"I trust you to be a good father," she said with strength behind her calm and quiet voice. She was taken by surprise by the lack of her own doubt. She did not necessarily trust him to be a good man but that was strangely unimportant for her. Others might need someone to hide behind their heroic parents, show off with their father's achievements. Katherine just wanted someone who truly cared about her, where she came first, someone who had her back in the moments of her greatest fear and despair. She could live with not having a father who would joke with her friends or come to her birthday parties as long as she knew that he was there when she needed him.