The sniper thought about the past few days as he cleaned his guns out of boredom. Pooch had found something out about Jensen, that much was certain, what had happened after that they still wouldn't say though.
To say it didn't bothered him wouldn't be the complete truth -they all had secrets- the look of terror Jensen had gotten when he asked about it hurt a bit though. Pooch knew, Clay probably did too, and if Clay knew he probably looked for advice from Roque. And still, Jensen wouldn't talk to him.
It was the little things too, Jensen stopped looking at him when he talked. He didn't look to the sniper for quiet reassurance that he was listening, he didn't even try to mask the relief he felt when Pooch or even Roque entered the room. It was pitiful Cougar felt like this but he really didn't mind Jensen's seemingly mindless chatter of tech-speak, it had actually grown on him. So now that it was fading and the hacker seemed to be avoiding him, it was just a little bit jarring.
"...Ahem..."
Cougar looked up, Jensen was standing in his doorway nervously fiddling with a piece of paper.
"Uhhh... Hi Cougs, how ya doin'?"
The nervous feeling was practically rolling off the hacker.
"Si, Estoy bien." Cougar was confused, though it was subtle and didn't show. Was talking to him really that uncomfortable now? Jensen shuffled from foot to foot and didn't meet his unwavering gaze.
"... Arg, can you not try and piece together my soul with that stare of yours? Thank you."
Cougar raised an eyebrow at that, but tried to not look so intense.
"Jensen! Stop being such a chicken-shit,"
Cougar faintly heard Pooch's angry/frustrated/annoyed whisper. He wondered at that, why would Jensen be afraid of him now, they had already established what was allowed and what would get his fingers broken.
From his position he watched Jensen try not to make a smart ass comment back to the driver, instead he squared his shoulders and looked at Cougar dead-on.
Walking with purpose the few short paces to the bed, Jensen brought up the now slightly torn and folded scrap of paper and handed it to him.
"You can read that now or later, though you probably won't need to once I'm done my spiel here." He took a seat, pausing for a breath before continuing,
"So please don't be creeped out by this or shoot me, I like my body just the way it is and bullet wounds are not fun. Ilikeyou. Pooch is laughing his ass off at me right now because this is fucking nerve racking and I hope to hell this doesn't mess with out relationship if you don't feel that way. If you don't please just tell me and I can stop being a possible creeper. Okay, thanks."
By the end of his 'spiel' Jensen was pacing. If he had heard it a year or two earlier Cougar probably would have missed the blurred portion that Jensen was obviously trying to hide in his speech. Jensen liked him, he'd actually kind of guessed, but he never thought the hacker would ever come out and say it to him.
He'd only realised he liked him back when his candy went missing and Jensen didn't end up dying a brutal and painful death. Because really, only Jensen would do something like that after he was explained not to.
"Tú también me gustas"
Jensen stared at him and pulled at his hair, "Dammit Cougar, you know I still can't speak spanish. You just swore at me didn't you? God, should I not sleep for a few days, are you going to slit my throat while I sleep?"
Cougar shook his head and walked towards the hacker, who's body language was screaming I-am-innocent-and-you-don't-want-to-hurt-me.
"Seriously Cougs, it'd be a lot messier to off me here. I can go kneel outside if you want. Then y blood can drain into the soil and it won't stain this obnoxiously ugly carp-"
Cougar placed a chaste kiss on the hackers still talking mouth, grinning as his did so.
The hacker froze mid-sentace and just stood there. After a second Cougar backed up again,
"Entender."
It was all Jensen could do to nod.
~FIN~
Google says
Si, Estoy bien means Yes, I'm fine.
Tú también me gustas means I like you too.
Aaaand entender means Understand
~AN~
Haha indeed. Can you believe it? I updated twice in the same day. Insanity. This is by far the longest chapter, and to those of you who were not too pleased with the previous chapter, I hope this makes up for it. If you're wondering the letter Jensen had was the one from the beginning. I was going to go all poetic on you again and come up with another one but I'm a lazy writer haha. Well, I guess I'll have to work on the Losers/Glee AU crossover I started. That of which only a few of you have seen.
