Chapter 35 - A Gut Feeling (2/2)

What truly worried him was if she was alright. He couldn't tell if she had made it out. Walking into the room and letting the dogs fall to the floor. Peter started to look about the area. It took him all of 10 seconds before he stopped dead. His eyes trained over to a certain part of the warehouse. His body stilled as a little sense of dread started to take over his body. 'No'. The cracked newer cement told him all he needed to know, but he had to check.

Rushing over with his all, he almost slid to the ground as he started to pull the gravel away at supersonic speeds. It wasn't long before he got to the small pocket of ground holding a glass jar. A glass jar that was cracked right open!

Peter almost flinched as he saw the jar. As he looked in he could see the black substance still sitting there! Venom was still here! Scrambling back, his mind worked fast as he rolled and jumped up. He had no sonic equipment, no fire, nothing that could contain Venom right now. He couldn't get closer without it taking over his body.

Numerous options flashed through his mind as he stared intently at the spot. Ever so slowly the black substance that was Venom crawled to the surface and did nothing. Peter continued to stare at Venom, and Venom seemingly stared back.

Peter blinked his eyes slowly as he watched for any other movement, but nothing happened. Moving to the right, he could feel the eyes trained on him also move. Venom was watching him, but wasn't doing anything else.

While it may be really slow in its substance form, it could still catch regular people if it tried. His spider sense didn't go off as he continued to watch it. But then again Venom had been a part of him for a short amount of time. It had been so much a part of him that his spider sense never went off when they were fighting.

It was one of the reasons that forced him to evolve his fighting style. Not that he had much use for it these days, most of his villains gallery was dead, gone straight, or in prison.

It was more of a gut feeling that made him do what he did next. Peter was a person that trusted his gut, as much as he trusted his spider sense. Many a time it had helped him in dangerous scenarios, even though it was usually his luck that got him into them, which was such a contradiction that even Crystal might not want to figure it out.

Ever so slowly Peter started to edge his way closer to Venom. If Venom moved so much as a muscle Peter would bolt, maybe go to the fantastic four. Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny were all smart people. Pulling in a favor they might be able to whip up something to track the Alien parasite, and maybe something better than a Jar to keep it contained.

As if knowing what Peter was thinking Venom didn't move as Peter stepped closer and closer. Finally when there was 1 meter left between the two Peter started to slowly reach out towards the symbiote. The possibilities of what might and could happen raced through his mind, but he was going to trust his gut on this one. Maybe, just maybe something had changed.

Finally his hand reached the black substance and it crawled up his hand. 'Well' peter thought to himself, 'At least I should be able to make it to the Baxter building before anything bad happens'.