Dorms Stairwell - Afternoon

[need_no_moon]

Jake was barrelling down the stairs. Barrelling because he liked speed, and stairs were boring. He was jumping three, four stairs at once, trusting his hearing to pick up on anyone coming up the other way. It was near the landing of the first floor that it happened. It shouldn't have happened, he was a wolf and he was fast and balanced. He didn't

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[notmyownage]

Claudia wasn't barrelling or falling. She was just doing her usual stair climbing kind of thing and then OH HOLY CRAP there was Jacob falling down the stairs.

And because genius doesn't necessarily make one good at, say, common sense in split second reactions, her first thought was Maybe I can catch him.

[need_no_moon]

If he'd been a telepath, he would have pointed out that he was 6"9 and she was... He wasn't sure what she was, but she was a lot smaller. Except that he wasn't a telepath and honestly, even if he were, he'd still only be thinking of where he was falling.

Which suddenly looked a lot more like Claudia than it looked like a floor. And then there was impact and he probably should have grabbed the railing than grab her, right? Probably, yes.

[notmyownage]

To be fair, Claudia was grabbing back -- although, hey, now she was falling. Thankfully not very far. She hit the floor with an almighty OOF!, flat on her back beneath the, yes, much larger Jacob.

It was something of an accomplishment that she managed a moment later to squeak out "not my best idea."

[need_no_moon]

"You think?" he shot back, and he'd had a soft landing. Wasn't this supposed to be the other way around. "Are you okay?"

Which was a stupid question to ask when he was lying on top of her and... Crap. He quickly moved his weight to his elbows, having some distance to make sure she was in one piece.