Rating: The ratings change, but usually nothing stronger than PG13.

Starring: The Beatles (mainly John and Paul), Lucy (OC), Pattie B., etc.

Time frame: It jumps around and will cover the early 60s before the fame and all the way to the late 70s, 80s.

Disclaimer: I'm sad that I don't own The Beatles. Everything written is fiction. Dates and history have been changed to go with the story. Photos used are not mine but have been edited by me! They are purely meant to give the story flavor.

Important: Remember that history has been changed! Jane Asher, Cynthia Powell, Yoko Ono, Sean and Julian Lennon never happened! Also, Jane Asher will be portraying Lucy in photos. Mary McCartney will be portraying Jude as a baby. Julian Lennon will be portraying Jude as a child. Stella McCartney will be portraying Harmony.

** When a photo is being used within the story I will mark it and tell you which chapter and which number it is listed as on my profile**

What if John Lennon had someone during his hard times, Beatle mania, everything? Would it rewrite the history we all know so well about The Beatles? What if this person was a girl? And what if it just happened to be a girl that had history and baggage with his pal Paul?

Let's see...


:FLASHBACK: 1960:

1960 came fast. It had been a couple years since John's mother was killed by a drunken off-duty police officer. To all of our disappointment and anger, the guy ended up being acquitted of the offence at his trial. This was a topic that everyone had learned to stay away from. It made John numb that there would be no justice for his mother; that nothing was going to happen to the irresponsible officer who took his mother away from him when the two of them were just getting their relationship right.

John kept busy with his music. If The Quarry Men, renamed The Silver Beetles and later The Silver Beats, were not performing in local joints around Liverpool, they were finding other ways to play. Paul had a cousin in Berkshire who ran a pub called the Fox and Hounds. Her husband and herself agreed to let the two boys, Paul and John who called themselves the Nerk Twins, play in exchange for working for them during the week.

By May, the boys had themselves a manager and a week after that a contract with Paramount Enterprises to play the Grosvenor Ballroom in Wallasey. The following August, they were headed to Hamburg.

It was their last night in Liverpool before they embarked to Germany. Lucy was unable to tag along with them because of school finals. Needless to say, John was disappointed and Paul, well, it didn't seem to bother him as it should. Lucy was always with the boys. She attended all of their shows and helped them. John and the rest of them like having the womanly touch she gave when she was with them. He noticed that Paul didn't seem to be phased with leaving his girl behind. She had accompanied them in Scotland for the seven day tour a month before and even if she hadn't attended, it would've been for seven days.

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The Hamburg gig was much different. They were expected to be gone at least a month, but when they arrived in Germany and played their first show, they ended up being hired to perform two additional months. Paul had phoned Lucy to tell her the "great" news. She didn't want to be a downer and tried to sound as happy as possible for him on the other end of the phone.

"Paulie, that's wonderful."

Paul breathed out with irritability.

"Yer s'pose to be 'appy for me."

"Paulie, I am happy! I said it was wonderful!"

She tried to explain to him but he cut her short.

"Look, I got to go."

And he hung up on her. Lucy took the phone away from her ear and stared at it for a few seconds before putting it back. She was confused and ever more, hurt. He hadn't always been the way he was now. It seemed that once Paul tasted what being a so called rocker was when things started to change. He just wanted a girl to look pretty next to him while he had his fun. Lucy was never going to be that girl. She was too much of a free spirit even then. And a lot of that free spirit is what got her in Europe in the first place.

During the remainder of the boy's time in Hamburg, Lucy was out of school and staying with her friend's family. Paul rarely checked in with her since their last phone call but still made a small effort every couple weeks to say hello. But every morning there was always a letter waiting for her in the postal box and every single one was from John. She read each letter with a smile on her face. Some were filled with his doodles and word concoctions which made her laugh. He would explain how the days were going and the place they were playing at called the Indra Club. He wrote about the bands that they had met and played with too. Tony Sheridan and the Jeys and Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were among his list of names.

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December 5th, the boys came back to Liverpool early at the hands of Paul and their drummer Pete.

"Paul thought it was real smart 'ta pin a rubber on the wall and catch fire to it."

John told Lucy while he looked at Paul with his arms crossed. But that wouldn't be their last time in Hamburg. They were back the next year.