Five days after the horrible date, Jane was sitting at home, eating a bowl of cornflakes and scrolled on some websites in her laptop, searching for information about the Nazca Lines. She didn't believe in the theory of cliché-aliens that came to earth to draw animals and symbols on the ground, but she wanted to know, what motivation the people had back then, to carve huge pictures like that in the ground and not even being able to see them themselves, since they didn't have airplanes or satellites back in the days. Maybe there had been visitors from other planets and the Nazca people wanted to stay in contact with them and didn't know another way? It was a strange theory, but who knew right?
When she was scrolling down the pages, she found a picture of something, which wasn't Nazca Lines, this photo showed something else. She clicked on the link and found a picture of a circle carved into the floor. It looked like something had imprinted it on the ground, it was perfectly shaped and didn't look handmade. The circle was decorated on the inside with lines, it looked like a labyrinth.
Jane took another spoon of her breakfast and read the article under it:
"Friday, the tenth of february 2008: Weird signs found outside of New York in an industrial area in Jersey City. A joke? Or does someone wants to tell us something important?"
She forgot to chew and almost choked, when she had swallowed whole cornflakes pieces. She tried to find out where this industrial area was, while she was coughing and almost spluttered half of the food on the keyboard. The signs had been found this last friday! It had been found five days ago, when she had been on the date! She knew, she should never let men get in the way of her work, she had missed this, because of something stupid as going out! When she finally was able to breath again she called Darcy.
"Jane! Finally you're calling! Did the date go so well that you haven't been able to - "
"Shut up Darce!" Jane said annoyed, she wasn't going to tell her about Dr. Mitchell now. "Call Erik for me please! Meet me in two hours in Jersey city in the industrial area! I think I found something interesting and get all the equipment!"
"Wait what?" Darcy wanted to ask her what this was all about, but didn't get the chance. Jane had already hung up the phone. She searched everything she thought she would need and put it in a bag, running out of the house, almost forgetting her keys.
When she had arrived in the industrial area of Jersey City, she climbed over a barrier and rushed towards the place, where she thought it might be. She had found it after some minutes searching. The symbols were still visible, although not as well as on the photo anymore, due to the wind and other natural causes. She brushed over the carvings in the sand very carefully, being scared that she would ruin it even more. She took out a scientific equipment that looked like a big cellphone, only with different icons on; it showed numbers and circles with unreadable symbols. When Jane held it over the carvings, the device started blinking and beeping. The woman inhaled sharply. Was this real? Did this thing really work? She had never seen her equipment acting this strange. Just when she wanted to investigate it more, she heard a car driving nearby. She saw Erik's van riding onto the compound. She ran towards them, showing them the way.
"How did you pass the fence?" She asked puzzled, when the two of them had gotten out of the vehicle. Darcy had been clearly driving, since the blond man looked like he would throw up any minute.
"We drove through it." Darcy said proudly.
"Really?" Jane asked upset.
"Oh come on. It is not like someone is using this area and I didn't feel like carrying the heavy gear around."
Jane sighed and showed the two what she had found.
"It seems that this is reacting to the symbols." Erik said pensive, looking at the device in her hand.
Dr. Erik Selvig had been a good friend to her father, it was because of him, she had gotten into the astrological thing. He had showed her the stars and told her all about what he knew. When she decided to study astrophysics, he was the one, who had supported her along the way. Without him she would have never gotten the three degrees she had now.
"Yes. It is strange, I've never seen readings like this." Jane said astonished. Her excitement grew and she had the feeling she really was onto something.
"Wow!" Darcy suddenly yelled. "I think we should leave!"
"Why?" Jane asked frustrated. She didn't want to leave yet, this was the best thing she had found in years.
"Well," She said pointing at something on the horizon. "There is a hurricane coming."
The three of them looked at the old, damaged buildings, not far from them. Darcy was right, there was a whirlwind and a big one as well. The women and Erik ran to the van and Jane started the engine, as quickly as she could she drove backwards, away from the storm. When they had turned the car the astrophysicist looked into the driving mirror, to see how far the storm was away, but surprisingly she didn't see the hurricane anymore. She looked around her, yet it was nowhere to be seen.
"What are you doing? DRIVE!" Her best friend shouted at her panicking.
"Look outside," Jane answered bewildered, "it is gone!"
Erik and Darcy moved to the window and had to admit that their friend was right. The hurricane or at least that thing that looked like it was gone.
Beep... Beep... Beep-beep-BEEP-BEEP! The device was bleeping and the sound became penetrating and louder by the second. Jane took it in her hand an ran out of the car, in the direction, where the storm was earlier.
"JANE! Are you crazy?!" She heard Darcy shout, yet she didn't stop. The device was reacting on something coming from that place. When she had come to the area the whirlwind had appeared earlier, she found another circle with lines carved into the ground.
"OH MY GOD YOU GUYS!" She yelled enthusiastic. "COME HERE! YOU SHOULD SEE THIS!"
The symbols had emerged out of a whirlwind! This could impossible be something done by nature. She felt the excitement stir her body, her heartbeat and breathing quickened. The three of them started to investigate the area thoroughly and didn't notice someone was observing them from afar.
The Demigod sat on a hill, watching the three of them investigating the Bifrost Marking with strange looking equipment. So she is a scientist. He thought surprised, while seeing the woman from the night on the streets jumping and walking around excited. He hadn't expected to be seeing her again and much less to be seeing her just some minutes after he had arrived to Midgard.
Loki smirked at the scenery, because he found it actually quite hilarious, how she was trying to comprehend the symbols around her. Her hair was tousled, because she was playing with it all the time, while she had a concentrated and pensive expression. Her face showed that she was labouring, because she didn't understand what had happened.
"What if this happened because of a bridge or a tunnel, coming from another universe?" He heard her ask. "Why not? I mean there are no other explanations plausible, what if the theory of the wormhole is true!"
So she is a smart scientist. He thought laughing quietly, maybe she did know more than he had thought. Well the fun is over, people. He walked up to them, when he had found them approaching too much to the truth. "I do not suppose that you are allowed to be on these grounds." He said in a firm voice.
The three humans spun around startled. "We are sorry." Erik replied conscience-stricken. "We will leave immediately."
"We will not!" Jane countered harshly, she had recognized the man from the night before. This was a strange coincidence. He was wearing a suit again and she did find him even more handsome, when seeing him in the light of day. He had been walking towards them from a hill, looking at them seriously. She felt her blood raise to her head and didn't know what to do or say, nevertheless she had gotten her wits together again, when she had seen him chuckle as he told them that they were not allowed here, was he mocking them? Why would anybody be wandering around at this hour of the day on an empty and old industrial park? Except if you were scientists or photographers maybe, or freaks that only were after people doing something illegal, so that they could call the police. "Do you own these grounds?" She asked self-confident, knowing that he had no right on telling her to leave.
And a fiesty one at that. He stated amused, when he saw how she was defending herself and friends. "Yes." He answered calmly, not knowing what else he could have told them as an excuse of being here.
"Oh." Jane breathed shyly. "I am sorry." she lowered her head in shame. Of course he was. She had thought him to be powerful, probably he was rich as hell and this wasn't the only industrial park he owned.
"What are you doing here?" He asked as if he had no idea what they were planning at.
"We are just taking pictures of this interesting art someone has made." Jane didn't want him to come nosing around in what they had discovered.
"Hm." He only said with a voice that made her shudder, she got goosebumps all over her body, when she saw his harsh features transform into a taunting grin. "It doesn't look like photography equipment to me."
"Well we are professionals."
Humans. Loki heard himself think. Ever so bad at lying. "Yes of course." He decided to leave it with that. "Still I have to ask of you to leave my property."
"Yes, no problem." Jane replied, while the others started to collect their belongings. "We will not do it again, I promise."
Oh but you will. Loki always knew when people were lying, he was the God of Mischief, so it would be a crime not to know. And I will be here tonight as well. He thought amused, while he followed them with his eyes as they drove away.
A/n: I feel some Lokane-wind coming up!
And I love it! Who's with me? xD
