After John announces he's leaving Salem with Brady, Marlena goes to the loft under the guise of returning Brady's forgotten teddy bear. The decision she makes that night changes everyone's lives.

A rewrite of the affair...

A month after Roman's return Marlena realizes that everyone is unhappy. Roman wants their life to be the one he left behind seven years ago. John feels like everything he loved is lost, and Marlena is in love with the man who is not her husband, but once was.

What if the affair, was really an affair? An emotionally messy, full of angst, and guilt, affair. John and Marlena can't seem to stay away from each other, no matter how many times they say it's over.

John can't forget the one woman he can't have. Marlena can't stop dreaming of the man she should have let go. What happens when fear, love, and desperation collide? This is a Canon Divergence retelling of the Lady in a Cage storyline with significant canon changes leading to another affair.

A one-shot short story set in 1992. Marlena is married to Roman and John is married to Isabella, who never got cancer so never died. Everything else is the same as the show. This short story is set on the night that Stella spiked Marlena's drink at Wings but it ends quite differently...