C196 Trouble in Paradise

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"...Love always finds a way." Kilgrave jumped out of bed and paced over to the glass.

Thankfully, he was no longer naked and wore a grey prison jumpsuit that each prisoner of the detainment floor receives.

Loki watched as this man got as close as he could and stared fixedly at Jessica with the look of a verified lunatic.

Kilgrave may be a psychopath with a god complex a mile long, but he viewed his time together with her as a real and loving relationship.

He loved Jessica Jones in his own crazy sort of way.

Constantly, he used his powers to force her to spend time with him, care for him and have sex with him. When Trish Walker, Jessica's adoptive sister, would call to make sure she was alright, Kilgrave ensured that Jessica kept her explanations short and full of sweet happy memories, which were usually lies.

Kilgrave would treat her to dinner and use his vast wealth to stay in five-star hotels. However, it would always be his powers keeping her by his side, not Jessica's own free will.

"How did you do it?" Kilgrave asks as he places a hand on the glass.

"..." Jessica couldn't speak.

"How did you disobey me?" He continues to question her, but Jessica didn't say a word.

On the day of the accident, which almost killed him, Jessica ignored his commands and walked away from him, leaving Kilgrave distracted as a bus plowed into him.

It was an impossible feat, which never happened before. Everyone always followed his commands no matter the circumstances.

What made that whole situation even worse for Kilgraves massive ego, was the fact that he thought she genuinely loved him back.

Due to his love for Jessica, Kilgrave once tested if she actually wanted to stay with him. He gave her no orders for twelve hours, the exact amount of time for someone to fall out of his control.

However, he found Jones had decided not to leave him, allowing him to believe that she truly did love him.

Later that night, he found the love of his life standing on a balcony as if she were about to jump to the concrete floor below.

Instantly, he ordered her to step down, but Jessica didn't follow his command. When he questioned why she initially had not listened to him, he decided to punish her by making her cut off her own ear.

'If you don't listen to me what is the point in having ears?' Kilgrave ranted at the time. 'To listen to someone else?'

No one had ever disobeyed him before, so this was a huge hit to his psychotic ego.

'You never appreciate anything I do for you. If you can't listen to me you don't need ears... Cut them off.' He commanded that night.

When she began to obey him again, almost cutting off her own ear, Kilgrave changed his mind and hugged her, seeing that instance as a fluke.

After all, she went a full 12 hours without his orders, so his control may have just been weak at that moment.

The problem with their final parting was the fact that he was constantly in handing out orders, yet she somehow wrestled away from his control.

"Who's this?" Kilgrave gave up that line of questioning and turned his attention to the handsome man beside his lover.

As his gaze trained on Loki, Kilgrave's loving look for Jessica morphed into a deadly stare, which would frighten any child.

Sadly for him, Loki was anything but a child. In fact, he was many thousands of years old, so Kilgraves hate-filled look was laughable in his eyes.

Reading this caged mental patient like a book, Loki smirked and reached a hand around Jessica's waist, pulling her into his side.

"Loki Odinson, Prince and former King of Asgard." Loki introduces himself as he basks in his enemy's venomous and Jealous gaze. "Jessica is my betrothed."

As soon as he said this, Jessica's eyes shot open in shock, though Kilgrave didn't catch on as he was preoccupied with Loki at the moment.

Although Jessica wanted to rip his hand off of her waist and refute Loki's rather formal claim to her hand in marriage, she decided to quietly play along.

After all, he was doing this to help her.

Ignoring the man who was feeling up his property so blatantly, Kilgrave turned his attention back to Jessica.

"You know, you're the first thing..." Kilgrave stops himself and corrects his slip of the tongue. "Ahem, excuse me. The first person I've ever wanted that walked away from me."

The crazy fanatical look in his eyes deepened as he rested his forehead on the glass, hoping to manipulate Jessica once again.

"You made me feel something that I've never felt before." He continues as Jessica takes a step back away from the glass. "Yearning."

"I think I'm going to be sick." Loki comments from the side.

Ignoring Loki, Kilgrave looks Jessica in the eyes, hoping to awaken her former obedience.

"Kill him." He orders, hoping some small part of her would follow his orders once again.

"..." Jessica just stood there unmoving for a moment before she realized that nothing happened.

Her body stayed under her control, which was surprising, as she didn't know how Kilgrave's powers worked or his weaknesses.

Even though he was in a cage, she was still fearful of his control, unknowing that the sealed cell was blocking his power from affecting her.

Of course, she should have guessed this already as he was currently in a cage, but the reality of the situation didn't fully set in until this very moment.

"Your power doesn't work through the glass, does it?" Jessica asks as her usual confidence returns.

"..." This time it was Kilgraves turn to be silent.

"You're powerless, aren't you, Kevin?" Jessica asks tauntingly.

"Oh, shut up." He answers in annoyance. "Kevin is dead."

"Kevin is a mundane name, but Kilgrave? Seriously?" Jessica says with a bit of venom in her voice. "Was murder corpse already taken?"

As she was speaking, Kilgrave noticed a silhouette walking into view.

"Help!" Instantly, his demeanor changed to panic as he started banging on the glass. "I'm being held captive by a madwoman!"

"Nice try." A fourth voice says as Loki and Jessica turn to see Peter step out of the shadows, dawned in his usual Spider-Man gear.

"Oh, sh*t..." Kilgrave fake panic instantly disappeared as he got a better view of the new arrival.

Jessica and her supposed fiancé were his first visitors, and he never saw who captured him in the penthouse, so Kilgrave initially thought that it was Jessica who set all of this up.

Not the Avengers.

"Oh, shit indeed." Peter says as he walks over beside Jessica. "Would you like to do the deed now or later?"

Hearing his question, Kilgrave looked at Peter in shock.

"What deed?" He asks in confusion. "I hope he doesn't mean what I think he means. Isn't Spider-Man supposed to be a hero?"

"Killing can be heroic as well." Peter says with an uncaring shrug.

Turning back to the love of his life, Kilgrave looked at her with a pleading gaze.

"Jessica? You wouldn't kill me, would you?" He asks, hoping to save his own skin.

"I thought we would be torturing him first?" Loki asks, sounding disgruntled. "I was hoping to whip out some of the torture techniques that my mother taught me..."

Jessica looked at Loki with a surprised gaze, but saved her many questions for later.

"Well, his ability makes torture a bit tricky..." Peter says with a thoughtful look. "We could gag him? Though some extra precautions would be needed. Just in case."

Hearing his captors talk about torturing him so shamelessly, Kilgrave felt like he was one of his victims, completely unable to make a decision for himself.

At the mercy of someone else's every whim.

"Come on... We can talk about this." Kilgrave tries to cut into the conversation.

"Why don't we just rip out his tongue?" Loki offers his invaluable advice. "If talking is the activation for his ability, then simply make him a mute."

The room goes deathly silent, as none of them realized that dealing with Kilgrave could be so easy. It was like bright lightbulbs went off in their heads all at once.

"Wait just a minute!" Kilgrave began to seriously panic.

"He'd never be able to activate his power again..." Jessica muttered, liking Loki's suggestion more and more.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Peter felt like an idiot for not thinking of that. 'I could also use magic to remove his voice altogether...'

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