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“Stay inside,” Eddie backs away slowly. “It’s okay, I’ve got a lot of water, not very flammable.”
Venom shudders against his liver, huddling under it like a child with a comfort blanket. Eddie draws in a breath, and throws the match.
It isn’t an explosion, not in sound anyway. Just a big, overwhelming whoomp too loud to be actual sound, and a blast of heat that throws them back and burns Eddie’s eyebrows. “Okay! Okay!” Venom is panicking inside him, lashing and clawing up his ribcage like a cat up a tree. “Getting out now. Come on starlight, let’s blow this popsicle stand.”
By the time they break through the fences and stagger out a safe distance, LIFE Foundations is burning. Eddie closes his eyes and draws in breath after breath, scented with sea spray and the lightly falling rain. “Come out, love, the air’s lovely.”
And slowly, oh so slowly it hurts, Venom pushes out. His sleek skin is pocked as though eaten away, his eyes filmed over and blinking and blinking in the rain. He ripples as the water courses over him, flinches where it touches the wounds.
“If you need anything-” Eddie reaches out, gently running fingers over him, tracing around the wounds, “I mean, I can regrow part of my liver, right? And a kidney, I’ve got two. No one uses an appendix, so that’s good-”
“Eddie.” Venom rumbles, and his voice is stronger, clearer. He blinks, and his eyes are already clearly. “Oh Eddie, thank you.”
Eddie stops, hesitates. “You’re- feeling better, darling? Thinking a bit clearer?”
“Yes,” and oh, the sheer relief steals his breath. “Not as before, not yet, but- better.”
“Oh, thank God.” Eddie pulls him in and hugs him, Venom pressing his face against his cheek. “I love you. Thank God, Thank God.”
“Said you wouldn’t care.” He feels Venom smile. “Said you’d be happy anyway.”
“Oh, bullshit.” Eddie wipes the tears away. “I’d love you forever, starshine. Anything, as long as you’re happy.”
“I love you.” Venom relaxes into his arms, winding around Eddie in return, holding each other. “Never leave you, Eddie.”
“Never, my love.” Eddie glances back at the burning building. “Now, lets get out of here before someone realises we torched the place.”
“Annie?”
“Yeah, she’ll cover for us.”
“Annie and- Dan. It was Dan, right?”
“Yeah sweetheart, well done. It was Dan. And Mr Belvedere, but he’s the cat.”
“Good. Still hungry.”
Eddie grins, running down to the water, sweet air, clear water. Together. Freedom.
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