Chapter 12: Reality Gone Haywire

                                    

                                          
Warnings: No Steve in this part (i'm sorry! he'll be back I promise! we're just focussing on Y/N's background for a bit)

Over a year had passed since the battle of New York. You felt like you had settled into your new life on earth. You had a great group of friends, Steve being your closest out of all of them. You had also kept in contact with Jane and her friends too.
You had been hanging out with Steve when you had gotten a call from Darcy asking you to come to London. Ever since New York, Dr Selvig's mind hasn't been coping well. Apparently he was mumbling about some numbers that they wanted you to have a look at. See if they were related to something Asgardian or not.
So a flight to England later you were walking through the streets of London. When you'd visited Dr Selvig you could see that his rambling were not completely incoherent. You didn't understand them enough to fully grasp what he was mumbling about.
"Maybe Jane's equipment has been picking stuff up" Darcy suggested as the two of you left Dr Selvig.
Darcey took you to Jane's house, which technically was her mother's house slash lab. When the two of you read over the equipment you saw that it was reading the exact same thing as what Dr Selvig had been saying.
"We need to show this to Jane" you say looking at one of the monitors.
"Yeah, I wonder where she is" Darcy says glancing around.
She then spots Jane's diary on the side, flicking through it until she found today's date.
"Bingo, I know where she is, now come on" Darcy says before quickly leaving.
Darcy drove the two of you to a restaurant near the river. You waited outside while Darcy went to find Jane. A few minutes later Darcy walked back out but Jane was nowhere to be seen.
"Was she not there?" You ask as the two of you walk back to the car.
"No she was, just give her a few" Darcy says getting into the car while eating a crunchy piece of bread.
A few moments later Jane appeared getting into the passenger seat.
"I hate you" she sighed glaring over at Darcy.
"What? I said he was cute" Darcy says shrugging her shoulders.
Jane sighs running her hand through her hair spotting you in the rear view mirror as she does so.
"Y/N? What are you doing here?" She asks turning round in surprise.
"Darcy called me in, I assumed you already knew" you tell her making Jane glare at her friend once again.
"What? Y/N recognises some of the stuff Erik's been on about, I told you we should have called her in" Darcy defends.
"Just shut up and drive" Jane sighs.
As you drove Jane tried to make a call to Erik, but he wasn't picking up. Eventually you pulled up by some abandoned buildings, as you got out of the car another pulled up.
"Who's this?" Jane asks point to the guy who had just gotten out of the car.
"My intern, grab the phase meter" Darcy says to the new guy.
"Ian" he says introducing himself.
Jane just nods before walking off, you following after her. The two of you look around at the upturned shipping containers and trucks. Janes phone then starts ringing, a hip hop song being the call tone.
She grumbled pulling it out "how do I change the ringtone on this thing?" She asks as she answers it.
"An astrophysicist with three degrees should be able to change her own ringtone" Darcy says through the phone.