Welcome back! This is the (more or less) long promised sequel. It has a plot and is also a bit darker than 'After the Battle'. You don't necessarily need to know 'After the Battle' to understand this story (if there is something mentioned that you could only understand with having read 'After the Battle', I will explain it shortly :) )

Also, some other stuff I'd like to point out:

1. April 11th, 2012, was the release date of 'Marvel's The Avengers'. Therefore I take this date as the day the whole 'thing' started (Fury going to the lab and Loki stealing the Tesseract). That means that right now in my story it is about late june.

2. I have not yet seen 'The Incredible Hulk'. So, I'm not really acquainted with the Hulk. I just take everything that was given in 'The Avengers' and add a little bit of my own thoughts into Bruce's/the Hulk's behavior.

3. I don't own 'The Avengers', Marvel, Marvel Studios et cetera.

4. The name of this story is inspired by a song called 'You'll never walk alone' by a german band called 'Die Toten Hosen' (Translation: The Dead Trousers' :D). I don't own the band or the song. But it's a nice song. I think the song matches the story. The original song belongs to Garry & The Peacemakers, but I like the version of Die Toten Hosen better ;)

5. I will do a number of things that might or might not be able to happen in the Marvel Universe. I don't know the comics.

I don't make money with this story! (I would like to, but I don't).

Merry belated Christmas and here you go!

It was one of these days. Well, every day was one of these days... at least since he had come into her life and left again, barely 24 hours since they had met.

Sure, she hadn't been very happy at first. Or at least she hadn't been sure of her feelings. He had undoubtely looked better than any model, but at first he had been... well, annoying. And then SHIELD had showed up and taken her equipment. It was his archievement she had got it back at last. And it had established the collaboration with the SHIELD-agents. She was being well payed, hat the best equipment and if she needed something else, she would get it, whatever it was.

And there was only one thing she was so desperately asking for and still didn't get it: he.

Jane pushed her hair aside. She had been back from Trømso for three months now, so he had been gone for fifteen. It was nearly unbearable.

Sure, SHIELD-agents were very nice, her new flat was great, Puente Antiguo was growing. Even Darcy had finished college and returned to New Mexico. And then there had been the Manhattan incident. SHIELD had been involved, but they had told her nothing! Yeah, probably Erik was involved. There had been aliens that wanted to rule the world? Ridiculous!

And he had apparently been there. But again: no news for her. Apart from the e-mail.

Jane smiled. When she had told Darcy, the younger woman had squealed something along the lines of 'Oh my God, how cute is that!'. True, it was cute. But she could live without cute e-mails, had she just the real Thor.

She stopped the van and looked around. The lab's parking lot was filled with the usual black SHIELD limousines, but there was one new car. The bright red sportscar (apparently a Lamborghini) was definitely new and definitely not of SHIELD. Surely director Fury – whom Jane had met and immediately been scared of – would kick out any agent that took his liberty to drive a tomato red Lamborghini to work. Also, it would probably cost too much. SHIELD-agent's pay wages were good, but not as high as to make them buy a Lamborghini just out of fun. She had met some of them, and it was certainly not a SHIELD-agent's style to drive a car like that to work.

Jane entered the big laboratory (SHIELD called it NM-base) and went straight to her personal office. It was directly connected to the main part of the lab where the really important experiments were carried out. Also, it was very stylish, being a glass cube with loads of up-to-date computers, printers and different scientific gadgets. Pff. As if she needed a styled lab.

But it was a room for just herself and so generously equipped that she wouldn't say no. None of the other scientists came into here, unless something very important had happened.

She dropped her bag and her keys at her desk and stared at the two strangers who were apparently busy fiddling with her computer. The left one wore a brown suit, slightly worn out, while the right one was dressed in an expensive looking grey suit.

"Excuse me! I do not think you have permission to look at that!" she said loudly.

The two me turned around.

"Ah, you must be Jenny... Josie..." the man in the expensive suit said, obviously having problems with her name.

He was good-looking, with slightly messed-up black-brownish hair, big chocolate puppy eyes and a goatee.

Although he looked familiar, Jane could not remember ever having met him.

"Well, I think you could just stay by calling me 'Miss Foster'." she replied coldly.

The other man with brown curls nodded.

"Sure. I am glad to meet you, Miss Foster. I've read about your theory of an Einstein-Rosen bridge, it's amazing!"

They shook hands.

"I'm Doctor Banner, by the way."

"Ah, so that's why you looked familiar to me, I just couldn't figure out your name. Your work on-"

"Bruce, I think you should see this." the other man, who had turned back to Jane's computer, interrupted.

"Excuse me." Banner said and went over his fellow.

Jane frowned. "And who are you?" she asked, addressing the other man.

Banner ignored her and grabbed the shoulder of said other man.

"Tony, this is serious. We must call director Fury."

Said Tony nodded and flipped his high-tech mobile open.

"Director, we got- yes, it's Stark. No, it's urgent this time... no, Steve's alright. Yes... yes. it's really urgent.. yeah, we're in New Mexico... that Jessie-girl?... Jane, whatever... yes, we met her, but... yes, yes of course... good. See you in twenty minutes then."

He hung up.

"Fury'll be here in like twenty minutes, he's as pissed as always to hear my lovely voice, so nothing new there."

"So you're Tony Stark." Jane stated.

Tony Stark, Iron Man, in her lab? He had been part of the Avengers group who had wrecked havoc in New York... just like Thor...

One half of her wanted to ask for an autograph to show off in front of Darcy later, the other half wanted to kick him out... or ask for Thor.

Stark walked over to her coffee machine and eyed it suspiciously.

"I suspect this... thing is not able to produce anything that really tastes like coffee, but for lack of a better option..."

Asshole!, Jane thought. Her coffee machine was perfectly able to produce coffee.

And here is my obligatory plea for reviews: *puppy dog eyes* Review? :3

*~This is the edited version of the story. It contains minor changes but does not change the general happenings.~*