Sleeper
“Eddie.”
“Hm?” Eddie didn't budge from the bananas he was currently slicing for the kids, if it were up to Venom they'd eat nothing but junk for every meal.
He felt Venom pull from his body and materialize in full stature next to him making him turn his head.
“What is it, love?”
“We are going to spawn again, Eddie.”
The knife slipped out of his hand and clattered to the floor and Eddie was quiet for a long time. It hadn't crossed his mind but it made sense now that he was thinking about it. When the right conditions were met- a safe environment, plenty of food, a strong host- a symbiote could spawn. The last time they spawned naturally was with Carnage seven years ago. Venom explained to him then that once the spawn existed they were able to copy his genetic code and imprint the genetic material into the new spawn effectively making it half-human if he wanted them to. That had been a Hell of a conversation. The Klyntar reproductive process had nothing to do with sex which was probably good in their case.
“We're having another baby?”
“You sound exasperated about that.” Their eyes narrowed.
"But yes...If you want another."
“Exasperated? Ven! I'm elated! Yes! Yes, of course I want another!”
Venom extended a mess of tendrils towards him and pulled him in tightly, briefly knocking the breath out of his lungs.
“I love you, Eddie.”
He let himself feel the secure enveloping warmth of his symbiote until he heard giggling above his head. The two of them looked up to the ceiling where a purple splat and a yellow and red splat were snickering at them.
“What are you girls doing up there?” Eddie asked the giggling goo on the ceiling.
“Nothing daddy!” Agony stated.
“Yeah, nothing daddy.” Scream agreed.
They dropped to the floor and took their humanoid forms. They stared expectantly with wide white eyes, their features like Venom's but slightly softer and more childlike, they still had their parent’s same sharp claws and fangs though.
“What are you talking about?” Agony inquired.
“You're going to have a new little brother or sister soon.” Eddie explained.
“When?” Scream asked.
Eddie looked over his shoulder at Venom who now was now clung to his back.
“Two months. Maybe three.” They answered.
“Two months, maybe three.” He parroted back to his two daughters.
Scream nodded thoughtfully before Agony shouted “I'm gonna go tell Phage!” and ran off dragging her sister with her.
“Good, the news will spread.” Venom said making Eddie snort.
The weeks passed steadily and he got a pretty good baby bump. The morning sickness this time around was hellish and his back always ached. By the end of the second week Eddie had just resigned himself to waking up everyday with his face in a trashcan and always having to pee. But he did have to admit it was a pretty exhilarating feeling for the two of them to feel their baby move together at the the same time. Well, it was exciting the first few times but now the kid had gotten into the habit of kicking him like crazy. Oh yeah, and the raging hormones made him super horny which for the most part they took advantage of because they weren't going to have the time or the energy after this baby came.
“V, I need you.” Eddie stated pushing his laptop away and lifting himself further onto the propped up pillows against the headboard.
“Need you too, Eddie.” Venom replied.
“No, I mean I need you.” He murmured.
The kids were at school right now and he didn't even get his pants unbuttoned before he was being pushed down onto the bed and having his clothes removed by his other's suddenly materialized muscle-bound full body. He knew that even after all this time there should be something in his primal brain telling him he should be terrified and trying to escape a massive alien apex predator hovering over him to protect himself and his baby but it was V and there was no room left for fear between them. He was never scared.
"C'mere V." He mumbled pulling them close.
Adding to his itching anticipation they started with lazily, slowly making out, relaxed and perfect but he needed more.
"C'mon baby." He breathed out.
Venom moved lower and their long, hot tongue licked and wrapped around his shaft and sensitive head making him shudder. As they did they also moved some attention to his tight ringed entrance. Eddie groped at the expanse of their chest as his breath started coming heavier.
“Hah, hah...Need you now, Venom. Stop teasing me.”
Venom obliged their love by manifesting a familiar appendage of human genitalia the size of which had once been described by Eddie as absurd. Key word being once. Their intimidating hands gliding behind him to cup his ass, as more black tendrils started messaging his balls and sliding under him to start spreading him apart and opening him up. They pressed their cock against his hole for a moment before pushing past his rim and deep into him in one fluid motion making Eddie gasp and moan, adjusting to the size. As he shifted to accommodate it they circled a sharp claw around his areola, the cocktail of pregnancy hormones making him more aroused there than ever. They thrust into him slowly at first as he hissed and burned with the stretch. They formed thick spheres along their shaft and felt Eddie's insides meld and tighten around them as his hips started grinding against theirs, his full lips flush and wet and red from biting them. The bigger he got the more the bump got in the way but they made it work, unless he was too nauseous.
“A-ah, ah, ah!” Spilled out of his mouth followed by a string of obscenities as they settled into a more comfortable pace.
They kissed and nipped his neck and they phased through his body shifting so that Eddie was on top riding them with his hands on their chest.
“So beautiful…” They hummed to him as black tendrils climbed up his belly like ivy.
Eddie’s thighs were quivering against them and the blissed out look on his face told them he was close. His white hot ecstasy racing through his veins and into the core of their being, it made their consciousness swim. With a fractured whine his jaw went slack and he climaxed, gripping their shoulders.
His whole body loosened into languid relaxation on top of them as he rested his hand on his protruding midsection, Venom resting their own over his and twining smooth tendrils around each of his fingers. The moment was somewhat dampened by Eddie’s eyes widening before he stumbled off the bed and raced to the bathroom to puke, their physical connection pulling them along with him.
Other parents had nine whole months to get ready but they only had two (three at best), so they had to cram all the baby shopping and prenatal vitamins into a handful of weeks. They couldn’t get an ultrasound because they emit sound waves at 20,000 hertz which would seriously hurt both Venom and their unborn child. So Eddie relied entirely on Venom to monitor the health of all three of them. Between the constant nausea, general preparations and the other children it was all more or less a blur. It was a gray morning when Eddie woke up to a quiet home, Venom spread over his chest and across the bed.
“Eddie.” His other hummed quietly.
“Yeah, I feel it too.” He rubbed the swell of his stomach.
“We should go now.” His other suggested.
Eddie nodded and reached for his cellphone to make the call they've been waiting two and a half months to make. Within the hour, after receiving many cheek kisses and wishes of luck from Anne, they were sneaking out the door. Quietly thanking Anne and Dan for watching the kids before any of them got the chance to wake up.
By the time they arrived at Alchemax Eddie was starting to feel a cramping, uncomfortable contraction bearing down in his center. Dr. Steve ushered them into the lab and stuck several electrodes all over him. Trying not to focus on the mounting pain he watched as the heart monitor started to beep. Then beep faster. Then beep even faster.
Why was that beeping still getting faster? He felt his heart hammering harder in his chest and it felt like it might pop. The pain escalated and he groaned as he sunk down further on the bariatric bed which was big enough to accommodate Venom’s upper body which has risen behind him. Why was it so hard this time? When Carnage was born he hardly felt a thing.
He didn't think his heart could beat any faster without failing which would effectively shut his whole body down. His breath started coming shorter and his vision started to tunnel. His heart continued to pound and he could feel the unbearable cramping building up in his middle. Dr. Steve was saying something to him but he couldn't hear it, he could only feel the still growing pressure inside him. Every muscle in his body contracted and strained against the pain, clenching everything in him as he curled tightly in on himself. Everything hurt, it really hurt as he tried to breathe through it. Could he have an alien epidural? Did those exist?
"Aaugh!" The pained sob involuntarily escaped him as a particularly rough contraction hit him somewhere during the fourth hour.
"You are doing amazing, my beloved." Venom crooned, running a hand through his hair.
"Shut up. I hate you." He grit his teeth.
Just when it felt like he was going to break apart as another strong contraction quaked through him it happened, a new symbiote emerged and separated from the peak of his belly and Venom reached out to let it slide safely into their arms. The blood still rushed in his ears, he was drenched in sweat and he still couldn't catch his breath but they remained as they were, curled protectively around the newborn symbiote in their arms.
A still symbiote.
Eddie could feel Venom's hesitance as they carefully ran their thumb over the symbiote who upon being touched let out a cough-like noise, twitched and pulled itself into its jet black and electric green humanoid form letting out a loud, shrill cry. Looking unbelievably tiny and fragile in Venom's massive arms the newborn arched his body and opened his eyes- luminous red to his parents' surprise. Eddie grinned, suddenly very emotional, and pulled the baby to his chest who responded by throwing several little threads sticking to his chest and neck.
"I think he knows me!" Eddie gave a surprised laugh, completely forgetting the pain from before.
"Of course he knows you, loves you." They rested their head against his.
The baby's little claws lightly scrapped against Eddie’s skin as he latched on to eat.
"Hey there...Welcome to the world little guy." He greeted rubbing the baby's back gently.
“Your vitals are stabilizing. How's Venom?” Dr. Steve asked.
“We are good.” Venom answered.
“I bet I can get published for establishing an alien Apgar score.” The doctor thought out loud.
“Congratulations you two.” He added with a sincere smile.
They spent pretty much all of the next forty-five minutes just staring at and watching their new child. In their humble and completely unbiased opinions he was amazing and beautiful and there was no other forty-five minute old in the universe more perfect.
"Darling, you both need rest. You are exhausted. That was overly taxing on your body and I have to make sure everything is healing correctly. That is easier when you are asleep." Venom's voice and radiating feelings were gentle, even though Eddie loved their usual personality that was unlike any other more than anything, the gentleness was nice too.
He nodded at their simple but still challenging request of being even an inch away from their newborn. Easily remembering how hard Venom has been working to ensure the safety and health of all three of them under extremely unusual circumstances on top of taking on almost all the parental responsibilities for their other kids thanks to their paranoia that Eddie would "strain" himself (whatever that meant), much to Eddie's annoyance.
Venom lifted the newborn out of his arms and carefully laid him in the bassinet wheeled up next to the bed.
"Pay more attention to him than me, V. He needs you more."
"Won't let him out of my sight." They assured running tendrils through his hair.
"And V?"
"Yes?"
"I don't hate you." He mumbled, his exhaustion starting to get the best of him.
"I know, my love. I always know."
They rested and recovered at the lab for awhile, Venom ridding Eddie of the womb and its components that had resided in their host for the last two and half months. Liz Allen even came down from her top floor office to see them.
“Oh, he's sleeping. Sorry.” She raised her hand up in apology when she saw Eddie was napping after a very strenuous morning.
"I can wake him for a moment if you'd like."
"No, no. I have a kid, I get it. He definitely needs the rest after that experience.”
“Did you come all the way down here to see us or the child?” Venom inquired.
“I may be...mildly interested in the kid. Not everyday we get baby extraterrestrials around here.”
She walked over to the bassinet and inspected the infant.
“Oh, he's little. I thought he'd be bigger.” She admitted.
“Our child is perfect.” Venom informed her.
Upon returning home, after a decent rest and after being told many times along the way to drive more carefully by his other, Eddie all but collapsed through the front door. One of Eddie's arms carrying the diaper bag and one of Venom's arms carrying the car-seat with their newest family member inside as Eddie's other hand pushed the door open. The kids all immediately ran to them at the door prompting Eddie to frantically raise a finger to his lips and the younger four responded by covering their mouths with their hands as they'd been doing since they were very young as a sign of compliance with their father. Neither Eddie nor his other wanted the children startling the baby, it wouldn't be a great first impression. Venom set the car-seat down and Eddie pulled the baby out gingerly and sat cross-legged on the floor. Eddie waved their other children forward and they cautiously approached.
“Can we touch the baby?” Phage asked curiously.
“Yes but be very, very gentle.” Eddie replied, not wanting them to jab the poor kid.
All at once they each slowly placed a single finger on the baby as if it would lead to some profound understanding about their new sibling but the baby, already asleep because being born was probably very tiring, didn't stir. The kids looked mildly disappointed at this lack of response. Carnage even let out a frustrated huff.
Anne raced over silently and clutched Eddie's shoulder excitedly.
“How was it?” She asked him.
“It was like a really long, painful sneeze.” Eddie answered honestly, he was really sore and probably would be for a while.
“Oh, Eddie.” She placed her hand on his forehead.
“What's their name?” She gently brushed the baby's face.
“It's a boy.” Venom and Eddie replied together.
“And?? What's his name?” She asked more excited than before.
Eddie looked to his other who hovered off his opposite shoulder to make sure it was what they both still wanted.
“Sleeper.” Eddie announced his new son's name, his voice dripping with pride.