Mwhahaha..! Just like to point out as this chapter went up there was 69 reviews...a favourite number of mine. ;)

Also I am working on finishing this fic now and so shorter chapters but updates everyday now on this!

Doctor Loki love: holy long review... Love them... I enjoy writing the slow realization and battling of emotions between characters. I realize Loki is a god but technically a woman does not ovulate while on the pill, her body tricks itself into thinking its preggo and so I think it would still work in a god...no fertilizable egg no baby. Be different if the pill attacked his sperm. Lol.

White light of death: lol well to Cairo it was crazy to have met a god at first so to find out he's a frost giant doesn't mean much to her as she never met a frost giant. :)

Loki's dreamer: hehe I love sexy

Sorceress of the trees: Sydney is coming.

Poodle warriors: I also enjoy the roommate thing...leave it to Tony.

Chapter 11

Cairo had woken the next day to Jarvis explaining the weather and her blinds opening on their own. She really needed a house like this one. Loki woke with her but he wasn't as surprised to hear Jarvis. Loki joined her in a shower, happily the bathroom was a joining one for this room, and he dressed in his previous clothes from the day before. Loki still had work but Fury had expressly placed Cairo on stress leave until her family situation was sorted out and all danger to her was obsolete. She was not to leave Tony's home without someone with her.

It had been a very long time since Cairo had so much time on her hands. She followed Loki to the door and told him to have a good day at work and oddly she suddenly felt like a girlfriend, a thought she banished from her head immediately. He was gone and Cairo was left in the house seemingly alone. Her sister would arrive the next day early morning and it would be nice to have her around.

Cairo took a moment to look around. She was currently in Tony's living room. A large room with a large rounded sofa, no viewable tv but she figured Tony would be super high tech for such things, a water fall cascading down by the stairs she had just come down from and several other exits from the room. She followed one and found herself in a bar area with a vacant room and a fire place. An entertainment area perhaps. Beyond that she found the actual kitchen and a beautiful balcony. When she stepped out she found that the balcony stretched the length of the lower level and a pool was just down a small set of stair not to far away. The breeze in Malibu was beautiful and Cairo knew she'd like it here. Or at least she would like the weather. It was a pity she couldn't go for a jog.

Cairo headed back inside and back to the living area and through the other exit to find a training room. A boxing ring, sauna and weights available for use. At this rate she just might find a track to run on. She grinned and once again went back to the living room. She paused and saw a closed secure door. An across pad available to touch but she reminded herself to play nice and no hacking.

"Jarvis, am I the only one home?" She asked the computer in hopes he would answer. She was unsure how he worked yet.

"Yes Miss Banks. Mr. Stark is downstairs in his workshop and wishes not to he disturbed and Miss Potts is taking a well deserved chance to sleep in." He replied. Cairo sighed. Alone for now.

"Jarvis, help me with the tv." She said and heard a mechanical sound. She turned to watch a large screen come down from the ceiling in front of the couch. Cairo made herself comfortable as it turned on.

"Anything in particular I can put on for you?" Jarvis asked.

"The food network. I suck at cooking but I like to watch." She said grinning. If this was all she had to look forward to all day she would go insane but for now tv would do.

Cairo spent an hour sat there and finally couldn't take any more. She got up and went to the balcony. The breeze was soothing. She had her phone and was surfing the web relaxing in a lounge chair. She was getting hungry and hadn't bothered getting breakfast. "Jarvis?" She asked hoping he could hear her out there.

"Yes Miss Banks?"

"Tell your inventor I'm hungry and he should come and eat something." She grinned. She felt somewhat weird going through his fridge on her own.

"Miss Potts is almost finished showering and getting dressed she will be down shortly perhaps it would be best to wait." Cairo was amused. It somewhat thought for itself.

"Ok." She agreed and waited. The red head Virginia Pepper Potts, formally Tony's personal secretary, better know as Pepper finally emerged from the stairs. She was all professional like in the manner in which she carried herself despite being dressed in a simple pair of shorts and a tee shirt. She was very pretty in Cairo's opinion.

Pepper came right up to Cairo a smile gracing her freckled face her hand extended. "I know we met that one time before but I think maybe we should start over." Pepper said referring to the time when she found Cairo laying in Tony's bed after Loki had left her there his first time on earth. Cairo hadn't had much time then to really look at Pepper. The woman had been to irritated at what she thought was going on at the time.

"That's ok with me." Cairo agreed smiling back and shook the hand offered to her. Oddly the situation wasn't as awkward as Cario thought it was going to be. "I'm starving." She said to Pepper.

"Come help me in the kitchen. We'll get Tony when we're done." Pepper had already started toward the kitchen.

"I don't cook very well." Cairo told her following.

"That's ok. You can butter the toast." Pepper waved off Cairo's concern. Cairo followed the woman and helped with what she could. Pepper herself could cook fine by the looks of things.

(Cairo)

Breakfast was a mess of Tony's witty remarks and prying on how her night went and if she had gotten any sleep. Pepper had told Tony several times to be good but it didn't come as a surprise to either women when he didn't relent. Cairo had to do her best not to say something to Tony that was perhaps to much information where her bedroom antics were concerned.

When they finished eating Pepper hurried Cairo out for a long day of shopping. It was pleasant. Her mind distracted from her immediate family troubles. Pepper was actually very charming to be around. She didn't pry into Cairo's personal life the same way Tony did. In fact she was telling Cairo plenty of things to use against Tony the next time he took his remarks to far and this made Cairo smile and appreciate the woman who somehow managed to put up with Tony Stark and had even agreed to marry the cocky bastard.

"How do you do it?" Cairo asked her eating her rather large s'mores desert while Pepper enjoyed her slice of warm apple pie.

"Do what?" Pepper asked.

"Put up with Tony!" Cairo answered after swallowing her mouthful.

"Ha, everyone asks me that one. I've known him so long now I've been immune to his bullshit before we began dating." She said. "Eventually you learn when to answer him, when to ignore him which is most of the time and when to grow angry and let him know it. Ego aside he's a sweetheart." Pepper laughed. "How about you and Loki?"

"There is no me and Loki. We have a mutual friends with benefits kind of thing going." Cairo said and found her stomach knotting slightly. She willed the odd feeling to go away.

"They must be some benefits to waste your time on a guy who is only here because he has to be. Not to mention his sleazy way of getting you into bed the first time." Cairo felt her cheeks redden with a bit of anger.

"I wanted that!" She said the hostility coming out a little harsher then she meant it too. "It might have just been a moment of opportunity but he was more a gentleman to me that day then any guy I ever actually dated. He was careful and kind." It was peppers turn to turn red.

"I'm sorry I over stepped. I was under the impression you were forced." Pepper cleared her throat.

"I wasn't. I enjoy they way he makes me feel." Cairo said and expression pass over Pepper's face but she didn't put voice to what she was thinking and it was all the same to Cairo. "He isn't like everyone thinks he is. He's just lost." Cairo explained and pushed her plate aside. "I'm ready to finish shopping." She declared changing the subject. Pepper nodded and together they hit the shops.

Cairo picked up all the items she knew Loki would wear and included jeans. He never did wear them in public. As they moved through the large mall they passed a lingerie store and immediately Cairo stopped and thought. "Lets go in here." She said. They had yet to pick her up any underwear and bra but she was more interested in something Loki might enjoy. She never did wear that thing he picked out for her. The idea of wearing something at the time seemed foolish but for some odd reason Cairo really wanted to do it now.

She found herself looking over many things she would have never worn before. She usually went plain silk or cotton but she felt the need to buy something different. Together Pepper helped her pick out matching sets of very sexy panties and bras along with a small dark green, sheer nightdress with tiny straps and white bows on the hips where in laced up in a sexy pattern. She also bought thigh high stockings of black with white bows on top.

"If you're trying to turn him on that's defiantly a winner." Pepper told her. She purchased it all unable to get the thought out of her mind how Loki would look at her in it. Before she hadn't cared and it confused her why it did now. Shrugging it off they moved to the next store. They passed a shop window and Cairo stalled. She looked into the glass and then pulled out her cell phone.

Pepper was confused but followed her to cross the traffic of people to sit on a bench. "Director." She said to Fury.

"Why are you calling Miss Banks I thought I was clear to you stress leave meant no working." He said sternly from the other end.

"I haven't forgotten but I just remembered something." She said sharply. "About a week ago I was being followed." She said.

"Followed by who?" Cairo quickly described her morning jog and the guy who had been following her and waved at her when she caught him looking. "It's not a far stretch to think he might have just been checking you out so to speak." Fury said but she could tell he was thinking about it.

"I'm telling you this guy gave me a creepy stalker smile not a I think you're cute smile." She insisted to Fury. Pepper who had been listening was suddenly looking around them for signs of anyone else that met the stalker status.

"Alright I'll send a sketch artist to Stark home later. We can at least see if we can track this guy done." Cairo agreed and hung up.

"I think it's time to go home." Pepper told her. Cairo looked at all the bags and decided that she had enough stuff and together they left the mall.

(Loki)

Stark had joined everyone at SHIELD's headquarters half way through the day and he was who Loki got a ride home with. Another woman joined them. A tall stern looking woman who wore her glasses at the edge of her nose and her black hair tightly bound at the back of her neck. She didn't speak to anyone on the trip and ignored Tony's flirtatious remarks toward her.

This was something Loki had seen from Stark his first week living with Tony. It seemed he was all talk though as he appeared to actually be quite loyal to his current woman. Loki wondered why Tony bothered at all to flirt if he planned to do nothing more. Loki himself had not met another mortal woman who caught his attention yet and so for now Cairo was his only bed mate. But he held no loyalties to the girl and he was sure this was something she was clear on. If some else should come along to strike his fancy he just might be tempted to try something new. The longer he spent with the humans the less opposed he was to the idea. Cairo herself was quite pleasing and very receptacle to most everything he has done to her.

Loki smirked at the thought. The fact that Tony put them in the same room was convenient to say the least. Cairo was right he would most certainly take advantage of it and her body. He'd never spent so much time with the one woman before, it wasn't at all bad. She picked up on many things he enjoyed and preformed them often along with some stuff he showed her. The same could also be said for him regarding her body. He knew the places she liked to be touched and there was nothing better then a woman in pure bliss when she was being worked right.

Though Loki was the one who had to deliver the bad news that Mascow and his family had still not been found. He knew this would bring her mood down and he so hated to have her sulking. They arrived at Starks home and when he entered Pepper and Cario where both lounging on the sofa. Cairo had her phone on doing something and Pepper was watching the news.

"No hacking." Tony said to Cairo. She looked up moving her eyes only.

"I said I wouldn't." She replied and her head turned up to look at the dark hair woman who was standing just behind Stark.

"Oh this is the sketch artist Fury sent over." Tony said thumbing a gesture toward her.

The woman stepped forward. "Miss Banks, I'm Agent Macross." She said extending her hand. Cairo got up and shook it firmly. "Is there a pace we can go with a table." She asked. Loki watched Cairo nod and lead her away.

"A sketch artist?" Loki asked Tony.

"Yeah Cairo thinks some guy was stalking her so she'll tell that woman what he looked like and she'll do a sketch and then a computer rendition of him." Tony explained flopping into the couch next to Pepper. Loki didn't join them he instead followed through the doorway Cairo had gone through. She hadn't told Loki about this stalker and he was a little annoyed she hadn't.

He arrived in the kitchen. Cairo looked at him while Agent Macross got her stuff out of her bag and began to set up. "Any word on my brother?" Cairo asked him.

"None. You didn't tell me about this." Loki said quickly after his other answer. His annoyance was evident in his voice but he didn't care.

"I didn't even remember the guy until now." She said sounding slightly surprised at his own tone.

"Did he touch you?" Loki demanded and the agent was now looking between them looking confused and awkward.

"No he was just staring creepily at me and smiled before walking away." Cairo told him sharply. He was making her angry. Loki didn't reply and took a seat next to Cairo. He watched the woman boot up her system and pull out a sketch pad.

"I like to do things both ways in case anything should happen to my computer." She explained. "Now what do you remember about him?" Cairo began the explanation and Loki watched as the sketch finished after much probing and many details and then the computer rendition was made.

"I'm sending this to Fury. He'll have a face trace done right away." Agent Macross said and closed her laptop and began to pack away her things.

"Thanks." Cairo told her and got off her chair.

"I'll see myself out." The woman said in a stern professional tone.