Please Note: this story is in the process of being heavily rewritten/re-edited to fix style, depth and continuity issues. I have gone back to the beginning to completely revise chapters to allow for the change in story direction as I have been going along. ********************************************************** 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. Their relationship broken by pain 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 Alex North, no Gemini Twins, 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, never within. 2012 changed everything.

Can John and Marlena rediscover their love as they fight to save her soul?

Coming back from Mexico, Marlena decided to move on with her life alone, leaving John confused and Roman angry. Just remember, sometimes you have to sin to find heaven.

Their love was rumored fact and fiction, blurring the lines between reel and real. After a decade apart, John Black, a retired baseball player and now Hollywood star, reaches out to Marlena Evans with an opportunity she cannot refuse. The challenge? They must contend with feelings of longing and attraction, leading to an arrangement.

An Aremid canon divergence story rewritten with a John and Marlena love story at its center.

I wrote this many moons ago and never got to finish it up. Going to try to rediscover the story and characters as I go. You're welcome to come along for the journey, if you wish. This is my take on the affair from 1993, set in that moment in time. Hope you enjoy (:

Yet another love story. It's 2018...Marlena never stopped John from leaving Salem in 1993. Will they ever meet again and what would happen if they did meet after 25 years apart.

John and Marlena chose separate paths in Mexico, staying friends but choosing to move on with other people. Isabella's death, and Roman's infidelity push them back together. When they need each other the most, two friends come together and realize that maybe they were always inevitable.

After Mexico, John left Salem without a word. Nearly a year later, a chance encounter in San Francisco brings John and Marlena together for one night, that changes everything.

1992 Canon Divergeance - Marlena and John are friends, but they used to be much more. What happens as they attempt to navigate their new lives, but they continue to be drawn to each each other? Roman is pulled into the Raffi Torres case, leaving Marlena and the children unprotected. John steps in, taking care of the family that was once his. Will the line between friendship and lover be blurred?