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snowdarkred) wrote2010-11-06 11:45 pm
Losers fic: sugar doesn't solve problems, dear, you just wish it did
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snowdarkred Word Count: ~700
Pairings: girl!Jensen/Cougar
Rating/Warnings: PG. Swearing.
Author's Note: Movie!verse AU. Part of the alive with the glory of love 'verse. *waves* I've haven't forgotten you! I swear! I have a lot I still plan on doing in the girl!Jensen 'verse, not to mention that sequel to Project Super Soldier I have sitting on my computer. I just, uh, got distracted? This takes place after The Blow Job Incident and The Ear Incident, but before The Bolivia Disaster. So Roque is still a bastard, just not a traitorous bastard.
Summary: Jocelyn “Jake” Jensen doesn't want to think of her and Carlos “Cougar” Alvarez as star-crossed lovers, but she is beginning to wonder. Also, there is stress baking.
sugar doesn't solve problems, dear, you just wish it did
Jensen wasn't the kind of girl who stared out a window, sighing as she mused about the state of the universe. She wasn't really the kind of girl who stared out of windows at all, unless there was gunfire and snipers involved. And yet, for the third night in a row, she found herself laying awake next to Cougar, paralyzed by the thoughts swirling uselessly through her mind. Cougar was starting to give her worried looks where she could catch him at it, and that was never a good sign.
It wasn't that it unusual for the Losers to have bouts of insomnia; Roque once went a record of two weeks without any sleep at all. It was the thinking that scared Cougar. Not that Jensen didn't think. No, it was just—
She couldn't seem to get her brain to shut up, and she wasn't sure how long they had before she went batshit crazy.
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It was just—It was just, there was this thing. This weird, uncomfortable thing. Okay? Not like a rash thing, but like a... feelings thing.
Jensen didn't speak feelings. She could speak geek, nerd, and pop culture, but she couldn't speak person. And she had never been very good at self-reflection.
And she would rather cut her own arm off than talk to the only semi-normal person she knew – Pooch – about it, because, well, she had to work with him and that would be mortifying. (Well, maybe not her arm. A finger. Just not an important one. Maybe a pinkie.)
Anyway.
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When her mother had been around – and sober, and not murderous – she had baked. Considering that Jensen had seen the woman kill people in cold blood, this had never struck her as a 'weak' thing for a person to do. It seemed natural.
So she didn't really think anything of handing Cougar a list of her requirements right before he and Pooch went off on another supply run. They were hiding out in Germany waiting for their next assignment to come through, and it wasn't as if she hadn't made special requests before. There was no reason for him to hold the list by the corner like it might bite him.
“No offense,” he said slowly, “but qué coño es esto?”
“Um, it's a shopping list,” she answered just as slowly. “You know, that thing you check obsessively when you go to the store but still manage to forget something on.” Cougar raised an eyebrow at her as if to say, Well, you might forget something....
Jensen glared at him. Cougar looked at the list, looked at her, and shrugged, clearly willing to put aside whatever doubts he might have had about letting her anywhere near something as explosive as flour.
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When Pooch and Cougar got back, she kicked everyone the fuck out of her kitchen.
“When did it become your kitchen?” Roque demanded, which was hilarious since Roque hadn't even glanced at their safe house's kitchen since they started staying here. He was not the cooking type.
“Since I have a gun and a willingness to shoot your ass if you don't move right the fuck now,” she said sweetly, running her fingers along the butt of the Honduran general’s gun. Cougar smirked at her from over Clay's exasperated shoulder, and Jensen felt that weird, uncomfortable feeling swell up again. It set her teeth on edge. “Now move.”
They moved. You didn't argue with a Jensen woman on the edge. Not if you wanted to keep all of your parts in one piece.
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She baked. She poured and mixed and baked until the whole safe house smelled like chocolate and sugar, and then she baked some more.
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“Motherfucker,” she swore as she watched Cougar bite into the muffin and it all clicked. He looked up at her sharply, frozen mid-chew while the rest of her boys stopped and stared. “I'm in love with you. I'm head over-fucking-heals, waiting by the window in love with you.” The thought was so shocking that her brain stopped functioning. It was one thing to think it, but another to feel it, completely and wholly, and be able to put a name to the feeling.
Silence.
“You bastard.”
Pooch was the first to crack up.
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OMG guys this is terrible and I'm sorry it took so long and that I couldn't think of anything better and ack, why do I fail so hard lately???
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I can totally see this being the way it goes down, poor Cougar, he has no fucking clue what he's in for.
*hugs Jensen*
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http://pennies-4-eyes.livejournal.com/18125.html
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ROTFL
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Fucking Cougar, that bitch being all attractive and shit and making Jensen fall in love with him.
And it's so good to see this series again. I missed it!
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That was just EPIC~! :D
Aww, I've missed this 'verse so much! *hugs*
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This is awesome, I was kinda wondering if you'd fallen off the face of the earth. So it's nice to see you're still around. :D
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I love this 'verse - I flailed RL when I saw you'd updated. Take all the time you need, because your fics are always well worth the wait :D
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*gasps for air*
i can't stop smiling, this is awesome. how Jensen responded to falling in love was 100% perfect. and Cougar's 'deer caught in headlights' reaction was hilarious
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"I'm in love.
Oh SHIT, I'm in love."
I think this was perfect. I missed this series!
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*weee*
More more more more ... *bats eyelashes* PLEASE?
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