"Watch out!"

Cobra was given no time to react. Half a dozen heavy books seemed to fall from the sky right onto his head. He lay there on his back, feeling dazed.

When the girl landed on top of him holding more books, he couldn't really bring himself to feel surprised. Both lay there for several moments, trying to recover from such a nasty shock. Winded, Cobra didn't even want to think about moving. Besides, it wasn't every day he got to hold a girl, accidentally or not. His mind conveniently ignored the fact that she had just fallen off a ladder and dropped heavy books on his head. Details, details. She smelled really good, too, something like warm strawberries…

"Uhhh…" Cobra felt the girl shift on top of him, rolling over and landing with a light thump on the floor. The books dropped out of her arms. "Uhh…tell me when the room stops spinning." He heard her mumble. He risked a glance at his assailant and stopped thinking for a few moments.

He may have stopped breathing, too, but he wasn't sure.

She was gorgeous.

Light blonde hair was swept up into a messy bun on top of her head. Her eyes were closed as she tried to recover from her fall. Red glasses were perched slightly askew on her pert nose. And her lips…Mavis, wow.

Cobra yanked himself out of those thoughts. No, he wasn't here to ogle a girl who had just dropped a pile of very heavy books on his head, and then proceeded to land on him as well.

Nope, not gonna happen. He had research that needed to be done and there was no time for distractions!

Okay, she was pretty cute. But that was it.

Nothing more.

…

He was totally lying to himself.

"Are you okay?" he asked in a gruff voice, trying to disguise the fact he had just been checking her out. The girl's eyes opened. She meeped and sat bolt upright. That was apparently a bad idea, if the way she was clutching her head was any indication. She must've hit her head on the way down. She sighed and looked around, dropping her hands from her head. Catching sight of the books strewn about, she appeared to be puzzled. Cobra watched what was probably fifteen different thoughts and scenarios flash like lightning across her face. It was then that she noticed his silent presence. Again.

"Uh, hi." She reached up and brushed a lock of hair back.

"Hi." Cobra decided to keep his interactions with her to a minimum. Kinana needed him to hurry up and get their research materials and this blonde nuisance was getting in the way. Cute or no.

Said blonde nuisance seemed to be studying him with a surprising amount of intensity. "I'm sorry," she said. "I think we might've gotten off on the wrong foot. I'm Lucy."

"Cobra."

"It's nice to meet you, Cobra." And the girl-Lucy, that was a pretty name-(no! stay focused!)-seemed to genuinely mean it. Most people who met him didn't react so positively. Lucy blinked and rubbed her head. "Um, do you think you could tell me what happened?"

He raised an eyebrow. "You don't remember?"

Lucy looked sheepish. "No, not really. My friend Levy and I are working on a paper together and she sent me for more books." Lucy frowned. "Even though Levy is much better in the library than I am. Anyway, I was trying to get a book on the top of the shelf and I must've slipped?" She looked to him for confirmation.

"Yeah, you told me to look out and then it started raining books and blondes."

Cobra watched understanding and horror dawn on Lucy's face.

"Oh. My. Mavis. Did I drop all those books on you?" He nodded. She groaned and buried her face in her hands.

"You also have quite a bruise forming." Cobra leaned forward and poked her forehead. Lucy shrieked and slapped his hand away. Cobra wasn't really sure why he had just touched a very obvious injury. His traitorous mind, mostly the part that thought the blonde was cute, whispered that he just wanted and excuse to touch her. He still couldn't get the feeling of her whole body pressed against him out of his head.

"Lu-chan? Where are… Oh, my Mavis, what happened?!"

Lucy winced, covering her ears. "Levy-chan, must you be so loud in the library?" The girl she had called Levy just stood in the mouth of the aisle gaping at the two. Cobra winced. If she stared any more, her brown eyes were going to fall out of her head.

"Erik? Where did you g-? WHAT HAPPENED?" Oh boy, Kinana had found them. Now he was never going to hear the end of this. She was going to tell Sorano, who would tell Meredy, who would tell Macbeth, and Macbeth was a shameless gossip, so the whole campus was bound to know what happened (or some version thereof) by the end of the day.

Cobra sighed, resigned to his fate, heaving himself up and reaching a hand down to the half-way conscious blonde.

Lucy blinked up at him before smiling and accepting his hand. "Thank you," she said quietly. She risked a glance at their hyperventilating companions. Her brown eyes flicked back to meet his indigo eyes. Biting her lip, Lucy fiddled the hem of her shirt. "Um, so, do you want to go get coffee? My treat, since I dropped books on your head and then landed on you." She clasped her hands behind her back. "Please? I'd…I'd like that."

He didn't even have to think about it. "Sure, I'd like that, too."

Behind them, Cobra could hear squealing. Soft fingers brushed against his more callused ones as Lucy slipped her hand into his.

"Let's go, then." The smile she gave him was worth getting rained on as they ran laughing through a torrential downpour to the campus coffee shop.

Besides, when it rained books and blondes, who knew what would happen?

CoLu. Give me all the CoLu. I need it in my life.

I hope y'all liked the story! Be sure to look out for my birthday gift to y'all (since I'm half-Hobbit and that's what we do) next Sunday!