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Yessss, of course

Eddie, in all his self-righteous “I’m a reporter who must find the truth and take down barons” self, goes after Tony post-Iron Man, falsely assuming Iron Man is a cover-up for something bigger. Tony’s expected reporters like Eddie Brock to question him, so he lets Eddie to a complete investigation of literally every aspect of Tony’s life. 

When Eddie comes up empty-handed, he apologizes to Tony for assuming the worst and Tony pulls the classic line of “how about you make it up to me with dinner?” and Tony honestly meant for it to be a one night stand, but somehow he ended up really falling for this reporter guy. 

Flash to Eddie losing his entire job and rep from his fail at trying to take down Life Foundation, and he’s in a deep depression that even Tony has trouble knocking him out of. 

Then the whole Venom thing happens and Eddie desperately avoids Tony because fuck, Tony cannot see him like this, hell no. 

We’ll assume that chick in the movie is just Eddie’s really good friend and was never anything more.

Once Eddie and Venom finally beat Riot, Tony convinces the chick to tell him what the hell is going on, and he’s royally pissed at Eddie, but also makes damn sure Eddie knows that Tony still loves and supports him, and is sticking with him through this.

So of course, shenanigans ensue of Tony and Eddie adjusting to living with a third party. And once Eddie convinces Venom that Tony is not edible, Venom slowly starts to tolerate Tony too.

Oh, and their sex life definitely gets more interesting.

Per Eddie’s request, Tony keeps their relationship and Eddie’s Venom status under wrap. It’s not until an absolutely dire situation in which Eddie has to run in full Venom mode to save the Avenger’s asses that Tony finally admits “Yeah, this is my boyfriend. He has a bit of a parasite problem- VENOM DON’T YOU DARE EAT CAPTAIN AMERICA, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING, AND NO YOU MAY NOT. GIVE EDDIE CONTROL BACK, PLEASE”