Chapter 1 – Hope
Disclaimer: I do not own Thor, try to hide your shock lol
Probably just a two shot on Jane and Thor's reunion. I'm pretty much just not mentioning the Loki part of the story unless I decide to continue the story past two chapters. For now it just focuses on the luvvv ;) I also don't have a beta or anything so I just edited it myself. Soooo sorry for the errors I didn't catch as I read it over and over lol.
It was a colder night than usual as Jane Foster sat by the fire and began what had become a nightly routine. She sighed softly as she stargazed from the same spot, and same chair in which Thor had taught her about the nine realms, including the one he was now presumably trapped in.
She chuckled at the memory thinking that although she had listened intently to what he had to say, there had, at the time, been a constant nagging in the back of her head that he could very well just be a crazy deranged homeless man.
It had been about a month and a half since he had left her with a promise to return. It killed her to not know why he hadn't come back yet, but she wasn't about to give up her search for a way to get back to him. If his absence was truly intentional, she at least wanted the opportunity to ask why and possibly to sick Darcy on him depending on his answer.
The political scientist had stayed on as a part of their research team as Jane's assistant. Only this time she was paid by S.H.I.E.L.D, a job that had Jane often wondering if it was just a way to keep Darcy from blabbing about the destroyer 'incident' to the press. For whatever the reason Jane was glad Darcy had stayed, and they had become quiet close in the time they had been working together.
The fire had begun to die down, and she took this as her cue that it was time to go to bed. She had stayed up late enough already as she did every night, and knew she would be getting up early as well to get back to work. Erik and Darcy had been on her enough lately about her lack of sleep, and she didn't need more nagging in the morning.
She took one more lingering look at the stars and made her way back to her trailer. She could have afforded an apartment by now with what S.H.I.E.L.D was paying her to research, but she preferred the trailer. It reminded her of him, and she wanted to be near by and ready to drive if there was ever any glimpse that the wormhole may be re-opening.
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Thor rode out to the end of the broken bifrost. Heimdall stood ever stoic at the nearly completed end. It had taken a remarkably short time to rebuild the bridge. Thor had feared that it would take months or even years to fix as he had no knowledge of exactly how it was build to begin with.
Heimdall greeted the prince with a short bow.
"She is asleep. Night has fallen in her realm. " He said, already anticipating Thor's motives for visiting.
"I came to ask about the bifrost actually. Will it be completed before Jane's research?"
"Yes, the bridge should be ready and usable in five days time."
Thor smiled more sincerely than he had since his return from Midgard. He clasped Heimdall's shoulder in thanks and mounted his horse to return to the castle. By this time word had spread all over Asgard about Thor's mortal love in Midgard, and Thor's parents were eagerly awaiting their first meeting with the woman who had tamed their headstrong son.
As Thor lay in bed that night he couldn't help but let his thoughts stray to what it would be like to share it with Jane. He would of course let her set the pace of their relationship upon his return but he couldn't help but long for more than just her company.
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Five days later, around mid-day Jane and Darcy were hard at work in the lab. Well, Jane was hard at work. Darcy was playing solitaire on her laptop while occasionally getting Jane and herself some coffee. At another lab station Tony Stark was fast asleep with his head down on the desk. Darcy waded up some paper and threw it at his head, effectively waking him up.
"Huhh? Whaa?" Tony mumbled as he whipped the drool off his face.
"You're supposed to be helping us oh great one, not slobbering on the desk" said Darcy
"I am helping! It's not my fault Ms. Thunder queen over here keeps me up at all hours of the night checking and re-checking her data." Tony said, stretching his arms and shaking his head to wake up.
"Here, this helps" Darcy handed him a cup of coffee and proceeded to continue her game. He sighed, nodded his head in thanks and took a big gulp.
S.H.I.E.L.D had solicited the hero/genius's assistance in developing a working wormhole that would be able to bring what they considered a big asset to their organization back to earth. With both him and Jane working towards a solution their progress was speeding along and Jane's hopes were high that they were close to making a breakthrough.
She had been briefed on the intentions of S.H.I.E.L.D to create a team of some of the worlds more exceptional humans to assist in defending society from some of the other exceptional beings that would use their gifts for the wrong reasons. She hoped that Thor would see that her motives for wanting him back were very different from S.H.I.E.L.D's, and some of her reasons not nearly as innocent.
Although they shared a passionate kiss before his departure she wasn't sure exactly where they would stand if and when he returned. Did he miss her as much as she did him? Had he moved on thinking there was no way back? After all that Sif girl was awfully beautiful, and in some of the readings about Norse mythology that Jane had brushed up on the warrior woman was even his wife.
Sighing she decided there was no use worrying about it until she knew for sure, which she hoped was soon.
"We've been working for a while, do you guys want to order in some lunch? Pizza maybe?" Jane asked Darcy and Tony, knowing that neither was one to typically turn down an offer of pizza.
"On it." Tony said, drooling for the second time that day as he took the girls orders and placed the order online.
Tony and Darcy lazed around after their meal, too full to think about starting to work again just yet, as Jane was already back to work, not even done with her last slice.
"I don't know how you do it; you're up before all of us and go to bed last. How do you still have the energy to work this hard?" Tony said, lounging on a couch in the corner. Jane thought for a second before answering,
"What if it was Pepper?" Jane said and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Point taken." Tony stretched and got up, Darcy grumbling but following suite and the two got back to work. Darcy, deciding it was time to be useful, started organizing some of Jane's work and doing whatever she could to help.
As silence descended on the group, the sensors on Jane's equipment suddenly started going haywire, and they could visibly see the sky beginning to cloud over in a very unnatural way.
"Oh my god," Jane said through a smile as she looked outside and then checked the machines to double check, "Oh my god! Get in the car! Go go go!" She rushed the two outside.
"Wait a minute." Tony turned and grabbed a metal case from inside and proceeded to suit up in his emergency travel Ironman suit that he had only used once before at the racetrack. "You can never be too careful, we don't know exactly what's happening." His voice turning more robotic as the suite covered his face.
"Alright alright, let's go!" Jane was trying not to get her hopes up, but it was hard with the funnel that was slowly starting to descend from the sky out in the desert. She hopped into the van and barely waited for Darcy and Tony to get in before speeding off towards the anomaly.
"You know, I probably could have flown us over there…" Tony pointed out, but his observation was lost on Jane and Darcy just gave him 'she's hopeless' look so he gave up, chuckling at Jane's blind excitement. It was the happiest he had seen the young scientist in weeks and he hoped for her sake and his that the tornado-like funnel that was just beginning to reach the ground was the one she was looking for.
Stay tuned! This is most likely just a two-shot, I just wanted to write their reuniting scene because I'm too impatient to wait for the next movie :P Review! I'll be attempting my first lemon in the next chapter so bare with me :)