FIC: Western Lovers: Cowboys & Archaeologists 32/33

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Title: Western Lovers: Cowboys and Archaeologists 32/33
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: 5330
Header Art: Courtesy of the incredibly talented loki_girl
Previous Chapters:
Chapter 1|Chapter 2|Chapter 3|Chapter 4|Chapter 5|Chapter 6|Chapter 7|Chapter 8|Chapter 9|Chapter 10|Chapter 11|Chapter 12|Chapter 13|Chapter 14|Chapter 15|Chapter 16|Chapter 17|Chapter 18|Chapter 19|Chapter 20|Chapter 21|Chapter 22|Chapter 23|Chapter 24|Chapter 25|Chapter 26|Chapter 27|Chapter 28|Chapter 29|Chapter 30|Chapter 31|

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 Friday.
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Crawling into the bed he and Dom had shared for the summer, body exhausted, Billy's mind was still sorting through the tasks he had yet to complete for the day. He hadn't arrived back at the Double L until almost lunchtime, and whilst neither Viggo nor David had begrudged Billy the time he had taken, in fact they had encouraged him to take longer, he couldn't help but feel guilty about leaving the ranch shorthanded. So all afternoon, Billy had worked hard. Hard enough to feel the strain of heavy, horse breaking work in his arms, and the gentle reminder of being filled, over and over, by his delicious lover the previous night.

Barely taking the time to slip out of his clothes, Billy fell onto the sheets, which like his own skin, held the faint scent of his Honey. Dropping his phone on the mattress beside his head, Billy forgot all about it as he dozed. Pulling what had been Dom's pillow into his arms, Billy nuzzled his weary face into the feathery lump, his arm wrapping around it possessively as his eyes drifted closed.

Suddenly, Billy's phone shrilled loudly. Eyes closed, one hand groped across the sheets, intent on silencing the tinny notes of 'Scotland the Brave' before it really woke him.

" 'Lo," Billy answered, nose pressed into the pillow, inhaling Dom's scent as he clung to the fog of sleep that was rapidly clearing.

"Wish I could see your face." Dom's voice was husky and low, filled with hunger and longing.

"Miss you," Billy murmured, snuggling into the pillow.

"You only saw me eight hours ago," Dom replied, and Billy could hear the smile in his words.

"And twenty three minutes," Billy added, one eye cracking open to glance at his watch for confirmation.

"That's why I'm calling." Dom's voice dropped another octave.

"Why?" Billy frowned, rolling onto his back, one hand scratching slowly at his hair covered belly.

"I've missed you, too," Dom said slowly. "And I wondered…."

"If I start early enough in the morning, I should be able to be at your flat before midnight tomorrow night," Billy interjected softly.

"You're not driving all that way," Dom scolded him lightly.

"I want to." Billy sighed softly. "It doesn't feel right, being apart."

"It won't be for long, Billy," Dom murmured. "Promise. Besides, we're not really apart. We have phones."

"Won't be the same as having you here," Billy shot back petulantly.

"Stop pouting," Dom requested softly, his voice filled with velvet promises. "You know I'd rather be there touching you."

"Tell me?" Billy asked quietly.

"Tell you what I want to do to you?" Dom murmured, his voice low and sultry. "You know what I want, Bills."

"Tell me, Dommie," Billy repeated. "Please…."

"Bills," Dom whispered. "I've never done this before. What if I don't do it right?"

"How can you get it wrong, Dommie?" Billy coaxed. "I won't know any different. I'm as clueless as you, remember?"

"Are you sure?" Dom murmured.

"Tell me, Honey. Make my hands yours," Billy requested.

"I want to be there," Dom groaned. "I love you. I want to touch you."

"How?" Billy asked, his accent thickening.

"Just how you like it. Long, wet kisses. Nipping, licking, suckling along your neck. My fingers twisting your nipples," Dom murmured. "Stroking the hair on your chest with my fingers."

"You have no idea, do you?" Billy asked as he sighed with pleasure. "Just how incredibly arousing you are."

"I'm sorry," Dom breathed into Billy's ear via the small, silver phone. "Have you ever looked in a mirror, or listened to that voice of yours? You ooze sexy."

"Only around you." Shifting, Billy pushed the pillow under his head a little more. "Ask the hands, they'll tell you that I'm a hard ass bastard, especially since you've been gone."

"Do you realize just how quickly your voice flips my switches?" Dom spoke so softly that Billy had to strain to hear.

"That's very good to know." Billy rolled onto his side pressing the phone between his ear and the pillow, one hand idly brushing back and forth across his nipples. "It's your eyes."

"My eyes?" Dom murmured.

"Mostly," Billy sighed as his fingers flicked across one nipple. "Your hair, your lips, your sexy ass."

"Romantic, aren't you?" Dom chuckled huskily.

"You started it." Billy's voice held the hint of humor.

"You're in our bed, aren't you?" Dom asked softly.

"I can still smell you on the sheets." Billy replied as he nodded. "I couldn't bring myself to change them."

"I can still smell you on me," Dom confessed quietly, "I couldn't bring myself to shower."

Letting his fingers trail across his belly, Billy wanted nothing more than to touch his growing arousal, but also wanting to prolong whatever it was that they were doing for as long as possible. "Christ, Honey. You're going to drive me insane."

"What did I do?" Dom smiled at the quiet desperation in Billy's voice.

"To know that you kept me on your skin. To know that you wanted me there. Wanted me all over you, even though I'm so far away."

"Always," Dom murmured thickly. "You want me to touch you, don't you?"

"Desperately," Billy replied, fingers dancing across the top of his thighs.

"Wrap my long fingers around you Dom requested in a low, seductive voice. "I know you love it when I do that. Close my fingers tightly around you, and let my thumb flick across your tip slowly."

"Dommie," Billy forced roughly from between tightly clenched teeth. "Please…."

"Do it for me, Bills," Dom murmured. "Stroke yourself for me.”

"So good, Honey," Billy moaned as his small hand closed around his throbbing arousal. "Can feel you."

"Put your phone on speaker, Bills." Dom requested. "You need both hands."

"You won't hear me." Billy sighed, his words breathed in time with his long, pulling strokes.

"I'll hear," Dom replied huskily. "Do it, Bills."

"Want you, Dommie," Billy murmured as he dropped the phone onto the pillow beside his head.

"You can feel my fingers, can't you, Sweetheart?" Dom whispered into the phone, his voice hoarse, even to his own ears. "You're hard and leaking, aren't you? You're slick and slippery in my fingers, aren't you?"

"Yesss," Billy hissed as his hand slid along his throbbing erection.

"Feel the way my thumb teases you? Brushing my fingers across your slick tip? Sliding across your precum? You like that, don't you?"

"God, yes," Billy panted. "Want. Touch," he whimpered.

"Touch for me, Billy." Dom's voice caressed Billy's perspiration dotted skin as tangibly as a physical touch. "Use your other hand, Bills. Your nipples are just begging for me to touch them. Squeeze them. Pinch them. I know how much you love that, my fingers twisting in your sexy, furry chest hair. Playing with your nipples while my other hand squeezes you."

"I'll leave now," Billy offered as his fingers caressed his insistent arousal. "Need you."

"In that condition?" Dom chuckled huskily. "No way." He paused thoughtfully. "You'll just have to take care of yourself, Sweetheart."

"Need you." Billy sighed as his hand stroked slowly. "Only you."

"You've got me, Billy," Dom growled, deep and low as he pressed the flat of his hand against the arousal that threatened to burst out of his low slung jeans. "One hand wrapped around you, the other dancing across those sexy, hairy thighs. I love the way your legs tremble under my fingers."

"Coherency is impossible when you touch me," Billy gasped, his thumb swirling in the fluid that coated the tip of his arousal.

"For me, too," Dom groaned. Hand pressing against himself relentlessly, the fingers of Dom's other hand toyed with the top button of his fly, cell phone caught between his shoulder and his ear.

"Sure I can't? Two hours, Honey. Need you," Billy moaned, his words punctuating each stroke as his hips lifted from the bed, pushing into the circle of his fingers.

"Nope," Dom answered through teeth clenched tightly together, hand sliding inside his jeans. "Billy!" Dom whimpered as his fingers closed around himself.

"Honey," Billy groaned, his hips stuttering off the bed, grinding into the friction of his calloused fingers. "Can't alone. Need you." Billy's head tossed from side to side as he fought against his own reactions.

"Billy," Dom growled "Come for me, baby." His voice dropped, low and sultry. "Need to hear you, Sweetheart."

"Dammit." Billy's neck strained taut, the veins prominent and throbbing as his body arched off the bed into the touch of his hand and sound of Dom's voice. As he struggled to control his reactions to Dom's smoothly erotic words, Billy's brow furrowed in a tight frown. "Can't."

"Yes, you can, Billy," Dom whimpered. "For me, Sweetheart," his sex laden voice begged. "I want to watch you."

Billy's hand moved furiously along his length, squeezing and stroking, his other hand caressing the sac below his arousal roughly as he processed Dom's words. The furrows in Billy's brow deepened and he opened the eyes that had been squeezed shut to close out all but the sound of Dom's voice, and the touch of his hand.

"I need to watch you, Billy," Dom's voice spoke.

Billy's gaze flicked to the door, his perspiration-slick skin glowing as his eyes drank in the sight of his lover. Leaning against the door jamb, Dom's phone was caught between his ear and shoulder, one hand caressing his chest, the other weighing his impressive arousal. Billy, hyper aroused and pushed to breaking point by Dom's voice, relinquished what little control he maintained.

Release coating his fingers, Billy's eyes rolled back, closing as he dragged breath into empty lungs and his body sank bonelessly down to the mattress.

"I couldn't stay away," Dom murmured softly, slowly walking closer to the bed. "Not after last night."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Billy sighed, extending a hand to Dom as he watched his young lover peel his t-shirt over his head, his unfastened jeans falling to a pool around his feet.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Billy sighed, extending a hand to Dom as he watched his young lover peel his t-shirt over his head, his unfastened jeans falling to pool around his feet.

"Because." Dom shrugged. "You said you'd never…." Dom paused, blushing a deep pink. "You've taught me so much, how could I not?"

Knees pressed against the edge of their bed, Dom stretched out his fingers and took Billy's hand in his, gray-blue eyes never leaving Billy's as he crawled onto the wide, firm mattress.

"Miss me?" Dom asked softly, one hand stroking Billy's face as he leaned in to kiss him wetly.

"You went away?" Billy murmured cheekily.

Pulling away, Dom rolled onto his back, feigning hurt. "Then you obviously won't mind if I sleep then," he replied petulantly.

Sliding closer to his young lover, resting his head in the curve of Dom's shoulder, Billy trailed one hand across Dom's chest, twirling his small, rough-skinned digits across Dom's golden skin. Mouth so close to Dom's that their lips brushed with every word, Billy looked into Dom's eyes, so close neither of them could really focus.

"I want you, Honey," Billy murmured, his lips and breath caressing Dom's mouth. "Inside me…..now."

Dom never spoke, just leaned forward and pressed his lips against Billy's mouth. Kissing him slowly, Dom pulled back to press his fingers against Billy's lips, sliding them between his lips for Billy to suckle.

Two of Dom's long fingers were sucked between Billy's perfect lips, drawn deeper by the tight suction, and his tongue gliding erotically around them, caused an arrow of sensual, burning heat to Dom's arousal. The suckling sensation on its own was enough to enflame Dom's senses.

Eyes locked with his lovers, heavy lidded with desire, perspiration beaded on Dom's forehead as he struggled for even a shred of control. With each stroke of Billy's tongue, Dom remembered every time his arousal had been between those perfect lips. Legs framing Billy's, Dom's hips stuttered forward, dragging his leaking arousal against the furry thigh beneath it.

Pulling his fingers from Billy's sinful lips before he lost control, Dom leaned over and lifted a bottle of lube from the top drawer of the bedside table. Trailing wet fingers in a wandering line down Billy's torso, Dom paused briefly to caress Billy's growing arousal before sliding lower, fingertips tracing over the taut sac beneath it. Brushing even lower, across the sensitive skin, Dom tenderly draws his fingers across the tight, puckered entrance he sought. Squeezing lube into his palm Dom warmed it, slowly coating his fingers before brushing back and forth across Billy's tight entrance.

"Honey, no teasing," Billy moaned as he pushed back onto Dom's fingers.

"Not," Dom whimpered as his finger breeched the ring of muscle.

Legs falling open in wanton invitation, Billy's hips ground onto Dom's finger desperately. Pushing a second finger deep inside his lover, Dom's fingers scissored rapidly as they plunged hungrily.

"Fer Chrissakes, Honey!" Billy's hips arched into Dom's touch, fingers clutching handfuls of the sheets at his sides. "Just do it, Honey. Please."

"Won't hurt you," Dom groaned as he moved between Billy's legs.

Perspiration glistening on his golden skin, hair clinging damply to his head, Dom closed the fingers of his free hand around the base of his own arousal, squeezing tightly, desperately trying to slow his throbbing need.

"You won't," Billy moaned gutturally as he wrapped his legs around Dom's thighs. "Need you Dom. Now."

Finally, Dom's slick fingers slipped from Billy's body. Guiding the blunt head of his leaking arousal until it nudged against Billy's entrance, Dom tilted his hips, gently pushing past the loosening muscle until he began to slip deeper into Billy's body. Pressed as deeply into Billy as he could be, Dom stilled his body, perspiring, heart pounding like he'd run a marathon as he held his weight on his hands, desperately trying to give his lover time to adjust to him.

Billy's hands slid up Dom's slick back, fingernails digging into Dom's shoulders as he pulled him down. Chests meeting with a slap as Dom fell against him, the motion plunged him deeper into Billy with a muffled grunt of longing and need.

"Don't," Billy groaned, pulling his legs up so his calves hooked over Dom's slender thighs, heels pressing against Dom's buttocks.

Lips finding Dom's wetly, Billy sucked Dom's tongue into his mouth as he took matters into his own hands and slammed his hips up to meet Dom's, heels drumming against Dom's buttocks, fingernails digging into Dom's smooth shoulders. "Not gently," Billy moaned into Dom's mouth. "Fuck me, Honey."

Dom rested his weight on his elbows, his hips undulating teasingly against Billy. Fingers carded through Billy's curling ginger hair, Dom lost himself in Billy's wet, messy, suckling, open-mouthed kiss.

Drawing back until he almost slipped out of Billy's body, Dom paused for the briefest of seconds before slamming back down, their hips grinding together as Billy pushed up into Dom's thrust. Billy's feet drummed against Dom's buttocks faster, harder. Breaking off their kiss, Billy threw his head back, neck taut, pulse pounding visibly as a litany of jumbled, begging words tumbled from his lips.

Ducking his head, as his hips began to stutter against Billy's, his grip on control fraying with every breath, Dom began to lick the taut expanse of Billy's neck. Teeth nipping gently at the frantic pulse and Billy's Adam's apple, Dom's fingers wrapped in Billy's ginger curls, tugging tightly as his release began to build within him.

Monologue of blue descriptions of what Dom could do to his body growing louder with every thrust, Billy was silenced when Dom sealed his mouth over Billy's, kissing him ravenously as he grasped at his own threatening release. Moving his weight to one arm, Dom slid one hand between their bodies to wrap around Billy's erection, stroking him quickly. With every deeply accented description of how Dom was satisfying him, Billy fell a little further into the abyss of bliss that he was hurtling towards.

"Forfuckssakehoneyletgo." Billy's head tossed from side to side as his words began to run together, mind begging for the release his body searched for. "Pleasepleasepleaseplease," he pleaded.

Billy's words were the final link in the sensual, erotic chain that Billy had bound Dom with, and he let go of his hard won control.

One, two, three final, deep thrusts into Billy's body, and Dom's release spurted deep within his lover, his hand gripping Billy's arousal in a velvet grip, stroking fast and furiously, his jumbled words begging Billy to let go.

Billy's hands left Dom's shoulders to frame his face and pull his mouth down, sucking wantonly on Dom's long tongue as his release pulsed over Dom's fingers.

Collapsing onto Billy, completely exhausted, Dom deepened the kiss as they struggled to kiss and breathe at once. Billy's arms moved to wrap around Dom's waist, and he sighed sadly as Dom slipped out of his body. His lips pressed repeatedly against Dom's face as they relaxed into each other.

"You're the best thing to ever happen to me," Billy whispered against Dom's skin.

"I could say the same thing," Dom panted as he lifted his head to look into Billy's eyes.

"Do you have to go home tomorrow?" Billy asked softly, his fingers combing Dom's damp bangs back from his face.

Before Dom could answer, Billy's phone began to ring from under the pillow beside their heads.

"Hold that thought." Billy brushed a kiss across Dom's forehead as he pressed the answer button.

"Boyd," he answered crisply.

"Are you done?" David's voice contained more than a little amusement.

"What?" Billy asked, shrugging his confusion at Dom as he put the phone on speaker so Dom could hear.

"You know, Pip, I'm happy that you're happy. In fact, I'm happy that you're both happy, but Liv was sure there was an axe murderer in your house. She woke Viggo, and Viggo nominated me to check that you're okay. I got halfway down there and saw Dom's car. Since I enjoy my eyesight, and didn't want the image of your bare asses or worse burned onto my retina's, I decided I'd take the chivalrous way out and phone when you two were finished."

"Very chivalrous," Dom murmured with a blushing laugh.

"Hey, Dom." David's voice changed timbre. "You doing okay now?"

"Sure am, Daisy," Dom replied.

"So I'll ask again," David said quietly. "Are you done?"

"Jealous, little brother?" Billy asked teasingly.

"Jealous? Not likely. Unless Dom wants to change to the brother with more stamina," David stated and then laughed. "But you two are frightening the stock, and with that racket, we'll be lucky to get eggs from the hens in the morning. Frankly, if you don't want the hands speculating on the caliber of the 'horse' you've been riding, I'd try to keep it quieter in future."

"Point taken," Dom answered as Billy's lips fastened onto his neck.

"Done yet, Daisy?" Billy asked, pressing a smacking kiss against Dom's skin.

"Just about," he replied. "Honestly, I'm happy for you both, you know that. I just figured you'd like to keep some secrets."

"Thanks, Daisy," Dom said before kissing Billy slowly.

"David?" Billy questioned him, pulling away from Dom's lips. "Are you done now?"

"Why?"

They could almost hear the frown in David's voice.

"Because in another two minutes I'm going to leave the phone connected so you can be sure you get the full story, first hand this time."

"Oh for fucks sake," David said with a laugh. "Don't you two have any control? Don't bother answering that, I already know." He paused. "Dom, see if you can't keep that dirty mouth of his busy." The second the sentence was out of David's mouth, he realized the connotations of what he said. "Forget it. I don't want to know. I'll talk to you in the morning. Night." Before the word had even reached their ears, David had disconnected the call.

"He loves his brother," Dom murmured softly as he relaxed and molded himself along Billy's side.

"His brother loves him." Billy smiled against Dom's hair.

"What's Craig like?" Dom asked quietly, tilting his head up to look at Billy's stubbly face.

"Like Daisy, but more solitary." Billy sighed. "They both just need to find their 'Honey.' "

"They will." Dom sighed, his face pressed against Billy's chest, fingers twirling and breath ruffling the fine hair that covered Billy's belly.

"Aye," Billy breathed, capturing Dom's hand and bringing it to his lips to kiss the fingertips gently. "When do you have to go home?" he asked, not really wanting to know the answer.

"I am home," Dom whispered, watching Billy's face carefully.

"But your work? Your apartment? Your things?" Billy rolled towards Dom, drawing the younger man into his arms, watching him.

"I've taken a leave of absence. I've sub-leased the apartment to one of my students, packed all the important stuff, and hired a moving company to pack and bring the rest here. I'm giving Aaron most of the furniture. I might have to go back to finish things off, but it's all done," Dom explained.

"I don't want to rush you," Billy said with a concerned frown.

"You're not." Dom leaned up on one elbow. "I realized something as I watched you walking away this morning."

"What?" Billy reached out and smoothed the worry lines in Dom's forehead with his thumb.

"I don't want to spend another night apart from you," Dom admitted and then shrugged. "Life's too short. I love you. If we can be together, why shouldn't we be?"

"I like the way you think," Billy said tenderly as he leaned in to press his lips gently against Dom's.

Their kiss was less urgent, slow and teasing with tongues tracing lips, then opening under slick caresses. Hands slid slowly across warm skin, and with their bodies temporarily sated, they explored and relaxed into each other, enjoying the physical and emotional contact.

"There's something I need to ask you, " Billy said uncertainly.

"What could possibly make you nervous with me?" Dom frowned, looking deep into Billy's eyes.

"We should be thinking about having time together," Billy said aloud, thinking. "Time for us to learn to be us."

"Why do I sense a 'but' in there?"

"Because we could have a baby daughter, right now, if we want her," Billy answered plainly, one hand under Dom's chin, holding his face up so that he could watch Dom's eyes.

"Really?" Dom smiled, his hurried thoughts creasing his brow. "She'll be ours? Truly?"

"All our own." Billy nodded. "She's an orphan from Afghanistan."

"David's Angel?" Dom queried.

"He's told you about her, hasn't he?" Billy lifted one brow as he asked Dom speculatively.

"We do talk about more than just you, you know," Dom teased and then paused. "He was worried about her future, was looking for someone to talk to about her, I guess?"

"Why do I get the feeling that my brother has played us both?"

"Do you really mind?" Dom ran his fingers in Billy's chest hair. "It's not like we haven't talked about it."

"Hypothetically, aye we have talked about it, but I don't know…." Billy trailed off.

"You know, it's okay to love both of us at once, Bills." Seeing that Billy was being torn between his mutual loves, Dom leaned down to press a soft kiss to Billy's lips before he rolled them so he could cross his hands on Billy's chest and rest his head there. "In fact, I think when I meet her, I might just love her, too."

"That's not the point, Dommie," Sighing, Billy's fingers slid through Dom's tousled hair. "Some time to just be us would have been nice."

"We'll still have that, Bills," Dom interjected calmly. "We've already had three months. That's more than some people have before kids."

"What we actually had was three months of me being a bastard," Billy corrected and then sighed heavily.

"Didn't you teach me how to trust? Showed me that I could love? Taught me to love the most wonderful man in the world?" Dom asked. "Don't tell me what a bastard you've been, because I know the truth."

Unable to stop himself, Billy leaned down to press a warm kiss to Dom's lips.

"When can we have her?" Dom whispered against Billy's mouth.

"We'll talk to David in the morning."

Smoothing Billy's brow with gentle fingers, Dom grinned. "You should sleep, Billy. Daisy said you worked yourself hard today, and you're not getting any younger…."

"Watch it," Billy growled playfully, twining his legs with Dom's, rolling him onto his back and kissing him wetly before pulling the younger man tighter into the circle of his arms. "You should be tired after the drive and…" He trailed off as Dom's mouth closed over one nipple, sucking and licking it into a dark peak.

"Memory failing you, Sweetheart?" Dom grinned up at his lover as his fingers twisted Billy's other nipple. Tilting his head back, Dom nibbled teasingly at Billy's bottom lip, tongue tracing across the skin his teeth abraded.

"Dommie," Billy whispered, hands lifted to frame Dom's face. "Honey, we need to sleep."

"I know, Billy," Dom murmured against Billy's lips before molding himself along Billy's side, touching from shoulder to toe, one long leg twisted around Billy's and arm flung across Billy's chest, fingers stroking the fine hair. "I just can't help touching you," Dom whispered, his breath flowing across Billy's nipple with every word.

They lay entwined, fingers stroking lazily as eyes drooped wearily, their minds wandering, breathing deepening and muscles relaxing as they gave into their bodies need for rest.

Billy's fingers stroked Dom's mussed hair lethargically as his mind began to cloud with sleep. "I love you, Honey," he murmured, his voice slurring as he finally surrendered to exhaustion.



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Arm wrapped possessively around Dom's waist, fingers dipping under the edge of the purple t-shirt that clung lovingly to the curves of Dom's muscular chest, Billy opened the door and let Dom enter the dining room ahead of him. Neither of them were expecting the greeting they received.

Before Dom had cleared the doorframe, the room erupted into impromptu catcalls and cheers. As Billy stepped through the door, his arm tightened around Dom's waist in support, and the first faces he saw were Viggo and David, apparently leading the chorus.

Narrowing his eyes into a thin icy green glare, Billy spoke one word, short and crisp. "Enough."

Almost instantly, the ranch hands were silenced. Viggo and David, however, were slower to respond.

Seeing Billy's narrowed gaze, Liv pressed a hand to Viggo's shoulder, quieting him immediately. Realizing he was the only one still cat-calling, David fell silent, muttering 'Cowards' under his breath.

"You're alive, Billy," Liv said sweetly before standing up and leaning over the table to press a kiss to Dom's cheek.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Billy inquired with a frown, watching the ranch hands uneasily as they both sat down.

"I was sure you were in some sort of mortal danger." Liv watched Billy's face closely, her eyes wide and innocent. "I heard what I would've sworn was you, whimpering and moaning."

"You did?" Billy asked, swallowing tightly. "It can't have been me."

"I think it was." Liv's smile grew. "In fact, I'm sure it was you. You're the only one that would be calling out for Dom to help you."

"In fact," Viggo added, unable to contain the laughter in his voice. "I'm fairly certain I heard Dom, too."

"Sounded almost like they were both in pain, didn't it?" David interjected, the rumble of laughter thick in his voice.

"You all about done yet?" Dom asked, face flushed with the deep red of his mortification at the current subject of conversation.

"Not even close," Viggo snickered.

"I think you are," Dom stated firmly. "If we promise to keep it down in future, do you all think you could forget you heard, whatever it is you heard?"

"In time," Liv answered quickly, reaching out to cover Dom's hand with her own.

"Then since you all seem to know we had a very good time last night," Dom said as his free hand closed over Billy's tightly. "Can we not spoil it just yet?"

""Here for long, Mr. Monaghan?" Bernard asked in an obvious change of subject.

"Actually, I'm here for good," Dom said quietly, watching Billy quietly load both of their breakfast plates.

"We're all glad, " Bernard offered, gesturing to the rest of the men. "We don't get to see Ramrod this contented much."

"And you needn't think it's going to mean a softer day," Billy muttered as he slid his arm around Dom's waist and pressed a kiss to his cheek, testing the bounds of their newfound ease.

"Does this mean you're not giving lectures anymore?" Liv asked as she handed Dom the jug of fresh orange juice.

"Actually, I haven't spoken to Billy yet, but I may be able to hold onto my tenure if I were to run courses at the dig site," Dom replied. "I don't really want to, but it would give us all sorts of grants and manpower we couldn't afford otherwise."

"What would that mean to the site?" David asked around a forkful of scrambled eggs he had just shoveled into his mouth.

"It would maintain it's current integrity, put people there twenty-four seven, and the grant money will make Arwen Canyon almost self- sufficient."

"So, we don't want to do this, why?" Viggo asked, his elbows on the table as he gesticulated with his fork.

"Because it would mean a lot more people would pass through the ranch," Dom explained. "The university would provide security, so it would mean no man power from the hands, I could keep my tenure, and effectively oversee the operation. The question is, would you both be happy with that?"

"Count me in," Viggo stated, then resumed eating his breakfast.

"Is it what you would want for Arwen Canyon?" Billy asked Dom softly.

"I think it's the best possible outcome that we've seen so far," Dom said and then shrugged.

"Then do it." Billy nodded firmly, squeezing Dom's hand reassuringly in agreement before turning his attention to his food.

Breakfast continued with the jovial, good-natured banter of contentment, and as the men slowly dissipated to start their day's work, Billy stopped David when he rose to leave.

"David, we need to talk," Billy said to him.

"I don't need any first hand experiences, thanks," David teased as he turned a chair around, straddled it, and sat opposite them. "What can I do you for?"

"We want to adopt Angel," Billy stated plainly.

"Are you shitting me?" David's eyes opened wider.

"She needs a family, Daisy," Dom added softly.

"We want her to grow up near the man who saved her." Billy watched his brother as he spoke.

"I want that, too." David said as he nodded, his eyes glistening. "But I can't, won't let you two do that for me."

"We're not doing it for you." Billy slipped his hand inside Dom's and squeezed it gently. "We're doing it for us."

David looked back and forth between the two of them, watching closely.

"You really want this, don't you?" he asked quietly.

"More than you would know," Dom replied, his thumb caressing the back of Billy's hand. "We want a family, David, and Angel might be our only chance."

"I don't want you to think you need to do this because of me," David restated. "I won't let you do it without a trial." He shrugged as he pursed his lips in thought for a moment. "Two weeks?"

"When can we have her, Daisy?" Dom asked, breathing a sigh of relief.

"I'll call Miranda today." David leaned over to touch their joined hands. "Thank you," he murmured softly. "Both of you."

Chapter 33

Comments

giggles

[bride-no2.livejournal.com]

(choir sings) i love you, i love you, i love you...and where you go i'll follow, i'll follow, i'll follow...

that's my musical response to the posting of this chapter, and I haven't even read it yet. I'm just so happy (sighs) to find it here. Must read before I go finish my homework. hee...

Re: giggles

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Aww you're so sweet to me.

I hope you enjoyed it sweetie, just one more to go, and then it's on to Orlando and David's story.

[crsty1961.livejournal.com]

Yayness!! I'm glad their together and starting a family, but I'm sad it's almost over. :(
I do hope you come back to them on occasion and let us know how they are doing. :D

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

They are together and you're right their journey is almost over, but you will see them in the future. I already have three sequels to this planned/partially written.

The next one is Orli and Daisy's story, so you know that there will be payback for all the pisstaking from a certain ramrod don't you.

I'll be sure to let you all know when it's ready to go, probably sometime in July. Just keep your eye on ordaisy

[-vanillashake.livejournal.com]

Wonderful :) Loved every single word of this...of this chapter, of the whole story.
Don't let it be over, with the next...please? Ah, I see, I can't do anyhing against it...
Awesome.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

Sorry, for the time being, the journey is almost over, but they will be back.

So glad you're loving it.

[daydreambeleevr.livejournal.com]

the phone sex? the sweet, lazy, sexy tone of it all... woo whee, right off the Richter scale. YUM!



“To know that you kept me on your skin. To know that you wanted me there. Wanted me all over you even though I’m so far away.”

Do you *know* how frelling hot that is? scorching.



“Because.” Dom shrugged. “You said you’d never….” He paused blushing pinkly “You’ve taught me so much, how could I not?”


OMG SQUEE!

That was the best ever! I wondered why Dom had his jeans on, I thought it was weird that he'd be up before Ramrod. But the way you let this play out is *perfect*!! Dommie wanting to try a little phone sex. Has the little worm become the beautiful butterfly or what? Really, this was the coolest little surprise.




“Are you done?” David’s voice contained more than a little amusement.


"Since I enjoy my eyesight and didn’t want the image of your bare asses or worse burned onto my retina’s I decided I’d take the chivalrous way out and phone when you were finished.”

bwahahahahahaha...


oh, fuck me. that little exchange with David was too funny. I've never been a real big fan of his, I didn't dislike him or anything, just didn't feel much one way or the other. You've made me really like him with this story. I *love* the dynamics between Billy and him, and I'm jonesing liek woah to see if he and Orli get together.


And frankly if you don’t want the hands speculating on the caliber of the ‘horse’ you’ve been riding I’d try to keep it quieter in future.”


Nooooooooooooooo! loud and lusty Dom and Billy sex is da bestest!!! *giggle*


“Actually I haven’t spoken to Billy yet, but I may be able to hold onto my tenure if I were to run courses at the dig site.” Dom spoke. “I don’t really want to, but it would give us all sorts of grants and a manpower we couldn’t afford otherwise.”


this is a fabulous way to end this. I love that the area will be protected, and who knows who just might wander through there that might catch Craig's eye. *grin*


Kerry =)

[sourgreenapples.livejournal.com]

Kerry, your comments always let me know when I've missed something! I love that.

[daydreambeleevr.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

yeah, and there I usually am, worrying I'm reading fics too closely and analyzing them too much. Fortunately, the writers I comment on are pretty lenient with me. :smile:

but if I can help a fellow reader, then I'm all sorts of happy. ;)


kerry =)

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

I love the way they can be so hot and schmoopy with each other. Somehow it makes them even hotter.

I had to look after Arwen Canyon, after all it was the place that really put them together.

Always big on pimping David I am, he's such a hot tamale when he wants to be. If you want to see him at his schmoopy best, see if you can't get a hold of Better than Sex. I'm sure you'll love it.

[sourgreenapples.livejournal.com]

The phone sex was just so hot, and then I'm surprised I didn't die when Dom topped. That was just.................. ughhh. hot.

I love the relationship that you've built between them and it's gonna be really sad to see this story go. It's been beautiful, and I want to reread just knowing how far they've come since Dom showed up so many chaptersmonths ago.

If you get two comments from me it's cuz LJ did something funny... lol No. It's because I loved this so much.

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

The phone sex was hot for two amatuers wasn't it?

I'm really sad to see them come to the end of their journey too. But they're not really done, I have three sequels prepared/partly written to this little AU, Billy and Dom won't be the focus but they will be all through the rest of them.

If you're interested in keeping up with them the next part will probably be ready sometime in July and it will be posted in ordaisy. But I'll be sure to give you a heads up in my personal lj when it's ready.

[divinemadam.livejournal.com]

Look! I'm all caught up on this one! Unfortunately, that means I have to wait for the last chapter. I guess I'll just have to satisfy myself with finishing Making Memories (yay!)

This chapter is so wonderful for many reasons. Obviously, it filled in a large chunk that was left out of the original. I realize that something had to be added because of the baby, but this just added so much more, like the phone sex and the cat calling! BTW, I would so bet that Billy actually has Scotland the Brave as a ring tone. And the phone call from Dave! Priceless. I laughed so hard, I cried. I look forward to the next chapter and seeing Dom with Angel and Billy. When it comes to grown men and babies, I say let the schmoop-fest begin!

[sassywitch.livejournal.com]

Yay for being caught up sweetie.

There's a whole lot more of Billy's past still to come.

David is so good at piss-taking with his brother I think it's adorable, he's in for a world of payback when Billy catches up with him.