2015. I always wanted more build up to their reunion. I wanted to see them dating and actually finding their way back to one another.

John Black's world changed forever in February of 1995. Losing his son and the one woman who always held his heart nearly killed him. Five years later his marriage to Kristen is falling apart. His obsession with finding the last of Stefano's clones might destroy him... or possibly bring him back from the darkness he's called home for the last five years.

John Black has had many injuries in his life. This one, however, threatens not just him, but those he loves as well.

John and Marlena deal with her memory loss and Alex North's control. Each short story is its own separate short, basically how I wanted or thought a conversation/event should have gone during this awful storyline long ago.

An AU rewrite of the Salem Strangler storyline. How would it play out if John Black came to Salem in 1982?

An AU story about Marlena's 1993 pregnancy. The blood test was inconclusive, John sends Kristen packing, and Sami never witnessed anything. A story of healing, and the final acceptance that fate is out of our hands.

These stories are all one-offs. They are not meant to tie together. These explore the divorce and post-divorce storylines.

John left Salem in 1994, after he was no longer able to live on the sidelines watching the life that he once had. No Isabella nor Brady. If the twins were 9 in 91, makes their graduation (in my timeline) 2000. It is soon after this that Marlena and John bump into each other. These chapters discuss the idea of regrets and fate helping two people who are meant to be. Quite the rewrite from the original version out there.

It's late 2014 when John wakes from a coma believing it's still 2012, and that he and Marlena are still married and deeply in love. But in reality, they're divorced-broken by pain, time, and choices that can't be undone. Marlena tries to guard her heart. John only remembers how to love her. Going Home to Doc is a slow-burn, second-chance romance that asks: can soulmates ever truly let go? Notes about the use of canon in this universe: John & Marlena have been married since 1999 and that marriage was fully intact until 2012. There was no Princess Gina, no RoboJohn, no Alex North, no reasons for multiple separations and marriages over the years. Until 2012 their relationship was solid and the tests to their relationship always came from the outside but their relationship itself was upenetrable. 2012 changed everything.

Marlena's life has been in a slow downward spiral ever since her husband Roman came back into her life six years ago. Struggling to be the perfect wife and the perfect mother is slowly killing her. Just when she felt like she was drowning a stranger walks into her life and changes everything.