Confidence
About a month ago Eddie had started referring to them as his spouse, there was no ceremony or fanfare around it, it was just something he suddenly started doing. Eddie was on the phone with his boss when she asked him about his weekend and he said he spent it relaxing at home with his spouse. It had both surprised and thrilled them to no end.
It also made them a little less uncertain about what was coming. But they were still pretty uncertain. They knew this could happen one day, it was typical for Klyntar, but they put it in the back of their mind and ignored it until now.
They were about to spawn.
Searching the Hive Mind they found that it was possible to merge the genetic material of the host with the impending spawn. By following the chromosomal infrastructure of the host species, in the case of humans by merging 23 chromosomes from the host and 23 of their own chromosomes, the spawn could be a Klyntar hybrid.
Choosing this route was something of a rarity with only a small handful of cases in the collective memory of their species. Apparently not very many Klyntar were fond enough of their hosts or of their hosts’ genus to birth hybrids. This method could also come with risk depending on the quality of symbiosis between the Klyntar and host. If the symbiosis wasn’t strong enough the host’s body was likely to reject and terminate a hybrid spawn. That didn’t worry Venom though, they were confident their bond with Eddie was more than strong enough to support a full-term hybrid pregnancy.
Eddie wanted children, they could feel it whenever he’d see a baby or a young child and his neurotransmitters would subconsciously release a shot of dopamine and oxytocin. Besides this neurological reaction he didn’t even know he had there was also a string of memories they both pretended didn’t exist. Eddie never brought it up and Venom never asked, they knew better. About a year into Eddie and Anne’s relationship she got pregnant accidentally. She never planned on or especially wanted kids but Eddie did so she decided to go through with it for his sake. They were in love, they were financially stable, it was more or less a logical step to take. Twelve weeks in she had a miscarriage. She made it clear she didn’t want to try again.
Sometimes the two of them would be making their usual rounds of the city and run into someone victimizing children and Eddie would lose it pretty quick every time. Their host was entirely unaware of Klyntar reproduction so it would undoubtedly come as a surprise and Venom unwaveringly wanted the child to be a hybrid, wanted it to be half Eddie. They knew with an undeniable amount of certainty that Eddie would be a good father and they wanted their child to be every bit like him.
Venom was reminded of how right they’d been back then every time they watched him with their children. Whether he was holding Phage upside down to make him laugh uncontrollably or coloring with Lasher or losing horribly at video games against Carnage or dancing around the living room with Agony or even just soothing their baby to sleep. At the moment they were caught up in the daily chaos of trying to get everyone ready for school. They were holding Sleeper and packing the baby bag for daycare as Eddie was tying up Scream’s unruly hair into a ponytail, something he didn’t know how to do before having daughters.
It didn’t matter what Eddie’s father had said, there was no way this could be wrong.