Disclaimer - I do not own the characters of Maverick, Lee or Ashley, or Tom Crofts. I do own Maddie, Darry and all other characters in this story.
I sincerely hope you have as much fun reading this little romantic romp as I had writing it. Please, Please review if you enjoy it, or even if you don't.
I would really appreciate some feedback. Anyway, read on and enjoy. Cheers TraceMK
" Mav, we seriously need to get some help in around here!!!" Lee exclaimed as he surveyed the mess that he and his partner, Maverick, called home.
Captains Lee Sanders and Adam Mitchell, call sign Maverick, were senior instructors at Miramar Airbase, teaching the best and brightest of the Navy's fighter pilots, pushing them to be even better. Maverick was the Navy's top fighter pilot, and Lee it's top navigator. They were well known around Miramar as having achieved the highest point score ever during Top Gun training. This and the fact that they were both available and very attractive made them two of the hottest catches in town. Lee was tall with dark hair, classically handsome and had a pair of piercing green eyes that seemed to be capable of seeing right into your very soul. Coming from a wealthy upbringing, he had also acquired a certain air of sophistication that women seemed to find irresistible.
Maverick, on the other hand was a simple country boy and it showed in his pleasant manner and easygoing nature. Slightly shorter than Lee, he also had dark hair, boyish good looks and a disarmingly cheeky smile that was never far from his face. His eyes were as blue as the sky on a clear sunny day, more often than not sparkling with mischief.
Along with Maverick's seven-year-old son, Darry, they shared a four-bedroom house on the base, and the boys were having trouble keeping up with the demands of their jobs, looking after a child and managing the housework.
"Maybe you should bite the bullet and actually keep one of your bed warmers for longer than one night Lee" Maverick threw a cheeky grin at his partner, having a dig at Lee's habit of loving and leaving the girls.
"No chance Mav, besides could you stand having to listen to constant airhead babble if one of them actually did stick around?" Lee countered.
" You're probably right, it wouldn't be worth it" Maverick agreed. "Maybe we should advertise, I mean, we have a spare bedroom. Maybe we could trade that for a bit of housework." He suggested.
"You know, that might not be such a bad idea Mav" Lee looked at his partner thoughtfully. "There might be someone out there that would be happy to trade free accommodation in return for some housework and maybe dropping Darry off at school and picking him up in the afternoons. It would be perfect for someone who wanted to work from home or was studying."
"I guess it couldn't hurt to advertise," Maverick agreed " We can always say no if we don't like the applicants. We probably shouldn't include our names in the ad though, or we'll end up with the entire contingent of single girls from the club applying."
"And that would be a bad thing why?" Lee grinned at his partner wickedly " I could always give them a personal physical each."
"Yeah, you'd love that wouldn't you?" Maverick laughed at his partner's suggestion. "But seriously Lee, lets keep this anonymous and see what we get."
Together they drafted a suitable advertisement and lodged it with the local newspaper, then tackled the monstrous job of trying to get the house back into some kind of order before Darry got home from an overnight stay at a friends house.