When love and pain intersect, and life altering decisions aren't easy. Sometimes saying goodbye is easier than actually letting go. Set in 1991, this retelling of John, Marlena, and Roman's story comes after Mexico. It examines the pain of abandonment that comes from a father saying goodbye, the ultimate betrayal, a love denied, and the impact of C-PTSD on a man who refuses to acknowledge he needs help coping with seven years of torture.

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.

Three years after they said goodbye in Mexico, John is engaged to Kristen Blake, and Marlena is living a quiet, if not boring, life with Roman. One fateful choice, a flight to Seattle, and Stefano's desire to rip John from his daughter's life changes everything forever.

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

John struggles with his love for two women. One who is dying, and the other belongs to someone else... but she used to be his.

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.

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.

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.

This is another one-shot but I am posting it in sections as I write it so keep checking back because I'll be updating it every few days! This story takes place in early 1997, mere days after John married Susan, masquerading as Kristen, in the delivery room as she gave birth to Elvis Jr., or John Jr., whichever you prefer. You might remember a rather delicious kiss that John and Marlena shared in Kristen's hospital room in the days following John Jr.'s arrival, while Kristen was trying to seduce her 'husband' into bed and Marlena was struggling with telling John the truth about his 'wife'. Well, that's where this short story starts. I think we all know where it's gonna end....

Set in early '99 when Hope was Gina, John was being an ass, Bo and Marlena were confused, and I got pissed off. A look at what might have happened had Marlena decided to dip her hand in the Brady brother cookie jar one more time. And then got caught.