Fury stopped by later that night with some cameras that were to be placed in the room that Loki was going to be sleeping in, and some more security measures that would ensure that the god didn't destroy or kill anyone. He also clamped a tracking device on to Loki's wrist, telling him that if it was damaged in any way a bomb inside of it would go off immediately, killing the god before he could get his way out of it. He left, glaring back at Tony and Loki with a menace that neither of them really wanted to dare.

After Fury was gone, Tony decided that a tour was in order. If Loki was going to be staying there, he might as well know where the bathrooms and bedrooms were. The top four floors of Stark Tower were the living quarters. It had been renovated to have enough room for all of the Avengers when they were fighting a villain together, with room for more people if needed. Tony decided to put Loki in the room that was closer to his, just in case Loki was planning something and Tony happened to be listening. There was the chance that being close to Loki's room was bad and that the god would kill him in his sleep, but Tony didn't always act cautiously.

"Here are your quarters," Tony said with a flourish, imitating Loki's accent.

Loki frowned at him and moved into the room. It was one of the larger ones, and it had a beautiful view of the city beneath it, which he paused to look out at before peering around the rest of the room and then at the adjoining bathroom. "You humans may be quite different from us, but you do have a good sense of how bedrooms should look," Loki said softly.

"Good to know," responded Tony, suddenly wanting to get away from Loki as quickly as he could. "Um, well, it is late and all, and I need my beauty sleep. Please don't destroy too many things, and feel free to walk around if you want food or whatever. Just please stay out of my lab and my bedroom. JARVIS will set off the alarm if you decide to not listen to that rule," Tony said, and turned around to leave.

"Thank you for everything you have done for me today, Stark," Loki whispered from behind him, and Tony paused at the door.

"I think I may just be crazy, but you're welcome anyways," Tony replied, walking to his bedroom as quickly as he could. There was a weird feeling in the pit of his stomach, and he thought it had something to do with the god that he had just left the presence of. Either that or insanity. Or both.

Before Tony went to bed he decided to use his portable computer device to do some Norse mythology research. If there was going to be a Norse god living with him, he really wanted to know more about him and the ways he could kill if he wanted to.

Tony found the stuff that he read quite frightening for many reasons, and he was sure going to question Loki about all of this in the morning. Geez was mythology odd.

After Tony felt he had learned enough, he shut down the device and climbed into his bed. He fell asleep wondering what he had gotten himself into, and what in the world he felt about it all. There was something undeniably warm and fuzzy about knowing that you had somebody out there that was similar to you in many ways, because the more Tony thought about it, the more comparisons he could find between himself and Loki. They had both gone through a lot, and were both smart and had snarky humor. They both paraded their knowledge and power in the same ways, and they both had many things that they regretted. Tony wondered if there was a way to save Loki, to make him see that he didn't have to be the bad guy, didn't have to be the one that was always underneath his brother. He could be his own person if he truly wanted to, and maybe whatever had led him here knew that maybe Tony could help him see that.

Tony fell into a troubled sleep filled with odd things happening to him by the hands of one Norse god, and he would not remember dreaming such things the next day.

XxX

Tony awoke pretty early that morning, finding himself wide awake and not able to roll over and get back to sleep. The first rays of sunlight were sneaking through the large windows and a single sliver of light went right over his face. That would be why he woke up. Tony rolled over and out of the bed, looking at himself in the mirror. His hair was a mess, but after he ran his hand angrily through it several times it obeyed and laid more flat. He was about to put some real clothing on, but decided just to stay in his undershirt and flannel pajama bottoms that had little cartoons of Iron Man on them. They had been a gag gift from Pepper.

Tony walked out into the large kitchen that was on this floor to find Loki sitting at the bar sipping a cup of what appeared to be tea. He had conjured himself some pajamas and was still wearing them, but his choice of pajamas were silk and the color of emerald. Tony stopped dead and stared at the god, who didn't seem to notice Tony's presence in the room.

There was something oddly peaceful about the way he was sitting there, reading the human New York Timesand idly sipping his tea. He looked for all cares and pretenses like a normal guy sitting down and enjoying a normal morning in his normal house. Tony suddenly felt uncomfortable. He didn't want to interrupt whatever Loki had going on, but he was so hungry. Ah, what the hell?

"Good morning, princess," Tony greeted cheerfully, walking into the kitchen. Loki looked up at him in slight confusion. "How'd you sleep?" Tony asked.

"I slept quite well, thank you, despite the general paranoia involved with being wanted by a race of aliens intent upon torturing you until you go insane," Loki responded in a light voice. His eyes were darker than usual, and he was a little paler, which gave away the fact that maybe he was suffering from fear and lack of sleep.

"Good to know," Tony answered, starting the coffee pot and finding himself the box of Lucky Charms that he was looking for. He sat down across from Loki with his bowl full of the sugary cereal.

"You know, if somebody would have told me a few days ago that I would be staying here in your building with you on Earth I would have laughed at them, and possibly killed them for good measure, but now I don't feel like killing anyone, I am sitting here quietly drinking tea, and talking to one of the Avengers without trying to kill them," Loki said ponderously.

Tony nodded. "That kind of thing happens to me all the time," he began, and Loki raised an eyebrow. "You know, without the whole killing thing." He took a large bite of cereal.

The coffee pot beeped and Tony got up to prepare himself a cup. "Would you like some coffee?" Tony asked Loki, who had finished his tea by now.

"No thank you, I rather detest the stuff," Loki said, cringing at the thought of the liquid.

"Okay then," Tony responded, sitting back down with a steaming mug. "So," Tony began, wondering just how to start this conversation. "I decided to do some reading last night. I wanted to know more about Norse mythology and all," Tony said.

Loki looked worried for a second. "Oh, dear," he murmured.

"I found some interesting things about the God of Mischief. Is it true that you gave birth to an eight-legged horse?"

Loki covered his face with his hands. It took him a few seconds to answer. "When we were children, Thor took to spreading awful rumors about me with the intention of getting the humans to believe all of it. He succeeded, and now I will be forever embarrassed by the mythology surrounding me," he whispered in utter mortification. "There are not many things in Norse mythology about me that are actually true."

"Did you ever spread any rumors about Thor, just to get back at him?" Tony asked.

"Nobody ever believed my rumors, because, you know, God of Lies and all, but I did attempt to."

"Yeah, that sucks," Tony responded, remembering all of the awful stuff that he had read about, mostly about Loki turning himself into a female and giving birth to things.

Tony noticed that Loki was toying with the device that was on his wrist. It was a thin little band of silver that would take some serious welding and tools to get off unless you had the device that was used to unlock it. It was great technology, but Tony knew that there were more effective, smaller devices that could track the god, but obviously these were the best technologies that SHIELD had to work with.

"Did they clamp that on too tight?" Tony asked him, remembering those stupid little paper wristbands they gave you at parties just so they could tell if you had paid to get in or not. The people who put those things on you always put them on too tight, and Tony couldn't imagine what one of metal would feel like had it been put on way too tightly.

"No, just tight enough that I cannot slip it off of my wrist," Loki responded. They sat there for a few more seconds in silence, Tony sipping his coffee and Loki idly flipping through the pages of the New York Times.

"You know, your news is quite dreadful. While Asgardians have the threat of war and all, we do not have your economic problems, environmental problems, or the horrid political arguments you get into. Your Earth can be rather dreadful," Loki said. "And your people are very violent for being mortals."

Tony nodded. "Yeah, humans are really dumb most of the time," he chuckled, getting up and putting his empty coffee cup in the sink. "So, what do we have on the agenda for today?"

"Hmm… well, I was hoping that would be up to you, as I have no idea what you humans do with your time," Loki responded, and with a flick of his wrist he was no longer wearing pajamas, but black, well-tailored pants, and a green silk shirt.

"What is it with you and green? And silk?" Tony asked, eyeing the god's outfit.

"Green is my color," Loki said, pouting slightly. "And silk is very comfortable. Leather is only useful for when you are in armor or normal Asgardian clothing. I much prefer silk."

"I can understand why green is your favorite color to wear," Tony said, putting Loki's empty cup in the sink as well.

"You can?"

"Yeah, it totally brings out the color of your eyes."

AN
Sorry for taking long school is getting harder for me . I'm going to a year round college so I have that. I'm moving to a house so I been packing up my stuff and I ended up somehow packing up my laptop and I have up to 5 to 6 chapters done and they needed to be upload. So I'm doing that now.