The next day Jane had been busy with doing research on John Mckenzie's theory. She hadn't found much except for an ancient Norse mythology about Thor. The man had said something about a connection between realms like branches of a tree, which was exactly explained like that in the stories as 'Yggdrasil'.
Great. Probably John was mentally disturbed, believing some children- or ghost-stories. Nevertheless, she liked to be open-minded and somehow liked this idea, so she decided to draw the nine realms and their strange names into her notebook: Midgard - or earth, Jotunheim - where the Frost Giants live, Asgard - home of Thor and Odin, Svartalfheim, Vanaheim, Nidavellir, Niflheim, Muspelheim and Alfheim.

She had been studying astronomy books and magazines again and found out that somehow it made sense with the realms. There were still stars or planets unidentified and it could be that they were these nine worlds, especially the tree-like shape made strangely enough sense, because those unknown stars were just located in a form of a tree. She wrote everything in her notebook and when Erik had asked her to send him what she had found so far on the circle in the ground, she had sent him per email all the theories she had been working on, including the most unlikely Thor-theory. Erik was a wonderful professor and tutor, but he was not always agreeing to her theories, especially when they weren't proven, so the woman already excepted him to traduce it. However as an answer came something more unexpected:

Please stop with the stories about Thor, that sounds delusional. Other than that, your theory about a portal is likable, yet I cannot believe in the Einstein-Rosen-Bridge, but the circle actually seems to be something special or important.
Darcy uploaded pictures on the internet from the symbols yesterday - couldn't stop her - and I received an email a few hours later from S.H.I.E.L.D. that we should leave it alone, they would do research on the markings, because they would have access to linguistics and better equipment. I didn't tell them where we found it, I said it is already gone, but they will find it or another eventually, so I'm writing you this to let it go, because whoever they are, I think these guys are quite important. But we will have better luck next time.

What? No! She would not give this research up. She was in the middle of finding something real and important, so she would not let this organization get in her way. She had asked John if she could position a trailer on his grounds, so that she didn't have to commute between New York and Jersey City. She had allowed it, thus that is what she did, she would not get scared by emails like that.

She had been living in a caravan for several days and had not seen John again, which somehow annoyed her. She still found him attractive and highly interesting and now she had even taken a liking to him. Just as she had caught herself thinking about him, somebody knocked the door of the trailer. Jane's heartbeat fastened, but when she opened the door it was only Darcy.

"Jane." She said reproachfully. "What are you doing here all by yourself?"

"I am working." The woman answered annoyed. "What do you think I am doing here?"

"Well if you stay here a little bit longer, you will get arrested, because your camping on somebodies territory."

"No it's fine, I have the permission to stay here."

"You mean from the dark, mystical, handsome and bossy person we met when we were here?"

"Yes."

"Oh Jane, I am proud of you. I really believed that you've lost your touch with men, but I see that you're still in the game!" She cheered raising her hand above her head, waiting for Jane to high-five, which she didn't.

"Darce, it's nothing like that, he was merely being nice."

"Oh really, then why are you blushing?" She asked teasingly.

"Well... Oh I don't know." Jane replied putting it off annoyed. "Now stop it, this is useless."

"Uhuh I see." She said smirking. "He already fixed the fence by the way." she said pointing behind her.

"He did?" Jane asked surprised. Then why hadn't he visited her again? Well he probably didn't do it himself anyway. Why the hell was she so disappointed? She barely knew this man, yet she really had liked it talking to him the other night.
When Darcy had left in the evening, she was reading a book about Norse mythology, it was kind of entertaining to read. She found a page about Thor's brother, Loki, who was depicted as a guy with long black hair and a taunting grin. He had a helmet on his head with two big thorns and a green cape. In the background was a snake drawn.
God of Mischief. She read laughing quietly. The picture did remind her a little bit of John Mckenzie.

Knock knock knock. Had Darcy forgotten something? She quickly got up from her bed and hid the book under her blankets. She just wanted to ask what her best friend wanted when she saw John standing in front of the door, smirking at her, while her heart dropped into her feet.
"Hi." she said feeling her mouth forming a smile completely on its own.

"Hello." He said. "I see you are still here."

"Yes, but not for long though, the circle is almost gone." She answered sorrowful.

Loki had returned to Asgard after the other night, when he and Jane had investigated the Bifrost Marking. Before he had left he had made an illusion for the fence, so it looked like it had been repaired.
When he had come home, he had found out that the Frost Giants had entered their realm to steal the Casket, but they had been held up by Thor and Odin. He had helped them clean up the mess they had made while fighting.

"Where have you been lately?" Thor had asked, when they were alone.

"Nowhere." Loki lied. "I just like to be alone, so I don't have to hear you think out loud all the time." He said pushing his brother in his side chuckling.

"HA! You mean you don't have to hear my intellectual thoughts all the time?" He slapped his brother on his back laughing.

"You wish." Loki said, smirking at him and rubbing his shoulder, because of the pressure of Thor's powerful slap. He had always been stronger than him, yet Loki had always been more intelligent than the God of Thunder.

He stayed a few days in Asgard as always when he had been to earth for a day, however this time it was harder for him to stay. He didn't know why, but he had enjoyed spending time with Jane and he liked how she was thinking, he loved her way of talking to people and him and her directness. She was certainly a one-of-a-kind-human, yet still a mortal, so why was he thinking about her like that? He just liked to tease her that was probably all. Although he couldn't deny the quickened pace of his heartbeat when he had entered the realm of Midgard again a few day later, this time somewhere else than Jersey City, since it would be too conspicuous, if a marking would always appear when he was around.
When he had seen her open the door in her pajamas, looking at him shocked, he couldn't hide a smile.

They had decided to stay outside for the night, making a campfire, so it wouldn't be too cold for Jane, since Loki didn't feel low temperatures anyway.
She told him what she had found out about his theories and he couldn't stop smiling.

"No I didn't know about this mythology." He lied. "Yet this Loki-god really sounds like a hell of an amazing guy." He chuckled.

"Yes well, he does remind me a bit of you." Jane said.

"Really?" The Demigod did find it interesting and enjoying how she knew and felt so many things, yet had absolutely no clue about anything. "So what else? Something new?" he quickly asked to divert attention away from him and his brother. She mentioned the email S.H.I.E.L.D. had sent to Erik.

"Hm. So you have to stop your research then?" Loki asked.

"No!" She said determined, but her harsh frown made place for sadness. "But S.H.I.E.L.D. whatever they are, they're going to do everything in their power to make sure this research never sees the light of day."

The man saw her frustration in her face, truly feeling sympathies for her. "If it's any consolation," he said leaning towards her, "I think you are a very smart woman, who is on the verge of finding something amazing. Don't let them destroy something, you've worked for so hard."

Jane looked at him feeling the tears coming up, because she really was afraid she had to give up everything she had lived for and didn't know if her work was for nothing. The watery eyes bothered the Demigod slightly. Why was she crying?

"And I think you're right." He added, wanting to cheer her up. "About Thor and Odin, about Loki, the Frost Giants, about Laufey, about everything." He said trying not to laugh.

Jane couldn't stay serious. She slapped his arm laughing. "Why do you keep teasing me?" She asked shaking her head.

"I don't know." Loki replied. "I think it's because I just like your reaction." He admitted.

Jane looked him directly into his eyes smiling, she strangely really liked him.
Loki saw her smile, which made him feel paralyzed. Nobody had ever looked like that at him before. He quickly turned away and gazed into the fire, so that she didn't notice his insecurity. Why on earth were his hands shaking? He exhaled slowly and quietly, so that she wouldn't notice and tried to calm himself down.

When he had managed to do so he saw that her eyes kept on closing, while she was lying in the camping chair, half-yawning.

"Maybe you should go to sleep." He stated.

"Nope." She said, shaking her head softly. "I am perfectly awake."

"Yes I can see that." Loki said chuckling, seeing she was already falling asleep. He decided not to wake her anymore and watched her dozing off. He got up from his seat and covered her with another blanket, before lying down as well. He watched the moon wander in the sky, thinking about a lot of things throughout the night, especially about Jane and why he felt so drawn to her, he didn't understand why he couldn't just leave this moment and let her be, even when she was sleeping? Why did he want to spend time with her and talk to her when she was not around?
When it had begin to dawn, he got up and looked at Jane sleeping peacefully one more time, before looking up towards the sky knowing he had to go home again.

When he came through the end of the rainbow-bridge, Heimdall was standing like rooted to the floor and looked at him thoroughly.

"What troubles you gatekeeper?" Loki asked.

"I turned my gaze upon you, but I could neither see you nor hear you. You where shrouded from me like the Frost Giants that entered this realm." His deep voice echoed through the place. He was a big and muscled man, who had very light eyes that could see wherever he looked at in the cosmos.

"Perhaps your senses have weakened after your many years of service." The Demigod said smiling furtively and walked past him towards Asgard, not seeing Heimdall glancing after him as if he was suspecting something.

A/n: Aaaw Loki, you're falling in love :D !