multiversallogs | Urge to Kill... Rising...

Who: Eddie Brock/Venom & OPEN
What: Eddie tries to deal with his anger management problems. Befriend him!
Where: The Apache, Mog Hill
When: Late at night (several days before his fight with Tommy and Billy)
Notes: Multiple threads are fine. If you want to have an encounter with Venom instead of Eddie, that can be arranged, as he's feeling predatory right now.
Warnings: Possible violence.

If there's one thing Eddie Brock doesn't like about the symbiote-- one teeeeeny, tiny downside-- it's the fact that it costs him about three times as much to get hammered these days. It's his (their) fourth whiskey downed, and he's only now starting to get a good, warm buzz. Freaking alien-fortified alcohol tolerance. Feeling just the slightest effects of the alcohol is like a goddamn tease. All it does is annoy him.

Actually, right now, the same can be said about, well, everything. Every single noise, every single stupid, weak, soft sack of flesh in the bar tonight-- and God, there are just so many. The guy to his right crowds him, keeps bumping his elbow against Eddie's arm. He thinks about tearing him open with each slurred "Sorry." It's not you, guy, really. There's just a monkey on Eddie Brock's back, that's all. A vicious, bloodthirsty, monkey.

Eddie laughs, shrugs, starts on his fifth whiskey. Not a care, not this guy. When his burger arrives (rare, very rare, just the way they like it), he tries to channel his aggression into it. What he's thinking about as he quickly tears into the bloody patty would've disgusted him a couple weeks ago. Probably. Made him a little squeamish, at least.

Now? He's bored and a little anxious. It's not enough to just think about these things anymore. He's just itching to sink his claws into something, somebody, hell, he's not picky. Thin black tendrils begin to creep up the back of his neck-- hey, hey, no. Down. Not here.

He finishes the burger-- practically inhaled it-- and shoves the plate away, focusing his attentions on the drink again. Tonight, he decides. Once he's finished here, it's time to go out and play. He could use a laugh-- and, hell, some cash, if he happens to corner somebody with a little disposable income on 'em.

He turns his back to the bar, eyes scanning over the crowd. Right now, he's just Brock, Edward Brock, the harmless, obnoxious idiot who tries a little too hard to impress. Nothing to see here.

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Jules is, once again, making the bad decisions of pushing down those bad feelings with too much liquor - a habit that might have been relieved in shorts bursts by the company of Hasi and Ilde, by dabbling in fog trading, by thinking about whimsical, happy things like getting a puppy-- but like most things, those heavy feelings weren't something that could just be shrugged away. Pressed to the background for a while, maybe, but certainly not permanently dismissed.

The Hunger is still needling at her gut, too, the need to feed. She has to feed soon, before it gets too fearsome, but there's been nothing. She knows the answer, she does, knows to look for the Candlelighters, but for some reason drowning her sorrows took first priority. The desire to fight, to unleash that monstrous part of her just keeps rising, though, until she abruptly leaves the side of the person who just offered to buy her a drink (contact confirmed he was sleazy, but not worthy of being condemned as a main cause). She rushes on her way out - accidentally shoving dear, harmless Eddie as she goes. Better to be out of the crowd fast, so she doesn't pay any mind, doesn't apologise, and definitely shoves him a little too hard - monster strength can be a problem, that way.

Urge to Kill... Rising...

I am happy to change this if it doesn't work into a lead-in for what we discussed :D