The grand re-opening of the garage went off without hitch thanks to everyone's hard work.

And even though they had people lined up around the block to get their vehicles fixed, and checked. Neither Throttle or Shay were very happy at the moment.

After their little tiff last night, their bickering had escalated and Throttle had been suffering the brunt of some very disturbing, and sinister minded little pranks that he just knew Shay had set up for him.

The sinister and disturbing pranks went something like this.

When he had slipped on his boots this morning after getting dressed, he's gotten a painful surprise in the form of a thumb tack which was followed by finding his bike covered in graphite that had been both obscene and offensive on so many levels.

Followed by a trip to the bathroom to use the facilities and finding nothing but pine cones to use as toilet paper. Which had just cruel in his opinion and had given him a small glimpse at just how pissed Shay must have been at him for last night. Although he had been a little puzzled about when she had managed to go looking for pine cones.

And though he would have liked to retaliate, he couldn't think of anything truly inventive to do to her that wouldn't hurt her.

He glanced over his shoulder at the little devious minded firecracker and bared his teeth and growled softly then turned back to his current task of fixing little old lady Musa's car and nearly jumped out of his skin when Shay stomped on the tip of his tail (that he had stupidly and carelessly left laying on the floor) with the wide three inch hard heels that she had worn to work in today. Causing his fur to bristle and stand on end as he turned his head slowly to look at her.

Wondering what she would do to him if he used his tail to jerk one of her legs out from under her and weighed the pros and cons for a moment. Hoping that any pain she could rain down on him would be totally worth it.

And after a second or so he decided against it since she was obviously more inventive than him and might mess with him on an even crueler level. Still...

"Ow." Throttle said as Shay turned and looked at him, an totally innocent look on her face. How did she managed to look so damn innocent when she was the devil incarnate? Throttle wondered as she glanced at his tail, which was now safely wound around his leg as he glared at her.

"Something wrong?"

Yeah, you're your mothers daughter. Throttle thought darkly though he was careful to keep any signs of irritation from his expression and voice. "You stepped on my tail."

Her eyes widened and she got a mock shocked look on her face. "I did?" Throttle had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep from growling at her. The girl was so shameless that she should have been an actress.

He expected to hear her apologize for stepping on his tail, but instead she said nothing. She just grabbed a tool from his box and gave him a funny looking once over as she slipped by him and walked back over to the car that she was working on and leaned over the motor and started working again.

Shay knew that she was being juvenile about her pranks, but she was determined to teach the over grown rodent a lesson that he wouldn't soon forget about crossing a woman. However nothing she seemed to do so far made him sorry. And she had been pretty sure that after being forced to use pine cones as toilet paper this morning that he would be willing to at least semi beg for her forgiveness for his careless words last night.

But so far he was proving to be a tougher nut to crack than she thought he would be. And as odd as that was, the situation was spiraling out of control. She had gone from playing mean pranks on him to thinking that he looked rather cute when he was pissed and had even been sort of day dreaming about pushing him down and kissing him until he passed out from the lack of air.

Which was her real problem in a nutshell. She was developing a little bit of a crush on the chauvinistic alien. And it was frustrating her in so many ways that it just wasn't funny.

She needed to put an end to their bickering (no matter how much she was loath to do it) before she decided to torture him further. She was about to do just that when he came up behind her and leaned in, both of his hands braced on either side of her hips, his body crowding hers, his chest just barely brushing her back and hissed in her ear.

"Keep up the bullshit, Shay and your going to get hurt. I'll let you little tantrum slide this time since I know that I must have done something to set you off. But in exchange I expect you to back off on the physical torture. Thumb tacks, tail stepping and pine cones are now off limits. Understand?"

"Aww. Did I hurt the big bad mousy?" Shay mocked, her mouth running further ahead of her mind than even she seemed to realize.

Throttle made a soft amused snickering sound next to her ear as he shifted slightly and wrapped one hand around her throat warningly as he leaned in just a little bit more, his body pressing hers down until the metal bit into her skin painfully as his tail snaked around her legs and lifted, tipping her even more off balance and forcing her even further into the area where the motor was.

"Hey!"

"Cover your head." Was all Throttle said as he stepped back and tipped her completely into one of the small openings, and firmly wedged her body from her head to her shoulders into the wire filled opening and stepped back even more as the car lid came down and slammed into her butt, causing her to give a startled scream while he laughed.