While it was raining heavily outside and when there didn't seem to be any trouble around, both Leah and I decided we would work on some of the cars and motorbikes at the garage we had opened up a few years ago, not too far from First Beach. It had been my idea from when I was little to open up a garage and fix up cars and motorbikes, but it quickly became an even better idea for those of the pack who weren't able to finish high school thanks to the pack duties we were unwillingly forced into when we first phased.

Of course, with I being one of who had phased at sixteen, I was one of those who didn't get to finish school, Leah on the other hand was different. Most of the pack had phased before they had finished high school, so those of them who hadn't, worked here. It didn't take long for word to get out about our new garage – The Black Pack's Garage – and we quickly became the most popular place to get any car, truck, Ute, bike or motorbike fixed around Forks, La Push and even Port Angeles.

With Ness back in Seattle with college and hitting the books again, I thought it would be best if I hung around home for a while and did the much needed work around the place. I hadn't seen her in a few weeks, and I was starting to miss her. Of course, we always talked on the phone every night, but that wasn't the same as seeing each other every day. I really couldn't wait until she finished college so I might have seen her more.

As it was quiet and a rainy day, I got to work on an old motorbike which had come into the garage to be rebuilt as the whole thing was rusting from neglect, nor did it work anymore. If the guy who owned it had looked after it better, the old Harley would have easy been worth around a grand or more. It was a classic and worth even more back in its day. I warned him it wouldn't be a cheap job, but I didn't think it would cost as much as it already had, and I wasn't even near done with it.

Leah sat over across from me while also working on a motorbike, though this one was a little more in the twenty-first century. It was an almost new Kawasaki dirty bike, which had been put through its tracks all too quickly for its age–well that's what I thought anyway. It had to be only a year old if not less by its model and the breaks and tyres were already done on it. I really didn't know how the person who had brought it in to us hadn't had an accident. The bike was in a mess and downright dangerous, even in my eyes, and I could be reckless with my dirt bike as I healed fast.

"Ugh! The tyre won't fit back on!" Leah grumbled as she tried to fit a new rear tyre back on the bike's rim.

I sighed and looked over my shoulder to her. Over the years she and I had become closer with her being in my pack, but the last couple of days she had been driving me crazy with whining! "If it's not fitting on, the rim must be bent out of place too," I murmured, only stating the obvious.

"Well, it wasn't a problem it get off before Jacob."

"That's probably because the tyre was dead flat." I rolled my eyes and set my spanner down beside the Harley and went over to Leah's side to look over the rim where the tyre sat. Sure enough it was bent, and I really didn't see how Leah could not have picked up on that.

"Damn it," she muttered as I looked up to her with risen eye brows. I couldn't help but half scoff and shake my head before getting back to work on the Harley.

From the corner of my eye, my old red rabbit caught my attention in the other room with the other parked cars on either side of it, either ready to be picked up by their own or waiting to be fixed.

I kept my rabbit for driving to work now. It was something I could show our customers that I rebuilt from when I was thirteen to sixteen – without a degree, might I add. . . Yeah, who said you needed school?

A car outside suddenly pulled up which caught my full attention. It was quieter than the usual cars we got. That was an obvious indication to me it was more of an expensive car. I wiped my greasy hands off on a damp rang and ran the back of my hand over my forehead. It was another unseasonably warm day and it wasn't helping me with a temperature of a hundred-and-eight-degrees.

I stood up to see who it was and as I got to the door of the garage, I smiled widely with seeing Ness dressed sexily again in a white tank top, jeans and black shoes with a small heal. It was just like what she had worn the other day, but somehow she was less dressy now and it seemed to be even better. Yeah I know, her clothes really weren't that sexy, but they were sexy to me, even if they weren't revealing.

"Hey Ness," I smiled widely upon the sight of her. "I missed you. I didn't know you were home."

"I missed you too," she smiled, stepping up to the door of the garage and kissing me softly as her hand brushed along collarbone, just as Leah cleared her throat loudly. I looked over my shoulder to her, slightly startled. I had completely forgotten she was behind me. She always did that to me. She always made me forget other people were in the room, and that it wasn't just us.

"I'll leave you two alone for a while," Leah murmured as she wiped her hands on an old rag and stepped out of the shed. I watched as she got on her old blue dirt bike and drove off into the forest behind the garage. I started to wonder if Leah new her tank top was all oily and greasy from working on the motorbike all day.

Before I could even look at Ness in the eye again, her arms wrapped around my neck tightly as her lips touched mine like I hadn't felt her kiss me before. Her lips moved quickly against mine in such haste. I could even feel her pulse in her lips with how harshly she was kissing me. It was so urgent and yet loving and passionate at the same time. I didn't know such a kiss existed. Her lips parted mine as she suddenly laid down in the backseat of my old rabbit. I hadn't even noticed I'd taken the five steps forward towards my car. I was starting to think how ironic and convenient it was I had left the back door of my car open while fixing the Harley – yes even to a werewolf; the floor isn't too comfortable after a while.

She moaned in my mouth in reaction of my bitting her lower lip softly. Her left arm stayed around my shoulder as her right skimming along my collarbone and over my chest. Even with being only a few degrees lower than my own, Ness's hand felt cold as it pressed against my heart beating quickly. She bit my lower lip and slowly deepened our kiss as her hand skimmed over my abs.

"Hey Jake? Are you around man?" I heard Embry suddenly shout.

I growled, slightly annoyed, Ness giggled at my reaction, making me smile. No matter how old she got, she never lost that inner little kid who always was looking for fun. I broke the kiss to stand up right just as Embry came into the shed with a small kid's dirt bike by his side, which had seen better days by all the mud which was coving it from the handlebars to the tyre.

His eyes set upon us and then to me as he saw Ness sitting up in the backseat of my car. His eye brow raised suspiciously, but before he or I could say anything, I saw a familiar little face pear around the corner of the shed, making me smile with seeing her.

"Hey Luca," I said as a bright smile lit up her face and then ran into my arms.

Luca was Sam's little six year old daughter. She was the cutest, but a total tom boy and complete with an attitude to fit. She loved riding motorbikes through the forests of La Push and Forks, as fast as an adult. She was fearless. She also had an interest in building cars too.

Her skin was a light bronze just like Sam and Emily's, and her hair was jet black and hung to her shoulders with bronze eyes just like her parents. Her smile was always a brilliant white, even with one of her baby teeth missing.

"Embry is being mean again Jakey!" she said while hugging my leg tightly and looking to Embry. I laughed and looked to him rolling his eyes. I looked to Ness still sitting in the back of my car, giggling with seeing how Luca was acting. She was too damn cute not to laugh at – Luca I mean.

I leaned down to her level and wrapped my arms around her. "What's he doing now?" I asked her.

"He won't let me ride my bike!"

"You've got a flat Lucy, you can't ride your bike with a flat," he explained.

Luca placed her hands on her hips with being called Lucy. She hated! She didn't mind her name being a boy's name, it was better than a nancy girl's name, so Luca said herself. She had shocked Sam the first time she had said it, and we all knew where she would know that word from. No other than Paul himself, of course!

"My name is Luca! Not Lucy! L.U.C.A!" she shouted and fought against my hold around her to get down. I fought against a smirk coming to my face as she walked up to Embry, still with her hands on her hips. "Lucy is a nancy name, like Embry is," she said like it was a matter of fact. I and Ness couldn't help but burst out laughing as Embry's jaw hung open, dumbfounded by the words of a six year old.

"Now, now Luca, what has daddy said about using that word?" I said, sitting on the floor beside her.

She sighed deeply and rolled her eyes. "I know, don't use it. But Jakey, Paul does. He said its fine, as long as it is the truth."

"Paul is a big boy. He can. Sweet and cute kids like you shouldn't."

"I am not cute or sweet!" she shouted, turning on me now.

Damn it, I should have known better than to say that. Luca may have been sweet and cute, but she could make anyone scared of her, including me. I thought fast to distract her before she could start doing anything to me or could say anymore. I rolled my eyes at Ness, who couldn't stop laughing behind me.

"So, why was Embry being mean again, Luca?" I asked and grinned up at him. I always knew how to get myself out of trouble if he was around.

"Her tyre is flat," he explained. "Almost had an accident too," he added. Embry glared down at Luca who had now gone red in the cheeks and wasn't so high and mighty.

I shook my head. "You know you shouldn't ride your bike with a flat Luc."

I stood up and went over to her little black motorbike, and sure enough it was fully flat. It looked like a stick had gone through the tyre. The alignment of the handlebars didn't look right either. It was really messed up. "What did you do to it Luca? Put it over a log or something?"

"Yeah," she murmured and made me laugh with her honestly. Well at least I wasn't far off with being right.

I picked up her bike and placed in the better light to have a good look over it just as Sam walked into the place. Luca screamed daddy and ran over to him for a hug. Sam picked her up and held her tightly in his arms as he greeted Ness and then looked to me. "Can you fix it Jake?"

I grinned from looking down at the wheel alignment of her bike. "Of course I can. But it'll take a day."

"How much?" he questioned then.

"For Luca, nothing," I smiled and turned off the lights of the garage as Ness came over to my side. It was dark now and way past closing time. I would get working on Luca's bike in the morning. I knew how much she loved riding the thing and with also being a rev head, I knew she would want to get back on it as soon as she could.

"Thank you Jakey," she smiled brightly.

I smiled at her while walking over to Ness's car. "No problem kiddo. See you guys later." I got into the driver's seat of Renesmee's car as she did up her seat belt. She knew just how much I love driving new cars, and always let me drive her home whenever she came to see me. I loved nothing more than to drive her around.

The whole ride home, she leaned into my side while smiling widely and talking about Luca. She loved Luca like her own daughter and I felt the same way. Sam always let me look after if she needed to be babysat. I loved hanging out with her. She always made me laugh.

As I drove up to Bella and Edward's house and cut the engine, I got and suddenly felt my inner wolf growl in warning. I was confused by what it was warning me about until I smelt the scent of sickly-sweet coming from Edward walking up to me quickly with Bella not far behind.

"Edward!" Bella shouted at him as he grabbed my shoulder harshly. I snarled in response.

"Dad, calm down! It was my idea," Ness said at Bella's side. I could sense her worry as I was able to throw Edward's grip of my shoulder off.

"If you ever touch her!" he snarled through a clenched jaw, almost seething while glaring into my eyes. I ignored him though when I saw Ness running off inside their house.

"Ness!" I couldn't just leave her upset like that. I hated seeing her upset.

Edward went after her, leaving just Bella and I. I shook my head and let out a deep sigh. I looked up to Bella as she took my wrist into her icy hand. "He's just protected of her," she said firmly. "She'll be okay Jacob, you know that. Go home, okay?"

I nodded in agreement, but that didn't mean I didn't feel bad about it. I would have to come back later when they were out hunting. I wasn't going to leave things like this. I couldn't and wouldn't.