Sophia Holmes and the Dark World (Sherlock's Daughter/Marvel) *Completed*

Chapter Nine

Jane takes us back to her place so we can convene and form a plan.

"Jane!" the girl from the factory earlier says as she sees us.

"Darcy, hey!"

"You can't just leave like that, the whole world is going crazy!" Darcy says, excitedly while Thor hangs Mjolnir on the coat hanger next to the door. "All the stuff we saw is spreading." She notices our Asgardian clothes and Jane's disheveled state, but reaches the wrong conclusion. "Did you go to a party?"

"Doctor Selvig," I smile, ignoring Darcy as I see the scientist on the sofa behind her.

"Sophie!" he says, rising and walking over, "how wonderful!" As he gets closer, I realise that while he's wearing more clothes than when I saw him on the news, he is still sadly lacking trousers. "You've been to Asgard," he realises as he gives me a very long, awkward and one-way hug.

"Where are your pants?" Jane asks, frowning.

"Oh, uh...he uh..." The boy from the factory the other day says hesitantly, "he says it helps him think."

"Okay..." Jane replies. "Well, I'm gonna need everything you got on this. All the work you've been doing on gravimetric anomalies, everything."

"Okay."

"Are you well, Erik?" Thor asks, stepping into the living room.

Erik chuckles, but his smile fades quickly. "Your brother is not coming, is he?"

I look away, a lump forming in my throat. "Loki is dead," Thor says at last.

"Oh, thank God," he says in relief. While I can understand his joy after the prolonged mind control, it still hurts. He sees mine and Thor's look and quickly backtracks. "I...I'm so sorry."

"Thank you," Thor says, as Erik moves over to embrace him, but I see a small smile of relief still on his face.

"Malekith is going to fire the Aether at a spot where all the nine worlds are connected," Jane says, bringing us back to the issue, and Erik pulls himself away from Thor.

"Amplifying the weapon's impact," he says. "With each additional world, the power will increase exponentially. The effect would be universal."

"Yes, well the alignment is only temporary," Thor adds. "He must be in exactly at the right place at the right time."

"How do we know where that is?" I ask.

"We follow the directions," Erik says, turning around and looking for something in one of the drawers. "This has happened before, thousands of years ago, and The Ancients were there to see it." He turns back and places a map of the British Isles on the coffee table. "All the great constructions: the Mayans, the Chinese, the Egyptians, they made use of the gravitational effects of the Convergence. And they left us a map." He starts drawing on the map. "Stonehenge. Snowdon, the Great Orme. These are all coordinates taking us ..." he connects the dots one by one, then points, "here."

"Greenwich?" I ask in surprise.

"The walls between worlds will be almost non-existent," Jane says. "Physics is gonna go ballistic. Increase and decrease in gravity, spatial extrusions. The very fabric of reality is gonna be torn apart."

"Sounds like fun!" I say, not truly understanding everything she's going on about. Thor summons Mjolnir and it shoots over to his outstretched hand.

Erik looks down. "I better get my pants."