Author's Note:

This story takes place a little bit in the future, let's say about three months from where the show is now (9/06). Phillip and Belle have broken up and he is running Titan now. John and Marlena are back in Salem, happily married. The Gloved Hand still remains a mystery, and Austin and Carrie are long gone.

Disclaimer: Days of our Lives, and its characters are all property of NBC and I in no way claim they are mine.

However: the charcter of Nina is soley mine, she is a product of my imaginaton.

PLEASE! Read and Reveiw. I want to know if I should finish the story or not. And I know a new character will take a little getting used to, but don't worry, your favorite Days character's are still major players! Oh and this is my first Fan Fic so please try and understand if things aren't perfect. Hope you like the story,

Ashley

chapter 1:

Venice, Italy

Nina Dimera stumbled through the door of the mansion, she was a little more tipsy then she originally thought, and on reflection should not have driven herself home from prep school.

She hated that damn prep school with a passion, and had come home with the intention of telling her Father she was done. She knew he would be furious at her for not following one of his "ordrers" and to be honest she was a little scared. Her Father was not the kind of man to take no for an answer.

"Damn!"

She lost her footing and grabbed onto the candlestick on the nearest wall in an effort to regain her balance. The candlestick moved beneth her hand and sent her spirawling down a hidden staircase.

Where the hell had that come from? A secert passage way in her home? Why? The mansion had been in her family for centeries, what possible purpose could there be?

With a groan she lifted her head and looked around. The place was too clean not to be used freqently. She slowly got up and walked to the first door, it was openend and appeared to be someone's office.

Where had they gone? The light is on but it seems deserted.

She walked around looking at everything. The walls where lined with bookshelves and file cabinets.

"I could swear I heard a nosie from this direction."

Nina ducked behind the couch at the last minute as the vocies appeared in the doorway.

"I don't hear anything, boss."

It was Bart, her Father's righthand man.

"Well no matter, back to business. Antonio and Nick just called, it seems Nina has slipped away from them yet again." Stefano settled down into the chair behind his desk and turned around to face Bart. "That girl is becoming a problem."

"Yes, Boss. I-I always thought keeping her yourself wasn't the best of ideas..." Bart's vocie trailed off at the look Stefano shot him.

"Regardless of the fact that she was raised here with me, and not in Salem, she becomes more and more John Black's daughter with every passing year." Stefano said sighing.

What! Not her father? Stefano wasn't her father? And this John Black was? How? Why? What was going on?

"It seems we are going to have to locate Nina, and put her somewhere she won't cause anymore trouble with us, until I'm ready to go forward with the plan. Call the Boys and and have them ready the jet, we're leaving as soon as they locate the girl."

After they left Nina stayed behind the couch, trembling in shock. Her father wasn't her father. This mysterious John Black was. And whats this plan Fath-Stefano was speaking of? What did it all have to do with her? There was no time to think about that now, she had to get out of there before she was found.

But where to go? She did'nt have a whole lot of money on her, and she had to go somewhere they would never suspect. Wait, he'd said Salem. She'd heard the place mentioned many times in her childhood, it was in the United States.

That's where she'd go, and get the answers she needed, and to do that she had to find John Black.