Illusions | Loki & Jane

15. Thor

Jane walked behind Darcy and Eric, who were headed back to their lab. She felt disappointed, because she really wanted to join this Thor in his strange quest of getting back his... well, whatever it was.
She couldn't explain why or what, but this man did something to her. For over three months she hadn't been thinking of John and now this blond stranger came into her life and all of the sudden the suppressed memories came back into her mind. Thor somehow reminded her of him, even though he was completely different, but his confidence and way of talking was somehow similar. Furthermore there were his stories about the Norse Mythology, which she had heard from her ex the first time.
She felt the urge of talking to John at that moment, telling him that she had met the possible Thor. He would probably mock her and say something like: "Jane, I knew that only you could be the one to find the true God of Thunder. Oh and when you have spare time between questioning him, could you please tell him that it is not at all necessary to make it rain that much in the fall, thank you." Jane chuckled to herself, yet it didn't take long, until the sadness came back. She would never talk to John again, because he was gone and he obviously didn't want to see her ever again.
It was strange, when Thor was around, she could think of her former lover without it hurting her. It was like this strange muscled man brought John back into her life and it really felt good and it reminded her of something like home, which was why she was so disenchanted that Eric didn't let her go with him.

Darcy and Eric, who were walking in front of Jane suddenly froze. The astrophysicist followed their gazes, being puzzled and saw what was going on at their lab in front of them. Cars were parked and people were walking in and out of the building, carrying all their scientific instruments and documents. Jane inhaled sharply before running towards the men that put equipment in a car. "What the hell is going on here?!" She yelled angrily, yet the men ignored her.
"Hey!" She tried to take some of her instruments out of the car again, but without any luck.

A man approached her slowly. "Ms. Foster, I'm agent Coulson with SHIELD."

"I don't care who you work for, you can't do this!" The young woman was getting furious now. She couldn't understand this impudence of these so-called agents, stealing her equipment in front of her eyes. And why didn't Eric do anything?

"Jane, this is more serious than you realize, let it go." Her old friend whispered in her ear, with an anxious frown on his face.

"We're here investigating a security threat. We need to appropriate your equipment and all your atmospheric data." The agent explained.

"By appropriate you mean steal?" She asked, but didn't get an answer from agent Coulson, instead he gave her a check. "This should more than compensate."

Jane didn't look at the check, she threw it on the floor demonstratively. "I can't just pick up replacements from RadioShack! I made most of that equipment myself!"

"Then I'm sure you can do it again."

"And I'm sure I can sue you for violating my constitutional rights!"

"We're the good guys, Ms. Foster." The agent said and tried to walk away, but Jane blocked his way, with an outraged expression.
"So are we! We're on the verge of understanding something extraordinary!" She took her notebook out of her pocket and showed it to the man in front of her. "Everything I know about this phenomenon is in this lab and in this book, and no one has the right to take it from me."
The agent signed to a man, standing nearby, who ripped her book out of hands promptly.

"Hey!" The woman tried to take her notebook back.

"Thank you for your cooperation." Agent Coulson said with a disgustingly friendly grin on his face and walked away to a car. When every men had gotten into a car they pulled away, leaving the three scientists stunned behind.