Scene: Worthington Towers.

Some lady goes in. No point at all to this, they just have to introduce the setting.

Upstairs, Warren is sitting in his apartment. Some mail falls through the slot. Someone leaves a message on the answering machine, asking why Warren hasn't called back. He's watching the news. They're on about some disabled lady in a burning house.
Warren goes out on his balcony, takes off his trenchcoat, and flies towards the house. There, some firemen are restraining a teenage girl: the lady's daughter. Warren flies in the window, takes the lady from her wheelchair, and brings her to a bench outside. Then he flies away.
The lady calls her daughter, everybody's happy, yay.

Lady: It was an angel. A real angel. With wings!

Roll credits!

Scene: The Institute.

There's a really big tree. Everyone is standing around talking.

Jean has given Amara, Jubilee, and Kitty necklaces. Kurt got a piece of mistletoe somewhere. He holds it over Kitty's head.

Kitty: Kurt! In your dreams!
Kurt: Come on, Kitty! All in the holiday spirit.

Kitty runs away, and Kurt chases her around the room.

Xavier: Ah, to be young again.
Logan: Yeah. Glad that's over.

Rogue talks to Scott about how everyone's going away for the holidays. She gives him a present. It's a blue sweater. Jean looks jealous.
Kitty and Kurt jump back onto the couch. Kurt leans over, Kitty ducks out, and he plants the big one on Bobby. Ew!

Scene: Institute driveway.

People are getting in cars and driving away. Mr. McCoy asks who wants to help him mess with Cerebro.

Scott: Guess that's his idea of how to have a fun holiday.

Scene: A park.

Warren is reading the Daily Bugle.

Headline: Apartment Fire! Woman Claims Angel Saves Her From Fire

He throws the paper in the trash. He hears a fight going on, and runs toward it. Hoodlum takes Victim's briefcase and runs away.
Warren takes off his trenchcoat and flies after Hoodlum. He picks him up and hangs him from a flagpole by his collar.

Hoodlum: I'll go straight! I'll go to church! Anything! Just don't leave me here!

Meanwhile, Victim is babbling to Mountie about the angel. Mountie doesn't seem to be buying it. A briefcase falls into the snow, scaring the horse.

Victim: The angel!
Mountie: Glory be...

Warren flies down to his trenchcoat and puts it on. Hat Man watches him.

Scene: New York.

The news shows a report of the thwarted mugging in the park. The radio has some Dr. Johnson talking about rational people seeing irrational things. He says the angel rumors are another kind of UFO sighting. Zealot goes around with a sign reading "Angels Among Us".

Zealot: Repent!
Pedestrian: O.O

Commercial break!

Scene: The Institute.

Beast and Scott are playing chess. Xavier reads a newspaper.

Beast: Do not forget to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.
Xavier: Shakespeare?
Beast: The Bible.
Xavier: Indeed. Though I don't think this angel is of the heavenly variety.
Scott: You think he's some kind of demon?
Rogue: Yeah right.
Beast: There are more things on heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Rogue: Now *that's* Shakespeare.
Beast: Mm-hm.

Xavier thinks the angel is a mutant, and fears his activities will expose them all to the public. He suggests someone should chase him down.
Rogue is all for it; she's bored at the Institute.
Xavier asks Beast to compile a list of angel sightings with witnesses' addresses.

Scene: New York.

Rogue and Scott talk to Daughter and Victim, and get chased by Zealot. Then they take a break at a coffee shop.
Rogue suggests that they do something fun...like go to the music store. Scott owes her a present. He says shopping isn't his idea of fun, but agrees anyway.
He asks if the angel might be real. Rogue laughs, then realizes he's serious and apologizes. Scott says that after the plane crash, he thought he had lost everything. He hoped that his brother might be somewhere with a guardian angel watching over him. After a while he gave up on that, but then he found Alex, so he thought maybe there really was an angel.

Scene: A bridge.

Hat Man is standing on top of a pilon. Warren flies over, for no apparent reason.
Hat Man is...gasp!...Magneto! He controls a truck to cause a big accident. A station wagon swerves and gets stuck against the support cables, half-off the road.
Warren flies down and pulls the little girl out through the back window. He puts her on the bridge and then rescues the parents just as the car falls into the river.
People are crowding around, taking pictures and talking. Magneto makes a broken cable coil around Warren's foot. He spreads his wings to steady himself, accidentally knocking the girl off the bridge again. He jumps to save her, and catches her just before they both hit the water.

Mother: Haley!
Father: No!

It takes Warren a few tries to take off from the water, but he makes it back to the bridge with Haley.

Magneto: He knocked her into the water! I saw him!
Bystander: Yeah! I saw him too! He's no angel. I bet those wings aren't even real.
Warren: No! Get back!

The police arrive, and Warren flies away.

Scene: The music store.

Rogue is poking through some CDs.

Teenager 1: Did you hear the news? They got pictures of the angel!
Teenager 2: Then he must be real.
Teenager 1: Or it's some kind of incredible hoax.

Scene: The hospital.

Sign: County Hospital. Happy Holidays and New Year.

Haley is in a room upstairs. The doctor asks her parents to leave. While the room is empty, Warren comes in the window. He looks sadly at Haley. Then he hears a noise at the door and hides behind a curtain.
The nurse closes the window. Warren quietly puts on a doctor's lab coat, and leaves the room after her.

Doctor: I'm sorry, her parents have just left.
Rogue: Do you know where we can reach them? It's very important.
Doctor: I think they said something about praying at their church.

Warren walks by. A feather falls from under his coat.

Rogue: It's him!

Warren starts to run.

Scott: Wait, we just want to talk to you!

Warren throws off the coat, opens a window, and jumps out.

Commercial break!

Scene: The church.

Mother and Father are sitting near the front. Warren is standing in the balcony. Magneto appears behind him.

Warren: Who are you?
Magneto: Someone like you
Warren: What do you mean?
Magneto: Someone who was confused about what he'd become. Someone living in fear and self-pity. Not knowing if he had been cursed...or blessed.
Warren: Listen, I don't know what you're selling, but I'm not buying.
Magneto: Do you realize what a wonderful gift you have? You can *fly*. You can do what everyone else dreams of, and yet you live alone. Hiding in shame.
Warren: I'm learning to deal with it.
Magneto: By helping a few pathetic people? You saw how quickly they turned on you today. Do you want to live in fear for the rest of your life?
Warren: No, but-
Magneto: There are others like us, Warren. I want you to meet them.
Warren: What, some kind of club for weirdos and freaks? I don't think so.

Magneto controls a tall candlestick, making it wrap around Warren. He ducks out of the loop.

Warren: What is this?
Magneto: This could have been easy. Regrettably, you've chosen to make it hard.

Warren flies to escape the possessed candlestick. Magneto breaks the chain of a chandelier and wraps it around Warren, keeping him levitated.
Scott comes in and blasts Magneto through the stained glass window, breaking his powers. About this time, the parents run away.

Rogue: Scott, he's falling!

Scott blasts the chain. Warren gets one wing free and slows his descent. They help him up, and Scott blasts away the rest of the chain. Warren asks who they are. Magneto comes back through the window.

Magneto: You fools! Have you learned nothing?

He throws some handy metal objects at them. They dodge, and Warren escapes through a window. Again.

Rogue: A simple thank you would have been nice.

Warren comes back through the broken window, catching Magneto from behind.

Scott: Angel, let him go!

Magneto stays hanging in the air, and Scott blasts him into a wall. He falls to the floor. Rogue runs over and sticks her bare hand inside his mask. Magneto kicks her away and flies out the same window. Rogue follows him, but doesn't look as cool because she doesn't have a cape.
Magneto leaves some somethings in her path, but she pushes them out of the way. Then she loses him around the Empire State Building. He reappears, blasts her into a building, and throws something at her. Rogue dives to avoid it, but loses control of her borrowed powers. Warren catches her.

Rogue: I think you really are an angel.

Scene: Hospital waiting room.

Warren: Listen, I'm sorry I-
Scott: You don't have to explain. From what we've heard, a lot of people owe you their lives.
Rogue: Including me.
Warren: It's so complicated. Suddenly it seems like everyone wants me for their organization. What makes your Institute any different from Magneto's pitch?
Scott: Believe me, we're nothing like Magneto.
Rogue: He's on a total power trip. We just try to fit in and use our abilities for good.
Scott: You should come with us. Meet the Professor, check out what we do, and decide for yourself.
Warren: I don't know...
Scott: Then just lay low for a while. Especially with Magneto still around.

Doctor (to parents): Haley's awake. She's going to be okay. You can see her now.

Mother and Father go in to see Haley. Scott, Rogue, and Warren stand outside the room's inner window.

Haley: I saw him again. In my dream.
Mother: Saw who?
Haley: My angel. He came to see me.

We go to quick shots.

Jean and her family search for the perfect Christmas tree.

On the eighth night of Hannukah, Kitty lights the menorah. For the record, she is doing it in the correct direction.

Kurt comes out of an airport gate. He looks around, sees his parents, and runs to them. Big hug!

Evan and a friend are having a snowball fight in the yard. They target Ororo (drinking coffee with her sister on the porch), and get a blast of snow in return.

In a bar, Logan shoots some pool, apparently by himself.

In front of the Institute Christmas tree, Xavier and Beast toast each other with cocoa.

The End

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