Losers Fic: Walk a While With Me, 1/?

Title: Walk a While With Me
Author: LadyJanelly
Fandom: The Losers
Rating: Mature
Word count: ~34,000
Characters/Pairing: Jake Jensen/Carlos “Cougar” Alvarez
Warnings: Bullying, hazing, homophobia, racism, internalized homophobia, violence, language, mentions of previous assault and sexual assault, Jeff Foxworthy paraphrase, Leverage cameo
Notes: Thanks to Peaceful_sands for her hand-holding, cheer-leading and beta-reading
Title from the Led Zeppelin song “Over the Hills and Far Away”

Feedback will be adored in any form--from squee to concrit to thinky-thinky thoughts.

(fic is finished, just not sure how many chapters it'll chop into as I finish the last edits)

Summary: AU—Jake Jensen left the Army before he ever had a chance to be a Loser. Cougar meets him anyway.
Sometimes what a man needs to have a chance at happiness is losing the battle he’s been fighting his whole life.



( The sniper meets the hairdresser )

( Chapter 2 )