Sorry for the wait. Writers block is a bitch! Warning: SLT (sexy Loki time) found within.

Sidney loves fiction: I know you love my sex...wait does that sound right? Haha yeah the house blowing up was a toss up between them be not being home and being home. I am happy with my choice. It worked well.

Sorceress of the trees: your very good at acting my subtle mentions in my writing. Glad I impressed with the chapter.

Doctor Loki love: ahh so many questions and so much time to write the chapters containing answers. Hehe! I wanted to begin to look a little deeper into both Cairo and Loki's thoughts and there will be more of it.

Deana hughes2010: yes the birth control did blow up...and yes very ironic it was the day he decided to trust the pills effectiveness.

Loki's dreamer: I had to add some smut. It had been a while. Lol

White light of death: I try to draw out some sex and others I just hint around. I like a mixture of both but I really enjoy writing big long one. And of course he saved her, he'd have to find a new sex toy otherwise...but hey we all know that's not his real reasons.

Poodle warriors: all those will be answered in time. :)

No Vacancy mind: yeah she'd pretty overwhelmed right now but she will calm down. As for their feelings I'm sure cracks will being to see into their thick coated exteriors.

Chapter 10

Loki was frustrated. Too many questions about what happened at Cairo's house. Fury had been nice enough to let Loki know she was ok. He had been asked a multitude of questions about her brother Moscow. Apparently they didn't want to ask her and stress her out so Loki had to do his best with the little information he had. Somehow he felt it hard to believe her brother had been trying it kill her.

Then he remembered the bag, the tickets. His nervousness and stress. Loki began to believe he was either a really good actor or he had no idea he was being set up. Loki believed it was more conceivable that it was an option somewhere in the middle. He had watched the footage to scrutinize every move her brother made and found him to be on par with a man who was stressed over bad choices but what choices was it? The gambling or something else. Half a day now and SHIELD had contacted her parents and assured them she was fine along with asking them where their son was. Loki had to admit SHIELD was good with their words.

They had managed to not insult or cause extra concern to her mother and father with their questions. Next they contacted her sister and to Loki's knowledge her sister had insisted on seeing her and so she was being flown in. Her brother Rio was still on a campaign and so SHIELD sent in an undercover agent to keep an eye on him. As for Moscow and his family no one knew where they were or why. They had located the last day his son had been seen at school and then they all just vanished until Moscow showed up at Cairo's.

Everyone seemed baffled and at a loss. Who would want Cairo dead? But Fury was no fool. It wasn't Cario who was the target. It was Loki. Cairo would have been collateral. Had Loki been human he would certainly have died and her along with him. Luckily he was not and he now lived to see this mystery to an end and Cairo placed in safe hands.

"Perhaps I should tell her what we have uncovered." Loki suggested to Fury alone. Fury had not asked how Loki had gotten to Cairo so fast when they should have been in separate rooms with Loki in the same room as the bomb. Fury was choosing to ignore the fact that there was more to it.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? She's lost quite a lot already. And we have more questions and theory's then answers. It might cause her a lot of unnecessary stress." He replied his fingers interlinked and his elbows leaning on the desk.

"And we both know she will not be happy until she knows something. She would possibly only get angry if we avoid the subject." Loki pointed out. Fury sighed.

"At least wait until she is released from the infirmary. The nurse says she should be good to go tomorrow." Loki nodded.

"And her sister? When is she due to arrive?" Loki was actually very curious to what her sister might be like.

"Early wednesday morning. Stark has offered to take all three if you in at his home for now until a different place can be found." Loki raised an eyebrow.

"Offered?" He said.

"Persuaded is probably a better word." Fury corrected his own error and suppressed a grin. "He has top notch security. Weather is was you or Miss Banks as the target you will be safe there." Fury added. Loki needed no convincing. At least it was something. He would have somewhere to take her. And knowing Stark, Loki was sure being alone with Cairo, for any reason would not be a problem.

He had been having an extreme need to check on her since she had been brought to SHIELD and woken but it took some reminding to not do so. Why it was so important for him to see her for himself was beyond his understanding. Fury said she was fine and therefore she was just that. It was silly to worry about her, in fact he felt silly for worrying at all.

(Cairo)

Cairo had been sitting up and thinking when Tony walked in. He had a stiff teddy bear in his arms and a box with a bow. "That's not a nanny cam in there is it?" She asked instantly pointing to the bear.

"No, they were out of those." He said back with a grin. He offered both things to her and she felt odd accepting anything from Tony Stark.

"What? No witty comments today?" She was trying hard not to smile. His gesture actually made her happy but she didn't want to show it.

"I figured I'd save them up and cash those in later." He sat in the visitors chair and crossed one of his legs. Cairo looked at the box and set aside the bear. She wasn't really a stuffed animals kind of girl but the thought was appreciated. She removed the ribbon and opened the box. Then she smiled. A new iphone.

"Wow. I don't know what to say..." She said actually feeling speechless.

"Well for starters SHIELD paid for it not me but I'm not beyond accepting a thank you." Cairo rolled her eyes.

"Thank you." She replied back.

"Now a few rules. One, no pimping it out to hack my computer systems remotely and two: while you live with me you are not to play with anything technical..." Cairo shot Tony a look.

"Living with you?" She said stopping him mid sentence.

"Oh. No one told you? Yeah you and the big bad are staying with me until SHIELD can relocate you." Cairo felt a wash of relief. She wasn't going to be made to leave town to stay with her family. She wasn't going to have to leave Loki.

"That's the best news I've had all day." She blurted feeling that over emotional girl from earlier well up. She really couldn't wait to say goodbye to that side of her.

"Really?" He sounded genuinely shocked.

"It was better then the alternative. Going home to my parents." She swallowed then. That unease of the things she'd been thinking about getting to her.

"Ahh. Yeah...your family. I gotta get going. You know business to run and all." Tony got up and Cairo found her own feet.

"Stark why did you use that tone?" She asked a sinking feeling clenching her stomach.

"What tone?" He replied still walking.

"Anthony Stark you stop right now!" She cried out and as she did Loki appeared around the corner. She was stood in a silly hospital gown, yelling at Stark and now Loki decides to visit her. She now looked at Loki who seemed to be trying to figure out what was happening. "What's going on with my family?" She asked Loki sternly. Loki looked right to Stark a glare passing over his face. Tony put up his hands.

"I didn't say anything about her family I swear." Loki thumbed his finger over his shoulder for Tony to get out of his sight.

"Lets go back to your room and we will talk there." He said to her in a soothing tone which only served to irritate her. What hadn't she been told? Loki made her sit back in her bed and she did but couldn't relax. "First lets remember that SHIELD is only looking into all possibilities and anything they might be thinking is just to cover all bases." He began and she knew instantly it was defiantly not going to be good.

"Wait...first just tell me if anyone has died?" She said quickly.

"Not that we know of." He replied. SHIELD has been doing an extensive search of your homes ruins and have found the origins of the explosion came from your guest room. On further inspection they also determined what it was contained in and made of." Loki sounded impressed.

"And?" She pressed him on impatiently. He was leading up to something.

"There was a bomb placed in your home and it was hidden inside the bag your brother left behind." Instantly Cairo found her feet again.

"NO!" She yelled defiantly. "I don't care how much we fought he wouldn't harm me. Tell them to look again they must be wrong." She told Loki.

"This is why no one had said anything. Nothing is yet certain of how it got there or why or even who." He said trying to calm her and was failing. She was rubbing her thumb and finger on one hand together nervously, thinking.

"I suppose Fury is hunting my brother down?" She snapped.

"They have been looking for both him and his family...they are all missing." Cairo stopped.

"Missing? Like ran away missing or mysteriously missing?" She was concerned now. What the hell was going on!

"Mysterious. His wife and child went missing almost a week before Moscow came to your home." He told her. "So Fury is thinking either it was one big plan...which we doubt." He quickly added when she glared at him. "Or they were kidnapped which leaves open a few, more believable ways the bomb ended up in your home. Fury tells me it's unlikely that his story about owing money was true as that would not cause someone to bomb your home unless it was meant for your brother and his family."

"Why would anyone blow up the guy who still owes you money?!" Cairo said exasperated.

"And that was what Barton pointed out." Loki told her. Loki reached out and snagged the hand that she had been playing with her fingers. "Stop. Breath." He said sternly. Cairo did as he said and Loki tugged her closer. Cairo doubted there was cameras inside the room and hoped their wasn't.

"I don't like this...this not knowing bullshit." She said to him.

"It's all we have. The rest of your family is safe. Your brother Rio is being detailed in case the attack was for you and your parents are fine and also being kept a close eye on. Your sister however has insisted on coming here to see you personally."

"Sydney's coming here? When?"

"She should be here the day after tomorrow." Loki answered. Cairo felt her nerves calming down. She had to remember SHIELD always assumed the worst so they could plan accordingly. Loki's hand snaked round her and she yelped when his hand came to rest on her bare ass. "Did you know I can see your ass when your back on to me. That garment does not close properly." Cairo pushed herself back a step from Loki.

She turned and wiggled that very ass his way. "Nothing you haven't see already." She said over her shoulder and pulled the cloth closed. She heard him chuckle. Her mood felt lifted.

Loki stood and advanced her way. Cairo was thankful the room had no window. "How much fun do you think I could get away with in here?" He asked her deviously. Cairo stepped back and away from him.

"None." She said sternly. She would not be caught being fucked by the god of mischief. Loki stopped and looked back to the door and then closed the distance between then quick. He fisted a hand deep into her messy hair and kissed her hard. Cairo growled unable to push him back and hated that she didn't really want to push him back. She allow his tongue to tease hers a moment before he released her and began to leave.

"Pity, the thrill of being caught adds to the arousal and I could have guaranteed you a equally thrilling release." He said and before she could reply he left her to think about that.

"I hate you!" She yelled after him but he didn't return. Still frustrated over her situation and now sexually frustrated she felt like she might need to break something but instead she sat on the edge of the bed and grumbled.

(Loki)

It had been barely an hour since Loki left Cairo and now he couldn't help but smirk as she barged into the large room himself and Fury were currently in overviewing a few ideas and theories. She was dressed in simple jeans and a tee shirt.

"Miss Banks what are you doing up here?" Fury said knowing full well she had yet to sign her release papers.

"I got bored and thought I would be better to help you up here." She said.

"You need to rest." Fury said to her and she snorted.

"I need to figure out who the fuck blew up my home and why!" She retorted. "I won't be idle in this." She insisted. Fury rubbed his head and looked to Loki as if to asked if this was his doing.

"I have no control over her." Loki said. It was half true. He had a sexual hold over her but for everything else she did what she felt like doing. He enjoyed that about her. She wasn't clingy simply because they shared a bed.

"Apparently no one does." Fury said under his breath. "Fine." He beckoned her close. "If you insist on helping then we can start by trying to figure out who might want to hurt you." Fury said.

"I keep insisting that is more likely I was the target but Fury insists we cover all options." Loki said to her as she sat down.

"There was that one boyfriend I had who lost his job because of me." Cairo began. "Or Hydra." She added the more likely choice. Everyone had been thinking Hyrda as well.

"And why would Hydra want to kill you?" Fury asked.

"Gee I dunno. How 'bout the time you made me hack their doors open for your spies. I got shot." She pointed to her side. Loki hadn't notice any sizeable wound on her in that spot. Clearly the shot had cause minimal damage.

"I will not argue about that again." Fury said exasperated but stopped to think. Loki could tell he was thinking with how he furrowed his brow and his one eye drooped. "I still have my doubts that Hydra would go that far for you...no offence." He added.

"Well it has something do with me if they used my brother. I've been thinking," Loki couldn't wait to hear this considering she hadn't that long to delve over all he had told her before coming to this room. "what if my brother was sent by Hydra. He thought he was there to just check things out maybe, and the bomb was among his things but he didn't know." She paused.

"If he didn't know why would he leave it behind?" It was Loki who said it to her.

"I dunno but I refuse to believe he would harm me knowingly." Loki sighed. He actually found himself hating to argue the facts with her as it was a touchy subject.

"Your brother tried to get us both out of the house for that night with those movie tickets. If he was there for other reasons then what he said then he knew something was going to happen." Loki told her and she glared at him.

"But he might not have known what was going to happen!" She insisted.

"Alright lets try something else. Where is his family?" Fury interjected.

"Kidnapped?" She offered.

"There is evidence to support the theory but it could also be evidence to suppose them having fled." Fury put his hands behind his back and looked up in annoyance. "We've checked your brothers bank accounts and they show nothing out the ordinary to support his gambling story. He had lots of money still in there."

"Then it was a lie to get into my home for the night." Cairo sounded certain of that. Loki could only imagine how she was feeling implicating her brother for such a horrid event. "Blackmail then." She offered throwing her hands up in a last attempt to save her brothers honor.

"That's what we think." Loki said to her. "What we can't figure out is if his family was kidnapped and threatened and Moscow was sent to your home to plant the bomb, then why did they want to kill you or me? What was the overall thought process." Loki could imagine Hydra not pleased to find out SHIELD had a god working for them. But he also thought Hydra to be idiots to assume a mere bomb could even scratch him. Surely they would have some intel on who Loki was.

"I still don't think my brother would have put that bomb their deliberately unless his wife and child were in danger. As for the why or the who done it or who it was really meant for I'm not sure it matters right now. For me finding my bother and his family is what matters." Cairo told them.

"We have been working hard on that I promise you." Fury told her.

"I want permission to use SHIELD's system to hack the fuck out of Hydra's computers and see if I can find any trace that they might have my brother." Cairo said determined. Fury thought about it.

"Alright but be careful to not do any damage. If they have your brother and he's alive we don't want to piss hydra off enough to harm him or his family." She nodded. "In the meantime I have had a spy inside their rank for some time now and they have been keeping there eyes open for any sign of Moscow."

Cairo gave a quick nod and left to focus her attention downstairs in her usual work space. Loki watched her go.

(Cairo)

Billionaire Tony Stark had made it home in time to greet his new house guests. "Alright change of room plans." He said rubbing his hands together. "I've put you on the opposite end of the house. Before I couldn't trust you to be that far from sight but blondie over there can keep an eye on you." As he spoke he was already walking toward the part of the home he meant. Going up one set of stairs. Loki and Cairo followed closely neither speaking. Cairo was currently toting with her the only things she now owned, the clothes on her back, her iPhone and the teddy bear Tony had brought her.

Tony stopped at a door far down the hall and Loki went in and Cairo stopped admiring the large room Stark had given Loki. "Mine better be just as big!" She said smiling.

"What do you mean...this is your room, well both of your room." Cairo gave Tony a look of fuck off don't joke about that but he didn't look to be joking.

"Whoa wait a second, you realize my sister will be here tomorrow morning right? She has no idea about Loki! What Loki and I have been doing is a secret." She reminded Tony.

"Have been? So you have found time. Hmmm interesting." Tony feigned thinking about it a moment. "Aright one, SHIELD has no survalliance here. Two, tell your sister it's complicated, which is true and tell her to keep a lid on it. Three, I thought we agreed a happy Loki is a well behaved Loki." Cairo rubbed her forehead remembering why Stark annoyed her so much.

"Fine." She paused aware of Loki watching and listening to them. "Do you have cameras in this room?" She asked remembering Tony's room at Stark tower.

"Huh, oh no. That's just a personal thing I do." He cleared his throat and Cairo got the hint. "Alright all set!" Tony declared clapping his hands in front of him and preparing to leave before stopping himself. "Oh and one more thing. Pepper has offered to take you shopping and get you a whole new wardrobe." Tony was speaking to both of them and Cairo could swear she heard Loki groan. Tony then left them.

"I despise shopping." Loki told her pointedly before falling to lay on the bed.

"Yeah well I hate socializing, something I've been having to do since I met you." She said putting down her phone and stuffing the bear into the closet. She did not trust it to not have a camera of some kind. "Besides you don't have to go. I remember your size and style I can get your things." She added.

"Excellent." Loki replied and she saw him smirking as she turned to look at him.

"Why such a big smirk?" She asked getting to kneel on the bed next to him.

"A happy Loki is a well behave Loki." He said and chuckled. "He obviously doesn't know me well." Cairo shook her head.

"Does anyone?" She replied and he looked at her and calculated what she said. It took him a moment before replying.

"Perhaps not." He finally said and shrugged. She felt like she may have touched a nerve.

"You rarely ever talk about yourself." She said suddenly feeling curious. Before she hadn't really cared much to ask. She had been trying to keep things neutral.

"The same could be said for you." She cracked a smile. It was true. Loki moved swiftly and had her on her back so fast she barely had time to process it. His mouth already on her neck and his hand undoing the button of her jeans. Seriously, you couldn't put him in a room alone with her for a minute. "I believe I was denied when last I sought this." He said to her.

"Ahhh." She moaned when he suckled on a part of her neck, up just under her ear that she thoroughly enjoyed. "We were in a damn infirmly!" She hissed trying to speak passed the motion he was now moving his fingers in across her cunt. He was always quick to find the spots he was looking for when he was craving. She moaned again when he slipped two fingers down and inside her. She was already wet and it only made him grin wickedly.

She lay on her back and lifted her hips when he grabbed hold of her jeans and underwear to pull them off her. He followed it up by tossing off his shirt and also removing his pants. He now stood before her naked and she still had on her top and bra. Cairo quickly looked passed Loki and was relieved that Tony had shut the door on the way out, she had forgotten to check. She sat up and didn't bother unclipping the bra. She pulled both the top and it off over her head and Loki knelt between her legs and kissed her lips.

She smiled across his kisses, his hands playing with her breasts. Her half sat position making it easy for her to grip and work his cock. He groaned when she rubbed her thumb in a circle on the front of the head. Something she had found not to long ago. Cairo narrowed her eyes in a seductive way and put her hand on Loki shoulder and pushed him sideways. He allowed her to place him on his back and she climbed onto him. She took hold of his length and carefully mounted herself on it. She moaned until he was fully seated within her and then began a rhythm of movement.

Loki had his hands put to her hips, not guiding her just holding her. Cairo threw her head back and sighed. She continued like this taking it slow and then fast until he was growing close. His fingers gripping her hips tighter until he found release. Cairo sat there smiling her mind having been freed of the problems she was having if only for that small amount of time.

"Would you like me to keep track of your monthly minstrel cycle for you?" Jarvis, Tony's super computer, said startling her.

"What? No!" Cairo said.

"Very good miss."

"That was awkward." She looked down at Loki. She knew her own cycle from her pills. Something she had remembered to acquire from the nurse after she initially woke up at SHIELD and had time to process what had happened to her. Loki's hand was rubbing her hip.

"This will be fun, being allowed to share the same room." He grinned wickedly. She sighed and got off him.

"Yes and I'm sure you'll take full advantage of it." She said. It was late when they had arrived at Tony's having spent the day with SHEILD looking for clues to her brothers whereabouts and so Cairo only climbed into bed without getting dressed and Loki followed suit. The air conditioning was nice and she was able to curl up close to Loki. "Tell me something about you I don't know." She said.

"And what purpose would that serve?" He asked back.

"I'm trying to take my mind off stuff, indulge me." She said back using her nails to scratch lightly down his chest, she knew he liked this. In fact it was a great way to tease him.

"I'm a frost giant." He said in a matter of fact kind of way. He sounded very monotone about it.

"I'm not an expert or anything but I envision giants as...well giant." She said tilting her head up to look at him.

"I was a runt." He was still speaking in that bored manner.

"Oh. Would you rather be bigger?" She asked. She watched him grin as he thought of how to answer.

"If I was bigger you wouldn't be able to handle me." He teased and as no surprise to her he guided her hand downward.

"I wonder if all men are like this?" She mused out loud and oddly Loki paused his movements. When she looked to his face again he looked slightly annoyed.

"Like what?" He was slightly glaring and she wasn't sure why.

"Ready to go again in less then five minutes after the first time." She explained. Maybe he thought she meant his size.

"I have lots of stamina." He told her his glare waning and his hand pushing hers down to touch his length. She gripped it firmly and began a trail of kisses down his chest toward her goal area.