It has been a little over a year after John's life had turned upside down, only to turn another 180 degrees. John had been coping with Sherlock and Coulson's deaths very well than expected and even though it is a little tough for him to talk about them right then, being pissed off and mourning. yet was coming to terms with it.

Currently, he was running around London, wondering why a car was following him wherever he went like they wanted to kidnap him or interrogate him. He was wondering why they were after him and recounted whatever happened in the past two months.

John had been sitting at his apartment, contemplating what had happened the past year. It was exactly a year since Sherlock and Coulson had died and he was recounting what had happened when Sherlock had fallen.

He had been surprised that he could still vividly picturise everything that had happened, including the conversation. Curious, he checked whether he had seen anything subconsciously when Sherlock was falling and was surprised that everything that happened around him when Sherlock had been falling was timed, systematic, almost like everything had been preplanned.

He then recollected the conversation, 'It is all a magic trick John' he had said, which implied that... "That son of a bitch" he growled, pissed off that Sherlock had faked his death without informing him, his best friend, leaving him to mourn after him for a whole year.

A few days later, Lestrade had called him for a small trip of touring England to take his mind off things when he encountered one of the weirdest things he had yet to witness. The two had been passing through a college when suddenly a weird portal had opened up, showing what looked like various worlds shown through a screen.

Catching sight of the local police around, he immediately assumed command, the officers also followed him without complaint and assisted John in evacuating the college before any ruckus started but before they could completely evacuate, some weird elf like creatures came in and started attacking.

John along with a portion of the force retaliated while the others evacuated the remaining people. John was thanking his stars that he had brought his gun with him that day else he didn't know what he would've done. That was also when Thor had arrived.

He had heard a lot about Thor from his visits from Clint but honestly speaking, it was an amazing sight to see Thor fighting in full vigour with the elves. Streaks of gold and red were exchanged and John stood transfixed for a second before realising that someone had been stuck in the middle of the fight and was about to be hit by the lightning and the red streaks

Without thinking, John went forward and pushed them both to the ground, covering the boy as the streaks clashed and fell on John. It was painful for a moment but disappeared before a blink of the eye. John just shrugged it off and managed to take the boy away to safety. The first major event he shouldn't have shrugged off though.

He was there till the end of the fight and the rescue and helped anyone injured to get medical help. While he was looking around, assessing the damage, he came across a hammer lying down in the path. He went on to move it towards the side, not before giving it a few swings and checking out the designs on it.

He set it down when Lestrade called out for him to leave the place, saying that the local force will take care of the rest. As he went away, he failed to see that the hammer had flown back to Thor. That was the second major incident that led him to the current situation though.

A few days after the incident, John started to notice some weird things. Whenever he became too emotional, the electronics around him would start to malfunction, often in very bad days, an occasional spark flew out of his hand.

The other thing was the accelerated healing he had suddenly developed along with the ability to predict what someone was suffering from without even examining the person along with how to cure them. Like whenever he treated someone, he could just see flashes of what he is suffering from and the symptoms and all.

John had freaked out when this had happened the first time, thankfully no one noticed it. He then started exploring the powers, thankful that he had moved out of 221B by that time as it would've been difficult to explain all this to Mrs. Hudson. He never knew why all these powers came all of a sudden.

He then practiced the powers until he had control over them so that it wouldn't show unless the emotions were extreme. He had also found a way to project the flashed onto some paper or a hologram when he was alone and it helped him a lot.

Which brings us to the present day of John running around streets of London, trying to throw off the car out of his tracks. He had been followed around al morning and feeling annoyed, he went into a narrow alley way, sensing that someone would come out of the car to get him.

As he had suspected, he could hear the car door opening and footsteps approaching the alleyway. He waited patiently in the shadows for them to reach his hiding place, quickly knocking one of them out, a man he noticed, alerting the woman at the same time.

It was a long fight between the two of them, equally matched one too. While John had the brawns and a little tactics, the lady had agility and experience on her side. It was John's cunning that had finally allowed him to win the fight and he was able to set them down in a recovering position before starting to come out of the alley.

"Freeze" a familiar voice called out as John walked towards the opening of the alley. John turned around and stared at he figure pointing the gun at him. "Coulson?" John asked as he stepped out.

"John! What are you doing here? Did you see two agents here? I have been searching for them and..." he said, only to stop when John slapped him hard on his face. "What was that for?" Phil asked as he rubbed his reddening face.

"That was for acting like you were dead and making Clint and I suffer for one whole year. And you still haven't told the Avengers that you are alive have you?" John asked angrily. "And you don't even check who you are targeting brother? After following me all this way, you are asking me what I am doing here?"

"Um..." was Phil's intelligent replied and had the decency to look sheepish and ashamed. "Agent Coulson... do you know him? And why did he call you brother?" someone asked. "Because Skye, he is my brother John, and I of course know him. I don't know why he wanted me to call him in though. He just showed me a grainy picture and so I couldn't see features clearly. Sorry John." Phil said.

"Maybe we can discuss this over my apartment over a cup of coffee? Clint actually just left this morning you know? You could've met him if you had come sooner." John said. "And don't worry, your agents do not have any serious injuries, just small cuts." John reassured Coulson.

Sometime later John and the team reached the flat, only to see Mycroft and a few of his bodyguards standing around. "What are you doing here Mycroft?" he asked. " Well... I had seen you getting into a car after speaking to someone who looked a lot like a SHIELD agent to naturally I was curious and I came here to make sure you are ok." Mycroft said.

"Well... I am well so can you please leave now?" John asked. "Not unless I get to know why they wanted to bring you in." Mycroft replied, turning to Phil at that statement. Phil just sighed and said "Skye, patch through to Fury. I was just told to bring him in and I wasn't given a reason." Coulson said as Skye patched through.

"Did you get the man Agent Coulson?" Fury asked. "I got him but we are in a situation with the British Government here." Coulson replied, giving a small grin to John, who just looked down. Sensing something wrong, he decided to ask John later.

"Don't tell me Mycroft Holmes is there." Fury groaned. "Actually yes, I am here. I want to know why you want to bring in John Watson. All I gave permission was for the clean up and the footage from whatever cameras were working." Mycroft said.

"You won't believe what John had done. He is one of the main witnesses of the fight and did some unexpected things." Fury explained. " And what would these unexpected things be?" Mycroft asked. "Why don't you look at it yourself?" Fury said as he played the video of John picking up the hammer and the scene where John had been hit by the white and red streaks.

Everyone except Phil, Mycroft and John watched it with their jaws dropping to the ground. "Why am I not surprised" Phil muttered as Mycroft just said "You always do the unexpected." John just sat there, confused on what had happened. "Well... I lifted a hammer and some lights hit me. What is special about that?" he asked after the connection to Fury had been cut off.

"If you had ever paid attention to what I had said before, you would've known that you had lifted Thor's bloody hammer that a whole city couldn't move an inch." Phil said. Mycroft surprisingly didn't question about how they had met.

"And for your information, the 'lights'" Phil said, putting lights in air quotes "were streaks of lighting and some alien substance that you have somehow survived without any side effects. What do you think we must do right now?" Phil asked.

"Maybe contact Thor and say that we are coming as if he had lifted the hammer, we must ask him to train as it would be dangerous. Do you want me to come with you or not?" Mycroft asked.

"Well... no thank you Mycroft, I will go with them for this without you, if the hammer test turns out to be positive, we will call you to discuss further on what we should do. And no spying." John said as he got up to leave with the team.

They were soon at Jane's residence, where apparently Thor was residing currently before he was to go to the Avengers tower. On the way, John had managed to fill in on whatever Phi had missed during the past year, especially Sherlock's death.

Phil knocked on the door and it was immediately answered by Selvig, who seemed fine without that naked act where he was proclaimed mad and all. "Glad to see you alive Agent. Got word that you were dead and all. I am assuming that you wanted to see Thor?" he queried.

"Important matters Dr. Selvig. It would be nice to know where Thor is right now." Coulson said. As if summoned, Thor entered with Jane and Dracy. "Where is my iPod suit?" Dracy asked as Thor approached Coulson and clapped him hard on the back. "Good to have you back Son of Coul! I was overjoyed when Heimdall said that you survived." he exclaimed.

"Nice to see you too Thor. But I have some important matters here. All of you, this is Dr. John Watson and had lifted your hammer Thor and apart from that, he was hit by a stray lighting of yours and that red substance..." Coulson said.

A/N: Chapter 8 people! I think the chapters are getting shorter the more I write the story. Anyways, the next chapter most probably be more longer and it will contain details on John with the hammer and him most likely leaving to the Avengers.

Hope you all liked it! All comments and criticisms accepted and appreciated. I wrote this in 2 hours surprisingly.

Thank you all for reading!

Rasi10 signing off

Published on 13 September 2018