Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter's characters and the story is based on the soap opera of the same name.

STEPMOM

1. Chapter: 20 years.

England, Malfoy Manor.

He was at the living room, watching the portrait of a woman. He couldn't believe it had passed 20 years since she was out of his life. He was lost in his thoughts when Mia, his daughter, asked him:

"Are you ready to go to visit the grave of mother as every year?" She said, also looking the portrait. He didn't answer just moved his head in affirmation.

"You know what is funny, dad?" Mia continue talking, it doesn't matter to her that her father wasn't paying much attention, "that my hair is not blond as yours or mom" It is red an no one in the Malfoys has red hair"

Draco, suddenly return to his thoughts and answer the most unaffected he could "you take that, from your mother side and that's also why Mike has brown eyes instead of grey as the rest of us"

"I would like to have the blond hair as my mom, just I can look a little bite like her" Mia was very sad. Draco hugged her, he loved his three children but he has a weakness with Mia. She began to cry "life is not fair, Dad, why mom had to died when I was so young that I can't remember her touch and her kisses and her love?" Draco held her tighter and answered "I don't know, sweetheart".

"Dad, Mia; we are waiting for you, Are you ready, Mike and the aunties are impatient waiting at the cars" Andrew told them, he was the youngest of his three kids and the only one with blond hair and grey eyes.

Mia left her father and followed Andrew, Draco gave one more look to the portrait of that woman he had chose to introduce to his children as their mother, although se wasn't and left the room.

At the same time but in other side of the country.

Ginny was looking a picture, there she was with her two children, Mia and Mike. She was waiting for her lawyer to hear the news.

"Ginny are you ok? Vivian her only friend asked her, Ginny looked at her and say: "Today, 20 years ago I was declared guilty for a crime I didn't do and I was put in jail and today in the same day I could be out of it, I could be free, I could see my children again" but I don't want to be very hopeful."

"We have known each other since I came here, 2 years ago and you haven't told me your complete story, I know it must be a hurtful memory but I think it would be helpful to you" Vivian said.

Ginny began with her story:

I was married to a powerful and rich man, Draco Malfoy. We had a wonderful life, I felt I was living in a dream. As everyone in my family died at the war, when he entered in mi life my world changed, he gave all the love and protection I was missing. Before we got married, I began to work with him as his secretary and as he had also lost his family, we became closer and closer, until we discovered we were in loved and after a year we got married.

Everything was perfect until three months later, his cousins came to live with us, Alba and Chelsea. They had also lost his family and as Draco was his only relative, they decided to live with him. Alba honored her last name, she was completely Malfoy, proud, arrogant, felt superior and as she was the oldest, she felt could govern the life of everyone but the only life she could move as she was pleased was her sister. Chelsea was a poor woman without character, doing everything she was told to do.

At that time I didn't care about them, my life was a dream I have Draco at my side and was expecting my first child, Mike, a wonderful boy with his father hair and my eyes. He was a light in the house, he was a very spoiled and loved child. His aunts love him although they didn't want me, he became their favorite person.

And two years later Mia arrived, she was a beautiful baby with her father eyes and my hair, she came to share with Mike all the love and attention of the aunts and mine because I always felt she was the weakness of Draco.

One year after, Mia's birth, Draco insisted to make a trip. He said we should share sometime just for ourselves and although I didn't want to leave the kids with their nannies, I accepted, He seemed very excited with this trip to America.

Draco invited our closest friends: Demian and Danielle, George and Claudia, John and Patricia, Richard who never get married and of course Alba and Chelsea.

Two nights after our arrival, I was getting ready to go to Dinner, when I heard a shot in Patricia's room. I run to his room, I saw her in the floor only with a white towel around her with a spot red in the area of the heart, I was in shock and in a moment of stupidity I took the gun. The police saw me with the gun, and I was arrested.

In my trial, Demian was my lawyer and as you can see, he didn't make a good job, and Richard lied in his testimony. He said, I entered to Patricia's room with the gun in my hand ready to kill her. The jury believed him and I was declared guilty. I begged Draco to believe me, I swore for my children that I was innocent but none believed me. He just gave me a cold look and left me here, in a foreign land, alone, with nothing more than memories.

During all this time, I have been thinking who of them was the real killer of Patricia, who had a reason to kill her. For me all of them are guilty, and if the Judge gives me the indulgence I am not going to stop until I find the real killer and make him pay for what he did to Patricia and me.

Vivian, was impressed, "Ginny, Why Richard lied?" Ginny looked at her " since I met Richard, I noticed he didn't look me as his best friend's wife, he looked at me with desire and one night when Draco was out of the country for business, he asked me to escape with him, he said he loved me and that he was able to kill for me. For he the most important thing is the money and that night he offered me all his fortune just to pass one night with him. Obviously I didn't accept the offer because I loved Draco with all my heart and he said that some day I would regret to reject him, and that I would pay with tears his suffer.

"Do you still love Draco?" Vivian asked, "Of course not. He took my kids away from me, he left me in this place paying for a crime he could commit instead of me" Ginny said crying.

"Do you think Draco can also be the real killer?" "Of course he can" Ginny said with a cold look, "In the trip, Patricia told me that Draco was interested in her but as she was my friend she rejected him, maybe he felt hurt and did it"

Ginny and Vivian, were sitting in silence, when Larry, her lawyer arrived "Ginny I don't know how are you going to take the news but you got the indulgence, you are free, tomorrow you will be out of it"

Ginny could not believe it, God had given her another opportunity to take her children back and to find the real killer, and that's what she was going to do.