Her Savior

Ch. 26 Trust Issues

Ratchet's P.O.V.
"My apologies, Ratchet; I meant to come by and explain things during the afternoon, but I've been busy," Lucas explains, "this is nurse Christine Silva. She's an overnight nurse at the NICU and has agreed to go to the medbay at N.E.S.T. to take care of the baby overnight. Our patient is doing well and only requires the typical baby care with slow infusions of medication and tube feeding."
"Now I know you could buy a baby monitor," Christine starts, "but I am aware of the situation, and I'd like you to focus on Jasmine for now."
I wonder if she knows how much of a wreck Jasmine is and will be.
Christina goes home but will be at the base at eight. I talk to Lennox and Prime about the arrangement and inform the evening guards.

Both my girls are asleep when I get back. The little one is back in the incubator for now. I don't know why I'm terrified of how much control Lucus has given me. I'm basically this little one's doctor, and he's my second assistant. Even thinking it's practice for when Jasmien and I have a baby, even if it'll hopefully come at full term, isn't helping. I am not trained to handle medical emergencies involving human babies. I tell Jolt about Christine and how she insists on helping.
"You're not thinking she's working for Yazmine, are you?" He asks.
"You know I would have smelt that," I remind him, "It's probably better I focus on Jasmine, especially if those nightmares will come back...; I just... I don't know."
Jolt smiles, "someone is jealous others are taking care of the baby."
"I AM NOT!!"
Jolt leaves the room, still smiling. With the girls asleep, I got to my office.

When Christine walks into my office at eight, I realize will Jasmine be ok with another person in the medbay? Jasmine is in a single patient room, so I can't sleep in the room with her. I can get her to our room, but it'll be more work. I didn't think she'd panic.
"You want me to leave my sister with her?" She asks, whispering.
"You know I would smell if she was lying. It's you I worry about and not being ok knowing someone else is here."
"And I won't be even when we're in our room."
She's right, but not the way she's thinking. I can't move the baby either. The medicine has let Jasmine sleep all night and nightmare-free. Hopefully, that continues. Then I can figure out when she's feeling better because the baby is not ready to not need so much extra care and sleep in our room. Besides, we don't even have a crib yet. Jasmine is already terrified of the outcome for her sister; buying a crib and for her to be right about only being allowed to visit will really set her off. I don't know how well having Jolt stay in here will be - even if we can go a few days without sleeping. A little sleep every night is no problem for him.
"You can't stay here?!" Jasmine asks as Jolt walks into the room.
"You understand we don't know how to take care of a human baby?" He asks, 'sure, the basic changing diaper and the tube feeding is like adults; but the medication... and I don't feel comfortable looking at notes since this is the first baby we're taking care of. You know Ratchet wants to make sure the baby is safe and would refuse to let the nurse stay if he felt uncomfortable."
This is likely proof Jasmine now distrusts strangers. Even though her sister was planning the attacks and torture, she had people Jasmine barely knew or didn't know to help her. We should be happy distrust isn't with the family. - unless she doesn't believe her aunt and uncle would give us the baby even if the system rules in their favor.

Jolt's P.O.V.
I hate seeing how terrified Jasmine is.
"You know what? I'll stay here tonight. I'll be fine to work tomorrow, but you have to trust me if I tell you everything was fine, ok?"
Jasmine agrees though still worried. Ratchet gets her ready to go to their room and lets her see the baby before leaving. It would be great if she could hold the baby, but she's still sick.

"I worry about your sister, little one," I tell the baby, knowing she can only look at me. I get her all wrapped up in a blanket to be held. Though I need to be careful of her IV, "you are doing well with a pacifier. Wonder when you'll be ready for a bottle? That would be a good way for your sister to bond with you," I tell her as I sit on the recliner. Christina moves a chair next to me.
"I should have known she wouldn't trust me," she sighs.
"It's not you; it's what she's been through," I explain, "we should have known she'd struggle to trust new people. I'm glad she's not afraid of her aunt and uncle, but I don't know if she distrusts them or not."
I inform Rung about what happened, uncertain if we should let Christine come here as planned or move the baby back to the NICU. I didn't think he'd come to the medbay.

"This is tricky," Rung starts after being informed of the situation earlier, "Jasmine needs to learn to trust people, but they could use this against her."
"Which once she realizes that her anxiety will worsen," I add, "which the judge will use against her."
"there's nothing else we can do but help her and hope the system doesn't rule the way Jasmine is terrified will happen," Rung concludes.
He sees the baby before leaving the medbay. I question if this is part of Yazmine's plan.