Originally Logan had moved back home to the great Alaskan frontier for a fresh start so to speak. To turn back to his roots. The way of life up here was much different compared to his time spent down in the warmer states and even briefer time spent in Quebec.
It was simpler here. You don't just live, you survive.
Coming back home was his only plan, he hadn't thought much further than that. He had thought the life he had before would simply be left in his past to be forgotten. Until Sarah had called.
She had been, well not a girlfriend but they had been seeing each other off and on during his time as a truck driver. She had been sweet and decent in bed and that's all he had wanted. Eventually she wanted something more from him and he walked away. They had left on decent enough terms, not like they'd be best friends but she hadn't wanted to hold on to him in the hopes of more later either. She hadn't been happy about it all but Sarah had agreed that they just weren't compatible longer term.
That phone call had made him feel a little different about that last talk. The last time they had talked was almost thirteen years ago. At this point the last thing he had anticipated was a phone call from her.
"Listen Logan I'll be real straight with you, I wouldn't have bothered to track you down if my sister wasn't so adamant she wanted nothing to do with this, but you're the only one I have left that might help me." She sounded tired. "I haven't been real honest with you, when we spoke last I had planned that conversation going a lot different."
She was brief and to the point. They had a daughter named Sophia, of which Sarah's sister wasn't very supportive. She had his brown hair and blue eyes and she was short like her mother. Her mother who was sick and dying.
"I know I have no right to ask this of you after keeping it from you Logan, but she's yours and you're all she'll have left."
So, by the end of the year after more phone calls and an expensive trip back down south, Sophia was coming home with him.
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Six years later.
"Dad?" Sophia pokes her head in around the door to the shed, positive her fathers poking at something in here as always.
"Yeah? Whatchu want girl?" He's gruff as ever.
Her father is elbow deep in the engine of their old truck fixing some odd end or another. He's fit, just heading into his early forties. His classic blue jeans and plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He's clean shaven now in their summer months but come closer to the fall he'll grow it out again.
It looks good on him, a lumberjack dream. Sophia blushes at the thought.
She had felt strange about how her life had turned upside down. How this man had suddenly come into her life during such turmoil. She can still remember her Aunt Beth bringing them to the airport to pick him up. They had spoken a few times over the phone but meeting him in person had been different. Minus the fact that it had been for her mothers funeral. She had always pictured him as a blank slate, just a nondescript man. Vague and unknown.
Waiting for him at the pick up zone she had been anxious. She had no idea what he would be like. She can still remember the way she felt when she first saw him. Her Aunt had pointed him out.
"That'll be him." She didn't sound pleased. Given the fact the she had barely heard from her Aunt over the past six years more then proves that point.
He had a simple black pack back slung over one shoulder and a small black suitcase. He was just as handsome then as he is now, although she didn't understand the feeling she had back then.
He had a strong jawline, striking blue eyes and warm brown hair. He had a bit of a five o'clock shadow across his cheeks. Sophia can recall one of those fitness magazines with some model or celebrity splashed across the front promising gym 'gains' and thinking this man fit the description.
Shaking herself out of her thoughts she focuses back on the here and now. Her father is cleaning his hands with an old shed rag. His hands are big and work worn.
"I was just wondering what you think about having for supper? I can start getting things out." Sophia had slowly added household duties over the years here. It had taken her awhile to get used to life up here but now it felt like home. Her thoughts of moving away for college slowly slipped over her last years of highschool. Now at 19 she thought in seasons. What needed to be done in spring to set up for summer to prepare for fall to endure winter. Rinse and repeat and enjoy the things in between. Survival.
"Whatever you can cook up will be just fine." Logan wasn't picky about most things, food being one of them.