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Thor had planned to talk with Sif the first chance he got, to tell her that there were others out there for her, that he was not the right one. He had really planned to talk to her, but then life got in the way.

Neither Odin or Heimdall were sure how the frost giants managed to get into Asgard without the help of the Bifrost. But all of a sudden they were in the throne room, ready to kill Odin as revenge for their own fallen king. Odin could easily have wiped them out in an instant, and would have done it had it not been for the surprise of a small army of frost giants crashing true the wall into the throne room.

The surprise was enough to make him fall out of his throne and knock himself out on the floor, Frigga protecting him while Thor, his friends and the guards took care of the invaders without causing to much damage.

The frost giants on the other hand did not care, trashing everything they could in their quest to kill the All-Father, killing several guards as they charged, a giant crater in the floor where the guards had been just a moment ago.

Thor and his friends tried to destroy as little as possible while fighting, but in the end Thor had enough of holding back, letting lose the true fury of his weapon. In one giant cleave he banged the hammer into the ground, the floor crashing under the power of the thunder god. The surviving frost giants tried to flee out into the streets of the city, fearing the true power of the prince as they saw what he could truly do if he so wished. They did not get far, all of them dead in an instant when Thor summoned a powerful thunder storm, lighting striking all of the remaining frost giants at once.

He found no pleasure in seeing their charred corpses lying in the street, smoke rising from their burned remains. But they had come with intent to kill, and he had only done the same to them, giving them death as reward. In the past he would have led his friends into the very realm of their enemy and wiped them out, but that was the past and this is now.

When all of the dead frost giants had been found he commanded the court sorcerer to cast every spell she could to find out how they had gotten into Asgard without the help of the Bifrost. His command was obeyed and every spell she knew was cast. A week later the answer to how was found, surprising Heimdall.

In the outskirts of the city a small pathway between the two worlds had been opened, allowing passage to those who wished it. The court sorcerer had found several imprints of Loki's magic upon the pathway, but it was decaying and old imprints, the magic used to open it no longer fresh. As far as the court sorcerer could tell it was meant for some kind of backup plan for Loki, but he never got the chance to carry out that particular plan before he disappeared on earth.

It was not Loki himself that had opened it, instead it had been so long since he had tended to the pathway that the magic had just activated on its own, allowing passage for several weeks and without the notice of Heimdall. When the giants passed true it the magic got weaker, the spell to cloak it gone for good. A few hours after it was discovered it died out, no longer usable to anyone.

Heimdall had to admit that Loki was clever to even be able to cloak a pathway like that and make him unable to see it, but he did so with much resistance and no joy in his words. Thor knew it was because they both thought the same, what if he could come back to Asgard unnoticed.

But their fears were quickly put to rest with the news from the court sorcerer.

Magic like that was tricky and could easily kill the user, the magic itself tuning the person to the flow of magic while the spell was cast. Even a single mistake would be enough to wipe the minds of anyone doing the spell, magic taking over the body and mind, wiping every memory and happy thought away. Even Loki was smart enough to know that he had been lucky to cast a spell like that once.

But there was still no time to talk with Sif, a new problem rearing its head as soon the first had been solved. The next problem was Odin, or rather it was his head. When he had fallen out of his throne he had hit it so hard it gave him jumbled speech and memory loss for a little while. It was nothing to be worried about the healers assured his family, giving them a few herbs that could take care of everything.

So in Odin's absence Thor acted as overseer of the rebuilding of the throne room, helping the workers and volunteers with the work. Three weeks later everything would be rebuilt, Odin would be healthy once more.

Only problem was that all the work had made him forget that he needed to talk with Sif. Not only that but his dreams with Jane were starting to become fewer as time went on, his intent to finally tell her that he loved her always interrupted in some way. Telling Jane that he loved her became his top priority, right after work. Sif was forgotten.

Not that it mattered if he forgot that a talk with Sif was needed. A month of thinking and using her time on another person made her realize something about herself, but only after confessions from two men in her life.

They needed to talk, and she would be the one to seek him out first.

When Sif had gone to the play with Fandral she did not think they would have as much fun as they ended up having, the play being a comedy about two very stupid warriors. She could not remember the last time she had laughed that much, almost in tears at the end of the play.

Afterwards they had taken a walk around the gardens, talking and looking at the flowers and trees planted all around them. It had been a good evening, and he had left her by her room that night, a friendly kiss on her hand as only a true gentleman would do. She could not help but have a smile on her face as he left.

The next day he had been about to ask her something, but it was then the frost giants attacked and everything else was forgotten for a moment.

But afterwards there was nothing for the two of them to do, neither of them having worked much with construction before. Thor took care of everything that came his way as it was discovered. The people of Asgard very proud as the young prince took charge while his father was ill. Sif and the warriors three did not see much of him after that, busy with work.

So there was nothing for them to do, none of them trained in the art of building and repairing. So instead Fandral asked her out once more, this time on a picnic in the forest just outside the city.

She had expected it to be as any other picnic, eating and drinking, talk a little bit. But she was surprised when halfway true their meal a giant wolf appeared, looking furious and angry. It snarled at them, white teeth showing.

She had been ready to kill it when Fandral stopped her, calmly lowering her sword and putting it on the ground. When he went closer to the wolf she was afraid for a moment, but then she saw what the real problem was. A knife in its paw, old and rusty and lodged pretty good in there. The wound had been ripped open, but the wolf had not been able to get the knife out, only making the pain worse.

He did not tell the wolf to do anything, just calmly walked towards it. When he stood in front of it he allowed the wolf to smell him, and when he did not seem like a threat to the great animal it allowed him to pull the knife out.

When he finally got it out of the paw the wolf let out a pained cry and sat back on its behind, whimpering in pain and fright at the sudden movement. But fandral calmly stroked its fur, calming the animal down while he reached into his pocket and took a little book out.

"I am not the best at this my noble friend, but please allow me to heal you the best I can"

The wolf let out a whine and nodded, understanding in its eyes. Sif and the wolf watched as Fandral found a simple healing spell in his book, softly saying the spell under his breath as the wolf was healed.

Carefully it tested out its paw, and when it felt no pain it let out a loud howl of happiness. Then it gave Fandral a big lick from head to toe, leaving him standing dripping in dog drool.

Without a second thought the wolf walked over to Sif and nuzzled into her, the giant body warm and soft. She stroked it a few times before it ran of, giving a last howl as thanks, then it was gone.

When they sat down to eat once more she could not help herself, she was impressed.

"Where did you learn magic like that"

Fandral swallowed a grape before answering her.

"No great story to tell I am afraid, the most I know is from this book"

He gave her the book he had used, the cover saying "Magic for beginners" a dumb looking face on the front.

She giggled and gave him the book back, spending the rest of their picnic eating and having fun. Their day was ended as the first time they spent together, by her door with a kiss on her hand.

As the month went by they were alone more and more, eating side by side in the great hall when everyone else was not there. Their time together was fun and unlike any other time she had ever spent with any man. They had fun and laughed, they went on picnics and took long walks just talking.

On their last walk they ran into Thor, their friend sitting on a bench and staring up at the stars. There was nothing unusual about this, but they could see sadness in his eyes.

"Thor… is something wrong my friend" Fandral asked, letting go of Sif's hand. She was surprised when she felt his hand leaving hers, never noticing that they were holding hands in the first place.

Thor looked at the two, offering a tiny smile back. With one last look at the sky he got up and started to walk back to the castle with them.

"No need to concern yourself my friend, the problems I am thinking of are far away and I hardly think I can fix it even if I was there"

But Fandral understood what he meant, and walked besides him to talk between the two. Sif walked slower, but close enough to hear.

"The machine again" Fandral asked carefully, not wishing to upset his friend.

"It works, she knows it works. But the piece needed to make it work have not been located yet" Thor sighed and looked at the stars once more. "And the few dreams we do share now are always interrupted before I can confess to her"

"Confess what?" Fandral asked.

"That I love her"

Both Sif and Fandral stopped, but Thor did not notice as he walked on, hoping for a dream when he slept that night. Eventually the darkness of the night made it impossible for them to see him, leaving them alone.

"About time he figured that out" Fandral sighed.

Sif looked up at him, blushing when his eyes were looking at her more intensely then ever before. His eyes left hers and he continued walking. Sif frowned and followed him, trying to put her hand into his once again, confused when he would not take her hand.

"Is something wrong?" she asked, stopping in her tracks.

"I know what you did that night" he stopped, a look in his eyes she did not recognize, but it was a look mixed with different feelings.

"The night of Balder's wedding, I know you were in Thor's room"

Her eyes went wide, surprised that he knew about that. She stepped back as he started to walk towards her, stopping when her back bumped up against a wall.

His hands took place beside her head, forcing her to look up at him, for the first time she noticed that he was taller. His eyes were not cruel, but full of want and hurt. She blushed as he gently stroked her cheek.

Then he was kissing her.

For a moment she was surprised and did not kiss back, eyes open in shock. But then they closed and she kissed him back, arms around his neck. His lips were soft, his tongue gently trying to get her lips open. When she allowed her lips to part her tongue meet his, gently dueling for the right to explore. Just before she won he stopped, his head dropping onto her shoulder, breathing hard into her clothes.

She allowed him a moment to rest, gently playing with his hair.

"Why-"

"I just want you to think about what you want, think before this goes on any longer. I don't want to lose to a man who already loves another women, that would not be fair. I cant go any further then this before you are sure in what you want"

She looked up at him confused, closing her eyes when he leaned down to place gentle kisses on her mouth. Then he turned around and walked the same way as Thor.

She was left standing in the night, confused tears silently running down her face.

Four days later Sif was lying in bed, not having done much else then leave her room to eat when needed, using the rest of her time to think about Fandral's words.

Her clothes were strewn all over the room, only wearing her underwear and enjoying the cold breeze flowing into the room. It was cold, her skin starting to shiver.

What did she want, or who did she want. A month ago she would have said Thor and just leave it at that, but Fandral's words had made her think about something she had once been told.

"Just find what makes you happy, that is all that matters"

And when she finally gave it some thought she realized one thing, she did not love Thor, she just had a crush on him. But it was not herself that had a crush on him, it was the younger her that had the crush and somehow she had just kept it in her hearth, allowed it to stay there and not change as time went on.

The time they had shared when they were younger was a one time thing, nothing happened after that then her own imagination when left alone, fantasizing that Thor would be the only one to ever love her.

But that was the thoughts of her younger self, and she had never let them go, had never allowed herself to think anything else. She had changed as time went on, as had Thor. Only the thought and fantasy had not changed, and if she let that go she could only come to one conclusion.

She did not love Thor, and it was not him that made her happy.

Fandral made her happy, he made her smile and he could make her laugh.

When she thought about it had always been like that, her attention on Thor while Fandral stayed in the back and just took what he could get of her attention. When they were young it was as a friend, and growing older it had changed.

Last month when he had asked her to the play had been the last straw, no longer wanting to be the guy with half of her attention. He wanted all of it. Now he was willing to let her decide what she wanted.

And she would give it to him, but first she had to do something.

Getting dressed she left her room to find Thor, finally ready to leave the little girl behind that had stayed all those years.

It was not hard to find him now that Odin was healthy once more, the only other place where he could be besides the throne room being his own room. When she got to the door she took a look inside, smiling when she saw him on the bed, trying to sleep. With a knock she walked inside, giggling when he was out of the bed in an instant, ready to throw her out again if need be.

"Don't worry, I am not going to seduce you or anything like that"

Thor looked at her, confused that she was just letting it go like that. She walked further into the room and sat down on the bed, looking at her feet.

"I… I want to say that I am sorry first, mostly for being in your bed and kissing and just being a bitch that whole month"

"It helped when you went to earth with Heimdall I assume" he sat down besides her, gently bumping into her shoulder. She was not surprised that Heimdall had told him.

"Yea, it helped, especially when I Saw that Donald guy. Seeing how he acted around Jane made me start to actually think about how I had acted around you"

She flopped onto her back, legs staying on the floor. He looked down at her from where he was sitting.

"Remember that girl from a few months ago"

"Yes… but what does she have to do with anything. The only thing she did was call everyone silly and stuff a bunny in your face"

"Well, I meant the girl who was looking after her. I had a talk with her, not that much was said but it was enough to allow me to think about some things"

"And that was?"

"She told me to Just find what makes me happy, and that was all that mattered. I never really gave it much thought at the time, but all the time I Spent with Fandral lately have made me realize something"

She looked up at him, seeing that she had his full attention.

"Remember when we had sex" she blurted out, giggling when he blushed.

"We… we were young. It was a long time ago" Thor stammered, blushing even more as she started laughing.

"I know, and the only reason I thought I wanted you was because I had just kept the memory of that one time, forcing myself to look at you with the eyes of a teenager instead of my own"

They looked at each other, the past slipping away as they allowed friendship to be what their relationship was all about.

"So… sorry for being such a bitch. I should have just realized it all a lot sooner"

"All is forgiven. Just tell me one last thing"

"What?"

"Did Blake cry when he left, I never got the chance to ask Jane"

"No, but when you get to earth he will be sure to have a reason to" she teased, both of them laughing at the thought of the annoying human scared out of his mind.

Thor helped her up and gave her a hug, smiling when she let out the breath she had been holding, hugging him back.

"Now, go talk to Fandral. Tell him that you want him to make you happy" he laughed when she blushed and looked down. "Not in that way, you perv"

Sif gave him a kiss on the cheek and left the room, taking one last look at him before she walked out the door.

"Thanks for being my friend after all this"

"Why would I not"

The smiling face of Thor was the last thing she saw as she closed the door.

She found Fandral in his room, reading in his magic book and trying to get a vase to float. So far it seemed like he was doing ok, the vase lifting of the ground. She knocked on the door, startling him and making the vase crash to the floor.

They looked at each other for a few moments before she finally walked in, closing the door to have some privacy.

Fandral sat stunned as she walked towards him, eventually straddling him. They just sat there, looking at each other until she finally spoke. Or into his chest at least, making it easier when she was not looking him in the eyes.

"I don't know where this will eventually go, but I am willing to give it a try"

She looked up at him, smiling when he gently stroked her cheek.

"I pick you, and only you. You don't have to worry about Thor, it was a little girl crush I had on him"

"And me"

She pushed him down on the bed, listening to his heart as he embraced her and the two just allowed the silence to make everything be ok once more.

"I just want you to make me happy for as long as you are possible to"

"Deal"

They kissed, and everything fell into place.

Hours later Jane woke up to the silence of Thor's bedroom, the man in question no where to be seen. His covers were thrown aside, his pillow was gone and the room was empty.

She sighed and hugged her own pillow to her chest, not for the first time wishing that it would smell like him here in their shared dream. Looking around she realized it was a long time since she had been here.

Their dreams had started to become fewer in the last couple of months, down from where they would have five dreams with each other each month, they now had two. And each dream where she had tried to tell him that she loved him something had woken her up, just as she was about to say the L word.

It was frustrating, annoying and she wanted to cry. A few minutes passed, the door opening making her look up and smiling when she saw why Thor had left the bed in the first place.

In one hand he had a shredded pillow, in the other he had the little dog. Looking very pleased with itself as it growled at the pillow.

"What happened" she giggled.

"Someone decided my pillow was a monster. I had to chase it all over the castle before it would give it back" he plopped the dog down on the bed, both of them smiling as it stole Jane's pillow and dragged it over in a corner, going back to sleep.

Thor shrugged and picked Jane up, placing her facing him and hugging her to him as if his life depended on it. Both of them breathed a sigh of relief as their embrace calmed them down.

"I missed you. It sucks that there are fewer dreams all of a sudden" she mumbled into his chest.

"I know"

Neither of them spoke, letting the silence come over them for a little while.

"How did the last test go?"

"Same as the others, sparkle and glitter everywhere. Damn thing exploded the minute we activated the machine. Most of the pieces are starting to get even smaller to, the last one was no bigger then a pineapple"

He had no idea what a pineapple was, but it was properly small.

"How many more pieces is left?"

"Don't know, SHIELD found a few in the arctic. Fury told me it would take a few weeks to dig them out of the ice"

She got the bad news for their dream, at least he got some good news to share.

"Sif told me that she did not love me" he chuckled when Jane's head almost snapped as she looked up at him.

"She gave up on you"

"There was nothing to give up on really, she figured out that it was the young her that had a crush on me. Fandral gave her the chance to finally figure it out. He told her to think about what she wanted"

"Are they together?"

"I think so, but they are still in his room, talking and giggling the last I walked by. But if this is what make both of them happy there is nothing to stop them "

When Jane does not say anything he looks down, smiling as she looks up at him with a smile of her own. The threat of Sif not wanting to let her have Thor is avoided, and as far as Jane is concerned that is the last obstacle beside getting the machine to work that they need to clear. She can finally tell him that she loves him.

"Thor?" he hugs her tighter, seeing that this is something serious by the look in her eyes.

"Yes" he leans in a and gently kisses her, holding her tightly as she clings to him, kissing back with purpose. When he finally lets her go she takes a deep breath.

"There is something I want to tell you" she looks down, blushing and smiling"

"Yes" say it, say it, say it, he thinks in his mind.

"I really, really l-"

BEEP BEEP BEEP.

Both of them blink as the dream starts to shake, Jane starting to fade as the beeping continues.

"What is that" Thor asks, looking around as the walls shake and yet another BEEP is heard.

"Oh crap. I took my phone to bed because I was talking with Natasha. Someone is calling me" Jane mutters

BEEP BEEP BEEP.

Her eyes is the last thing he sees before she fades, waking up. He only looks at the air for a second before he slumps back into bed, smiling a little as the dog jumps up to comfort him.

"This fucking sucks" he mumbles.

The dog growls in agreement, the two of them alone once more.

When Jane opens her eyes she wants to scream, looking down at her phone and just wanting to throw it against the wall. It is when she sees the caller ID she freaks out, Darcy's name flashing at her.

Maybe the machine decided to finally just say fuck it and blow up. She presses the call button.

"Darcy, what's wrong. Did something happen to the machine-"

"I slept with Steve" Darcy whispers back, sounding completely freaked out.

Jane blinks, thinking that this is just to fucking messed up.

"You had sex with your boyfriend… and now your freaking out and telling me about it"

"YES… I don't know why, but I am freaking out. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY" Darcy whispers back, the last part leaving Jane's eras ringing.

"Ok, why are you so freaked. He is a nice guy, you like him, he is sweet, funny and great to be around. And the chance of him being frozen for another fifty or sixty years are pretty small"

There is silence on the other end, the only sound the soft breathing Jane can hear.

"Yea, guess your right… maybe it was just that we only dated for two months before having sex"

"See, nothing to be freaked about. Now I really need to sleep-"

"It was so amazing" Darcy whispers.

For the first time in her life Jane curses herself for being such a good friend as listens to Darcy telling her about her date that night, sounding like a giggling little schoolgirl true out the entire story.

If given the chance Jane would gladly go back to sleep, but in the she smiles over the fact that at least someone is happy in their love life. Both on earth and Asgard.

But for once it would be nice if it was her.

The thread of Sif glows a final time, falling into place and looking peaceful. Urd gives a pleased nod, a final look at the threads of Jane and Thor and then she leaves the room.

When she comes back into the great room where they relax there is silent, the soft snores of Skuld coming from the couch in the corner.

"She seems pretty tired lately, does she not" Urd asks her sister, worry in her voice.

"I asked her about it, she would only tell me that running all over the future takes a lot of energy out of her. And that she still have not found it" Verdandi answers back.

"Found what"

"She would not tell me"

The two sisters look at the younger girl, smiling when she turns in her sleep and mumbles in her sleep.

"Stupid blueberries, why are you taunting me" Skuld lets out a snore, falling silent again.

"We will just have to wait and see what she have planned for the future I guess" Urd grumbles, sitting down in her chair.

"Only thing we really can do" Verdandi agrees.

One sister sleeps, two sisters relax for now. The final two threads softly glowing from their place in the great hall of threads, the threads of Jane and Thor, side by side.

And just as Jane was ready, she was denied the chance to tell Thor her true feelings. but in the end, everything will be ok.

Next chapter. Jane finds that which was missing, with a little help.

And the final return of Doctor Mc douche bag. oh joy.