Interlude Jane
Ever since Thor returned to Asgard, Jane tried desperately to find a way to contact him. He promised to come back. Every day she waited.
Like some Penelope for Odysseus (that's how she read not only Norse but also Greek myths, who knows what gods are like?)
But day after day was passing by and she was losing hope. Erik accepted Shield's offer and disappeared into some bunker without contacting her.
Only she and Darcy remained.
Jane felt as though her whole life had sucked.
Erik was gone to bunker of Shield.
Her experiments were unsuccessful and Darcy didn't understand her; after all, she was into political science, not physics. She said she'd rather understand immoral politics than all Jane's math nonsense.
The trip to the laboratory in Norway was to somehow improve the mental state of Jane, who had been suffering from bouts of depression for some time.
Of course, besides swallowing antidepressants.
She was, of course, suspicious of Shield's motives because she had no doubts that they were behind it. She was nobody and no one would invite her to Norway because of her own achievements that she did not have. Just an incomplete theory that nobody wanted to believe.
However, a trip to Norway might help her somehow. To be some kind of new beginning.
And maybe, just maybe, she would feel a little better again in the country where people had long worshiped Thor and his family.
Thor dazzled her. He changed her life and left.
She still remembered his tender smile, strong arms, and a slightly strange way of speaking.
They knew each other so short.
It was downright stupid that she was so attached to him.
Yet he was a god.
No wonder mortal males were no match for him.
Somewhere in Jane there was a fear that if they had sex then Thor would lose interest in her and leave her with a semi-divine baby.
After all, that was how romances between gods and mortals usually ended.
The mother was always abandoned and the child grew up to be a powerful hero.
Jane knew she should go on living.
Don't worry about Thor.
However, her stupid heart refused to listen to reason.
Jane was just examining her theory when Darcy ran to the lab. She was all red from running, and her fingers were wrapped in noodles and stained with soup. She probably dropped the cup again.
"Jane! Jane! Invasion! Aliens in New York! Isn't it strange that there are aliens and Shield took us here? It's very convenient for me? Of course we are in some Norway, and the whole action takes place in New York" Darcy was speaking very quickly.
"Darcy, what are you talking about? What aliens?" Jane asked. Was Darcy watching any horror movies again?
Darcy dragged her to the recreation room, where there was a television. Ugly alien faces, completely unlike Thor, destroyed New York and murdered people. It wasn't a horror movie. It was an account of the events in New York. Which were happening right now.
The aliens attacked them.
Jane and Darcy watched in silence.
Until the announcement that the invasion was over and they were saved by the Avengers.
They were shown.
Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, and Thor.
Thor.
"Come on, he's back on Earth again. Do you think he knew? He warned against evil aliens who threaten peace Ygg, oh this tree, what they say we are. I wonder how he killed them with his Mew Mew." Darcy was pretending that she had hammer and hit the air with it.
"It's Mjölnir, Darcy. And the tree is Yggdrasil," Jane said very slowly.
Thor was here.
He was here after all this.
"We're packing, Darcy" Jane hurried off to collect her notes.
"You want to go over there? What about those undercover cops outside watching us?" Darcy asked.
"You'll distract them," said Jane.
"How?" Darcy was surprised.
"You are very attractive" Jane smirked.
"I'm supposed to serve as a desperate miss who wants sex from undercover cops because you want to sneak out to see your god boyfriend?" Darcy asked.
"Exactly," replied Jane.
"No way! For two reasons. First, I'm not going to stay here because you want to go. Second, I'm not going to sleep with any undercover cop! And maybe even reason three! Friends are not taking advantage of themselves." Darcy sat down on the couch, looking offended.
Jane felt ashamed.
She shouldn't have been suggesting something like that.
She wanted to see Thor so much that she forgot about her friend.
Darcy was her friend and Jane was suggesting ...
Maybe Jane's mother was right that she had banged her head too many times as a child and thus had no ability to understand other people.
"Darcy, I'm sorry. You know I," Jane tried to explain.
"Give it up and come up with a better plan that doesn't involve taking advantage of me and that will end up with the two of us in New York," said Darcy.
Jane nodded.
She sat down next to Darcy and began to think.
But nothing came to her mind. She had to put it off for another day.
From the morning the next day, she analyzed various ideas. How to get out and see Thor.
She didn't even pay attention to her research.
She kept thinking about what she would say to Thor. Who will they be for each other? How are they going to continue this?
Around two o'clock in the afternoon, her equipment started to go crazy and Darcy screamed that all science was going crazy.
Jane immediately ran over to check it.
Energy.
In the atoms themselves.
Powerful.
And yet, completely different from what has already been more or less know by her - Bifrost.
What was that? How did it work? And how could it spread so quickly? Jane had almost forgotten Thor overwhelmed by the magnificence of this.
Her theories.
She could still achieve a lot!
She could investigate it!
She immediately went to work.
"Jane, don't you want to see the mighty god boyfriend anymore?" Darcy was losing her arm.
"Go, Darcy! If I can tame it! Understand! I ... It's a whole new perspective for science," Jane mumbled.
"Scientists are nuts," Darcy sighed.