Disclaimer: I do not own Thor or the Avengers. Sadly.

Author's Note: Transitive chapter. I'm taking things slow, because the Loki and Darcy fandom does not know the meaning of slow. Since this is going to be my first multi-chapter story, I will take time on figuring out all the kinks. This will not be a whirlwind romance. I hope this doesn't deter your attention.

Midgard

"I.. ah.. Jane!" Darcy manages to squeak out, never taking her eyes off the super villain a foot away from her.

Still breathless from being spun around, Jane turns around and lets out a gasp of horror as her big doe eyes change to being a deer in headlights about to be run over.

"Oh my god!" Jane stumbles back and her eyes connects with Darcy as if to confirm that it wasn't an hallucination, "Oh my god! "

"Yeah, we got that! Oh my god!" Darcy panics even further as she sees in her peripheral vision that Mr. Public Enemy Number One had abruptly shifted his stare from his brother to the inept intern that was about to begin hyperventilating. Darcy takes this as a sign to fall back and scuttle away doing the hermit crab.

"Thor!" Jane hisses, rather loudly too, "What is he doing here!"

"Do not be alarmed Jane." Thor thunders reassuringly, giving a nod of acknowledgment to Darcy, "Lady Darcy."

Still stunned, Darcy can only force out a unintelligible, "Uh huh."

"My brother is harmless." Although Thor says this confidently, there is a note of fatigue within it. Noting the skeptical air around him, he clears his throat and adds in, "Currently."

Loki, albeit in a state equal to or even more than of Thor, still had the energy to roll his eyes in exasperation.

Hearing the tell-tale sound of security running down the halls, Thor helps (more like lifts) Darcy to her feet, as well as Loki.

"I must take him to Asgard for his trial and punishment by the All Father, but after learning of your whereabouts, I could not resist arriving here to show you that I had indeed kept my promise. Fret not, for I shall return once again for you." Thor moves to kiss Jane's hand, only to have her encompass him in a crushing hug and kiss him in a way their American red-neck brethren would be proud of. "Goodbye dearest Jane. Lady-"

"Darcy." Darcy feels more at ease now due to this and smiles hesitantly, despite how she felt like she had just witnessed enough PDA to last her a lifetime.

"Darcy." Thor softens, "For your service and kindred spirit to Miss Foster and the hand you extended towards me when I had first arrived here, despite my petulance and brashness, consider me to be your trusted friend."

Thor reluctantly lets go of Jane's hand and walks toward Loki, who was standing motionlessly with an unreadable emotion upon his face. Thor places his hand upon Loki's scratched up shoulder plate, and murmurs faintly, "Let us go, brother."

With a flash, they were gone, leaving nothing but an empty echo in their wake.

Jane collapses from the sheer emotion and magnitude of the events that had taken place in a matter of minutes. Luckily for Jane, Darcy was more agile than usual in that moment and successfully supports her up into a chair before she hits the ground.

"He's gone," Jane says to no one in particular, "Again.."

Darcy feels uncomfortable, and it wasn't just because of the ten SHIELD agents bustling around the lounge with gadgets that no normal person should see. Darcy was never the one for comforting, but she supposes that right now the quality of comfort didn't really matter for the hollowed out woman in front of her.

They are shipped off in an armored truck, with blacked out windows and big burly men without faces by their sides.

Darcy has a mini-attack as each jolt of the truck springs her up and forward.

Jane silently cries into her shoulder; she was never the one for theatrics and Darcy sympathizes with her, since nobody wants an audience to witness their most vulnerable point.

Where were they going? What time is it? Will they go into witness protection? Oh my god, they're going to off her in the woods because no one needs the intern. Wait, yes they do. Everyone needs interns. Does SHIELD have interns or are all their interns SWAT members and professional baristas that know how to use a semi-automatic?

Darcy tries to calm her nerve-wracked mind and relates back to the wisdom of the mental health seminar she attended just for the free food, because spending your last paycheck on ridiculously expensive books means to eat microwavable Betty Crocker cakes for three whole weeks.

"It'll be alright. He'll come back," Darcy hears herself saying, "He came back the first time. He'll come back the second."

However a disturbing thought forms in her mind when she says this.

If Thor's coming back, doesn't that mean Loki will as well?

Darcy pretends that her shaking hands were due to too much caffeine. She hasn't eaten in five hours.


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