I don't own Thor or any of the Marvel characters. I only own Riona and my own original characters.


Riona unlocked the door to the place they were all staying at while they did research here in New Mexico. It was currently 3:00 a.m., everyone was probably dead asleep and wouldn't be getting up for the next couple of hours.

Riona set her bag down at her desk and collapsed back into her chair, kicking her feet up.

Riona huffed, leaning her head back and stared at the ceiling. Thor still hadn't woken up in the few hours she was there, plus the nurses urged her to go home, knowing how long she was waiting. They would give her a call once he had woken up.

Riona propped her head back up, taking in all the papers and photos that they gathered from last night.

"Might as well get a head start." Riona said to herself, standing up from her chair and turned on a few lights.

Before she even started, Riona changed into some new and comfortable clothing; a plain red fitted t-shirt, a new pair of jeans, still wore the same dark brown boots and decided to keep her jacket off for the time being. Riona also grabbed a lone package of pop tarts from the kitchen, getting some food inside her body.

Riona placed her pop tarts on the desk and got to work on tacking up photos and data onto the boards scattered about the room. Riona had nothing else better to do and she didn't exactly feel tired at the moment. This whole night has been a roller coaster and gaining a couple of extra powers added to her adrenaline. Of course, testing them out would just have to wait till later.


*A few hours later*

Jane, Erik, and Darcy were now officially awake. Jane was highly grateful for Riona's long hours of staying up and organizing everything. Riona swore she was this close to breaking a rib with how hard she hugged her.

"You don't think this was just some magnetic storm, do you?" Erik asked, watching as the three of the girls worked away.

Jane answered. "Look, the lensing around the edges is characteristic of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge." Both Erik and Jane said the last bit together.

"A what?" Darcy asked, confused at their words.

"I thought you were a science major?" Erik asked.

"Political science." She responded.

Jane continues working. "She was the only applicant."

Jane gestured Riona over to her to look at what was on her screen. Riona jotted down any information that crossed over with her own.

"An Einstein-Rosen Bridge is a theoretical connection between two different points of space-time." Erik explained to Darcy as Jane walked off to grab a photo.

"A wormhole." Riona bluntly told Darcy so that she would understand the concept better.

"Erik, look what do you see?" Jane handed the photo to Erik.

"Stars."

"Yeah, but not our stars." Jane and Riona said at the same time. She briefly smiled at Riona before she continued. "Riona?"

Riona handed Jane the star chart that was beside her. "Here you go."

After Riona handed her the chart, Riona grabbed a couple more photos that showed heat signatures within the storm last night and pegged them up on the board with Darcy's help.

"See, this is the star alignment for our quadrant this time of year. Unless Ursa Minor decided to take the day off... these are someone else's constellations." Jane explained to Erik, intriguing him further.

Darcy tapped Riona on the shoulder and then directed everyone's attention to the board. "Hey, check this out." Darcy waved her hand over and pointed to one of the photos Riona printed.

"No, it can't be." Erik whispered out in disbelief.

In the photo was an obvious heat signature of Thor's body right in the middle of the storm.

Riona bit my lip, knowing exactly what he was doing in there but she couldn't tell them.

Riona's phone suddenly rang and she hurriedly picked it up. The three looked at her in question, wondering who she was talking to.

Riona nodded to the person on the phone as they scrambled to inform her. "Right, I'll be right there." Riona hung up and grabbed the keys to the car, throwing them to Darcy.

"Hospital now!" Riona demanded, heading toward the door, swinging it open.

Thor escaped.


They ran into the hospital, walking down many hallways before reaching the room where they told Riona where Thor was once being kept.

Seeing nothing but an empty bed, made Riona curse silently to herself.

"Oh my god." Darcy muttered out.

The four of them ran out of the County Hospital and climbed back into the car. The doors slammed shut and Jane let out her disappointment. "I just lost the most important piece of evidence. Typical." Jane huffed in annoyance.

"So now what?" Darcy asked, pushing up her glasses.

"We find him." Jane said like it was the most obvious thing.

Which in reality it really was. Having a thousand-year-old god walking around in a hospital gown with no clue where he is, is not the safest thing in the world. Jane turned over to Riona. "Think you can track that guy with your powers?"

Riona shook my head at her. "Sorry, my powers don't work like that. Yes, when I touch someone I gain their own powers, but that doesn't mean that I know their exact location at all times. I'm not a human GPS. Though I really wish I was sometimes." Riona muttered out the last part. Finding people wasn't exactly her forte.

"Did you see what he did in there? I don't think finding him is the best idea." Erik said to everyone, not overly excited about finding Thor.

Riona sighed as she watched Jane retaliate. "Well our data can't tell us what it was like to be inside that event and he can, so we're going to find him."

"Oo-kay." Darcy says, pulling out her taser. Riona grabbed it, giving her a glare.

"Hey!"

"We don't need this Darc. I don't feel like seeing that poor man convulse." Riona threw it behind her.

Darcy rolled her eyes at Riona.

"So, we're going to look all over New Mexico right?" Erik asked, a fake smile plastered on his face.

"Exactly." Jane said, starting up the car and backing up, only to actually hit Thor while doing so.

"What?!" Jane screamed.

Riona instantly jumped out of the car and knelt back down to Thor, already looking for any injuries, and noticed he had a cut on his forehead and a couple of scrapes on his arms.

Riona then looked up at Jane with slight humor. "Are you sure you're not doing this on purpose?"

Jane shrugged bashfully.

Riona shook her head, placing one of his arms around her shoulders and lifting his limp body with ease. "Open up the back and don't say a word until he wakes up. Once he does, I need to heal him for any injuries. Hopefully, he won't freak out any more than he has."

Erik opened up the back for her. Riona climbed in and laid him down on the floor.

Darcy climbed in the back too but kept a distance from Thor. Jane and Erik went back up front and Jane started driving them toward our place.

"Riona, do you know anything about this guy?" Jane asked from the driver's seat.

Riona nodded in silence. "Yeah, I know something but I think that's for him to tell not me."

Jane caught eyes with Riona in the rearview mirror and nodded, licking her lips. "Okay."

Riona's eyes broke with hers and made their way down to Thor's face. Surprisingly a pair of ocean blue eyes stared right at her. My own bright red, widened in surprise. "Um, hi?"

His arms started to swing at her. Riona thought she heard Darcy scream at the sudden attack. Riona blocked both of his arms and swiftly grabbed them and pinned them down to the car floor with her newly found strength.

Thor looked at her in awe, not being able to break free from my grasp.

"Not that I don't love being attacked, but could you calm down for one minute without hurting someone?!" Riona scolded him, he said nothing but stared at her face.

He then nodded slowly, understanding that Riona wasn't going to hurt him.

Riona heard a snort of amusement coming for Darcy. She was playfully holding an imaginary camera and making clicking noises. Riona shook her head at her. "Stop playing around."

Riona nodded to Thor. "I'm going to let go of you okay? I'm not going to hurt you." Riona slowly let go of him, sitting up slowly, being alert if he tried anything else.

He sat up and looked around cautiously, not knowing where he was. "Where am I?"

Rion never really heard before but his voice was kind of rough but also had a smooth undertone to it. It was quite interesting to hear; when it's not yelling of course.

"Dude, New Mexico remember?" Darcy commented.

Riona gave her a look and she raised her hands in defense.

"New Mexico?" Thor repeated back confused.

Riona thought he was meaning what realm, "It's a state in the U.S.A on Midgard." Riona informed him.

Thor stared hard at Riona. Never once did he ever witness a midgardian having powers like her before. There was no possible way she was midgardian.

Riona looked back at the cut that was on his forehead and raised her hand to touch it. Thor jerked back.

"What are you doing?" He asked, a low growl emitting from his throat.

Riona was unthreatened by his growl. "I'm trying to heal you. You have a couple of cuts. If you would stay still I would greatly appreciate it."

Riona touched the cut lightly with her fingers, though she didn't really think the cut itself bothered him that much.

Riona's hand glowed red, along with her eyes, and when she removed her fingers that cut was no longer there. Riona then worked on other small cuts that were shown.

Even though they were small cuts and could easily heal on their own, Riona still wanted to offer up any help she could give. Riona was too focused on her healing that she didn't even notice Thor's lingering gaze.

But Darcy did notice this and she smirked to herself. Even if Riona didn't want to admit it, she had a feeling that something was definitely blossoming between the two.