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 left Salem in 1994, after he was no longer able to live on the sidelines watching the life that he once had. No Isabella nor Brady. If the twins were 9 in 91, makes their graduation (in my timeline) 2000. It is soon after this that Marlena and John bump into each other. These chapters discuss the idea of regrets and fate helping two people who are meant to be.
Quite the rewrite from the original version out there.