Be Here Now
Part 1: Note From the Authors
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Pairing: John/Marlena/Roman/Kate

Summary: When Roman begins a new relationship with previous-foe Kate, Marlena's marriage is shattered by John's past. What will lie in all of their futures?

Rating: PG13

Disclaimer: Corday Productions and NBC own the rights to Days and its characters. Neither of us has rights to any of it.
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Hi, we're Erin and Michelle and we've come together to write this fan fiction after recently deciding that a Roman/Kate pairing would be interesting to write about (though we're both Roman/Marlena fans...if that makes any sense).

We decided to make part one of this story an explanatory note. We're going to tell you how the fanfic will be set up and what you should expect to read about.

The fanfic is set up in parts. Every part has two chapters (except Part 1, which is this note). The individual chapters are not named. In the first few parts, Kate seems to dominate the first chapter and Marlena the second (Roman moves around a lot and there's no real pattern with John).

We thought that we should mention that though the story takes place in current time-2002, after Stefano's will has been read and after Kate and Roman got stuck in the elevator together-there are no "aliens" (also, no key!) and the teens on the show are back to their original ages, i.e. Belle is eight, Brady's eleven, Shawn is sixteen (about), Chloe hasn't yet come to Salem, Philip is seven or so, Mimi is eight (yes, she wasn't around when the now-teens were little, but we're pretending she was since they don't really have anything to do with the story), et cetera.

Um, we think that's it... When we wrote parts two and three, we hadn't seen episodes past August 9 and we had no idea what had happened between Kate and Roman and we didn't know about the aliens and Marlena and all of that... Oh, and the title "Be Here Now" was decided before Roman had said anything on the show (which is a strange coincidence). It was borrowed from a CD title of the same by Oasis.

Now that that's all out of the way, we'd like to finish by saying that we hope you enjoy the story and that we love reviews (so please leave us a note :)! Thanks!

Erin and Michelle