It had definitely been one of those weeks, where Loki just couldn't get a break. The week had started of well. She was as usual the first person up at five in the morning. She had made herself some tea then headed to the sofa in the common room. She had brought her favorite book. She had put a cover on the book after Clint had made fun of her book.

"You seriously read that stuff. It is so fake. No one could be that smart." He grabbed the book from her hand. "A Study in Pink.' Really? This was bad as a blog, but a book? You are such a hopeless romantic, Loki" She had grabbed her book and went to her room.

"Some Midguardians." She huffed as she opened her book. Everything had been fine until the whole bloody tower went on alert. She had shot up of the couch dropping her book. She hurriedly morphed her clothes into her armor and sent her book to her room. It took about ten minutes for all of her fellow Avengers to assemble in the common room. Once they were all there, the face of Nick Fury appeared on the screen.

"Avengers. We have a mission for you."

"By we, I believe you mean the little people who hide behind your eye patch Nicky." Fury glared daggers at Tony as he just smirked back. Loki new only Tony could get that look from him.

"Stark!? This is serious. We need you to watch someone who is an asset to us on a very important case. The asset has been targeted by a powerful organization. We need you to watch him and his friend for six months until the trial that he shall be witness to. Do you understand?"

"Sounds like a long trial Nicky. Hope its worth it." Tony got a glare from almost everyone in the room except Loki who was just amused by his antics.

"So what your saying is," Steven cut Tony off so in turn Stark cut the Captain off mid sentence.

"You need us to babysit?"

Nick didn't even acknowledged Tony. "He is to be protected, and given a place to stay in tower. This is not a request. He will be there in two hours with his 'handler.' We sent you a file." And then Fury was gone.

"Well this is great. Now the tower is going to be all crowded. I hate when Fury just sticks us with assets." Clint went to go sulk in an air vent. They all watched as he pried open one of the vents and then disappeared down the vent. They all looked at Natasha.

"Budapest. I'll go make sure he's okay." Then she fallowed Clint down the vent.

"Sir. Your meeting starts in 20 minutes. I suggest you start getting ready." JARVIS's voice came over the Tower's communication system.

"Heck, JARVIS. Why didn't you tell me sooner." Tony headed for the elevator. "Oh and JARVIS, get a floor ready for our new guests. And send the file to my mark 15."

"very well, sir. Anything else?" The elevator doors shut as Tony talked to JARVIS. Bruce had already escaped down to his lab mumbling something about seeing them all at dinner. Steve headed out for his daily run while Thor went to visit Jane for the day.

"Oh well. Guess I'll be the welcoming comity." Loki smiled at that. She wasn't the best at being social. She let her armor fall off as she called back her book. She walked back to her place on the couch. She was reading "The Blind Banker." On the front there was a picture of an older man with yellow spray paint covering his eyes. In the story, Sherlock was back stage of a Chinese circus looking for clues while John and his "girlfriend" where being entertained by the performers.

Loki found her mind wandering. She imagined working with a man like Sherlock. She knew he would get on her nerves but she was sure he wouldn't be boring. Or say something stupid. Oh, it was stupid of her to even imagine that she would ever meet him. He lived in London and she lives in New York. Well, it didn't hurt anyone for her just to muse about it. She continued reading waiting for the tell tail sign of a plain landing on Avengers tower. She took a sip of her tea. It was cold.

Avengers!

Loki was on the second to last chapter of the book when she heard the sound of a plane landing. She slowly stood up and sent her book to her room again. She had already changed into her more relaxed clothes. She headed out on to the balcony to welcome their guests to the tower. She arrived at the plane just as the back was opening revealing one very ticked of Nick Fury. Loki hide a small smile. Loki walked forward to meet Fury on the ramp. They met at the bottom as Fury growled.

"Not a word, Loki. Not a word."

"Our guest being more then the great Nick Fury can handle? Oh, now I'm worried."

"Well they're out of my hands now." Fury smirked. That was more than a little worrying. Two other S.H.I.E.L.D agents walked out. One with a relatively big bag, while the other was carrying a smaller bag. Fury asked where the others were and why it was only her. She told him, and then there was an awkward silence while they waited for the two men to exit the plane. It didn't take long for Loki to wish that Tony, Thor, Steve, or even Natasha or Clint were there instead of her. She suddenly didn't feel comfortable being that they didn't know her, and that they might even take her allegiance into question what with her trying to take over the world. She was about to back out when she heard two new voices. "Well. Guess its to late to back out now."

She tried to listen to what the men where saying. "You still haven't told me where we are going? Why did they take our mobiles?"

"Well how should I know!? Apparently they didn't like my work on the case we were working on." She heard the men start to laugh. No, wait. They one with a deeper voice was laughing but the other was more of a giggle. Midguardians are weird.

"Well I was hopping for a more formal introduction, but Loki," Loki looked at the ramp and she almost had a heart failure, or whatever Midguardians call it. "May I introduce Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. They are our assets."