Darcy Lewis knew it wasn’t any of her business who Jane did or didn’t date. It wasn’t. Really. And she would keep telling herself that until she believed it.
Only, she missed her best friend dating Thor. She missed the fact that she could head over to Jane’s apartment and half the time Thor would be sitting on the sturdy barstool at the counter, eating lunch or comparing Asgardian starcharts with Earth starcharts. And Darcy could get the rundown on what was going on with the Avengers. Not classified stuff, precisely, but stuff the general public didn’t know, either. But then Jane and Thor went their separate ways, and suddenly Darcy was very much out of the loop. Which was annoying. And she was annoyed that she was annoyed. Because it wasn't any of her business who Jane did or didn't date.
After the events of the Convergence, Jane had pretty much all the funding she needed, including actual science assistants, and Darcy decided she had extended her internship as long as she could already, so she put in her application at SHIELD.
And, because she had the worst luck in the world, Captain America took down SHIELD three days later.
So there she was, sitting on the couch at her parents' house, watching the latest crisis on the news, knowing that there was no one she could get the real story from. She tried to cconvince herself that she was better off out of it. Every time Thor was in town she ended up getting roped in to save the day and she was safer not being caught up.
Safer. Yeah. Safer. But that didn't make her any happier being completely out of the loop.
Before the dust settled and before she could talk herself out of it, Darcy decided to apply for a job that didn't even exist. With a glowing recommendation from Jane Foster, Darcy walked into Pepper Potts' office and said that she wanted to be office manager of Avengers Tower.