TFF
Jane Foster stepped outside and studied the stormy skies with a pang. Electricity flashed silently, high in the clouds, and she felt the charged air against her bare arms - she'd forgotten her jacket. With a sigh she drew her arms around her body to keep warm. She couldn't help but take the darkening weather as a sign, emerging to the rooftop of her new apartment filled with hope that died quickly, like the brief flashes of light above.
She had her suspicions, right from the moment she first took the new job. Not a thing was out of place - the job offer, the transport there, the new apartment stacked with shiny, unused utensils, the job itself. Many aspects of employment in the field of scientific research were chaotic, and Jane embraced that chaos with great relish. This entire promotion had run altogether too smoothly. It had S.H.E.I.L.D. written all over it. Not that Coulson had showed his face - but she knew they were behind this.
It wasn't such a bad thing. They had given her back her research and set her up with state of the art equipment, which was an improvement from having to beg for grant money. Besides, S.H.E.I.L.D. would know when Thor returned.
Missing him hurt, physically hurt her. Every image of him was so clear in her mind. The cocky smile, the sandy hair and beard, just on the scruffy side. The way his confident stride sent the red cape whipping behind him. Wandering shirtless out of the bathroom (that scene played and replayed more often than most). Those clear, fathomless blue eyes that cut right through her, to the woman underneath the protective outer shell blocking the majority of people from seeing who she really was. Not him though. There was no blocking Thor out of her heart, even now, even when the longing to see him again kept her awake at nights.
Her second sigh whipped away by the stiff breeze, Jane scanned the skies one final time before heading inside. Tomorrow, her search would continue. She would find out how to get to him, or he to her, and eventually, they would be together again.