FIC:Western Lovers: Cowboys & Archaeologists (18/30)

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Title: Western Lovers: Cowboys and Archaeologists 18/30
Author: sassywitch
Pairing: BB/DM with a smattering of VM/LT and DW/OB
Rating: NC-17, to be on the safe side.
Summary: Billy is a man to be reckoned with. Can Dom heal his wounded soul and his own into the bargain. Could Billy make him forget the bitter lessons of the past?
Feedback: Feedback is my writers crack, which is not to be confused at all with plumbers crack.
Disclaimer: Not at all true in reality. These men whilst adorable and perfectly happy to slash themselves, their actual relationship is something that they only know. This story is adapted from a series of books that I adored when I was younger written by Elizabeth Lowell.
Word Count: 3916
Header Art: Courtesy of the incredibly talented loki_girl
Previous Chapters: can be found Here
A/N: A huge thank you to dylan_dufresne for the inspiration, the prodding and the beta. My grammar sucks so she had to suffer it so nobody else would. Next Chapter on Monday.

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Billy savored Dom’s long limbs wrapped around him, as he carried him into the bedroom. His hands caressed the firm muscles rippling under Dom’s golden skin, marveling at the inner strength of his young lover. So innocent and vulnerable, Billy could see Dom’s mind wanting desperately to trust his heart, but not quite able to completely let go of his fears. Billy sighed against Dom’s neck, pressing a soft kiss on the golden skin there. Billy’s arms tightened as he let his knees press against the edge of Dom’s bed and lowered him to the cool sheets. Kneeling on the edge of the bed, between Dom’s thighs, Billy let one hand trail across Dom’s taut belly, wishing he could make Dom see himself the way he did. A delicate scarred soul wrapped in a beautiful body, and a deceptively strong core of steel enclosed in a deceptively delicate filigree exterior, that was just begging to be loved.

"I could have walked," Dom murmured as he pulled Billy into his long arms.

"No, you couldn't have." Billy rolled them so he could look into Dom's eyes as he spoke. "I would have missed having you wrapped around me like wet spaghetti." Billy leaned in to kiss the tip of Dom's nose. "I would've missed being able to hold you and keep you safe while you come back to your body." Letting his fingers dance across Dom's chest, Billy twisted his nipple gently. "Most of all, I would have missed this." He paused and licked his lips. "Feeling you all soft and languid beside me, like we're part of something bigger and older than we really know. I would have missed wrapping you in my arms and feeling your heart beat against mine."

Hot, salty tears welled in Dom's eyes. "Why didn't I know you before?" he whispered.

"Because," Billy leaned in to press his lips to the corner of Dom's mouth. "I'm the one who was meant to put you back together, Honey."

"I never knew I was in pieces before I met you," Dom murmured.

"You weren't really," Billy said, kissing Dom's eyelids as he spoke. "You just wouldn't see the beauty and sensuality that is so much a part of you."

"It isn't a part of me." Dom shook his head. "It never has been."

Shaking his head sadly, Billy slid off the bed and extended a hand to his young lover. "Come with me. I have something to show you."

Lacing his fingers with Billy's, Dom allowed himself to be led into the bathroom, and Billy tugged on Dom's hand until he stood facing the large mirror over the vanity unit. Standing behind Dom, Billy's naked body was so closely aligned with Dom's that he could feel the heat of Dom's skin along the length of his torso as he watched their reflections.

"What do you see, Honey?" Billy's fingers cupped Dom's chin, gently forcing him to look up.

"Me?" Dom whispered, his eyes closing, uncomfortable with the reflection he had seen.

"Ask me what I see, Dommie." Stepping forward, Billy closed the scant inch that separated them, his arms wrapping around Dom's waist, and he tilted his head until it rested on Dom's shoulder as he watched the mirror intently.

"I can't do this, Billy." Dom struggled against Billy's hold as he tried to turn in his arms and escape.

"You can, Honey." Billy's arms tightened around Dom. "Open your eyes, look in the mirror, and then ask me what I can see."

Dom's eyes were glistening when his long lashes fluttered open. "What can you see, Billy?" he stammered softly.

"I see skin with the color and warmth of sun warmed sandstone. The same sandstone that holds the secrets you love to uncover so much." Billy ran the back of his fingers across Dom's shoulder as he spoke, his eyes fixed on Dom's in the mirror.

"I see the real you, Dommie. The curve of your shoulder when you take off your shirt to work in the sun, you look like a gorgeous, sandstone sculpture. You're too beautiful to describe in words, Dommie. The very first time I saw you, the sun was shining off your beautiful hair, making it the color of honey, fresh from the hive. I knew how special you were even then, Honey." Billy's lips curved into a smile as he watched Dom's eyes flickering across their reflections.

"That's why you call me Honey, isn't it?" Dom whispered, realization dawning in his eyes.

Billy nodded, as he continued speaking. "There's that secret little smile you get when you're thinking, usually about something that only you know. Then there's the way that your beautiful, smoky blue eyes deepen to the color of storm clouds when I'm inside you, and you're desperately trying to hold on to the fraying edges of your control." Pausing thoughtfully, Billy pressed a soft kiss against Dom's shoulder,. "But your gorgeous body is not where your true beauty lies, Dom. Anybody who hasn't seen how truly beautiful you are, under the surface, then they've missed a glimpse of the heaven that is you."

Dom shook his head. "I'm not," he whispered.

"You are, you're beautiful, and sensitive, and passionate, and filled with such exquisite sensuality it's almost painful to see you hide it under too large clothes, and a sad, shy exterior. Dommie, love, when you talk about your work, and your beloved Anasazi, your whole being lights up. It's like your body contains all the sunshine in the world, and it's trying to break free. It's beautiful to watch Honey. You are beautiful to watch." Kissing the curve of Dom's neck, Billy pulled back again. "I wish I could take back every hurt you've ever had to endure, so everyone can see the beautiful light that you've blessed me with."

"There is no light, Billy." Dom turned in Billy's arms, wrapping himself around the older man as he moved. "Whatever you can see? It's a reflection of you."

"It's been there all the time, Honey. You just needed someone who knew how to….." Billy paused. "You just needed to learn it's in there, Dommie."

Dom shook his head. "It's all you," he whispered against Billy's lips. "I've never felt like this before." Dom paused to take a deep breath. "Never."

"You should've, Honey," Billy murmured against Dom's hair. "If I ever meet the people who did this to you, I'm not sure I wouldn't kill them with my bare hands." Vehement anger rippled through Billy as his thoughts turned to Dom's past and Billy shook his head abruptly, letting the anger fall away and allowing the intimacy to remain.

Dom was silent for a moment before he lifted his head to kiss Billy softly. "Come back to bed, Billy."

Walking into the bedroom, their fingers laced together, Dom pulled Billy onto the bed with him, his legs parted, and Billy fell into the space between them, like he was meant to be there.

"I wish you could see how you glow, Honey," Billy whispered as he kissed Dom softly.

"You're the only one I want to glow for," Dom whispered. "I was serious, Billy," he stammered. "I've never felt like I do with you before." He paused and swallowed tightly, a rosy blush climbing up his neck. "Even when I was on my own."

Billy frowned at Dom's words, not understanding what he was saying, until he saw the blush that had spread to the tips of Dom's ears.

"What do you mean? You don't" Billy paused in mid-sentence, looking into Dom's eyes, trying to decipher his own thoughts and Dom's words. "What did you do when you got aroused?"

"I didn't." Dom turned his head away, embarrassed, first by his confession and by the fact that Billy was watching him so intently. "Sometimes I'd wake up and it'd just……just be there." Dom sighed, burying his face in his pillow so deeply that his words were muffled. "I'd take a cold shower and pray for it to go away. I just wanted it to go away."

"Honey," Billy murmured softly, cupping Dom's face and turning his glowing, red cheeks back to face him. "You don't need to be ashamed of being aroused," Billy whispered, pressing a soft kiss to the tip of Dom's nose, and then trailing his mouth across Dom's lips. "Why me?"

"Why you?" Dom frowned.

"Why did you choose me to trust with your beautiful body? Your sweet fragile soul?" Billy asked quietly, his fingers playing with Dom's soft, tousled hair, his eyes searching Dom's face.

"You're not like other men, Billy." Dom shrugged, frowning as he tried to explain himself. "You're strong, and can be brutal, but you are also so gentle and tender, and you understand, you can see things that no one else has ever seen. You saw a me I didn't even know existed."

"There's so much I haven't done. You're the first person I've willingly been….been intimate with."

"Then we'll do our best to forget what came before, and you can be my sweet, virgin lover," Billy whispered, pressing his lips against Dom's. "We're learning together," he promised.

"Even if I do something that disappoints you?" Dom looked deep into Billy's eyes, his brow furrowed.

"Nothing ever will, but yes. Even if you do," Billy answered earnestly. "Now, didn't someone want to tie me to their bed?" He grinned, voice lowering to a seductive rasp.

"Are you sure?" Dom asked, his voice little more than a whisper.

"Honey, you could paint me with chocolate, then lick me clean, and I wouldn't complain." Billy smiled seductively. "In fact, I think that should go on our to do list." Brushing Dom's hair back from his forehead gently, Billy whispered, "But yes, I'm sure. I trust you."

Rolling deeper into Billy's embrace, Dom lay quietly, his head on Billy's shoulder, his earnest, blue-gray eyes watching Billy's face intently as his long, elegant fingers reached out to trace across Billy's face, dancing across his skin slowly as they remembered the contours of they found.

Dom's fingers, having drunk their fill of Billy's face, moved to card through soft, ginger hair, his fingertips massaging Billy's scalp. Leaning forward and pressing his lips against Billy's forehead, Dom trailed the first of dozens of gentle, open-mouthed kisses that didn't demand or deliver anything, except the level of Dom's overwhelming comfort in Billy's embrace.

Pulling out of Billy's embrace, Dom lifted one of his lover's small hands to his mouth, and pressed the palm to his lips. Kissing the skin there wetly, Dom licked from Billy's palm to the pulse point in his wrist, and hearing a strangled moan, he turned to look into Billy's heavy lidded gaze.
"Are you alright? Did I do wrong?" As he spoke, Dom lifted a hand to cup Billy's flushed face.

"Wrong?" Billy caressed Dom's face with his free hand. "Damn, Honey, any righter and I think you'll kill me."

"You liked that?" Dom grinned as he lowered his head, trailing his tongue from Billy's wrist to his elbow, and swirling it all over Billy's bicep in a flowery, dancing trail to Billy's shoulder. Lifting Billy's arm over his head, Dom slipped a loop of satiny material around Billy's wrist and pulled it taut. "I've been thinking about doing this." Dom paused, blushing. "A lot."

"How much?" Billy asked his voice little more than a growl as Dom straddled him, lifting Billy's free hand to his mouth. "Did thinking about it make you hard?"

Dom blushed furiously, nodding his head as he kissed and licked his way down Billy's hand and arm.

"How hard?" Billy almost whimpered. "Did you touch yourself?"

Dom's teeth nipped and his tongue licked back to Billy's shoulder, and he nodded his head in affirmation, lifting Billy's free arm over his head he secured it with the another loop of satin.

"You touched yourself while you thought about doing this, didn't you?" Billy growled.

Nodding again, Dom's blush rose to the tips of his ears.

"You made yourself come, didn't you?" Billy groaned as he arched his hips, his erection rubbing against the cleft of Dom's ass.

Nodding quickly, Dom slid his lips across Billy's, plastering his body along his lover's. Fitted together from thigh to mouth, Dom ground himself against Billy as they kissed, and when Billy let his legs fall apart, Dom fell into the space between them, grinding his renewed arousal against Billy.

"Tell me, Dommie?" Billy murmured, pulling his mouth away from Dom's. "Please?"

Dom shook his head, nipping at Billy's throat gently, his hands gliding up and down Billy's body.

"Please, Honey?" Billy begged. "Tell me how good your hand felt wrapped around yourself. Tell me what you were thinking about?" Billy's voice lowered until it was no more than desperate, guttural mumblings. "Please, Dom. Tell me. I need to know. I want to know why just thinking of me….us, made you need to do something so incredibly sexy." Billy paused, struggling to push his hips up, needing friction against his aching arousal. "Please?"

Dom's blushing face tilted up so he could look into Billy's eyes before he sat up, his weight resting lightly on Billy's thighs, his fingertips trailing across Billy's furry belly.
"When we're not at Arwen Canyon." Dom started, his long tongue darting out to wet suddenly dry lips. "I have trouble sleeping. I can't help but think about what we do….us…you." he fell silent, his eyes squeezing shut. "I can't do this Billy."

"Dommie." Billy murmured softly, "Look at me, Honey." He silently begged. "Please Honey, it's just you and me, you don't need to be embarrassed or ashamed. It's just us." Billy flexed his legs, and bent his knees, pressing Dom tighter against his own arousal. "The thought of you thinking of me, and needing to touch yourself Honey," Billy whispered, his voice ending on a groan as Dom's hand closed around his arousal. "Feel what it does to me, Dommie, please tell me?"

"I slept alone and shunned human touch for so long." Dom spoke, his gaze fixed on his hand as it gently, slowly stroked Billy's aching hardness. "Four days with you and I can't sleep properly without the warmth of your arms around me. I can’t sleep, not without thoughts of you filling my dreams, to the point I wake, my body aching for you, my fingers already wrapped around myself." Dom whispered, never lifting his eyes. "I can't think about you and not want to be with you." Dom’s fingers tightened on Billy's erection as his thumb brushed over the leaking tip.

Billy struggled to stop his hips from lifting into Dom's touch. Struggling to find the strength within himself, not to lose himself in the breath stealing touch of Dom's fingers. Fingers that clasped like a loving glove around his hardness. Billy’s teeth worried his bottom lip, while he tried desperately not to let the hungry whimpers escape.

"One night when I couldn't sleep I spent hours and hours surfing the internet, trying to find ways to please you. I stumbled across a website that…well…it." Dom paused, shaking his head slowly. "After that night, all I could think about was having you in my bed, your arms stretched out above your head, my fingers tracing your skin while you were buried deep inside me. I would kneel here just like this, as if you were under me and stroke myself like this." His grip on Billy's cock tightened, his wrist twisting as he stroked Billy's hardness. "It always feels so good." He whimpered as he stroked Billy.

"Honey you keep that up, and I won't be good for anything." Billy whimpered.

Dom released his hold on Billy, and slid along his body leaning forward to kiss him wetly. "You'll always be good for me Billy." He whispered.

Climbing off of Billy, Dom stood and pulled his tee-shirt off, then pushing his pajama bottoms down and stepped out of them. Lifting a bottle of lube from the bedside table, Dom squeezed some into his palm, before he moved to straddle Billy's broad chest. Slicking his fingers with the lube, he grasped the top of the headboard with one hand and with the other reached behind himself, preparing himself for his lover.

Billy lay underneath Dom as he watched him, trying to hold onto what little control he still had, until Dom straddled his chest and Billy watched his long elegant fingers stretching and preparing himself. As Dom's hips stuttered forward Billy lifted his head and closed his rosebud lips around the head of Dom's engorged cock. Sucking hard, his tongue flicking and licking, he watched Dom throw his head back, a long keening wail leaving his lips.

Dom's hips canted forward, unconsciously pushing himself deeper into Billy's mouth, even as his fingers pushed deeper into his own body, stretching and preparing himself as quickly as he could. His whole body was thrumming with tension, each flick of Billy's tongue, each suck of his lips drawing the bowstring of his control tighter.

Releasing his hold on the headboard, Dom reached down to trail his fingers through Billy's hair, his palm coming to rest on Billy's cheek, thumb trailing across Billy's cheekbone. His other hand, fingers slick with lube, moved to close around Billy's erection. Sliding wetly along his arousal, a satisfied smile curved Dom's lips and Billy's hips arched up into his touch, the movement pushing him deeper into Billy's mouth.

Drawing a deep breath, Dom released his hold and moved back along Billy's body. His knees framing Billy's waist he closed his long fingers around Billy's erection, stroking him for long moments, his eyes never leaving Billy's before he positioned himself. Sliding slowly down onto Billy's length, he held his breath, desperately trying to absorb the sensations flowing over him. Burning, stretching sensation quickly erased by a tight full satisfaction.

His hips beginning to shift, a long, slow lifting and lowering, the movement making both of them gasp with longing and desperation. His fingers trailed along Billy's perspiration slick skin, across his ribs, his fingertips finding and twisting gently the small flat nipples he found.

"Honey?" Billy moaned, his hips arching up to meet Dom's downward thrusts.

Dom pressed forward, resting his weight on his hands, sliding his lips wetly against Billy's, his tongue plunging into Billy's mouth, desperately tasting him. Dom’s hips rocked forward, pulling almost completely off Billy's slick arousal and slamming back down again. Over and over, he devoured Billy's mouth, as their lower bodies slammed together.

Panting, his body arching up to meet Dom's he pulled his lips from Dom's carnivorous mouth.

"Honey. Please…." Billy groaned as Dom's hips began to rotate even while he plunged into his tight body. "Listen….please."

Dom shook his head "Don't. Talk." he licked the side of Billy's face "Just. Feel." Each word punctuated by a twisting thrust of Dom's hips.

"Want to watch." He gasped. "Need to."

"What?" Dom paused, resting his weight on his hands and looking into Billy's eyes, his chest heaving with exertion, his eyes dark with passion, perspiration trickling down his face, his head shaking gently.

Billy's hands gripped the soft satin that bound him to the bed, and pulled himself up high enough to press his lips to Dom's sweat soaked chest. Tasting Dom's salty skin, his tongue licking a long line through the beads of perspiration that gather on the centre of Dom's chest.

"Please Honey." He murmured his knees flexing just enough to push himself deeper inside his sweet shy lover. "Please Dommie, let me watch you."

Dom was still for what seemed an eternity, his breathing slowing, his damp hair hanging over his eyes in such an incredibly seductive way that it brought a lump to Billy's throat. Billy watched the struggle in Dom's eyes, habits and thoughts, so long held by the younger man, fought with his desire to please and be pleased, until finally, Dom's head lifted slowly, one single nod from his head his only response.

Arching his back, pulling Billy deeper inside him, squeezing him tighter, Dom throws his head back, his long slender throat exposed as he rides his lover slowly. Both hands slid the length of Billy's torso and caressed along his tautly outstretched arms, fingers lacing with Billy's for the instant it took for Dom to arch his body forward and press a hard, wet kiss to Billy's lips. As Dom straightened, one long arm moved to grip the rails at the head of the bed tightly, the other slid, fingers splayed across his chest and belly before closing around his heated throbbing length.

"Do you know…." Billy gasped, as he struggled to thrust up into Dom's body. "How fucking sexy you are?"

"Not. Sexy," Dom spoke, his words punctuated by a sharp, grinding, downward thrust, his fingers sliding slickly along his aching arousal.

"Too. Sexy," Billy almost grunted as he struggled to maintain control. "Need you….all the time."

"Yours," Dom murmured, his speed increasing, knees tightening on Billy's waist as he tried to maintain their rhythm.

"Not mine," Billy groaned. "Free. You. Should. Be." His voice broke into guttural whimpers as Dom moved faster, each thrusting movement stealing Billy's breath and his thoughts.

"Yours," Dom repeated his voice breathless. "Always."

"Fuck, Dommie," Billy growled "Too. Much." His breath and words left him in short staccato bursts. "Need…..Come for me." Eyes opening, Billy found Dom's stormy blue gaze. "Come for me, Honey."

Dom's passion clouded eyes watched Billy as he rode him, his hand sliding along his own arousal hungrily, thumb brushing over his leaking tip with every frantic stroke. Hips thrusting up into his tight grip and slamming back down onto Billy, Dom whimpers with every movement.

"Let go, Honey," Billy growls under him, back arching, hips thrusting, arms straining against the satin binding him.

The guttural, accented pleading from Billy was the last straw in breaking Dom's control. One. Two. Three stuttering, jerking strokes of his tight fist along his pulsing erection and his fluids spurted hotly over his fingers, splashing onto Billy's belly. The tightening of Dom's body around Billy was all it took for the cowboy to lose his own control. As Dom's body milked his orgasm from him, Billy arched tautly under Dom.

Breath rasping as he struggled to regain control of his body, Dom toppled forward as Billy found his release, fitting his sweat slick body along Billy's, head pushed into the curve of Billy's neck and his knees tucked along Billy's side, keeping his lover inside his body for as long as he could.

As soon as Billy could think coherently, he slipped his hands from the loops of satin and moved them to stroke up and down Dom's perspiration slippery back, silently trying to calm the heart that raced against his own.

"You could get free?" Dom asked, his lips moving against Billy's neck.

"Easily," Billy replied, grinning against Dom's head.

"Why didn't you?" Dom questioned, and lifted his head to look into Billy's eyes.

"Because you needed me like that," Billy whispered, leaning in to kiss Dom wetly. "I needed to give that to you, Honey."

"I love you, Billy," Dom stated as he let his head drop back onto Billy's shoulder, his long arms tucked around Billy's waist.

"I know," Billy murmured, kissing the damp blonde hair gently. "I know. Sleep now, Honey."

Billy curled his arms around Dom's waist and let his head fall back against the pillow, sleep already claiming him.

Chapter 19

Comments

[billyslass.livejournal.com]

Mmmm Billy stretched out under Dom with his hands tied above him....aye that puddle on the floor would be me:D Very beautiful chapter.

[daydreambeleevr.livejournal.com]

A delicate scarred soul wrapped in a beautiful body, and a deceptively strong core of steel enclosed in a deceptively delicate filigree exterior, that was just begging to be loved.

um. hello pot? meet mr. kettle. :grin: that could so describe Billy, the darling lamb.


Anybody who hasn't seen how truly beautiful you are, under the surface, then they've missed a glimpse of the heaven that is you."
such beautiful poetry. each chapter more lovely then the last. this is such a joy to read.


kerry =)

[starlingthefool.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That's amazing.
You rock my socks off.

[crsty1961.livejournal.com]

Boy howdy, mmmmmm I like a good ride. Dang where's my hubby when I need him. Well off to take a shower then.

[mystery-ink.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.... needed that fix... whew... mmmmmmmmm *melts*

[unbrokenmuse.livejournal.com]

Billy leaned in to press his lips to the corner of Dom's mouth. "I'm the one who was meant to put you back together, Honey."

Well, I for one believe him even though it's ever so clear that Dom's not the only one in pieces here. Very. Gorgeous. Chapter.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

*mops you up gently*

I'm sure we all need the video of that don't you think?

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

They're deceptive aren't they, I've thought all along that Dom really is the strong one, Billy's just better at hiding it.

Thanks hon, it means a lot to me that you're enjoying this.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

*passes socks*

Happy that you're enjoying.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

Hope you found you hubby, or at least had a good shower.

Glad you're enjoying.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

*fans*

Glad I could be of service.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

Dom's so not the one in peices any more, Billy's right though, Dom is stronger than he gives himself credit for.

Glad you're still enjoying hon.

[loozy.livejournal.com]

I love how Dom gives himself over to Billy, and how Billy gives Dom exactly what he needs... Yet Billy still holds something back, as evidenced in the last lines, when Dom tells him that he loves Billy, and Billy only says that he knows about this, but doesn't say the words back...
The big achievement for Dom will be to make Billy overcome this barrier and say the words back to him...

I can't wait for that moment

[sourgreenapples.livejournal.com]

Stupid LJ would let me on to read this last night.... OMG it was murder to wait for this, know it was here and not be able to read it!

Your words are absolutely beautiful, like poetry! :) I get so lost in your words... We need to get these boys put back together quick!