The next morning, the sky was a beautiful and pristine blue with gentle and wispy clouds. The sun sent soft light into Loki's room, sending a sweet breeze that went through the green covered room; making the curtains silently fly. The slight wind made Luna shiver as she slowly awoke.

She smiled as she reached out for her husband. "Good morning…"

But, he wasn't there and neither was her dress on her. Instead, she had on a lavender satin pajama set.

"Loki, where are you?" She simply asked. Luna heard humming coming from the bathroom; soon Loki came out with a smirk on his face, swaggering towards Luna in a pair of green boxers.

His wife rubbed her eyes, still full of sleep as Loki lively sat on the bed.

"Why are you in such a chipper mood this morning? And where are my clothes?" She pouted.

Loki hugged her and kissed her on the lips. "Well, good morning to you too, darling. And, why wouldn't I be in a chipper mood?" He pointed to the curtains. "It's a beautiful day with perfect weather and I'm taking my beautiful wife and beautiful daughter out to see my home. I am a very happy man today, Luna."

Luna's face was still looking quite grumpy.

"What's wrong?" Loki asked, concerned.

"Where is my dress?"

Loki put on that mischievous grin that he was known so well for. "Oh, that?"

"Yes…that"

"Oh, I took it off."

Luna snapped right out of a sleep and hit him on the chest.

"Why would you do something like that?"

Loki rubbed the spot where she hit him and laughed. "Ow, what was that for?"

"For being a pervert; you could've just asked me or woke me up to take 'em off; my goodness!" Luna knew that Loki could do this sometimes, but this time it wasn't funny.

Loki chuckled as he held Luna close to him, her face practically in his chest if it hadn't been for her looking up at him. She hummed as she felt his body heat.

"Oh, don't worry, love. I used my magic to take it off. If I wanted to take your clothes off without magic, I'd do it by other means." He had that dirty look in his eye that always made Luna blush.

"Oh…" She said, shyly. "Well, let me take a shower and then we can Solene and start off our wonderful day, alright?" Luna beamed at her husband.

"Ooh…" Loki purred and gave Luna a lingering kiss. "May I join you in this shower, darling?"

"But, we're just going to get dirty again, Loki."

He chuckled. "It'll be worth it." Loki kissed Luna messily and picked her up and put her over his shoulder to the bathroom.

"Ah!" She screamed and laughed and writhed in Loki's arms. "Loki! Put me down!"

Loki laughed a heartily and put his small wife down as he smothered her in kisses.

"Trust me, darling. We'll be clean, but first we'll just be dirty for a while."

After the prolonged and wonderful shower, Loki and Luna got ready for the day. The trickster god put on a casual version of his regal clothing which was a green tunic with gold embroidery and black tights.

As he was tidying up his bed and his room, he heard soft footsteps behind him and a hand on his shoulder.

"I'm ready now, Loki." His wife softly said; Luna's slender fingers tracing the gold designs of Loki's tunic.

He grasped her hand and got up to look at her and as soon as he did, his heart started to race.

She wore a tunic similar to his: it was a soft lavender tunic with white embroidery and on the bottom she wore a white long skirt that flowed gracefully as she walked.

Loki smiled at her graceful form and swept her into his lap and caught her in a kiss which elicited a squeak from her.

Luna wrapped her arms around Loki's neck and placed her fingers along his strong jawline as she got lost in the kiss.

Loki let go of Luna and looked at her lovingly. "You are truly the creature of my desires," he purred in his silky voice.

His wife got up and kissed him on the nose. "I better be! I'm your wife!" She laughed as she got up and walked to the door, then stopped and looked back at him when she realized he didn't follow her.

"Are you going just going to sit there or are you actually gonna show me around town?" She queried with a smirk, noticing that he was just gawking at her like a teenage schoolboy; just to tease him she wiggled her hips a little bit, which actually made him snap out of it.

Loki shook his head and looked at his wife, blinking. "What, Luna?"

She rolled her eyes and chuckled, repeating what she had just said.

"I said: are you just going to sit there or are you ready to show me around town?"

Loki rushed to her side and opened the door for her.

"M'lady?" He asked, with a bow and a cheeky grin. Luna curtsied with a giggle and went through the door.

With Luna close to his side, he thought to himself about how he couldn't wait to see the city again. He wanted to show his darling wife and daughter every piece of Asgard he secretly treasured in his heart and missed deeply.

Loki showed Luna to the nursery to pick up Solene, and Luna had to admit that the room was more beautiful than their nursery on Midgard. It had a beautiful and mystical contrast to it: on one side it had the moon behind wispy clouds, and the other had the soft glow of the sun illuminating an orange glow on Solene's sleeping face.

Frigga was on the room as well, looking over at her granddaughter. Luna slowly tip-toed to the Queen to look alongside her daughter with her mother-in-law.

"I wonder what she's dreaming about." Frigga whispered, turning to Luna with a soft smile and Luna returning the polite and genuine gesture.

Luna turned to her little daughter, caressing her sweet sleeping face. "Well, whatever it is. She seems to be happy and peaceful."

Soon, Loki came behind them, both arms on each shoulder of the women. He kissed both of them on the cheek and said, "But we must wake the little princess up. We have a busy day ahead of us."

Luna picked up Solene and woke her gently.

"Wake up, my little darling. We're going to have a very fun day. Your Daddy is going to show us around to show us around town."

Slowly, but surely, Solene's soft brown eyes fluttered open as she yawned. She looked at her mother and smiled; a smile that warmed Loki's heart to the core.

Solene snuggled into her mom's chest and started to suck on her thumb.

"Aww," Luna said. "She's still tired. Poor thing; we'll just let her sleep until she wakes up."

Her husband laughed lightly. "Yes. It'd be much better if she woke up to the wonders of Asgard."

All the while, Frigga was looking on the couple with searing affection. Seeing her youngest son, that, at one moment, was in deep anguish, how at long last finally happy with a loving family.

It truly warmed her heart with pure happiness.

The roads of Asgard were white tiled and shimmering in the light of the sun; the streets welcomed Luna and Solene with open arms as the sun's warmth shone down on them, and, to Loki's astonishment, they welcomed him back as well; when they leisurely walked through the streets with citizens coming up to them with bright smiles and happy eyes.

It all took Loki by surprise, but Luna handled it with such grace that, in another life, she could've been a princess herself. The citizens also fell in love with little Solene; pinching her cheeks and giving her small kisses.

As Loki took his wife and daughter, he saw their eyes light up with such wonder and amazement about everything new around them.

Some of the street merchants gave Luna and Solene things. One merchant gave Solene a little doll and another gave the entire family flower crowns saying, "Welcome to Asgard. We're so glad to have you all here." The elderly woman turned to Loki and her smiles brightened a little bit more as she had a compassionate look in her eyes. "And I sincerely welcome you back, Prince Loki. Your absence had all of Asgard worried, and most of all, your family. It's just so wonderful to see you back, sire."

Luna bit her lip and turned her head to look at her husband, seeing the misty-eyed look and smile on his face when he nodded and smiled brightly at the woman.

"Thank you. I really do appreciate that. I am very happy to be back." He quickly wiped his eyes as Luna thanked the woman for her kindness and continued to enjoy more of their day.

Hearing Luna's tinkling laugh and seeing her eyes sparkle throughout the day because of his home made him fall in love with her that much more. He felt proud that he always brought happiness to her life; to hear her laugh was a splendid and sweet gift that he loved that such a sound as that could grace his ears.

He always wanted to be the cause of it.

Loki swiftly guided Luna and Solene away from the bustling Asgardian marketplace and into the gentle and scenic views of nature of the realm.

Everywhere, there were trees and little quiet streams and small lakes. Luna marveled at the pure beauty, while Loki remembered all the quiet and serene times he had there as a child.

"Loki," Luna whispered, breathlessly. "It's all so beautiful! You never told me about any of this when we were kids…how could you forget any of this?!"

Loki chuckled at his wife as he ran his fingers through his hair and put his arm behind Luna and looked at the golden rays of the sun filter through the canopy of the trees; Loki took his daughter out of Luna's hand as she cooed happily.

"I guess all of my anguish from long before clouded the happy memories I had from so long ago." He smiled at Solene and kissed her on her nose.

Suddenly, Loki's eyes widened when he remembered something else.

He held Solene tightly and took Luna's hand, dragging her off somewhere.

"Loki, where are we going now?" she shouted.

"There's one last place I must show you before our day is over! Trust me! You'll love it!"

Luna laughed. "I better!"

"Are we almost there, Loki?" Luna asked. He chuckled at his wife's eagerness.

"Yes, just a few more steps."

For the last stop of the day, Loki took Luna and Solene to a hilltop far away from the city and the palace. The hilltop was high, so high that it met the orange and purple sky.

Loki finally let Luna go and as soon as he did, she gasped as if all the breath she had had been swiped out of her lungs. Loki plopped on the ground with Solene in his arms playing with her as he looked up and absolutely loved the look on his wife's face.

It brought a slight grin to his lips.

"Beautiful," he whispered, "Isn't it, darling?"

Luna nodded her head incredibly too enthusiastically for normalcy. The sight set before her was all too beautiful to be reality; the golden palaces in the distance dressed in bright lights twinkling as the sun slowly set, more and more came on by the minute from the cities down below, and above all else, the beautiful sky, on one side of the sky there was the amazing sunset with cascading oranges and deep purples and on the other side, you had the vast and deepest depths of the universe with all the twinkling stars as far as the eyes could see.

A tear dropped from Luna's eye.

She sat down next to Loki while he wiped the tear from her eye and lied down on her chest with Solene in his arms. "Was the hike worth it for you yet?" He asked slyly.

"Yes! Yes, it was!" Luna laughed and exclaimed. She looked down at his handsome face and placed her hands upon his cheeks and said, "Why didn't you take us here first?"

"Like I said, I completely forgot about it. But, then I remembered and it was the perfect time to come here." He picked up Solene and twirled her over his head, making her laugh giddily. "The way the sun sets here and the light is always perfect…it had to be at this time"

"I can see why," Luna said, caressing his face and looking at him with such sweet and soft eyes.

"What did you come here for?" She asked.

"Oh, I just came here to think whenever Mother or Odin were catering to Thor, I'd just come here for the quietness, the silent beauty. I felt…at peace."

Luna tsk'd at him and pinched his cheeks. "Ooh, that's deep, Slytherin."

Loki playfully growled and kissed Luna's hand. "Oh, shut up." He laughed, "But I missed that nickname though, darling; reminds me of our school days."

Luna nodded in an agreeing manner. "Mhm-hmm."

Loki let out a soft sigh and leaned up to kiss Luna, Solene falling asleep on his chest. Luna gladly returned the kiss and looked up at the deep blue sky as her husband closed his eyes once again and lied back down on his wife's chest.

"We should get married, Luna." Loki mindlessly mumbled.

Luna scoffed and smirked. "What the hell are talking about? We're already married; It's going to be our five year anniversary next month."

The God of Mischief sprang up quickly, but not to quickly as to not wake Solene and grinned at his beautiful wife.

"And what a perfect time; we could have an Asgardian wedding! You'd look like a beautiful Valkyrie that descended from Valhalla in your wedding dress, darling. And besides you remember how she said that she liked the Midgardian wedding ceremony, but she'd rather see her son get married here."

Luna didn't seem to be budging so he looked at her with big green eyes and a childish pout. "And wouldn't you love to see out beautiful daughter watching us take our sacred vows?"

She couldn't resist those puppy dog eyes of his, so she covered her face mockingly and bit her lips as she looked down at her husband, cupping his face.

"Alright, Slytherin; I'll do it. I'll marry you." She laughed as she said, "I'll be happy too!"

Luna kissed his forehead and looked at the starts gleaming so brightly about them.

"I think it's about time we go back to the castle. I don't want Solene to catch a cold from being outside."

Loki nodded. "Yes, of course." He got up and offered a hand down to Luna. As soon as she got up, they started off home.

Little did they know that trouble was brewing slowly for the both of them.

Once they got back to the castle, all was still and quiet…a little too quiet. Luna got the feeling of something ominous as well, but she just pushed it off, telling herself she was imagining things, Loki, on the other hand, knew that unnerving silence all too well. As a child, pulling pranks on everyone he could, he was often surrounded by silence; but this silence wasn't lighthearted at all.

It was heavy and sinister.

Something that Loki hadn't felt in a long time.

He kissed Luna on the forehead and gave Solene to her, saying that he'd be in their room shortly, he just had to take care of something before they went to bed.

Loki went up to an active guard. "If something happens that seems unusual, you alert me first, understand?"

The guard answered with a nod and Loki went to join Luna in his room.

Something was coming…and whatever it was, Loki was ready for it.