Children of Passions - Marty Lopez-Fitzgerald

Marty Lopez-Fitzgerald

Derek Jones (September 2003)

Lillith Streett & Timothy Jeffs (September 2003—October 2004)

Jack and James Wright (October 13, 2004—February 2005)

Sawyer and Griffin Miller (November 24—December 9, 2004)

Shane and Mitchell Albin (February 14—November 16, 2005; May 12—July 17, 2006)

Daniel Chalfa (September 7, 2007—February 2008)

Martin "Marty" Lopez-Fitzgerald is the only child and son of Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald and Sheridan Crane Lopez-Fitzgerald. He is conceived while his mother is still married to Luis's brother, Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald; though there is initially some doubt regarding Marty's paternity, it is eventually decided without the use of DNA testing that Marty is Luis's son.

Luis's ex-girlfriend Beth Wallace kidnaps Sheridan while she is still pregnant and holds her captive in a pit in her basement, hoping to take Sheridan's child and pass him off as her own child with Luis. Sheridan gives birth on September 9, 2003 (though Marty was later SORASed to seven in 2007, changing his year of birth to 2000), and Beth succeeds in making Luis and Sheridan believe that their child has drowned and that Marty, whom she names for Luis's father, Martin Fitzgerald, is her child.

Sheridan is always suspicious of Beth, however, feeling a strong connection to Marty. She convinces Luis to run DNA tests on Marty to see if she or Beth is Marty's mother, and is shocked when results came back proving Beth to be Marty's biological mother. However, a second batch of tests run a month later show that Sheridan is Marty's mother; the first tests had only tested for kinship, and it is revealed that Beth and Sheridan share the same father, Alistair Crane. However, when Beth realizes that Luis and Sheridan know that Marty is Sheridan's son, she takes the child and flees with Alistair's help. Sheridan, furious with Luis for not believing her earlier, orders that he leave Harmony, chase Beth down, and bring her child back to her.

Luis eventually catches up with Beth and Marty in Rome; however, on July 17, 2006, Marty is presumed deceased, along with Alistair and Beth, when a drone plane fires missiles at the train in which he is traveling, causing the vehicle to crash into a ravine below. However, over a year later in September 2007, Spike Lester tells Sheridan that Marty is alive, showing her live video footage of Marty in a playroom. Luis and Sheridan set out to recover their son, believing him to be somewhere in Harmony, but their efforts to find their son are constantly thwarted by bad timing and Alistair. After three months of fruitless searching, Alistair returns Marty to Sheridan's cottage on Christmas Eve, reuniting the two as mother and son for the first time since his birth. The little boy is thrilled to be reunited with his parents and happy to meet two of his maternal cousins, Fancy and Pretty Crane. Despite disturbing child-drawn pictures that Luis and Sheridan had found, fearing that Marty had been the artist and was in emotional pain while in Alistair's control, he claims that his grandfather did not harm him, and that a trip to the hospital in Portsmouth had been for a bone broken while playing football with one of his bodyguards.