Time After Time

Chapter 6 - Ghost

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Chapter 6 – *Ghost

There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
The last truce we ever came to
In our adolescent war
And I start to feel the fever
From the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons
Shadowing my dreams

And the Mississippi's mighty
But it starts in Minnesota
At a place that you could walk across
With five steps down
And I guess that's how you started
Like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me
And I start to drown

Logan sat in Washington Square Park eating his street vendor hotdog. It was his only reprieve from the daily hustle and bustle that kept him from going crazy. Life in the publishing business had changed drastically since he took his first job at his dad's company. It was more online now, and even the few book-publishing companies they owed were now more digital then print.

It was also a business that moved at a much quicker pace, unbelievable but true. It was more about the short game. Get in, get out, get the money and move on. Rarely did any writer get a multiple book deal unless the first sold into the top 10. Which meant that his office was always busy, always loud and he was always on the go.

It was moments like this, after his visit with Honor and the baby that he let himself think about another life, his life with Rory Gilmore. He hadn't turned into a monk or anything. He was a Huntzberger after all. There had been other women, quite a few actually over the years, but that had all stopped when he'd married Odette. There had only been one woman he loved and when that fell though, for the final time he'd thrown in the towel and focused his life on business and Odette.

She wasn't a horrible person. She may never be the love of his life but she was smart, and funny and at lest they were friends. They understood the business and social aspects of their lives, what it would mean for them both, and how to appear the perfect couple. They were good friends, and now family.

Mitchem had acquired the company that Logan had helped build in San Francisco as a way to control him, but it was also because the work Logan and the guys had done was more then worth the money Mitchum had to pay them for it. He had kept all of them on and sent Logan to London again. It was where his father thought he had thrived the most, but Logan saw his father's face when he and seen he and Rory together at that restaurant, that he had finally realized that the reason Logan had been thriving was not only because he was a great businessman, but also because of Rory.

After that last night together Logan decided he had two choices, continue to grieve, or let what he had with Odette be enough and surprisingly enough it had been. Odette was very into the social aspect of their married life, the parties, the business connection and he had to admit it had worked out beyond any expectations he had.

His business connections had boomed in her wake, and while she was the epitome of a perfect socialite in public, she wore nothing but jeans and tennis shoes in private. Her hair slightly messy, glasses poised on the tip of her nose as she gave him one of her patented smirks. She challenged him and together they made a great team, both in bed and out.

But sitting here in the park every day he was once more just Logan. He read, actual print books, which he liked to think helped keep that format of media in place. He had learned a long time ago there was nothing like the smell of an old book. The book he read today was one he had read many times over the last few months, the pages worn, and the cover torn slightly, today's read wasn't Tolstoy or Shakespeare, it was something much simpler and yet so much more complicated. He closed the book after finishing the last page, Gilmore Girls. Being in the business, he had acquired an early, unpublished copy from a friend.