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Hi EVERYBODY! So if first off thanks for checking this story out, and sticking with it! If you don't know already, this is a SEQUEL! So you will be confused if you have not read "A Burden With Glorious Purpose" first, this story was not created to be stand alone :) if your haven't read the other story, go check it out on my profile page and then come back to read this one.

To those who followed the first story here:

Thank you! just a small authors' note that this story starts off about one month after the epilogue.

Okay that's all! :x

Chapter 1: All We Needed Was A Purpose:

"Oh come on Tony! Do we have to do this? Please say we don't! "

Darcy was sitting in a chair down in Tony's lab in Tony's completely redone house. Tony was in his jeans and an old motor oil covered shirt as he worked on some modifications and upgrades to the suit. He was working diligently, but he was also holding a conversation with his recently discovered half-sister.

"Darcy, I realize you don't like the whole press thing, but eventually somebody is going to figure out that you my dear are related to me. There are already speculations about your role in the Avengers, and we have to do this to take the heat off of them discovering your powers."

Darcy knew he was right, that still didn't mean she wanted to go along with this.

"Okay so if we have to tell the world that I'm your long-lost sister then why can't we just send out one big memo to all the major news networks and tell them. I don't see why we have to throw a whole introduction party."

Tony started laughing as he welded a custom piece onto the newest prototype.

"A) I am Tony Stark, I wouldn't be me if I didn't throw a huge birthday party announcing you as my little sister to the world. B) On a more serious note, we really do have to explain your sudden involvement with the Avengers. You kinda just popped up out of nowhere, and now we have to explain that. What better way than to use the excuse that my parents hid you from the world to save you from death threats and kidnapping plots because of what they did for a living. They saw it as the only way to protect you. Darcy, it's the only way to give you a reason to be a part of the Avengers without blowing your cover. I'll be damned if we let this fester and some idiot decides to try to figure out why you are with us, and hurts you or himself in the process. So we are having the party."

Tony said to Darcy in his "I'm serious" tone, and Darcy knew his mind was made up and she couldn't change it. Darcy was more nervous than she had ever been, it was scary, the whole world would know she was a Stark and she would be forever attached to Iron Man. She didn't care so much about that part, as she did that she may lose what little privacy she did have. She wanted to spend her 21st birthday getting wasted with the Avengers that could get wasted (Steve, and Bruce couldn't) and then spending some alone time with her very sexy boyfriend. Now she had to spend it all dressed up and rubbing elbows with people who she had never even met.

"Fine. I will go along with this party, but I better get a nice present!"

"I've got a great one in mind."

Tony said clearly lying.

"Sure you do. Also after I put on this little parade I want a vacation. The last one you guys went on I wasn't exactly invited because of my lack of a boyfriend."

"Darcy you still could have gone."

"Yea, but who wants to be around a bunch of in love couples when all you want to do is rip somebody's heart out with a very dull and crude knife and the step on it repeatedly until it bursts."

Darcy said twirling a screwdriver in her hand.

"Thanks for giving me a visual. I will ask Pepper to make sure after this media circus ends that we can take a vacation anywhere you would like to go."

Darcy's eyes brightened and a smile spread across her face.

"Thank You."

"Anytime, besides it's not a big deal. We are Billionaires."

"No, you are a billionaire."

Darcy rolled her eyes playfully and stood up to leave.

"Wait, I need your help with something."

"Shoot."

"Hey Jarvis is Pepper around?"

"No sir, she is at the L.A office downtown, with happy. Would you like to contact her?"

"No. Just tell me when she is headed home. Also pull up the "M File""

"I will do so sir. For the secure M File I need the password sir."

"Oh yea. It's May fifth nineteen ninety-three"

Darcy balked at her birthday being the password for a file that Tony had deemed so secure that it needed a password on top of the other countless protections he had on his files.

"Password Correct: What action would you like to proceed with Mr. Stark?"

"Pull all jpg files for viewing in this file into slide-show view. Darcy look through those and tell me which one do you think Pepper is going to like the most."

Darcy looked at him oddly, but clicked start on the presentation anyway. Once the first picture appeared a smile appeared on her face and she gave a happy scream.

"AHHHHHH! Anthony Stark are these what I think they are?"

Darcy looked at the pictures of beautiful engagement rings go across her screen slowly. Tony rolled his eyes at Darcy's uncharacteristic girlish behavior, knowing that anytime a girl saw something like this, they get emotional. Even the sarcasm of Darcy Lewis couldn't beat the sight of 15-karat diamonds, exotic gems and rare stones.

"Awe, my bro is getting married. I knew you had it in you Stark."

"She has to say yes first Dar Dar."

Darcy glared at Tony through her tears.

"Don't call me Dar Dar."

She said, wiping her cheeks.

"Don't call me Anthony."

He countered.

"Fair enough. And trust me she will say yes."

"How do you know? Did you guys talk about it over your last lady day?"

Tony was referring to when She, Pepper, Jane, Nat, Beth (Steve's girlfriend), and Peggy (Bruce's girlfriend) took some much deserved girl time and did something for themselves together. All the guys went somewhere and did the same thing, usually came home drunk and trying to make a very nosy sandwich while giggling not to wake us up (Loki, Thor, and Tony thoroughly deny giggling).

"No, trust me if she has stuck by you through ALL of your drama and never walked away. Trust me she's not going to run at a marriage proposal. In fact she might just say "about time", like I have been saying, all along I might add."

Tony looked away, knowing she was right.

"I really do need your help; I think you can help me pick out the best one."

"Yeah, give me a minute to look at them."

She flipped through the pictures, and stopped on a classic princess cut 10-karat diamond set in platinum with 3-karat solitaire diamonds surrounding the large stone. It was breath-taking, and Darcy knew it would be perfect for Pepper who deserved every diamond she got for having to put up with Tony.

"This one is it Tony."

He came over from his work and looked over her shoulder.

"You are sure?"

"Of course. It's perfect and lord knows Pepper deserves a rock like that to balance out your ego."

She joked getting up from the chair; Tony had Jarvis send an email to the designer and let him know he planned on visiting him tomorrow to purchase the ring in a size 6. The jeweler confirmed an appointment for Noon.

"So where is your lover boy?"

"You know if Loki ever hears you call you that he will attempt to maim you."

Tony laughed.

"Yea, well he can't do any worse than damn Vanaheim training room does to me when we go. Damn dummy tasers you every time their weapons hit you."

"Trust me I know. But your reflexes started off better than mine anyway, so you should pick it up easier than I first did."

"Sure if you say so."

Tony went back to working on his project. Of course being related to her meant he was an Elemental as well, and while She had crazy eye flipping colors and strange bursts of strength at the beginning, Tony's inheritance was relatively easier on him, he didn't need the arch reactor anymore, but he kept it in to have a place to focus his magical core into (a trick Loki taught him), and while they were super intelligent, Tony was like a whole other level of genius, he could read a 800 page book in an hour, and recite it back to anybody word for word. They always knew he was super intelligent (Who else could become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics overnight... Literally) but since he started actually trying to make use of his powers, his intelligence had increased ten-fold. His eyes could flip colors like Darcy, except he had the control from the beginning because he had watched her go through it first. He did get annoyed every now and again and his eyes changed so he took to making sure he had sunglasses on whenever he left the house.

"Loki is taking me to Vanaheim tomorrow, are you going?"

"Nope, I promised Pepper I actually be present at this board meeting, so I can't skip out, but Nat has been begging to go. Take her instead."

"I'll see if Loki will, but he's been adamant on not taking too many people as not to overextend his welcome."

"What's the difference if she goes or I go? A body is a body."

"The difference is we can prove our worthiness to use the room to those of Vanaheim if need be, I don't want Nat hurt if they decide to mess with us that day."

"I have a feeling it will work out fine; besides you know she will do her brooding thing if we don't get her in that training room at least once. You know I hate it when you ladies brood."

Tony said jokingly, and Darcy consented to convincing Loki to give Nat one day in the room.

"I'll see what I can do. I'm going to make dinner, because I swear if we have one more box of fried rice in the refrigerator I am going to scream."

"I agree. Get to work."

He joked, but Darcy glared at him, and left the room to his laughing. If his glass on the steps leading to the main level of the house wasn't so expensive she would use that material destruction spell Loki taught her and destroy the glass.

Darcy walked into the kitchen and started cooking pasta for dinner. She wasn't sure if Thor was joining them for dinner, but it couldn't hurt to be prepared if he was...

Darcy got about half way done with dinner when she heard the small tell-tell sign that Loki had popped into the room. He grabbed her waist and pulled her into him from behind while she was bent over grabbing the stuff for the salad out the fridge.

"Well hello to you too."

She stood back up and Loki let her go so she could sit the stuff down on the counter, she greeted him properly with a kiss and went to get back to work.

"How was your day in Asgard?"

Darcy asked while trying not to cut her fingers off cutting tomatoes. Loki sat at a bar stool, and dropped leaned his torso on the countertop.

"Trying. I love my mother, but I swear if she asks me to move home one more time I am going to ruin her favorite part of the garden."

Darcy laughed and kept working.

"I think she's just worried about you. All mothers do it. My mom did the same until I turned 14 and she realized I wasn't going to grow out of the dark lipstick and giving myself neon colored highlights when the mood fitted me. It's her job."

"I know, it's just frustrating. I'm hoping Thor's marriage to Lady Jane will turn the attention for me to move home or settle down."

Darcy froze at the words "settle down" she wasn't thinking of settling down anytime soon, but the way he said it, did it mean he didn't want that...ever?

"She wants you to settle down?"

"Well yes. She says that I would be less reclusive if I had someone to share goals and ideals with. I told her I had that, but she would scare you off with all her codling. Then she backed off...temporarily."

Darcy let out the breath she had been holding in. They had never discussed each other's family in the sense of the future, and what they planned on doing if the time ever came to meet the family. Up until that moment she wasn't even sure that his parents knew about her.

"Darcy you seem to be over-analyzing something, would you like to talk about it, or do you plan to tell me later."

She decided that with all the madness that was about to happen with the party and Tony, she might want to have this conversation now rather than later.

"I realize it's only been like 7 months since the whole evil elf thing and we've been together since like 2 months before that but I guess you mentioned me to Queen Frigga I guess it just got me thinking about future family introductions."

Loki looked at the slightly blushing Darcy; he could tell she was a bit nervous. He had every intention of taking her to his parents; he just thought she wouldn't be ready for that yet.

"What about them?"

"I was thinking about when it's time for us to meet the parents."

"When would you like to meet my mother? She has been all but begging since she first heard of you."

"You'd leave a choice like this up to me?"

Darcy asked taking the bagged lettuce and putting it into a bowl. She couldn't just stand still, so moving around was the only way to hide her nervousness.

"Of course, I am ready whenever you may be ready to."

"What if I said tomorrow?"

"I'd say pack a bag, you know one day in your time is the equivalent of two days on Asgard."

"So you've really spent two days with your family, and you've only been gone a day to me."

"Exactly. So if you are serious then I'm sure my mother would not be opposed to having me back. Are you ready for me to meet your family?"

"Yea, I guess. I mean my family barely accepts me, but we could give it a shot if you want."

"Darcy you are skating around the question. Are you ready to go to Asgard?"

Darcy looked at Loki and breathed in deep. This could go horribly wrong or absolutely perfect...

"Yes, but not tomorrow. I want you to meet mine first..."

*At Dinner*

Thor and Jane had joined them for dinner and Darcy was immediately glad her instincts had been correct. Thor spoke of his day surveying the kingdom with Odin and Loki. Then Jane spoke up...

"So I have some great news!"

"Really, what is it?"

Pepper asked politely, and forking some pasta into her mouth afterwards.

"All-Father has decided when I will be given my test to be made Aesir."

Darcy's mouth dropped open. Jane was positively glowing with excitement, and almost selfishly Darcy was happy not just for her best friend but also for the fact that maybe this was the last straw standing in the way of having their friendship like it used to be. They had been a bit pressed to talk since the whole incident with Loki almost dying and Jane saying some pretty hurtful things to her. They could talk about everything good that was going on, except for her and Loki. Darcy knew he best friend enough to know that she just couldn't handle that yet. Darcy honestly still thought that was still a bit selfish, but she valued the friendship too much to push the issue, besides if everything worked out with her test, Jane would get over the issues she had with Loki.

"That's AWESOME! When is this going to take place?"

Darcy said, smiling at Jane. Thor was the one to answer though.

"Father has given Darcy time to settle all mortal affairs for she will have to live on Asgard for a year of your mortal time, to adjust to her new power, and learn the duties of Queen from our mother. The test will not occur for a few months yet, but we are still excited."

Thor's words didn't sit right with the young Elemental, "get affairs in order" no matter where you were from that phrase never bode well for the person getting told the expression. Darcy wouldn't ruin her best friend's happiness, but she knew she would have to warn her before the test. She smiled back and Jane and then pretended to be very interested at the food she cooked.

"So it looks like we will have another team member soon."

Tony said happily, and hoisting his glass of water toward Jane, although he had figured out the hidden meaning behind the words too. Jane laughed and sipped at her water back at him. Loki noticed the look on Darcy's face before she hid it away behind a smile. She had figured out what he had as soon as he heard Odin speak the words.

Lady Jane was Doomed...

So there it is Chapter 1! I realize it is a bit slow to start, but it gets better with time! I PROMISE! and of course we got to have more DarcyxLoki time, after all they've still got a purpose! *Author is smirking...*

~See you soon~ XOXOXO