Marvel 100: Secrets - Peter/Eddie; PG
Title: Secrets
Characters/Pairings: Spider-Man/Venom
Words: 500
Challenge: #6, What if…
Author’s Notes: Written for Marvel_100. Based on the movie!verse, post Spider-Man 3. Second fic for the prompt. :)
What if… Eddie lived?
Secrets
The fact that Peter Parker and Eddie Brock lived together, was perhaps not a public knowledge but it was nothing you couldn’t find out about over a pint of beer with any staff member of the Daily Bugle.
“Such a nice boy, that Peter is” they would say “Not surprisingly, totally gay. Went out with MJ Watson for a while and even Gwen, before… you know... Yeah, that Gwen. Should totally change his taste in men though, that Brock is a scum and not worth him. Gonna end up in tears, I tell you.”
The fact that Spider-Man and Venom were more than former-enemies-turned-allies was something a handful of people were privy to. Superheroes were not a group to gossip around, at least not with the outsiders, so for almost a year after Venom’s R&R (return and rehabilitation), they had a nice, safe status quo going on.
On top of that, they were careful. Peter too painfully had found out what happened when villains knew your secret identity and while he wasn’t afraid for Eddie, he had too much to risk, to let such piece of information out. They didn’t touch each other. They tried not to work together, even having separate sectors to patrol and watch over. Pet names of any sort were absolutely forbidden. If they spoke to each other, especially in front of civilians, they’d actually tried to sound slightly hostile. Even around people who knew about their little secret, like Fantastic Four, they tried not to be too affectionate. You never knew who could be watching.
The day the news of their relationship made the front pages of every newspaper on the East Coast was an utter shock, especially that it also made the frost page of Daily Bugle - a newspaper that was hiring them both.
It took them a week of thorough investigation to find out who let it slip. Johnny Storm had finally broke down under ‘Venom’s Glare of Toothy Doom’ and admitted that “he might have mentioned something to Amanda the other day.” Only the fact that Sue Richards was present in the room with them and surrounded her brother with her force-field, saved Johnny from any permanent injuries.
Wherever they went now, they were surrounded by a flock of journalists that were demanding from them to deny or confirm the rumors. One particularly nosy journalist had even went as far as staging an assault on herself, to get closer to them. When Spider-Man saved her, she threw herself at him, babbling something about War World Two and YouTube and Nascar… bottom line was - it stopped being funny and started being scary and dangerous. Something had to be done.
They had called Sue and asked her to arrange an interview for both of them. If they couldn’t keep it a secret, then at least they could use it on their advantage, especially since JJ already had a whole series of “How Kinky You Have To Be To Sleep With Venom” articles planned.
Characters/Pairings: Spider-Man/Venom
Words: 500
Challenge: #6, What if…
Author’s Notes: Written for Marvel_100. Based on the movie!verse, post Spider-Man 3. Second fic for the prompt. :)
What if… Eddie lived?
Secrets
The fact that Peter Parker and Eddie Brock lived together, was perhaps not a public knowledge but it was nothing you couldn’t find out about over a pint of beer with any staff member of the Daily Bugle.
“Such a nice boy, that Peter is” they would say “Not surprisingly, totally gay. Went out with MJ Watson for a while and even Gwen, before… you know... Yeah, that Gwen. Should totally change his taste in men though, that Brock is a scum and not worth him. Gonna end up in tears, I tell you.”
The fact that Spider-Man and Venom were more than former-enemies-turned-allies was something a handful of people were privy to. Superheroes were not a group to gossip around, at least not with the outsiders, so for almost a year after Venom’s R&R (return and rehabilitation), they had a nice, safe status quo going on.
On top of that, they were careful. Peter too painfully had found out what happened when villains knew your secret identity and while he wasn’t afraid for Eddie, he had too much to risk, to let such piece of information out. They didn’t touch each other. They tried not to work together, even having separate sectors to patrol and watch over. Pet names of any sort were absolutely forbidden. If they spoke to each other, especially in front of civilians, they’d actually tried to sound slightly hostile. Even around people who knew about their little secret, like Fantastic Four, they tried not to be too affectionate. You never knew who could be watching.
The day the news of their relationship made the front pages of every newspaper on the East Coast was an utter shock, especially that it also made the frost page of Daily Bugle - a newspaper that was hiring them both.
It took them a week of thorough investigation to find out who let it slip. Johnny Storm had finally broke down under ‘Venom’s Glare of Toothy Doom’ and admitted that “he might have mentioned something to Amanda the other day.” Only the fact that Sue Richards was present in the room with them and surrounded her brother with her force-field, saved Johnny from any permanent injuries.
Wherever they went now, they were surrounded by a flock of journalists that were demanding from them to deny or confirm the rumors. One particularly nosy journalist had even went as far as staging an assault on herself, to get closer to them. When Spider-Man saved her, she threw herself at him, babbling something about War World Two and YouTube and Nascar… bottom line was - it stopped being funny and started being scary and dangerous. Something had to be done.
They had called Sue and asked her to arrange an interview for both of them. If they couldn’t keep it a secret, then at least they could use it on their advantage, especially since JJ already had a whole series of “How Kinky You Have To Be To Sleep With Venom” articles planned.