"Can't you sense her," Piper yelled at Leo.

"No! I've already told you; I haven't been assigned to this girl –because the elders don't know about her—and that means no bond. No bond, no sensing. Besides, Grams probably bound her powers at birth."

"We just have to pray that Darryl can work his own magic," Phoebe said.

"Or…" Brendan said looking back and forth between the sisters. "Or you could try the summoning spell for a lost witch," he suggested.

"That won't work," Piper told him. "Leo just said she probably doesn't even have powers."

"But you could substitute the word witch with the word sister," he told her.

Piper and Phoebe looked at each other from their seats at the dinner table before pushing them back and running up the stairs.

"What do you need," Darryl asked when Prue told him she needed a favor.

"I'm hoping you can find someone for me. It's a young woman, early twenties; name's Paige Matthews."

"I'll see what I can do. Do you want to wait here?"

"Yeah," Prue said. "I don't think I can be at home right now."

He nodded his head and took her by the arm before leading her to a bunch. "Wanna tell me about it?"

"It's not working," Phoebe grunted. "Nothing is working!"

"Maybe it's not supposed to," Leo said. "Maybe it's supposed to happen in its own time. Just like Brendan was responsible for finding her without magic, maybe you're supposed to meet her without magic's help."

"I still can't believe that mom kept this from us. She could have found a time to tell us. Hey, Leo, how does a whitelighter even get someone pregnant anyway?"

"We're endowed with powers but they're not inherently ours like a witch's power. We don't age because we've already died but everything else still works the way it did when we were alive. That's why I eat," he explained.

"Still," Brendan said. "There's a reason for everything; for why this girl exists and why you were meant to find her now."

"And what do you think that reason is," Phoebe asked.

"Well, maybe its destiny's way of paving the way for Leo and Piper so that we don't have to keep using code words like rutabaga. This girl is half whitelighter; a very good example of what to expect should their union be allowed."

Leo nodded his head. "How can they forbid us if one of the greatest forces of good –a charmed sister—is already in existence and doing the good that they claim to stand for," he asked. "Paige would have every right to deny her heritage if they forbid further unions."

"Great," Piper said. "She's been my sister for an hour and I'm already using her to further my own agenda."

"What else are sisters for," Phoebe asked and they all laughed.

"And you're sure this is her?"

"She popped up in the system. Her job requires finger printing and once you're in the system you stay there. Plus I pulled her DMV photo and she looks just like you," Darryl told her. "Are you going to tell your sisters or are you gonna go find her straight from here?"

"I'm gonna go find her. It's wrong…what my mother and grams did was wrong. Not only for Paige but for all of us. I have to bring her home."

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"That would be great."

"What do you think is taking Prue so long," Phoebe asked. They were all downstairs eating and drinking coffee around the island. It was almost three o'clock in the morning and Prue had been gone for more than an hour.

"If I know your sister she literally went to go find Paige. If Darryl found her then Prue probably will too," Brendan said.

"I wonder what she's like," Piper said. "If she's like any of us, or completely different. Who knows how she was raised? Who knows if she even wants to know us," she said.

"You don't think she will," Phoebe asked. She was already excited about the prospect of a younger sister and she didn't know if she would react well to rejection.

"I'm just saying she may not want to. She could already have siblings, or she might have grown up alone. I wouldn't blame her if she wanted nothing to do with us. We aren't exactly normal," she reminded the other three people in the room.

"Neither is she," Leo rebutted. "Besides, the power of the charmed ones comes from the bond you share as sisters. I don't think destiny would see the addition of a sister that didn't share that bond."

"Well, let's just hope that Prue can kick start that bond," Brendan said. "Sometimes destiny doesn't get its way," he said, reminding them of his relationship with his brothers.

Prue knocked on the apartment door after Daryl flashed his badge at the doorman in order to get them inside. It was 3:20 in the morning so Prue was surprised that Paige wasn't home. Then again it wasn't exactly polite to be dragging the girl out of bed at this hour.

"She's not here, Prue."

"I know. I guess I'll come back in the morning," she said giving the door another glance. She banged on it again.

"Can I help you," someone asked standing directly behind them in the hallway. She was wearing a low cut dress and had her keys in her hands.

"Paige," Prue said.

"Yeah, and who are you?"

Prue held out her hand. "I'm Prue Halliwell."

Paige looked her in the eyes before taking her hand. "Why…"

"I'm your sister," Prue said.

"I can't believe it," Paige said. "I mean, I kind of thought so when I started to ask around, but there was never a birth certificate or anything that would have led me to you."

"Wait, so you knew there was a possibility that you were our sister," Prue asked. They were inside Paige's studio apartment, sitting on her couch.

"My parents died when I was still in high school, and after that I just wanted to find out about my birth family. I asked around, found out about you and your sisters; I even started going to P3—a lot."

"Why didn't you ever come and see us?"

"And say what? 'Hi, I think your mom abandoned me at birth. What's for dinner?' I didn't know if I'd be welcomed."

"You are welcomed," Prue told her. "And there are things that you need to know. About us; yourself. The sooner you know the better."

"Like what?"

"It's kind of hard to explain here. Would you be able to meet us at the manor tomorrow for brunch?"

Prue walked through the double doors at 5:23 a.m. Putting her keys down on the foyer table, she headed back to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee to find Piper and Phoebe sitting at the table.

"Finally, what took so long," Phoebe asked.

"Was Daryl able to find her?" Piper got up and started taking eggs and bacon out of the fridge.

"Um, yeah. I just came from her apartment. I invited her for brunch, so she should be meeting us here around eleven. I hope that's okay," she asked Piper.

"So she wants to meet us," Phoebe said. "Thank god, Piper had me worried that she would want nothing to do with us."

Prue gave Piper a look. "What? I just said it was a possibility."

"So, what was she like?"

"Well, she was definitely a Halliwell," Prue told them.

"So…what you're telling me is that our mother was a witch," Paige said and saw her sisters nod their heads. "And my father –not the same as yours—was her guardian angel? Are you people nuts?"

"I know it's a lot to take in, but we can prove it to you," Piper told her.

"Oh yeah, how?"

"Magic," Phoebe said scooching closer to her.

The sisters made their way up the stairs to the attic. Once there, Prue, Piper and Phoebe read from the book of shadows, summoning their mother.

"Paige," she said and crossed the barrier of circles that kept her trapped in her spirit form. Corporeal again, Patty embraced Paige. "Welcome home."

"Uh, I didn't realize magic would be so much work," Paige said two weeks later. She and her sisters had come up with a schedule for her in order to learn the craft quickly. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays she took self defense courses with Prue and Phoebe; Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays were for potion lessons with Piper, and Sundays and Wednesdays were for spell writing as well as training with Leo.

Spell writing would be over soon, as there were only so many ways to frame spells. Training with Leo was getting better as Paige gained control over orbing, but self defense kept getting harder and harder. Luckily no demons attacked during that time, giving Paige sometime to play catch up.

"Yeah, well you'll see the reward the first time you save an innocent," Prue said. "And once you know what you're doing you won't need to study anymore. Believe me; you don't want to be like us when we started fighting evil. We were completely helpless."

"Yeah, well right now I have to think about saving my job Paige said. "I'm going to bed. If I'm late again Mr. Cowen is going to kill me. Goodnight."

Paige had moved in three days earlier when she had decided it didn't make sense to pay rent on an apartment she was spending no time in. It made it easier on Prue and Piper to pay the bills to have a third person to share the cost with, and in return they had added Paige's name to the deed.

However, Phoebe was a little on edge. Here she was –not the youngest anymore—and she was still the "screw up". The past couple of days had seen her scouring the newspaper for job adds –in between her dates with the cute a.d.a Cole Turner—and she still couldn't come up with anything that would be able to fit her crazy schedule at work and home.

Prue was a little wary of Cole, and Piper had bigger things to worry about like her upcoming wedding. In the face of another sister the elders were still taking time to review the facts but had allowed the couple to become engaged. The sisters had no idea what they were really in for.