A/N: Long wait was, somewhat long. Things should start to get a little interesting now. Also, you guys are like super awesome! Reviews, alerts, views, faves, seriously, that stuff makes me wanna keep writing. Makes think that maybe you guys actually like it! :D

As per usual, I own nothing but my imagination, that so far isn't making me much money.

Loki looked around wide eyed as they walked on the bustling campus. He was glad that he had given some more human looking clothes to himself and Thor before arriving. He was also glad that Stark had had the sense to hide his suit. Not that traveling around with the playboy would make getting spotted any less hard.

"You're sure that he's here?" Sia looked around, as if by hope she would see exactly what she wanted. But what she remembered were two small boys, not the young men they probably looked like now.

"Vali is indeed here," Thor told the couple.

"He goes by Vaughn here," Tony informed them, sliding his sunglasses further up his nose. "Vaughn Lok, graduate student with a major in History with a focus on Northern European history." The three Asgardians glanced back at him and he shrugged. "I asked JARVIS to do a quick search on the way here. He also has a degree in mechanical engineering."

"Please don't try to recruit him to work for Stark Industries," Sia asked her still boss. They walked towards one of the smaller buildings where students were starting to file out of a class when Loki suddenly took Sia's hand. She blinked and looked over, instantly seeing what he saw.

Despite the years they instantly recognized the boy. His hair was the same rich black as Loki's, and his eyes a brighter blue than they had ever seen on a human. He looked more like Loki than Tony would like to admit. And then he had an idea.

He started walking forward and Sia and Loki stood there frozen, not sure what the man was doing. Tony earned a few glances his way as he walked, mostly from the woman, and approached Vali. "Vaughn Lok?" The young-looking man looked up and blinked, recognizing the man who was talking to him. "We'll skip past the obvious introductions and get straight to the point. How would you like an internship?" If Tony could get the boy away from the mass amounts of people it would probably make Loki and Sia a little more comfortable. He briefly wondered when he had started thinking of Loki's feelings, but chalked it up to Sia. Yeah, that was it.

"With Stark?" The man asked. "But I'm a History major."

"I've seen your other degrees, very accomplished for someone who looks so young." Maybe hinting that he knew a few things about the boy would help. Vali stared at him skeptically and furrowed his brows in a very Sia fashion. Yeah, this was the right boy. "I hate dancing around the subject, sometimes, is there somewhere a little more private than the middle of campus?" Who turned down Tony Stark?

"No thanks." Vali lifted his bag on his shoulder and Tony blinked. The son of two gods turned Tony Stark down. Vali suddenly stopped in his tracks and quickly turned around. "On second thought, let's walk." Tony blinked again, and looked past him to see that he had caught sight of someone, someone that looked dangerously similar to Hela. She caught Tony's eyes, glared and disappeared, unnoticed by the rest of the student body.

"Yeah, sounds like a good idea." Tony followed the kid and saw the three gods catching up with them from behind.

Inside of the student center they made their way down the basement where it was considerably less occupied. When they were fairly certain that no one would really be listening, Vali turned back to face Tony. "Alright, now this is all very," he looked past Tony to the others approaching and faltered a little, "very... suspicious." Tony raised an eyebrow and looked over his shoulder then smirked.

"He looks very much like you did when you were younger, brother," Thor commented with a smile on his face. "Although I doubt that he gets into nearly as much trouble as you did."

Vali didn't move towards the couple as they took a few steps closer to him, and he seemed very on guard. "Vali?" And suddenly his demeanor relaxed and a grin crossed his face. He launched himself at Loki and Sia and they both stumbled but pulled him in close.

"I was hoping it was you," Vali breathed out. "No one else would have known that name."

Tony watched the family and couldn't help but smile, until he remembered seeing Hela. It was clear that Vali had seen her too, and she was the reason he changed his course. He didn't want to break up the reunion, but saw it as a very important fact. He'd wait a few more minutes. Tony did a double take when he thought he saw tears at Loki's eyes.

"I've been searching and searching, and I never would have thought that you'd be here in New York," Sia breathed out as she held him out at arms length. She noted that his hair was a little bit longer than Loki's, and held back by a leather band. "All this time and I haven't seen you, even though you look exactly like your father."

"Regrettably," Tony coughed and avoided several glares.

"I knew you guys would come, I just knew," Vali looked between them. "No matter what they said-"

"They?" Loki furrowed his brows. As far as he was to understand once their sons had been banished, no one from Asgard had had any contact with them. They didn't want them there in the first place, why would they keep talking to them.

"Depends on which group." Here we go, Tony thought. "There was only one person who told me that you wouldn't come, but she implied that she wasn't alone. Then the suits, they just watched and tried to ask me questions."

Tony raised his hand after a short silence had followed. "I think I know who the she is. I thought I saw Hela outside earlier. She did not look happy that we had gotten here first." He could see Loki's jaw work a little.

"The suits had mentioned something like Strategic Homeland Intervention, um, some other words," Vali continued, but was then stopped by Tony.

"S.H.I.E.L.D.," he growled out. He glanced over when he saw Thor leap forward to grab Loki's arms. They obviously hadn't seen the small group of agents headed towards them from behind, and Tony thought that it was lucky that Thor was holding onto the younger God.

"We weren't aware that Director Fury had put the Avengers on this case," one of the suits spoke as they had reached the group. Tony didn't think that he had every seen Sia look so angry. Loki yes, he had seen what Loki could do when he was angry; New York has seen.

"He didn't," Tony told the man. "Fury knew about this?" Suddenly none of the men were talking, knowing they had messed up. "Alright, so since we're all here, and it's a party, what are you doing here?"

"They come all the time," Vali snorted a little.

"We have orders to bring Mr Lok back to HQ this time, for his protection." This time another one of the suits spoke up.

"Protection from what?" Thor still had a good grip on his brother as he asked.

"We weren't actually briefed on the exact details," the man said. "Just director orders from the Director himself."

"I think it's time we pay Fury a little visit," Tony said as he wrapped an arm around Sia's shoulders and his arm around Vali. "I think that things are going to get interesting."