Hmm... what can I say? My muse who went on vacation for some time is finally back and she's totally relaxed and will stay for some time.
Also, I like Thor.
Jane was positive she was going mad. When Thor had returned, the first thing Director Fury had done was dragging all of this weird team back to New York, including Thor. She and Darcy were to finish some of the minor experiments that took a week (well, it had been three days, but that didn't matter)! Then, finally in New York, she didn't see Thor for days, because SHIELD was doing experiments with him or whatever. One agent whom Jane only knew as Beth had told her that it was Thor's pure good-natured-ness that was the problem. (If that was even a word.) Apparently, Thor couldn't say no when they asked him for assistance.
Then, the incident with Stark and Rogers had happened. Since Jane had surprised Stark working on her computer without permission and due to his behavior towards everyone in the following days, she hated the man's guts. Rogers was just a pretty face who came over and was somehow involved in this whole ridiculous thing. Same thing involved a round of other weird people, and none of those was allowed to tell her anything except from that there had been a threat to Manhattan, and that Thor was a hero, and he had a team. Apart from that, not a word! She had asked everybody. Then, she was invited to stay at Stark Tower, and Thor was living there, too – even if she never saw him, because SHIELD agents were busy busying him.
And lovely director Fury simply changed her contract so that now she had to work on this weird abduction thing for SHIELD.
She had told him she didn't want this, but: "I'm sorry, Miss Foster, but now you don't have a chance to get out of this. You are now as much an agent as the others."
That was why she was now in a cab with Darcy which would bring them to the port, where the Helicarrier was still stationed because they were not done with the repairs yet. Helicarrier! Seriously, who invented a flying monster surfboard aircraft carrier three times bigger than normal ones to have a secret agency float around.
And Darcy had one of these "super amazing awesome genius" Stark phones and was listening to music all the time. And this game, that website, one application, another cool function... She did not talk a single word with Jane anymore! That is, unless she could say something about her glorious phone.
So especially today – she was in a bad mood anyways – Jane had decided to be full of self pity and Stark-centred anger.
Fury had flown to Washington DC to meet the president and establish a legal, SHIELD-controlled research group. That had been three days ago.
This morning – Darcy had forced her to accompany her to this particular café to have breakfast, because some VIP hat once walked by or mentioned it in some speech or whatever – Fury had send a mail to summon them all – so everybody who knew about project "Saving an idiot the whole world hates and some model-guy who was weird and apparently a time-traveller or whatever Darcy said" (Oh, yes, Jane was in a very bad mood.) – to a meeting, 10 a.m., in the Helicarrier main meeting room. So, unfortunately Darcy and Jane had to stop their breakfast and take a cab to the port.
The meeting room was already filled with mostly agents, and there in a corner was Thor with... oh, well, Doctor Banner and those two agents and director Fury. Why did Thor have to be so damn nice and always help these people?
Sure, Bruce was a nice guy, a very intelligent and decent person, even if the agents always dropped lines about his "condition" when he couldn't hear them. But seriously, Bruce was nice. And whatever condition he had – it couldn't be something bad because he was normal. Really, he was the most normal person on this floating monster surfboard!
Totally different from the two agents. A woman – the only woman on the team – and a man, best friends or lovers or friends with benefits or whatever, but weird! They didn't talk all english, but also not a different language – not entirely. And they appeared out of nothing, really. The man, an archer Jane had seen around the New Mexico station a few times, he never said a word, and she had the strong feeling he was an analphabetic ninja.
The woman was the impersonation of the devil. She walked on heels that high, she could reach the clouds. And she managed! Also, that woman, hair the color of blood, could, just like her partner, have extremely deadly weapons appear from nowhere. Basically, everything she touched could become a weapon in her hands. Jane had once seen that woman attack a steak that was a bit tougher, and she had been mortally afraid. And her gaze was so ice-cold...
And director Fury! That guy was scary! He was, as Darcy had so eloquently put it, "Halloween 24/7... but the kind of Halloween that would have Chuck Norris hide under his blanket." Yeah, sure, he might make the right decisions, but that did not allow him to scare people with that super-creepy eye patch and a black coat and everything else black all the time and no smiling and always looking serious...
The director began the meeting five minutes delayed. He briefly summarized what had happened in the security meeting, told that he had wanted a certain agent whose name he didn't tell in charge, but that they had appointed Agent Romanov, and that now she would say something.
Jane had never made the effort to learn most of the SHIELD-agents names, and she didn't know the names of the two agents in the Avengers team either. Those two she called 'Robin Hood' and 'Scary Redhead'.
Therefore she was rather surprised as 'Scary Redhead' stepped forward, steps steady, on-
"Those are The Heels.", Darcy cut in. "Remember? Those I showed you three days ago when we went shopping? Those where I said I would be feeling like the most awesome person in human history if I could walk on them. They are so damn high! How is it comfortable walking in them or even humanly possible?" The younger woman looked thoroughly amazed.
Jane, more pissed at Darcy than ever, snapped: "Well, I think you could learn it, but those would certainly not look good on you. Better wear something you can walk on."
Slowly, the woman next to her turned her head. "Whoa, you're really bitchy. What, just because your divine boyfriend is working? It's not like you have a monopoly on him. Jane, he is helping his friends!"
After that, Jane chose to ignore Darcy even more.
Fury passed the microphone to Romanov who positioned herself in front of the gathering.
"Okay.", she said. "I'll make this short. I have prepared teamgroups who will work on one subject each. We will from now on hold a weekly meeting, same time as this. In case there is something important, I will call for a meeting instantly, and you will all come, regardless of the time, the date or whatever there is going on. And, umm..."
She silenced, looking less self-confident. "I know that I might be a strange choice for an operation like this. I have never led a team myself... except once... and there I had SHIELDs very best agent backing me up. But I will have some help from SHIELD, so I think it will work just fine."
Romanov went on explaining how she wanted the project organized and then talked about the groups she had made. Jane was not quite sure wheter she liked the redhead. The woman was not only weird and scary, but also very direct and commanding, no time for jokes, wearing a serious face all the time. Surely when Romanov was leading the research, she would have either Jane or Thor always occupied. Or both.
It wasn't that Jane was being cruel, she told herself. Being in the hands of kidnappers was undoubtedly not nice for both Stark and Rogers, but seriously! If anything they said about them was true (Stark being a genius and Rogers being superstrong because of 'the serum'), they would have freed themselves in no time.
While Romanov was talking, Jane looked over the people around her. She caught sight of Thor's pretty blonde hair, his neck and his shoulders. He was wearing a plain white shirt and, as she had seen before, light blue jeans. Everything was just tight enough that that body was shown in all ist glory. Well, if that didn't lighten up her mood...
Jane bit the side of her cheeks to prevent herself from grinning. When Thor had walked out of the bathroom bare-chested back when they had first met... uh-oh. That was still fuel for her wet dreams, even one year later. It was just such a pity she hadn't looked closer.
"What?", Darcy hissed.
When Jane looked at her questioningly, the younger woman repeated: "What are you laughing about?"
"I'm not laughing."
"And you're sitting in a highly official meeting, staring at a certain person and of course not having any dirty thoughts about your divine boyfriend?", Darcy whispered back, grinning.
Boyfriend? Was Thor really her boyfriend? They had shared less than a dozen quick kisses, some 'Hi's in passing... and shameless staring from Jane.
So she replied: "He's not my boyfriend."
He surely wasn't, since he was a god and a prince and a hero... he surely was not casting hungry glances her way like she did. He probably had some kind of a goddess-girlfriend in Asgard.
Darcy eyed her, stunned.
"Hello?!", she finally asked. "Don't you have eyes in your head? Don't you see how he is staring at you? He is practically drooling when he sees you!"
"Darcy, he is a god! He looks like a model, he is not only a god-prince but also a hero, he probably has every female in Asgard lusting after him!"
"Yeah, but does that mean he is, too?"
When Jane did not reply, Darcy urged further: "After the meeting, I'll distract everybody that is within a ten metres radius of your boyfriend and you go pull him in a closet and kiss him stupid!"
"Darcyyyyyyy...", Jane groaned. "I can't do that-!"
"Yes you can!"
"No, I can't, because that would be disrespectful and-"
"But you would like to, right?", Darcy grinned.
"Yes, probably, but it's not - Darcy! Stop grinning! – and also, I can't and-"
"You are simply going to! Seduce him a little and he will be all yours. No norse goddess will ever have his eyes on her again!"
Jane pretended to be listening to Romanov.
"And don't you dare to say 'Hi' and leave the rest to him, smiling like an idiot, Jane Foster!"
"Darcy! Shut up, I'm in an important meeting-"
" –which you aren't the least interested in-"
" –and this is important for my career and all –"
" -and Stark's smart, he and Rogers will escape on their own-"
" –you're being cruel-"
"- no, I'm not-"
" –and this is important-"
" –not as important as a certain god-"
" –and you're distracting me!", Jane finished.
"Well..." Darcy had this mischievous smile on her lips. She bowed to Jane's ear and whispered in her best seductive voice – which was indeed good: "Wouldn't it be more fun if he was distracting you?"
Jane felt how her face went red.
"Images in your head?", Darcy asked.
"No.", Jane lied.
Darcy left her alone after that, but her eyes were still sparkling.
"Okay everybody, then get started!", Romanov finished.
Darcy elbowed Jane and nodded towards Thor who had gotten up and – sweet mother of Jesus, that ass!
"Stop drooling!", the younger woman chimed and elbowed her again.
Luckily, Fury seemed to be the only one wanting to steal Thor's time, so Darcy rushed up to the director while Jane was still fumbling with her purse.
"Director, director!", she called and Fury looked instantly annoyed.
"What is it, Miss Lewis? Cut it short, I have work to do!"
"Like, what kind of work?", she inquired.
"Like talking with Thor and Agent Romanov.", he replied.
"With both of them at the same time?"
The meeting room was being deserted rapidly.
"I simply intended to tell Thor to take some time off. I hope you don't have a problem with that, Miss Lewis.", the director said, slightly threatening.
Thor seemed a bit lost in the meeting room. Was he waiting for them to leave to pin Jane against a wall and kiss her delirious? Hopefully he was. A pissed Jane was horrible.
"I hope you don't plan on stealing Miss Foster's time. I believe she would like to be alone with Thor for a while. Now, if you would please excuse me, I have a meeting."
Darcy decided the director was certainly not a bad guy but rather a nice person, who, even if weird, was worth support. She followed him out of the room, winking at Jane suggestively.
Jane decided she would rip Darcy to pieces. How could her best friend possibly leave her in this embarrassing situation?
She swallowed thickly and turned around, not yet ready to face Thor but she wouldn't get any readier if she waited a hundred years.
And suddenly, she was facing a wall of white fabric streched over this heavenly, godly chest that belonged to Thor. Looking up, she met his gaze, saw the smile tugging at his lips. And she melted.
Why was he looking so good, why was he smelling so good, and why, by all gods, did he have to make her grin like an idiot and have her at a loss for words and have butterflies in her stomach batteling even more butterflies and – ooooh...
He kissed her. Gently and oh-so-good and just wow. She leaned into the touch and pressed her hands against his shoulders, holding the material of his shirt. His arms tightened around her waist and those butterflies in her stomach started filling her whole body. Her knees went weak and only he was holding her upright.
When they broke apart, Jane's hands had somehow found their way into his hair. His smile was dazzeling. But then he grew serious again.
"I am sorry.", he said softly. "I should not have let them take my time whilst I promised to return for you, and you in the first place."
Jane shook her head. She wasn't angry anymore. She wasn't even having a bad day anymore. In fact, she was having a great day.
"What do you think about leaving SHIELD for a while and doing something outside? I have the feeling you haven't seen the sky for days, much less breathed fresh air."
He chuckled. "They would not dare imprisioning me here. But I would love to explore the city of New York with you."
She smiled back and kissed him lightly.
"Well, then come on!"
I felt like this story could use a bit more romance, so that's why the stuff above happened. So please tell me how much I screwed up :)
*~This is the edited version of the story. It contains minor changes but does not change the general happenings.~*
Seriously, I just want to cuddle Thor right now. :3
