WARNING! This story definitely is M-rated. You should not read it if you aren't prepared for reading about things going on between lovers (and such). This is a serious warning! If you don't like that stuff then don't read it. If you read it anyway then don't blame me!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original characters nor the original Inspector Lynley Mysteries – they belong to Elizabeth George and the BBC. I have borrowed the characters from the TV-Show and only own the ideas of my stories.

Author's note and summary: ES2 - This is an alternative ending for the story Another Happy Birthday. It's a treat and M-rated for reasons.

If you like it, please leave a comment. Thank you! Now, enjoy...

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Zero Gravity

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"What is it you wanted to tell me?" Barbara hoarsely whispered.

"Have I ever told you that in this garden there's not a single spot where the neighbours are able to see us?" he quietly murmured before he bent down again and their lips finally met.

At first his lips only brushed hers tentatively. Barbara closed her eyes and slightly puckered her lips to prolong the contact. Tommy moved away a bit and kissed the left corner, then the right corner of her mouth just lightly. She turned her head and their lips fully met again. Slowly, and slowly increasing the intensity, they continued their kiss.

Eventually they even stopped their dancing. Their lips and tongues did not.

"I love you, my birthday girl." he breathed onto her open lips after a long while.

"I love you too." she replied and closed the small gap again.

In an instant, their tongues continued their slow dance. Finally their bodies stopped moving around completely. They held each other close and even a bit closer until only their hips were gyrating in something like a gentle rhythm. It had lost its connection with the music coming from the living room. They had their own personal melody playing for them.

Kissing deeply and breathing only past tongues and lips, they started to caress each other. At first Barbara's hands were on his neck and in his nape, fingers dug deeply into his hair, but then she let her fingertips glide down to his collar. One by one she opened the buttons of his shirt before she recognised his hands on the naked skin under her own shirt.

"Thomas..." she whispered and he briefly paused pushing her shirt upwards. But no question was asked, no further objections followed. She did not seem to have any.

When she had opened the last button of his shirt and pushed it open with flat hands on his chest Tommy's fingers had reached her bra. The clasp was open in an instant and similarly quick he helped her out of shirt and bra in one move.

"Yes, my love..." he mumbled and kissed her bare shoulder.

Barbara pushed his shirt over his shoulders so it fell to the ground with just a small wriggle of his arms.

They deepened their kiss and pressed their naked chests together. Both of his arms encircled her waist and hers were looped around his neck. The gentle fight of their tongues continued for a while.

Tommy let his fingertips glide across her sides, then across her back until he moved his hands under her jeans on her bottom cheeks. He pulled her hips closer against the hard bulge under his own trousers.

"Oooh." she breathed onto his lips and pressed herself against him freely.

"Mmmh." he hummed his approval.

Barbara let one arm lying around his neck, but her other hand moved to his belt. She opened it quite skilled and button and fly were no real challenge either. She pushed his trousers downwards until they fell on their own. Somebody down there felt relieved when he finally was able to breathe the balmy air of this summer night. And his already hard member enjoyed the gentle touches of her careful fingertips. She followed the step Tommy made and felt both of his hands open her jeans quickly.

The denim joined the small heap of cloth on the grass.

A gasp escaped his mouth when he returned his hands to her bottom cheeks. He had not recognised that he also had removed her knickers when he had helped her out of the jeans but his fingers now felt bare skin.

"Oh, you've been naked underneath?" Tommy asked between kisses.

"No." Barbara answered impishly. In that moment he recognised the strap around her hips. He sharply inhaled. She was wearing a G-string. She was not doing that very often but he always loved it and he loved how she always found the right times, always was able to surprise him. "I've felt so sexy all day long, I wonder you haven't recognised it."

"You're sexy all the time." he answered onto her lips and added a very approving "Mmmmh!" when he hooked his thumbs under the strings on both sides to let them snap. Carefully he let his fingers move along the line up to the small triangle of cloth on her front where one of his thumbs vanished even deeper.

"Oooh..." she breathed again and pulled him closer.

Suddenly their right hands were stuck between their bodies, touching very intimate parts deliciously. Their kiss instantly turned slightly more demanding.

How their underwear ended on the floor was a miracle but it happened rather quickly.

After several moments Barbara's feet left the ground. Tommy had lifted her into the air.

"What are you doing?" she asked breathlessly when he knelt down with her in his arms.

"I intend..." he began and lowered her body onto the cool grass. "...to make love..." Pulling his hands away from under her body he kissed her cleavage. "...with you..." Tommy placed a kiss on the taut peak of her left breast. "...right here on the grass..." Gentle lips nibbled on the hard bud of her right breast.

"We shouldn't m-mmh..." Her lips were sealed for a second.

"Yes." he countered her silenced objection and placed one knee between her open legs. "We should."

In fact, she agreed.

Propped on his lower arms Tommy hovered above her body. Heat radiated from her skin and he loved to hear the small hisses from her lips every time his best buddy touched her belly or her thigh while he placed kisses onto the small green gem around her neck, onto her cleavage and onto her breasts. He could swear they already were a bit bigger than they were and silently praised the blessings of her pregnancy.

He gently kneaded them and realised that he had lowered his groin onto her hip in a way that his hard erection easily slid between her folds. He could feel that Barbara was already very wet and so he was covered in her juices immediately. Looking up Tommy saw Barbara's face in the dim lights from the sphere lamps in the garden. As chance would have it, the couple was lying perfectly in the middle of the triangle of light.

Barbara did not see much of it. She grinned and had her eyes closed. She visibly enjoyed every single one of his touch.

"Yeah..." Tommy muttered onto her skin and continued his lips' journey southward until he reached her abdomen.

"Knock, knock." he breathed onto her pubic mound and Barbara snickered lightly. Her hand fondled his nape. She knew where his lips were heading and the anticipation was highly arousing.

He kissed her deeper down there, slightly to the left, avoiding the very sensitive spot. Then he kissed her slightly to the right, still avoiding the centre, thus making her wriggle slowly. He knew what she wanted. By now he was kneeling between her legs completely and his hands caressed her thighs, with his thumbs very close to her outer folds and his face very close nearby.

"Hello baby." Tommy whispered gently above her pink nub. Barbara chuckled. "Excuse me for interrupting..."

That was too much. Barbara had to laugh loudly. He grinned and moved his thumbs closer to the centre.

"Hahahaha- Oh, gaaaawd!" Her laughter turned into a deep groan in the sudden moment when Tommy sucked at her pleasure button and at the same time his thumbs slid across the wet parts underneath with gentle pressure. Barbara's fingers grabbed harder into his hair and it took him only a few licks and strokes to push her over the brink and into a small orgasm.

He always loved to give her the pleasure. He loved it so much that he always had to compose himself before he went on or everything that followed would not last longer than a few heavy thrusts.

A trail of wet kisses across her body usually soothed them enough to continue with tenderness.

Barbara breathed hard so he avoided her face for a little bit longer. Tommy knew just the right spot behind her ear to tickle her gently and keep up her state of eager defencelessness.

"Mmmh." she hummed, caressing his chest. He was kissing and nibbling her tenderly but kept his lower body away from her groin that ached so much for more contact. With a bit of impatience, Barbara finally pulled down his hips onto hers and then had to approve of the gorgeous touch of his hard erection with another low moan.

Tommy kept calm though. He felt her pressing her pelvis up against his in slow circles but he simply enjoyed her eagerness for a while. It rose up to the point where she pushed his body away from her only to follow him around.

Now it was his turn to hum his approval. "Mmmmh! Yeah!"

Barbara straddled him. She sat up and changed the sensational friction between their bodies. Her swollen folds held his full length between them and the way she slowly rubbed herself across it felt more than terrific. After several moments with her lips on his chest and her hands on his arms, she straightened her back.

"Oh!" she breathed with a grin and continued coating him with her wetness. He looked defeated and expectant and she always loved the little signs of restraint in his face. There was hunger for more and at the same time the will to control himself as long as he could, no matter what she did to him. She knew it was all for her own in those moments.

Tommy watched her enjoying herself on top of him. She knew the right spots that gave him as much pleasure as she had without letting him lose control. Her lower regions were swollen and hot and he felt it distinctly on himself. And he saw in her eyes, every time they widened just a tad, when his shaft and her pink nub met in another extraordinarily pleasing way. He loved it just as much.

Now she leant forward and reached his lips with hers. But the desire laden kiss she gave him only briefly distracted him. Without effort and with the changed angle of their bodies, Barbara let his full length glide inside her wet centre just as slowly as she let her tongue invade his mouth deeply.

"Aaah..." she moaned toneless when she sat up again with Tommy buried inside her womb.

While he sluggishly rolled his hip against hers from below in circles, she moved her groin up and down in such a tender way that was destined to last forever.

Of course it did not last forever. At one point her breathing had increased to an almost hissing sound until her body briefly cramped around him in a shock wave of another small orgasm. Barbara enjoyed it by herself but Tommy knew their encounter definitely was not about to end here. Although it was difficult not to give in to his own desires.

But he took advantage of her following moments of soft depletion and rolled them both around so that she was underneath his body again.

Their connected parts did not lose contact at all. Tommy stayed inside Barbara while they turned. He still could feel her little involuntary twitches on his strong member.

She lifted her bent legs and even hooked one feet into the back of his knees. It was of course not restricting the movements he made. He slid out of her almost completely before he pushed his hard erection back into her throbbing sanctuary. He repeated it again and again, slowly, gently, deeper and deeper, enjoying it every time the tip of his cock widened the tightening path inside, revelling in every touch of his glans against the spot within where she loved it the most, where he could feel the ongoing rising of her arousal.

The way he kept his pace on a slow level he kept them going like this for a long time. Eventually they stopped moving just their groins and they rolled around to one side or the other, closely hugging, deeply kissing, gently caressing each other and blessing every bit of naked skin with touches and caresses, gently teasing licks and tenderly playful gnawing.

The grass underneath was cool and their bodies were hot. The difference was electrifying and added to their experience. Above them, the sky turned darker with more and more city lights going off in the night.

Eventually Barbara had stopped another turn with a lifted knee, so she was lying under his body again. She felt the need for more distinct friction. Her constricting muscles lured his strong erection deeper inside again. She wanted to feel him hit home and he wanted the same.

Playtime was over.

In the moment Barbara had stopped them rolling around, Tommy propped himself onto his arms. Just his head hung down between his shoulders so his lips could reach hers. He enjoyed another brief moment of her muscle twitches around his cock before he moved again.

Small sighs of joy and little moans of pleasure filled their ears when they simultaneously started rocking their hips against the other again.

It was a warm night and they had started to sweat from their exercise. Everywhere their skin touched they moved easily across. Her hands roamed his body. His lips covered hers. His tongue invaded her mouth. They breathed each other, they devoured each other, while the difference of the cool dampness of the grass and their sweating hot bodies lets them feel disconnected from the ground.

It was their own sphere of love that surrounded them, dimly lit by three small light orbs in the unnoticed garden, the twinkling stars high above them and the burning fire between their bodies.

Eventually Tommy increased the pace of his thrusts from gently unhasting to delicately slow.

"Oh, goooosh..." Barbara almost only exhaled the words. The faint line of stars in her blurred vision seemed to approach them. She grabbed gently but claiming into Tommy's thigh. A shiver went through her body and her inner muscles suddenly convulsed around his shaft in a shudder. "My!" She inhaled the word.

"Oh, Barbara..." Tommy whispered and felt himself reaching the point on the edge.

She took the decision for him when she hissed with tender demand "Go!"

Her inner walls dictated the same as he pushed himself deeper into her and so he picked up a soft speed. They collided like this several times. The world around them spun faster, whereas their encounter still felt as if the space where they were stood perfectly still.

For a few glimpses past his face Barbara looked into the tangerine black sky, dotted with blinking stars before she looked at Tommy again. More imagining than seeing his dark eyes she knew that Tommy wanted to ram himself harder into her. His restricted moans told her that he was sharply before the finale. She was there herself but she wanted to enjoy the feelings inside for as long as both would be able to hold it back but a fire of need rushed through her veins and shot her mind into the universe. The sizzle of a burning fuse filled her abdomen. His hard erection filled her insides and his balls touched her folds in the most pleasant way.

"Aaah..." he softly moaned again. The smell of their sweating bodies, the scent of their lovemaking, the remnants of her perfume and his aftershave surrounded them, even though there was a light breeze of air wafting through the garden. Or was it the airstream of their emotional journey through the universe?

When Barbara looped her left leg around his right she changed the angle of their bodies again and this was the last bit they needed.

Their pace still was slow but it was harder and definitely targeted by now. Tommy thrusted as deep inside as he could and Barbara lifted herself against him. She grabbed into the grass. She ripped it off the ground but it could not prevent them from lifting off.

"Ooough." she moaned quietly. The fire and the sizzle inside had turned into a blaze that was quickly moving towards her pulsating inner muscles. "Gooo-aye." Barbara groaned incoherently.

This and her fingers digging into the flesh of his shoulder made him lose it. Tommy was not able anymore to hold back anything. He supported himself on knees and one arm, the other hand held her close to him and he thrusted himself into the welcoming explosion around his cock a couple of times.

"Oummmh!" he groaned between her breasts. The warmth and the wetness and her strong constrictions were proof that they would come together in just a few moments.

Barbara arched her back and closed her eyes. One of her arms fell into the grass when she lost track of time and space. Their bodies seemed to hover above the grass. The clenching muscles pulled him deeper inside when she lowly groaned. A wave of orgasm shook them both almost in the same moment. He stilled his thrusts a couple of times and pounded into her a couple of times more.

"Barbara!" He almost growled.

"Thom...mmm!" She almost cried out.

And with the last stilled movement they fell apart together completely. In that moment, the couple was engulfed by zero gravity.

Barbara whimpered for the time her entire body was tense and cramped, but it was a whimper of pleasure.

Tommy panted as if he was fighting for breath while he poured his love into her several hot moments, but it was blissful exhaustion.

Their muscles slackened just a few moments later. They were spent and filled and worn out. Barbara let her arms and legs lie spread out on the cooling grass with a last moan. Tommy sunk down on her body with a deep sigh. She did not feel his weight. She still did not feel gravity at all. Everything still felt light but he only kept lying there for a second or two and rolled off before that feeling of floating would end.

In the rapturous aftermath, both were panting hard and they faced the nightly sky with closed eyes and a satisfied smile in their faces.

"Mmmh... Maybe they had no chance to see us," Barbara eventually stated with a low voice "but I'm very sure they've heard what we've just done." She laid on her back and kept staring into the stars above her. The milky way was vaguely perceptible, now even a bit more than earlier. She still fought for breath. She still felt blissfully exhausted. She still grinned.

"I don't think so." Tommy objected and rolled back against her side. Their bodies still were coated with sweat. "It's late in the night. And you've been exceptionally quiet, my love. I wonder if it really was ful-"

"Ah, sh!" Barbara turned and placed a finger onto his lips. "It was heavenly wonderful, Thomas." Then she pulled his face onto hers again and silenced any further awkward conversation with a kiss. Tommy felt that they were swollen and soft. "But I think, now we should go inside and have a nice nap. Decently in our bed. I really don't want to get caught here by Denton when he does his workouts tomorrow morning."

Tommy laughed out loud but fulfilled her wish and got up from the grass. Still lying there for a few moments longer, Barbara admired his naked body while he collected their clothes. Only when he held out his hand to her she accepted it. Together they hurried across the lawn and towards the house.

Barbara had thrown on his shirt and led the way up the stony stairs where Tommy suddenly placed a kiss onto her naked bum cheek.

"Thomas!" she chided him with a chuckle. She loved it nonetheless.

"What?" His grin was audible. They reached the veranda where he pulled her into a hug from behind. "I know you hadn't wanted one, but wasn't it a very nice garden party?"

Although he gently nibbled at her earlobe, any romantic intentions were thwarted in an instant. Barbara snorted with laughter and could not stop. She laughed so hard, that he thought this definitely could be heard in the neighbourhood.

"Oh, you..." she said with continuing amusement and gently slapped his naked belly with the back of her hand. "Now come inside."

To be honest, as naked as they were, it also had started to become a bit fresh out there.

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