Kilgrave's Desire

Punched by death but still here

My throat catches tears as I almost burst into tears. Oliver is alive? He didn't kill him? So many thoughts and images cross my mind Oliver getting nearly killed by the vehicle and now this. He has been on the brink of death so many times and it's all because of me.
"You're lying," I choke out wanting to hang up the phone and throw up. There is a muffled sound and then I hear him.
" Mr Kilgrave what can I do for you?" The male voice asks and I immediately recognize it as one of his body guards. He put us on a three-way call.
"Put the boy on, please," he ordered. There is silence for a second followed by the groan as the phone is passed to someone else.
"Melody?" A gruff voice groaned in pain.
" Ollie?" I whisper tears catching in my throat as my heart throbs in agony.
     " Yeah...it's me," his voice mumbled in the phone.
      "Cut the shit Kilgrave I want real proof not a voice," Jessica snaps quickly.
       There is a moment of silence followed by the line beeping...whomever was the third party...they hung up. I glance up at the docked baby monitor camera on my dashboard  and see the girls starting to move in their seats. We are getting too loud for them.
        "Jessica we need to take it down a bit," I mutter as I point to the camera showing the girls moving around. 
         Her eyes meet what I am looking at and takes a breath either calming herself or restraining herself from slapping me due to the severity of our current situation.  I pull off the thruway to a service area to get gas as her phone pings to an incoming text.  She looks at her phone wide eyed as I pull the car to a stop and turn off the engine to get gas.
        "Well Miss Jones...your move...are you going to show my fiancé her friend is fine?" Kilgrave demanded.  She hangs up the phone quickly and clicks on the file to view it.
        She opened her mouth to say something but snapped it shut as I snatched her phone from her hands and stumbled out of the car to look at the picture. I popped the gas valve for Jessica to pump gas as she climbed out and watched me warily. I ran to a bench under a flickering light and looked down at the screen. Oliver.
       Relief rang and vibrated through me.  He isn't dead he is alive and well. Well...sort of. His eyes are bruised from a beating he must have taken in their interrogations. His skin that always had a subtle glow to it is ashen and pale. His hair is longer than I remember and disheveled in front of his face.  As much as I want to scream to the world my best friend is alive I tell myself something is still not right a picture can only prove so much.
        "There you got your proof." Jessica called from the car trying to get me to come back to her as she continued to pump the gas in the.
        "It is but it isn't." I snap as paranoia settles down into my stomach.  "A picture is only so much...I don't trust it."
       The phone vibrates in my hand to a FaceTime request and I look at the name blinking and it's Oliver. I show Jessica the screen and her eyes widen as she starts to tell me to not answer it but I accept the call and watch as the camera turns on showing myself in the bottom corner looking tired and meek and two move screens pop up in the middle is kilgrave looking exhausted and happy to see me again and in the final screen there is Oliver still matching the picture that was sent.
       "Melody," his voice echoes in relief.
       "Ollie!" I shout in relief.  "Are you ok?"
      "I'm fine. I am so sorry I told him but he threatened my family and..."he is cut off immediately.
      "... threatened I didn't intend to do what I said it was just motivation..." kilgrave clarified.
      "I'm so sorry Ollie." I whisper as I try to hold back tears. I glance up blurry-eyed and watch Jessica starting to approach me in caution.
Her eyes are widening as her hair wipes in her face freely like it's an uncaged wild animal. I look around and notice the morning sun is just starting to peak over the horizon illuminating the swirling and darkening clouds above me. I am so upset he is alive and Jessica lied and said he is dead. My heart throbs harder and all I can hear is my heart pumping blood throughout my body mixed with the increasing wind speed and the low rumbles from the storm I am creating.
Calm down. I need to calm down. I need to get control and I need to be stable I cannot lose myself...not again.
I take a shaky breath as I look at the screen and see Kilgrave tilt his head to the side as he watches me curiously. The same look he gave when our paths first crossed under the bridge in the park.
" My poor beloved Melody why are you so upset," he asks his accent lacing in the words thickly as they surround me like they once did once upon a time
"Sh-she lied and I-I can't..." I stammer trying to keep my composure but I know I'm fighting up a hill against the titans and the gods themselves and losing in my desire to regain control.
"Melody...ple..." Jessica's voice is drown out by the wind as lighting strikes with rumbling thunder trapping her in her own void away from me and away from the girls.
"I told you I wouldn't ever harm you Melody and clearly another party has hurt your trust. Please won't you come back?" He implores coolly.
"Don't Melo-" Oliver's screen goes black leaving me alone on FaceTime with my purple monster...my fiancé...my Kilgrave.
"Where did Oliver go?" I demanded as I panic as his screen disappears. The wind whips more and more I can barely see Jessica but I can still see her outline among the debris whipping in the wind as she continues to try to get closer to me.
"He is waiting for you to come home." He instructs calmly. " Now tell me my love where are you heading?" My head is engulfed by darkness. That familiar and yet so foreign fogginess is filling me up like smoke in a house filling in every corner and fiber of my mind.
"Montana," my voice echoes.
"Good. Now I need you to do something for me...get away from Miss Jones. She is keeping you and the girls from me and she lied to you. You do not trust her."
"I don't trust her..." I mutter.
"Stop it Jackass stop it....Melody hang up!" Jessica's voice echoes.
"Do what you must to get away and enable your location tracking once again and we will find one another in Montana." His voice explains. I want to say no but I want to be there I want his safety he hasn't lied to me
"He killed your parent Melody don't..." Jessica's voice screams.
" My parents.." I muttered as the memory comes back... kilgrave stabbing them on camera.
"They hurt you Melody and I helped you," he hissed. They did he isn't lying about that. But he killed them. I want to yell at him but I can't my body isn't failing me. Fuck.
"Come to me my love you are going to enable your phone tracking and you are going to do what it takes to get away from Jessica Jones." His words slink through me like a needle in thread weaving an intricate design in my mind.
I pull my phone out of my pocket and go into the setting and click the button enabling my phone to be tracked. I put my phone in my pocket and look at him as he smiles approvingly.
"Now do what you need to and I'll see you soon," his voice coos .

"Oh and Melody...smile."