Jane walked behind Darcy and Eric, who were headed back to their lab. She felt disappointed, because she really wanted to join this Thor in his strange quest of getting back his... well, whatever it was.
She couldn't explain why or what, but this man did something to her. For over three months she hadn't been thinking of John and now this blond stranger came into her life and all of the sudden the suppressed memories came back into her mind. Thor somehow reminded her of him, even though he was completely different, but his confidence and way of talking was somehow similar. Furthermore there were his stories about the Norse Mythology, which she had heard from her ex the first time.
She felt the urge of talking to John at that moment, telling him that she had met the possible Thor. He would probably mock her and say something like: "Jane, I knew that only you could be the one to find the true God of Thunder. Oh and when you have spare time between questioning him, could you please tell him that it is not at all necessary to make it rain that much in the fall, thank you." Jane chuckled to herself, yet it didn't take long, until the sadness came back. She would never talk to John again, because he was gone and he obviously didn't want to see her ever again.
It was strange, when Thor was around, she could think of her former lover without it hurting her. It was like this strange muscled man brought John back into her life and it really felt good and it reminded her of something like home, which was why she was so disenchanted that Eric didn't let her go with him.
Darcy and Eric, who were walking in front of Jane suddenly froze. The astrophysicist followed their gazes, being puzzled and saw what was going on at their lab in front of them. Cars were parked and people were walking in and out of the building, carrying all their scientific instruments and documents. Jane inhaled sharply before running towards the men that put equipment in a car. "What the hell is going on here?!" She yelled angrily, yet the men ignored her.
"Hey!" She tried to take some of her instruments out of the car again, but without any luck.
A man approached her slowly. "Ms. Foster, I'm agent Coulson with SHIELD."
"I don't care who you work for, you can't do this!" The young woman was getting furious now. She couldn't understand this impudence of these so-called agents, stealing her equipment in front of her eyes. And why didn't Eric do anything?
"Jane, this is more serious than you realize, let it go." Her old friend whispered in her ear, with an anxious frown on his face.
"We're here investigating a security threat. We need to appropriate your equipment and all your atmospheric data." The agent explained.
"By appropriate you mean steal?" She asked, but didn't get an answer from agent Coulson, instead he gave her a check. "This should more than compensate."
Jane didn't look at the check, she threw it on the floor demonstratively. "I can't just pick up replacements from RadioShack! I made most of that equipment myself!"
"Then I'm sure you can do it again."
"And I'm sure I can sue you for violating my constitutional rights!"
"We're the good guys, Ms. Foster." The agent said and tried to walk away, but Jane blocked his way, with an outraged expression.
"So are we! We're on the verge of understanding something extraordinary!" She took her notebook out of her pocket and showed it to the man in front of her. "Everything I know about this phenomenon is in this lab and in this book, and no one has the right to take it from me."
The agent signed to a man, standing nearby, who ripped her book out of hands promptly.
"Hey!" The woman tried to take her notebook back.
"Thank you for your cooperation." Agent Coulson said with a disgustingly friendly grin on his face and walked away to a car. When every men had gotten into a car they pulled away, leaving the three scientists stunned behind.
"Years of research gone." Jane's voice was shaky, while the three of them were sitting on the roof of the now empty lab.
"They even took my iPod." Darcy stated annoyed.
"And your back-ups?" Erik asked the woman.
"Look around! They took our back- ups. They took the back-ups of our back-ups!" Jane answered with a helpless voice.
"I just downloaded, like, thirty songs on there." Was what they heard from a depressed Darcy.
"Could you please stop talking about your iPod?" Jane spitted angrily. "Who are these people?" She turned towards Erik again.
"No one knows much about them. But I knew a scientist - a pioneer in gamma radiation. SHIELD showed up, and he was never heard from again." He answered, looking into the distance thoughtfully.
"I'm not going to let them do this. I'm getting everything back."
"Please, let me contact one of my colleagues. Dr. Pym has had some dealings with these people. I'll e-mail him and see if he can help."
"They took your laptop, too." Darcy said annoyed.
Selvig sighed resignedly and got up. "Fine, then we'll have to search for a computer with internet."
Loki took slow steps and felt his heartbeat quickening, when he approached the Bifrost with the king's staff in his hand. He was finally free to go wherever he wanted and he knew which realm he would visit first.
"What is your plan?" Heimdall asked when the demigod had just put Gungnir in the Bifrost.
"I have to talk to Thor." He answered without blinking.
Heimdall only nodded. "Then good luck." He said before Loki opened the rainbow bridge and flashes enlightened the area. He was finally free to go to earth. He could feel the adrenaline pumping through his veins, knowing that he was finally going to see Jane again.
"I'll just be a minute." Erik said, climbing out of the car in front of the Rinky-Dink library to use the free internet they offered. Jane sat back in the car seat and let out a frustrated sigh, when she saw someone, she knew down the street, entering a pet store. She quickly turned on the car and drove towards the strange scenario. What was this Thor doing in the pet shop? She pressed the car horn and saw the blond facing her.
"You still need a lift?" She asked through the open window, receiving a smile as an answer from him.
Loki landed elegantly on the floor in the industrial area in Jersey City. It had been nine months since he had last been here. For humans that was almost a year, for gods it was a blink of an eye, but for him it felt like an eternity. The smell of the area hadn't changed. It smelled like flowers and hot summer air and car fog. He felt strangely at home, seeing New York City at the other side of the river. His heartbeat quickened and he started to run to Brooklyn, where Jane had lived, when he had met her.
"I've never done anything like this before!" Jane felt the nervousness in her body. She looked over to Thor while driving her van, who grinned at her amused. "Have you ever done anything like this before?"
"Many times. But you're brave to do it."
"They just stole my entire life's work. I really don't have anything left to lose." She answered angrily.
"But you're clever. Far more clever than anyone else in this Realm."
"Realm?" Jane shook her head laughing uncertainly. "Why do you talk like that?"
"You think me strange?"
"Yeah I do." She laughed.
"Good strange or bad strange?" He asked charmingly.
"I'm not quite sure yet." She looked at him, feeling her heart beating faster, when she saw him smiling at her. Why was he so handsome? She felt, that the car lurched and quickly turned the wheel, so that she had control over the car again. "I'm sorry." She laughed, seeing him laugh as well. The confidence he had was almost unbearable, why was he so sure of himself, even though, clearly everyone thought him to be crazy? "But who are you, really?" She wanted to know the truth.
"You'll see soon enough." Was the only thing she got as a reply.
"You promised me answers!" She said determined. Why was he so stubborn?
"What you seek it's a bridge."
A bridge! She had heard this before! She felt the excitement in her body. "Like an Einstein-Rosen Bridge?"
"More like a rainbow bridge."
The second one that didn't take the theory of Einstein serious and talked about a bridge and the Norse Mythology. This was a strange coincidence. Or was it?
"God I hope you're not crazy." She exclaimed grabbing the wheel of the car more tightly.
A/n: Well Jane maybe it's not a coincidence. And maybe you're falling for the brother of the god you loved! Don't do it!
I know I haven't written in a while xD! I am so sorry. But in the summer (Well when it's getting warmer again) I'm always outside. Well hope you liked this chapter and thank you for all the readers that are still with me! :D