2 Weeks Later
Loki and Astrid enjoy another morning of intimacy after loudly declaring their love for one another with caring if anyone could hear them. "I am so glad you're back, Loki." Astrid lovingly tells him for the billionth time since they returned to Asgard while she lays across his bare torso as she absentmindedly traces his lean muscles with her finger. "So you keep telling me." He laughs. "It is good to be back in your loving arms." Loki tenderly informs her while forcing back any and all thoughts of the nightmares that plague him in his sleep. "Loki..." She begins sensing his inner struggle being forced back.
"Yes?" He ask knowingly while running his hand along her exposed arm. "You alright, babe?" The sorceress ask with concern as she removes her hand from his torso and repositions herself to cup his face. "In time." He places a hand over her's. "It'll take more mere dreams to warrant any true concerns of that I can assure you." Loki says downplaying his nightly torments of the past. "Well I wish you'd open up to me about it." She tells him whiling thinking of how he wakes drenched in sweat and screaming until she is able to sooth him each night.
Loki senses his wood changing but chooses to fight it while seeing only love and compassion for him in his wife's blue-ish green orbs. He lets out a vexed sigh. "Darling, I know you mean well but I am not discussing this with you nor anyone else for that matter." The prince sees her begin to move her lips. "I said I'm not discussing this. This is one argument you don't get to win, my love." He watches her start to give him a look he knows will melt his resolve if he remains silent. "Don't give me that look. I truly mean my words... Now let us speak of something else." Loki tells her while nearly giving in to his anger.
Knowing she has lost this argument and not wishing to start the day with a war of words she softly kisses him before returning to her previous position. The princess then finds herself once again tracing his lean muscles allowing herself to enjoy the firm feel of them while giving her husband some time to clam down. "Is now a bad time to ask about getting a puppy?" Astrid says with mirth while not expecting an answer. "A puppy... I am a master sorcerer and you would merely ask for a puppy?" He ask with false insult. "But I love puppies." She tells him playfully while continuing to trace his torso. "Oh darling I've got something much better for you than a puppy." He tells her seriously letting her know that he isn't using a sexual innuendo at least not this time. Her eyes grow wide at his words leading her to look up at him. "What could possibly be better than a puppy?" She ask while sitting up next to him as she watches his eyes briefly fall to her large exposed breast. The dark prince smirks before shaking his head and letting out a slight laugh before before returning his eyes to her's. "You will find out soon enough... It'll arriving from Vanaheim within a day or so." He says revealing nothing about his gift to her.
"Fine keep it a secret then." Astrid says playfully before watching her husband's mischievous nature suddenly return to him. "Tell me my love... What would you say to a second round of fun?" Loki seductively ask before they hear a heavy knock on their doors. "Who in the Hell bangs on someone's door at this time of day?" The princess ask herself aloud before Loki conjures them into their clothes for the day.
"Enter!" The vexed prince yells as he gets out of bed then stands firms at its side to be ready for anything. Ivar and a large group of his guards enter the royal chambers. "Excuse us, my prince... My princess but by the orders of his royal majesty the All-Father, king Odin... Prince Loki you are under arrest." Ivar says while trying to hide the pleasure he takes form arresting the trickster for his daughter and fails.
"I see... And is this all about, dad?" Loki ask angrily while conjuring his daggers . "Your crimes on Midgard. Now don't waste my time. I would hate to have to summon Odin..." The general pauses pretending to think. "Or... Perhaps I'll summon Frigga to come fetch you." Ivar says knowing of the dark prince's weakness for his mother and to piss Loki off further.
"Don't do it, babe." Astrid tells him tenderly after walking up to him then placing a hand on his forearm causing him to look at her as if she has gone mad. "Don't give dad what he wants." She whispers to him then watches him smirk while he magics away his daggers. With the prince's guard dropped, Ivar silently gives his reluctant men the order to place the ruin enforced chains on Loki. The trickster fights his nature and allows the guards to follow their orders in favor of passionately kissing his wife to piss off his unapproving father-in-law.
"Alright that's quite enough of that! Guards take him!" Ivar says angrily giving Loki exactly the reaction he wanted. The general then happily watches as his men take his unwanted son-in-law away in chains. "I told you to stay away from the dark prince. You could've had Thor." Ivar tells his daughter with misplaced love. "I never saw Thor in that light, father... Why can't you be happy that I'm happy?" She watches his facial expression change. "And that tells me everything I need to know." Astrid tells Ivar before leaving him in her chambers.