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It’d been a rather nice day out with his other, his alien goo monster, his love.
They’d left the house before noon, Venom hadn’t even argued, they’d gotten takeaway fish and chips and ate it by the water, Venom hadn’t even commented on wanting to eat the tiny, trembling dog hiding in the picnic basket not far from them. In fact, Venom was agreeable the entire day, from the moment that he’d woken up – on his own terms, for once – to now, as they walked up the stairs to their dingy little apartment.
It wasn’t just odd, it was downright bizarre. Venom was never that well behaved for an entire day, and it made Eddie sus. The symbiote was in a good mood, there was no sulkiness or irritability about his demeanour at all, which was great, they’d both been focusing on living in the present, together, happy and together. And don’t get him wrong, Eddie was sure as hell not complaining about Venom not being a pain in the ass all day, but he was really goddamn curious as to what was going on. Though not enough to ask and potentially break the good mood and behaviour streak.
As they reached their apartment door, and Eddie patted down his pockets, fumbling about with the keys, Venom started to get excited. It thrummed through Eddie like a current, making his fingers and toes tingle with the intensity of it. Interesting, Eddie quietly thought, curiouser and curiouser.
Finally, he got the key in the lock, wiggled it and forced the door open like usual, only to be showered in pink and red confetti as he stepped through the door.
“What the fuck?”
“TA-DA! Happy Valentine’s Day, Eddie!” Venom cried cheerfully as he formed a head by Eddie’s shoulder.
Eddie’s jaw dropped and his eyebrows nearly flew off of his face in shock as the confetti stopped and he could see the rest of the apartment. It was like a bomb had gone off, a love bomb. Every flat surface was covered in vases of red roses, and rose petals, heart shaped boxes presumably filled with expensive chocolates were propped up against the microwave, the television, a stack of books, vases, and empty pizza boxes. There was a note on the freezer door telling him to ‘look inside’, and when he did, he discovered that their freezer was filled with every flavour of ice cream that would fit in there, meanwhile, sitting on the couch was a human sized, fluffy, brown teddy bear wearing a pink bowtie with little red hearts, and holding a pink, heart shaped pillow stitched with the words ‘Be Mine’. Lastly was the card on the kitchen bench, attached to yet another bouquet of roses, the words went blurry as he read them, a single tear dripped onto Venom’s name at the bottom.
“Why is Eddie sad?” Venom asked, he sounded confused.
“I’m not sad, V. Happy tears…promise…just, this, hah, shit, this might be the most romantic thing anyone’s ever done for me on Valentine’s day, or ever really…” Eddie explained, sniffling and swiping away the wet from his eyes, making confetti fall from his shoulders and hair.
“We did good then?” there was a hope and anticipation in those words that made Eddie’s chest tighten with emotion.
“Yeah, V, better than good…c’mere…” Eddie confirmed as he reached out for Venom’s floating head and pulled him in for a kiss that left him utterly breathless, “I love you, you know.”
“We love Eddie too, that’s why we had to do all this, make sure that Eddie knows we love him, we want to keep him forever, we are perfect for each other,” Venom told him rather sincerely, “…and we are sorry for missing the last human love day, and for making Eddie actually sad cry that day. We tried really hard to tell Eddie we were here, we swear, heart crossed.”
“Hey, hey, thought we agreed we weren’t doing that anymore, no more apologising for time lost, just focusing on the time we have together,” Eddie reminded him, stroking his face with his thumb.
“Yes, but we wanted to make this human romance day special for Eddie,” Venom countered with an air of determination and certainty, “Eddie deserves it, deserves to know he is loved.”
“Fuck, V,” Eddie sniffled, eyes watery again, “you can’t just…just…say shit like that, and do shit like this.”
“But we did,” the symbiote grinned and then started attacking Eddie’s face with kisses, some of them very wet, some included licking, but some were very sweet, and it quickly had Eddie giggling and playfully batting at his head, “Heh, haaa, V-Ve-Venom!”
Thin, black tendrils circled around Eddie’s wrists, and then Venom kissed him properly, his long tongue curling around Eddie’s and sliding into his throat, short-circuiting Eddie’s brain momentarily. He moaned as he kissed back, allowing himself to be walked over to the couch and pushed down onto it, on the empty side, void of a giant teddy bear. Tendrils started to creep underneath his clothes, plucking at his belt, teasing sensitive skin, and Eddie’s reaction was Pavlovian at that point, body already going weak in some areas and stiff in others with lust for the alien goo monster that he loved.
Suddenly though, something occurred to Eddie, “Venom…wait, hang on…how did you do all this?”
“Secret,” Venom grinned, broad and toothy, with a complete torso in Eddie’s lap now.
“Please tell me you didn’t use my card…” Eddie hoped and prayed, on one hand he had no idea how else Venom would’ve bought an apartment full of love tokens, on the other hand though, he knew for certain that there was not enough money in his account to cover all of it.
“We won it!” the symbiote announced proudly, “For Eddie.”
“How did you do that?” Eddie inquired with a raised eyebrow.
“A competition!” he informed Eddie with almost childlike excitement, which was somehow incredibly endearing, “We had to email our favourite radio station and tell them why Eddie should get all this stuff…and they emailed back to tell us we won, and then they delivered all the stuff while we were out. We left spare key under the mat.”
Venom was so proud of himself, and Eddie loved him so much, but… “V, you don’t have an email…” Eddie knew for sure that there were no emails about any radio competition in his own inbox.
“We do now,” Venom stated smugly, his head swaying, tongue lolling with the joyful energy, “we figured out how to make one so we could keep it a surprise for Eddie.”
Oh. Shit, he might cry again, “Y-you did all that for me?”
“Yes, now less talking, more kissing…” Venom instructed, putting a large, black finger over Eddie’s lips, “we aren’t finished with the romance day, there is chocolate and ice cream to eat, and we haven’t made the love yet.”
Staring into milky white eyes, Eddie swooned hard. He could hardly believe how lucky he was to have his other, Venom might be a pain in his ass most days, but he wouldn’t trade his beloved alien goo monster for anyone. Best Valentine’s Day ever.