#ragnarok fix-it

[mischievouswork]

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Author:  TonaAthena1996 (Edit:  This is @tonaathena1996 on tumblr!  Please reblog this version instead of the old one!)  

Summary:  

Sakaar is the home of lost things. Some times you have to get lost in order to be found

Comments:  

Loki and Jane are stranded on Sakaar; the Grandmaster wants them to participate in his orgies, and the unexpected pair pretend to be married to get out of it.  

[mischievouswork]

Fanart shoutout

Tumblr user @dkettchen made a comic that basically redoes Ragnarok in a more effective/less rage-inducing way.  Partway done so far.  Excellent art, keeps the basics of Ragnarok’s plot, lots of meta-commentary on why certain plot decisions were made.  Lots of salt, for those of you who welcome that.  

P.S. feel free to let me know if you don’t want your art, fanfic, or other works featured here.  I’m happy to take posts down if that’s the case.  

[stars-over-new-jersey]

I’m just going to keep going with this Thor fic until Jane and Thor get back together.  I’m determined going to get their reunion done before Infinity War comes out and turns this whole thing into even more of an AU than it already is.

(somehow each part keeps getting longer too)

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 4

Jane stared at the golden apple sitting on her desk.  The decision to break up with Thor had been so easy when she had known that he would be gone more than he was around.

With immortality on the table, that changed the calculations.  Two years would be a small part of her life, just like it was for him.

On the other hand, two years apart was still 730 days in between visits from her boyfriend, even when that was a much smaller overall percentage of her life.

The front door of the apartment slammed, and she heard Keith drop his briefcase on the hall table.  Jane tossed the apple into the drawer of her desk and locked it before leaving the room.

She wasn't keeping a secret from Keith.  She'd tell him everything - as soon as she knew what she wanted.

"Jane, we need to talk about this," Keith said, as soon as she entered the living room.

"About what?" Jane asked.

"This new research grant of yours that you emailed me about today," Keith said.  "I thought we agreed that you were going to stay here for awhile.  This new grant has you spending a big chunk of next year in Chile."

"That project requires four months total in Chile,"  Jane replied, "and it's not even continuous.  It's one month to get the monitoring equipment set up at the telescope site at the beginning and then shorter visits after that to collect the data.  I thought that was what you wanted -- I'm going to be doing most of the work here."

"I thought when you said that you wanted to settle down and spend more time together that you were going to take a teaching job at the university or something!" Keith replied, his voice rising.

"I've been doing research as long as you've known me," Jane replied.  "Did you think I was going to give up my life's work?"

"I thought you wanted a family," Keith said.  "Or at least that was part of what you told me when I saw you sitting in the lounge at the university and moping."

"I do," Jane said, fighting to keep her voice level.  The image of the golden apple in her desk drawer flitted into her head, unbidden.

"Then how do you expect to raise kids, with you flitting around the world all the time?" Keith snapped.  "This is rich.  You cried on my shoulder about how your precious god of an ex kept going off and leaving you behind, and then you pull this shit."

Jane felt her eyes burn and blinked back the tears.  If she ate the apple, a family with Thor was still on the table.

Thor, who had willingly accepted her absences from their shared apartment in Avengers Tower when she'd traveled for research.

Thor, who'd often flown halfway around the world to spend a day or night with her when she was away.

If she ate the apple, two years of separation would be an eyeblink to her, just as it was to him.

"Jane?" Keith said, his voice quickly becoming apologetic.  "Jane, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you or bring up bad memories."

"Is that really what you want?" Jane asked.  "A conventional family and a wife who's always there when you get home at night?"

"I..." Keith's voice trailed off.  "Would it really be so bad?  To take a teaching position and build that life?  I thought that was what you wanted when we started dating..."

"My research is part of who I am,"  Jane replied, hearing the confidence fill her own voice as she said it.  "I wouldn't let my family suffer for it, but I will always be chasing the next discovery.  Nothing is going to change that."

Keith looked at his shoes, and the pause stretched out for an uncomfortably long moment.

"Keith, if this isn't what you want, maybe we shouldn't be together," Jane said softly.

"You're going to go back to him." Keith replied flatly.  It wasn't a question.

Jane nodded.