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Chapter 1

Driving to the station Monday morning, Roy was ready to give his partner the riot act. It was not all that unusual for him to step in it with A.J. but how he got dragged into, he still wasn't quite sure. Once he had heard a stand up comedian say that when a man is married he could either be happy or right. Why didn't he remember that yesterday?

A.J. Whitewolf, the department's first female rescue paramedic had stolen Gage's heart and the feelings were mutual. No other woman had the effect on him that she did. Roy and Jo also were quite fond of her, she had become a part of the family, much in the way that Johnny had years before. In fact she was one of Joanne's closest friends. That is what set the ball in motion at the DeSoto house, after Johnny put his foot in his mouth....again.

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"Gage....how did you manage to get yourself into this one?" He thought to himself as he drove to work, Monday morning. "Roy is gonna kill me!"

His mind was racing, what was he thinking? He shouldn't have even mentioned it, much less kept the discussion going. It seemed like a simple fact of life....how was he supposed to know, she would take it personally and dig her heels in?

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Both men arrived at the station, pulling their vehicles into the parking lot, side by side. They were cutting it close, so with out a word they dashed into the locker room to change into their uniforms.

They eyed each other; both of them had gotten an earful from their respective better halves last night. How had it even started?

Johnny and A.J. had come over to the house to have dinner and spent some quality time with Roy and Jo. All three paramedics were on the same shift but even if they all worked together, it wasn't for social reasons. Sometimes it was nice to have a normal non work related conversation, one that Jo could participate in.

Somehow the conversation turned to how men and woman relate to sex, then mutated into which gender was stronger, which could 'go with out', essentially resisting the charms of their lovers.

Naturally Gage missed each and every hint from his partner to drop it and tactfully move on to another less volatile line of discussion. Roy could see it coming like a train wreck. However, he never saw the end result coming, any more than his best friend.

"Johnny what exactly did you mean by that?" A.J. smiled a little too sweetly, an expression Roy had seen on his wife's face before.

"Well just that men, in general are stronger physically and when it comes to willpower. We could give up anything, if it was necessary." He hadn't meant sex literally, just used it for an example.

"Oh really and do you subscribe to this line of thinking?" The expression on his wife's face told him no matter what he said now, the damage was already done.

"Come on you two, Johnny didn't mean anything by it. He just meant, well that women can be very strong...but men are just stronger...naturally." Stopping himself he thought, "Oh man...did I just say that out loud?"

"Well I think it's time to start to clean up the table. Why don't the two of you see what's on TV." Jo's voice was level and the untrained ear might have thought that the conversation had ended.

"I'll help you clean up; we'll join you in a little while...." A.J.'s mind was already working on over time.

Sitting in the living room both men were sighing in relief that they seemed to have wormed their way out of that big time oops.

"Junior, when are you going to learn to read my signals? I was trying to get you to shut up, you were digging our graves!" Roy smacked him on the arm.

"Sorry Roy...look I promise, I will try to do better." He was smiling, thinking his best friend was being paranoid.

"Yeah, maybe you're right...."

In the kitchen Jo and A.J. were discussing the situation at hand.

"Can you believe he actually said that?" A.J. loved Johnny with all of her heart and soul but sometimes his mouth ran too fast for his brain to tell him to stop while he was ahead.

"I can't believe Roy agreed with him!" Her husband normally would have known not to even go there. "You know I think we should teach them both a little lesson in self restraint."

"What do you have in mind?" Joanne DeSoto to most other people was all sugar and spice but A.J. knew better. She was anxious to hear what devious plan she had come up with.

"Well, they seem to think that they have the will power to give up anything....so how long do you think that they could last with out.....'happy fun time'?" That was her and Roy's code word for it, when they particularly didn't want the kids to know what they were referring to. She had explained that to A.J. once, when they went out for a couple of drinks.

"I love it! Johnny is gonna cave by the end of the week and I think that's being generous. You're a genius!" This was one of the reasons she loved having Jo as a friend, she could come up with the wicked ideas.

"So do we tell them out little plan or just let them figure it out, when we have a headache every time?" A.J. couldn't decide which would land the most impact.

"Let's let them figure it out....all in good time. We'll go out there, and act like it's all just blown over, like it's no big deal." Jo had a huge grin on her face.

"Then they are finally brave enough to ask us about it, we can drop the bomb. They only have fun again, when they admit that women just as strong...no wait stronger than men."

Both women agreed to the game plan. However each one was hoping the strike didn't last too long, after all they enjoy happy fun time as much as their men did.