Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine..except for Sephy.

Phoebe and Paige regained consciousness to find a sobbing Leo crouched on the floor in the middle of the attic.

"Leo, honey what happened?" Piper's absence was causing the sisters to feel uneasy.

"It's over. My life is all over." Leo whimpered not being able to look them in the eye.

They soon understood what had happened. Piper was gone. They felt their own grief, and an absence in their hearts. Piper was their rock. She's the one who helped Phoebe get through Prue's death, and the one who helped Paige settle into the mansion and feel a part of the Charmed Ones.

Leo orbed away, as they all sat in silence. Phoebe and Paige continued with their lives while still tending to their grief.

*

There was no contact from Leo for two weeks after Piper's 'accident' as it had been dubbed. He arrived in the mansion on a Thursday morning while Paige and Phoebe ate their breakfast in awkward silence.

"Hi." They looked up, started by his voice. It used be so familiar but now it felt so distant and odd to hear it. "Look, I'm really sorry for not seeing you guys for a while. I had to, well, sort my head out. I had to come here to fill you in on your current 'magical' situation." The two sisters looked at him in surprise.

"You think we care about that anymore? We have no power anyway, not now that we're 'the power of two'. What use it that?" Paige said, with a note of impatience in her voice. How could he care about things like that when he had recently lost his baby and his wife?

"I know, I hate to bring this up, and believe me I'm still hurting, more than I ever thought I could. But the elders needed you to know what's happening and as your white lighter I should tell you." Leo looked at Phoebe and Paige.

Phoebe looked so forlorn. Leo realised that she had lost both sisters that she grew up with, both of whom she loved very much. She still loved Paige, he had no doubt, but she had grown up with Piper and Prue. They meant so much to each other. Paige looked hurt and upset, but she tended to express her feelings through anger.

"Look Leo, will you just tell us-" Paige began angrily.

"Don't. He doesn't mean it Paige. He hurts as much as we do, maybe even more. Let him speak." Phoebe said quietly looking into Leo's eyes with understanding.

"Thank you Phoebe. Look, what I need to tell you is this. You are still powerful women and the white magic world needs you, both of you. Of course they know you are more powerful as the power of three but they seemed unconcerned. I asked them and they informed me that there was another unknown Charmed One-"

"Oh come on!" Phoebe exclaimed, "How many are there? I have to say, my mother had a lot of out-of-wedlock children! Is there any others?" Leo smiled as he saw a glimpse of the old Phoebe.

"I know what you mean. I did ask them, but apparently there isn't. This girl isn't your mother's daughter. It's your mother's niece. Your cousin," he said looking at them.

"That can't be right." Phoebe said puzzled.

"It is. I know it's meant to be an immediate relative. Your mother's daughters but apparently she still has Halliwell blood and most importantly she has power. That's all I know." Leo finished with an encouraging smile.

"No, that's not what I mean. I mean, that can't be right because I don't have an auntie." Phoebe said looking directly at Leo who looked uncomfortable.

"Ah, yes, well actually you do. Unfortunately Patty had a disagreement with her sister when she was eighteen and she has never talked to her since. When your mother learned of Piper's death she knew she had to tell them about her niece of whom she has never met." Leo thought Phoebe would be mad at her other for not telling this but she just shrugged and accepted it.

"Okay then." Paige said smiling at Leo, "Do you know her name or age? Or when she's getting here?" Leo looked embarrassed.

"Well. No. I know she should be here soon. I'll be able to sense her once she has accepted herself as a witch. Basically once she has entered the mansion." Leo knew that Pipers death would always stay with the two sisters but he could tell that they were excited at the prospect of a new friend.

"That's good." Phoebe murmured.

"What is sweetie?" Paige asked turning to her older sister expectantly.

"That she wont be our sister. So it wont be like she's replacing Piper. She'll be our cousin."

Paige accepted this although soon realised something- "Did you and Piper feel that I replaced Prue?" Paige asked with concern.

"No, of course not." Phoebe said with no effort. Leo was sure Phoebe was lying and form look on Paige's face; she had also noticed the lack of enthusiasm in Phoebe's voice. But she didn't pursue it.

*

There was a knock at the door moments later at the Halliwell manor. "Hello? Can I help you?" Leo asked the little girl who stood in the doorway.

"Hi, I'm Sephy Foster. I'm here to see Phoebe Halliwell and Paige Matthews. Can I come in?" The young girl spoke with confidence and ease. Her young eyes were full with wisdom and knowledge.

Leo watched her as he beckoned her to follow him into the kitchen where Paige and Phoebe still sat. She had shoulder-length dark curly hair, piercing green eyes and a smile that could get her anything. Leo noticed that her body was a replica of Pipers. Slim, but curvy with an olive colour to her skin. Even the way she walked reminded Leo of his wife.

It was then that he knew. She had arrived.

*

Phoebe and Paige looked up as Leo and a young girl entered the kitchen. Leo smiled knowingly and they realized that their cousin had arrived.

"Hi," Paige said with a smile, "I'm presuming you're our cousin." The young girl smiled back pleased that they knew who she was.

"Yep that's me. Here I am. The orphanage said I was going to a new Foster home, and I did a little research of my own," she said smiling mischievously, "and found out that I was moving into the Halliwell mansion. That was my mother's maiden name! So you're my family? Nice to meet you. My names Sephy by the way!"

Leo, Page and Phoebe stared at her in shock. She didn't know. But then as this information sunk in they realised that there was no way she would know.

"Wait a minute. The orphanage? Do you mean your parents are, dead?" Paige asked gently. The girl looked tearful.

"They, died lat year in a plane crash. They told me I had no other family and shoved me in a orphanage." Paige knew how she felt, as she had lost her parents in a car crash, only surviving the accident herself because of her powers. She was so young and so innocent.

"Should I put my stuff in my room then?" She asked tentatively.

"Oh right sure. We need to have a chat so if you just head up the stairs, and it's the first door on the right." Phoebe smiled encouragingly. Sephy left, carrying her single suitcase upstairs taking in the surroundings of her new home.

Downstairs in the kitchen the three adults were slightly taken-aback,

*

"There are so many wrong things about this. And I'm glad you gave her the spare room and not Pipers room, that would have been too soon." Paige said to Phoebe.

"I know. For one thing she's is so young! She's only about fourteen or fifteen. And she can't be a Charmed One Leo." Phoebe said to her concerned white lighter.

"Why not?"

"She isn't a 'P'," at Leo's confused face she explained, "Prue, Phoebe, Piper and Paige. We're all P's. But she's an 'S'." Leo considered this.

"I don't think that really matters. I mean, the elders told me that she was coming, surely the name doesn't matter."

"It does, it's symbolic. It's important." They heard movement at the door.

"I'm so sorry, I couldn't help overhearing. I don't know why it's important but my name is 'P'. My full name is Persephone. It's a bit of a mouthful so I've always been known as Sephy. And who are the elders? Is that like a slang word for Social Services?" She breezed into the room with a warm look of happiness in her eyes. The feeling that she finally belonged.

"I think we need to explain Leo." Paige looked at Sephy. She somehow understood her. "She can cope with it. After coping with the death of someone close you can cope with most things."

With that the three of them explained to Sephy the real reason why she was here. They explained about Prue, Piper, Leo being a white lighter, and most importantly - the witchcraft.

"Have you ever felt magical? Like, have you ever done something magical?" Paige asked in hope. Sephy shook her head still in shock.

"I'm a witch? But I'm 15! You know I thought I was being so disobedient by skiving today. I was meant to come here after school. This is so much bigger than that. I'm a witch? Seriously? I mean, wow, this is so cool. I can't wait to tell Leisa! She's my best friend by the way. Me and Leisa tell each other everything!"

Paige laughed lightly and explained that she wasn't allowed to tell anyone, ever.

"I guess she wouldn't believe me anyway would she? So what are my powers?" She asked eagerly.

"You're very enthusiastic," Phoebe said cautiously.

"Should I act like this is bad? I'm sorry, but I've just found out that I have family and that I'm needed for something. That I have a purpose, a reason to live! Why should I be disappointed?" Leo smiled warmly at Sephy.

"I'm afraid you have to look deep inside you to find your powers Sephy. You have to discover them for yourself." Leo said warmly.

"Bummer. What do you guys do then? Leo you heal us, how about you guys? What kind of mumbo jumbo do you guys pull?"

Phoebe laughed, she was so excited to be a part of their world - most of the time Phoebe would do anything to escape it. She studied Sephy carefully. She definitely has the essence of Piper, and the dark hair was from the Halliwell side of the family, but her smile and eyes were her father.

"I can orb, like Leo because my father was a white-lighter. I can also orb objects, like this. 'Newspaper'," the morning newspaper disappeared with a glow and appeared with another blue glow in Paige's hand.

"Wicked. I like that a lot!" Sephy exclaimed, extremely impressed. "What about you Phoebe?"

"I have premonitions. And I do a bit of kung-fu." Sephy looked impressed.

"Like kicking people a lot? Wow, cool. I didn't think that was a power."

"Oh it's not, more of an art!" Phoebe said smiling.

"So what's a premonition?"

"It's when I touch something, usually evidence and I see something that is going to happen. Sometimes I see the past as well. It helps us solve a lot of our cases. But Piper and Prue had the real powers." Phoebe looked saddened by the thought of her sisters. "Piper could freeze things and blow things up. Prue could move things with her eyes and she learnt to astral- project. How are we going to cope without them both?" Phoebe looked at Leo helplessly. He knew no words could comfort her now.

*

Phoebe had the responsibility now, as she was the eldest. She knew she needed to sort out P3 and she had lots of other things to take care of but her brain felt like it had been run over with a huge monster truck.

At the moment she had a fifteen-year-old girl who was way enthusiastic about the witch thing, but didn't have a clue what her powers were.

"Okay Leo, I have an idea." She said, "Why don't we see if Sephy can do what Piper or Prue could do? It's worth a shot. She has to have quite a lethal power or something remotely useful or we're screwed!" Phoebe instructed Sephy to try and freeze Leo who fake-lunged at her.

Sephy raised her hand and concentrated on freezing Leo but instead something happened that they really didn't expect.

From the palm of Sephy's hand shot an icy blast, which went straight into Leo's heart. He keeled over immediately. Before vanishing and returning, as good as new.

"Oh, I'm so sorry! Thank goodness I didn't kill you" Sephy said, feeling guilty.

"Actually you did kill me, but I'm already dead, so I can't technically be killed." Sephy was shocked by her powers but not as shocked as her other sisters.

"Wow, Sephy, when I said to freeze him I didn't mean quite so literally. But nice one anyway" Phoebe said admiringly.

"Still think we're screwed Pheebs?" Paige asked smiling.

"I don't think we are." Phoebe, Leo and Paige all knew that Sephy had more power. To be able to use a power to kill at fifteen was a difficult thing. To be able to find your power and master it that quickly was just plain amazing. This girl was powerful.

She was definitely a Charmed One.