Title: Something Real
Rating: G
Spoiler Warning: 1.11 - All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
Words: 108
Prompt: vacation
Summary: Kate's favorite trip
Author's Notes: Written for lost_in_108;
This was their religion.
The little girl shifted her backpack across her thin shoulders; absently scratched at a bug bit on her arm and swiped sweaty bangs away from her forehead.
Her slightly freckled face stared up at her dad, watched as he frowned, his eyes crinkling in concentration at a collection of broken branches; their green leaves dangling precariously at the ends. She mimicked his stance, adoring eyes never leaving his face as she soaked in what he was telling her through only his expression. Then he touched a finger to his lips and pointed straight ahead at a set of deer tracks a few feet away.