Illusions | Loki & Jane

17. A Familiar Face

I can't just leave him there!" Jane was agitatedly pacing up and down in the empty lab, with a confused Erik eying her, while Darcy was looking through the pages of the book, the man had found in the library.

"Why not?" The man asked emotionless.

"You didn't see what I saw!" She came to a stand in front of Erik.

"Hey! Myeu-muh!" Darcy cheered as she found a illustration of the hammer in the book. Jane walked over to her and looked at the page thoroughly. "Where did you find this?" She asked, turning to Selvig, who grabbed the book from them and quickly closed it. "In the children's section. I wanted to show you how ridiculous his story was."

"I know this book." The scientist answered. I've been reading it, when I met John, who told me about the theory-"

"Don't start about that man again, Jane." Darcy interrupted her.

"Don't you think it's a strange coincidence that the first time we were studying these bridges it led us to this mythology and now again?" She sighed seeing the man looking at her unconvinced. "Aren't you the one who's always told me to chase down all leads, all possibilities?"

"I was talking about science, not magic!"

"Magic's just science we don't understand yet. Arthur C. Clarke."

"Who wrote science fiction."

"The precursor of science fact."

"In some cases."

"If that's really an Einstein-Rosen Bridge out there, then there's something on the other side." She started to pace up and down again. "Advanced beings could have come through it before."

"A primitive culture like the Vikings might have worshipped them as deities."
The riled up woman and the annoyed man gave Darcy a look, surprised by her unexpectedly insightful input.

Jane pointed at her, grateful for the support. "Yes! Exactly! Thank you!"

"Jane, if you do this, you'll find yourself in a situation that I won't be able to get you out of this time." Selvig answered.

"I'll help you." Darcy said, with Jane looking grateful at her.

Selvig looked at the two women, seeing there's no stopping Jane. He sighed, rolling his eyes. "Fine."

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"I thought he'd never leave." Loki sighed annoyed, referring to the agent named Coulson, who had just left the cell, where they had locked his brother up.
Thor looked up, shocked. "Loki? What are you doing here?"

"I came to see you."

"What's happened? Tell me! Is it Jotunheim? Let me explain to father-"

"Father is dead." The demigod lied, looking as sad as possible, while seeing his brother's dashed face.

"What?" The pain in the blond's voice was outstanding.

"Your banishment, the threat of a new war, it was too much for him to bear."

The implications of Loki's words seemed to dawn on Thor, since he had his thinking look on - which in Loki's opinion still looked slow-minded.
Loki drew close to him, looking in his eyes, consolingly. "You mustn't blame yourself. I know that you loved him. I tried to tell him so, but he wouldn't listen." He remembered the scream Thor had given way, when he couldn't take his beloved hammer. "It was cruel to put the hammer within your reach, knowing you could never lift it." He added.

Thor stared into emptiness, falling deeper into the abyss.

"The burden of the throne has fallen to me now." Loki knew it was wrong to hurt him like that, but after all these years of suffering on being the second and unreal son, being rejected by his own father, it was a good feeling to see him having the pain for once, which he had to endure all of his life.

"Can I come home?" It came out as almost a whisper.

"The truce with Jotunheim is conditional upon your exile."

"But couldn't we find a way to-"

"Mother has forbidden your return."

Thor nodded, lowering his head, beaten.

"This is goodbye, brother. I'm so sorry." The god of mischief made an almost perfect hurt face, while saying this.

"No, I'm sorry. Loki... thank you for coming here."

"Nothing could have stopped me. Fare well, brother."

"Good-bye."

"Good-bye? I just got back." The agent Coulson had entered the cell again. Thor looked up, confused to see that Loki was gone.
"Now. Where did we leave off?" Coulson continued.

Loki felt freed. He was finally free from his brother and father. He could do whatever he wanted and he was king of Azgard. Not Odin, not Thor knew how to rule rightfully. He was the real king and his father could never see it. He strode out of the constructed terrain and just wanted to leave this dreadful place, when he heard a familiar voice.

"Doctor Donald Blake. He's part of our team."

"You have dangerous coworkers, Dr. Selvig." Agent Coulson replied.

Erik? Loki looked at the man confused. What on earth was he doing here?

"Troubled, not dangerous. He was distraught when he found out that you'd taken all of our research. It was years of his life, gone! He got depressed, started drinking, and... well, you know the rest." Erik tried to say as casually as possible. Loki shook his head. He was still a horrible liar. But why was he lying? And for whom?

The demigod decided to wait and see what would happen.
Though he would have rather not seen this, since his moment of joy hadn't lasted long. Rage built up Inside of him, seeing the scientist walked out with Thor next to him. The man called Erik Selvig came to rescue his retarded brother? What had HE of all people to do with Thor?
He was a friend of Jane, who should be in New York, or was she here as well? His heart skipped a beat when thinking about her being as close as Erik now.

"Just keep him away from the bars!" Coulson yelled after the men.

"I will!" Erik answered, dragging Thor along with him.

"Where are we going?" The god of thunder asked bewildered.

"To get a drink." Selvig started the engine of the SUV.

"Follow them." Loki heard agent Coulson tell his coworkers.

Yes follow them, the god of mischief thought, that sounded like a good plan. Maybe Erik was here with Jane, he had to find her and talk to her, as soon as possible.

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A/n. Hello dear people! I'm so sorry for the delay. I know I always say so, but I mean it nevertheless xD. I'm studying so hard right now. It's my last year, so I barely find the time for other things than working and studying.

I would be happy if you'd leave me some votes and reviews, so I get the motivation to keep writing. Otherwise I don't see the point in finishing this story if noone reads it anyways xD.

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