A young Loki walked down the large hallways of the palace reading a book as he walked he turned a corner and walked straight into something solid. After regaining himself he went to glare at whoever was in his way when he stopped suddenly. Before him was a simple servant girl who was his age, explaining why he hadn't of seen her any day before this, the girl had blood red hair that went down to her shoulders even in it's current state, which was in a high pony tail. She had dark green eyes and her cheeks and nose had freckles powdered across. The young girl was short for her age her head just reaching the bottom of Loki's chin. After she had realised she had walked into Loki also dropping her cleaning supplies she became quickly flustered.

"Oh, I'm so very sorry my Prince" She quickly bowed her head. "I wasn't watching where I was going, but I promise it won't happen again" Loki held a hand up making her snap her mouth shut. Loki, after bookmarking his page and closing it then lifted the girls face up, which had been looking down.

"There's no need to apologise, it was merely an accident" Normally, if someone had walked into Loki he would of yelled at them and called them all the names under the sun but this girl was different Loki couldn't put his finger on it but for some reason this girl he wanted to treat kindly. He then bent down and began helping to put the dropped cleaning supplies, which consisted of rags to polish and some polisher, into the wooden bucket.

"Oh, don't worry about that my Prince. I can do it" He smiled at her still grabbing the rags as she bent down to help.

"Never said you couldn't" This seemed to make the shy red-head smile as they both worked to gather the rags up. When there was only one rag left they both reached for it and accidentally leading to them placing their hands on top of one another. This made both of them look at each other blushing slightly when they took their hands away Loki lifted the bucket and turned to her. "So, where might you be heading to?" 

"Oh, I need to go polish the armour in Prince Thor's room" Loki then nodded and started walking with the bucket making the girl just stand there in shock. 

"Well, aren't you coming?" The girl jumped at this quickly running to catch up to him. 

"Might I ask your name?"

"Asta, sir" This made Loki smile.

"Hm, a name meaning divine beauty? How fitting" Asta looked away blushing deeply. For many months this is how it went Loki would meet with Asta as she did her duties and he would even help her. They would talk about each other and they kept getting closer, Loki being the only one that Asta could be her non-shy personality with and Asta being the only one that Loki would be honest and loving towards. As months turned to years Loki had asked Asta if he could court her at first she was worried of what people would think. "Let them think what they want, why should we care if our relationship appeases anyone but ourselves?" This made Asta smile and agree. Once, Odin had found out about this relationship however he highly disagreed with it thinking that Loki should court a royal but Loki ignored him and carried on seeing Asta. As the years went on the relationship became more serious and Asta became pregnant with a child. At the birth Odin refused to meet his first grandchild seeing it as unworthy to be a part of the Odin bloodline. Frigga and Thor however were more then excited to go an meet the child. When they entered the room they saw a very tired Asta, who was sickly pale and panting but was able to hold her child who was swaddled in a blanket with Loki who was just gently taking her into his hold. 

"So this is my first grandchild?" Frigga asked gently walking forward. Loki smiled down at his child moving them to face his mother and brother.

"This is Rune" The baby was a small girl with bright green eyes with a small patch of bright red eyes. Upon seeing the new people the newborn seemed to smile and laugh making Frigga and Thor smile. "Asta, I think she has your smile" Loki smiled looking to his love before his smile dropped seeing Asta looking sickly. He kneeled by her side, Frigga taking Rune and holding her as Loki took Asta's hand. "Asta, sweetheart how are you doing?" Asta looked to Loki weakly.

"If I'm being honest I don't think I'm doing to good" Loki brushed her fringe from her face. "Promise me" Loki frowned slightly.

"Promise you what?" 

"Promise me you'll watch over our daughter" 

"I-I promise, but your going to be fine we will raise our daughter together" Asta smiled weakly.

"I love you both so much" She let out a small breath as her eyes closed and her hand loosened.

"Asta?" Loki breathed. Tears began pooling in his eyes as he tightened his grip on her hand. "Asta, please don't go" He openly wept for his love as Frigga and Thor looked to each other and to the small sleeping baby in Frigga's arms. Loki wiped his eyes before standing up and placing a kiss to Asta's head and stepped back. Thor walked up to his brother and placed a hand on his shoulder in a comforting manner. Frigga walked up to Loki and handed Rune over to him, he hugged her tightly.

"Don't worry Rune, I will make sure to always be here for you"