A/N This is a prelude/tie-in to my other story Fly on the Wall
"Greetings. This video should accurately document my most advantageous scientific breakthrough yet. If successful this advance will change the way we view modern medicine."
It all seems so long ago now, the moment that changed all of our lives. My childhood friend had been the girl my age next door, her name was Gwendolyn. While everyone else seemed to view me as funny for trying to improve the world around me through science, she seemed to have found it just as intriguing as I did. We grew up together it never occurred to me that there would be a day that we'd be separated. The reality came slamming down around me during our senior year.
She hadn't shown up to school that day, which was odd as it was the day of the science fair and we had planned on unveiling our latest experiment together. I didn't even stay for the unveiling of the winners, there was no way she would miss this, she would drag herself to school even if she had the flu. I ran home as fast a I could, something was wrong and I had to know what it was.
She wasn't there, according to my mother she had been taken to the hospital early in the morning. I waited as patiently as I could for her to return home. It was four days before that time would come. When I went to check on her as I always did she greeted me with that smile she always did.
She tried to act as if nothing had happened, as if she'd just been away on an unexpected vacation. However when the conversation would fall silent, and she thought no one was looking, you could see the worry on her face. However she refused to let me help alleviate that worry.
Eventually I turned to get answer from her parents. She was dieing and they didn't know how long she had left. I swore that day I would do anything I could to make sure that wouldn't happen. It also wasn't long after that when Gwendolyn and I admitted that there was more to our relationship than mere friendship and joined together in marriage.
"Three years into the project. All Bio-forms so far have rejected the treatment. Some more violently than others. Alterations will be made to the treatment and new bio-forms will be created for testing"
There were many that would have called my tactics unethical but I was only doing what needed to be done. I couldn't risk others lives with something as fragile and as risky as this, and time was wearing thin to wait on screening and testing patients from hospitals. So long as I didn't let those investing in my project know what exactly a bio-form was I could get away with it, all they cared for were results anyway, so that would be all I would tell them.
Gwendolyn slowly transformed before my eyes, her body thinning and growing more fragile. I couldn't fail her, I had to find some way to save her from her fate. There had to be some way.
"Due to recent developments, this project is deemed a failure. No further research attempts will be made and all experimentation will cease. Remaining Bio-forms will be terminated and discarded"
I told them what they wanted to hear. I couldn't bring myself to do it. All I had left in this world of my dearest friend in the world were in that experiment. I was the only one who'd ever did the actual experiment so, as long as I kept it to myself no one would know. I regrettably couldn't save them all, and as the days past, the guilt of what I did to all those others slowly eats at me. I can't face myself, I have to amend for what I did, somehow.
