You spent the next day showing Sif, and to a lesser extent Thor, around the city. Thor was acquainted with Earth from living with the team. You did the touristy things and also made a point of taking her to the movie theater so Sif would get the experience. She was delighted to see the Avengers movie that was currently in theaters and was excited when she realized that you and Loki were actually in the movie. You showed her Superhero Musical when you got home that afternoon to make sure she saw the original before she went home. She had seen the play version with you on Asgard, but she was excited to see the original.

Most of the supers had to spend a long time getting ready that afternoon and evening. The four of you didn't and you got to enjoy a nice quiet afternoon instead. It was way more fun watching everyone else get ready frantically. About a half-hour before you had to leave for the ball, you and Loki used magic to create outfits for your four-some. Tony growled at you later when he found out that you had used magic to get ready instead of dressing the human way.

Especially when you hadn't used magic for him as well.

You didn't know how Loki managed to convince you to wear a Asgardian style dress for the event, especially when Sif was wearing an Earthen style ball gown and the boys were in tuxedos. It was only because it was your favorite gown from Asgard that he even managed to convince you to wear it. It was the dress that you wore for the soulbond ceremony, a dark blue gown with golden sparkles throughout, looking like stars that were falling into the border of golden sparkles at the bottom of the dress. It was gorgeous, extremely flattering, and fit you like a glove. Your mask for the ball was the same dark blue, with a golden border. It was fastened with magic, so you didn't have to worry about it not fitting, falling off, or messing up your hair. Loki also did some tricky little piece of magic so the soulbond marks on both of our arms glowed lightly.

"What are you up to, Trickster?" you asked him. He'd done one too many little odd things over the past couple of days and it was suspicious.

"I just wish for my lady to look her best for the ball," he protested a little too innocently.

You were distracted from questioning him further by your helpless uncle coming into the commonroom demanding that you tie his tie for him. You sighed, stepped up onto a box made of air so you could reach properly, and tied your silly uncle's bowtie for him. Soon there was a line of helpless boys behind him, begging for your help. You rolled your eyes, but helped them with their ties and made sure they were presentable.

Fury himself did the final inspections of everyone before he led the procession of supers. He wouldn't let anyone appear not their best, or with the masks not perfectly in place that night. The ball was being held in a gorgeous ballroom across the street from the tower. The ballroom had been built here years ago expressly for this purpose. Part of the tradition of the ball was the procession of all of the supers across the street, lead by Fury. The press took pictures and the procession was broadcast live on TV, the street closed off for the evening.

Your entire focus in the procession was not falling on your face on live TV.

Fury made a speech once you were all inside, welcoming everyone to the ball and thanking them all for their generosity. All of the proceeds went to various charities around the city. There was also a silent auction for the charities as well.

The ballroom was gorgeous and exquisite. You grinned when you saw it. It was just how you remembered it being every year.

You saw a familiar wig of black hair in the crowd and dragged Loki over to see Tom. "Nice to see you here," you greeted him. Names were not supposed to be used during the ball. It was tradition, though your superhero aliases were allowed to be spoken.

"It is a pleasure to see you as well, Lady Sigyn, Loki," he replied. "You look lovely tonight, Lady Sigyn," he added with a smile.

"Yes, my darling does look ravishing tonight," Loki added, not possessively, but more that he wanted to make sure you knew you were beautiful.

"Thank you both," you accepted the compliment tonight, though you usually didn't. Tonight was different. You had made a special effort tonight.

You left Tom shortly, you had other socializing to do. There was a little girl who was here with her parents who came up to you to tell you you were her hero. You chatted with her for a little while and gave her an autograph.

"Would you like to dance?" Loki asked as the musicians started to play the preamble, the announcement that the dances were about to begin.

You nodded your agreement quickly. "Of course," you replied. He offered you his hand in formal Asgardian escort. You placed your hand on his and you were among the first out on the dance floor.

You had so much fun dancing and socializing the night away. Everyone was so beautiful in their formal wear. "May I have this dance, Sig?" a voice asked between dances. You looked to see who it was. It was Tony. While it usually would have been embarrassing to dance with your family at a ball, it was tradition. Your parents had made us dance at least one dance together every year you had both attended the ball.

"Of course, Iron Man," you replied. "If you'll kindly excuse me," you said to Loki.

"Of course, my lady," he replied. You took Tony's hand and let him lead you onto the dance floor. Loki and Pepper were right behind you. Tony was shocked that Loki had asked Pepper to be his partner for this dance. So were some of the people in the crowd. Loki was usually pretty stubborn about staying close to you. Loki's grace made up for any Pepper lacked, though, and their dance ended up being one of the popular video clips from the evening. You and Tony danced, both reminiscing about dances in the past that your parents had made you do. You briefly thought you saw a glimpse of mom in the crowd, in the fancy red dress she always wore to the ball, but that was impossible.

You also danced with Tom at one point during the evening, as well as a few others who asked for a dance. Thor asked for one as well. "Are you two having fun?" you asked while you twirled around the floor with him. You hadn't seen much of him or Sif during the ball.

"Very much so, little sister," he replied with a grin. Loki was dancing that dance with Sif.

Shortly before midnight Fury stood back up on the platform that held the microphone. "It is now time for the super's waltz. I invite every super in attendance tonight out on the dance floor," he announced.

It was time. The moment you had been waiting for was finally there.

The supers all found your partners and made your way onto the dance floor. You had warned Thor and Sif, and told them that for tonight's purpose they were supers, so they joined us on the dance floor. It wasn't as if they didn't know how to dance a waltz. You all took your positions in a giant circle around the edge of the dance floor. You grinned up at Loki. You had been waiting for years to be able to do this and could hardly believe that you were finally able to after all these years. There were flashes of light from the cameras in the crowd and the news crews had video trained on all of your. This was one of the highlights, if not the highlight of the evening.

Soon the music began and after a few beats, the dancing began. It started with the basic steps, a simple pattern that the rookies would continue. Those of you with more experience soon broke off after the first full round of the circle, twirling in a more graceful complicated pattern in a smaller circle a couple paces inside the original circle. After one circuit around the dance floor of the more complicated pattern, the most experienced dancers broke off again into one final smaller circle of an extremely complicated, fancy twirling pattern in the middle of the floor.

/Ready?/ Loki asked after the second circuit of the new pattern. You took a breath and nodded. The two of you twirled alone to the exact middle of the floor for one final pattern of the dance. The crowd gasped. The other three patterns were common and happened every year. This one was new and you were the only ones practiced enough to pull it off. The crowd knew the dance, and knew that this pattern was new.

There was never anything new during the super's waltz.

You had been practicing for a month, though, and were both excellent dancers to begin with, so you survived the dance, twirling with grace and a smoothness that the crowd envied. You knew that this would be the clip that was shown all over the news and TV for weeks from that night.

You were beaming in joy and excitement for the dance and sharing this fun with Loki.

The music came abruptly to an end. All of the dancers paused at the same moment. They were expecting it. You hadn't been, hadn't known, but managed to avoid losing your footing. All of the couples turned to face you and Loki, drawing the attention of everyone in the hall as they did.

You gasped when Loki dropped gracefully to one knee in front of you and pulled a ring box from his pocket, opening it to display a gorgeous diamond ring in a silver setting. The room was dead silent. It seemed that everyone had been expecting this but you.

"I never thought in all of my life that I would ever find the person who I was meant to be with, would ever find my soul mate. I thought I would never find true happiness; that I was doomed to spend all of my days as the youngest prince, worthless in my Father's eyes. You have proven me wrong on all of those points time and time again. You have lit up my life, my world, my entire being, since the moment I first met you. You have made me happier in the time that I have known you than I have ever felt in my entire life, and it is my heart's truest desire to spend every single moment of the rest of my life giving you the same happiness. With that in mind, I have one question for you, my darling: Y/N Kathryn Sigyn Stark, will you do me the honor of being my wife?" Loki asked, loudly enough to have been heard by the entire room, even if the room hadn't been so silent. You saw the moment of fear in his eyes as well as the excitement and joy. There was still a part of him that thought you might reject him, that you might say no.

You felt the excitement like a spark, your heart racing in joy. "Yes!" you managed to get out through your feelings of joy and excitement. Loki vanished the promise ring on your finger and replaced it with the engagement ring in one movement as he stood to kiss you. You wrapped your arms around his neck, letting him lift you onto your toes as you kissed him deeply. The crowd roared in cheers and applause as you kissed.

You had to break the kiss too soon so you could get congratulations from your friends and family. "Congratulation, imp," Tony grinned at you knowingly. Of course he'd been in on this.

"You knew!" you accused him when you saw his grin. He nodded and pulled you into a hug.

"We all knew. Loverboy asked for your dad's permission yesterday when we were at the cemetery," Tony told you while he was hugging you. Tony didn't hug often, but he made an exception for you

"That's what he was up to," you grumbled. You had thought he'd been up to something.

Tony laughed. "That's also why Thor, Sif, and Tom are here," Tony explained. "The hardest part was keeping the secret from you," Tony let you go and pushed you toward the next will wisher, who happened to be Thor. Thor swung you up into a bone-crushing hug. As he swung you around, you caught a glimpse of your parents in the crowd. They were hazy, not quite real, but they were there. They both smiled and waved before they vanished. They had seen your moment. They had approved and been here for you in the only way they could.

"Congratulations, sister!" Thor boomed, drawing you back to the present.. you laughed, knowing that he wished you well so wholeheartedly, even though he couldn't possibly know exactly what had just happened.

"Thanks, Thor," you replied, laughing at his enthusiasm. It took forever to get through all of the well wishers, but you finally got through them all and made your escape back to the tower before anyone else found you.

"Did you enjoy the ball?" Loki asked casually as you walked back across the street to the compound. He slipped off his tuxedo jacket and helped you put it on. You smiled at him; he was always the gentleman. The TV crews were still following us, too, so that would be on the air at some point.

"It was perfect," you replied, wrapping an arm around his waist.

"I am glad to hear it,"

"And your surprise was perfect too. The ring is lovely," you added now that you could properly admire the gorgeous ring he had picked out. "When did you find it?" you asked. He was rarely separated from you.

"The night Tony and I went on patrol together. Your uncle pretended not to be pleased to go ring shopping with me. The store was quite amused to have two supers ring shopping in costume. I am glad they kept their word and did not tell anyone of my purchase. I did wish to surprise you,"

"You succeeded. It was most impressive,"

"It was a close thing. You are too curious for your own good, and can see through my...misdirections... better than almost anyone else," he laughed. He couldn't lie to you and you both knew it.

"By misdirections, you mean lies," you returned the laughter.

"Lies? My lady wounds me!" he exclaimed, pretending to be offended.

"You are a creature made entirely of silliness," you laughed at him and his mock offense.

"Chaos and mischief, love," he corrected automatically as we walked inside the tower. You kicked off your heels the second you were safely away from the prying eyes of the press and vanished them, so you didn't have to carry them upstairs. "Oh, I forgot to tell you, the ring is enchanted,"

"Naturally," you replied dryly, earning yourself a chuckle. "What did you do to it?" you looked over the ring and kept getting too distracted by how pretty it was to see the enchantment.

"Nothing fancy. I just made it so it cannot be forcibly removed, or broken. We do not exactly have the safest line of work and I knew you would hate for something to happen to it,"

"Thank you,"

"You are welcome, darling," he lifted your left hand and kissed your ring.

"I love you,"

"I love you too,"

"I should hope so. You did just ask you to marry you in front of our friends and family, and on live television," you replied with a grin.

"Did you expect me to do it in a small manner?" he asked with a grin.

"Not at all, Trickster,"