First there was a noise.
Darcy kicked Thor and stole his blanket. The demi-god landed on the floor with a thud.
"Uh, hm, wh-what is it?" he asked into the darkness, sleepily.
"Stop talkin'," Darcy whispered from the bed.
Thor shrugged and snuggled into the carpet below the bed.
A huge bang came from outside.
"Thooorrrr," Darcy whined. "Shut up."
"But Darcy I am shut. I-I mean, I didn't say anything."
"Then what's with the–"
An alarm went off. Thor stood up in alarm and went to stand next to Darcy, summoning his hammer. Darcy grabbed his hand and they went out to the living room, but the couch was empty.
Jane and Loki hadn't returned and Jane's cell was turned off for some reason. Thor had reassured Darcy that Loki would never hurt Jane, but it was really late.
A little too late.
"Agent Lewis, exit the building NOW, before we exterminate it," a voice echoed.
"Exterminate?" Darcy objected to Thor who looked around wondering where the voice was coming from. They duo stared out the window and all the saw were the men, and women, in black, completely armed.
Darcy moved back in fear, bumping into Thor who twisted Mjölnir in his hand angrily. They had gone too far.
"Darcy, I will end them. Please stay inside," he told Darcy and made a move towards the door. He stalked furiously away from Darcy.
"Agent Lewis we have Jane Foster with us, come out before someone gets hurt."
"THOR STOP!"
Darcy ran into Thor and grabbed him, "They have Jane, oh my god, Thor they have Janie, they'll kill her, no!" Tears streamed down Darcy face, her panic engulfing her beautiful features and Thor. She flayed her arms around in panic, freaking out.
Thor looked at Darcy with alarm. "What should we do?" he asked, worried.
Darcy paced back and forth, hurriedly.
"Agent Lewis, we will not ask you again. This is your final warning."
Darcy immediately recognized that as Fury's voice, amplified by a megaphone, probably. And then she got it.
"Thor! Freeze them! Freeze them!" she ordered, yelling.
"Alright Agent Lewis, you leave us no choic—"
Utter silence.
Darcy peeked outside to see all agents once again, frozen and unmoving, looking like a bunch of wax statues. She shuddered at how threatening they looked, even when they were inanimate.
"What do we do now, Darcy?" Thor asked quietly, glad that Darcy was finally somewhat calm.
Darcy grabbed her messenger bag. "We have to find Jane and get out of here."
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Jane woke up with a start. She was about to fall off the chair but Loki's tight grip kept half of her body attached to his. It would be almost romantic…if it wasn't so uncomfortable. She tried to loosen his hold but sleepy Loki refused to let go.
After moments of struggling, Jane gave up and sank into the God of Mischief.
They heard a voice coming from some place and then Jane remembered where they were.
"Loki," she whisper-yelled, "Wake up."
"Hm?" was all she got from the sleepy god.
She flicked his ear. He didn't even blink. She then punched his arm. Still no movement. Frustrated, she pulled at his hair, which made Loki's head fall to the side, but his eyes remained shut.
Then she kissed him, right on the lips. Loki woke up with a gasp and immediately engulfed her mouth with his. Jane, then, managed to push back, grabbing the collars of his shirt to keep him at a distance so he couldn't distract her.
"Loki, we have to go, Darcy and Thor-"
"—are probably fine," Loki finished for her, leaning in for another kiss.
She placed her small palm over his lips and his eyes glared at her.
"Later," she promised.
Groaning, the pair got up. They had fallen asleep in the back of the library so Jane assumed no one had seen them yet. She peeked through a bookshelf to see a lone librarian stacking. The sun wasn't up yet, so the library was probably closed.
Like the sleuth she thought she was, Jane got on her knees and shimmied through the aisles, only to find Loki hovering behind her, his 6 foot 2 inch tall frame shaking with loud laughter. The librarian dropped her book with a gasp and looked over, only to see nothing.
It was like she was looking straight through Jane and Loki.
Jane blushed at her stare but she wasn't looking at them at all.
Loki laughed again and this time the librarian looked afraid. "Hello? Is—is someone there? You can't be in here, it's too early, so I suggest—"
"I'm sorry," Jane began, but Loki's arm came around her and his big hand closed over her mouth. She looked at him annoyed.
He sighed. "Can't you tell, she can't see us," he whispered, gesturing towards the shaky librarian now going down every aisle, looking though every bookshelf.
"Why not?" Jane whispered back.
Loki rolled his eyes. "Because, we're invisible, love."
As he had expected, that shut Jane right up. She stared at him flabbergasted. Jane knew this was very much within Loki's capability. Still, it was a shock experiencing it for the first time.
"Oh," was all she whispered.
Loki chuckled again loudly and the librarian screamed, "I will find you hooligans and I will have you arrested, arrested I say!"
Loki grabbed Jane's hand and they swirled out the door.
"That was so cool," Jane told him, beaming.
Loki laughed at her childish joy, which he felt when he first looked into his capabilities, before his powers were condemned by the Asgardian society. With Jane, it was like experiencing everything all over again, but these memories were much happier.
They strolled leisurely back to the house. Halfway there, Darcy's face popped out of nowhere, her pale face completely drained of color.
"Darcy! Is everything okay?" Jane rushed towards Darcy, hugging her.
"Jane, I'm so sorry, I had no idea they'd come here."
"Who?"
"The SHIELD army," Thor said, appearing suddenly. Jane gasped.
"Brother, are they human?" Loki asked.
"Yes, Brother, they are all mortals who want to end us and imprison Darcy."
Jane gulped. "How'd you figure that out?"
"We went looking for you and we searched their cars and found some files. Oh my god, I forgot to mention, that Umbridge, she was a spy too! Can you believe it; thank god you kept those drugs away from me! That bitch was working for them the whole time," Darcy explained.
"What did the files say?"
Darcy reached into her bag and pulled out four files, each labeled with their initials. Jane looked into Darcy's, which was the heaviest. There were pictures of her at the grocery store and other various places. Apparently, they wanted to keep an eye on her whenever she left the main building.
"Creepy ass agents, I am so done with this stupid organization!" Darcy yelled.
Loki read along Jane. Thor's file had pictures of when he was unconscious and there were detailed observations about his hammer, and what looked like to Jane, a long list of reasons to get rid of it.
The intended actions against the supposed culprits were written near the top of each folder. Darcy was to go through debriefing, then an interrogation where a negotiation would take place. Thor and Loki would be imprisoned, interrogated, and then terminated. Jane glared at that. But what really made her stomach churn was when she read on her own file the words, "TERMINATE ON FIRST SIGHT".
Jane handed the folders back to Darcy, feeling nauseous. Loki was silently raging at the army that threatened to take away his Jane.
"How dare they?" he asked Thor, angrily.
Thor looked very unhappy.
"We have to get out of here, before they find any of us!" Jane said frantically, looking around in the dark for an escape.
At the moment, Darcy was surprisingly the only calm one. "Nah, we got that covered."
Loki sighed, "Ah, so you ended them."
"No, Darcy didn't wish to," Thor sulked.
Loki gave Darcy a disapproving look but Jane nodded her head.
"You did the right thing Thor, murder on Midgard is not taking lightly and I'm glad you don't have that charge against you yet. But where are they then? Far away I hope."
"Ha nope, they are waiting for you at your house, unmoving, completely stunned by the desert landscape, it seems," Darcy replied.
"What?"
Loki looked at Thor. "Did you use the immobility spell I taught you?" he asked, catching up.
Thor gave Loki a shy look. "Yes, I did Brother."
"And it worked?"
Thor nodded.
Loki blinked. He had taught Thor the trick ages ago; he didn't expect Thor to ever use it.
"Well, good work Brother," Loki told him, pride lacing his tone.
Thor grinned and seized Loki into a hug.
"Alright, that's enough," Loki told Thor who was refusing to let go.
Darcy pretended to wipe her eyes. "Such a Kodak moment," she sighed dramatically at the sight of the two brothers.
"Wait so you guys, what, froze the army?" Jane asked.
"Ya."
"That's…also, um, very cool. Can I see?"
"Ya. Over this way, my good lady," Darcy offered Jane her arm, glad everyone was slightly calm and collected.
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After Jane took in the sight of the immobile agents and black surrounding the perimeter of her house, she finally was able to convince Darcy not to look under Fury's eye patch and she prevented Loki from "accidentally" killing anyone from his wrath.
Boy was he angry.
"Senseless mortals, think they can just do whatever they please," Loki scoffed.
"Senseless indeed," Thor agreed. "And tiny," he added.
Darcy and Jane pushed passed the agents while Loki and Thor simply threw the frozen bodies onto the ground to make some room.
"This is going to give me nightmares," Jane whispered to herself, dodging her eyes from the statues around her.
They all filed in and looked at Jane for directions.
"Ok," Jane collected herself, "First we need to figure out where we go from here."
"How about China? Or Sweden? Or maybe India?" Darcy counted off.
Jane shook her head. "SHIELD isn't some elementary school book club Darcy. They're everywhere. We have to go into hiding, somewhere specific where no one can find us."
"But we can't hide for the rest of our lives. That's…really lame Janie."
"We don't have another choice. This is crime and punishment we're talking about Darcy, if they find us, you saw what they'll do," Jane said, whispering the last part.
Darcy pouted to Thor and walked over to hug him.
"Loki, can you talk some sense into Jane? She thinks we'll have to find some uncharted territory and live in the wilderness for the rest of our freaking lives, probably without toilet paper and pop tarts," Darcy complained.
Jane smiled. "Only you would put toilet paper and pop tarts into the same sentence."
"Jane Foster, Darcy is right. Pop tarts are a necessity that cannot be ignored," Thor agreed.
Loki and Jane gaped at Thor.
Finally Jane sighed. "Well, we don't seem to have any other option, unless you all would enjoy being on the run all the time which, by the way, is not fun nor safe."
They all paused to think through for more possibilities.
"Well there is one option," Thor stated, staring at Loki meaningfully.
"What?" Darcy asked.
But Thor simply stared at Loki who was looking away.
"Thor, what's the other option?" Darcy tried again.
"Thor?" Jane asked, perplexed. "Loki? What is it? What's the other option?"
Loki had his back to them now but he uttered one word.
"Asgard."
A/N: Thank you for the reviews odinsdatter9 , JigokuShoujosRevenge, and I'm impressed Princess PrettyPants by your knowledge of 1960s television, very cool :) Also megumisakura for the feedback and follow and thank you meilimingz. Really everyone, I appreciate your support. Please review if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. This chapter took a while to think out because I wasn't sure how much I wanted to extend the story but I thought some questions need to be answered so Asgard was the destination of choice, but a lot of you probably saw that coming. Thank you very much for reading and stay tuned!