Rose was just getting changed after her dinner with Kilgrave and dare not take her time even though he'd already hustled the staff out quickly so they could be alone, he would surely find something or someone to take it out on, he didn't seem to like being on his own too much.
"Kevin, will you come and help me with this zip?" she called from the bedroom.
She didn't really need any help but he did seem to enjoy pulling her dress zip down even when there was no real need and it kept him occupied.
"Anything for my rosebud. Maybe tomorrow night we can go out to dinner, would you like that?"
"Oh, yes Kevin, I would love to go out for dinner, I can show off my handsome lover."
"Yes, you can, can't you? You'd like to show me off wouldn't you?" he asked her, pulling the zip down slowly then sneaking his hand under her breast since he'd told her not to wear a bra as she'd gone to change for dinner.
Rose hated how many times a day he made her get changed and making her rush, he'd told her in the evenings to wear a low-cut dress for dinner, he didn't allow her to wear a bra underneath and she only just got away with a pair of skimpy knickers because he said he didn't want to see them showing underneath her dress and wanted to stare at her over their evening meal. If he took her out tomorrow night, she'd have to at least wear a strapless bra thankfully.
He let her go, picking up yet another revealing nightdress and held it out to her.
"I'm happy you see things my way Rose, that bitch I had before you came along was such a whiner, she used to run away from me into the bathroom and I'd have to go drag her out. You like getting undressed for me, don't you Rose?"
Rose was trying her best not to break into tears at the thought of the other women who had been subjected to his sadistic whims but instead she smiled, taking the nightdress from him.
"I love getting undressed to please you Kevin. Can I undress you later?"
"No need to ask that kitten, I'm all for that and I'm happy to let you undress me any time. Since you asked so nicely, you can take my shirt off for me but perhaps from now on you don't have to be so formal and seek my permission eh? Feel free to relieve me of my shirt any time and my trousers if you want?" he winked, taking her other hand that wasn't clutching the thin nightdress and pulling on her finger, ran it down the front of his shirt.
"Mind you, if you want to take my shirt off, do it now before you put that on."
Rose knew there would have to be a catch.
"Mm, I'd be only too happy to do that Kevin," she told him, tossing the nightdress on the bed and using both hands, began unbuttoning his shirt and running her finger on his chest as one by one the buttons revealed more chest hair.
Then she leaned down and began kissing where her finger had been as the last button came undone, sending a shiver down Kilgrave she noticed. She wondered if the other woman only did as they were told out of fear he would hurt them and never actually given anything back to him. She could use this to her advantage and cursed herself for not picking up on this earlier. Maybe she could turn the tables on him, he might only be seeking some attention in that respect, if other woman had laid under him and he'd had to make all the moves and tell them what to do.
If she could show him she was more than willing to do things to him without asking, he would let his guard down but little did she know that would be her undoing. She knew she was weakening and it was going to be a great risk, her taking a more active role in their sexual activities but if it got her away from him, she would just have to hope for the best. She went for the zip on his trousers and held her finger on the fastener.
"Oh, you want to play with fire then kitten?"
"Yes Kevin, do I have to ask you about that as well?"
"No, not at all, be my guest but you have to finish anything you start, kitten."
Rose swore when she got away that if anyone called her kitten ever again, they would land themselves in the trauma unit of the nearest hospital.
Rose put a wicked grin on her face, unfastened the clasp and pulled the zip down, resting her hand for a moment until he clutched it and pressed it into him, grinning back at her.
"That means from now Rose, finish what you started."
"Yes Kevin, I will finish it but I was going to pull them down first."
"No need to wait is there?" he queried, raising his eyebrows like the Doctor used to do.
"No Kevin right now is a really good time to finish."
As she took hold of him through his cotton shorts, she could feel him melt at being touched but she couldn't feel sorry for him, she couldn't afford to let his emotions cloud her judgement, she had a duty to get away from him and turn him over to be dealt with by Torchwood, the police wouldn't be trained to avoid his mind control.
Kilgrave pressed her hand tighter, he was melting and he knew it, how could she be doing this to him? He was the one who was in control, not her but one real touch by her had reduced him to this. He released her hand and pulled his trousers down, hopping on one leg then the other to get them off after he toed off his shoes then Rose reached for the back of his shorts, yanking then down and taking a look at him.
Kilgrave saw the look in her eyes and grabbed hold of her, picking her up and holding her to him as she wrapped her legs around him and taking only a few seconds to feel him wanting to take her right there as he yanked on her skimpy underwear. As they each moaned and groaned, Rose knew she was getting far too comfortable with having sex where and whenever he felt like it but she had started this, she had started it before but didn't want to admit it. As he held onto her, she was holding on with one arm around his neck, trying desperately to reach his ass with her other hand and kissing at the same time in short bursts as their moans continued until he finally let her down.
"That was exceptional Rose, what are you doing to me?"
Rose wondered much the same, what was she doing, initiating having sex standing up, more than once now, how would she ever be free of him at this rate?
"Yeah, that was something else, what are you doing to me Kevin? You make me feel special, no-one has ever made me feel the way you do and I've never felt the same about any man the way I feel about you. I love you Kevin."
She reached up to kiss him again, he was still holding onto his shirt, it was hanging off his shoulders so she pulled it down over his arms.
"Come on Rose, we'll go lay on the couch and have some more wine, we both deserve it after that."
Rose let go as he pulled his shirt back on and bent down to pick up his shorts, which he was still standing in, they were around his feet.
"I'll put my nightdress on shall I Kevin?"
"Yes, if you must."
He tapped her behind lightly and moved back towards the door. "Don't be long."
"Oh no Kevin, I'll be right there, I just need the bathroom. I'll be there when you've poured out the wine."
She retreated into the bathroom, her back to the door after she had thrown the nightdress over her head and looked at herself in the mirror. What was happening to her? The fight was going out of her with each passing day and she had been reduced to instigating sex with him, standing up and it was totally out of character of her, she had never done these things before and worst of all, she was starting to enjoy it, even look forward to it and she had to stop but how?
He was getting her addicted to him and she knew it, he was so different to the men she'd had to pretend to be interested in, she knew it was him trying to break the last of her free will, he knew she still had some but that was maybe encouraging him, he enjoyed the challenge.
Kilgrave had poured some wine and was laid on the couch, counting how long it should take her. He really didn't want to go in and drag her out, especially after she had started things off again, none of the others had done that, he'd had to give them a step by step guide what he wanted but Rose, she was something else. He had almost given in to her, letting his emotions run riot after he had carefully bottled them up for so long and he wasn't sure he liked it, not being in control but the way she carefully asked him things and the way she took the lead, it was something new to him and it was fascinating.
If he wasn't very careful, he would loose the control he did have over her and he'd meant to harness his powers, not lessen them but Rose was reducing him to this, what was it about her? He had no idea it was that she still had a little power herself, the remains of 'Bad Wolf' that her first Doctor had thought he'd removed from her but a very tiny part of it had remained dormant until her training at Torchwood had resurfaced it and had been enhanced, which was why she was a top agent and chosen for special missions when everyone else thought she was taking advantage of being related to Pete Tyler.
He heard the bedroom door open and saw Rose in the knee length silky pale green nightdress that showed her shape and made her breasts swell through the v-shaped neckline.
"You look stunning kitten, come and lie on me."
Rose crossed to the couch and picked up both glasses of wine, handing him one and taking a sip from her own.
"You always pay me such lovely compliments Kevin and getting to look at you is more than adequate, you are very fit."
No woman had ever told him that, it was a first. Maybe he'd gone about this in the wrong way previously, maybe women would want to be with him without bringing them under his control. Here was Rose, half willingly giving herself to him and even wanting to start things off but he couldn't let down his guard even for a second, she was a trained Torchwood agent, one of their best and she could be playing him at his own game.
He would have to be very, very careful with her and if for one second he thought she was putting all this on, Torchwood or no Torchwood, he would kill her or rather have her kill herself, maybe even get one of his men to do it but he wouldn't be played for a fool, no-one would do that any more. He'd had enough of that when his own parents had done those things to him and he swore no-one else would ever use him like that and Rose Tyler was not going to be the one who did, even Jessica hadn't been able to.
He thought he had loved Jessica Jones and she had loved him but she had played him and when he gained control of Torchwood, he would go after her for leaving him in front of that bus and if she thought she'd got rid of him, she was in for a big, very unpleasant surprise. In the meanwhile, he'd had various women to keep him reasonably satisfied and Hope had seemed promising but she'd been too weak, too emotional and always cried after they'd had sex even though she had been fully under his control but if he got tired of Rose, he may get her back until he located Jessica purely due to the fact she had been fully compliant, unlike Rose who still had some free will, even though she was cleverly hiding it.
The next morning, Pete, Alec and Ellie were waiting for the two New York detectives to pick them up for their meeting with Captain Gates. Mickey and Jake had headed out earlier on their last day of searching for any signs of Kilgrave, Pete saying from tomorrow, Alec would be prepared to go with other officers and see if he jogged anyone's memory.
They had been talking while they waited and Ellie was still a little curious about Rose and the Doctor.
"So you say he wasn't really her boyfriend then?" she asked Pete as they drank coffee whilst waiting.
"What has that to do with anything Miller?" Alec asked her, being the odd one out and drinking tea since he still had to avoid some things.
"It's ok Alec," Pete answered him. "They had something special, I saw it the first time they were here, the way they looked at each other but she regretted not telling him how she really felt about him. This Kilgrave looking like him will stir up all her emotions again and I'm afraid she will give in to him. The Doctor got a message to her through the void, we travelled to Norway where she got to say goodbye to him but she broke down when we got back and we had no choice but to send her to a health resort to calm her down."
"Did she ever get over it?" Alec asked him, thinking it was a reasonable question to ask.
After dinner last night, he'd done some more research on Rose and found himself fascinated with her after he'd called Pete and asked to be let into her official Torchwood profile, the one the public never got to see. He was getting out of his comfort zone over her, she was the stepdaughter of a very influential man who had put his trust in his and Miller's hands to get her back. If he let the man down, he would be letting Rose down and leaving her in this Kilgrave's clutches and goodness knew what the man was doing to her, he shuddered to think.
If Kilgrave had her even partly under his control, she would need a lot of time and patience to get over it especially if she had not got over loosing this Doctor Pete had told them about last night and who he actually was, which had taken some believing and convincing on Pete's part but Mickey had told them every word of it was true and if they didn't believe him, they were welcome to try their luck asking Rose's mother, who was a notorious face-slapper who Alec didn't want to have to test first hand.
"To answer your question Alec, she told us she was over it but none of us know if that's true or not, only she knows but this incident, well even if she was over it, it will set her back and even the best therapists will have their work cut out for them. None of what you were told last night is to be repeated in front of the NYPD, understood?"
Alec and Ellie both nodded as they saw Esposito walking towards them.
"That goes without saying," Alec assured him as he got up.
"Ready for your meeting?" they were asked.
Alec was not looking forward to being bundled up in the back of the car with Miller, he'd been very uncomfortable around her since the trip to Sandbrook and they had been forced to share a motel room, which was why he was unhappy about even being in the next bedroom.
Beckett and Castle had both been busy the previous day, Castle had gone back to his office to try to make some sense out of finding the kidnapper's identity and if that was his real name, who was actually called Kilgrave, he wondered. Kate had talked to the captain and now they were discussing how much lee-way they would extend to the two visiting detectives.
"I want it made clear that you are to remain in charge, Detective Beckett," the captain was telling her after the other two detectives had gone to collect them and Pete.
"Yes Sir, I fully intend to make that perfectly clear, Detective Inspector Hardy may think he has a senior rank over me where he comes from but this is my town and he'll have to remember and respect that."
"Good, we have a lot to get through when they get here. Is it such a good idea to have Hardy out in the field though?" the captain queried.
"We think it's the best way to proceed, get Hardy out to the place the accident happened, if someone remembers anything else, they'll be more likely to respond to seeing someone who looks like him."
"Yes but Hardy has a beard doesn't he?"
"Well he might be persuaded to get rid of some it for the purpose of finding Rose Tyler's abductor. We'll have to see how open he is to the idea, to play the part. It's been a week now, we have no idea how this is affecting her and her mother must be frantic."
"You've not dealt with many abductions have you, Detective Beckett? We were treating this as a murder investigation and that's how we proceed, let's hope it doesn't turn into a double one. We need to find out from Mr Tyler if his stepdaughter is likely to anger Kilgrave or if she will comply."
"Sir, she's a trained Torchwood agent, she'll know not to anger him."
"Well I hope you are right detective."
On the way to the 12th precinct, Pete was asking Ryan and Esposito if they had made any other progress.
"We're still trying, since we're getting nowhere with asking around the area Kilgrave was last seen, it's like he's hiding himself away on purpose," Ryan told them.
"Either that or he does not want to leave her alone," Alec suggested.
"Maybe he doesn't fully trust her?" Ellie wondered.
"That's obvious Miller," Alec said sarcastically. "Mr Tyler, you mentioned about Rose, being trained to resist Kilgrave, he will know if she is trying to fool him and he may be reluctant to go out with her."
"Yeah, you're probably right Alec. I can't imagine Rose being caged in a hotel room or an apartment for a week, it's not her."
"Maybe he lets her out to go shopping?" Ellie smiled, thinking if it were her in Rose's place, she would go crazy as well.
"That's all you women think about Miller, I have experience."
Pete didn't know how to take that remark but let it go. Everyone was getting tense over the upcoming meeting, he hoped he hadn't been expecting too much of Alec Hardy but when he'd been asked to give the Scottish detective access to Rose's personal file at Torchwood, he guessed Hardy was still feeling some guilt over Sandbrook and not being able to save Lisa Newberry. He'd read up on the case and its conclusion, some time after the events and how Alec had battled an illness, solved a boy's murder and then six months or so later, putting three more killers behind bars.
He'd also read one of those found guilty was making an appeal and he hoped she wouldn't get away and he would be following the events closely. As they approached the precinct, Ellie looked up, it was a far cry from their station in Broadchurch, with its odd shape that made it look tiny from the outside and was bigger on the inside, the rest of the building obscured from view. They were given visitor passes at the desk downstairs and went up to homicide, Ryan leading the way once they arrived.
Kate and Castle were at her desk as they rounded the corner, Castle getting up to greet his friend and seeing Ellie and Alec looking around. Captain Gates was sitting at her desk, looking over the rim of her glasses and noticing out of the corner of her eye there was a crowd around Detective Beckett's desk all of a sudden, indicating their guests had arrived.
Castle was doing the introductions and Ellie was trying not to stare, he was more handsome in real life than on the covers of his novels and she was determined to get his autograph before she left, well that and some item of clothing for Tom. The captain interrupted them as Ellie was shaking hands a bit too enthusiastically with Castle, under his wife's watchful eye.
"Detective Beckett, if you've all finished?" she called out from the doorway of her office.
They all crammed inside, Pete thinking it was just as well Mickey and Jake hadn't come along as well, they would need a Tardis, not an office.
After much discussion, Alec had frowned at Castle several times, thinking there was no way he'd helped on numerous cases and the only real reason he was here at all was because he was now married to the lead detective. He knew it would never last, working together was a disaster in his experience.
"You are going about this in the wrong way entirely," Alec informed them as they were trying to persuade him to trim his beard to make him look more like Kilgrave.
"Oh, how's that then?" the captain wanted to know when everyone stopped talking about Alec going out the next day with Ryan and Esposito and see if anyone pointed him out.
"You are concentrating on this Kilgrave, has anyone put out Rose Tyler's description? Has anyone even been asking passers-by if they have seen her in the area this last week?"
"We were trying to keep her out of it," Kate insisted. "We thought if we showed her photo around, it could get back to Kilgrave that we're in the area."
"You should be trying to flush him out Detective Beckett. A week has gone by, he will be expecting someone to be out looking for her by now, I say get out there tomorrow, show her photo around to pedestrians, shopkeepers, doormen, taxi drivers, see if she has been out, like Mr Tyler said, she would be going crazy being caged in if Kilgrave is just using her to gain control of Torchwood."
"So that's what he's after?" the captain asked. "You'd better fill me in on your theory then Detective Inspector Hardy."
Alec nodded to Pete. "Torchwood is yours Mr Tyler."
Pete told them his theory why Kilgrave wanted his stepdaughter and that he didn't believe she would come to any physical harm but also his worries of the psychological damage it could do.
"Well Mr Tyler, let's concentrate on getting her back first shall we?" the captain concluded.
That they could all agree on but Pete knew it would take some doing, getting Rose over this.
"Detective Beckett, increase the number of units in the area and have them begin to show Miss Tyler's photo around and have the media on standby, we should now consider using them and tell them a missing VIP from England is somewhere in the city and for people to be on the lookout for her."
"Should I put up a reward for information leading to her safe return?" Pete asked her.
"That's not a good idea yet Mr Tyler, let's see if anything comes of showing her photo around. Up until now, we've been concentrating on Kilgrave but now we should change our strategy, let Detective Inspector Hardy walk around the area and show Miss Tyler's photo instead."
Alec thought that was the first sensible thing he'd heard since he got there.