Another Keogh

First Day

"Alex? You ready?" My dad called from outside the door as I was gathering the last of my paperwork to place into my satchel.

"Almost! A couple of minutes!" I called back in response, shortly followed by an exasperated sigh. My CV was supposedly amongst the scattered papers from last nights placement on a nearby surface but had now been missing for exactly 6 minutes and 47 seconds. Minus the 7 seconds it took me to reply and attempt to compose myself. Which was really not working well.

The sound of the nearby door sliding open grasped my attention as I was met with the confused face of my father, the well known consultant Dylan Keogh. His face was plastered with a mix of confusion and slight irritation as his eyes scanned the area around me.

"Well... a couple of minutes could mean we would be late.... no sorry what are you doing?" He questioned sounding as if the last question was the one he actually just wanted to ask.

After brushing the non existent dust from my leggings I rose to face him from my previous crouched position on the floor.

"Trying to find my CV paper, Mrs Beachump said she wants to have another final look over it before I start my shift to see where to place me, but I cant FIND THE STUPID THING!" I stated, my agitation rising near the end, hence the raising of my voice.

This was met with a raise of his eyebrows, a normal gesture when he was met with frustration or lost for words.

At this however I sighed loudly and ran across to the other side of the room in order to look over on a nearby shelf and began rummaging through it. In between my barley audible mutters of frustration I managed to make out a short series of footsteps approaching me, as if they were determined yet hesitant.

"Alex...." He trailed off quietly, not really knowing what else to say.

"Sorry" I sniffed, wiping my eyes and turning towards him during so.

"I am just panicking a bit... I really don't want to mess this up"

We gave me a short but very quick small of comfort and wrapped an arm around my shoulders while handing me a small white envelope. After examining the contents I found all of my required paperwork all together. Including my CV.

I rolled my eyes and gave him an "of course" look as I stepped away from his hold and grabbed my satchel on the way out.

"Are you finally ready then?" He stepped past me and through the door, waiting outside of it for me to follow.

I did so ; delivered the message of "As I'll ever be"

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The ride to the ED was tense. My worries were boiling up and ready to overflow at any given moment. My dad exited the car before me, closing the door, approaching me and opening mine.

"You're going to be fine you know." He stated as I left the seat and closed the door behind me.

"Hmm" I responded momentously, still uncertain but glad he was supporting me.

After gently bringing me forward to him from the small of my back and kissed my forehead gently, something he did not do often but was a sign of his care, which I greatly appreciated but also know that he would not usually show in front of many other people, but I also cared for hi how he was and didn't want him to change.

"Well, into the lions jaws" I joked, allowing him to keep his hand on my back and lead me into the ED building.

I think I am going to like it here.

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Hi guys!

Just wanted to give a huge thank you to a special person know as applealice10 who gave me a lot of support just based on the idea of this story before it was even published and I think of them as brilliant individual who deserves many more followers so please do so if you can at any given time.

Two questions to follow up this chapter:

Which season and episode should I begin with (I was thinking season 29 episode 28 or 24 (sometime around there) but please do let me know if you guys have any other ideas! I would like to try to get to the latest episodes ASAP)

And how do you think the story is going so far and how do you think I have captured the idea of a daughter and dad relationship with Alexandria and Dylan? If you have any ideas of how I could improve this too can you please let me know by commenting?

Thanks a lot and keep being awesome!

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