Trust Issues Day 21
Christina was trying to get used to one of her tormentors working with them on the daily. She had some deeply rooted trust issues. When she and Damian had first moved in with her dad and brother it had taken a while for her to trust them. It had taken her even longer for her not to jump every time someone other than Damian hugged her. She still didn't trust people she didn't know. It took her months to trust new people. It was going to take her a long time to trust him. It helped that he tried to avoid her. She still wasn't sure why he was with them, and not in jail where he belonged, in her opinion. Part of the issue was she couldn't just stop remembering what he did to them. She still didn't know he was actually helping them, and she still didn't know that he was never a bad guy. Until she gets told these things she isn't going to be able to start trusting him. Damian was trying to talk to her, but she kept brushing him off. She wasn't emotionally ready to hear and accept these things yet. Damian was waiting for her to be ready to talk about this. That day came two days later, and they sat down in their office to talk.
"Christina, before you say anything, let me explain something. Jericho wasn't an experimenter, he was a licensed doctor. He helped us when we were hurt, but Hydra made us remember him as evil. They wanted us to think that way because he betrayed them. He wasn't going to hurt us. Now I know you can't trust him yet, but can you try to be amiable to him?" Damian asked.
"Now that I know that I think I can try." Christina replied. With that settled she went to go train. She waited for Phoenix and Atlas, so they could do their daily training. Christina learned to trust them, so maybe she could learn to trust Jericho. She decided to give him a general level of respect to start off. She wasn't sure what else she could do, but she would try to trust him.