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I have been listening to music lately and I found a song that fits "Stockholm" so well. It is called "The Chevalier" by Serenity. Please take the time to listen to it.

Anyway, on with Chapter Two! Enjoy and keep those reviews coming in!

Chapter Two - Not going to work out

It took over an hour for the background checks, photographing for ID tags, going through their personal effects, and finally the body searches to make sure that they were unarmed, Jane and Darcy were finally able to enter the confines of SHIELD HQ.

Both girls looked at all the rooms that were secured by either biometric scanners or required passwords to enter.

Jane noticed that some rooms even had names.

They were escorted to the residency quarters where those that were housed on base lived. The redhead, Agent Romanoff, opened the door with the use of one of their ID cards.

"Welcome to your new home," she told them as they walked in.

It gave the ambiance of the lab and her trailer seem like the four seasons. They each had a bunk bed similar to that of a college dorm room. There was a desk where they could set up a computer station for communication.

"Food can be stored in your mini-fridge, but there is a cafeteria at the northern end of the complex," the agent informed both girls. "It's not bad."

"What if we want to head out for Taco Bell or something?" Darcy asked.

"You both are on what is known as general quarters," the agent spoke as she folded her hands before her. "You cannot leave the island unless you have expressed permission."

Both Jane and Darcy looked at each other.

"So are we prisoners?" Jane asked.

"Not at all by any means."

"Sure feels like it," Darcy mumbled.

"Please feel free to take some time in getting yourself antiquated with your surroundings. Commander Fury will want to speak to you later."

The agent left and they both looked to each other.

"So...what do you think?" Darcy asked.

"This is so not going to work for me," Jane said. "I mean it is better than the trailer, but this is going to suffocate me. I cannot just wait until they say jump and I reply with how high."

"Wonder why that Fury guy needs us anyway? Well, actually he needs you. I am just along for the ride."

"Yeah, why did you want to come anyway?" Jane wanted to know. "You only had another week and then you would be back to partying it up in Santa Fe with your sorority again."

"Come on," her intern said. "Pass up time of being able to go and live in New York for a while. And it is all free. Who would not want that?"

"Then I think that when we go and talk to the commander," the teacher said, "we need to make some minor requests."

"Is that all you wanted to request?" Agent Coulson added in a sarcastic reply. "Why not just throw in a trip to Tahiti while you are at it?"

"Phil," Commander Fury said. "I think what the ladies have requested is simple enough. All they ask is some freedoms and not be trapped within SHIELD. Ladies," he directed his attention, "I think your requests are reasonable. It was never in my goals that we would be holding you against your will.

"Ms. Foster, we have set up an occupation for you. You are going to be substitute professor at Columbia College teaching Astronomy."

Jane nodded. Not a bad job to have.

"We can also have you set up in an apartment in the sorority and fraternity row area," Fury continued to tell her. "The owners are good friends and would be more than willing to rent their loft to you.

"Ms. Lewis," Fury continued to speak.

"Oh I am good with living here," Darcy replied. "I just want the ability to go out when I want to."

"I think that is manageable. Our goal here at SHIELD is not to make you feel as though you are prisoners, but to have you use your talents for the benefits of mankind."

"You still have not told me what I am going to be working on yet," Jane said. "I was told that I was going to be working on this with Dr. Selvig, whom I have yet to see."

"Dr. Selvig is at work in a top secret lab here on base," Agent Romanoff told everyone. "If you think that you have it bad, his quarters are connected to the lab and he has very little base privileges."

"Yikes," Darcy uttered under her breath.

"So when do I start my new job?" Jane asked.

"Semester starts next Tuesday," Coulson told her. "We'll see to it that you are moved into your new home and ready to go back to school this weekend."

Jane had to admit that being a teacher did not sound like a bad idea. It would give her a nice change of pace and yet still study the stars.

Like clockwork, the escorts for Jane Foster were there to help her repack everything that she had taken out of her bags and loaded them into a van.

She was leased out a small silver Ford Focus from the SHIELD motor-pool to use to get her over to the campus and to travel back and forth from home to class.

Darcy was excited about having the military stark room all to herself and being able to work with some of the people with SHIELD. She would actually learn more about political science means that were catered more towards her major.

The small apartment loft that she was moving into was located above the main student bookstore in the commons area of campus. The owners had two lofts that were separated by a rickety staircase that led to an outside door.

It came furnished with a sofa that folded out into a bed, small table and two chairs, and a TV that would serve as entertainment. It was enormous in height with metal rafters that raced across the top.

Large windows looked down on the street where students were in a rush to get their books for the next term.

"Wicked," Jane noticed as she pointed up. "What a skylight."

"Perfect for someone who enjoys looking at the stars," Agent Coulson remarked to her comment. "Will you be needing anything else?"

"I think I am good," she replied.

"Then here is a supplemental card," he added before passing her an envelope. "It gives you some starting spending money for food and supplies; that is until the school starts paying you."

"This will work out," she replied. "Thank you for your help."

He nodded once and left her in the apartment alone.

Jane was happy that she was not going to be so suppressed on SHIELD's island fortress, but she did need to have her space.

Once she had her clothes unpacked and linens on the sofa bed, Jane decided to head to Columbia to check out where she was going to be teaching.

OK, Jane is going to be a teacher. Sounds like fun. For you Loki obsessed, he comes back in the next chapter. Remember to review!