I fell in love with the purple devil

Part 48

~Ann's POV~
I slowly open my eyes as the sun shone in against them as I frown. I felt something around my waist as I sigh softly as I felt more relaxed than I had in a while. It wasn't until I felt warm lips and slight scruff did I remember exactly WHY I felt so relaxed. I tense, wanting to move way first but a voice stopped me, 'Please don't...don't leave, just yet?' He asked and I swallow. Did...did he just ask me not to leave? Hell! Did he just say please? "Figured you'd be done with all...this by now, gotten it out of your system," I whisper softly but didn't move away, not yet anyway. 'That...that wasn't,' he sighs as if the right words just wouldn't come to him, 'that wasn't what this was, Annie,' he explained gently. 'You were here, because you chose to be here, you chose to come back,' he clearly wasn't comfortable talking like this, I wasn't even sure he was comfortable talking to someone at all. Not about this stuff, not when it wasn't his pompous, not giving a shit about anyone attitude. I close my eyes gently, "maybe I'm just fucking stupid, ever thought about it like that," I mumble and he lets out a small breath, somewhere between a sigh and a laugh, 'we both know you were always the clever one,' he said with an almost tender undertone to his words. "Why did you stay? That was the stupidest thing you could have done. You could be dead right now," I remind him as my eyes scan the wall a little more desperately than I wanted to admit. I didn't understand it, or this, or him for that matter! Those thoughts were interrupted however by the feeling of soft lips against my shoulder and a long arm once again pulling me flush against his chest, a thin barrier of sheet all that separated us. 'Because...I knew you'd come back...one way or another,' I felt more than heard against my skin. "This...this doesn't change anything, this doesn't change what you've done, to her, to others," I inform in a sharp tone that didn't match the relaxed body slowly fitting back into his. 'I....I know...I...I apologize. It doesn't mean much, but, I was alone a very long time Ann, the only thing good about my world was dead and I-I have to pick my words so carefully. I never know if I've slipped up, that's not an excuse I just, I stopped caring if I had. The world was cruel and if I was going to survive, I stopped trying, stopped caring if I was too. I didn't know any other way,' he said gently as my stomach twists and eyes softened. I was happy he couldn't see just how much his story had affected me. To start, I wasn't sure I would ever hear the words, 'I apologize,' from Kevin. That alone had to count as some kind a miracle. As for the rest...well, I had seen first hand how the world crushed people under it's boot, and if you were a mutant? It made sure to grind it heel. I could never excuse the things he had done but, "you expect me to believe you just didn't know?" I made sure it sounded more harsh than I meant it as he sighs. I felt a large thumb brush over my hip bone, 'You saw where my parents priorities lay...the kind of moral upbringing I had. I'm not saying it makes up for anything but, Jesus Ann it was so bloody hard!' He said as he held my waist. I was silent a long moment before slowly shifting around to look at him. Big mistake. There was that kid. The kind, scared dorky kid. The kid that stole me Captain America trading cards from the drug store and held me at night when I just felt like curling up to die. Those big, stupid, Brown puppy dog eyes. In that moment, he wasn't 'The Purple Devil of  Hell's Kitchen,' or 'Kilgrave,' he was just a bloke named Kevin. "So what you're telling me is, if I came here, and taught you how to use your powers for being less of a massive asshole, you would actually listen? You would try?" I asked, trying to seem as cold as I could. That I was just doing a duty for the good of society. A small smile, not smirk, but smile, pulled at the corner of his lips as he nodes. 'Yes,' He said softly. "That means listening! To someone else and what they say," I informed him, slightly shocked myself on what I was agreeing to. 'I promise,' he nodes gently. "Right...if Jessica finds out she'll kill us both, I hope you know that," I mumble as he held me.
What.
The.
Fuck.
Was I doing?...