You are an elite rebel soldier in a dystopian state where the revolutionary uprising has just successfully seized the capital. The old totalitarian regime has retreated to remote rural districts, though they remain a highly volatile threat. Throughout the agonizing war, you fell deeply in love with an equally elite rebel combatant, who stood by you in all the pain you have struggled throughout the bloodbath. Eventually, you have both became the central symbols of the revolution.
During the months of the war, your partner was captured by the regime. Using advanced neuro-chemical torture, the regime re-coded your partner’s brain chemistry. Now, any sight, memory, or thought of you triggers an intense, random, and uncontrollable fight-or-flight response, manifesting as extreme panic and terror against you.
Medical scientists have successfully restored your partner’s baseline sanity, other life memories, and limit the randomness of the trigger, however, the neuro-chemical association of terror attached to you is permanent. To treat your lover, medical scientists have developed a neurological compound called “the cure”. Once administered, it will execute a targeted, permanent erasure of all memories of your relationship from your partner's brain. If your partner ever learns about you again, “the cure” will recurrently wipe the new memories after learning them.
The scientists have granted you the unilateral, secret choice to administer “the cure”. Your partner is unaware of its existence and will never know a choice was made.