Slowly, I slide my feet off the floor of the cell and onto the bench with me, bringing my knees to my chest and then standing atop that as well. Carefully, I unbutton my shirt and lay it across the driest part of the bench, before sitting on it now bare chested, "Are you going to torture me Jessica? Press that big red button and electrocute the water beneath my feet so that I tell you whatever you want to hear?"
An incredulous look passes over her face as her eyes glance towards said button and then back to me, "How did you?-"
I cut her off with a scoff, "Come now Jessica, I'm not stupid. You can still stop this you know. Let me out now and I won't press charges. I have no desire to spend any more time with you after this, but I'm willing to keep this out of the courtroom if you don't go any further. Let me go."
Jessica just smirks, "Go ahead, order me again Kevin. That's a hermetically sealed room; you can't control anyone while in it."
I roll my eyes for effect and shake my head as I speak in a somber and pitying tone, "You're delusional Jessica. You left me for dead and your brain cocked up this made up story about whom I am and what I can do. I wasn't trying to mind control you or anything like that. I was trying to appeal to whatever shreds of sanity you have left."
I give a slight smile, completely fake of course just like my next words, "I know that the girl I loved is still in there, somewhere."
That gets her to finally hit the big red button, and I feel it as the volts run up the legs of the metal table and through my thin shirt, which isn't as good an insulator as I'd hoped. With a yelp and a spasm I fall off my 'bed' and into the several of inches of water with very little decorum. As I leverage myself up, I see Jessica's smug grin as she turns back on the video player showing the experiments Kilgrave's parents did on him.
Reaching for and grabbing my shirt, I put it back on and button it up before lying down on the cot. I make a show of appearing to be agitated and irritated by the voices and the pained screams of a young Kevin, but in reality I'm soaking it all in. This right here is an origin story and I'm very interested in seeing more than the TV show ever gave me.