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dolari(This synopsis assumes you've already read the first 7 episodes of AWFW...many of the episodes were never made, because the story ran off on its own around episode #14)
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THE DANCING SHADOWS (Cont.)
With the shadows destroyed, the "Angel of War," Diana, runs over to the crumpled form of Hanna, the robed angel. Hanna gets up off the floor, groggy and confused. The seven year-old Andrea, witnessing all this, barely hears the two as they argue. From what she can make out, Hanna is upset that Diana spent more time sounding righteous than actually vanquishing the shadows. Scolded, Diana jumps back into the mirror leaving Hannah to make sure the area is cleared. She notices Andrea huddled into the corner, and attempts to comfort her. Scared, Andrea recoils from her.
Hanna removes her mask to show a beautiful smile. When Andrea asks if she's an angel, Hanna just smiles and dissapears. Andrea runs to her mirror and sees nothing but her reflection. And a glowing halo above her head. She crawls into bed and falls asleep, safer than she's ever felt before.
But from the mirror, a pair of red eyes watch.
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DOUBTING ROGER
The next day, Andrea's mother, Lisa, asks about the noise from her room. Andrea tells her it was just angels fightings, and goes outside to wait for the bus. Lisa is a little concerned about her response.
Outside, Andrea waits for the bus with her next door neighbor, Roger. Roger and Andrea have that elementary school love/hate relationship that's so cute in children. You can tell they like each other JUST enough to tease each other about not liking each other. At school, the two talk about what happened that last night. Roger tries to convince her that it was all a dream. Andrea, shaken, runs to a bathroom and looks in the mirror - her halo is still there.
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UNNAMED EPISODE
Once home, Andrea and Lisa have dinner. Lisa asks about what happened the last night, and Andrea tells her mother about the shadows and the angels who fought each other. Lisa dismisses it as a dream, but makes a mental note to herself to have a talk to her about reality and fantasy.
That night Andrea waits up for the shadows and angels to reappear but they don't. Dissapointed, she curls up for bed and falls asleep. Once asleep, Hanna reappears, pulls down her mask, and gives Andrea a kiss.
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UNNAMED EPISODE
At shool, Andrea begins telling her classmates that she is an angel. She starts butting into school arguments trying to resolve them, tries her best to be a teacher's pet, her behavior even improves. Until she begins to get a bit heavy handed with it. She begins getting in the way, forcing her opinions on others, demanding that she get her way because she IS an angel.
Roger and Andrea have an argument over the tetherball on the school's playground. She demands he give it to her, because the angels always win over the shadows. Roger is black.
A parent/teacher conference is held and Angela is told point blank that she is not a "real" angel. Her mother calls her an angel because she loves her. Andrea decides to play along with the teacher and parent, and tells them she isn't an angel. But deep down...she knows better.
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RED MOON
Andrea is left alone for an evening, her mother is out working. Andrea, still convinced that she is an angel, feels invincible. Angels can do what they want, when they want. She puts on her swimsuit, some floaties and dives into her pool. She begins swimming in the pool behind her house for hours. The sky gets dark, and she can't figure out how to turn on the pool lights. She swims into the deep end. Once there, she gets dragged down into the water by something. Under the water, she can't find her way up. As she begins to lose unconsciousness, she sees a pair of red eyes staring at her from the darker parts of the pool.
Just as the eyes get nearer, she's yanked up out of the water by Roger's father, who heard her thrashing about. She immediately runs away upstairs without even acknowledging Roger's father and looks into the mirror. No angels come out. And her halo is dim.
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WARPED REFLECTIONS
Roger has been staying away from Andrea lately. Ever since the tetherball incident and hearing about how she treated his father after saving her life, he's tried his best to stay away from her. But seeing her sitting all alone on the playground for lunch has him feeling bad for her. So he comes up to her.
She tells him how sorry she was about not saying thank you to his father for saving her life. The two begin to talk like they were old friends again, and catch up with each other.
Jokingly, Roger asks "Are you still an angel?"
Andrea replies unflinchingly with a yes.
Roger, not realizing he'd get a serious answer is shocked. "I guess that means I'm STILL a shadow." He runs off in a huff, while Andrea tries to catch up to him. Grabbing him, she tries to tell him she was wrong about it, but Roger pushes her down.
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THE DAY THE LIGHTS CAME ON
After another parent/teacher conference, and a long talk with Roger's father, Lisa sits Andrea down, and they have a long heart to heart about angels and humans. Angels are mythical beings that don't exist no matter how many dreams you have had about them. Shadows won't come out and hurt you. Humans lead boring dreary lives full of hardship and woe.
It all sinks in to Andrea this time. She is no angel. She's just a little girl who has been told once too many times by a loving mother that she is an angel. She was not ever an angel. She never will be an angel. She's just a little girl. Period.
That night, as Andrea sleeps, a pair of red eyes appears and jumps into her mirror.
Andrea goes to school the next day, despondent and unfeeling. She has a dreary day filled with childhood versions of hardship and woe. At one point, she sees a pair of red eyes in a darkened room in the hallway. She runs in, hoping that it's a shadow. Instead, it's simply the school's VCR lights. She removes the tape so one of the lights turns off.
She goes home, defeated...mom is working overtime again.
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THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT
Lisa calls Andrea to tell her that she will be very late tonight, and that she can use the emergency money to order a pizza. After ordering a half pepperoni/half black olive pizza, Andrea eats her half in depression in a whole sitting. She gets a terrible stomachache and goes to bed early. Just as she's going to bed, her mother calls and says she'll be even later than she thought because of a huge storm coming in.
Andrea goes upstairs and cleans up for bed. Looking in the mirror, she can just barely see a dim outline of what might be a halo. She gives up on it, and goes to bed. But before she can go to bed, a loud thunderclap booms and all the lights in the neighborhood go out.
Now surrounded in pitch black, Andrea tries to find a flashlight. When she can't, she feels her way into her bedroom and closes the door. As soon as she does, she's surrounded by glowing red eyes. Only the flashes of lightning show her the bodies of the shadows around her. She begins to feel the coldness of their claws pulling at her when she notices the mirror. In the mirror are three robed angels fighting four shadows INSIDE the mirror.
Andrea begins to grow weaker and weaker when she looks over to the mirror one last time and recognizes Hanna, fighting her way out of the mirror. Andrea gets an idea...with the last ounce of strength she has, she invisions a white light around her...and fires a blast of light from her body, wiping nearly all the shadows around her out. She falls to the ground in a crumpled mess, streams of light fading from her body.
The three angels manage to get out of the mirror, and look down at Andrea. They're obviously impressed at her ability to create a lightblast. Hanna removes her mask, and retraces a halo over her head, and kisses her gently on the cheek.
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THE SHATTERED REFLECTION (Cont.)
Andrea, in her late twenties explains that that night was the night she truly knew she was angel. She kept it hidden for the next ten years because, at the time, she knew the grown-ups would never believe her.
She regrets the rift between her family and Roger's family grew so wide after several mistakes. But that it was her own fault that Roger never forgave her for the Shadow comment. She saw the shadows occasionally over the next ten years, but less and less frequently. Each time they dissapeared on their own. They stopped completely when she was seventeen. She never saw the robed angels again.
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PART TWO - APOTHEOSIS
Part Two would have explored seveteen year-old Andrea's time in school and with a group of people she met called "The Celestial Exchange Agency" a group of people who all thought they were angels given human form. While dealing with the pressures of rumours about her "angelhood" at school, and the stigmas of beign different, she finds solace in the Celestial Exchange Agency, eventually becoming an officer of the group. Several of the CEA members come to the groups in full angel garb. And Andrea begins to make her own set of angel wings, feather by feather.
We would also have explored how the rift between Andrea and Roger turned into out and out hatred from Roger towards Andrea. It is a religious argument between a school friend named "Albert" who demands that Andrea pick a religion if she is an angel that she realizes the true mission of an angel. "An angel doesn't need to be told what is right, or to tell others what is right. She DOES what is right." She goes to the CEA meeting with that message.
She ends up causing the CEA's members to split off into faction camps. Those that believe that angels DO good and others who believe she is wrong, and that angels MUST adhere to a religion. She leads her group, not realizing the cult of personality she is building up around her, and that these angels aren't doing "right" but doing whatever she says. She leaves the group when people begin to come in, not dressed as angels, but dressed as Andrea herself. On her way out of the building, she meets a man named [...], and warns him that is he is a true angel, he should turn around and go home. The people in that building are simply humans dressed as angels.
Soon afterwards, Andrea's mother breaks her neck putting up Christmas lights. Her will leaves the house to Andrea.
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THE SHATTERED REFLECTION (Cont.)
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PART THREE - ANGEL MADE REAL
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THE SHATTERED REFLECTION (Cont.)
"And that's where we are. My halo is completely gone. My halo is gone, my wings are destroyed. I never was an angel."
Andrea tosses the bear in the living room, and goes into her bedroom. She turns off the lights and goes to bed. As soon as she is asleep, hundreds of pairs of red eyes appear and jump into her. She never moves a muscle.
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APOTHEOSIS
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TILTED HALO
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A HARP WITHIN MY HAND
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