Fanfic name: 1999 Gina rewind

Summary: Just as the title states. I am taking the 1999 storyline, from the scene where Gina pitched up in the red dress at Tuscany, and changing it to suite me. There are so many times that I feel like just shaking Gina, wanting to tell her, "If you want him, have him chase you instead!"

Before I commence with my take, I need to just add some history to refresh everyone's memories, since we are going back 1999... I have to warn you all though, if you are looking for the usual Bope ending, you won't find it here.

Another word of warning: This is Days... and every couple and/or character have a complicated back story, therefor, prepare for really long run-on sentences, just to put you back in the storyline/s...

History

In Dec 1998, with Stefano's plan in full swing, to turn Hope back into our fun-loving Princess, Bo and Hope are in the best place they have been in months. Finally together...

Rewind

This is the history of how long they were not together…..

In 1997 Hope and John goes to a jungle compound with Stefano and Kristen, as Stefano was finally caught, arrested, booked and everyone thought the phoenix had finally burned itself out…. Until he cut a deal with the DA – all charges dropped if he could supply a cure for Roman, who is at death's door, after Kristen brought him back, just in time to stop John and Marlena's fairytale wedding.

The reason Hope joined John on this quest? (Apart from her legendary stubborn streak) Her relationship with Bo was just about non-existent, due to Franco Kelly's interference, paid by Kate, to mess up Bope in order for Billy to get her man.

At the same time Hope and John are fighting for Roman's (and their own) lives, Bo and Billy are undercover in Rome. As Days storylines go, Bo and Billy have to marry in order to please JL King, the Mob boss they are trying to catch. This is a marriage in name only – unfortunately Hope did not know this, and while she is out of Salem, saving lives, Kate convinces Bo that Hope left town for a romantic getaway with Franco. Of course, that completely breaks his heart, and he immediately decides to heal his heart by consummating his marriage to Billy.

Let's do some soap math: 1 + 1 = 3….. And baby Georgia is 'planted'.By the time Hope and John get back to Salem, Billy is very preggers, Bo finds out he was an idiot and Hope decided to leave them alone for the baby's sake and rather concentrate on finding out all the interesting things she was up to during her missing hears from 1990 - 1994… And so we get to the intro to the whole Princess Gina storyline….

1998. Celeste, who looked after Hope at Maison Blanche while she was between personalities, and re- appeared in Days in 1994, very conveniently decides that now is the perfect time to send her some of the possessions Gina used to have at Maison Blanche…

And with the arrival of this box, containing a silver comb, a silver compact mirror and a tube of lipstick in a beautiful box, we start moving in the PG direction… (Princess Gina as opposed to parental guidance… although with the "spine shattering sex on a sub marine" scenes that followed a little later, some people might disagree. PS. John's words, not mine.)

Bo, still very much in love with his fancy face, but bound to Billy, wants to help with the search, stubborn Hope wants to do it on her own…. Yet, since they are a Days super couple, Bo is always around, and he is with Hope as she decides to question that doctor that supposedly fixed her "burned beyond recognition" face, and hears from another patient about the Bayou Dugar… apparently a place she insisted she needed to go back to. After one alone visit, when she was thrown out by the two hillbilly's livin' there, Whayne and Earl, Bo followed her to make sure she is safe, they go back to the Bayou and they get stuck there over night.

And the 'so important 'silver compact gets stolen by the swamp girl, living there…

Of course, Billy follows to make sure Bo is safe as well, from Hope that is. She misses them, ends up going into labor, loses the baby, she calls "Georgia" after finding Hope/Gina's compact with the G on… (this is the same alive and well teenager Chelsea that pitched up years later) and then she frames Hope to look like the stress and a fight they had at Salem place upon her return to Salem, caused her to lose the baby….

Ok, so again, Bo and Hope are at odds and she is operating alone. John comforts her as she explains about how Billy losing her baby is all her fault, and unknowingly opens Pandora's box, as he produces a photo him and Marlena found in the ashes of Maison Blanche, just to cheer her up. It is an ooooooooooooooooooold photo, of Hope, in oooooooooooooold clothes, in front of a house, looking not a day younger than today…. If this was vampire diaries, I could explain that, but since it's Days, we go doppelgangers over the vampire explanation…

SPAM Ok… if you want to know the full story on that stupid silver compact of Gina's go to my youtube channel (/laprinsipessa) and you'll find two video's trying to fit the whole compact story into just the two vids… END SPAM

So since said compact is MIA in the Bayou, we move onto the comb that came with it, somehow it accidentally broke and a name of a shop where it was bought is found. John decides to accompany Hope to Lugano, Switzerland – (yep same place he went to for rehabilitation when he left the last time in a wheel chair… Wonder if the writers ever picked that up?) anyway, they go to the shop, a housekeepers sees them, they find out that the comb was originally her madam's, and they pitched up at said lady's House (the same house in the ooooooooooooooold picture)…. They ring the bell, and the lady answers, before they can introduce themselves, the lady (Mrs. Lily Faversham) throws her arms around Hope, calling her Gina….. (This summary would make a pretty awesome yt video…. I should go make one.)

Lily tells them that Gina is a Princess, that she had one great love, was like a daughter to Lily and enjoyed balls and baccarat. She takes out a photo of Gina at a ball, and in the background they see John, dressed as a priest, sporting a beard…. So John was somehow involved with Gina….

Bo decides to go back to the Bayou, as he still wants to help Hope, to Billy's consternation, and ends up taming the wild swamp girl, takes her back to Salem, learns that she is Greta, Princess Gina's daughter and that she was actually the one scarred in the acid, not Hope….

John returns to Salem, Hope stays behind to go on the empress express train ride with Lily on the way to some or other royal ball. She immerses herself in Gina's life, and runs into Rudolfo Miradi, aka Stefano. When the train derails, since Stefano wants to prevent Hope from getting to the place where the ball is being held, he saves her, she finds it strange; we don't, since we know he has decided that he can use her again. As Gina…

Hope returns to Salem and Billy's little secret about Georgia is revealed and the happy couple finally re-unite.

okay, so we are back to Dec 1998

Since Stefano wants to turn Hope back into Gina, he needs Hope to stay put in Salem, and to prevent Bo from taking her away, he kidnaps their son Shawn D (Yeah, he only dropped the D after being SORASed to a teen, about six months later)…

It works and Hope stays in town, fretting, and getting memory flashes, knowing things only Gina could've known about Greta's life and playing songs on a piano she has never been able to play before. Lily pay the ransom, and just before they leave Salem (we are now in Jan 1999), Hope goes over to Lily's to thank her before they leave. This is of course the night Steffi's satellite is in orbit and ready to beam Gina back to the front of Hope's mind…..

While at Lily's, Hope remembers, being an art thief and forger for Steffi, stealing Lily's paintings. She recovers a photo of herself on Stefano's lap in one of Lily's old art books, and freaks out, and goes out into a blizzard to get to Bo as soon as possible, so she can tell him all about Stefano's illegal operations and stuff.

On the way, her car skids off the road, while the transformation is supposed to be taking place, the blizzard could interfere with the transmission, so no-one really knows if Hope or Gina will be the one waking up in the hospital.

She wakes ups, tells Stefano to take a hike when Bo brings her past to take her home, then later slaps Bo when asks her to marry him. Something is definitely off.

Later that evening she goes to Stefano, tells him that she remembers everything, and will expose him, then collapses in a fit of laughter, when he tries to wring her neck. Gina is back! We see a completely different woman, with a really sharp wit, no thought for the commoners and somewhat of a narcissist.

This version of Hope is fun, to watch and write for.

Anyway, over the next couple of episodes we learn that John was the big love of Gina's life, and he has a shock when Marlena hypnotizes him in Greta's hospital room and he remembers Princess Gina teaching him to dance, then… a moment… a long, hold-your-breath – can't take my eyes off of you moment, mercifully broken by Greta applauding their efforts. .

He is confused, he thought he was a priest before, but now… and he wonders if the memory real, or just an over active imagination spiked by Greta's telling of her own perspective as a child. The audience has seen Gina's point of view, we know it is the truth, we know that there is a lot more to this, but we are all still wondering where this will lead.

Gina, determined to make John remember, has a replica of the dress made, and decides to wear it to Tuscany the night they all go to celebrate Greta's release from hospital. This is where my story will start from, as I am changing Gina's tactics. Her way was too…. Obvious, to everyone else.

Devilish smile…..

Enjoy!