Hello! I am so sorry for the horrible lack of updates. College hates my Muse. Or she hates me. She's run off with all these story ideas that are not ones I am currently trying to work on. But, I gave you guys a 1500+ word chapter here, and I personally love it.

Also, I have to give a HUGE thank you to Roz, my tumblr bestie, who gave me the idea for this chapter. It was just "dealing with social media", but it was one that called to my Muse.

So, without further ado, here is chapter 9.


Chapter 9: Social Mayhem

Jane had never been big on social media. She had a Facebook to stay in touch with family and friends from college, and she had a Twitter with which she tweeted about science. Darcy had….everything. And Darcy frequently took pictures of the Avengers and co. She loved it, and the public loved it. Her top photo so far was one of Freyja. It was captioned "Engagement rings are good, but engagement cats are better. #ThorProposed #JaneFosterIsGonnaBeAnAsgardianPrincess".

Though, there were some unforeseen consequences to Darcy's post. Women started leaving nasty messages on Jane's Twitter. Avengers Tower always had people trying to get inside, and there were now upset women trying to get Thor to dump Jane.

"Can we sic the furball from Hell on them?" Tony asked, peering out the window through the blinds.

"No," Jane said shortly, cuddling Freyja to her chest.

Thor stroked Jane's hair. "Those women are foolish. No woman stood a chance for my affections after meeting you, Jane."

Tony sat down, running his fingers through his own hair. It gave him a mad scientist look, which was amusing. His eyes were lit up in the way that they got when he was thinking, and Jane was wary of anything that Tony Stark was thinking.

"Is there a way to get them to stop this harassment?" Thor asked, holding Jane to him.

Freyja meowed, moving to Thor's shoulder. She curled up right on top of it, managing to stay perfectly because of how broad it was. Thor rubbed the cat's ears. She purred at him.

"I still want to chuck the furball at them," Tony said. "But, maybe if we could get you guys to do like an interview about how you got together in the first place, they would see how great you guys are and stop."

"It's nice how optimistic you are, Tony, but I've been getting messages saying that I'm an awful woman who doesn't deserve Thor. They say how I'm ugly and not good enough for him," Jane retorted.

Thor tensed. Jane felt him tense and put a hand on his cheek.

"Hey, you'd know if I couldn't handle it. They're just jealous. I'm not going anywhere."

"Do an interview, then. Show these people that you're not going anywhere. Show them that you and Thor are a couple who is gonna stay that way."

Thor looked at Jane, watching her eyebrows scrunch together as she thought about it. He held her hand to his cheek, placing gentle kisses against her palm.

"What do you think?" she asked him.

"I think that it's a wonderful idea. I shall be glad to stand up before everyone and declare my love for you."

Jane smiled softly, and she pecked his lips. "Okay, we'll do it. One interview. Get a good network, Tony."

He grinned. "I only take the best."

~*~The Next Day~*~

"That was fast…" Jane murmured, sitting on the couch in her and Thor's living area.

Thor was holding her hand, watching warily as the camera crew was setting up. He had Mjolnir in easy reach, and Freyja was curled up happily in Thor's lap. She liked Thor the most, as he had been the one to take her from the shelter, but she was resting her head against Jane's leg, purring.

"It was," Thor agreed. "But it is Tony."

Jane ran her fingers through Freyja's fur, attempting to calm down. The interviewers had told her and Thor to just act natural, but it was hard, given all the cameras in their living room. Thor pressed a kiss to her temple.

"I love you," he whispered in her ear before pulling away.

She smiled at him. "I love you, too, Thor."

"Alright, we start in three minutes. Are you two feeling alright?" the interviewer asked kindly.

"Just a little nervous. I've never been on national television before. Knowingly. Obviously I made it during the news coverage of Greenwich," Jane rambled.

Thor smiled and kissed her temple once more, hoping to calm her. She took a deep breath. Freyja moved closer to her, and she rubbed her head against Jane and purred loudly.

"You'll do fine. We're just gonna listen to you guys tell your story," the interviewer soothed. "Are you two ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be," Jane murmured.

Thor nodded.

"And you're on in five...four...three...two…" The camera man pointed to the interviewer.

"Hello. I am Hannah Roberts from BBC News. I am here with Dr. Jane Foster, an astrophysicist, and Thor Odinson of the Avengers. Recently, it became public knowledge that the two of you got engaged. What was the reaction to that?"
"Positive, from our friends. But, less positive from others," Thor replied.

"My Twitter, which is an account used specifically to talk about astrophysics, was bombarded with messages from jealous women who said I didn't deserve to be with Thor. Most people don't even know Thor or myself, so I don't understand how they could judge."

"Well, why don't you tell us about your story?" Hannah suggested.

"Well, we met about two and a half years ago now. It was in New Mexico."

"I was banished from Asgard, and Jane found me in the desert when she was studying astral anomalies. I was...incoherent, to say the least. I was shouting. I understandably freaked Darcy out. Darcy is Jane's assistant in the lab, and she is a good friend. She tasered me."

"We drove him to the hospital, and they kept him overnight. It was the next morning when we found out he had been inside of the anomaly that I was recording. I went back to get him from the hospital. We kind of took him in."

"She truly was open hearted. She gave me clothes, fed me. She helped me try to retrieve Mjolnir. I still was not worthy, but I gained back some of the equipment that had been stolen earlier that day from her."

"He opened up my eyes to the fact that my entire life hadn't been wasted on researching something that didn't exist. I was...well, I was never one to hear that my theories were right. Thor was the first who told me they were. I was to the point where I almost gave up, but he told me I had to finish my research. I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to use what I've been working on for years and the new knowledge Thor has brought me to actually build an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, or wormhole."

"And you shall. So long as you keep Tony from the lab," Thor said.

Jane nodded in agreement. "I'll let him come in when we need fancy gear to be venturing out to these other realms that we're not too sure about. The wormhole is gonna be Darcy, you, and me."

Thor grinned and kissed her temple. She smiled, blushing slightly.

"And, how did you two get together?" Hannah asked.

Thor smiled. "Well, after I fought the Destroyer and Mjolnir found me worthy again, I had to return to Asgard. I promised Jane that I would return. I wished to kiss her, but I did not know how she felt, so I gave her a polite kiss on the knuckles."

"He was not leaving to another realm for who knows how long without me getting a real kiss from him. I kissed him."

"And I am glad you did so," Thor replied, kissing her cheek.

"So am I," she agreed, looking up at him lovingly.

"After that, we did not see each other again until the Greenwich Incident a few months ago, but I am determined to stay with Jane for as long as she will have me. I knew that I wanted to propose quickly, so I asked Tony to make me a ring. As I am here on Earth, it was easier to have Tony make a ring than return home to forge one myself. I proposed to her in a different way than most. I took Darcy with me to help find us a pet. Freyja was beautiful, and she came right up to me. She began purring the second I began to pet her, so I knew that she was the right one."

"I also love the fact that she's a Norwegian Forest cat," Jane cut in, stroking the cat's fur.

"I did not know that when I chose her, or rather she chose me, but I do agree that it is fitting. I tied Jane's ring to a ribbon around Freyja's neck, and I proposed when Jane discovered the ring. I love and adore her, and I was not going to wait to tell her that. I want to spend every moment of every day with her, and she has chosen to spend her life with me, so I feel like the luckiest man in all the Nine Realms. She is the brightest star in my universe, and she has made me a much better man. Without her, I know that I still would not have Mjolnir back. I do not deserve her, but she has chosen me, and I will not make her regret that choice."

"You never could, Thor. I love you. You're everything to me."

"And you are everything to me, Jane." Thor took her face gently in his hands and kissed her.

Freyja meowed at her owners and purred contently when it got Jane to pet her, but the two continued to kiss. Hannah smiled softly. She could tell why Tony Stark had called her for this interview. These two did love each other so much, and the world needed to see that they deserved to be together. She motioned for the cameras to cut, determined to end the interview with Thor and Jane gazing lovingly into each other's eyes after they pulled apart from their kiss.


I truly hoped you guys enjoyed that, and I am going to try to get Chapter 10 out quicker! We're coming up on TWS in the time line, so I'll have some fun chapters dealing with that, and I have an incredibly hilarious chapter planned for shortly after TWS. :-)

~AL