Prologue

Her gods were real, everything she had ever studied, meditated on was real, and okay they were aliens but still. Erin couldn't believe her eyes. She had to find a way to meet them. How do you go about meeting a god-slash-alien? Try to get work at Stark Industry? Government programs? What skills did she have? Aside from that self-defense class she took with her friend Tina. She wasn't a skilled fighter or some experiment gone wrong or right, and then there is the weekly call to her own personal geek squad, her younger brother Will to help her with her computer so not a tech whiz.

"AAArrrrgggg! That's the third rejection I've gotten from Stark." Erin slammed the letter on her coffee table.

Chapter One

1 year later

Dripping in sweat Erin took a big gulp of water.

"Let's go again." Erin barked.

"Erin..." Her trainer said concerned.

"Again."

Today was Muy Tai fighting, brutal stuff but she was in safe hands. Erin had tried to fill out a résumé worthy of being caught on by someone who knew a God or two. With Will her brother's unknowing help, she even managed get a line on Pepper Potts, Stark's assistant and girlfriend. She was kind and said she would personally look into Erin's resume.

All the while she obsessively went over and over the YouTube videos taken that day in New York City. Its amazing what people will do when the world is coming to an end around them.

Her meditations and spellwork were wonky as of late. Maybe she had taken on too much; she needed to clear her mind. Using a trick she had learned early in her path, she in her mind's eye walked down a great hall filled with golden light, great pillars either side of her, reaching skyward forever it seemed, the decor rich in detail and age. The inwoven pattern on the floor amused Erin, she often wondered the origin of the pattern before getting back to meditations.

"Who dare disturbs me?" A voice echoed in Erin's ears and her eyes snapped open. Sure the Gods and spoken to her in different ways but verbally had never been one of them. She had known the Gods to be cheerful when she had made contact. Maybe this was a God she did not know, had she made some offense?

"Whose grace did I trespass?" Erin asked voice shaking. "I do most sincerely apologize."

"I am Loki." He growled.

Loki? As in the Loki who tried to take New York? How?

"How did you, a mere mortal break through my meditations?"

"I...was doing the same." She replied still in amazement.

"Were you? That is a gift to reach out to a God in such a way." Erin could almost swear she heard amusement in his voice, but she pushed that thought aside and slowly asked.

"I wish to not be a pest and intrude any longer, but this is the Loki that came to Earth a year ago?"

"Indeed it is."

"I will leave you to return to your own thoughts." Erin opened her eyes with joy. She had found him.

Over the next few days Erin threw herself into the study of Norse myth. She knew some basics, but it never really appealed to her. Maybe it was the lack of female divinity, maybe it was the focus on brawn and might, rather than brain which Erin and othesr thought she had in spades . As Erin read passages she could swear she heard laughs somewhere in her mind but they were not hers. Was she still connected to Loki? Or was her mind playing tricks?

"I had forgotten about that one." Loki laughed.

Erin looked up from her reading to find the origin of the voice, but no one was there.

"You won't find me there Midguardian."

"My Lord?"

"Indeed."

Okay this was by far the craziest thing that had ever happen to Erin.

"What is this fascination with me, Midguardian?" Loki mused.

Erin's mind raced, but then she stopped herself he was already there and could see everything.

"You are quick. Erin."

"Would you like me to lie or tell you the truth which you will no doubt mock?"

Loki paused for a moment, "I like you."

This made Erin blush.