Steve shook his head, and let her take his hand back. He didn't seem to be able to look at her, and was desperately trying to hide the fact he maybe might have been tearing up a little bit.

"We escaped, but the plane got rerouted to another Umbrella facility and we got captured by this psycho woman, Alexia Ashford. She took Claire prisoner, but she was pissed at me because I killed her brother Alfred back on the island. So she took me to her lab and used me as an experiment for the Veronica virus."

He swallowed and hesitated a long time before going on. "I don't remember much after that. Claire found me in the dungeons and she tried to get me out, but she... Alexia ordered me to kill her." Steve closed his eyes and his voice shook. "The virus turned me into this... this thing. And it scrambled my brain so I couldn't think, and I did almost kill her. I managed to stop myself, but then I..."

"I died," he said quietly.