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Symbiote left me.
It was hours after Dylan Brock had come to his senses that he was alive again. He felt no other being than himself. The young, teenage boy lay still on the cold tile floor, trying to rest his throat, which had been tired from calling out for his other half—his other parent. The only sound in the cathedral was Dylan’s raspy breathing. The boy’s face was covered in tear stains, his hair down to his neck was matted and stained with blood, and the wind coming through the holes in his clothes was cold. No, the boy definitely felt cold. He felt something filled and empty.
then did Dylan wipe away his tears and look around. The words “I’m sorry” roughly carved and carved into the wall. The blood he had shed. The corpses lying on the chair. then the boy feel creepy. He ran out of the cathedral as if he was running away. He couldn’t believe what he had experienced. Pain. Coldness. Endless darkness- and that hand. I should have shared this story with Venom. Dylan curled up to feel his warmth. The feeling of loneliness continued to linger in his brain and body. Tears flowed down the child's cheeks again.
"*&@$%... That's what dad said. He said you would never leave... even You said you wouldn't leave me...liar, hate you. Hate so much..”
The child lost his parents again. His mother, who he had never met, only heard about she had died, his father, who had burned in front of him and tried to kill him in a strange red gecko. and his other--who had been--his other parent. The child started crying again. He continued to cry like a baby calling for his mother, desperately calling for his parents who had left him.
“ But I miss you so much now…”
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In a dark alley not far from the church, a black-haired dog was panting and running forward without thinking. Tears seemed to be flowing from the corners of its eyes.
After the incident at Alchemax, I saw Dylan's memories. I could feel all of my son's thoughts and feelings. Just like I felt them. Eddie had borrowed the symbiote's body to save Dylan. And he said. Venom will never let you down. And I had let both Eddie and Dylan down.
After writing the last words on the wall, the symbiote caresses his beloved child who is barely alive and breathing again and sleeping. giving it one last kiss, and then running away. The symbiote felt like it was going to break down with guilt. The heart of a parent leaving their child behind was even more painful than the pain the symbiote had felt from the noise and fire.
Dylan- Oh Dylan. My angel. My son… Our son. Oh, Eddie. Why? Why do I have to be like this?
The dog growled and whined louder. The symbiote, who had not eaten well and was exhausted, turned into like a skinny human and leaned against the wall as if collapsing. The symbiote recalled the past. Eddie, Dylan, Sleeper and himself. Remembering the time when these four were happy, it grabbed his face and scratched it with his hand. Compared to that time, the symbiote couldn’t stand how pitiful he looked. And only one thought lingered in his head.
“I miss you so much… now…”
However, thinking that it couldn’t be, the symbiote despaired again and sat down in tears. Eddie was always there when he was happy. Edward Charles Allen Brock was always by his side. How is it now? Eddie was dead. Actually, he was alive. But the symbiote didn’t have the confidence to face him again. It was afraid of ruining him again. The symbiote couldn’t even face Dylan, its own child. A crying sound seemed to be coming from somewhere, but the symbiote tried hard to ignore it and covered its -nonexistent- ears.
The alien, who needed a host and had to live with the host, had no choice but to be left alone. Because he ruined all the hosts. Because he thought he was a parasite. That's why the alien-who had to have someone by his side to live together - chose to die alone.
It was really later that Dylan and Sleeper went to find their parent, and saw the Venom symbiote in a state where it could not be revived.