30th April 2013. Firstly I'm still recovering from the show last night. The scene in the Vic was so so sad. Jacqueline was amazing.

This is the day after the night before... I wonder what Lauren has got planned for today.

Chapter 27.

Joey was the first awake the following morning and he had an inkling he had worn out his fiancée the previous night. It felt strange to think of her as that although he wasn't disappointed. She was sprawled across the bed, her face looking completely at ease. He brushed her hair back from her face and stared at her beauty. He pulled down the sheet. Throughout their many trysts the night before they had eventually removed her clothes and she lay before him now, naked as the day she was born.

She got more beautiful every day and she seemed to have found an inner confidence over the last few months; since leaving Walford. He loved her so intensely. His thoughts drifted again to what their future held; he knew there was a very high chance that one day he would lose her and that thought scared him. He wasn't sure he knew how to function without her in his life anymore. And he didn't want to try and imagine what that would be like. It would kill him to have to face that happening, he knew that much. He was scared about that possibility but at the moment it was just something in the dim distant future. He just hoped it never became a reality.

She stirred as he watched her and opened her eyes, looking up at her. "Have you been watching me sleep?" she murmured, covering her face with her hands.

"Does it matter if I have?" he asked, pulling one of her hands down. She opened her eye and looked at him and her face was definitely darkening in colour. "You're so beautiful, baby girl, why wouldn't I want to look at you? You're the first thing I want to see every morning and the last thing I want to see when I fall asleep."

"I remember a time when I said something pretty similar to you." She admitted, her other hand falling from her face as she looked at him.

"So I've been thinking..."

"That sounds dangerous..." she teased.

He frowned at her and she giggled. "I thought maybe we can skip the sightseeing today and just spend the time together, here but after what you just said, I'm not so sure it's a good idea."

"I'm sorry, baby... I was just teasing you."

"Maybe you just need to be punished instead." He whispered to her. She moaned and closed her eyes, edging her body closer to him.

"I think your idea has a lot of merit, baby." She told him. "Maybe I should wear what I had planned for tonight now? Would you like that?"

"Yes... but maybe you should order us some lunch first and maybe put something on."

"I wouldn't want you to get jealous..." she agreed. She made a call on the phone and ordered them something for lunch, in Italian again. Joey moaned quietly as he heard her speak and he leant forward and kissed her neck, sucking softly on the skin and marking it. His mouth moved lower as she put down the phone and he pulled her nipple between his lips and caressed it with his tongue. His hand cupped her other breast and she whimpered beneath him. "Joe, I need to put some clothes on... and so do you."

"We've got a few minutes before the food arrives."

"What you're got planned will take more than a few minutes and you know it." She chuckled.

"Just a couple of minutes, I promise..." he murmured against her skin. He had no intention of stopping until he absolutely had to. His mouth continued its previous task and when his fingers brushed between her legs she gasped and tried to move away from him.

"Joey, stop..." He touched her again, his finger slipping inside, soon joined by a second and third. He felt the moment she broke around him and he lifted his head and watched her face as she gasped his name as her body clenched around his hand. He pulled his fingers from inside her and licked each one clean as he heard the soft knock on the door. He dragged himself from the bed, slipping his boxers on, over his semi-erect cock and then pulled on a gown. He made sure Lauren was fully covered, seeing that she was lying on the bed, unable to move. He opened the door and took the tray of food from the waiter, passing him a tip before shutting the door again.

He put the tray on the edge of the bed and then removed his gown before climbing into the bed beside Lauren. She sat up, letting the cover fall to her waist and staring at him. As was usually the case his eyes focused in on her chest and he moved closer to her, his hand rising to cup one of them. She knocked his hand away, "I don't think so, baby..." she said, "we've got to eat our food. I'm starving." She smiled at the look of disappointment for what he'd just done. They ate their sandwiches in silence. Joey would occasionally try and kiss her or touch her but she was having none of it. Lauren finished eating before Joey did and she decided she was going to have her own fun while she waited for him to be ready. She picked up the baby book that Alice had given him and started to read one of the early chapters as she ever so slowly moved her feet closer to him until they were eventually sitting on his lap. He smirked at her but Lauren didn't react at all. Little did he know she was going to have the last laugh. His face dropped slightly when the ball of her foot brushed against his erection. He looked at her but she had a look of innocence on her face as she continued to read the book. Her foot kept teasing him until she could feel his hard length pressing against the boxers he still wore. He grabbed her ankle and yanked her towards him.

"Enough, baby girl..." he said as he pressed his groin against hers. "That was cruel..." he moaned, seeing her grinning up at him.

"And what you did wasn't?" she said, raising her eyebrow.

"Fine... we're both as bad as each other..." he relented.

"Sounds like we're equally matched." She said with a smile.

"It does, doesn't it?"

Lauren wriggled out from beneath him and climbed off the bed, walking towards the cupboard and pulled out the last outfit. With a sexiness she was rarely comfortable exhibiting she walked to the bathroom and shut the door. Joey shook his head, trying the clear some of the lust from his brain so he wasn't tempted to break down the door and take her now. Sighing he cleared up the food tray and got out of the bed and placed it on the side table. His boxers were particularly uncomfortable since Lauren's efforts and he decided to just relinquish them completely. It was more than likely he wouldn't need clothing very shortly anyway.

The door opened as he settled back on the bed and his eyes automatically flitted towards where she stood. She was wearing another babydoll, much like she had on their first night here. That night it had been white but today it was black, which stood out so well against her pale skin. Talking of her pale skin he could see glimpses on it peeking out where the material didn't completely cover her breasts and the mere thought of it blew his mind. It was barely the length of her body, just grazing the tops of her thighs. She took a step from the doorway and he noticed she was wearing high heels today. This was something new from the previous nights. They just made her legs look even longer than they actually were and he longed to have them wrapped around his body. She didn't wait for him to ask this time and she turned so her back was facing him. He actually gasped as he saw the back of what she was wearing. Whereas the white one had fastened at the front, this one was fastened at the back and in all honesty there was very little material at the back. It seemed to stop at the sides of her bum and rise up the sides of her body until it met what appeared to look like a bra strap in the middle of her back. It gave him a great view of her bum and there was definitely plenty of that on view too. Her knickers were essentially lace shorts and her cheeks were peeping out from beneath the material. His mouth watered as he saw how the back of the knickers appeared to be laced together and showed more of her enticing flesh. She turned her head to look at him and must have seen the dumbfounded expression on his face and then she was walking towards him again. "I take it you like?" she whispered, her hand brushing the side of his face and nudging his chin so he was now looking at her face, rather than at anything lower.

"I don't like it... I love it," he murmured, turning his head and kissing the inside of her wrist.

"I haven't finished yet, baby..." she said, a hint of a smile on her face.

"You haven't?" he asked, frowning at her. She shook her head and took a step away from him. Being very careful, Lauren held his gaze as she climbed on the bed and straddling his knees. "The shoes are a nice touch, babe... but I think you should lose them. You could do yourself a mischief with those heels." She smiled and slowly took each shoe off and threw it to the floor. "So what now?" he asked, intrigued with what she might have in store for him. She rose up on her knees and slowly moved up his body until she was sitting on his thighs. His eyes automatically dropped to her chest and then he saw her nipples peeking out of the slits in the material. "Baby girl..." he said in a whisper.

"You like?" she said, a knowing smile on her face when she spoke this time. His only response was to pull one of her glorious peaks into his mouth. Her head rolled back as he sent her into sensation overload, moaning his name. He moved to her other breast and repeated the action, hearing her moan again. He pulled reluctantly away from her and looked at her face. She had a look of peace on her face that he only ever saw when it was the two of them together. "Still not done..." she giggled, seeing the look of pride on his face. She leant back on her hands and stared at his face.

Joey was confused... what more could there be? She was definitely up to something and he was determined to find out what it was. His eyes ran down her body, trying not to get distracted by her impressive chest. They drifted down her body, seeing how the lacy material grazed the tops of her thighs. He really didn't know what she was trying to get at. He glanced up at her face, frowning again and finding her watching his face intently. He went back to his task, his eyes lowering further still and then he saw. Time froze. His head spun. His fiancée was wearing crotchless knickers that gave him a view he loved. "Easy access..." he whispered.

"You know it." She said with a smile. "Hope you're fully prepared?" she whispered and he knew what she was hinting at. He looked at the side and took a condom from the box. They were running out which was disappointing. That being said... they had a few left yet and he was going to make sure he took every opportunity they had. She must have noticed his reticence and she took the foil square from him and tore it open, rolling it down his length. She rose up on her knees and moved as close to him as she could. "Touch me, Joe." She whispered, her hands cupping his head.

He smiled at her and ran his fingers up her thigh. They traced across the lace shorts and then he was touching her and he found how wet she was. It seemed this was as much of a turn on for her as it was for him. She moaned and bit her lip as he pushed two fingers into her. Her body shook slightly from the effort of staying still as he touched her. "Is this what you meant... or do you want me to touch you with something other than my fingers?" he asked.

"I just want you, Joe." She swivelled her hips slightly, closing her eyes and sucking her bottom lip between her teeth. "Your fingers are great... but you know what I want."

"I do..." he whispered. He pulled his fingers from her and rubbed them lightly over his erection. He was desperate for that connection with her again. He pulled her close to him and Lauren could feel the tip of his length brushing against her. She sank onto him slowly and they both moaned. "I hope you're going to be wearing all of these again, baby girl?" he said softly.

"I've kept them all..." she said gently, "Thanks for not tearing them off me." She smiled at him.

"Don't think I wasn't tempted." He chuckled. "We're going to have to pace ourselves today, babe. We're running out of protection..."

"Don't worry about it..." she told him, smiling at him and kissing him tenderly. "I might have put a second box in my case when I packed..."

"You really were prepared..." he said, kissing the tip of her nose.

"Well, I knew what I had planned for our holiday and I know you..." She giggled.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he said, in mock offence.

"You're insatiable, baby." She said with a smile, lifting herself and lowering back onto him.

"I seem to remember it was you who told me she liked a lot of sex. I'm just making sure I'm keeping my girl happy."

"You do, baby." She whispered, her forehead resting against his, staring into his eyes. She clenched her internal muscles and he moaned.

*JL*JL*

It was several hours later and Lauren was cradled in Joey's arms, her back against his chest. They'd been resting for a while having more than surpassed themselves in the hours beforehand. "Which one was your favourite?" Lauren asked him softly as his fingers grazed over the one she was still wearing.

"Which outfit?" he asked and she nodded. "I loved all of them but if I really had to choose it would be between this one and last night." His hand brushed over her bum, his fingers grazing the skin that was exposed. She shivered in his arms and his fingers continued their exploration, softly running up her spine. He nudged her shoulder and pushed her so she lay on her front. He kissed her shoulders and across her back. Then he softly moved lower, kissing down the centre of her spine. His hands brushed the side of her body, causing her to giggle slightly and reminding him she was ticklish. There was a large part of him that was tempted to rip the shorts from her but he knew he couldn't. There was something about fucking her while she was still wearing them that really turned her on. "Do you know how much I want you?"

"Then have me..." she whispered. He paused as she said that and kissed the base of her spine again. He moved so he was sitting between her legs and his hands settled on her hips. "Aren't you forgetting something?" she whispered and he froze. She was right he had. Another kiss on her spine and he launched himself from the bed, dashing for her bag and pulling the box of condoms from inside. In his desperation to get back to her he just grabbed a handful and threw them onto the bed as he went back to where he'd previously been. Lauren giggled as she saw him. "Eager?" she teased, wiggling her bum on the mattress.

It turned out it was fortuitous that he picked up more than one because the first condom tore and he growled in frustration. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a few seconds, trying to centre himself before trying again. His second go was more successful and if it wasn't for the fact he needed to be in her he would've been up and doing a happy dance at his triumph. His cock was practically throbbing in anticipation of what he was about to do. His hands settled back on her hips and he lifted her from the bed, easing himself into her. She was sprawled face down across his thighs, her head was resting on her forearms. She pushed herself back against his body and he inched into her further. He wasn't sure she would be enjoying this and he really wanted her to enjoy what they were doing. Joey ran his hands back up her body and then he pulled her closer to him, pulling her upright. She whimpered in his arms, "Are you okay, baby girl?" he asked as he pulled her back against him. She nodded her head, leaning it back and resting it on his shoulder.

"God, I love you so much..." she moaned, her body shifting on his and feeling him throb within her. She moved her hand down to her clit and pressed on it slightly, her body tensing against his as she edged closer to her peak.

"Let me, baby..." he whispered in her ear and moved her hand away. He touched her clit with his thumb and she whimpered his name. "It's okay, baby girl. I've got you. I'm always going to have you. I'll always be here for you because you're all I need." He kissed the base of her neck and she pressed hard against his hand, screaming his name as she came.

TBC

A/N: Right well I'm going to go and cool down now... I'd forgotten how hot this chapter was... I've just made myself blush reading it through. Anyway it's back to Blighty for Lauren and Joey in the next chapter. Back tomorrow...