Like I said, this chapter is split into two parts. This is Tony's part, from his point of view. Loki has not yet gained control over himself yet.

Anthony Stark was getting better. Despite the ominous words from the Black Widow, he was getting better. He believed that he would get over Loki. Which was funny, because only a few days ago, he was obsessed with getting Loki back, with getting... Whatever it was that controlled him out, with just being able to hold him one more time.

Not that he didn't want any of that, because he did. He just wanted it a lot less than before.

He was adjusting a part of his new suit- a part that made him shockproof, he'd had enough of Thor shooting lightning bolts at him to make it impossible for him to not make that little upgrade -when JARVIS alerted him of a presence at the front door. "Let 'em in, Jarjar. I've got no right not to let anyone walk into my penthouse."

"Right away, sir."

"Goodie." He finally finished, and stepped back to admire his newest creation. The elevator dinged, signalling the approach of the unknown visitor.

"Hiya, Tony. Remember me?" Natasha Romanov said with a grin. Tony blinked, wondering about the strange mood change from yesterday.

"Hard to forget you, you were here, what, yesterday?"

"Yeah, I was just... I don't know. Let's get you out of here. You need to have fun."

"Look,if you're trying to get me to go with you to 'training', meaning 'watching you and Legolas fuck like rabbits', then no."

"Oh, please. Clint and I are not doing that." Nat rolled her eyes, as if that were the most idiotic statement she'd heard all day.

"Riiight." Tony rolled his eyes and refilled his glass. "I don't plan on leaving. Last time I did that, I handed over Loki." He almost cringed at the name. It still hurt him to say it, but that he was working on.

"Well, I assure you, you're not handing off your boyfriends any-time soon. It's gonna be me, Clint, Steve, and Pepper. You sure you don't wanna come?"

"Wait, what? I thought Pep moved to... Wherever with Happy so they could live in peace as far away from me as possible."

"Well she's here today, as I just pointed out. So you game?" She raised an eyebrow at the inventor; taunting, daring him to say no. Tony sighed. If Pepper was there, then maybe things wouldn't be as bad as he thought they would.

In all actuality, it was worse.

As Tony left his tower, he briefly wondered if this whole "I'm Super Pumped, Let's Go Party!" thing Natasha was doing was a trap, to lure him to a Loki lookalike or whatever and to torture the poor creature. He snorted. Yeah, right. She may be despicable, Tony thought briefly as he was lead by the red-haired agent to a car, but she isn't that bad.

Or was she?

Tony decided not to dwell on that as he entered the car, and was slightly puzzled when Natasha passed up shotgun to sit next to him.

Weird, but okay.

And then they started driving in the opposite direction.

"Uhmm, what's going on? We aren't going the right way.." Tony looked at the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with an eyebrow raised.

"Oh, you finally found me out. For a genius, you're pretty slow." The Black Widow offered him a sly grin, to which he replied with a grunt.

"Maybe it's 'cause my 'boyfriend' was taken from me. He's pretty smart too, y'know."

"We didn't do it on purpose, Mr Stark." Nat looked taken aback at the statement, as if he was blaming who she worked for for the possession of the god.

"Not this time, 'course not. But the first time?" Tony swallowed down the anger that was welling up, trying to remain calm. He was not going to lose his cool in a car with an agent and some random guy who was taking them to god knows where.

"Remember that you were in on that too," Natasha replied carefully, eyeing him.

"Yeah, but only 'cause your BOSS told me to. Well, he threatened me if I didn't. But you guys took him from me, and then when I saw him, he'd been asleep for SIX WHOLE GODDAMN DAYS. I'm telling you know, if you are taking me somewhere that reminds me of Loki, I'll punch you. with my suit on." The inventor stared at Natasha until she turned away, her face burning with shame.

"Well relax," She said quietly after a moment of awkward silence. "We're going somewhere that should hopefully not remind you of Loki."

"Is it against your personal rules to tell the truth every once in a while?"

"No, but I-"

Tony stopped listening, and instead stared out the window. He looked at the dark clouds in the distance, and he wondered if the storm that would surely hit would be a bad one.
He was so interested in the dark, looming clouds in that distance, that he failed to notice the object flying right toward the car. It was too far away to clearly be made out, but it looked almost... Almost humanoid. What drew his attention was the way Natasha asked, "Is that Thor?".

Tony looked forward and leaned, tilting his head up a bit to see what she was talking about. He lost interest when it seemed to have stopped moving.

"Yeah, probably. He must be lost again."

"How is that possible though?" Natasha asked, turning to him. Her eyebrows were knitted together in confusion, and she looked as if she demanded the answer right now.

"Uhh, he isn't exactly the brightest-"

"No, I mean how is it possible that he's here, right now? He'd have to use the Tesseract to get back to Earth, and the Director hasn't alerted me of such use..."

"Oh, I thought you knew. Your 'Director' doesn't tell you everyth... Son of a bitch." Tony squinted as the figure began moving, down, as if to land. He recognised the posture right away, despite the distance.

"What? What is it?" Nat asked, looking extremely perplexed now.

"That isn't Thor. Too small. Body mass-wise." Tony shook his head, then climbed out of the car. Natasha almost went berserk as she tried to follow after, fumbling with her seatbelt and the lock on her door. The inventor began walking toward the figure, disbelieving at first.

But then, as he neared the thing, it made a sound of annoyance.

"I leave you for a week, and I come back to see you with this woman? Honestly, Stark, are you really that desperate?"

BAM! How you like dat? Haha, I just LOVE when stories do that 'One chapter is this guy's POV, then the next one is the other's, and then they meet' type things. Hope you like where this is going! Mwaah, my lovelies~~~~