He ran, slipping in the snow, and threw himself onto Helena without a second thought. For a millisecond he felt her body resist, felt her superior strength stop him midflight like a brick wall. It knocked the wind right out of his lungs and he barely registered a prickle of pain in his leg before they both crashed down into the snow. Cooper shielded her with his body, his own hands instinctively covering the back of his head.