This is my first John and Marlena Fanfiction! I hope you enjoy it. While I mainly write about Strummer, I decided to try to write about my favorite DOOL couple! This story picks up when John finds Marlena at the "new" Maison Blanche. I am hoping to fill in some holes we all wished had been filled. I hope you enjoy it!
What happened in Lugano, Switzerland when Salem's favorite couple, John and Marlena left in 2008? Touch Taste Feel is a true love story chronicling John's fight to returning to the man that he use to be with the love of his life at his side.
The possession is over, but Father John Black still struggles with the attraction he feels for the woman he saved.
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 collection of Jarlena scenes, rewritten the way they should have played out. Each scene is separate and they are not interconnected.
When Roman Brady returned to Salem John Black lost everything. One year later a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to be Marlena rocks his world again.
Marlena helps John discover the secrets of his past after the return from Mexico. Both of them navigates their individual relationships with Isabella and Roman, while denying their love for each other.
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.
Stefano escapes Maison Blanche with John and Marlena as his captives. On his island, Stefano once again makes John his mercenary, while using intimidation and coercion to break down Marlena's defenses. Marlena struggles to fight through Stefano's programming, and bring John back to her.
A series of letters written to John in 1993 by various people in his life, begging him to come back to Salem.
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.
A new twist on the time Stefano held Marlena captive in the catacombs of Paris...with a lot of changes. One thing remains the same, John is still determined to find her.
A Maison Blanche canon divergence. After being emotionally, and physically tortured at the hands of Stefano DiMera, John and Marlena finally get free. Do they continue to live the lives people expect of them, or do they finally take what they want in life? Each other.
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.
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.
John is home from the hospital status post aneurysm. He puts together a scrapbook as a gift for Marlena on their anniversary.
John is discharged from the hospital post-aneurysm. After a burgers and beer at the pub, he and Marlena finally get a chance to talk.
John wakes up from his aneurysm repair surgery. John and Marlena reconnect.
Sammy never thinks she will ever find true love again after her last marriage blew up in her face. Until Lucas Roberts returns to Salem to attend his mother Kate's sudden funeral. Seeing Lucas in her home town again brings back so many feelings for Sammy. Feelings she tried to move past. Now that Lucas is back for aw...
