you can't go home again

[familiarnightmares]

[ It had been a while since Eddie had been around.  It wasn't really intentional, exactly, but time passed and things got more and more Complicated.  The Umbrella kids got more Heroic even as they started to splinter, and Eddie mostly just stayed the same.  Carved his own way, tried to figure things out on his own, but his particular flavor of Weird wasn't exactly benign.  Venom wanted to eat and destroy, no matter how hard he tried to reign it in, and over time they found middle ground, for better or worse.

That, and his chosen career, put him at odds with Peter, because Eddie wasn't allowed to keep nice things.  After it came to a head, Eddie opted for a change of scenery; not great for public relations when you end up catching the wrong guy.  But it's gotta be better now, right?  Must have blown over, and Venom was getting Nostalgic.  He'd been on friendly terms with at least some of the Umbrella kids once, maybe there was something of it left.

They went on a patrol once they got there, Eddie because he wanted to see what had changed, Venom because...well.  It was hungry.  Like always.  But Venom stayed inside, at least for the moment, kept to a nagging voice in the back of his head.

Granted, an incredibly annoying voice in the back of his head, but still. ]

HUNGRYYYYYY.

We just got here, V.  I'll get you something later, just enjoy being back right now, okay?


ASSHOLE.  WE ARE HUNGRY.

In a minute.

[ For now, he lingers around the Academy.  Waiting for what, he doesn't really know.  Curiosity, maybe? ]

Fate has a way of playing games and I've been keeping score

[belay]

The last time Lara saw Diego, they were in Peru and they'd just saved the world. That was almost half a year ago and they'd kept in contact since. There'd been fighting people and animals (And Lara, herself, had downed a cougar out to kill her, with just her bare hands and some arrows), solved puzzles and discovered a hidden civilization. It had been probably one of her better adventures.

But she'd missed Diego. That wasn't something she was going to lie about. So when he'd texted her asking for help, she jumped at the chance. Booking her flight as they spoke, packing while they texted. She was in this more for seeing Diego than she was helping an old woman get her jewels back, though that had been a close second. And she'd thought she discovered members of Trinity on the Gala guest list, but that had been wrong. That was fine. She wanted a break from that insane group, anyway.

Her fight had one long layover in Ireland. Seven and a half hours, to be precise. And Lara didn't have it in her to wait that long. She could spend those seven and a half hours sleeping, but no. She didn't. Instead, she asked to be put on a waitlist for a flight that left about two hours sooner and lucked out.

She arrived in New York two hours before she'd planned, and she didn't tell Diego at all. Why ruin her fun?

The academy wasn't hard to find at all. Any and all Uber drivers know where it is. She had her Uber driver let her out a couple blocks away, tipped him well and made her way to the academy on her own, arriving at the gate just as Diego stepped out the front door.

She's just gonna wait and see how long it takes for him to notice her.

[ ooc: For excessed and eventually ouiking_ouija. I'll open it up to others later. ]