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Chapter 37
Finally Home

Jane unlocked the door and stormed into what she had informed the other two as her mother's apartment. She took off her coat, leaving Anna and Thor to walk in after. Darcy was at the dining room table, and the second she saw Jane, she jumped up in surprise.

"Jane!" she explained.

"Hey," Jane greeted back lamely.

Anna walked in, but not before smirking as she saw Thor hand mjolnir up on the coat hook in the entryway.

"You can't just leave like that. The whole world is going crazy. All the stuff we saw is spreading….Did you go to a party?" Darcy rambled.

Anna scanned the room briefly out of habit. Ian, the intern's intern was sitting at the table. Erik was doing research at the desk, and Darcy was freaking out. Ian jumped up, his gaping mouth caused by the sight of Thor.

"Erik?" Erki gasped. He got up and made his way to the woman to engulf in a hug. Anna scrunched her face up though, as her eyes landed on the man's lower half, which was left only in his tidy whities.

"Jane! How wonderful!: Erik exclaimed.

I really did not need to see that, Anna thought, turning her head to the table instead to study what what on it.

"You've been to Asgard?" he questioned, taking note of her garb.

"Yes," Anna answered.
"Anna!" Erik explained, moving to go hug her as well.

"Oh no!" anna said, moving around to the other side of the table to use it as a barrier. "Not until you put on some pants!"

"Where are your pants?" Jane questioned instead.

"Oh, he, uh, he says it help him think," Ian answered.

Jane just moved on like it was completely normal. "Okay, well, I'm going to need everything you've got on this. All the work you've been doing on gravimetric anomalies, everything," Jane went on.

"Okay," he answered, sounding more sane in that moment.

Thor looked to Erik in concern. "Are you well, Erik?" he asked.

Erik began to laugh, but turned serious a second later. "Your brother's not coming, is he?"

Oh, don't bring that up, Anna thought, glancing to Thor with a empathetic expression.

"Loki is dead," Thor answered solemnly. Anna placed a comforting hand on his arm.

"Oh, thank God!" Erik signed in relief, before realizing how that sounded. Though, it was fairly clear to everybody that he really meant those words. He wasn't sorry at all. "I-I meant, I'm so sorry."

"Thank you," Thor said, unsure of how to take that outburst.

Anna moved away as Erik moved in to hug Thor, but Anna was the only one to see the relieved grin Erik held as he looked over the blonde's shoulder.

"I'll make some tea," Darcy said. "Why don't you change into something more comfortable?" she suggested to Jane. Jane nodded and departed.

Anna would've changed too, but everything she had was left on the quinjet miles away. There was no time to change, and none of the other females' things would possibly fit her well enough to be able to fight in. So Anna just stayed in the other room with the others.

"Anna?" Thor said, drawing her attention to him. "I never thanked you for yoru support after Loki…"

"You don't have to thank me," Anna said. "It's what friends are for."

"No, but I do," he corrected her. "And I also need to express my gratitude for what you did for Loki."

Now that was a confusing statement which lost Anna completely. "I'm sorry, I don't follow," she said.

"Before he died, you made sure he knew you didn't hate him. And I believe, even if he wouldn't admit it to himself, was very comforting for him. Mother indicated that he spoke of you often, so perhaps he felt guilty for what he did to you. Knowing that you didn't-"

"I don't really see how that's helpful," anna interrupted.

"Well, was it not comforting to know that people you care about forgave you after your wrongdoings?" Thor said, making it a bit more simple and easy to relate to.

Anna sighed and nodded. "I guess I see your point," Anna said. "You don't have to thank me though. I think I got something out of it too. I got it off my chest."

Thor nodded and opened his arms for her, pulling her into a hug. "But I do. So thank you."

The two pulled back just as Darcy came back over with two mugs of tea. They thanked her, and Jane came in to join the group once more, now in a plaid shirt that looks so comfortable. Anna longed to lay back in bed in sweats to try and avoid moving which hurt so much right now from the injuries she had acquired from the previous battle.

"Malekith is going to fire the Aether at a spot where all the nine worlds are connecting," Jane clarified.

"Amplifying the weapon's impact. For each additional world, the power will increase exponentially. The effect would be universal," Erik finished for her.

"Yes, but the alignment is only temporary," Thor explained. "He must be in exactly the right place at the right time."

"Well, how do we know where that is?" Darcy asked.

"We follow the directions," Erik said, coming to that realization just then. He got up and grabbed some maps. He laid them out on the table and picked up a pen to start drawing on it. "This has happened before, thousands of years ago, and the Ancients were there to see it. All the great constructions, the Mayans, the Chinese, the Egyptians. They made use of the gravitational effects of the Convergence. And they left us a map." With each location, he marked a line to another. "Stonehenge, Snowden, the Great Orme. These are all coordinates taking us….here!" He pointed to a place at the bottom of the map.

"Greenwich?" Ian asked.

"The walls between worlds i'll be almost non-existent. Physics is going to go ballistic. Increases and decreases in gravity, spatial extrusions," Jane said. "The very fabric of reality is going to be torn apart."

Thor called Mjolnir to him then, ready to start the fight.

"I better get my pants…" Erik muttered.

"Perhaps you should contact the rest of SHIELD?" Jane suggested.

Anna nodded. "I called them on the way over, I've got people on standby. I just have to update them with the location," Anna told them. "But I don't know how fast reinforcements can get here. We have contacts and assets here, but not as many to spare as I'd like…"

"What about the Avengers?" Darcy asked.

"It would take too long for them to get here," Anna answered.

"So we're on our own?" Ian asked.

Anna snorted. "What else is new?"

Greenwich was beautiful. It reminded Anna of the private school in London she had been place undercover in several years back. That had been so long ago, and Anna was such a different person now that it seemed like it took place in another life. If anybody had asked her if this was where she'd be back then, she would've known she'd be with SHIELD, but not fighting off alien elves after taking a trip to another planet.

"God, my life is weird," Anna grumbled.

She stood across campus hammering in the weird tent poles that Selvig had modified to detect the convergence. Darcy and Ian were taking care of the other side of campus, and Anna has this side, leaving her alone with just the stares of the people walking by to make her comfortable (Note the sarcasm, Anna was greatly uncomfortable. After all, what was weirder than seeing a girl dressed in Asgardian garb hammering is poles with tech on them that were taller than her?).

The plan was both complex and simple at the same time. While scientifically it was beyond Anna's understanding, the plan itself was to simply distract Malekith while the short amount of time the Convergence was taking place was over. The spikes that Anna, Darcy, and Ian were placing around the grounds were meant to detect, and hopefully control, the portals that opened between the worlds. Anna had made her calls, and the SHIELD agents wouldn't be able to get there anytime soon, but a favor was called into the British Military, and they would be supplying with two jets from the Royal Air Force as backup, which Anna knew they'd most definitely need. She just hoped it'd be enough.

You know, I always thought Greenwich was pronounced Green-witch, Anna thought to herself, moving onto the next location. She put it into the ground and then pressed her comm. In her ear that was connected to Jane's phone. "All set on my front," Anna informed them. "I'm going to go check up with Darcy and Ian to see if they need any help."

Anna started to jog down the central sidewalk between the four buildings. Darcy and Ian were at the end of this pathway by the waterfront hammering in another one of Selvages crazy inventions. As she moved though, Anna's eyes scanned the crowd. At least she wasn't the only one getting stared at. But what was stranger yet was the way several people were looking at the water.

Slowly, as her gray-blue eyes landed on the water, she saw the water rippling the same way it did when a boat was moving quickly over the surface. Anna came to a stop, her brain finally coming to the realization that the invisible force moving the water had to be the Ark that Malekith had escaped in.

As more and more people noticed the approaching anomaly, they started to scream. They ran in every which direction they could to get away from it. It hadn't even uncloaked itself yet. It became ten times more menacing when it did, crashing and tearing up the ground as it continued onward.

"Everyone, move away from the water!" Anna yelled, ushering people away from the scene and the battle that was about to occur. This how powerful Malekith was, and he very small amount of resources available to them for this fight, they needed to get everybody as far away from the area as possible. "Get to cover!"

While Anna did this, the Ark stopped, and down came the elevator to allow Malekith to exit the space ship. Malekith was followed by an army of his elves. Thor was definitely going to need all the help he could get. Back on Svartalfheim Loki and Anna took out all the underlings while Thor fought Kurse. He never even got to Malekith, who would be stronger than Kurse was. He couldn't focus on both.

But Anna was doubting herself. The elves were stronger than normal people. She wouldn't have been able to take on all of them on Svartalfheim alone. She needed Loki's assistance. There were far more of them now, and she didn't have Loki to help, and there was nobody else around to help.

Anna was on her own. She was going to do everything she could to stop this from happening, and to save the universe (the fucking universe!), even if that meant giving up her life for the cause.

Up overhead in the cloudy sky were several large portals looking into other worlds. This was why Malekith was here. It was the most effective, and easiest way to infect multiple planets at once. It would begin the end to all things Anna had ever know. The would would be plunged into darkness, and followings, who knew what would happen?

It was while Malekith was so distracted by this site that Thor took his entrance, souring in from the sky. The two started to make their way towards one another, while Anna watched and waited for Thor to need her.

"You needn't have come so far, Asgardian," Malekith called to Thor. "Dead would've come to you soon enough."

"Not by your hand," Thor retorted.

"Your universe was never meant to be. Your world and your family will be extinguished!" As Malekith spoke, the Aether streamed off of him. At the end of his words, he threw out his arm, and the Aether's power flew off of him, hitting Thor on the chest. He was sent backwards straight onto his back.

Anna took out Slange, and extended it instantly. She stalked over to the elves from the side. They were distracted by their leader's attacks, and it was perfect opportunity for a surprise attack on her part.

Thor got back up to his feet, and just as he did so, Malekith shot another attack to Thor. It seemed he was just destined to fall on his back today. Thor got up, and braced himself this time as a third attack was landed. He was pushed back, leaving a trail of dirt in his wake as he was pushed back, but he was still standing.

"You know," Thor said, catching sight of Anna sneaking up on the others. He knew to keep them all busy. "With all that power, I thought you'd hit harder."

Before Malekith could send another attack, one harder this time, Thor threw Mjolnir at him, knocking Malekith back this time. And Thor send him farther away than Malekith ever had with Thor. He crashed into his own elves, and then pasted them, bouncing off the ground and into the stone pillar of the corner of the building. Once that happened, he was out of site.

Some of the elves turned to see where their leader was sent off to, and in doing so, Anna's position was discovered. The closes elf to her found himself getting hit in the head with Slange. He fell backwards onto his back. Before he could get up, he found Slange stabbed through his throat.

Anna couldn't dwell on the fact that she was back to killing the enemy. It had been so long since she had taken a life on a mission (excluding everything Loki had her do). It was back in Palermo that she had last killed, and it was weird. She didn't like it, but it was unavoidable. There were too many of them to just try and keep contained by knocking them back. Death was an inevitability.

The next elf had a sword. When Anna approached, he swung left, which Anna blocked, then right. She twisted her wrist, and Slange went limp. Using her weapon like a whip, she snapped it and managed to wrap it around the his neck. Using his bent knees against him, she used it as a stepping stool to jump over him, and then put her back against his. This allowed her to put more pressure around his neck to strangle him. When he finally went limp, Anna let him fall and removed Slange from around his neck by letting it snap back into its solid form.

Anna heard the shear metal sound of a sword against its sheath coming from behind her. She spun around and just in time too. Use used her wrist to block the hand of the elf with the sword as he lifted his arm in the air to strike. The elf moved first though, and used his other hand to smack hard into her wrist, causing her to drop Slange. Anna was forced to step back and he moved left to right and back against to try and slash her in the stomach. She managed to move in close before he managed to set up for another swing, stepping into his arm. She used her elbow and drew it down into his elbow,.

Once he was disoriented, she kept her hold on his arm and elbowed him in the shoulder, then kneed him in the stomach to double him over. As he bent over, she stepped back a fraction in order to move to face him. This was the perfect spot to end her arm, and swing her elbow into his neck, and again into his back. With her hold still on his arm, ad stepped back, twisted his arm, and made him stab himself right in the stomach with his own sword.

The elves kept moving on, and only a small fraction of them were coming over to try and hold off Anna. That definitely wasn't good. They couldn't let the elves move off the grounds. People would get hurt. They needed to keep the scene contained.

"We have to keep these guys contained!" Anna yelled, though it wasn't necessary. It was just habit because she was fighting. They heard her through the comm though. A couple seconds later, a large portion of the elves in the center of the square disappeared. "Thank you."

Anna turned, her eyes jumping from elf to elf, counting how many she had and calculating just how much energy she had left to fight them. Oh, how do I get myself into these things? She asked herself as she pushed onward, Slange grasped tightly in her hand.

When she was finally the last one standing, though not because of her awesome skills at defeating the elves (because they managed to scatter despite needing to keep them contained), Anna stood panting, alone in the square. Thor, Darcy, Jane, Selvig, and Ian were nowhere to be seen, and that definitely didn't leave her with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

There were footsteps behind her, and desperate to see an alley, Anna spun around. Only, her eyes didn't land on a friendly face. Malekith was slowing making his way towards her, though she figured it had something more to do with the ship and the aligning portals over her head than it did with taking out Anna as a threat (because, who was she kidding, she was no threat to Malekith).

Anna got ready to fight, but Malekith just raised a hand and blasted her, sending the girl's body all the way back to one of the pillars of one of the buildings. For the second time that week, she cried out and fell harshly to the ground, feeling her wrist crack upon landing on it.

It was almost like a tornado was forming from the bottom up, with Malekith right in the center of it all. The black and red substance was completely ominous. What the hell is happening? Anna asked herself. She managed to push herself up to sit with her back pressed to the pillar she had been thrown into. She knew she needed to get up, to fight, but there wasn't any possible way for her to make her way through that storm, and she was in desperate need to catch her breathe.

The vortex grew larger and larger, and it started to destroy the buildings around it. Soon enough, Anna would be consumed as well, and she too would be lost. Anna pushed herself up to her feet, though she still needed the help of the pillar. It was nearly impossible to see through the vortex now. She could only just barely make out Malekith standing on the stone platform. It was then that Anna's eyes fixed on a shadow a little ways away from the elf. Someone was trying to make their way through the storm.

"Malekith!"

Thor? Anna's heart skipped a beat. So he was okay, she thought. She smirked, no longer feeling alone and defeated. There was still hope with Thor in the fight.

"Darkness returns, Asgardian. Have you come to witness the end of your universe?"
"I've come to accept your surrender."

What happened after they spoke was impossible for her to see. But after several moments of silence, Malekith spoke up again. "You think you can stop this? The Aether cannot be destroyed."

"But you can."

The dust cleared as Malekith was sent flying backwards into his ship. It seemed as if he had lost two of his arms, and with one of the poles Selvig had created impaled into his stomach. A couple seconds later, Jane must have activated it, because Malekith was no longer there.

The dust cleared even more, and Anna finally got to see all the destruction that had happened to the buildings, the walkways, and the grass in the square. "May God," Anna muttered, stepping off the steps from the hall and onto the uneven grass.

She continued to scan to make sure there wasn't anybody injured in the immediate area. Her eyes landed on one particular pop of color on the green and brown ground. It was Thor's cape, draped over him as he lay motionless on the ground after his fight with Malekith. He must have gotten blown back after that blow as well.

The Ark creaked, and debris from the top started to crash down to ground. It was going to collapse. And from where Thor was, it would collapse right on top of the Asgardian. Now, normally Anna wouldn't worry about him. He had survived a hell of a lot, but with the condition he was in, she wasn't sure he'd be able to survive that (Was it stronger than a hulk?).

"Thor!" Jane screamed. "No!" She ran out to her lover.

"Oh fuck," Anna muttered. She ignored all the pain in her body and rushed towards the two.

Jane had flipped over Thor, and grabbed one of his arms to try and drag him to safety, but Thor was built, and all that muscle added up to quite the weight. Anna grabbed his other arm, screaming out at the pain of her broken wrist. She didn't care. She needed to move. She needed to get Jane and Thor out of there. Now.

"Jane!" Selvig yelled.

There wasn't enough time. The Ark was coming down and it was going to land right on top of them. Jane dropped to her knees and threw herself over Thor, and Anna of course, dropped herself over Jane. Not that it would do any good. If that thing landed on them, it wouldn't do a single thing to save them. They'd be flattened into a pancake, most likely a very quick death.

After several long, slow moment of nothing killing them, Anna opened her eyes and sat up. The Ark was gone. She looked around, desperate for an explanation as to what the hell had just happened. The only thing she could see was Dr. Selvig standing off the the side with that control device of him. He must have used it to create one last portal to get rid of the Ark, and to save their lives.

"Everybody okay?" Selvig asked.

Anna laughed tiredly, and fell back onto her back on the torn grass. "Oh my God," she muttered. "Nobody is going to believe this…"

And this marks the end of Thor for now. Next chapter is still revolving around this though, but with some company for Anna. And if anybody follows Agents of SHIELD, you know exactly what I mean. So that's what's in next chapter. There's not too much more for this story. Then there's the sequel, and that's the part everybody really wants! ;)

Thanks go to the following for their reviews on the previous chapter:

Howling2themoon- It would be awesome, wouldn't it.

FelixFelicis02- I'm so glad you liked it! And it's such a compliment to hear that. I aim to get it that way.

ReidsLittleGenius213- It still is. I'm sorry Anna won't be with either Loki or Steve, though I do have a story in mind for Loki. I already have a story for Steve if you want something like that.

Jedi Jelsa777- I know. Poor Loki. I can't wait to see him again in Thor: Ragnorak though!

CJ/OddBall- I'm not telling, but you'll end up seeing who the love interest is once the next installment is uploaded. It'll be in that whole OCx(Character) romance thing. But Bucky is Bae. lol