A/N: I knoooooow, been so loooooong. Here's an update! It's short, but I promise the next update will make up for it. :D I wufs you all!

I don't own The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head.

They should have remembered that Fury wasn't exactly pleased with Loki being on Earth, nor was he happy that he wasn't able to keep Sia under his surveillance. And they walked in with the two most wanted people on Fury's list. They shouldn't have been surprised when they stepped off the elevator that many guards and agents were waiting for them. Tony was almost surprised when the guards had separated Loki and Sia and restrained their hands behind them. Sia looked like she had locked all her joints, and Loki looked calm, too calm. Deadly, Tony thought.

Tony kept Vali between him and Thor, not really wanting Fury to get his hands on the kid, not that he wanted to do Loki any favors. They were all escorted to the room usually saved for unofficial Avenger meetings and saw that Fury was already present. Tony suddenly wished he hadn't of kept his suit in the car.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't lay into you right now," Sia growled out at Fury before Tony could even take his seat.

"Give me a reason I should be throwing you and Loki into a holding cell," Fury retaliated back. "I should have done it after finding out that you were married to the one who tried to enslave the earth!"

"Hell hath no- well you should know the rest," Tony couldn't help but snort and grin at his own unintentional play on words. "But seriously, I think you do owe some explanations."

"Really, Stark?" Fury raised his good eyebrow at him. "You barge in on one of my missions and expect me to explain to you?"

"It wasn't a mission," Sia snarled. "Our son isn't one of your missions!"

"Sia, shush woman," Tony felt secure speaking to her like that since she was on the other side of the table from him and restrained. "I would actually like to know how long you've been 'monitoring' this situation."

"I've noticed them watching me since last year," Vali spoke up this time, not quite understanding what was happening. That's when Tony knew that Fury and SHIELD had really screwed the pooch. Thor and Vali were looking over at Loki who had remained silent the entire time. He was now looking at Fury with a barely restrained anger, and Tony felt something prickling on the back of his neck, then the temperature in the room started to drop.

"Loki," Sia called out and Loki looked at her. "As loathe as I am to stop you, we don't need a repeat of the destruction to the city." Tony figured that they had all just escaped something horrible.

"How long have you known?" Tony stood up from his chair to match Fury's stance. "This isn't a game anymore, Fury." Fury lcoked gazes with Tony but didn't say anything and his shoulder twitched a little. "Fine, we'll be leaving then." Tony motioned to Vali and Thor. "I'll be taking those two with me also."

"Not this time," Fury pointed at Stark. "You take from me and I take from you."

"What?" It was Vali that spoke this time. "Since you can't keep me here, probably against my will, you're going to keep my parents here?"

"I'd be careful with how you handle this," Tony spoke up a little. "We're actually the only two humans in here, and I don't wanna die because you don't know how to chill."

"I'll make a deal with you," Sia spoke up suddenly. "You tell us how long you've been watching them, and where Nari is, and I'll stay."

"Sia," Loki had straightened a little and looked at her.

"What do you have to lose from this?" Sia ignored the others. "We get the information you want, and you official get the leash for Loki you were looking for. The only thing I ever wanted was to find my sons."

Fury eyed her then sighed a little. "I'd love nothing better than to say yes, but I wouldn't make it out alive if I took that deal. We don't know where your other kid is."

"Then why were watching me?" Vali looked at Fury and frowned.

"It is a fair question," Thor spoke up. "A year ago you did not know about our existence, or about my brother."

"We were alerted to a non-human presence, and took it to a better safe than sorry scenario," Fury told them.

"Alright kiddies," Tony clapped his hands together. "Time to go then. I'll just be taking my Still employee with me, and that brooding one in the corner." Fury didn't say anything as Tony shooed the guards away from Loki and Sia.

"This isn't over," Fury said as they left the room.

"You can count on that," Sia said under hear breath.

Tony leaned against his desk in his workshop as he glanced at the security camera screens. He saw Sia, Loki and Vali still sitting in the penthouse. As he watched, without sound this time, he noted how motherly Sia could actually be. She was fussing over Vali and he was trying to lean out of her reach, but with a smile on his face. Loki just watched with small, but sincere, smile on his face. Tony wasn't sure why, but he wasn't all that unnerved that Loki actually looked happy.

At least he wouldn't try to destroy the city again.

"I'm almost a century old, I don't need to fussed over like a small child," Vali tried to bat her hands away.

"You used to wave your arms around like that when you were a small child," Sia smirked. Vali rolled his eyes in a very Loki manner and pulled her in for a hug. She wrapped his arms around his shoulders and smiled when Loki took one of her hands from behind. For the first time in over eighty years she felt at peace, if only just a little.