A/N: Very sorry for taking so terribly long to update this fic. I've had some technical difficulties with computers and my brain has been drifting about other fic ideas, but I made myself a promise only one fic at a time so I am aiming to finish this one up before starting another. I think maybe I really should have made this fic into two parts at this point, but it is what it is now. Yes this is going somewhere, I'm being a little sluggish getting there, I know. But I hope this chap is a likeable continuation to what's been going on so far.

Warning m/m sex this chap

Thomas was still unsure how he'd managed to pull off this plan. He had the keys to the back door and to the chauffeur's cottage and a basket supplies that Mrs. Hughes put together for him all under the promise and assumption he and most likely Jimmy would leave out before the sun rose and be back in time for the initial morning clean up on the first floor from the previous night's events for the upstairs lot. Mrs. Hughes seemed to have given him a more scrutinizing eye than Mr. Carson had, but seemed to go along all the same, happy not to have to handle the bulk of the task herself.

Thomas had prepared what he could manage that he would need and could fit in his trouser pockets. He joined Jimmy, though he was sure there were still a few more people awake and down stairs.

'I thought you would have been back sooner. Mrs. Patmore already sent a hallboy for my tray.' Jimmy looked up from his bed, where he was sitting up with his back propped against the head rail with a pillow, at him as he entered the room and quietly closed the door. 'Why are you still dressed in your livery?'

Thomas sat down on the side of the bed and leaned in to bestow a deep passionate kiss upon Jimmy's lips, cupping his cheek with his right hand.

'What's brought this on?' Jimmy asked as they parted.

'Tell me you're feeling well.'

Jimmy sniffed deeply, Thomas could hear his nose was still stuffy. 'I'm quite well if it means more of this.' He smiled impishly which Thomas returned with his own smile.

'Then get up and get dressed in your morning livery. Grab anything you might need to get ready in the morning that you can stuff in your pockets and when we're sure everyone's gone to bed, then we'll go,' Thomas told him.

'Go? Go where? We're not running off into the night are we?' Jimmy's smile faded and he began to look concerned.

'No, we're going to the chauffer's cottage on the backside of the garage.'

'Why would we go there?'

'Because the chauffer's quit and I managed to find us a place with a bed away from everyone for the night for the simple price of cleaning and tidying up before our normal duties tomorrow,' Thomas explained.

'Normal duties? But tomorrow's me day off.'

'Mr. Carson must have forgotten.' Thomas had forgotten. He bit his lip for a moment while he thought of a solution. 'Look, if it comes to it I'm sorry you'll not be free, but pretend you feel poorly about missing your work today and that's why you've helped me and see what he says if it comes up.' Thomas hung his head in mild frustration. Jimmy's day off was the initial reason they'd planned this evening in particular.

Thomas felt a pair of arms envelop his shoulders and turned his head back up to meet Jimmy in a kiss. 'It'll be worth it. Just to be able to spend a full night together with you would make all the extra odd jobs Carson could ever give me worth it.'

'Alright then.' Thomas gave a beaming smile. 'Let's get you up and dressed then. It shouldn't be more than another hour before everyone's gone to bed for good.'

As they approached the back door Thomas placed the key in the keyhole and turned the lock. It was the darkest Jimmy had ever seen the halls of Downton. 'Grab this basket,' Thomas whispered shoving a basket into his hands. They hadn't brought a light of any kind, but as soon as Thomas opened the door Jimmy realized why. The moon was full and high in the sky.

'Look at that moon. Bright as a lightbulb,' Jimmy commented in a whisper as they walked across the lawn toward the garage.

Thomas snickered. 'How poetic,' Thomas replied sarcastically.

Jimmy rolled his eyes as they continued until they came to the cottage. Thomas once again used a key and opened the door. Thomas felt around the wall to find the electric switch and turned it on. Jimmy followed him in and closed the door. The little light there was dim which was good as they were trying to be inconspicuous in the middle of the night. He looked around and saw that curtains covered the three windows as well which was good.

They both came to stand in the middle of the room and looked at their surroundings. The cottage was decent sized; about the size of three of their rooms put together. There was a small coal stove in one corner, countertops with cupboards above and a sink nearby it. On the same side of the cottage closer to the door was a small table with two chairs. The other end of the room held an armoire and bed. There was a door which Thomas opened which was a bathroom with a toilet and bathtub. 'Wow, I didn't know chauffeurs got their own bath tub,' Jimmy said looking over Thomas's shoulder.

'Well, when they're not driving the family around they're in the garage working on the cars. It'd hardly be suitable for them to walk through the house, even the servants' passages, and have to go up to the attics to bathe. It's all very nice accommodations.' Thomas commented.

As they looked around everything seemed very neat and clean. There was even still a set of linens on the bed all made up presentably. 'Looks as though Mr. Knap was a tidy fellow. I'm not sure we'll have to do much. Tiny bit of dusting, take out the sheets and towels even though they seem in order.' There was a small lamp on the table next to the bed which Thomas turned on. 'More time for us I suppose.'

Jimmy smiled.

I like the sound of that!

'Looks as though the chauffeur also gets a larger bed,' Jimmy commented. The bed seemed a tad larger than the size of two of their tiny cots put together. It was still not as large and luxurious as the beds the family slept in, but it was plenty for the two of them.

Thomas sat down on the bed and reached his arms out to Jimmy.

Jimmy smiled and sauntered up to the bed and climbed upon Thomas's lap, straddling him. Their lips met, molding perfectly to each other. Jimmy deepened the kiss sliding his tongue in past Thomas's lips as he slid the coat from the under-butler's shoulders.

Thomas was the one to break the kiss much to Jimmy's disappointment. 'We've both got things in our pockets and we need to lay our livery out for in the morning.' Thomas said; the voice of reason. It wouldn't do to look as though they'd been up to exactly what they were attempting to get up to.

Jimmy stood and began pulling items from his pockets placing them on the table on the other side of the room. He moved to turn off the main light, as the lamp provided enough light for them to see what they were doing (no point in bringing any attention to themselves from anyone who happened to not be able to sleep), then turned to watch Thomas as he stood and finished removing his jacket as Jimmy removed his own. He watched as Thomas reached into the inner pocket of his waistcoat and pulled out a small vial which he placed on the bedside table. 'What's that?' Jimmy asked. He laid his jacket across the back of one of the chairs then sat in it removing his shoes and socks.

Thomas chuckled as he continued to divest himself of his waistcoat as he walked over to Jimmy. He joined the footman at the table where he took his other belongings from his jacket and trouser pockets, then draped his jacket and waistcoat across the back of the other chair, mirroring Jimmy, taking a seat and removing his shoes and socks. 'Just something to make things a bit easier.'

Jimmy stood again and finished clearing out his pockets, Thomas doing the same. As he began to unbutton his waistcoat another set of hands pulled his away and began to finish the job from behind him. Thomas made quick work of undressing him with his skilled ex-valet hands, kissing down Jimmy's neck to his shoulder as he revealed the skin.

Jimmy cleared his throat, stifling a cough as his trousers fell to pool around his ankles. Thomas froze for a moment until Jimmy answered his silent question, 'I'm alright.' Thomas's hands gripped Jimmy's hips as his mouth found a particular spot just where his neck and shoulder met where he began to suck and nip. The action gave Jimmy a shiver of pleasure. He removed one foot from his trousers then used the table to keep his balance as he lifted them with his other foot to grab hold of them. He stood for a moment, eyes closed, clad only in thin cotton pants and holding his trousers in one hand, enjoying the sensation of his lover's mouth. 'C'mon, Thomas. We actually don't have all night. I can already feel how hard you are, so we should get on with it,' he whispered roughly. Thomas's lips left his skin and he laid his trousers neatly across the chair with his other clothing. When he turned back to meet Thomas, the dark haired man wore a devious smirk upon his thin lips. 'You're still far too clothed.'

'Then how about you help me?' Thomas backed Jimmy into the table and keenly brought their lips together in a ravenous kiss as he reached a hand behind him to clear whatever was on the edge of the table before grabbing Jimmy just below his rear and lifting him to sit on the table.

Jimmy broke the kiss panting heavily staring into Thomas's eyes.

Thomas very quickly slid his bracers from his shoulders. Jimmy brought a hand to the back of Thomas's neck, pulling him down to join mouths again in another passionate kiss as his other hand reached around to un-tuck his shirt and undershirt from his trousers. Jimmy could feel Thomas's hands behind him working to unbutton shirt cuffs and remove his glove as he worked the buttons on Thomas's shirt front apart. Within no time Thomas was in the same state of undress as Jimmy, though he'd taken less care to lie is clothing out upon the chair and more or less tossed it upon it so it was off the ground.

Thomas eagerly captured Jimmy's lips once more, Jimmy with his arms wrapped tightly around Thomas's neck as he let the other's tongue fill his mouth. Without warning he was lifted from his perch upon the table and before he could completely register what was happening his back was sinking into the mattress of the bed. As the kiss broke Jimmy starred up at Thomas, his eyes wide with wonder, one hand threading its fingers through the other man's raven hair, the other resting upon his cheek. 'Thomas,' he whispered to the man now straddling him upon the bed.

'Yes?' Thomas whispered back, then taking the hand cupping his cheek in his own and turning his head to place a kiss to Jimmy's palm.

I had no clue he had that in him! I suppose this is the sort of thing you hear or read about being the 'throes of passion'. Thought I knew what that meant, but I bloody well didn't 'till now.

'Nothing,' Jimmy spoke with laboured breath, shaking his head. 'Just took me by surprise.'

Thomas smiled and began to chuckle, Jimmy following suit.

They kissed deeply again then Thomas trailed away leaving hot open mouthed kisses down Jimmy's jaw, to his neck, down his chest and heading for the last clothed bit of the man left, Jimmy's hand still gently running through his now disheveled hair. As he slowly started to peel Jimmy's pants from him, he paid special attention to Jimmy's hip bones, sucking and nipping at them as he revealed the man's erection. Thomas sat up upon his knees drinking in the image before him then moved back down to plant more kisses upon Jimmy's neck.

Jimmy reached down to Thomas's hips and started to push Thomas's pants downward and was pleased when Thomas finished removing them himself putting them both on even ground, as Jimmy felt it. He then looked down to catch sight of Thomas's hard cock. It was a sight he was becoming more familiar with as they had stepped down this path together, and it was also a sight that had come to excite him.

Thomas kissed his lips deeply once again and rested his forehead to Jimmy's as their lips parted. 'You're sure about this?'

'Course I am.' Jimmy's eyebrows knit together as he placed both his hands to Thomas's face and stared into the other mans eyes intently. 'Why would you think you needed to ask such a silly thing?' Jimmy angled his head and pulled Thomas to him as he very ardently pressed a deep kiss to his lips.

'I suppose I'm just being a fool,' Thomas whispered against Jimmy's lips, as he reached for the small vial on the bedside table. 'I really do hope you enjoy this.' Thomas reared back up on his knees and poured a generous amount of viscous fluid on his hand from the vial before placing it again on the bedside table, Jimmy's eyes seemed to follow his every move intently.

Thomas grabbed hold of Jimmy's cock firmly, pumping the organ in his slick hand, causing a shudder and deep throated moan from the blond man, as Thomas felt Jimmy's fingers tighten their grip on his thighs they had up until now been caressing. This sort of thing is what pleased Thomas the most; When he was able to see Jimmy enjoying something so simple as a touch, with his eyes closed bringing attention to his blond eyelashes that were normally unnoticeable. To his touch, which Thomas had believed not very long ago would be a scene only from his most inappropriate dreams (to hell with propriaty).

Sure that Jimmy was coated well, he reached the hand to his back side, fingers prodding his hole, stretching the puckered flesh. He'd made an attempt earlier in the evening before going to Jimmy to loosen himself up a bit, as it had been some time since he'd engaged in such activity, hoping it would be enough to simply add a little more lubrication and be alright.

Jimmy had been very insistent on wanting fully connecting intercourse, but he had been sick all day and still didn't seem fully recovered. Thomas had plenty of dreams of himself pushing into Jimmy, tight virgin muscle encircling his cock and taking him in whole, hoping one day it would become reality, but this night didn't seem right for it to him. He'd been on both ends of this ritual more than a few times and knew the exertion it took on one's body, particularly the first time. This way would just be easier, probably on the both of them, Thomas was confident in it.

Thomas lowered himself slowly, guiding Jimmy in. As Jimmy's head pushed past the ring of flesh, he gasped as his eyes shot open, eyebrows knit in question, entire body tensed, and fingers dug deeper into Thomas's thighs. 'Thomas-' a strained whisper escaped his kiss swollen pink lips.

'You okay Jimmy?' Thomas asked, his voice barely above a whisper, as he held himself still, staring down at Jimmy with half lidded eyes.

Jimmy gulped audibly and nodded his head.

Thomas let out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding in and smiled. 'Just relax Jimmy.' He rubbed gentle circles upon Jimmy's belly until he felt the taught abdominal muscles relax, along with the grip on his thighs. Thomas continued to lower himself slowly until he was fully seated. He reached down to his left to grab hold of Jimmy's hand from on his thigh, squeezing hit lightly. 'You still okay?'

'Yes… God, Thomas… This is what it's like then? What's it like for you?'

Thomas chuckled. 'It feels good, but it's going to get better.'

Thomas began with rolling his hips and it wasn't long before Jimmy found his way to match Thomas's rhythm, thrusting from beneath, causing an array of gasps, grunts and moans from the both of them. At some point, though Thomas could not quite remember when, one of Jimmy's hands found its way to his bouncing erection and stroked in time with their rhythm. Jimmy may have never done this before, but Thomas was pleased by his instincts.

'Thomas! Thomas I think I- I-' Jimmy barely managed to say as Thomas felt him release within him. Jimmy's hand stopped and tightened still around Thomas, back arching off the mattress as he rode the waves of his release. Thomas's near doubled over from the pressure of Jimmy's hand and quickly coupled it with his own pulling at Jimmy's hand to begin moving again. With a few hasty pumps Thomas was spilling forth, covering Jimmy's abdomen with his release.