Minor, oblique spoiler for Captain America: Winter Soldier.

"I just don't see how the Jeffersonian could be of assistance to an organization such as yours," A well dressed woman stated as she waved her hand around the conference room of scientists.

Ignoring the hostile glare from the FBI agent in the corner, Darcy smiled. "Sometimes, SHIELD needs an independent forensics lab. As you know, Doctor Saroyan, the one here at the Jeffersonian is one of, if not the, best in the nation."

"They're under contract with the FBI," the agent, who looked a lot like someone she should know, spat out.

Giving a small sigh, Darcy tried to placate the government official. "SHIELD is not here to poach, Agent Booth, only to borrow on rare occasions."

"I don't want to work for a shadow agency," a curly haired scientist growled as he glared at Darcy. "For all we know, SHIELD could have agents everywhere, just waiting to take over the governments of the world."

Darcy quirked a grin and pointed to the left. "According to the rumors, that was a few realities that way, and it was stopped." Pausing, she looked thoughtful and raised her finger forty-five degrees. "Or is it that way? I'm never positive on multi-dimensional compass points."

Any reply to her comment was forestalled by loud thunder that almost masked the raised voices in another section of the complex.

"There are no storms predicted for today. And, the sky is clear," someone in the room commented.

Pinching her nose, Darcy muttered, "Odin's Beard." Turning to Doctor Soroyan, she gave a plastic smile, "My colleague gets a bit passionate about his field. Excuse me a moment."

One of the female scientists commented, "You do know that Norse paganism of today has no real basis in fact."

"Bones!" Agent Booth hissed as the rest followed to see what the commotion was.

Darcy paused and blinked a few times at Doctor Brennan. "Actually, a coworker says it a lot, and I picked it up." She hurried towards the new Norse Myth exhibit as she heard the voices ahead get louder.

Turning the corner, she saw Thor yelling at a security guard and waving his arms wildly. "At least he didn't call Mew Mew," she muttered with a heartfelt sigh. "Big guy!" she called out.

"Lady Darcy!" Thor boomed as he gesticulated wildly at the exhibit. "It's all wrong!"

"Okay, first of all, we talked about using your inside voice. Take a few deep breathes." Seeing Thor had calmed down a bit, she continued, "Remember our discussion of reality verses fantasy? Over the years, the true tales get embellished. Remember?"

"But, I am quite... miffed... over this." Thor pouted.

"Oh my," a member of Saroyan's staff said as she glanced over Thor's jeans and tight t-shirt clad body.

"Hey!" Hodges exclaimed. "Angela!"

"I can look!"

Ignoring the crowd of scientists behind her, Darcy looked at Thor confused. "Miffed? Where did you learn 'miffed'?"

"Lady Jane insisted I add some 'real' classics to my reading list. I'm currently in the middle of Pride and Prejudice," Thor replied.

Darcy exclaimed, "Harry Potter is a classic!" Taking a deep breath, and noticing that Thor was again calm, she turned to Doctor Saroyan. "Shall we return to our meeting?"

The scientist shook her head. "I'll go over the contract with the Jeffersonian lawyers. If everything is in order, I'll be glad to sign it."

Darcy gave a wide smile and nodded.

"Now, that business is out of the way, an intern here, Mr. Vaziri, says he'd like to speak with you on a... personal matter?" The last of Doctor Saroyan's statement came out as a hesitant question.

"Arastoo's here? Faboo!" Darcy exclaimed. "I went to high school with his sister and haven't seen him in years!"

Notes

Bones is a TV show about an forensics lab at the Jeffersonian that helps the FBI with cases. The main character, Temperance Brennan, aka Bones, is a genius anthropologist that specializes in bones, and who is socially inept.

Agent Booth is played by David Boreanez, who played Angel in the Buffy series. That's why he looks familiar to Darcy. :-)

What I was thinking as I wrote about Hodges conspiracy theory. For my writing, the multiverse is like this:

Darcy Slayer - Darcy and Mew Mew - Darcy and Uncle Jack -MCU

With probably a few universes in between... The farther you get away from the MCU universe, the less likely the plot of Captain America 2 happened. Or, at least, at that large a scale.

The rumors are from the demon underground. My thought is in a reality where you have all these 'Big Bads' wanting to take over the world, they'll stop each other's attempts as much as possible.

As for Bone's comment about Norse paganism today... -shrug- it seems to be a comment she'd say.