A/N: just to warn you, there's lots of R rated stuff in this chapter so if you're offended by that kind of thing just skip this one, you won't miss any plot. What am I saying, this is what you've all been waiting for, isn't it?

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"You know what your problem is Lara?" Alex asked between kisses.

Lara pulled away and stood facing him in the dim light that came from a streetlamp outside her bedroom window.

"No, but I'm sure you're about to tell me..." she paused, cocking her head to one side with a thoughtful expression, "hang on, how is this trying to get on with me?"

Alex shrugged and decided he would tell her. "Your problem Lara, is that you always have to be in control." He said it as if he'd just laid the winning card on the table.

As could be expected, Lara didn't seem overly impressed. "I'm beginning to think you actually enjoy arguing with me - as soon as things are going well you purposely go and say something like that to provoke me."

Alex hung his head but began moving closer to her. "I didn't say it to try and provoke you, I'm just trying to get to the bottom of why we keep fighting."

"Other than you saying things that you know will annoy me?" Her voice was raised now.

Alex rubbed a hand across his face, trying to decide how best to deal with the situation that was arising. He really didn't want to get punched again - Lara normally made him slightly nervous but when she was pregnant, with all those hormones flying around...well, she was unpredictable to put it mildly. "Are you saying it's not true? That you don't always have to be in control?"

Lara thought for a second, maybe he did have a point. She wasn't going to admit that though. "Yes, Alex, I am. I can cope with not being in control. It's just things work out much better if I am," this last part under her breath.

Her adversary smiled slightly at this and nodded. "Prove it," he said, a twinkle in his eye just discernible in the dark room.

This made Lara suspicious. "How?" she asked cautiously, crossing her arms.

"You'll see," Alex replied, grinning broadly now as he moved to stand right in front of her and gently cupped her face with his hands. He leant forward and directed her face so that their lips met. Lara didn't respond at first, but eventually she relented, uncrossing her arms and placing them around his waist as they kissed deeply. The feelings of pleasure that him kissing her aroused simply couldn't be ignored.

Sliding his hands down her shoulders, then her arms, Alex gripped Lara's wrists gently but firmly and began to push her backwards towards the bed. She allowed herself to be lowered down, but struggled instinctively when Alex attempted to push one arm then the other back onto the pillows behind her head. He gritted his teeth and found extra strength to get her pinned down, then smiled at her angry expression.

"Lara, you said you didn't have to be in control!" he exclaimed with amusement as he transferred her hands to one of his and used his body weight to press down and prevent her getting free.

Lara opened her mouth to protest, but thought better off it and closed it again. She struggled vainly against his grip, but he was, frustratingly, stronger than her.

"You're just proving my point!" Alex laughed easily, as he used his free hand to lift Lara's dress up over her body, pausing when he couldn't get it off because he was holding her hands down against the bed.

He released her and Lara allowed him to remove her only item of clothing with a sigh. "Why do I have to prove mine in a way that is so much fun for you?" she grumbled.

Alex growled in response, then silenced her protests with a passionate kiss. Lara reached out one of her now-free hands and ran it down his chest, stroking the toned muscles under his shirt, then down to his crotch, which she began to massage as they continued to kiss. Alex let her for a while, then reluctantly removed her hand and pushed it down onto the bed again with a shake of his head, taking hold of her other hand at the same time to put her back in the captured position.

He ran his other hand lightly over her cheek, then down over her body. Lara arched her back as he brushed it over her left breast, and smiling at the effect this had he proceeded to repeat the action a couple of times before stopping, which elicited a frustrated moan.

"Now, are you going to stay put or am I going to have to tie you up?"

Lara's eyes popped open at the question and she caught Alex's penetrating gaze. The thought caused the burning feeling of desire in her very centre to increase, but at the same time the idea of being tied up was instinctively alarming to her and she automatically pulled against his grip before realising what she was doing.

"If that's the way you want to play it," Alex teased, a smile spreading across his face again as he used his free hand to loosen his tie. He roughly pulled it off and leant down to catch Lara's mouth in an urgent kiss. As he tried to pull away she caught his bottom lip between her teeth causing him to groan slightly and release his grip on her wrists somewhat as they continued to kiss. Feeling uncomfortable, he lowered his body until he was lying on top of her. Lara rubbed her naked body slightly against his erection eliciting a gasp from Alex, who couldn't help but respond to her movements. He pulled away from the kiss and began frantically kissing and biting her neck as he moved against her.

Lara took the opportunity to pull her hands free. "How do you expect to control me if you can't even control yourself?" she commented.

Alex stopped what he was doing, "right, that's it, you asked for it!" he said with a glint in his eye. Before Lara could protest, he grabbed her wrists again and forced them up behind her head, then used the tie he had just taken off to fasten them quickly to one of the bedposts.

He then sat back to look with satisfaction at the naked woman tied to the bed, while he remained fully clothed. "So, I think I'm pretty much in control of this situation now," he told her as he began to place kisses all over her body, everywhere except the one place she was desperate to feel his lips.

"Alex..." she groaned, eyes tightly shut.

He looked up, "what?"

"I...I want you," she said simply.

"I know," he replied with a grin, "but I'm in control, I get to decide when."

"Please?"

Alex relented slightly and brushed a hand against her intimate area. She involuntarily bucked her hips against the sensation as she gasped out loud. He laughed slightly at her response and placed his hands under her hips to hold her where he wanted. "Wow, this is torture for you isn't it?" he asked, as Lara screwed her eyes tight shut in anticipation of what she desperately wanted him to do.

"Oh...my...god," she breathed as he touched his tongue ever so gently against her clit, and then began slowly moving it in the way he knew she enjoyed most. She writhed against him but Alex held her still as he continued to pleasure her. The sensation was too much for Lara to bear but there was nothing she could do to stop him dictating the intense feelings his actions were creating.

"No, that's too much," she groaned, but this only encouraged Alex to increase the obviously unbearable stimulation. Sliding two fingers easily inside her he began to caress her until by her moaning he could tell he'd found her g-spot. Rubbing this area in time with the movements of his tongue quickly led to Lara shouting his name and trying desperately to pull away from his grip.

"This is..." she stopped mid-sentence as the familiar waves of pleasure suddenly spread over her body, but more intensely than she had ever experienced before and she couldn't help but scream out loud. Alex continued to flick gently with his tongue until she eventually stopped contracting around his fingers, at which point he looked up at the satisfied expression her face. He grinned like a cheshire cat and crawled up the bed until he was positioned above her to look at it more closely.

Lara opened her eyes and smiled equally broadly back at him. "I'll have to tie you up more often," he commented as he began to loosen her bonds. He paused, "but if I let you go will you promise not to try and take control?" Lara looked at him quizzically, "I'm not nearly done with you yet," he growled in explanation.

She nodded in acquiescence, but as soon as her hands were free she put them to use removing Alex's clothes as quickly as possible. As soon as she was done, however, he pushed her back down onto the bed, unable to do anything but enter her immediately and pump into her hungrily, like a man who hadn't eaten for a week. He very quickly felt he was about to climax and slowed down slightly but this hardly changed matters. Breathing heavily he just managed to murmur "I'm sorry," into Lara's ear before exploding inside her as he buried his face in the pillow by her head.

She laughed softly and stroked Alex's hair as he lazily kissed her shoulder.

"Don't laugh at me, I couldn't help it," he grumbled almost incoherently, his face still in the pillow.

"I was laughing at you apologising," she explained, hugging his hot, sticky body tightly against her own.