Challenge # 43: Someone starts something new.

Title: With the Moon at Bay

Rating: R

Pairing: RL/?

Her skin tasted so sweet…like ripening fruit after a summer rain. Sweet and firm and sensuous against his lips. He enjoyed running his warm hands slowly down over her body and having her do the same to his…tracing the physical scars of his existence with gentle fingers and the fantasy of kissing them away.

Warm dappled sunlight caressed her hair and set her eyes to sparkling as they lay nestled together in the soft fragrant grass of the meadow, high above Hogwarts. Everything smelled of summer and love and a hope that he hadn't felt in many years. Nature lulled them all around with its quiet sounds of life, and her low laughter echoed comfortingly in his ears filling him with one of those moments of pure happiness that he treasured for their rarity.

Taking a new lover was always an experience to be savored…and he intended to do just that…for few enough had ever come his way. His lips brushed over her skin slowly, moving downward from the swift pulsing at her delicate throat then pausing to kiss and suckle on her nipples…first one and then the other, tasting and comparing the incomparable. His tongue glided down and around each weighted mound and then ever so slowly blazed a path down across her abdomen pausing to swirl itself around her navel before sliding lower to part the soft patch of hair and dip into the honeyed flesh beneath.

A soft sigh met his sharp ears and her body arched suddenly beneath his roughened hands as his tongue and lips found exactly the spot they sought. He could feel his own body responding to the soft cries she made as he brought her to climax beneath his touch. Her long fingers raked excitedly through his tousled gray streaked hair as she gasped out his name to the sky above. His heart reveled in the sound joyously spouting from her lips.

Beneath the boughs of the close and sheltering tree, she lay panting softly as she watched him with shining eyes; the golden spots of sunshine that slipped through the branches overhead, swayed gently across her moist gleaming skin. With a smile filled with desire she opened her arms and legs and drew him within allowing him to fill her with love and his deep need for her. Hands clutched desperately at each other as once more they touched the sky, this time as one…under the warmth of the summer sun…with the moon at bay.