Eddie Brock and Demon Venom: MINE

Chapter Seventeen

"Eddie, what the hell is that?!" Anne shrieked, clinging to Dan.

"Well, he's—"

"I am Venom," Venom said with a wicked smirk. He enjoyed seeing the fear of the couple's faces. It fueled a predatory instinct in him and Eddie could tell.

"Okay," Dan said quietly and his breathing was a little shaky. "Um....this was certainly a surprise."

"Yeah, sorry about that," Eddie said with a nervous little smile. He was quite surprised how well they were taking it though. He had excepted at least one of them to faint or scream. It seemed as if they were made out of tougher stuff than he had previously thought.

"So....so he won't hurt us, right?" Dan asked.

"Nope. You're good," Eddie said, giving a look at the demon. Venom only chuckled and crossed his arms across his muscular chest.

"Um....so...so this is very um, it's a lot," Dan said. "Uh, so...so this is Venom?"

"Yep."

"That's why you were acting all funny?"

"Yep."

Dan looked up at the demon in curiosity, Venom regarding him the same way.

"Um...can....can I touch you?" he asked hesitantly. Venom smirked.

"You may," he replied.

Dan carefully reached up and touched a bulging bicep muscle and his eyes widened.

"Wow. What are you made out of?" he asked curiously.

"A liquid-like gelatin fused with a gummy sort of tissue. I don't know what it's called but you humans like to call it "skin"," Venom said.

"Um...so can you, like, speak to each other telepathically or something?" Dan wondered, stepping back. "I'm very curious to see how this works."

"How are you not scared?" Eddie asked, still amazed by the man's reaction.

"I guess the curiosity outweighed the terror," Dan said with a smile.

While Venom spoke to Dan about the perks and cons of being able to work with Eddie and how they operated together, Eddie decided to talk with Anne. She still sat against the couch with her eyes fearful and unbelieving.

"Anne? You good?" Eddie asked timidly.

"Yeah...yeah, I'm just trying to wrap my mind around....a demon?" she said in a hushed voice.

"Yeah, I never thought about this type of thing either but, I mean, it's not all that bad and Venom's not an evil demon."

"Wow. So, like....let me get this straight...you're a thing, right?"

"Something like that, yeah."

"Wow. Different...."

"Yeah, yeah, it took me a while to get used to having him around," Eddie agreed.

"How did you guys even meet?" Anne wondered.

"Umm..." Hearing Eddie's hesitation, Anne grew nervous, which was weird because Anne never got nervous.

"Are you safe? Does he threaten you?"

"Of course I don't!" Venom snorted once he heard that. "I take excellent care of Eddie. We are—"

"In a relationship," Eddie finished for him, trying not to get any ideas into Anne or Dan's heads about the demon and him supposedly being more.

"Eddie, you know that we are not just in a relationship," Venom smirked.