles rip and tear, her skin melts away. And then she is the darkness. The pain subsides and for the first time she can remember she feels at peace.
Mine
Lilith says nothing of her nightmares. She's no stranger to clairvoyance and has no doubts her brain and guides are trying to tell her not to do this. When did she ever listen to them?
Eddie seems to know something is off, but he doesn't bring it up. Maybe he understands. Maybe he has the dreams too.
"I'm going to stock up. You'll be hungry." He smiles, but there is something behind it. The reflection of some unspoken fear in his eyes. Lilith wants to ask, but she's still so tired. She can't dissect his emotions right now so she lets it go. He kisses her cheek and hovers there a moment. Breathing in her scent? Feeling her skin? She isn't sure. "Stay close, yeah?"
She nods. "Be safe." Once shes alone she takes stock of the apartment, her body buzzes with anticipation and she can't sit still. It's fairly clean, but enough that she can busy herself straightening up a little without using too much energy.
That kills about ten minutes. She grumbles to herself, she hates fidgeting. Unable to bear the quiet of the apartment she flips on the TV. Eddie had left it on the local news and she watches a few stories on current politics before it loses her interest. Looking around the apartment blankly she counts the claw marks, the holes in the wall, the broken tiles, all the signs that something inhuman lives here. Would soon live in her.
Her stomach drops at the thought. Eddie was clearly bothered by it, should she be? She breathes heavily fighting away the memories of her nightmare, suddenly the air feels too thick to process. She coughs again and again. Her throat growing raw. Copper coats her mouth and she swallows, trying to be rid of it. Her body goes limp, too weak from the lack of oxygen. She really should have gotten that damn oxygen machine.
Her vision turns fuzzy. She loses concept of time. It could have been seconds or hours that she lays in the couch cushions gasping for air, too weak to even reach her phone for help.
Something in reality catches her attention. A voice. No, a name. Venom.
"...the creature known locally as "Venom" has been spotted around the Bay Area. We have a lot of questions coming in about him." Her eyes focus momentarily, enough to make out the white haired news anchor as he spoke.
Another man, younger, this one smaller in a tight fitting black suit interjects. "Yes, like what is it and what does it want?" He puts an elbow on the table, pointing his hand at his co-hosts. "We know nothing about this thing. Someone who looks a lot like it massacered dozens of Life Foundation employees masquerading around as Carlton Drake." Another host, a blonde woman goes to speak and her cuts her short. "It could be anyone. And that is terrifying enough."
Its quiet on the set, someone coughs in the background and the older man takes a shaky sip from his mug. Idiots. If only the knew Venom like I do. Finally coherent she takes a few slow breaths managing to keep the tickle in her throat at bay long enough to sip some water. Glowering at the television as she does.
They aren't wrong. Venom is a terrifying creature, but only because he wears his darkness proudly. He doesn't hide from his nature, doesn't pretend to be anything other than himself. Lilith respects that about him. Humans are too good at wearing masks for her comfort.
The doorknob rattles and Eddie walks back in with an armful of groceries. She must have been out of it for a while. "Hey babe." He greets, kicking the door shut behind him. He sits the bags on the counter. Lilith hobbles over to him, eyeing the meat feast warily. She isn't vegetarian, has nothing against meat, it just doesn't particularly agree with her. The texture is just, yuck.
"Trust me, you're going to want these." Eddie smiles wryly as he fills a drawer with raw steaks. Lilith grits her teeth, maybe the hunger would make it more palatable.
"I think we're going to have to do it soon." Lilith leans on the counter, the few feet from the couch to the kitchen felt like miles. Yesterday had been a huge mistake. Her damaged system can't recuperate.
Eddie blinks hard. "I'm so worried for you. I just need you to know that." He pulls her to him, abandoning an epic ton of hamburger meat on the counter.
"Either way, Eddie. I'll die trying to do this or I'll die from oxygen deprivation. Pick your poison." She holds him close, the harshness of her words lost in the smallness of her voice.
"I know. I wish you had told me." He strokes her hair pulling a few tangles loose from her wild curls.
"Denial is a bitch." Lilith shrugs. "I didn't even go to a doctor until last week, saw the specialist yesterday. Hashtag adulting." She shakes her head knowing how stupid that is. She had known for a long time that something was wrong and ignored it because who had time to be sick?
"Let's just do it." She spurts it out thoughtlessly, just needing to get it over with. She could cope when it was over, the suspense is killing her faster than the cancer is. "Just...put an alien baby in me, I guess." She bites her tongue after saying it, but that doesn't stop Eddie from smirking at her. Or maybe its Venom. A moment later her question is answered, Eddie is engulfed in a sea of black and Venom stands before her. Like he had been waiting for her to ask.
"Relax." He cups her cheek, leaning on one arm over her against the cabinets. She inhales deeply as their faces level. Memories wash over her. That first night together. The other nights that followed. The first date incident. "It may be uncomfortable as your cells assimilate. Just remember it will be over soon." Lilith swallows hard trying to drown those memories out.
You're about to be an alien baby host maybe pay some fucking attention.
He's so strangely careful with her. Pulling his teeth in he caresses her lips with his tongue and she parts them. His tongue dances with her own and she moans involuntary. He purrs in response, one hand sliding to her hip and lifting her onto the counter. They kiss harder, longer and Lilith pulls him close. Another reason, another purpose. She needs them. A sharp pain in her tongue and a taste that was undeniably alien as their tongues writhe together. He pulls away after a minute, pressing their foreheads together.
Lilith pants for a few moments. Kissing Venom was always intense, but this was a whole other level. Somehow her arms wound about Venoms shoulders in a lock they refuse to release. "Is...that it?" Venom nods, still touching his forehead to hers.
"You will feel it in a few hours. We will be here. For now, sleep." Venom pulls her close and carries her effortlessly back to bed. The sun shafts look like its mid-afternoon. Christ, how long had she been semi conscious on the couch? Venom lays her gently in the sheets, positioning her on the pillows and curling up behind her.
"Thank you." She speaks in the quiet. "I get the feeling that was really important."
"Yes. Sleep now. Need your rest." He strokes her hair until exhaustion catches up and she begins lightly snoring.
A/N: Procreation theory based on me pretending to know things. I own nothing, I am nothing. Call it AU if it makes us feel better. Part four in editing!