Author's note:

This is my first effort at writing a song-fic, based on Christian Aguilera's "Beautiful". Try listening to the song as you read the story and see what happens. (

This is my going-away present for the summer, as I'm leaving in a few days and might not be able to write much more original stuff for a while.

As usual, I do not own any of the characters normally associated with X-Men Evolution.