Bleeding Hearts

What would you do if your life depended on someone you hate? Not because you have anything against them in particular, but for centuries of atrocities committed by their kind. You have been deceived by people like them, the ones you love were hurt by them, the ones you used to love were murdered by them. Still, this one person offers you their hand. Would you take it? Would you trust them? Or would you take their life instead to save yours?
Well, I chose to take the hand and live to die another day. After all, despite my hate, it wasn't his kind that put me in that state, It was my own.