Okay, hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving! Here's the next one shot. This is more true to the book, it's Coop and Ellie at Penn, together. Remember these one shots are meant to stand alone. Thanks again to my awesome beta, Hayley! Enjoy!


To the world, they were Eleanor Hathaway, Pre-Law major, and John Joseph Cooper IV, Pre-Med major. But to each other, they were Ellie and Coop, two college kids who happened to cross paths in the library. They went out for coffee and before long they were dating, walking around campus hand in hand. They would spend the night together, sometimes a tangled mess of limbs, sometimes just wrapped in each other's arms.

Ellie stood over her record player and put on her Grateful Dead American Beauty album. She turned to face Coop and wrapped her arms around him. She felt his arms around her and she smiled. She felt him caress her face and she kissed him. They were twenty, they were each other's first, and she wasn't sure that it could get any better, any more mind blowing.

Coop's hands slid under her shirt, his lips still attached to hers. He heard her moan and he smiled against her lips. He broke the kiss gently and took her shirt off and ran his hands over her curves. "You are so beautiful, El."

She smiled and bit her bottom lip. She ran her hands under his shirt and felt his abs. She took his shirt off and looked up into his eyes. "You're so incredible, Coop." She smiled and kissed him again. She wrapped herself around him once more and she let out a soft moan, the skin to skin contact sending fireworks off behind her eyes.

He tangled his fingers in her long hair. Ellie always said how she hated how her mother used to brush her hair, she was so rough, which is why she always brushed her hair 100 strokes before she went to sleep every night. He picked her up in his arms, feeling her legs wrap around his waist. He carried her to her bed and laid her down, seeing her hair fan out like a halo around her head. "You look like an angel."

Ellie laughed and ran her hands over Coop's strong shoulders. "In a bra and a pair of jeans, I look like an angel?" She raised an eyebrow at him, inquisitively.

"Okay, a fallen angel, but an angel none the less," he whispered. He caressed her face, seeing her eyes close then slowly open again.

"What?"

"I never want to take my eyes off you, El."

"I'm not going anywhere Coop; you can look at other parts of me besides my face," she giggled and kissed him gently.

"I want to see all of you." He ran her hands down her body, kissing the tops of her breasts and her stomach down to the waistband of her jeans, unbuttoning them and sliding them off her hips. He kissed back up to her lips and he smiled. "Have I ever mentioned how much I love that you match your underwear?"

She smiled and looked up into his light green eyes, seeing the flecks of gold that sparkled in each iris. "I think you've mentioned it," she whispered and kissed him softly. She felt his hands slip behind her back and unhook her bra. He slid it from her shoulders and moved his lips to her nipple, sucking on the hard nub in his mouth. Her back arched and she let a moan out. "Oh, baby." She whined and ran her hands through his hair, gently tugging.

He smirked and looked up at her, kissing his way down her body, taking her panties off with his teeth. He looked over her body in front of him and he let out a groan. "I can't even believe how beautiful you are."

She smiled and sat up and kissed him passionately, pushing him onto his back. She kissed his neck, gently biting on the skin. "Mm." She kissed down his torso. She looked up at him and unbuttoned his pants, sliding the zipper down with her teeth. She bit her bottom lip and pulled his jeans and boxers off, seeing his hard member in front of her.

"God, Ellie, I want you." He pulled her up and kissed her passionately. She straddled his lap and he gripped her hips, wrapping her arms around him, pressing their bodies together, feeling him slip inside of her.

She broke the kiss and moaned. "Oh, Coop." Her head fell back as she adjusted to him inside of her again. She started to rock her hips in rhythm with the music. She moaned and bit her bottom lip. She felt him move with her and she gasped. "Yeah, baby, just like that," she inhaled sharply through her teeth as she continued riding him.

Coop flipped them over so he was back on top. He looked down into her eyes. He brought her legs up and wrapped them around his waist. He started moving his hips into hers. He saw her back arch, and he leaned down and kissed her, slipping his tongue into her mouth, their tongues meshing together as they moved to the beat of the music, bringing each other over the edge.

When they finished Coop collapsed on top of her and looked into her eyes. "Shit, Ellie, you are incredible."

She giggled and ran her hands over his chest and kissed him softly. "So are you. God, you hit places inside of me that I never knew I had."

He buried her head in her neck and she wrapped her black comforter around them. They got comfortable, her head on his chest and he kissed the top of her head. "Night, El."

She looked up at him and smiled softly. "Coop?"

"Yes, Ellie?"

"I… I uh… I love you. I'm not just saying that because we just had amazing, mind blowing sex. I don't really know how I know. I just know, you know?"

He looked into her eyes and kissed her passionately, feeling her melt into the kiss. She let out a soft moan. He broke the kiss gently and caressed her face. "I love you too, Ellie."

Neither of them had ever said those words to anyone else before. They weren't sure how, but they just knew it. It felt right. They felt safe and comfortable with each other. They knew so much, they were accepted as members of each other's family. They figured this would be forever, this was it for them, it couldn't get any better.

But Ellie had this little voice in her head that said all the time to her that he was just using her, because she wasn't good enough to be his girl. She tried as hard as she could to push these thoughts from her mind, but it eventually became pointless. She brought him back to her dorm and sat him on the bed, sitting next to him. "I… we need to…"

"Oh boy, I don't like this." She rolled her eyes and grabbed the box of tissues from her night stand. "El, baby, are you pregnant?"

She furrowed her brow and looked at him. "What? No. No, that's not it. It's about us, you and me, well… more me."

"Ellie, I'm not getting where this is going."

She took a deep breath. "We're not going to work. You and me, us."

"Ellie—"

She put her hand up, resting her fingers against his lips. "No, let me finish," she whispered. She fought the tears in her eyes and she grabbed a tissue, wiping her eyes. "I… You…" She let out a breath, tears spilling from her eyes with it. "Coop, let's face it. You're too good for me, you can do so much better. I know you can."

"Can I talk now?" He saw her look down at her legs, sad, and nod. He lifted her chin and looked into her eyes. "Baby, talk to me. Tell me what is going on in that pretty little head of yours."

She shook her head. "I don't need a shrink, Coop. I need the two of us to face facts. We will never be able to work, not in a million years, not now. My mom is sick, my dad won't speak to me. I have my Aunt Leda and that's it. I may seem like I have it all together, but Coop, I don't. I'm falling apart."

"El, you think you're the only one falling apart? You do need a shrink. Baby, we all have our days where everything just doesn't go our way."

"Says the hot, smart, guy from a rich family who is paying for him to come to college."

"Okay, says the absolutely gorgeous, smart girl who has proven she can face anything, anything in the entire world, and come out a survivor."

"Why are you making this so hard, Coop? Why can't you just accept it and go?"

He was stunned. "Because I don't want to lose you, Ellie, I'm going to fight for you."

"You really love me?" He nodded. "Show me. Kiss me, and put everything you have into that kiss," she whispered, and almost before she was finished he cut her off, his lips on hers. He put every fiber of his being into that kiss, praying that she would learn just how much he loved her. He couldn't stand to lose her now.

He had no intention of breaking the kiss, he never wanted it to stop. She broke the kiss and he kissed her cheek. "Please, Ellie, I'm begging you. Don't do this," he whispered. "If anyone, you're the one that's too good for me. You're so out of my league, getting to be with you has made me the luckiest man in the entire world."

She looked into his eyes and wrapped her arms around him, kissing him passionately. She rested her hand on his shoulder, needing to be with him, but scared to death. Everything inside of her was screaming at her to run, before she got in over her head. Everything but her heart, her heart was the small voice she heard in the back of her head that was just barely loud enough to hear. It was just barely above a whisper as it said, 'just try'. She broke the kiss and looked into his eyes. "Promise me you'll love me forever?"

He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding and nodded. "All of you, for always," he whispered, caressing her cheek gently. He had tears in his eyes as he spoke. She looked into his eyes, tears in her own eyes and smiled, seeing the glimmers of gold in his eyes. "I love you Ellie."

She smiled and rested her hands on either side of his face, tears spilling out of her own eyes. "I love you too, Coop. So much."

He wiped her eyes and kissed her again gently. "I never want to lose you, Ellie. You mean more to me than I could possibly ever describe."

She wiped his eyes gently and closed her eyes. "I'm sorry. I just… my head kept telling me that I wasn't good enough for you. My head kept screaming at me that I wasn't anything more to you than sex. I know that isn't true I just… maybe it's because of how my dad treated me. Loved me my whole life then when he learned I wanted to be an attorney he never wanted to talk to me again."

"Hey, you could tell me you wanted to be a prostitute and I would still want you."

"I… Thank you, I think?"

"That…came out wrong, didn't it?"

She chuckled. "A little, yeah, but I think I got the idea. You'll want me no matter what." She said, taking his hands in hers. "I just want my brain to quiet down when it comes to these insecurities, you know?"

He gently ran his fingers through her hair and kissed her head gently. "I will do everything I can to shut them up… if you'll let me."

She smiled and rested her head on his chest. "Mm, gladly," she whispered, looking up at him. "Kiss me again, this time… I never want it to stop."

He smiled and pulled her into a passionate kiss, his fingers entwining in her hair, hearing her moans. Their kisses continued until they were too tired to move their lips anymore, Coop pulled her close, holding her tightly, covering them with her black comforter. He whispered in her ear gently. "I love you, Ellie. I'm never letting you go."


A/N: Thanks for reading, please review, here or on Twitter UnbrokenBarista. Next chapter is probably going to be the run in between Ellie, Stephen, Coop, and his wife, at the symphony. There may be an Ellie/Coop moment, but I'm not sure how AU I want this to go. We shall see.