Unsurprisingly, Ella's night was plagued by nightmares. She dreamt about Prue's death, something she'd not had nightmares about in years, and about Byron walking in on her and Leo together. It took her a while to realise that she'd been dreaming when she woke up but was soon comforted by the sight of her husband's sleeping form under the duvet.

Looking at her alarm clock, she saw that it was 6am. She figured that there was no point in trying to go back to sleep again, considering she had to be awake in an hour. Everyone else in the house was asleep and she decided that it would be the perfect time to do something she'd wanted to do for a while: speak to her mother and her Grams.

She slipped quietly out of bed, so as not to wake Byron, and made her way to the attic where she set up a circle of five candles and lit each one in turn.

"Hear these words, hear my cry

Spirit from the other side

Come to me, I summon thee

Cross now the Great Divide."

Ella took a step back and waited for them to appear. As if from nowhere, two lights came from within the circle that soon became transparent figures of Penny and Patricia Halliwell. The two women stepped out of the circle of candles, becoming solid and immediately enveloping Ella in a hug.

"Piper, dear. It's been too long." Patty commented.

"Mom." Ella smiled. "I've missed you so much."

"We've missed you too." Penny said. "Now why did you summon us? I thought you were still going through this ridiculous 'no magic' phase."

Ella sighed. Her Grams was being as tactful as ever. She'd never agreed with Piper when it came to keeping magic a secret from her new family and was still cross with her and Phoebe for moving out of the manor. Despite her tough front, however, it was clear that Penny loved her granddaughters dearly and only wanted them to be happy in life.

"I had a visit from Leo yesterday. He told me about Paige."

"Paige?" Her mother questioned.

"Your other daughter." Ella scoffed slightly, unable to believe that her mother was still denying it.

"Oh, Paige is a lovely name, Patty." Penny smiled. Ella's confused expression prompted her to explain her comment further. "We never knew what she was called. Your mother only requested that her name began with a P."

"Why didn't we know about her? Why did you give her up for adoption?"

"Well it's a long story." Patty sighed. She sat down on the couch and explained to Ella how she'd hidden the pregnancy for fear of what the Elders might do if they ever found out she'd had a child with her Whitelighter.

Once she'd finished telling the story of Paige's birth and adoption through the church, Ella explained how they'd planned to meet her later that day if she was up for it.

"You know, I'd love to meet your children, Piper." Penny said a while later.

"We both know why you can't do that, Grams. They know you're dead. How am I meant to explain that you're just popping round for dinner one day?"

"You could always tell them the truth."

"I've told you I'm not going to bring them in to this. The world of magic is dangerous and they've been through enough already."

"Getting the Charmed ones back together will put them in danger anyway." Penny argued.

"We don't even know if that's going to happen yet."

"Don't lie to yourself, Piper. It never did anyone any good. We both know you'll need the power of three once demons find out about Paige. Don't leave yourself unprotected for too long."

Unbeknownst to them, Aria had woken up earlier than usual and followed the sound of voices in the attic. Who was in there with her mom? Why were they talking about magic and demons as if they were real? Mom didn't believe in that stuff, did she?

Slowly, she opened the door to see Ella sitting on the couch with two women who looked vaguely familiar.

"Mom?" She questioned. "Who are they?"

"Aria!" Ella exclaimed, taking a few seconds to recover from the shock of seeing her daughter there. "Go downstairs honey. I'll explain everything later."

"Don't be ridiculous, Piper. Let her come in. You might need our help to explain this." Penny said.

"Your Grams is right." Patty commented.

"Grams?" Aria asked, shocked. "But I thought she was…" She trailed off.

"Dead?" Penny asked. "Oh I am, dear."

"But then how are you here? And who's Piper?"

"I am." Ella said.

"Mom?"

"Yeah. Come and sit down and I'll explain everything."

"About time." Penny remarked.

"Mother." Patty scolded. "Now isn't the best time to be making snide comments."

"I was just saying…"

"Well don't." Ella snapped. "I think it's probably a good idea that you both leave. I'll talk to you later when I get back from work and seeing Phoebe."

Reluctantly, they said goodbye to Ella and Aria, both women giving them a small smile as they entered the circle of candles and disappeared.

Aria watched in shock at the scene that had just unfolded in front of her. She was still stood by the doorway, having ignored her mother's invitation to sit down with them out of confusion. What the hell had just happened? If she didn't know better, she'd think her mother had been summoning spirits from the dead. How could that even be possible? It was all too much for her to comprehend, especially this early in the morning.

She started to back out of the door when Ella noticed her moving. Until now she'd been staring at the spot where her family had just been standing.

"We need to talk about what you just saw." She said.

"I have to get ready for school mom."

"You can be late today. I'll write you a note. This is important."

"It's only my second day back. I'm not going to be late already."

"Meet me for lunch?" Ella suggested. Aria hesitated for a second before nodding. "Great. I'll pick you up and we can come back here. I promise I'll explain everything. And then maybe, if you want, you can come with me to meet your Aunt Phoebe after school?" At this Aria smiled. She'd always liked Phoebe. Her dad didn't have any siblings and she'd enjoyed having a fun aunt around the few times she'd come to visit.

Aria left the attic silently and went to take a shower. Her mind was coming up with so many theories to explain what she'd seen but nothing made sense unless it was actually magic. Deciding that it was best to push it to the back of her mind until she had a chance to talk to her mom about it, she started trying to decide what to wear to school.

Unfortunately for Aria, her mind seemed to have other ideas. She'd spent the whole morning at school thinking about magic, barely registering a word that any of her teachers had said. The second that the bell rang signalling that it was lunch time she made her way to the front of the school where Ella was already waiting to pick her up.

"Hi honey. How was school?" She asked.

"The usual." Aria brushed it off, not wanting her mom to think that she hadn't been taking the morning seriously because of what she'd witnessed earlier. "Are you going to tell me what happened in the attic?"

"Once we get home I will. I need to concentrate on driving." Ella said, although they both knew that she was just stalling, trying to put off the inevitable conversation that she was both relieved about and dreading having. At this point she wasn't quite sure which was more relevant. It would be good to have someone else around the house who knew she was a witch and maybe she could un-bind Aria's powers. That way she had protection if Ella was ever unable to defend her against a demon attack. On the other hand, how do you tell someone that you're a witch and you've passed your powers down to them? How do you even begin to explain the danger you've been in because of this 'gift'. It wasn't as if she'd even loved being a witch in the first place.

The ride home seemed to take forever for Aria, whereas Ella found that it was over way too quickly. Once inside she headed straight to the kitchen to make them each a coffee whilst Aria waited on the couch in the living room.

Noticing that her mom was taking a while with the coffee, Aria got up and walked to the kitchen. Ella was facing away from her, stirring one of the mugs of coffee.

"Mom?" Aria asked, figuring that she hadn't heard her entering the room.

All of a sudden there was a loud bang and the two mugs smashed on the worktop, spilling the hot liquid everywhere. This made both Aria and Ella jump, although Ella regained her composure almost instantly.

"Sorry, I guess I'm just a little nervous." She admitted. "Do you want me to make you another one?"

"Wait, you did that?" Aria said, shocked.

"Yeah. I'm usually more in control of my powers. I didn't really want the first time you saw me use them to be so..."

"Explosive?" Aria supplied.

Ella nodded. "How about we go up to the attic?" She suggested. "There's some stuff up there that might help me explain all this."

Aria followed her mother obediently, eager to get some answers but equally a little scared of what she'd just seen her do.