#venomtm

            IT WAS ODD SOMEONE WAS ASKING TO TALK TO PETER, his name being rarely mentioned as a member of stark labs. the call from the receptionist immediately lifted all the RED FLAGS in his head. eddie brock. he didn’t know if he was supposed to know that name but if he did, he certainly didn’t remember. he tried to calm himself down, repeating that it was nothing but his paranoia acting up. the elevator ride down from the labs never quite seemed so long, anxiety creeping up on peter, no matter how much he tried to keep it at bay.

            he came out of the elevator and immediately spotted who he was supposed to talk to, mostly because eddie kinda STUCK OUT like a sore thumb in the middle of all the lab coats and neatly arranged suits. if he was honest, peter stuck out as well, refusing to use the proper stark labs uniform, justifying to everyone that knew of his little second life, buttons were way too difficult to deal with when he needed to get out of his work clothes quick. 

            ❝   you’re eddie, right?    ❞    he asked, tapping the man softly in the shoulder. he was older than peter, maybe at clint’s age? his FEAR of this being a trap had kinda died down a bit but the situation didn’t seem to get any less weird.    ❝   i’m peter. maggie told me you wanted to talk to me…?   ❞

@venomtm​ said:     gives heugh a, not so sneaky, quick smooch on the cheek.

     𝐚𝐡 , 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 : the residue it leaves upon his cheek is not an unfamiliar sensation of viscosity and a warm wetness as much as it was only somewhat unpleasant only in it’s slight odor     ---     heugh stiffens , unprepared for either . though , what tension he draws into himself , he lets go of it all the same when it’s nothing more . only idly  ,does he wonder what it’s meant to invoke . 

Of all the things to happen tonight, he hadn’t expected to run into Venom. He’d only been following the sound of screams, confused at first to come across thugs fleeing an alleyway, physically throwing guns at something behind them. At least, until he’d come face to face with the symbiote--and now everything made a bit more sense.

Still, criminal or no, eating people was definitely on the wrong side of the law. His shield had left his hand automatically, quick to disrupt the creature long enough to allow the last person to flee, landing and catching his shield to stand between Venom and the entrance of the alley.

It’s almost like Carnage has a lacking concept of staying as a unified organism compared to Venom. They’re a bit more liquid, in a sense. Seemingly dripping whenever the small head lift, the pool of their whole being seem like it could be easier kept in a container of sorts. But even so they look up at Eddie with skeptic eyes, which probably Eddie was the only one able to read - or at least one of very few people. 

But they smiled.

they’d  been  going  at  this  for  just  under  an  hour  ;  talking  back  and  forth — getting their  point  across  in  whatever  way  possible .  in  some  ways ,  the  discussion  was  admirable ,   but  in  other  points   it  was  not.  he  had  nothing  to  lose  &  everything  to  truthfully  gain .   this  was  the  very  thing  that  could  possibly  push  him  forward  &  they  both  knew  it .  if  he  declined  there  would  be  nothing  either  way ,  but  nothing  was  wrong  with  a  deal  &  if  all  else ?  he  could  simply   break   it ,  but  even  then  ky  didn’t  know  how  it  would  go.

breaking  deals  was  not  for  demons  to  do .   it  was  for  those  deemed  far  more   lesser  than  him — something  he  picked  up  from  his  father  &  grandfather  &  yet  it  was  still  possible  to  do  so  if  he  so  wished .   

❛   how  do  you  know  this  will  even  work ?   ❜  question  was  asked  almost  too  defensively  &  while  he  was  still  uncertain  it  wasn’t  the  worst  thing  he’d  done  in  the  past —-  rage &  anger  lead  to  many  things .  up  to  &  most  certainly  mistakes .  mistakes  that  sometimes  forced  him  to  make  very  hasty  decisions.  

 ❛   that  this  isn’t  just  some  idiotic scheme ?  ❜  not  that  it  would  matter  &  yet  his  decision  was  already  made  up  from  the  start .  he  didn’t  need  to  ask  these  questions  &  yet  he  kept  going  on  long  enough  to  talk  himself  out  of  it  & maybe  think  better  of  himself.