A/N: Rewiting the whole thing.
Her limbs quivered and she wrapped her arms around her middle to disguise the shaking but her mouth betrayed it anyway. Her voice hitched as she gave her statement in broken, terrible Japanese to the police officer and exasperated, the officer's shoulders drooped and he waved the job off to a younger officer who looked at her in awe. His senior officer called them stupid airheads in the language he thought she couldn't understand and went back to comparing notes with his partner, clearly assuming that neither she nor the Polish model she had come to the party with had the ability to give an accurate description of what had happened.
It didn't take long for the junior officer to reach the same conclusion as his seniors, that they were barking up the wrong tree and they were allowed to leave without further inquiries. They had bigger problems on their plate, like finding out exactly what had caused the important rich man who was also deeply involved in illegal weapons trade to die so suddenly.
She knew what they would find. The idiot had opted for the liver of fugu of course. It was supposed to be the most poisonous and most tasty part of the blowfish and a man like Corvin would opt for it. It was simple psychology, the man had a God complex, he thought he was invincible and he wanted to prove it to his business partners. It was pure male posturing at its finest and it had gotten him killed.
That's what they would find.
SHIELD was very good with undetectable poisons with a very short half life. A few hours was all it took for the toxin to be completely broken down into bits and pieces that were found in everyone and were completely normal.
No one would know any better.
"Target deposed." She said as her encrypted phone rang.
"We have a problem." When The Black Widow answered her instead of her handler, Smith, she knew something was very much wrong.
"When's the debriefing?"
"No time, you have to report to London. It's your sister."
She stopped mid step and only just thought of crossing the road before continuing the conversation.
"What's wrong?"
"Do you remember Erik Selvig?"
Of course she remembered Erik, he had given Jane and her several spontaneous lectures on astrophysics that had gone over her head and that she now used as a lullaby.
Brilliant scientist, terrible professor.
"Yes."
"He contacted your sister and asked her to come to London to look at some data he'd found."
"That's not surprising."
"He was found at Stonehenge naked and running around with expensive scientific equipment."
"That's a bit more surprising. BAC?"
"Nil."
"Really?"
A lot more surprising. She'd expected him to be at least a little bit drunk to go streaking at a historical monument.
"Report to the London headquarters as soon as you land. Apparently they have some presents for you."
"But those guys are idiots."
"Really?" Natasha sounded amused. That either meant that a disaster of monumental proportions was coming, or that she was going to kill someone in a very painful way. Either one was equally possible.
"They keep on trying to recreate Mjolnir. I tried telling them that tasers and lightning rods already exist but they didn't quite listen."
"Well, I think you're going to like what they've got for you."
"Is it a big gun?"
"Let's just say it packs a punch."
Alice Foster, sister of a certain Jane Foster squealed in glee. She loved getting presents.
"Whoa, who's the hottie?" Darcy muttered to Ian as they waited with the police.
They had watched as a tall blonde model type had driven up in a sleek black sports car and gone up to one of the officers. The two talked and eventually the officer pointed to them and with a smile at him the model type began walking up to Darcy and Ian.
"Hi, you must be Darcy." She said.
"Yes, I am." Darcy said putting her hand out for a handshake, her eyes never leaving the mass of straight platinum blonde hair that tumbled down the new girl's shoulders right down to her elbows. "That is one hell of a blonde."
"Straight from the bottle too, had to dye it for a photo-shoot. Still, doesn't seem too bad does it?" The glamazon she had correctly categorised as a model lifted a strand and held it up to eye level and screwed up her mouth.
"You look like the Khaleesi." Her straight dark brows contrasted with her pale hair beautifully and Darcy remembered her own time being blonde and sighed, depressed. It had not gone well and she had had to hack her hair off to a short bob that she could not pull off. Well, she could but it only seemed to attract the really strange artistic types.
"That's probably the look they wanted. Too bad the bleach job doesn't come with a hunk of Dothraki Man Warrior." Model type waggled her eyebrows. Darcy liked Model type.
Darcy grinned like an idiot before shaking it off. "Wait umm, who exactly are you?"
"Oh sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, Alice Foster, Jane's little sister."
"Oh. Ohh you're here because she disappeared? Wow, these British police work fast, I didn't think they'd be calling her emergency contact so soon." It had only been four hours since Jane disappeared and even then only one hour since she'd actually called the police. Jane would have killed her if she got the authorities stomping over her discovery but four hours was four hours too long. "She mentioned having a sister vaguely, I didn't think you were real."
Normally Darcy would have gotten suspicious that someone claiming to be Jane's sister was talking to them, she hadn't gotten her iPod back from SHIELD yet after all (those bastards) but this close she could see a lot of resemblance between Jane and Alice so she accepted it at face value. They had the same angled eyebrows and jaw line although Alice had a more upturned nose and her eyes were grey, not brown like Jane. She looked more like Jane's mother whom they had met a few weeks ago and by now Darcy was pretty sure she was Jane's sister. Besides, it wasn't like they were doing anything besides waiting.
"I've only flown in a few days ago or I would have caught up with you all. And I'm not exactly her emergency contact, I have a police friend and told her to call me if anything with Jane Foster came up. Of course I always thought it would be because she hit someone with her car not because she up and disappeared. I know she's here because of something Erik told her and given what happened on the news, I got worried."
"Yeah we don't let Jane drive anymore." Darcy nodded sagely. Intern may have thought she was a terrible driver but she had nothing on Jane. And then she realised that Alice had said something about the news. "Wait, what news?"
"Uhh, you haven't seen it?"
"Seen what?"
Alice took her phone out and within seconds Darcy and Intern huddled around it to see footage of a naked Erik running around Stonehenge with equipment that would probably fascinate Jane. The three who were actually watching it were far more interested in the naked man with a crazed look on his face.
An awkward silence followed.
"Well...That explains why Erik didn't pick up any of her calls."
Alice snorted. "Yeah, doesn't look like he had any place to put his mobile."
She was funny and the discovery delighted Darcy. She was definitely interning for the wrong Foster. Sure, working with Jane meant meeting Thor who was buff as hell (and realising aliens were real but after New York, everyone knew that) but Alice probably knew her own fair share of pretty boys with muscles.
"I still don't understand where Dr Foster went." The Intern looked at the building with a confused look. Darcy didn't blame him, in her long time with Jane she had also faced plenty of occasions in which questions that had no answers began popping up. It was very annoying and Darcy had given up trying to find the answer to them, she'd leave it to Jane and Erik. She was just glad she'd been bumped up from unpaid intern who needed credits to graduate to paid intern who had graduated, it made retail therapy much easier.
"Well the keys did-" She stopped mid-sentence, not sure if telling Alice about the mysterious incident with the hole in space and gravity not working was a good idea. "That's why we're here I guess. I'm sure the police will find her."
"It looks like we'll be here for a while." Alice sighed and Ian looked at Darcy in askance.
"Yup." The three looked at one another before settling back, leaning against the now useless, keyless car.
"So," Alice started, "Want to watch funny cat videos on Youtube?"
Definitely working for the wrong sister.
Jane pulled the jacket closer around her. She felt...odd. Cold and hot all at the same time but not like she had a fever. Her insides felt warm but her skin felt cold and she rushed out the warehouse, unnerved by its emptiness. Where were Darcy, Darcy's intern (what was his name again?) and the kids?
Her heart sank as she took in the cars with their chequered blue and yellow, silently cursing Darcy for calling the police. Darcy, who was coincidentally running towards her calling her name, sounding distressed.
"Jane!"
"Tell me you didn't call the cops." Jane said, calm and cool, hating that she sounded so harsh but unable to stop it either.
The last time a government agency had walked into her workspace they had seized all her equipment and her life time's work, her father's lifetime work as well and she couldn't bear the thought of that happening all over again.
"What was I supposed to do?" Darcy wasn't reacting the way Jane thought she would, she wasn't taking it lying down, she wasn't as chilled out as she usually was and alarm bells started ringing in her head but she continued on, relentless.
"Not call the police?"
"I was freaking out-"
"You call the cops, they call the feds, next thing you know we have SHIELD crawling all over Area 51-ing the place."
"Jane-"
"We had a stable gravitation anomaly, we had unimpeded access, our only competition was ten years old!" This was huge, this was exciting, the very fabric of the universe seemed to be thinning out, why on Earth would Jane want others crawling all over it turning it into a freakshow when they couldn't even understand what this was?
"Jane!" Darcy said firmly. "You were gone for five hours."
"What?"
Before she could begin to comprehend the thought she saw a flash of blue in the corner of her eyes and before long found herself staring at her baby sister. Alice was clutching a blue umbrella with little ice cream cones all over it, just like the one Jane had given to her for her first day of Kindergarten and she was overcome by the feeling of affection.
She hadn't seen her baby sister in so long!
"What's wrong with your hair?!" Jane cried out even as she tugged her down for a hug.
"She spilled gorgeous all over it." Darcy replied instead. "When I went blonde I had to hack the whole thing off, so many split ends."
"Right? It is so hard to get a good colourist!" Alice commiserated before the smile, that had been nervous to begin with, fell away. She tucked away the umbrella and Jane realised quite suddenly that while it was pouring cats and dogs all around them, there was no rain anywhere near her. "So, you noticed the little force field you've got going on." Alice said shakily.
"But this...what's-?!" She couldn't wrap her head around it yet, especially as thunder rumbled and she chose to focus on the fact that her sister was here instead. "I thought you were in Tokyo! And aren't you eating anything, you look so thin!"
Jane fussed, smoothing a hand over Alice's brow, mentally cringing at how far up it was. Just her luck that she was the only short one in their family. Usually she didn't remember that as much since Darcy was around the same height as her but Alice always found a way to make her feel like a Lilliputian, the high heels she was wearing then only adding to it.
"I was, flew in when Mom called saying you were here. It took a while to get some free time, I had a backlog of assignments. And hello, you're one to talk, Darcy tells me you eat nothing but ice cream these days."
"Oh right for the model-y thing."
Jane had never understood why her baby sister had gone into modelling. It had started as a way to pay off student loans but soon Alice had dropped out of law school to focus on her modelling career and it had rankled Jane.
"Yes the model-y thing," Alice said patiently and whipped her head around for a second. "Jane what happened? You disappeared for five hours, do you remember anything that happened? Or why this weird no rain over you thing is happening?"
"No I-," Jane looked around just as puzzled as her sister but certain that this was related to the strange red light in the stone and saw standing a bit away, Thor. His red cape fluttered lightly and she was struck dumb at the sight. She walked towards him as if pulled by a string. Behind her she heard vague squeals from Darcy and Alice and in the back of her mind it registered that the 'force field' had moved with her and the rain had suddenly drenched the two.
There were far too many reunions happening in this one day, she thought as she walked up to him, the anger of all the past two years suddenly at the forefront, compounded by the weird feeling in her body and the fact that her vision seemed to be tinged with a blue light.
"Jane-" Her name sounded so good from his lips but Jane was on a mission and without letting him continue her hand raised of its own accord, whipping across his cheek.
Damn but that felt good.