Chapter 17: Brighton's bliss
On Friday 22nd February, David is coming home and finds Julia in her office in 10 Downing Street.
"Good evening, love" and he pecks a kiss on her lips
"Good evening, darling. How was your day?"
"It was good. We made a breakthrough on our big case, thanks to a suggestion I made"
"Congratulations, David. I am proud of you"
"How was your day?"
"I had a good day as well. I had my first cabinet meeting this morning and we made good decisions. The cabinet ministers are getting on well and some of them are starting to collaborate on some topics"
"Great! That means you have chosen them well. Do you have to work late tonight?"
"Well, I have to work for 3 more hours and then I will join you in our flat"
"OK"
"Whilst you are waiting for me, I suggest you prepare and overnight bag with 2 changes of warm clothes, a suit/shirt, a PJ (or not ) and a toiletry bag. And a rain jacket, in case of, even if the weather forecast is good"
"Mmmm do you plan to surprise me this weekend?"
"Absolutely. We leave London tomorrow morning"
"And where do we go? Do I need to take my passport?"
"No, we stay in the UK, but by all means don't forget to pack some condoms"
"Mmmm do you have some dirty plans, Prime Minister?"
"Of course, I do. Always. OK, let's stop here, before I demonstrate how dirty I can be. I need to have some work done to be totally free this weekend"
"Yes, Ma'am" and David leaves the room after a chaste kiss on her lips.
Julia is even more motivated to finish her work and she manages to finish everything in 2 hours. She joins David in their flat and she finds him snoring in front of the television. She puts a blanket lovingly on top of him, orders some food and prepares her own overnight bag whilst waiting for the delivery.
Her PPOs is knocking on the door with the food. The knock wakes up David who rubs his eyes.
"What time is it?"
"Time for food"
"Sorry to have fallen asleep"
"Don't be sorry, you needed it, the detective training and the extra hours during your internship at SO15 are taking a toll on you. Let's eat and then go to bed to catch on some sleep to be full of energy for the weekend ahead"
"OK"
They go to bed, David pulling her against his chest, spooning her, kissing her hair and murmuring: "I promise to make it up for you tomorrow""
"I don't doubt that. Night Night"
"Night Night"
The next morning they wake up naturally, without any alarm clock, the ultimate luxury in their life, being able to wake-up when they want, and not when they have to. They hug half asleep.
"What time is it?" asks a yawning Julia.
David looks at his phone: "10 a.m."
"We better be moving then"
After a quick shower and a quick breakfast, they take their bag and leave the flat.
"Where do we go love?"
"It's a surprise"
They get in the ministerial car with Julia's PPO and the back-up vehicle is following them"
"All I am telling you is that we have around 1h20 drive to get to our destination"
They nap in each other arms for an hour, as the workload of a newly elected Prime Minister is hitting Julia a bit as well, on top of the kidnapping 10 days ago and she is lulled by the car & David's caresses in her hair.
"Hum Hum, Prime Minister, we are almost at our destination"
They both rub their eyes and wake-up slowly"
"Thank you PS Davon"
David is looking around, trying to guess where they go.
"We go to Brighton"
"Indeed"
"I love Brighton"
"I know, your mum told me over Christmas. I love it very much myself too, so I thought it would be great to come here, as we don't have Ella & Charlie this weekend and as my workload is still manageable, as there is no bill to support at Parliament".
"Thank you, love"
They arrive at a nice small hotel and they have the rooftop room. There is a king size bed and a massive oval jet bathtub in the big bright room and an Italian shower that you can see from the bed, as the wall between the bathroom and the bedroom is partially in glass. They have 2 intertwined towel swans waiting for them on the bed.
"Ooohh so cute"
"Did you order this?" I never thought you were so romantic
"I didn't order it, but I suppose they watch TV and assumed you will be there with me. I can be romantic, David. I am not that cold bitch people so often think I am"
"Easy Julia, I know you are not at all a cold bitch. That's not what I said. I have often seen your soft, tender, loving & caring side. But it's one of the first time I am seeing your romantic side, love. Planning this weekend away for me is romantic. This hotel is romantic"
"I know what you mean. It's true that between the attack, the bombing, the rehabilitation, the PM campaign, Christmas with the family, the election the kidnapping.. it has been a whirlwind and I did not had a lots of opportunities to show you my romantic side"
Julia smiles and stretches her arms up.
"Aouch, it seems I have a bit of a sore back from my sleeping position in the car"
"Do you want a massage, love?"
"You would be so kind, darling" and she looks at him mischievously.
David gets the hint and laughs softly.
"Would you be so kind to remove your jumper and lie on the bed, on your stomach, Ma'am"
"You are so demanding, Sergeant" says Julia with a playful tone.
Julia grabs some massage oil in her toiletry bag and gives it to him. He sits on the back of his thighs and starts to massage her back, her neck, her lower back, her spine and the top of her bottom. Julia is relaxing completely. David's hands are going lower and lower until he massages her bottom with more and more pressure in his fingers.
David removes her jeans & her knickers. Julia flips herself on the bed and starts to kiss him and undresses him, slower than usual, taking in every inch of his body. David finally discards her bra and caresses her breast, her stomach, her back. Julia is caressing his chest, playing with the hairs on his chest. David lie on top of her and enters her very slowly, he very gently closes her legs which naturally parted for him. And he closes his legs too whilst thrusting into her gently. The sensations are very different for both of them and they continue to kiss and caress each other. It is very gentle and their pleasure is building up slowly. Julia is very wet and David increases the strength of his plunges, to make sure she still feels him. The waves of pleasure of her orgasm hit her, she quietly screams his name in his ears, holding him tightly against her body. David follows her soon after with a low groan. He stayed inside her, his body on top of her, caressing her body and her face, before slowly extracts himself from her body and her embrace.
"David, that was so gentle and so good"
"Yes, I wanted to try something a bit different, gentler than what we both usually like and a bit more romantic as well"
She smiles and kisses him.
"What do you want to do this afternoon love?"
"There is a picnic ready for us and I thought it would be great to have a nice walk alongside the sea and have picnic on the beach, as the weather is very sunny today, even warm for the season as we can expect 12 degrees. We will still take a blanket with us, in case we got cold"
"Great, let's go! I did not have a picnic on the beach for ages"
"I am glad"
Julia is wearing jeans, warm walking shoes, a warm puffer jacket, a nice hat and sunglasses, so nobody recognizes her and they manage to do all that, without being approached by other people. Her PPOs are also eating on the beach, on 3 different spots, forming a triangle around them, but giving them space. Armed police officers in uniform or in civil clothes are patrolling on the promenade alongside the sea and Julia know ARVs are ready to intervene in the event of an attack. She also knows that the maritime intervention brigade has reinforced offshore patrols since Wednesday. She feels safe in the arms of David. They cuddle on the beach, underneath a warm blanket.
"How are you feeling, Julia?"
"David, you are not my therapist and neither my doctor"
"No, I am not, love. But I am your boyfriend/ partner/ lover/ darling/ whatever you want to call me, and I genuinely care about you, Julia"
"Sorry for biting back a bit, David. I am not used to a partner genuinely caring about me"
"To answer your question, I am really feeling great. Physically, I almost don't take any painkiller anymore and I am able to walk for longer time periods. Psychologically, I am getting there. I can't swear that nothing could trigger me anymore but I am in a good place, David, really. You said several times that I have saved you, but you know you saved me as well, thrice"
"Thrice?"
"Well, physically during the Thornton Circus attack, the kidnapping and you saved me emotionally David"
"What do you mean?"
"Before meeting you, I was living a far crime of a fulfilling life. I was waking-up at 5h30, leaving my flat around 7h00, working in the office, in Parliament or having business dinners until 22h or 23h every day. No emotions allowed. No affection. No sex. No weekend. No holidays. Weekends were only meaning waking-up a little bit later (at 7h30) and being in the office at 9h until 19h30 to manage one dinner with my mum or the very little amount of friends I had left and still trusted. Christmas was no difference, except for Christmas lunch with my mum. I was married to my job, I had to work 10 times harder than men to prove myself, I had to be perfect all the time and I lost myself in it, I forgot all my needs, I even started to play these little bad games with the Security Services. I wasn't myself anymore, more like a caricature of myself. And then you barged into my life, well it was more like a crash-landing, and it changed everything David. You woke me up. You saved me. I will forever be thankful for that"
David is very emotional, very touched and his eyes are glassy.
"I love you, Julia"
"I love you, David"
"Do you want to go back to the hotel?"
"Good idea"
They go back to the hotel, walking hand in hand, hugging from time to time and kissing briefly on the lips.
"Do you want to try that very big oval jet bathtub together?"
"Oh yes, we have some time before dinner. I booked a table for 21h and it's a 10 minutes' walk from here.
"Great. Plenty of time"
"Plenty of time"
David ordered some champagne whilst Julia runs the bath.
They settle in the bath, with the massaging jets on, drinking some champagne, kissing and chatting happily. Then Julia puts down her glass of champagne by the bath, looks at David hungrily and straddle him very languidly, David takes her face in his hands and kisses her deeply.
They kiss for several minutes, caressing each other, playing with the bubbles and the jets. David managed to put a condom whilst sitting on the edge of the bath and coming back quickly in his initial position and Julia sinks on his sex slowly, looking in his eyes, caressing his cheeks, before kissing him again. David hold her tight in his arms. They start to move slowly together, the pleasure building up very gradually before the waves of pleasure & their orgasms hit them at the same time. They stay in the arms of each other, coming down from their high, enjoying the jets, sipping more champagne, still kissing & caressing each other until the water got cold. They get out the bath, just put a bathrobe on and have a nap in the arms of each other on their bed.
In the evening, they walk to the restaurant. David is wearing a navy blue suit that he knows Julia loves very much, a light blue shirt and a navy blue tie. Julia is wearing a crimson red lace dress with a boat neckline, above knee length (which is a big effort for her, as she tends to hide her prosthesis with long dresses or trousers but she surprises David as she is actually wearing her definitive prosthesis, which is more discrete and was prepared in secret for her) with black stockings and her beloved black Louboutin pumps. She practiced for hours with her physio and also alone in her office to be able to walk in them again without stumbling. Julia has booked a very nice dinner at the "64°" restaurant which is privatized for them for security reasons. 2 PPOs stand outside the main entrance and 1 outside the back entrance, so they are truly on their own and they can talk freely without being overheard. They take the dinner tasting menu with the accompaniment of wines.
"Julia, I would like to talk about something"
"Yes, David. About what?"
"I am a little bit nervous about it because we never talked about it before"
"Gosh, you sound so serious"
"I want to talk about money"
"What about money?"
"I don't want you to pay for everything this weekend"
"David, I organized a surprise weekend for you, of course, I am paying for it"
"Julia, it's embarrassing me. I know you earn around 155K£ a year, I am earning around 45K£. I know I will never be able to earn as much as you do and also I am coming from a middle-class family and you are coming from a very rich family"
"David, it has never been an issue before. Even at Christmas, with the first gathering of our families, you paid some food, I paid some, your parents & my mum paid some and your sister & her husband paid some. It was balanced and nobody felt wronged. Let's not create problems where there aren't any. When we went to Elderslie, I didn't pay anything. You insisted on paying every meal"
"Because I organized the surprise and it was normal"
"Exactly. This is the same for me this weekend. Honestly, David. I don't care how much you earn and how much you have on your bank account"
"But in Elderslie, we stayed at my parents', so I did not pay for a hotel. This very nice hotel must be very expensive"
"It isn't actually, and no, I don't want you to pay for anything. We will have other weekends together David. For the common expenses, I don't think it's fair to do 50/50. What about I pay 75% and you pay 25%, proportionally to our salaries? But I pay the Council Tax for 10 & 11 Downing Street".
"OK. That's fair. I am happy we had that discussion and OK, I will definitely surprise you soon for a nice weekend together, and you will not pay for anything"
"We have an agreement"
David says OK because he already has an idea in mind: he is going to take her to Iceland on the weekend of March 9th and 10th. He has already booked everything and arranged everything with Julia's PA & her PPO's and as he will normally be divorced by then, he will propose to her at the foot of a magnificent waterfall.
They return to their room after a romantic short stroll by the sea which is beautifully lit by the moon and by the famous Brighton seafront lanterns.
Julia's PPO is swiping the room to make sure it's secure and they enter in it.
David lets Julia enter first and he follows her closely. He puts his right hand at the back of her legs, between her legs at calf level and slowly raises his hand, caressing her slightly with the tip of his fingers. Julia shivers at the sensation. David does is again and Julia shivers again and turn around to face him. All he can see in her hazel-greenish eyes is lust.
"Can I help you, Sergeant Budd?"
David doesn't answer and crashed his mouth on hers. Julia answers eagerly. He presses her against his body and puts both hand at the back of her legs this time, slowly raising them both and tugging the elm of her dress, bringing it up. He caresses her back and search for the zip at the same time. He found the zip and starts to slowly unzip it. His hands resume where they were and he removes her dress by pulling it up above her head.
Julia is wearing a matching red lace bra & knickers he can see through the black stockings. He want to attack the removal of the stockings but Julia interrupted him.
"That's not fair Sergeant. You are wearing far too many clothes comparing to me"
And at that, Julia starts to undress him, whilst their tongue are still playing erotically.
When David his left only in his boxer shorts, Julia start to remove her stocking herself.
"Now we are even"
"No, we are not" and David unclasps her bra and discards it on the floor.
"Now we are"
David carries her in his arms and poses her delicately on the bed. They kiss and caress each other gently. Julia removes his boxer shorts and try to approach her mouth from his sex but David stops her.
"What about doing it together, at the same time?"
"Mmmm let's 69 then"
David discards her knickers and positions himself on the side, his face at her foot and her face at his foot. They lock eyes, smile and slowly moves to their respective target at the same time.
David starts to lap her sex and sometimes licks her clit. Julia takes David's sex in his mouth and starts to suck it with need. They find a synchronized rhythm and start to lose themselves in the other.
David is feeling close to explode in her mouth, so he stops lapping her sex, removes gently his cock from her mouth whilst caressing her everywhere his hands can access, he takes her face in his hands and kisses her deeply. He turns her around slowly, still caressing her with a little bit of pressure on his fingers and position her gently in a dog position. He positions himself behind her and enters her very slowly, caressing her spine, kissing her lower back. He starts to thrust into her very slowly in, slowly out, again and again, until she urges him.
"Faster. Stronger. Deeper. David"
"No. I want your pleasure to build up slowly and last longer than what we usually do"
"This is torture"
"No, this is lengthening the pleasure" and saying that he starts to stimulate her clit whilst continuing the slow plunges in, but allowing himself to go deeper.
Julia screams out at the sensation and starts to moan more and more, which is turning David on even more.
He finally allows himself to increase the speed and the strength of his thrusts and after 2 more thrusts, the walls of her cunt are tightening around his cock driving him to oblivion and shaking as he comes hard, his hands tightening her hips almost painfully and crying out her name, before collapsing on top of her, still inside her, but holding his weight on his palms flat on the bed to avoid to crush her. Julia is totally out of her mind, still "orgasming" and almost in a trance. She continues to squirm underneath David, she whimpers, she lets out some small cries and she squirts. David looks at her lovingly. He never experienced that before and finds it very sexy.
At the sight of her squirting, he feels himself stiffing again and without thinking, he grabs the juice of Julia, puts some on his sex, and uses some to massage her anus and lubricate it, then enters carefully one finger. Julia is whimpering again.
"May I?"
"Oh yes"
David doesn't waste any time and align his sex with her back entrance and enters her slowly in, slowly out, deeper and deeper with the time, continuing to add some of her juice to make sure this isn't painful for her and enough lubricated, until she takes all his length. He rocks slowly his body around hers. One hand is squeezing tightly on her hips and the other is stimulating her clit. Julia is getting wilder which turns him on even more and he starts to plunge into her deeper & faster. They are both moaning very loudly until David explodes inside her. Julia feels his sex contracting and then spilling inside her bum. She exhales a long breath and a small cry as another orgasm hits her as well a few seconds later. They both collapse on the bed, exhausted and sexually sated.
Julia is finally calming down and she opens her eyes slowly to find her favorite pair of blue eyes looking at her lovingly. David kisses her heart shaped face tenderly, her neck, her hair, her nose then finally her lips.
"Are you alright love?"
"Yes, more than alright. I have never been a squirter before"
"It was so very sexy"
"You obviously have a strong effect on me, David"
"And you on me, Julia. I stiffened the second you squirted, despite having just ejaculated. I have never been able to have sex again so quickly after a sexual relationship"
"I'm glad"
"Good night, love"
"Good night, darling"
They fall in a deep slumber, entwined in the arms of each other, David holding her tightly.
On Sunday, they wake-up again without any alarm clock, around 9h30. Julia orders some breakfast in bed whilst David is having a shower. She admires him from the bed, through the glass wall.
"David"
"Yes"
"I have ordered breakfast and it will be delivered soon. Can you, please, wait for me. I would like to join you in the shower. I have another type of hunger to satisfy first"
"Oh, you do? Tell me, what are you hungry for? What do you expect for breakfast, Ma'am?"
"Mmm a very yummy Scotsman, however he wants to be eaten or to eat me"
"I see"
"May I suggest that very comfortable couch Ma'am. It inspired me from the moment we entered in the room"
"Oh really, I thought I was the one inspiring you"
"Well, you are not a furniture Ma'am"
Julia laughs.
"Well played Sergeant, well played"
"I will be waiting for you on the couch then". I suggest you stay under the shower until breakfast is there, to avoid to stop in between of something much more interesting than food"
"Yes, Ma'am"
Breakfast is on the table. Julia heard the shower stopping as from the moment there was a knock on the door.
David waited the maid to leave the room and enters in the bedroom, naked, looking at Julia like a lion ready to jump on his prey. Julia got changed and she is wearing the lingerie ensemble he gave her for Valentine's and black stockings. She is lying on the couch with one leg flat (the one with our prosthesis) and the other one bent 90 degrees.
David's eyes narrows and he smiles, looking at her hungrily.
"You look so beautiful, love"
"I wanted to get properly dressed for our breakfast" pouts Julia
"Mmm can we start our breakfast now and stop talking"
David is on top of her on the couch, kissing her passionately before Julia had the time to blink. Julia lets out a small scream by surprise but then she answers his kisses eagerly. David discards her thong, gets down on his knees on the floor, positions her gently on the couch with her legs parted and dives between her legs.
His tongue is playing between her folds and her clit whilst his hands are caressing her inner thighs. He removes her stockings. He flips her on her stomach on the couch, removes her bra and massages her back, peppering kisses up & down her spine, caresses her bum and kisses it. She flips back on her back and he starts to massage her breast with one hand whilst the other stimulates her clit.
Julia is moaning more and more. She pulls him on top of her and kisses him breathless.
"David, I want you inside me now, please"
"Yes, Ma'am"
David put her legs up, her left one on top of his right shoulder and her right one on top of his left shoulder, both are embracing his face.
David plunges into her. Julia moans at the sensation.
The angle is very different for both of them and the pleasure is building up quickly, David increasing the pace gradually and they reach their peak at the same time, letting escape a loud moan each.
"I think you need another shower, Sergeant Budd"
"I do but I think you could do with one yourself, Prime Minister"
"Indeed"
"But I want a real breakfast first, I am starving"
They shower together, washing each other gently and kissing a lot underneath the warm water. They are finally dressed and all packed.
They visit the Royal Pavilion, as 2 anonymous tourists. The place is really beautiful and they both enjoy it a lot. They have a late lunch at Wagamama nearby and after a last romantic walk alongside the beach, they head back to London.
"David, we have got the kids next weekend. What would you think to all go to Chequers, it would be our first time there and I really would like to associate the kids to it"
"That's a very good idea, love. They will love it, I am sure"
"There are plenty of things to do with the kids & we could even go to Lego Land, it's about a 45 minutes drive"
"Are you sure about that?"
"I have been there with Ella when she was 5 and I barely survived"
"Well, they are older now and after some glasses of wine, I am sure we will be fine. The perks that come with having a driver"
They both laugh