See You Soon (See the Moon)

23. Norse Legends & Soulmarks

Back at Smith Motors, dawn was approaching. 

Erik stared as Jane quickly typed up the observations on her laptop. "You don't think that was an ordinary magnetic storm do you?" 

"Look the lenses around these edges are characteristic of an Einstein-Rosen bridge?" Jane excitedly pointed at the calculations from the night before. I set Erik and Jane's coffees down beside them, "Is that some sort of portal?" 

"Theoretically, yes." Selvig still was staring at Jane his brow furrowed. 

"A wormhole if you will." Jane spoke up after taking a sip of her coffee before continuing her flurry of activity around to the printer where she printed the previous night's data. Jane took one of the diagrams and showed it to Selvig, "It gets better. What do you see?" 

"Stars." I poked my head over her shoulder gazing at the star chart in her hand. "Yes, but not our stars."Jane showed another chart, "This is our quadrant this time of year and unless Ursa Minor decided to take a day off then these are someone else's constellations." 

My theory about 'Thor' was becoming more and more plausible, my fingertips itched to call Rikki but if I was right we could be flooded with MIBs at any moment. My gaze looked over the paperwork she printed out before narrowing on some pictures from inside the storm. "That's not all. Look at these pics from the storm." I pointed to the man shaped shadow in the storm's heart. 

"It can't be." Erik stared at the pic. 

"It seems we left something at the hospital." Jane's gaze was determined and I knew she'd get to the bottom of this one way or another.

We went to the hospital only to find his hospital bed empty. Then as we were leaving, Jane hit him with the van again. 

She ran to his side helping him up, "I'm so sorry, I swear I'm not doing this on purpose." 

We dropped by a thrift store to grab him some new clothes before we took him back to Smith Motors. 

Thor looked better in clean clothes. Not quite as he was depicted in legend, a lot more buff and tall. 

"So if you are Thor, do you have a brother named Loki?"

 Thor stared at me, "You wielded lightning." 

I ignored the possible insight he had and just treated it as usual since both Jane and Erik would assume he was talking about the taser. "Yeah sorry about that. You were raving and it was dark." 

His eyes narrowed before he looked behind me at Jane, "This mortal form grows weak, I need sustenance." Well he was surely arrogant as one would believe royalty might be. 

We took him to Isabelle's Diner and watched as he gulped down five Hungry Man breakfast specials. 

Jane tired of waiting as he finished up his last meal leaned forward, "How did you get into that cloud?" 

Instead of responding to her question he grinned as he finished his coffee, "This drink. I like it. Another!" Then smashed the mug on the ground. 

We all winced and apologized to Izzy before looking back at the brawny dude. 

I spoke cautiously, "We ask politely for another and don't smash cups here, even if we are royalty." 

Erik looked at me with incredulous eyes but I ignored it. 

Thor's eyes narrowed upon me, "You are aware of me?"

"I've heard of you. Stories passed down regarding the Asgardians." Mostly true.