This story is a sequel to the story A New Addition to the Family'. It started at the beginning where Marlena and John found out they were going to be parents for the first time, when Marlena is pregnant with Belle Summary: After six years of marriage, Marlena is ready to start a family with her husband, John

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.

A week away was supposed to change nothing. After a painful divorce, psychiatrist Dr. Marlena Evans escapes Salem for a much-needed vacation in Alamainia, determined to focus on herself for once. Then she meets John Black. Handsome, stubborn, and completely impossible, John crashes into her life-literally-and refuses to let her walk away. What begins as irritation soon becomes friendship, attraction, and something far more dangerous. As old wounds, family secrets, jealous exes, and unexpected threats begin to close in, John and Marlena discover that falling in love may be the easiest challenge they face. Because sometimes one chance encounter can change everything. A Jarlena romance filled with banter, second chances, family drama, and a little bit of fate

Some love stories begin with a rescue. Others begin with goodbye. Escaping a failing marriage, Marlena Evans travels to Alamainia seeking peace and finds something she never expected: John Black. One unforgettable summer changes both of their lives forever. But when Marlena disappears before sunrise, leaving behind only a letter and a broken heart, neither realizes that their story is only beginning. Years later, fate will offer them another chance-if they're brave enough to believe in myths, legends, and the power of a love that refuses to die.

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.

This series begins Easter 1996. It will take our couple through a year of holidays, because we didn't get holidays with them together and their kids still little, which was so unfair. Not only to make Christmas 97 about Roman, Sami & Eric after everything we went through, but then to age Belle and Brady before we could have any time with them.

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.

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.

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?

These are all stand alone stories. They do not go together in any way. Just a way to look at all of the ways that J/M could have gotten together, with a huge focus on them being "normal" people, doing "normal" things, especially as parents of younger children.