So, this has been sitting on my computer for a while and I am ashamed to say that I have neglected it. I didn't want to post this at first because I wasn't overly keen on the ending. But the story needs to have this satisfying bookmark. So after much deliberation, I hope you guys like it!

WARNINGS FOR A DETAILED BIRTH - BE IT ACCURATE OR NOT

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DAY 7~

The three of them watched movies for most of the evening, completing the original Star Wars trilogy. It was only at one in the morning that Dan had woken up from the sound of a car horn outside of the building. He, along with everyone else must have fallen asleep in front of the TV. Wary of the those still sleeping, he got his coat together and put his shoes on. He gave Anne a kiss on her forehead, whispering in her ear as she stirred awake, "I'm going to go. Call me if you need me."

"Thank you." She replied under her breath.

"I'll come back as soon as I can." He promised before leaving for his car. He gave Anne a kiss at the door and left.

Anne watched over Eddie as he slept, watching his face scrumple every so often, it almost looked like he was in pain, but still sleeping. She debated with herself as to whether she would wake him up and ask him what was the matter but decided against it. She assumed that Eddie would need to rest for as long as he could. Instead, she covered his sleeping corpse with a blanket before relaxing back into her own chair.

It didn't take long for the pain to escalate, waking Eddie up. Instead of recognising such pain for what it was, he slipped into the bathroom; mistaking the cramping sensation for a marvellous warning to end his constipation. He sat in the bathroom for quite some time with no luck.

"It's gotta be indigestion," he sighed, rubbing his stomach. "I knew it tasted too good not to come back." He rocked and breathed through the pain that surged in his lower back. He began to panic when his plug fell out, in pieces. At first, he'd been petrified but remembered reading about the 'bloody show', and he distinctly recalled all of the images he'd scoured through. Eddie persuaded himself that this still wasn'ttime.

In the mirror's reflection, Venom spoke to him,"Eddie, stop being a fool. You know what this is."

"You've gotta be shitting me." Eddie groaned. "This is- I can't-" He began to hyperventilate and panic.

"Calm down. You will be fine."For some strange reason, Venom's words served little comfort. Having repeatedly told Eddie of the horrors associated with giving birth, his panicked reaction was rather reasonable."I assume that this is only the very beginning."

"My water hasn't broken." Eddie stated, raising doubts. "and these contractions aren't that bad."

"Do you believe everything that you've seen on TV?"

"Hey! I did my research, I just...I don't know what's happening." He said, afraid of his own body. "Now that it's started, I want it to be over." Now came the worst of it all, lying in agony for their child to be born. "Maybe you could just get the ball rolling? Or pull it out – yeah! Do that." He exclaimed.

"This child will arrive only when it is ready. Your species gives birth over a matter of hours, I do not believe that this will take long."

"You don't know that-" Eddie gripped the sink, another contraction was brewing, only slightly more painful than the last. It faded again just as quickly as it arrived. "That was alright, I don't get what the big deal is."

"Oh, this is just the start!" Anne laughed from the doorway, "Dan's taught me a lot over the last two days, and you my friend are yet to brave active labour. So don't get cocky." Anne lectured. "How far apart are these contractions?" She donned a brave face, giving the allure that she knew exactly what to do and wasn't at all scared.

"Not sure."

"Alright, well, this is it Eddie." She cupped her hands in a celebratory fashion. "Dan taught me some birthing exercises, better late than never." She and Eddie took to the living room, "There's a few stretchers you can do, if you want to try them?"

"Yes?" Eddie replied, unsure. He lowered himself onto the floor beside Anne but grabbed a pillow to sit on. "Yes." He asserted.

"Right-" She paused, reliving the night before last when Dan had effectively demonstrated the best stretches and exercises, and their effectiveness. "I can't really remember what they're called, but there's this one." She instructed, tucking her knees under her body and resting her head on stretched arms.

"I don't really see how-" He questioned, shortly stopping himself. Instead of raising any queries he simply complied. He couldn't be sure as to whether he was doing it right, but blood began to rush to his head, which was not a good sign. "Next?"

"We can try squatting." Anne replied, all too peppy.

"Yeah, about that…I'm too heavy to be squatting on the floor." Eddie denied all possible chances.

"I'll help." Eddie rubbed his brow and shrugged. He had nothing to lose by humouring Anne, so gave it a shot. He squatted and Anne held him by his arm pits, wary of his weight as to not rely on Anne so heavily. "That good?" She asked, getting the impression that her methods were shaky at best.

"Yep-" Eddie groaned, "No, just put me down." He asked, legs giving way under his own weight. "Anne, I don't know if these are-" She cut him off enthusiastically.

"One more! Come on." Eddie couldn't say no, it was physically impossible to reject anything Anne wanted from him. He sighed a 'yes', "great, this one should be nice and easy." Anne demonstrated the next stretch, Eddie followed closely behind.

"What are you doing?"Venom looked upon the situation skeptically."You look ridiculous."Eddie felt pretty stupid, on his hands and knees arching his back.

"That's it, I'm done." Eddie stopped at Venom's mocking laughter. "Here comes another one," Eddie held onto his stomach, rubbed his bump calmly and rode out the small surge. "Not bad." A little more painful than some before but seemed to last a little longer. For now, he was very much in control.

"That brings us onto breathing." Anne begun," you probably think you know how to breathe, but I'm going to teach you how to breathe properly!" Eddie sighed, not seeing the end to these trials. "Don't give me that."

"Alright, I leave my lungs in your hands."

"The word 'relax', if we split it into two, 're' breath in, and 'lax' breathe out." Eddie tried the tactic, and after a while he did in fact feel more relaxed, and his breathing became stable. It came close to a meditative state. Although he couldn't see this helping much when the agony was much too assaulting to chill. "The next one is to count your breathing, making sure that the exhale is longer than the inhale." Eddie did as he was told, this felt slightly more doable in the right circumstances.

When the next contraction bubbled up, Anne coached Eddie through it, having to remind Eddie to breathe through his nose and out through his mouth. Although, he did remarkably well, and found the knowledge and practice helpful.

Two hours had passed since then, and things were progressing rapidly. "God!" Eddie cried. "That wasn't five minutes." He squatted, holding onto the island in the kitchen. It'd been far too uncomfortable to sit or lay down, despite Anne's constant nagging for him to relax.

"It was four and a half." She read from the timer on her phone, "this is good, at this rate, you'll be pushing that baby out in no time." Anne couldn't do anything to ease his pain which put her in a difficult position. "You should let me have a look." She pleaded.

"No-" He exhaled, "not yet." The contraction released and he could finally think. He didn't want Anne to examine his progress because of his oversensitive sense of pride.

"You have to let me at some point, Eddie. Whatever you've got going on downstairs is nothing I haven't seen before?" She smirked.

"Mnn, well, last time you saw me I didn't have a-" Eddie froze, as if somebody had taken a pin to an imaginary waterballoon he held between his legs; a sudden sweep of water gushed from his canal. "That was-that-" he stuttered.

"What is that?"Venom grimaced.

"Your waters have broken!" Anne gasped. She could see Eddie become bashful as his bottoms became saturated, "it's okay. I'll grab you some more pants." Anne rushed away to the bedroom to grab a dry pair of trousers. "I'll help you." Anne helped pull down the soggy pants and Eddie held an arm around her shoulders for support. The contractions had weakened his legs and he was quite tired. Anne hadn't expected the water to still be running out from between Eddie's legs. "I don't suppose you have a night gown or something?"

"I don't mind being wet." Eddie would rather be soaked than to go commando. "It's like I'm peeing but can't control it." He grimaced as the water continued to leak out slowly.

"That's disgusting."

"It must be so weird." She admitted. "I'll put down some towels."

"wait-wait." Eddie closed his eyes and held his breath. Another contraction hit and Eddie felt like killing himself to end the suffering. "I'm not doing this again, asshole." He bit out. Anne lowered him onto the sofa.

"Remember to breath, you'll pass out if you carry on doing that." Eddie didn't want to breath. He wanted to keep his body as tense as possible to block out the pain. "They're really close together, I really think that I should take a look."

Eddie nodded his head, finally realising that he needed Anne's help more than anything, as the pain settled, Anne stripped off the second pair of pants. "I'm glad that it's you doing this, not Dan." He laughed weakly.

"Try not to become aroused."

"Was that a joke, you sick fuck?" Eddie shook his head, unable to comprehend Venom's sense of humour. "I'm glad you can't hear him."

"I've never done this before so bare with me." Anne tried to move past Eddie's new orthosis, so he wouldn't become self conscious. It was all so startling. She didn't ever consider for a moment that this is where her life would take her; helping her ex-fiancé to give birth to an alien baby. Nevertheless, she did what she felt is right and inserted her fingers into the faux vagina.

Eddie covered his eyes and breathed slowly through the procedure, "If I'd have to guess, maybe seven centimetres dilated?" She wished that Dan were here to take over, as his teachings were hard to follow and implement. "You should think yourself lucky, some women are in labour for days."

According to Eddie, the next hour passed like a week. He huffed, groaned, and belted in agony as the contractions began to stampede. The water continued to dribble, but Anne chased after Eddie mopping it up as he walked laps. Eventually he could barely catch his breath between them; each rolling in every two minutes, lasting forty seconds. At this stage, Anne had dragged Eddie to bed and made a hug of water, keeping Eddie hydrated was a big priority given how much he was perspiring.

"I think I need to push." Eddie noted a transition away from the contractions which brought along a different kind of pain accompanied by a deep-set pressure. "Yeah, this is it. Pushing time." He assured himself.

"Right. Okay." Eddie had refused all advise to lay down, instead he insisted on squatting, holding tightly onto the island kitchen counter. Anne spread out the towels to catch anything that should drop from between Eddie's legs.

"It's like I'm trying to crap out a watermelon," he revealed after the fact. Eddie yelled as this new pain whipped along his body. He trialled his body's new instinct to push, gripping his legs and baring down. Things took an unprecedented turn as Venom began to rattle under Eddie's skin almost as if they were being pulled apart. Eddie knew it was happening but couldn't defeat his urge and stop.

At the crash he gasped for air, "what's going on?"

"I do not know. Just keep pushing, our son is almost with us."Venom could feel their cells split forcibly, just like the reaction to sound frequency. As absurd as it, it was almost as though Eddie was pushing Venom out of his body along with their child and had no way to pull back.

"Eddie, just keep going. You're doing so well. I'm so proud of you." Anne encouraged. She understood very little of what was happening, but things were in full swing and Dan was indisposed. "Eddie, don't forget to breathe, remember, like we practiced-" About now all he solidly knew how to do was recite her breathing mantra.

"I know how to fucking breathe!" Eddie stressed through a tightly drawn jaw. He'd instantly regretted the remark, "sorry. I'm sorry." He took several deep breaths in the small gap between the this and the next contraction.

"It's alright. Yell, curse, swear at me all you need." She stroked his back soothingly, at this moment in time, she was surprised that Eddie wasn't throwing abuse any which way to cope with the pain. She had such empathy for his condition, seeing Eddie's strained expression, his sweat soaked shirt, and vein rippled legs.

"It's not you who I should be pissed at-" Eddie bore down, teeth grinding together as he pushed. "Parasite!" He cried, louder than expected, in a mighty exhale. He quickly recovered the oxygen which fuelled his wrath. Venom screeched as a string of tendrils shot across the room, being rejected by Eddie's body. As the contraction elapsed, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and the streamlines that'd dribbled down to his cheeks, stay with me, bud." Eddie wasn't sure if he could pull through without Venom's presence.

"I will not leave. We will pull through together."Venom knew what Eddie needed to hear right now, never usually lying, but it was better than letting Eddie worry.

Eddie pushed again and again, each time the bond to Venom becoming even more fragile. Anne kept him focused, egging him to continue through because, 'it'll all he okay in the end'. With the next few attempts came a fiery burning sensation; he could only compare his canal to the vent of a volcano. "I can see the head." Anne cheered, seeing a thin layer of brown hair hidden beneath bloody mucous. Regardless of Anne's encouraging words, spitting remarkable progress, Eddie felt as if he was stuck in

"Tired...so...tired." He panted. He'd lost count of how long he'd been pouring his energy into bringing his child into the word. "Can't do this anymore." He rested his forehead on the cool of the worktop. With Venom barely hanging on, Eddie felt so fatigued, like all his life forces were running at 2%.

"You can not give up."Venom needed Eddie to continue, but it was easier said than done. Without the healing and numbing effects that Venom passed along, Eddie was struggling to gather the strength he needed."Our son wants to be born."Venom couldn't offer any help, with all focus going to staying connected. Right now, Venom had a web spread across the area Eddie held, helping to grapple Eddie down, so he couldn't collapse.

"You don't have much of a choice, this kid is coming whether you like it or not." Anne put firmly.

"Okay-okay." Eddie went with what his body was tell him and pushed when the next contraction flooded his senses. He used all of his energy to ride through the next few contractions, crashing hard each time they ended. Through heavy breathing and whimpering he managed to muster up just enough energy for one final push.

"You can do it Eddie! One more big push, then I've got him." Anne held the majority of the baby in the palms of her hands, just waiting for Eddie to give that final oomph and the rest of the baby would enter the world. "He's so beautiful Eddie. Come on!"

"Eddie, It is done. We have done it – you have done it."Venom appreciated Eddie more and more with every waking moment. For he was the reason that the human race still stands, the reason why Venom had developed feelings and deeper thought, and now the reason why Venom was being blessed with a family.

Eddie let out the loudest, most blood curdling scream yet. It was the last drop of energy, the final smidgen of strength, and inch of stamina that he could possibly muster. It was just powerful enough to edge his baby into the world. In the final moment, Venom split, and their son fell into Anne's arms. Eddie's legs shook and twitched and he slumped to the floor, mouth dry and on the verge of tears.

Eddie half expected his child to break free with a mighty whale, but instead he was silent, just kicking and fidgeting like usual. "Oh, Eddie. He's amazing." Anne chocked, gazing down at the child. He was not at all what she'd expected. There were no extra appendages and his skin wasn't oddly coloured. In fact, he was perfect. "Ten fingers, ten toes." Placenta still attached; she brought the new-born over to see his father.

"Shit," All efforts to remain sober crumbled at the sight of his child. He shed tears of joy as the baby opened his eyes to look around at his new environment. He had beautiful green eyes, that already seemed curious. Eddie felt most of his energy restore as Venom weaved his way back into his body. "He's so small..." All indications predicted that he'd be born a strong lump of a child, but that couldn't be further from the truth. He fit comfortably in Eddie's two hands.

Venom took the opportunity to look down at the child in true visage, yet the infant was not scared or shocked by what he saw."Our son is marvellous."If it was possible for Venom's species to express common emotions, then the symbiote would also be weeping uncontrollably.

"I almost forgive you." Eddie chuckled wearily. Anne assisted Eddie to a comfortable position. Holding their child in his arms dispelled all negative energy from the horrific experience that was birth, and for it being Venom's fault. If Venom hadn't given him this burden, then he'd never have realised what was missing from his life – a family. He planted small kisses of appreciation on his son's forehead, never minding the yuckiness he was coated with.

"What did you finally come up with?" Anne prompted, blotting the baby's head and face with a towel.

Eddie paused, dabbling with how easily he'd reached his decision. "Now that he's here, there's no doubt, his name should be Noah."

"Thief." Anne laughed, "little Noah." She hummed, "Noah Brock."

"Noah? Noah is fitting for such an exceptional infant."Gone were the times when Venom would push his own agenda, attempting to persuade Eddie to name their child something closer to home. Seeing how human the child appeared, a human name was in everybody's best interests.

"I'm going to cut the cord and then we'll deliver the placenta."

"Ugh, more?" Eddie groaned. "No use fighting nature." He gave in. Anne cut the placenta with the scissors Dan left in a pack of instruments. After the spongey rope had been cut, Anne gently tugged on one end to stimulate the contractions needed to birth the blood bath.

"Noah is officially a fully fledged autonomous being." Anne announced upon separation of mother and child. "just don't drop the baby." She added before having Eddie push the amniotic sac and placenta out.

Eddie shuddered as it slithered out, "that was gross." He couldn't look at what remained splattered across the towels between his legs.

"Can we eat it, Eddie?"To Venom, neglecting to eat the placenta would be a massive waste of nutrients, that'd otherwise have to come from eating a live person – per Venom's rationale.

"It's a good thing you've got two daddies because one is a vomit educing parasite." Eddie cooed. Venom would have ordinarily gone berserk, but Eddie did just grow, carry, and birth him a son. So, this time was appropriate to let things slide. Noah was already falling asleep, his eyes slowly closing lazily. "Oh, cause you're tired?"

"It's not everyday that you're pushed through a vagina. I can imagine it's pretty traumatising." Anne felt as though she could relate. Even bearing witness and assisting the birth had her exhausted. Although, she definitely did not wish to be Eddie right now, all lifelessly limp, both physically and emotionally drained.