The Spider

Med Bay Again.

Ray POV

It's been a week and there is still no sign of Dan. They've started looking for him out of state but I can't get over the fact that he would leave at all. Let alone more than out of the city, and definitely not out of the state.

But that's where they are looking.

Last week, Bruce needed me to eat, so he bribed me. If I ate, they would try to find away around the stitches. Bruce had this theory that if I just had the energy, my Spidey powers would somehow miraculously start working. 

Two days of eating three meals a day later, things started to randomly heal. Not nearly as well as they used to, but they were healing.

Today, Bruce released me from med bay. 

The first thing I did was head to the apartment. I haven't came out since.

Maybe if I sit in our bed and put on his jacket, he'll come back.

But what if he doesn't want to come back?

The thought brings tears to my eyes, but I refuse to believe it. He wouldn't just leave me like that. At least, I don't think so. 

I look at the clock. 9:30 P.M.

This is usually when Bruce would come in with my night meds. The same pills are on my dresser right now, but I just stare at them. 

They started me on them because of night terrors. I didn't even know I was having them until someone told me I was screaming in my sleep. The next day, it was thrashing. After being told this, I refused to sleep. What if I hurt someone else or myself?

Bruce didn't like this mentality, so he put me on the sleeping meds so that I'd have to sleep. 

But he's not here. I don't have to sleep.

So I don't. I try turning on the T.V., but it's too loud.

Instead, I just remain sitting on Dan's side of the bed. Wrapped up in his jacket. 

A tear involuntarily falls. Followed by another. I don't stop them because maybe this is what I needed. Just to cry. To let it all out.

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Dan POV

Venom is killing me.

Okay, he's probably not killing me. 

The amount of energy needed to support both of us is killing me. 

I was doing fine. Avoiding cameras. Letting Venom take over for food. Keeping quiet and out of sight. 

Then what happened next was kind of my fault.

I got home sick. I missed Ray. More so than before. And I kinda shut down. 

I tuned out Venom, a trick that I didn't know I had until I tried it, and I sat on the roof of an office building for two days. 

It had high ledges and no cameras on the roof. I just kind of sat in the corner of the area until today, staring into space.

Until right now. 

Venom gained back control.

Are you completely incompetent? You are killing us! You stopped letting me get us food, you block me out, and you just sit us up on this roof for two whole days? I would kill you if finding a new host wasn't so hard. Do you hear me Dan? I would kill you!

I let out a sigh, "Go away Ven."

Oh, you see, I would. I would gladly leave. EXCEPT THAT I'M STUCK TO YOU AND YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL US!