...May 5th... 2013....

...Loki's chambers...

I lunge forwards off the bed feeling sweaty and scared.

"Just a dream," I said, relaxing.

I look over to see Knight asleep on her side.

We had been trying.

We tried, really, to make a child but none of our attempts seemed to be working. The healers had not detected a child growing inside Knight for every time we went. I turn my head away feeling the stirring of wanting to be holding a child of my own in my arms or be awaken by him or her jumping on the bed gleefully anticipating something 'marvelous'. We are not wearing protection at all for our various attempts.

But it is hope that keeps us going.

I get up of the bed putting my feet into fluffy slippers then put on my robes that were on a chair beside the bed. I walk over to the window in my robes towards the night sky. People think gods do not rest much as human beings do; why they are wrong. We do sleep through the night. I saw the night stars in the sky even some of the brightest ones representing the many realms all connected to Asgard through the Bifrost. So many stars and yet beams of lights sparkle in the never ending darkness until the sun rises up clearing the sky into a blue one with clouds.

It is very night, for your information, at the time.

"Loki," I hear Knight's groan. "Why are you out of bed?"

"I had a nightmare," I said.

"Not that again," Knight complains.

"I am not talking about the gigantic troll in a teddy bear costume," I said.

"What happened this time?" Knight asks.

I turn away from the window.

"We were on a ship with our newborn," I said. "And it was sinking, I believe, you were at the other end holding him. It was night. The ship was ripping in half sticking out of the freezing ocean."

"Honey," Knight said, with a little sigh. "Lay off the Titanic reruns."

"At first the blankets around our child were pink and then they were blue," I continue. "I tried to catch you but you and the child sunk like rocks into the freezing body of water. You were mortal."

Knight smiles.

"But I am not a mortal right now," Knight said. "Maybe this means our child's favorite color will be pink!"

"I have trouble picturing a boy liking pink," I said.

Knight has her elbow on a pillow and the side of her head placed on her hand by the cheek side.

"I had a little brother in my original timeline who loved his little sister's pink princess blanket," Knight said, leaning forwards off the bed. "He got waterphobia after he jumped in wearing a life vest willingly."

"Why that is a strange little boy," I said.

"And his little sister was the brave one," Knight adds. "He was the little sissy."

I laugh.

"That was one strange sibling role," I note.

Knight nods.

"Now you don't have to worry about me drowning with our child," Knight said. "I can make a life raft and save both of our lives even if I were a mortal I can always be a demigod." Knight came over to me in her night gown. "Loki, it is only a nightmare and a figment of your imagination," Knight takes my hand with her small hand. "When I say lay off the Titanic reruns, I mean it."

"But it is such a good movie," I said.

"No buts," Knight said, tapping on my lips. "Pretty boy." She lowers her left hand. "It may be four hours long with a romance between Rose and Jack, however you are getting nightmares about it."

"Yes," I admit. "That too."

"Loki," Knight said. "Are you having questions why we aren't having any result with kids?"

"I do," I said. "I don't know why we come up with nothing."

Knight turns her head towards the sky and then back towards me.

"Sometimes we're not in control of our own fates," Knight said. "Maybe, just maybe, we have one last obstacle to overcome and then we can have a little one running down the halls." Her fingers rub the top of my hand. "Or the stars want us to try harder."

"We're not exactly related to Na'vi," I said.

Knight has a short laugh.

"No Loki," Knight said. "Let's step it up a notch."

I raise my brows.

"Are you ready for that level?" I ask.

"Worth a try for you," Knight said,nodding. "The love of my life."