Shifting Circumstances -

Loki, hiding on Midgard after picking up the Tesseract and escaping from Thor and Shield, sometimes alleviated his boredom by shapeshifting and gathering information on the Avengers. And, admittedly, annoying certain of them just for fun. While he’d gathered a lot of information, he hadn’t expected a meeting between Captain America and Shield’s Director Pierce to lead him to a man who was gorgeous, skilled with knives, and who moved with the grace of a Ljósalfaheimr battle master. Nor, having freed him, had he expected that the man would decide to stay, despite Loki encouraging him to make contact with the good Captain. So, having gained a companion, it behooved Loki to secure their future. Starting from scratch no less. Worse, he had to do that without using his magic, which would alert Asgard as to his whereabouts... Which was how he happened to end up tracking down lost or stolen pets. Beneath him admittedly, but sometimes one did what one had to do.