FIC: Western Lovers: Cowboys & Archaeologists 31/33

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Title: Western Lovers: Cowboys and Archaeologists 31/33
Author: sassywitch
Pairing: BB/DM
Rating: NC-17, to be on the safe side.
Summary: Be careful what you wish for.
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: 5675
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. She really deserves far more credit than just beta. This fic wouldn't be what it is without her labour of love. My grammar sucks really, really badly so she had to suffer it so nobody else would. Next Chapter on Monday.
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Walking into the room and shutting the door behind him, Billy watched Dom with hooded eyes that missed none of the subtle signs of stress. There were brackets at the side of Dom's mouth, violet smudges beneath his eyes, and his body looked too thin. And most of all, Dom's eyes were too bleak, too dark.

Although Billy didn't know what he had expected Dom to do when he walked back into his life, but shutting down like a flower at sunset wasn't one of the things that Billy had imagined. Tears welled in Billy's eyes as he remembered the moment that Dom had looked at him, gaze still dazed by pleasure, and whispered shyly that he loved him.

Dom must have accepted his explanation, that what Dom felt was temporary, rather than lasting, for Dom had mad no attempt to return to the Double L. Yet the moment, and the words had haunted at odd moments ever since. It had torn at Billy's emotions without warning, making it painful to breathe. But nothing had prepared Billy for the cruel talons sinking into him when he had opened the folder and seen himself standing alone, watching life pass by in a shimmering parade while he stood, lost in shadow.

"You look tired," Dom said tonelessly. "Is the ranch still shorthanded?"

Waving his hand, Billy made a dismissing motion. "I didn't come here to talk about the Double L's personnel problems."

"Surely you didn't come to talk to me," Dom added, his hands moving in dramatic agitation. "It's been seven weeks without a word." He paused. "Not. One. Word."

"What do you want me to say, Dom?" Billy asked flatly.

"You've got a phone, haven't you, Billy?" Dom pressed, turning away from Billy as tears welled in his eyes.

"What good would it have done, calling you?" Billy sighed, lifting one hand to reach out and touch Dom's back, but pulling it back right before they made contact.

"Billy, you knew how I felt," Dom whispered, his shoulders slumping.

"You drove away," Billy replied quickly.

"You fucking sent me away," Dom fired back as he spun around to look at Billy again. "I had no choice."

"Because I didn't want to hurt you," Billy whispered as his shoulders slumped in defeat, watching the pain in Dom's eyes.

"Then that worked well, didn't it?" Dom stated quietly, his anger draining.

"Dom, listen to me." Billy stepped forward, pulling Dom into his arms. "You're the only person I've ever been completely naked with," he said as his lips brushed over Dom's slowly. "You're the only one I've trusted enough. You're the only one I've ever wanted so much it haunts me to the point that I can't sleep. Not just your beautiful body, but your quicksilver mind and your laughter, but your quiet times and even the anger that makes your eyes almost black, " Billy continued as the tip of his tongue traced Dom's lips. "I want all of you. Don't turn away from me. Please. I can't bear losing you. Tell me I haven't lost you. Tell me that you still love me."

The dark, ragged velvet of Billy's voice wrapped around Dom, stripping away his defenses, leaving only the truth of his love.

"I'll always love you," Dom replied, his voice breaking. "That won't change. But other-other things will. You-I-."

Closing his mouth over Dom's in a slow, lingering kiss, Billy sighed. It was a kiss that was a promise as well as a caress, a yearning hope, as well as a burning hunger. A need and a sharing as complex as love itself.

Dom pulled away from Billy's kiss, his hands on Billy's neck, turning his face to look at him. Shadowed eyes looked up into Dom's slowly.

"I can't do this part time, Billy. I can't let you go when you've had enough, when you think I need more than you," Dom said earnestly. "I love you, even more than life itself, but I can't. I won't do this, not if you're just going to send me away again. It doesn't work like that, Billy."

"Is that really how you see me? Like you drew me in your sketch? As an outlaw? Too cruel to go with his people, and too stubborn to follow them to salvation?"

"Of course not," Dom admonished firmly. "That's not what I drew. Not at all. You're not cruel, Billy. You're the gentlest, most compassionate man I've ever met, but you won't let your own heart believe that you deserve it. You would lead your people to salvation. You'd lead them to hope and a future, but you wouldn't dare to let yourself dream that it could be true, that it could happen for you as well." Pressing his lips to Billy's, Dom kissed him wetly. "You showed me that life is filled with love. You taught me that I could love, and live, and experience the most exquisite sensations that I never, ever thought possible, and yet, you refused to believe in them for yourself. Not cruel, Billy. Afraid, but not cruel."

"Come back with me, Dom," Billy whispered, his eyes glazed with motion.

"Have you found anyone to excavate the kiva?" Dom enquired.

"No. That's your job, if you still want it," Billy replied.

"Are you going to send me away again?" Dom asked gently, watching Billy warily.

"Not unless you want to go," Billy answered softly.

"You know where I want to go," Dom stated.

"I hoped you still did." Stepping forward, Billy pressed his lips to Dom's, their kiss slow and languid, wet and hungry. “There's something else," Billy murmured against Dom's cheek as he pulled back.

"What?" Dom asked, frowning. "Is everyone okay? David didn't say anything…" Dom broke off realizing what he had just confessed.

"Everyone is fine." Billy smiled at Dom's slip. "I know we haven't really talked about it, but I wondered-"

"A family?" Dom interrupted him.

"How?" Billy wondered aloud, then answered his own question. "Daisy."

"Word has it a girl has stolen your heart," Dom teased gently.

"You'll love her, Dom." Billy smiled, thumbs brushing across Dom's cheekbones as he spoke. "If you want her, she wants to be our daughter."

"I already love her," Dom whispered as he leaned in to kiss Billy.

"I don't think it's possible for me to love you any more," Billy murmured against Dom's lips.

"Can we talk later?" Dom whimpered as Billy's mouth licked, nipped and suckled at the smooth column of Dom's neck.

"Got other plans?" Billy asked with a chuckle, his teeth plucking at the sensitive skin on Dom's shoulder. "Want me to leave?"

"God no," Dom moaned, tugging at his shirt, desperately trying to draw it up his torso, alternately pulling at Billy's shirt as well.

"Slow down, Dommie," Billy moaned, yanking impatiently at his shirt, buttons popping off of the fabric as the shirt open. Chest now bare, Billy pulled the hem of Dom's t-shirt up and dragged it over his head before pressing himself fully against Dom , his furry torso rubbing against Dom's golden body.

"Not slow." Dom whimpered at the feel of Billy's crinkly chest hair rubbing across his already hard nipples, his fingers struggling with the buckle of Billy's belt. "It's been so long, Billy. Seven weeks without your hands on me."

"Honey," Billy groaned as Dom's elegant fingers brushed against his arousal in his struggles. "Breathe, baby, Where's your bed?"

"Bedroom," Dom muttered as his hands fought with Billy's belt, finally pulling it free and dragging the button fly open roughly. One long fingered hand dipped inside, and as Dom's mouth found Billy's neck again, he licked and sucked, dragging his teeth across the sensitive skin.

"A direction?" Billy whimpered, his body arching into Dom's touch. "Please?" he begged, fingers finding Dom's nipple and twisting it tightly.

Dom's head tilted momentarily to one side, and then his mouth returned to it's wet, licking path across Billy's shoulder. "Need you, Billy," Dom whimpered, lips trailing over Billy's skin, the warm breath of his words brushing over damp skin.

Drawing deep breaths, trying to calm his traitorous body, Billy disentangled himself from Dom. Dragging his lover's hand out of the open V of his jeans, Billy lifted Dom's fingers to his lips and kissed the knuckles before he dared to look up into Dom's flushed face. "Take me to bed, Honey," Billy requested.

Dom lifted one hand to brush across Billy's perfect lips with his thumb before he laced his fingers through Billy's and dragged him down the hall with surprising speed. Pulling Billy inside a darkened room, Dom pushed him against the wall, and fused their mouths together.

Lips melding wetly, Dom's tongue plunged into Billy's mouth, sliding across his teeth, twining with his tongue.

"Want to know a secret?" Dom murmured, as he moved down Billy’s body, his breath warm against Billy's chest as he pushed Billy's opened shirt off his pale shoulders.

"Definitely." Billy's fingers twined in Dom's hair as Dom's lips trailed across Billy's furry chest, occasionally stopping to nip at the softly curling hair and tug it lightly.

"You're going to love my bed," Dom whispered, his tongue licking around Billy's navel, punctuating every word.

"I love you." Billy moaned as Dom pushed his tight-fitting blue jeans down his legs.

"Ahhh, but you're going to love my bed as well, Dom whispered as his mouth found the thatch of curling hair surrounding the root of Billy's impressive arousal.

Dom's teeth pulled at the ginger hair there, his stubbly cheek rubbing along the length of Billy's erection as his hands struggled with the jeans. Pulling Billy's boots off, and freeing his feet of the tangled denim at his ankles, Dom turned Billy and pushed him backwards onto the bed.

As Billy landed, the mattress began to undulate, rocking him back and forth on the rolling waves of water that sloshed beneath him.

"A waterbed?" Billy's eyes widened as the motion of the bed slowed.

Kneeling in front of Billy, Dom's body pushed Billy's knees open wider as his fingertips danced up the inside of Billy's thighs. Lowering his face to press a wet, open mouthed kiss against Billy's belly, Dom's brow furrowed in a frown.

"You've lost weight," Dom commented as he looked up, hands closing on Billy's hips, his worried face nuzzling against the soft, pale flesh of Billy's torso.

"Haven't been hungry." Shrugging noncommittally, Billy struggled to sit up. The motion of the bed undulating under him pushed Billy's hips up, his arousal brushing rhythmically against Dom's bare chest.

"Me either," Dom whispered, his words warm puffs of air against Billy's belly as he licked and sucked his way lower.

"Ahhh," Billy sighed as Dom's lips touched him. Long tongue wrapped around Billy's tip, Dom's lips pressed a soft kiss there before blowing hot breath across the moist flesh that almost pulsed under his touch.

"We'll have to work on your appetite," Dom murmured, long, wet licks sliding against the vein that throbbed under the erotic touch of his tongue.

"I'm hungry now," Billy said with a groan, dropping back onto the bed, his movements setting the bed in motion again. As Dom's lips closed around him intimately, the bed pushed him up into Dom's mouth, and the sweet, wet suction of Dom's mouth around him dragged a strangled cry from Billy's lips. Head thrown back and fingers twisting in Dom's hair, Billy struggled against the climax thundering through his veins.

"Me too." Dom let his lips slide along Billy's length, pressing open mouthed kisses across his flesh before taking Billy into his mouth and sucking tightly. Long fingers danced teasingly across the tender sac beneath, while the fingers of Dom's other hand swirled feather-light across Billy's bare hip.

"Dommie," Billy gasped, his hips arching, the bed heaving underneath him. Desperate fingers grappled along Dom's skin, begging for deeper touches, more, less, something that was outside of his reach, that he couldn't quite decipher.

"Billy," Dom replied as his lips trailed up the length of Billy's body before he ripped his own jeans open. Sliding the material down his legs, Dom then crawled onto the bed, knees framing Billy's hips as he leaned down to press his lips to Billy's.

The kiss was long and wet, lips sliding, tongues thrusting, and Dom's fingers tangled in Billy's hair, desperately trying to pull him closer, to sink deeper into their kiss. Billy's hands slid down to Dom's hips, fingers pressing bruisingly into Dom's golden skin. Hips thrusting up into Dom, Billy moaned wantonly as their erections slid wetly against each other.

Finally, Dom broke their kiss, his chest heaving with the effort of trying to breathe. Holding Billy's head in his hands, Dom trailed gentle kisses across Billy's face before pulling back far enough to look into Billy's passion-clouded eyes.

"Make love to me, Billy?" Dom asked almost shyly, belying the hungry thrusting of his hips against Billy's.

"Always," Billy murmured in reply as his hands danced along Dom's spine, pulling him down until their bodies were touching from toe to shoulder. With his hands clasping Dom's head, tousled, shaggy blonde hair falling across his forehead, Billy's warm green gaze found Dom's smoky blue eyes. "I've always loved you, Honey," Billy said plainly before their lips met.

"Prove it." Dom smiled cheekily as he pressed his legs against Billy's hips, rocking his own quickly, gasping as their arousals pressed together between their bellies.

"I'll do better than that," Billy gasped, one hand sliding down to cup Dom's buttock, fingers kneading the taut globe tightly. "I'll show you."

"Is this an interactive show and tell?" Dom inquired in a low, teasing voice, hand sliding between them to wrap around their arousals. Trailing his fingers along their lengths, Dom let his eyes close briefly as the sensation of Billy's arousal pressed so tightly against his stole his breath and his thought.

"If you don't stop that," Billy groaned, "the show will be over before it even starts." His hand slid down Dom's lean back until his fingertips were brushing against Dom's entrance.

Dom's hands rose to hold Billy's face as he leaned down to kiss him wetly. "Do it Billy. For God's sake, do it."

"Don't think God has anything to do with it," Billy murmured, lifting his hand to his mouth, eyes never leaving Dom's.

Licking and sucking his fingers wetly, Billy trailed the saliva slick digits across Dom's back, trailing one finger wetly across Dom's entrance slowly. A slow smile crossed his face as Dom's back arched and his hips pushed against Billy's probing finger. Keeping his touch light, Billy barely brushed across the tightly puckered muscle.

"Billy. Don't. Tease," Dom gasped as he struggled to get closer to Billy's finger. "Please."

Aquescising to his lover's request, Billy's finger pushed against Dom's entrance and gently breached the tight ring. Dom's back arched, his hips pushed down on Billy's hand and he threw his head
back, sighing with satisfaction.

"So. Good," Dom gasped as he thrust down onto Billy's hand. Needing to touch Billy, Dom's hands slid across Billy's neck and chest, fingers pinching at sensitive nipples, twisting them even as his hips ground down onto Billy's finger.

"More?" Billy asked with a ragged moan.

"You need to ask?" Dom whimpered as a second finger slid inside him, then scissored and twisted. Spine stretching taut as Billy's fingers brushed against his prostate, a strangled scream squeezed from Dom's lips.

"You. Now," Dom panted, his hands stroking at Billy's furry chest. "Not. Fingers. You."

"Ready?" Billy asked, panting for breath as he struggled for control.

Leaning over, Dom scrabbled in his bedside table, and after retrieving a bottle of lube, he squeezed it so hard that the cap popped off, and silky liquid oozed over his fingers.

Nodding his head quickly, Dom closed his slippery fingers around Billy's erection and stroked tightly.

Hips thrusting up into Dom's touch frantically, Billy almost toppled Dom off of him, and his eyes squeezed shut tightly as he struggled against the erotic sensations flooding through his body, a whimpering sob tearing from his lips. Hands grappled blindly for Dom's, knocking them away from his straining arousal.

"No," Billy forced past lips clenched with the strain of maintaining his control. "Too. Good."

"Please, Bills," Dom whimpered, fingers of one hand closing around his own arousal, the other palm flat against Billy's chest as his fingers twisted a nipple.

Billy pulled Dom down to him, kissing him wetly, teeth nipping at his lips, his chin, tugging at the soft hair on Dom's scruffy chin. Pressing against Dom's entrance, Billy clutched at Dom's hips and slid into his tight body.

"Ahhh," Dom gasped, sinking down onto Billy, and rolling forward, he slid his lips across Billy's "Welcome home, Sweetheart," Dom sighed.

"Too. Good," Billy moaned, his knees flexing, hips thrusting as he pushed up into Dom's warm body. Hands gripping Dom's hips tightly as he thrust into him, Billy's mouth devoured Dom's as their bodies slipped and slid and slammed against each other.

"No. Perfect," Dom gasped, his knees framing Billy's hips. "Touch me, Billy. Please," he begged.

Small hand slid from Dom's hip to wrap around Dom's throbbing erection, Billy's thumb sliding along the slick length, the nail scraping gently along the thick, pulsing vein.

"Billy," Dom groaned as he pressed his palms to Billy's chest, hips undulating wildly, fingers tweaking Billy's nipples. "Won't. Can't."

"Know," Billy grunted, his hand sliding along Dom's leaking arousal, each stroke blurring into the next, rhythm stuttering as Dom's body clenched around him and he struggled against the intense sensations that were coursing through him.

"Billy," Dom whimpered, begging desperately, head thrown back, weight held on his hands as he slammed his body into Billy's thrusts.

"Don't. Hold. Back," Billy growled from between teeth clenched with his desperate need to hold on to his own control long enough to watch his Dommie fly apart above him.

Dom's hand moved to cover Billy's, his long, elegant fingers tightening around Billy's tight grasp. While his trembling hand moved Billy's faster, Dom's hips thrust forward into their fisted grip and back onto Billy's hard length.

"C'mon. Dom," Billy moaned. "Wanna. Watch. You," he whimpered. "Only. You."

Billy's words were more stimulation than Dom's frantic, desperate body could bear, and throwing back his head, a long, keening wail left Dom's lips as his release pulsed slickly over their entwined fingers.

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Dom woke slowly, wrapped in Billy's embrace as he snuggled into his lover's bare skin. Tilting his head the barest inch, Dom opened his eyes, their faces so close together that his long lashes brushed Billy's cheek.

"Sleep well?" Billy asked huskily, eyes remaining closed.

"Like a baby," Dom murmured, turning until his lips met Billy's lightly.

"Sore?" Billy whispered.

"Achy, but I'm good," Dom answered, pressing a series of soft kisses to Billy's chin.

"Love you," Billy murmured tenderly, one hand slowly lifting to card through Dom's mussed hair.

"Back atcha," Dom said with a sigh, then molded himself along Billy's body. "When do you have to be back?"

"About an hour ago," Billy replied regretfully, finally opening his eyes.

"So," Dom murmured in a low voice. "Where do we go from here?"

"I can't leave the Double L," Billy said quietly. "I was hoping that you could come home with me."

"I'd have to sort something out at work," Dom mused, starting to think aloud. "Arrange to move my furniture. Pack my things. Do something about selling the apartment."

"Does that mean yes?" Billy inquired uncertainly.

"What do you think?" Dom rolled over so that he was laying on his belly beside Billy, one arm wrapped around Billy's chest, excited, shining eyes gazing into Billy's face.

"I'd like to think it would be yes?" Billy answered. "But I'd be taking you away from your tenure, your research…."

"To live with the man that I love more than life. To live on an archaeologically amazing property. I know sometimes I'm vague, but even without Arwen Canyon and the beauty of the Double L, I'd follow you." Dom let his fingers slowly trail down Billy's cheek. "That's a yes, Billy. Wherever you are, that's my home."

"Even without the Anasazi treasures?" Billy whispered, smiling at Dom teasingly.

"You're the only treasure I need," Dom replied tenderly, pressing a feathery kiss to Billy's lips.

"The Ranch house is ours, you know," Billy murmured. "Vig and Liv want us to live there, if you wanted to come back with me."

"And there was some thought that I wouldn't?"

"I hurt you." Shrugging, Billy's fingers pushed Dom's hair back from his forehead as he answered. "Badly." Pausing, Billy swallowed hard. "I wasn't sure you'd even speak to me."

"I couldn't not speak to you. Just like I couldn't not love you," Dom murmured.

"I couldn't make myself hope that you still loved me," Billy replied.

"I talk to David every single night, Billy," Dom confessed. "I couldn't bear to not knowing if you were alright."

"He loves you, too." Billy said as he nodded. "He never told me he speaks so much to you."

"I asked him not to," Dom revealed quietly. "I didn't want you to think I was desperate."

"No, that's my job," Billy added.

"Do you want to live in the Ranch House?" Dom asked, his fingers stroking Billy's furry chest hair.

"It's the first real bed we slept in," Billy answered. "We made love in the shower."

"I should've known you'd be a romantic fool." Dom kissed Billy wetly, his fingers tweaking Billy's nipples gently.

"And if you keep that up, we'll never make it out of bed." Billy sighed, his fingers catching Dom's as they moved.

"That's bad, how?" Dom asked, grinning cheekily.

"I really need to get back to the Double L. Liv has a surprise for you that I'm about to spoil."

"She's pregnant, isn't she?" Dom asked knowingly.

"Aye." Billy nodded. "How did you know?"

Dom shrugged. "Don't know," he said, then paused thoughtfully. "I just did."

"She's not been feeling well, so Viggo, Daisy and I have been sharing kitchen duties."

"And you still have ranch hands?" Dom remarked with an incredulous laugh.

Billy ignored Dom's teasing comment. "They're shorthanded enough. They don't need me skipping out on them."

"Do you need to leave right now? I'll make you some breakfast first," Dom offered, understanding Billy's devotion to his home and his family.

"What I want, is to stay here," Billy said with a sigh. "Make sweet love to my Honey, lay in bed, and plan our future."

Rolling over and pinning Dom under him, Billy strung slow, wet kisses across Dom's face and neck, one hand sliding between them to wrap his small, strong fingers around Dom's growing arousal. "But I can't," he sighed. "I have to get back."

Dom fingers danced down Billy's torso until he could wrap his fingers around Billy's stroking hand, tightening their grip on his renewed arousal. "What if we're quick?" he asked with a sigh, arching his hips into their grip.

"We could never be quick enough, Honey." Billy sighed as Dom's fingers closed around his length. "You're a thirst I can't quench, and I won't rush."

"Just this once," Dom gasped as Billy's hand tightened and squeezed, sliding his fingers quickly across Dom's now slick length. "For me," he moaned. "For us." Dom's hand increased it's speed on Billy's arousal. "You want this. You know you do."

"Then we'll do this properly," Groaning, Billy pushed Dom's hand away and rolled onto his side, one arm under Dom's head to support him, fingers twisting in Dom's tousled hair while his lips grazed teasingly across Dom's lips and his fingers wrapped around their arousals.

Leaning into Billy's kiss, Dom's tongue traced across his teeth, sliding along Billy's tongue. Fingers scratching lightly at Billy's scalp, Dom's other hand traveled across Billy's furry chest, twisting and tweaking Billy's nipples as he did. "What if I don't want that?" Dom breathed against Billy's mouth.

"Honey," Billy sighed as Dom's hand trailed down across his belly and pushed his slowly stroking hand away. "What?" Billy added, his hips jerking into Dom's fist.

"Maybe I want to be the one touching you," Dom murmured as he squeezed his hand tightly around their erections.

"Do you?" Billy asked, his lips against Dom's ear as his teeth nipped gently at the fleshy lobe.

"Want to touch you," Dom said a he sighed, fingers tightening around their flesh, stroking their slick lengths slowly, twisting at the end of each stroke. "I want to devour you," Dom groaned, hips thrusting into his fist.

"Devour?" Billy almost whimpered as Dom's thumb brushed teasingly across the tip of his leaking erection. "God. Honey. Do. That. Again."

"What?" Dom's question breathed against Billy's flushed skin. "This?" Fingers tightened mid stroke, Dom's thumb flicking erratically back and forth across the sensitive head.

"Oh…. God. Yesss!" Billy exclaimed, his hips stuttering into Dom's touch. "Don't. Stop."

"Every night," Dom murmured, his skin flushed, breathing rapid. Billy's hips jerked erratically into Dom's tight grip as he struggled to maintain his control of both his body, and his mind. "Every single night," Dom breathed, fingers grasping their erections, the feel of Billy's hard flesh pressed so tightly against his own, almost stealing his breath, with little regard for the composure of his thoughts. "I would dream about this. Doing this to you. Watching you fall apart in my arms, feeling you come in my hand." Sighing, Dom leaned in, catching Billy's mouth with his own.

"Was I good?" Billy moaned, his hips stuttering into Dom's hand. Head thrown back, he struggled to rein in the release that was beginning to surge through his body.

Pressing his lips to Billy's throat, Dom's tongue swirled over the taut flesh and suckled at his Adam's apple. "Not a patch on the real thing," Dom whimpered. "Don't hold back, baby." Dom drew in a deep calming breath. "Let me watch you."

"Can't. Say. No. To. You," Billy ground out, hips pushing into Dom's squeezing hand. "Yessss!" His thickly accented cry was captured by Dom's lips as his release pulsed against Dom's quivering belly.

Ignoring his own, aching arousal, Dom captured Billy's face in his hands, framing it gently, his thumbs brushing Billy's cheekbones as he gazed into drowsy, passion-glazed eyes.

"I love you," Dom murmured before his lips brushed across Billy's wetly. "So much," he whispered as he plunged his tongue between Billy's kiss-swollen lips.

"Honey," Billy sighed, snuggling his face into Dom's perspiration slick shoulder as his hand slipped across Dom's hip to close around his lover's erection tightly. "You couldn't even begin to measure how much I love you," Billy whispered as his fingers slid slickly across Dom's throbbing arousal, brushing lightly across the tip with a teasing thumbnail.

"Don't need to measure," Dom gasped, his hips thrusting wildly into Billy's hand. "Please?" he whimpered.

"Do you know how hot you are when you beg?" The gripping friction of Billy's hand increased as he watched Dom unraveling through heavy-lidded eyes.

"Not as hot. As. You," Dom almost sobbed as his orgasm spread through his entire body, then exploded through every nerve ending. Release slick on Billy's belly and fingers, Dom's body relaxed against Billy as the cowboy petted and soothed him. Slowly, Dom made his way back into his body.

"Love you," Dom said and then sighed, his lips traveling across Billy's neck wetly. "Stay?"

"I can't, Honey," Billy murmured regretfully. "You don't know how badly I want to."

"I think I do," Dom said, and pushing himself up onto one elbow, he pressed a long, slow kiss against Billy's mouth. "Go shower." Dom trailed his fingers across Billy's furry chest. "I'll make some brekkie for us."

"I could eat at a drive thru, and we could shower together," Billy suggested seductively against Dom's mouth.

"And then you'd never get back, and we'd both regret what we'd done while we should have been helping."

"You're no fun," Billy whispered.

"I'll remind you of that later." Dom grinned, nipping at the skin of Billy's shoulder. "Now go. Shower, while one of us has some willpower left."

Kissing Dom quickly, Billy then rolled from the bed, walking naked into Dom's bathroom, and after leaving the door open, he stepped into the clear, glass shower cubicle. Dom lay on the bed watching slumberously as Billy lathered his lithe, well-muscled body with the apple scented shower gel that hung from the shower head.

Torn between joining his lover and making breakfast, Dom watched Billy until his conscience got the better of him. Pulling on a pair of loose, blue tracksuit pants, Dom moved through to his kitchen to make fluffy omelettes, warmed muffins, crispy bacon and coffee.

Less than thirty minutes after Billy stepped into the shower, he was well fed and standing at Dom's front door, desperately wanting to do anything but leave his young lover. Shirtless, his track pants resting loosely on his angular hip bones, Dom watched Billy from under his long eyelashes. With his hands crossed in front of him, Dom smiled warmly at the scent of his lover clinging to his own skin.

"I'll come back on Friday night and help you pack," Billy murmured, his hat in his hands. "It's only two days."

"I'll be fine, Billy." Dom nodded slowly. "The ranch needs you, and I'm a big boy. I'll be fine."

"You might be," Billy whispered looking up at Dom, his eyes glistening. "But I don't think I will be."

"Oh, Sweetheart." Dom took the three steps that separated him from Billy, his long arms open and eyes glistening. "It's only time. We can talk every day. I'll do everything possible to be there as soon as I can."

"Kiss me?" Billy requested in a low voice, his hand stroking the side of Dom's face gently. "My arms are empty without you, Honey."

"You're such a sweet, vulnerable romantic, aren't you?" Dom replied with a grin as he lowered his mouth to Billy's.

Lips meeting wetly, they kissed slowly, Dom pushing Billy back against the door jamb and Billy's hat falling to the floor, immediately forgotten. Leg lifting to wrap around Billy's hip, Dom's growing arousal rubbed insistently against Billy's, Dom's hands cupping Billy's face as they kissed.

Mouths open, the kisses were wet and tender, nipping and licking and sucking as they tasted each other. Remembering their flavors and scents, the little noises that they made in the back of their throats as they struggled to get closer as their lips brushed across one anothers, Dom's hands slid down Billy's back to cup his taut, denim clad ass cheeks, dry humping his lover against the jamb of the open door.

"Bills?" Dom broke away from his lover's mouth, his hips still undulating lustily. "If we don't' stop this now, you won't be going home."

"That's a problem how?" Billy whimpered as his hands caught Dom's hips and held him close.

"We've both got a lot of work to do," Dom panted against Billy's neck, struggling to rein in his control.

"Could stay." Billy nipped at Dom's earlobes as he spoke, hands gliding up Dom's bare back.

"Bills." Dom inhaled a deep breath and stepped back, pulling out of Billy's clinging embrace. "I can't do this alone, Billy. You have to go home, and I have to make arrangements. We both know that if you stay, we won't get out of bed. Please, Sweetheart," Dom almost begged as Billy's heavy-lidded green eyes slid down his body, pausing at the sight of Dom's arousal, tenting his tracksuit pants insistently.

Sliding one hand down his belly, Billy rubbed the heel of his hand against his denim covered erection.

"Promise me when we're together, we take a week, together, anywhere, and don't have to see another soul. Just you and me, and a feathery bed roll."

"Fuck the bedroll." Dom pulled Billy back into his arms. "We won't even leave the old ranch house."

"You have the best ideas," Billy murmured, sliding his hand inside the loose waistband of Dom's pants and stroking the bare skin slowly. "I'll be back on Friday," he murmured.

"It's only two days, Bills," Dom murmured, kissing him wetly.

"Forty eight hours without you in my arms," Billy whispered, trailing kisses along Dom's neck.

"We've both got phones, right?" Dom said and then sighed as he tilted his neck to accommodate Billy's lips.

"Yeah?" Billy frowned in confusion as his fingers tweaked Dom's nipples.

"I've never had phone sex before, Billy," Dom admitted, almost giggling as Billy's head shot up to look into his eyes.

"You say something like that to me and expect me to spend three hours on the road home and not drive myself just a little bit crazy?" Billy murmured.

"Well," Dom said as he stepped back and let his finger trail down the buttons of Billy's shirt until he was stroking Billy's button fly. "Maybe if you're a good boy, when you're home tonight, I'll let you take my phone's virginity."

"For God's sake, Honey!" Billy exclaimed as Dom's hand cupped him and kneaded at his heated flesh hungrily. "You're not making this any easier."

"Silly me." Dom sighed, removing his teasing hand and smiling angelically through heavy-lidded, arousal-clouded eyes. "Here I was, trying to make it harder."

Billy stepped forward and captured Dom's mouth in a tantalizing kiss. Hard and hungry, his lips and mouth devoured Dom's kiss-swollen mouth for several long moments before stepping away and walking a few steps down the hall. "Just for the record, I thought you might like mine."

"I like everything of yours," Dom replied breathlessly. "You'll have to more specific."

"My phone's virginity. Play your cards right, and it's all yours." Billy laughed, turned on his heel and jogged down the hallway before he could turn back and lose himself in Dom's embrace, or the stunned expression on his young lover's face.

Chapter 32

Comments

[crsty1961.livejournal.com]

Oh to listen in on that conversation for real!! **guh**
I'm sorry you've been sick, hope you get better real soon. **hugs**

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

That's a phone call I think we all really need to hear don't you?

Almost better, it's just my yearly run in with winter.

Glad you're enjoying hon

[sourgreenapples.livejournal.com]

That was just so great. And hot.

I can't be really coherent on this chapter, it was too awesome

LOVE!

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

*fans*

Coherency is overrated anyway sweetie.


Happy you're still enjoying.

ah, love

[bride-no2.livejournal.com]

you have no idea how happy I am...first, that you posted the new chapter, and second cuz it was Billy at the door. Billy, Billy, Billy! and DomBilly sex! what could be better? (nothing.)

am home sick and was hoping against hope to find the new chapter up today...it's like a present just for me! yay! (cough, wheeze)

love this story, dearest(sighs audibly)

xoxoxoxoxoxox

Re: ah, love

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feelng better now hon, and that the chapter helped.

I know I always feel good after i've seen you've read.

I'm happy that you're enjoying it so much.

[-vanillashake.livejournal.com]

Omg, they're together again =)
And what a happy[hotomgyay] reunion it was! And...omfg!phone-sex?!
Next chapter please. Now!

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

Yay! They are together but there's still two chapters to go, who knows what else could happen.

Glad you're enjoying the ride.

[daydreambeleevr.livejournal.com]

"Take me to bed, Honey," Billy requested.

fuck yeah! that just gives me goosebumps.


As Dom's lips closed around him intimately, the bed pushed him up into Dom's mouth, and the sweet, wet suction of Dom's mouth around him dragged a strangled cry from Billy's lips.

don't mind me. I'll be in my bunk. whew! *grin*


"That's a yes, Billy. Wherever you are, that's my home."

perfect!

Kerry =)

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

Awww. You make me blush when you use the p word.

They are a hot little pair aren't they.

[mystery-ink.livejournal.com]

Whew!!!! It was Billy, and he finally came to his senses! And we get water bed sex, and the promise of phone sex. Life is good - *G*.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

It was Billy indeed, and God bless waterbeds, no?

Phone sex is never a bad thing.

Yes for now their life is good.

[mystery-ink.livejournal.com]

For now?!?!? You're almost at the end - don't you dare kill one off! *L*!

And I'm still wondering whatever happened to "Making Memories of Us"; it's been some time since the next-to-the-last chapter - did I somehow miss the final chapter? Thanks.

[divinemadam.livejournal.com]

"My phone's virginity" Too funny!!!! I'm dying here! Again, I like how you filled in the blanks that were let in the original. You've given the characters so much more depth. Lovely honey!

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

Ask anyone I'm an overthinker, I've spent years wondering just what fit into the blanks Elizabeth left.

I'm so glad you're enjoying.

[divinemadam.livejournal.com]

You have done a beautiful job of filling in the blanks. I wonder if Elizabeth thought about those things, maybe even wrote them, but it was all cut by editors who believed that the books were too long. The story didn't lose anything, obviously. You and I still love the series, but your version just gives me more of a sense of completeness.

[illiadri.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy! *yay* Together again. What a relief!