Chapter 109: Complications

My dad’s a doctor. I need him. – Evie

“Knock knock, Avon calling.” Isaac said stepping into the little room and pulling the curtain behind him.

Smiling at her dad she gave a little laugh. “Do you still say that?”

“Uh, yeah.” He scoffed sitting down in the chair by her bed. “I see people on what can be their worst day, a little levity helps. Sometimes. Not advisable if there’s nothing you can do but make them comfortable.”

“Like when they get shot and are dying.” She whispered.

“Yes.” He answered in his doctor voice.

He knew the reason he asked for him was because he was a doctor. She needed her Dr. Dad as all his kids called him. Had it been about getting shot, she would have asked for Deputy Dad. Feral Dad would have been asked to handle anything that the other two could not.

“I was so scared. It was a funny looking gun. Boxy. It looked fake. But it felt real.”

He took her hand that was playing with trim of the white blanket. “It was real. Joy went off the deep end of the deep end.