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Arrival in Luceti

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One moment Jane is sitting at the kitchen table sipping her coffee and leafing through her notebook, and the next she's standing in the middle of a forest clearing. Instead of her flannel pajamas she is clad in a simple white dress and her feet are bare. Her notebook, the summary of her life's work, is nowhere to be seen. At her feet, though, is a notebook-looking thing with her name on the front. She picks it up and opens it, then sits down where she is to read.

Later, still in the woods but feeling more acclimated to where she is and the new wings on her back, she decides to give the communications function a try. She writes a short message that reads

"Hello, my name is Jane Foster, and I've just arrived. I am in the forest and I can't tell which direction to go to get out. Could someone help me out? Thanks!"

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As is his custom for as long as he has been in the villiage, Thor walks the woods before dawn. Whether he searhes for Jane, for solace, or simply to burn the restlessness that grew ever stronger the more he let himself be still he knew not- but he knew there was something different on this path than the usual. The air is quiet most often at this time of day, neither bird nor beast wandering with him as they have not yet woken. But there are telltale signs of something, someone, moving. The slide of skin and fabric on grass, the iregular brush of startled breath.

Curious and duty bound to seek them out should they be in need of aid, Thor adjusts his course to seek out the disturbance in the clearing.

To find Jane there is a surprise that warms and cuts to the very heart of him for having missed her.

"...Jane?"

She is sitting patiently hoping for a response to her missive in the journal when a voice she recognizes causes her to look up. She hadn't wanted to hope that he would be there for fear of being disappointed.

"Thor?"

The relief she feels upon seeing him, is visible in the way she relaxes her shoulders. She stands and jogs across the clearing to him, throwing her arms around him in a tight hug (and dropping her journal on the ground in the process).

"I'm so happy you found me."

Edited 2014-04-15 20:11 (UTC)

Ms. Foster? Stay where you are - someone will be with you soon. Can you describe your surroundings? Anything to help us pinpoint your location?

I'm at the edge of a clearing. Lots of really big trees, maybe redwoods?

"Jane!" What started as incredulity and faint hope has shifted into pure joy and affection- he would be running to her were she not already on the way. Even as she comes close he is still, he is wary- hands light as they rest upon her shoulders. Fearful that if he did touch her she would dissolve into so much mist.

A moment more and then his body goes lax, a great breath lost into her hair as he pulls her close. She is warm, she is solid, she smells of grass and morning's dew and she is real. Jane is here. He holds her as tight as he feels is safe. "I have not stopped searching. Not even for a day."

There should be a video function in the journal. Can you turn it on and give us a look?

Oh, right! Hold on.

Jane scanned over the buttons once again and found the one she wanted. She pressed it and a small screen showed her face, so she could see what the camera was seeing.

"Is that better? Can you see me now?" She felt like a monkey trying to work a typewriter.

"Searching?" She was the one who has searched for him, night after night for over a year. She told herself that it didn't matter. She had chosen to forgive him for not keeping his word after he'd explained about the broken Bifrost and the nine realms at war. It had been hard, and though she'd forgiven she had not forgotten, but in the end he had come for her. When she'd needed him most, he had come. And now, again, he had appeared when she'd felt most vulnerable.

"Well now you've found me." She does not release him from her arms, but leans back so she can look up at him. His eyes, as always, captivated her.

"Since you vanished some time ago from this place." Perhaps she did not remember this? Perhaps it has left her mind much as his last stay in the villiage was lost to him. He knew not how to consider that- but it matters little. She is here. She is whole, and she is safe. He needs nothing else.

"I have missed you so." There's no frustration in her eyes as she looks up to him. Nothing but joy- no matter the cause she is pleased with him and that in turn lightens his heart greatly.

"I don't think that was me. I just saw you a couple of days ago, when you left Earth to go back home and talk to your dad. Well, not you exactly, I guess. My Thor, back where I come from. I'd love to know how they've managed this. They're breaching not just space but time as well." No, he will not see frustration on her face, just happiness to be in his arms, and curiosity about the new world she finds herself in.

Her mind swam with all of the possibilities. She found the prospect of the kind of technology required to make this happen excited her. She would have to find a way to get her hands on it.

"So there was another one of me here? Do you know what happened to her?"

Are there any landmarks around that you can see? Something that stands out in particular?

Edited 2014-04-17 03:04 (UTC)

[The area doesn't look instantly familiar, but it's good to see Jane's face again. Now, if only things were normal, they could actually meet properly.]

Yes, I can see you now. Do you hear anything nearby? Running water?

Jane looked around, searching for anything out of the ordinary. Instead of seeing, though, she hears something.

I think I can hear water running nearby. Does that help?

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[Jane recognizes the face at the other end and smiles. Just when she needed a hero, one shows up.]

Oh my god, Captain America? I can't believe it's you! Um, hold on, let me listen for a second.

Now that you mention it, I do hear a stream maybe. Should I go in that direction?

"I returned to Asgard to speak with my father after having spoken to you?" What was once warmth and joy is now cold and still. His face fell, his eyes darkened, and his heart did go quiet.

"Jane...when you saw me last- what has happened to my brother?" He needs to know when. Needs to know if this is before the ruin of his life caused by the Aether or if it is after. If they succeed in whatever it was he needed to do. While he has not lived it himself he knows of it- dreads it.

[Capta-- Oh bother. The face on the other end of the video registers surprise for a moment, then a sigh.]

Actually, it isn't him. Not really. I'll explain further when your situation is under control.

First, head to the stream. Depending on your location I can tell you which way to follow it.

Thor's question made Jane's heart sink into her stomach. She could tell from the way he asked that he had an idea of what her answer would be, and that it was not what he wanted to hear. Still, she could not lie to him.

"He's dead, as is your mother. They both died protecting me - protecting the nine realms from something called the Aether. It was going to be used to destroy the whole universe." She reached up and touched his cheek, hoping that he would not be able to see in her eyes all of the guilt she carried from those events.

"I'm sorry. But that's just in my time, in my reality. Yours could be alive and well and someday you may get to go back to them."

"Did we succeed?" That was the next question. If their lives had been in vain. If they had managed to save Midgard, Asgard, and all the nine realms. If the blood spilled and the lives lost had been worth something. He knew not how this all came to pass, merely that it did. Perhaps it was the not knowing that stung him so. Perhaps it was the chance he could change nothing.

Tis a bitter pill to swallow, made somewhat sweeter by Jane's gentle hand upon his cheek. He curls his fingers around her hand and brushes his lips against her fingertips- something his father had done to his mother for ages. "Perhaps I may yet change it. Perhaps not."

She nodded as he kissed her hand. "Maybe it has already been changed by us disappearing. If I'm not there for the Aether to attach to then maybe none of it ever happens." She hoped that were true with all of her heart. Nothing brought her more anguish than the memory of Frigga lying on the ground and the look on Thor's face as he'd realized that she was dead.

"When was the last time you saw me? Before you came here, I mean." There was so much to figure out. At the moment, though, all she wanted was for things to be right between the two of them. She didn't care much where she was as long as she had him on her side.

Okay.

[Jane walked carefully, being sure to pan the journal around so that Captain could see where she was and where she was going. Though he claimed he wasn't him, which could mean anything. Jane decided she had no choice but to trust him, whoever he was. She walked carefully, her bare feet sensitive to every fallen pine cone and rock. The Captain-appearing person on the other end might occasionally hear an 'ow' or 'dammit' muttered under Jane's breath.]

I see it now. Which way should I go?

[Kurt saw the message in the journal. He doesn't consider that Jane won't remember him, or that she might be surprised by his true form. He's too excited that his friend is back. So he immediately starts teleporting around to random places around and near the village until he can find her. Every time he teleports, he appears in a cloud of smoke that smells like brimstone, accompanied by a 'bamf'ing sound.]

[Nothing seemed familiar until just a few meters from the river. She recognized that area - had just been jogging through there a few hours prior.

Grabbing a jacket and a pair of shoes, "Steve" headed out the door at a brisk jog which was closer to a full run for most people.]

Hold still. I can be there in ten.

[Jane waited patiently for someone to reply to her message. As she sat listening to the birds and watching the sun come up, she heard an odd noise. She looked up from her journal and scanned the trees but she saw nothing out of the ordinary.

She heard the noise again, from somewhere behind her. She whirled around and again saw no one, but she did smell something resembling sulfur.]

Who's there? Who's doing that?

Okay. I'll be right here.

[Jane did as he said and stayed put. She was incredibly relieved that someone was on the way. The dress she was wearing provided little warmth and her feet were cold and already quite dirty. The scenery was beautiful, however, and she tried to focus on that while she waited.]

[Kurt hears her voice - it's the clearest sign he could get of where she is. And soon he pops up out of the bushes, grinning.]

It's me, Kurt! [He waves excitedly, still not realizing that she wouldn't remember her previous stay.]

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