Wow,...uh...yeah. Late, please don't kill me! Sorry It's late but here's the chapter we've all been waiting for. Drum roll please...drum roll...drum roll...drum roll... He meets her! Take it away chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Avengers. I do own (for surprise reasons, she shall go by 'her' until she is revealed) her though, so yay!

The young god of mischief was riding the 5:36 R subway train home from central park, just as he had every day for the last three weeks. Moving around in the city had proven difficult, but eventually, like most things, Loki had figured it out. The first day however, he had gotten hopelessly lost, thanks to Tony's explanation (or lack thereof) of the transit system and his cell phone, and somehow ended up in Brooklyn. The tracker in Loki's phone had saved the day when the Avengers had shown up at a Dunkin Donuts, all extremely annoyed with the resident billionaire. Also upon his first time out, as to be expected, there was a "small" panic, but a quick call from Fury to Mayor Bloomberg and then a speech from him quieted things down. Needless to say, it was an eventful day. Now no one even paid attention to him. It was like he was just another random guy on the street and he was grateful. On his fourth day out, he discovers the marvel that New York called Central Park. He had spent every single day there do far and still, he hadn't seen it all yet. Traveling was a bit hard. He had to go two blocks from 14th street east and 60th street to the 14th street east and Union Square accessible subway station where he took the 6 train that took him to the 63rd and Madison station where he transferred to the train he was on now that would take him just a block away from the tower, the R train. Out of his hectic travel schedule, he found this one train rather interesting. Or rather, he found one of the riders interesting. There was one young woman in particular that intrigued him. She had straight, medium brown hair that was always tied up in a ponytail but if Loki had to guess, he would say it fell around her mid back. She had a petite build but her height estimated to about 5'6. Just three inches shorter than his new mortal height. She was an everyday regular, like he was, but got off two stops before he did. She usually listened to music, but today was strange, she had fallen asleep. Her stop came and went, but she still hadn't woken. Loki took advantage of the moment of stillness at the next stop and went over to wake her up.

"Excuse me miss, I think you've missed your stop." he said.

Her eyes shot open in alarm. They were a vibrant dark blue that rivaled a Caribbean sea. After taking in her surroundings and realizing where she was, she looked at him.

"I'm sorry?" she asked him.

"Your stop. I believe you've missed your stop."

"Oh crap, I'll have to transfer back to Madison." Thanks, uh..."

"Loki" he helped her.

"Oh! You're the guy who nearly decimated the city."

"Yeah, that was me." he thought to himself.

"The mayor made a speech. Man, you really gotta have good connections for the mayor to make a speech telling everyone that your safe to be around and anyone found harassing you will be fined. It's like he's a kindergarten teacher or something. You did do some pretty whacked out shit, but hey, we all have our dark pasts and secrets don't we."

Loki only stared at her for moment, his eyes a little wider than normal. This girl was kind of blunt. It was a surprise, but he liked it. He had always had very little patience for people who liked beat around the bush. The only thing that surprised him more was that she held no hostility or negative feelings towards him, and of she did, she sure was doing a great job of hiding it. She didn't ignore him either, like all the others had. She treated him like an actual human being and this only added to his interest in her.

He was snapped out of his thought when she began again.

"I think I got a little ahead of myself there. I'm Maria, but everyone just calls me Mia." She put out her hand for him to shake, and he did. Loki felt as if their hands fit perfectly together.

After the shake, Loki's eyes wandered to the stop screen only to see that he had missed his stop as well.

"Something wrong?" Mia asked.

"Hmm? Oh no, I seem to have missed my stop as well."

"Well, we'll ride together."

And so they did. They took the train back to Madison and transferred to the E train. On the new train, the two got to know each other. The more Loki learned, the more intrigued he became. She was a masseuse and lived alone in an apartment on 47th street. Like him, she was twenty five years old, at least that was what S.H.I.E.L.D estimated him at and that was on all his documents. Also in common was that they both loved history, literature, and art. They arranged a date for the next day at a coffee shop near where she worked, and she had even given him her phone number. After what seemed like only seconds, Mia's stop came and she got off the train, leaving the young god of lies with stupid grin on his face. A grin that would follow him into the tower and attract the attention of a certain Tony Stark who happened to be alone in the lounge having a glass of whisky.

"Hey Reindeer Games, what's got you all happied up?" asked the multibillionaire.

"I-I met a woman." Loki replied, not really knowing why he was sharing this information.

"A woman?" Tony shifted in his chair from his lax position to a more intent one. The last thing he was expecting was for the man who nearly destroyed an entire city, to meet a woman and for it not to end horribly.

"Yes a woman. Her name is Mia." By this time, Loki had stopped caring why he was sharing. It was too late to back out now anyway.

It was at this time when Tony noticed the slip of white paper Loki was fiddling with in his hands.

"No way, you got the magic seven?"

"I'm sorry?"

"Her phone number." Tony elaborated.

"Oh, yes. We also arranged to meet tomorrow at a coffee shop." Said the trickster god.

"You got a date? Damn, you've got more game than I thought."

"Thank you?"

The two men sat in silence, not knowing what to say to the other. Finally, there was something Loki didn't know that he thought might be important to know.

"Stark, I know we not be on particularly friendly terms, but may I ask you a question?"

"You just did."

Loki smiled at the small jest, quite familiar with sarcastic humor. "Would you happen to know,….what exactly is a coffee shop?"

It was Tony's turn to smile at the limits of his company's knowledge of Earth stuff.

"It's a place where people go buy and drink coffee."

"Ah, thank you. I was a bit lacking in knowledge." Loki said.

"No problem, and uh, speaking of the not so friendly terms thing, the others and I, we kinda want to apologize. We didn't really give you a fair chance and it was wrong of us. You're actually not half bad."

"Thank you. I probably would have reacted somewhat similarly to be honest but I appreciate the apology."

In the return of the awkward silence, Tony stared at his empty glass.

"Well, I need another drink." He said as he got off his chair and walked around the bar.

"So," began the billionaire, "would you like a drink?"

Loki smiled. He seemed to be doing that a lot more lately.

"I would love one."

And so the two men sat in the lounge for a few more hours, drinking and talking about things neither would remember the next morning. The important thing to Loki was that Tony was no longer against him. He now had two people in the tower that didn't completely dislike him. Sure, the others had apologized, sort of, but that didn't mean that they were with him. But having Tony, Bruce, and Thor, as always, gave him hope. Hope that one day he could live among the Avengers not only as an acquaintance, but as a friend as well.

Loki met her and he finally got his drink! I think that wrapped up quite nicely, don't you? Tell me what you think in reviews. Remember, every time you review, Loki smiles! :-)