Children of Passions - Maria Lopez-Fitzgerald

Maria Lopez-Fitzgerald

Sloane Kiley (July 21, 2003—2005)

Anara Greene (2003; dream sequence)

Hannah and Lauren Maddox (2005)

Mercedez and Isabella Soto (November 23—December 26, 2005)

Layla and Logan Wheeler (December 27, 2005—January 2007)

Abby and Emma McCoy (February 22, 2007—2007)

Stephanie Cantu (2007; as a teenager)

Maria Ivy Lopez-Fitzgerald is the only child and daughter of Kay Bennett and Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald. Kay has been in love with Miguel since she was a child and is devastated when Miguel fell in love with her cousin, Charity. Kay uses magic to make Miguel believe that she is Charity, and he has sex with her, conceiving Maria.

Miguel promises to stand by his unborn child, but he refuses to end his relationship with Charity. Kay and Miguel's daughter is born several months premature on July 21, 2003, the same on-screen day as Endora Lenox. Maria's lungs are underdeveloped, and her death is prevented by Charity's deal with Death to stay away from Miguel in exchange for his daughter's life. Maria lives, and Kay decides to name her daughter Maria for Miguel's maternal grandmother and Ivy for her mother's archnemesis, Ivy Winthrop.

Unable to stay away from Miguel, Charity leaves town in July 2004, followed, to Kay's dismay, by Miguel, who goes to search for his missing girlfriend. Kay is left injured and infertile after being speared with a piece of rebar and a young, single mother to Maria. Kay works in the Crane Cannery to provide for herself and her child, though she eventually falls in love with and marries the wealthy Fox Crane, who gives her a job as his assistant at Crane Industries. Fox is a loving stepfather to Maria, treating her as his own child, and Maria adores her stepfather.

However, shortly after Fox and Kay become engaged, Miguel returns to town and realizes that he's been in love with Kay all along. Initially torn, Kay soon decides that it is Miguel with whom she wants to be. Separated for a while by Kay's devotion to Fox while she believes that he is dying and Miguel's incarceration for Fox's attempted murder, the truth is eventually revealed and Kay leaves Fox, moving on with Miguel. Fox's death on September 17, 2007, leaves Kay a wealthy widow; however, that same day in Harmony, September 7, Miguel is kidnapped by the Boys in the Basement after he tries to save Endora from being kidnapped. Miguel eventually returns from Hell on Christmas Eve of that year, and Maria's parents finally marry on July 21, 2008. The finale reveals that Maria may possess magical powers like her mother and grandmother.