Jane Foster looked up at the clear sky above her head, determined to stare at it until it produced the results that her calculations predicted. Her fingers drummed against the dashboard as the steering wheel dug into her stomach and her mind checked and rechecked her calculations. Her mentor and friend, Erik, sat dubiously staring up at the sky. "Wait for it!" She could feel his doubt and impatience. Jane cursed the confidence that caused her to call her old professor out to the middle of nowhere, to sit in a beat up old hummer in the middle of the night. "Its never been this late before," She muttered, pulling a chart towards herself to check what she had already gone over five times.

"Can I turn on the radio?" Darcy whined from the drivers seat, her hands inching towards the dial. Jane felt the headache behind her eyes crank up a few notches. "No," She snapped, her frustration with the anomalies' delay getting vented out on her lovable assistant. The girl huffed, flopping back against the chair twirling a long dark brown curl around a finger.

"Jane, you can't keep doing this," she could hear the pity in his voice and steadily ignored his gaze.

"The last seventeen occurrences have been predictable to the second." Jane muttered, almost to herself as caught a glimpse of Erik's face in the mirror.

"Jane, you're an astrophysicist, not a storm chaser." His patience was more frustrating than her lack of a results. She knew what he thought about her research, calling it her white whale. "I'm telling you, there's a connection between these atmospheric disturbances and my research." The dubious look on his face remained and as another minute ticked by she felt obligated to justify the expense of his last minute, cross country plane ticket. "I wouldn't have asked you to fly out here if I wasn't absolutely sure."

Darcy frowned, her brow furrowing, as the flash of blue and lighting in the rear view mirror caught her eye. "Umm…Jane, I think you want to see this."

"Not now"

"I really think you want to take a look at this!" Jane and Erik spun around at the urgency in her voice. They gaped at the huge anomaly in the sky. It was glowing green blue, like the auroras up north. Except they were in middle of no where New Mexico and weren't anywhere near where auroras were common. The sky rippled like they were underwater staring up at the surface of something far above them.

"What is that?"

"I thought you said it was a subtle aurora!" Erik gasped and Jane felt a moment of triumph. Before reality hit her and she screamed "Go," Darcy immediately stamped on the gas and Jane nearly tumbled out of the van until Erik tugged her back in.

She dragged herself into the passanger seat, andrenaline coursing through her veins and overriding her usual common sense. "Get closer!" She told Darcy as she slammed her hand down on the window button to lower the glass.

"Right good one!" Darcy shouted back, beginning to look scared of her boss, but Jane paid no attention. She grabbed the handheld camera from where it was bouncing on the dashboard, about to slide off.

She ignored the little warning in the back of her mind, knowing the chance of this validation ever happening again was infinitesimally slim to none. "Go!" She leaned precariously out of the window. A chuckle bubbled up from her chest and Darcy looked at her like she was crazy. The sky twirled like a whirlpool, colored dust and wind descending until it touched down with a concussion of energy that whipped her hair back from her face. Erik gasped behind her. They were close now. Jane counted the seconds until they'd be inside the event. Suddenly whiplash jerked her head to one side as Darcy yanked the wheel to the left.

"What are you doing?" Jane shrieked. No no no! She needed every ounce of data, every tiny bit to get the validation of years of study and disbelief.

"I am not dying for six college credits!" Her assistant was shouting at her. Jane felt fury flash and she lunged for the wheel, yanking it back to the right. Shrieks filled the car as they struggled. She managed to yank them back onto course in time to watch them enter the whirling storm. Her hair lifted as lighting crackled around them. They continued to struggle as out of the whirling darkness a shape took form. She squinted and then gasped.

They stopped fighting and worked to not hit the shadowy figure of a man that had appeared in the storm. The girls shrieked as the van fishtailed unavoidably close to the shadow. The sound of his skull and body connecting with the van was loud over the storm, over the lighting and of their screams as the shadow bounced off of the side of the van. His head cracked against the glass and he tumbled out of sight. She snapped out of her drive for research in an instant. She gasped, exchanging a terrified glance with Darcy as Erik tried to pick himself off of the floor, and out from under a deluge of useless parts that had fallen on him. The consequences rushed in as she fumbled for the door handle. Flashlight in hand she ran towards the figure that lay crumpled on the ground. "Legally I think that was your fault." Darcy shouted from somewhere behind her.

"Get the first aid kit," She called as she threw herself onto her knees. "Do me a favor and don't be dead, please!" She begged as she reached down to heave the man over onto his back. His heart pounded underneath her fingertips and she let out a tiny sigh of relief as he rolled over with a gasp. Startled and confused his bright blue eyes met hers and held them. Behind her she heard Darcy stop short as the light of the flashlights caught his face.

"Whoa, does he need C.P.R? Because I totally know C.P.R!"

Jane ignored her, instead letting her eyes skip over his face, looking for blood or anything. When she looked back at him again he was still staring at her. Now that her heart rate was slowing and it was clear he wasn't about to die in her arms she could let herself look at the man she had just creamed with her van. He had propped himself up on an elbow and she pulled away as she realized he was closer to her than any man had been in years. His hair was long, the femininity of it offset by strong face and blonde beard. Those eyes caught her again and it took her a moment to realize that they were just sitting there, breathing hard and staring at each other.

The moment was broken as he flopped fully onto his back with a groan, one arm falling over to crush the dried grass. She stumbled back into her brain as the situation came back to her once again. She looked around for anything a car, dirt bike, atv, anything to explain how she hit a guy in the middle of an empty desert. "Where did he come from?"

Suddenly he was one his feet, faster than she expected and she almost fell over backwards. She got to her feet unsteadily as he groaned.

"Are you alright?" She asked.

"Hammer?" His voice rumbled as he staggered. She took an involuntary step back as she realized he towered over everyone else there. "Hammer?" He repeated again.

"Yeah, we can tell you're hammered, its pretty obvious." Darcy piped up, the snark returning in full force. Darcy let her flashlight tip and Jane gasped as it caught the glimpse of something on the ground. "Oh my god! Erik!" She gasped as the light showed a symmetrical pattern burned into the grass and dirt at their feet. "Look at this! We have to move quickly before this all changes." She fumbled around in her pockets for her notebook.

"Jane, we have to take him to the hospital."

She could hear the man shouting in the background, but her eyes were busy attempting to commit the complicated pattern to her memory. "He's fine, look at him." She gave him a quick glance, up and moving without stumbling, no reason to worry.

"Heimdall, I know you can hear me! Open the Bifrost." Oops… apparently not fine. He was shouting at the sky. Still a crazy man wasn't more important than her research right now. "Hospital, you go. I'll stay."

Suddenly he turned and pointed to Erik, "You. What realm is this?" Erik and Jane looked up at him blankly. "Alfheim, Nornheim."

"New Mexico!" A tiny red dot appeared on his chest as Darcy pulled her taser from her purse and pointed it at him.

"You dare threaten me, Thor, with so puny a weapo…" He took a step forwards and dropped like a stone. Jane gaped at him, then up at Darcy who was still standing with her taser, wires attached to the twitching man.

"What? He was freaking me out!"

Jane staredc for a moment before she and Erik turned to the man on the ground. Erik approached him cautiously, nudging him with his foot from a safe distance before leaning down to take his pulse. Jane sighed, putting her notebook back in her pocket. She grabbed her camera from the back seat as Erik put his hands beneath the guys shoulders and tried to drag him towards the van. He wasn't very successful. It took him and Darcy almost ten minutes to maneuver him to the back of the van and in, Erik almost falling on top of him.

"Next time you decide to Taser someone, make sure they're already in the car, OK?" Erik huffed, with a final grunt they shoved him into the small empty space between the equipment. "Jane! Come on!" She snapped a final couple pictures and darted back towards the van. She hoped she'd have enough that once they took care of the crazy man in the back seat, she would have everything she'd need.

She was flipping through the pictures on the memory card, checking the detail as they pulled into the driveway of the ER. Thankfully they had a few nice EMT's to help them maneuver the man into a wheelchair. He disappeared behind moving doors as Jane tentatively approached the check-in desk, unsure of what to say. The nurse behind the desk looked up at her with a smile.

"We just need some information from you. Name?"

She blanked, scrambling for a moment before she remember what he had said. "He said it was.." She hesitated for a moment, knowing what her answer was gonna sound like, "Thor?"

"T-H-O-R." The woman spelled it out to herself. "And your relationship to him?"

She flushed bright pink and stumbled through her answer "I've never seen him before."

"Until she hit him with a car." Jane snapped her gaze to her assistant with a glare.

"I grazed him," She amended quickly. "But she Tasered him."

Darcy's chin lifted proudly and the look on her face seemed like she was reliving the moment a bit. "Yes I did." She grinned.

Jane shook her head as the nurse looked at them with confusion. "Is that it?"

"I guess so," the nurse answered tentatively, a distant shouting echoed through the doors and suddenly the EMT's outside were running towards the ER. "You're good to go, thank you!" She shouted as a voice over the intercom started calling a code yellow. She hurried off through the doors, leaving Jane and her friends staring after them.

"Well," Jane started after a moment, "That was interesting." And she turned and headed for the car.

It was practically dawn by the time they got back their lab, or at least what they could call their lab. The refurbished car dealership filled with a hodge-podge of home made equipment looked more insane than official. 270 degrees of floor to ceiling windows didn't help either. Another two hours for the picture to be printed, data recorded and the findings to be posted on the corkboard in the center. Jane had been typing on the computer for twenty minutes when Erik finally spoke up, "You don't think this was just a magnetic storm… do you?"

Jane backed away from the desktop enough to let him see what she had been staring at, "Look, the lensing around these edges is characteristic of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge." He repeated the last few words with her as identical smiles grew across their faces.

"A what?" Darcy piped up from across the table, her brow furrowed behind cat eye glasses.

Erik looked confusedly at her assistant then back at Jane, "I thought you were a science major?"

"Political science."

"She was the only applicant," Jane said as an explanation, clicking through the program.

"An Einstein-rosen bridge is a theoretical connection between two different points of space-time." Jane smiled slightly as she noticed the glazed look on her assistants face. Having attempted to explain the complicated astrophysics to her numerous times without success she settled for the simple explanation.

"It's a wormhole," She interrupted as she passed on her way around the table. She reached for a piece of paper, eager to start bouncing her theories off of her old mentor. "Erik. Look. What do you see?" She attempted to keep the excitement from her face.
"Stars?" Erik seemed confused by the obvious answer.

"Yeah but not our stars." He glanced up at her and she let herself have a small smile, "See this is the star alignment for our quadrant this time of year. And unless Ursa Minor decided to take a day off, these are someone elses constellations!" She couldn't help herself as she almost bounced with excitement. So much for a cold scientific analysis. But she couldn't help it, years of theories and research were finally falling into place.

"Hey!" Darcy's voice came from over by the cork board where she had put up the infrared images from the event. "Check this out." Jane walked over, her eyes focusing on the photograph in Darcy's hand. She was five feet away when she noticed it, something she had missed up close. She continued forward, gape jawed. Erik was silent then like a lightbulb going off he gasped as well, "No, it can't be." He breathed as they all stared at the dark shadow in the shape of a man from fifty feet up inside the vortex. She turned in shock, instinctively pulling her glasses from her head as she began to walk, then run towards the van. She heard their footsteps behind her as they hesitated for a moment then scrambled to follow. "I think I left something at the hospital."

She drove recklessly fast down to the hospital, praying the whole while she wouldn't have to waste time dealing with a ticket. She ran towards the hospital entrance, ignoring the front desk as she charged ahead. Slowing to a power walk she single mindedly headed towards the ER station.

"Where's the man I brought in earlier?" She gasped out at the nurse behind the desk.

The nurse looked up in surprise, looking more unkempt and frazzled than earlier, cradling a phone between her shoulder and her ear. "He's down the hall but I'm afraid you can't go see him." Jane was about to argue when a voice on the phone drew the nurses attention.

Jane turned and headed down the hallway the nurse had gestured at distractedly, leaving Darcy and Erik to catch up. She glanced at the clipboards outside the door until she saw one marked only with Thor. The door was open and when they ducked inside the room was empty. She noticed the restraints on the bars of the bed, giving them only a passing glance before she realized what this meant. "Nononono." She breathed as she turned around and started to frantically look up and down the halls. After alerting the front desk, who was not at all thrilled to find out that the man who apparently destroyed their ER and dislocated a security guards shoulder had wandered off, and an hour of searching Jane returned reluctantly to her car. Anger simmered below her skin as she threw herself into the front seat and slammed the door.

"I just lost my most important piece of evidence." She snapped out. "Typical." Years of frustrations, setbacks and disbelief were coming to a head but she refused to give up. She had dealt with setbacks before and, damn it, this one wasn't going to stop her.

"So now what?"

"We find him," She answered, determination starting to replace the anger. She wasn't going to let this stop her, not when she finally had something to go on after all these years.

"Did you see what he did in there?" Erik was staring at her in disbelief. "I'm not sure finding him is the best idea."

"Well our data can't tell us what its like to be in that event, and he can. So we're going to find him."

"Okaay," Darcy rummaged in her purse, pulled out her taser and began to check it.

"So we're going to look all over New Mexico, right?"

"Exactly," Jane said as she stubbornly threw the van into reverse and began to back out of the badly done parking job. Suddenly a blonde head was in her back window and yet again the man known as Thor was saying hello to the ground after being hit with her car. "Whaat?" Jane shrieked as she threw the car into park.

"I'm so sorry," She was gasping as she stumbled out of the car and towards the unconscious man, again, "I swear I'm not doing this on purpose." She reached down to cradle his face in her hands. He was unconscious… again. Luckily this time the van was much closer.

((A/N: Hey guys, this is a new fic. Its almost entirely written and from here I'll move onto the other Marvel Movies when I get a chance. I'd absolutely love reviews and feedback if you can swing it!))