The water feels amazing, and having Cougar looking out for him feels good to. He's a grown ass adult and shouldn't need it, but that Cougar does it for him reminds Jake that he's not alone in the world.

Of course, he's very aware he's not alone. If that wide eyed look and moment of being a million miles away is any indication. Certainly it's that and not watching Cougar rising like fucking Aphrodite out of the water. Just watching how the water sluice down his skin, how his clothes clung to the lean lines of a body Jake would swear he hasn't memorized through a few dozen missions.

Suddenly he startles as if Cougar actually spoke to him.

"What? Right. Coming. Let's go."

Wading out of the water with a shake of his head and a smile, looking at everything but Cougar. What? Nothing to see here.