She was nervous. The entire car ride over to the Manor had been silent. She tried to break the silence with a few questions but all she received were one word answers. She didn't know what to say or how to act. She didn't even know where to begin.

"Phoebe?" Susie asked.

"Yes?" Phoebe eagerly answered.

Susie had a hard time wrapping her mind around the fact that she was Phoebe's daughter. Growing up she was never told she was adopted and nothing would lead her to believe otherwise. That her mother was someone else, that her family wasn't what she believed to be still hurt but to be a part of a family after so many years alone felt good to her.

Susie's parents died when she was a teenager in a freak car accident. Susie had been in the same vehicle and was catapulted from her seat to the street. Her parents, unable to get out, were burned alive in their car. Her parents had no siblings or any other family; Susie was left alone. Fortunately her parents had taken precautions to provide for Susie in the event of their deaths. Despite her true heritage, Susie couldn't help but love her adoptive parents as if they were her own flesh and blood.

"Tell me about my father," Susie said.

Cole. The mere thought of him in brought turmoil to Phoebe's mind. All that he had done to her had scarred her deeply. She could never forget his love, his undying devotion to her despite everything. That powerful love survived the afterlife for her. That love fought the Source of All Evil for control of Cole's spirit. That love fought her sisters for simply the opportunity to be with Phoebe. It was of little consequence in the end. They never could have lasted. Maybe once but not in the end.

"His name was Cole," Phoebe said, "He was half-human and half-demon,"

"My father was a demon?" Susie pressed.

"He was a half-demon," Phoebe corrected, "He was the most handsome man you could ever lay your eyes on. He was smart, resourceful and amazing."

"If he was so good, why isn't he here?" Susie said while drawing attention to Phoebe's barren ring finger.

"Things change, people change," Phoebe began, "I went to Hell and back for your father, Susie. I gave up my life and my family for him but you know what? In the end it wasn't enough. Destiny wasn't with us. Maybe if we had you things would have been different but maybe it would have delayed the inevitable."

"What happened to him?" Susie asked.

"We had to vanquish him. We had to kill him," Phoebe said.

More than once they vanquished him or at least attempted to. It was Cole's own selfishness that lead to his demise. He traveled back in time to eliminate Phoebe's sister Paige, who in his mind was the reason he and Phoebe were never able to work it out. He had become an all powerful, invincible demon impervious to all attempts to destroy him. By traveling back in time and changing the course of events Cole had left himself vulnerable and the sisters were eventually able to vanquish him.

"It wasn't an easy thing to do," continued Phoebe, "He was unstable and he started attacking us after I left him."

"Sounds complicated," uttered Susie.

Susie still couldn't believe all of this: witches, demons, and the Halliwell history. She still couldn't imagine herself as a witch, despite all that had happened to her and that she had seen. To the best of her knowledge she had no powers. She wished she could see into the future or freeze things or make things move just because she imagines it. Susie could tell Phoebe cared about her. Something about the way Phoebe looked at her made her think of her mother. There was also a sadness in the look; maybe from not being there or maybe from her father. Either way Phoebe genuinely cared and Susie liked that.

"Are you sure I should be there right now?" Susie asked Phoebe, "It sounds like there's a lot going on and I don't want to intrude."

"Trust me, it's ok. They're your family, too. Besides, there might be some holes that you can fill in for us. We've been talking about how everything has happened, trying to figure out what Wyatt is up to. There's still a whole lot I haven't told you but that's all going to have to wait."

Phoebe wasn't sure telling Susie that technically they're all from beyond the grave was a good idea. The sisters had urged her to bring Susie to the Manor to see if she could provide some reasoning for how Aeron had gotten so close to her and what, if anything, she remembered from being his captive. They also wanted to know if Susie would come into her powers just as they had, by reading the Book of Shadows. Leo and the Elders had bound her powers but they knew they could retrieve them.

"I want you to look through some family materials," Phoebe said, "to give you a sense of history. There's a book we have that I think might put things into perspective for you."