Before we get to chapter 5 I just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who's reading and a special thank you to RosettaRose who has left such lovely comments on every chapter! I really appreciate it xxx

Roses eyes widened as their lips touched. It was strange how all her anger, fear, everything, just faded away. At that moment all that mattered was the man sat beside her.

Loki felt her arms wrap around his neck and pulled her closer. He had kissed before, his bad boy reputation had done him some good in Asgard, but they had been meaningless. And none of them felt like this. This could be dangerous; he was getting far too attached to this mortal. Was he to be turned soft, as Thor had been by that woman all those years ago? Quickly he moved away.

The pair sat in silence, trying to come up with something to say. Rose mentally kicked herself for letting her anger go so easily, while Loki thought over how he could help this woman without being compromised.

"Sir we've arrived." The pilot broke the silence lowering them onto Stark tower.

"Why are we here?" Rose walked over to Selvig looking confused. "What are you doing?"

"Well to begin with we will determine if you are a frost giant or not." He smiled moving Selvig away for a moment.

"And then what?" Rose examined the equipment, what was he up to?

"We will get to that part later." He took her hand leading her right up to the Tesseract and picking it up slowly. As he held onto it his skin slowly turned blue. When he looked down at her again his eyes were a brilliant red. Rose gasped and stepped back.

"What happened?" Her eyes darted about, taking in his new look.

"This is how a Frost Giant usually appears. " He held it out to her. "Do not be frightened, it will not harm you. I promise."

Suddenly she didn't want answers. She tried to quieten her mind to get some sort of decision made, but so many thoughts were swirling about at once it was impossible to get any sort of coherence. Slowly she moved towards him and with a deep breath took the Tesseract and closed her eyes in anticipation for… she wasn't exactly sure.

She heard Loki's sharp intake of breath and opened her one eye slowly to look at him. He was staring at her in awe. Very gradually she looked down to see her arms were now a brilliant blue, as Loki's had been moments ago. Her jaw dropped.

Loki watched as she stared at her arms before looking up at him wide eyed, a look of complete shock pasted on her face.

"How?" Was all she could manage to breath out, it wasn't even a fully formed word.

"I do not know." Loki replied. "But we can find out, some how." Suddenly he remembered destroying Jotunheim and for the first time regretted this decision. There must be a way to find out how she came to Midgard, it is very unusual. Someone must have known.

He looked up to see Rose holding the Tesseract out to him.

"Take it. Please." Her hands shook and as soon as he had taken it she fell to the floor. Loki passed it quickly to Selvig before going and sitting next to Rose who proceeded to lean on him.

"What is wrong? Did it hurt you? It should not have done." He wrapped his arm around her shoulder letting her put all her weight onto him. Her body was still trembling.

"No, no… I…" She kept moving her mouth trying to form words. "It's a lot to take in. Everything has been so quiet for years. Then you come along and within two weeks so much has happened."

Loki chuckled a little before picking her up and taking her down for a glass of water. Rose felt weird being at Tony's place with the enemy, but as she was now an alien, was she the enemy too?

As Loki went out onto the balcony Rose started to panic. She was a monster, she'd always known something was different but it was official now. How would Tony react? And Steve? All of them, they'd been so kind, to a monster.

She was still Rose though. Just because she maybe wasn't born on Earth, or her entire body could change colour didn't change who she was. Slowly she stopped shaking and managed to collect herself and looked out at Loki.

Is that what he'd thought when he'd found out? She guessed he didn't have any support though, and perhaps he had missed out on the epiphany that it doesn't change you… actually there was no perhaps about it. He'd definitely missed that memo.