Some things you can't take back. All Steve wanted was to find the balls to tell the girl of his dreams how he felt. And he finally had. Today was that day. A day engineered with no distractions. A day for just the two of them. No roommates. No cowardice. No second-guessing the friendship they'd built over the last year wasn't more. Today was the day his hellish existence would move into the light. Snatched away by four simple words, Steve's day turns dark. From one second to the next, the future he meant to take into his hands turns into a speeding train bearing down on him. Unable to change the fate that forces him to betray his love, he succumbs to the circumstances that long ensnared him. No longer his friend, simply subject 10-0-9, he watches her suffer the procedure none has survived. When she wakes, when she finally comes to, the first to survive, Steve wants to take it all back. The nightmare of hoping she survived was nothing compared to this.