Your name is Maite Hirsch and Loki is staring at you, a little confused about why you just froze.

Shit, you curse, Foster found the Aether.

Loki quickly joins in the cursing before fishing the Tesseract out of his dimensional pocket and giving it to you while still keeping contact with your body.

You focus on where you can feel the Aether pulsing in time with someone else's heartbeat and let the Space Stone pull both of you to it's brother.

This has two effects: Darcy Lewis shrieks like a banshee and the Aether pulsing under Jane's skin nearly throws both Loki and yourself into the car next to you.

"... Hi."

"Wha- Maite? How did you get here?" Jane balks.

You blink for a moment, confused. How does she...

Right. Thor 1.

"Brother...?"

Speaking of Thor.

You both turn to find the Thunderer gaping at you- largely yourself, actually. "Brother, what are you doing with the sorceress-"

That's about as far as he gets when you suddenly feel yourself get dragged through Time and Space and abruptly land on top of someone.

You have enough presence of mind to stuff the Tesseract into a dimensional pocket when a van crashes into you and you think 'Ah, guess I'm doing this now,' before your head collides with the New Mexican desert and the world spins away into black.


You wake up in a room stinking of antiseptic and think 'hospital' before wondering what a hospital is.

You spend several moments worrying about the implications of that before you notice you still remember everything, but you definitely have a concussion, which says a lot about Foster's driving since it's damn near impossible to hurt you.

Then you remember the fact you had close contact with two Infinity Stones earlier and think that your powers malfunctioning probably have something to do with that.

As an aside, this is before the timeline split and you definitely need to be careful. Especially considering one of aforementioned Infinity Stones is currently stashed in your interdimensional pockets.

You look around the hospital room you found yourself in and spot Thor strapped to a second bed near you. 'Did they assume we're siblings...?'

You slide off the uncomfortable bed and grimace at the fact that you've managed to get yourself from one hospital gown into another, resolving to get some actual clothes soon. This is getting ridiculous.

Carefully, you approach Thor's form and wearily lay a hand on his arm. He gasps awake violently and you jump back before he can accidentally punch you in the face.

Wait, he's strapped down. Right. The ringing in your ears makes it a bit hard to focus, so you try to recall the healing spells in your arsenal.

The prince gapes at you incredulously when you finally heal your concussion. Hello, your highness, you greet him with a cheerful wave.

You're a sorceress. He was told there weren't any on Midgard.

You grin and tell him he'd be surprised. He nods gravely and tells you it is likely.

Want to leave? you ask the 'golden prince'. Thor nods emphatically, expressing his distaste for the healing methods used on him.

In the lobby, you find Darcy and Jane only just entering, having apparently returned to look for Thor- and maybe yourself, you're not quite sure.

Your name is Maite Hirsch and you're fairly sure you're about to be interrogated by a space-happy scientist.