A Creature's Mate: The End

Willy Wonka stood in his place for a moment, Charlie felt like it was a life time before the genius finally replied.
"You mean your the only one?" He asked as if he was just realising it.
"Yes" Charlie replied softly.
"What happened to the others?" he was asking that himself more than the other two, his attention then snapped to the boy, his smile growing by the second before grabbing the boys hand proceeding to shake it so fast that the poor boy thought it was going to fall off "my dear boy that means you've, I am absolutely delighted I had a hunch you know right from the beginning well done, now we mustn't dilly or dally because we have a lot of things to do before the days out, but lucky for us we have a great glass elevator to speed things alo-" CRASH!
"What just happened?" Charlie asked after a moment.
"Uh, I believe Mr Wonka just walked into his glass elevator door" Mr Bucket replied after he finally realised what just happened.
After a few more seconds Wonka gets up and acts like nothing has happened "speed things along" he pressed the open button and gestured for them to come in "come on"
Mr Bucket removed both of their glasses and placed them into a bucket on the wall before following Mr Wonka into the elevator, he noticed the man press another button on the wall.
"Up and Out?" he asked in a worried tone.
"Hold on" was all Wonka said with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
The elevator groaned for a moment before Charlie felt the whole thing go up so fast that he had to hold onto his dad's arm for support.
"Oh my goodness" Charlie heard Mr Wonka say "we'll need to go much faster or we will never break through"
"Break through what?"
Wonka looked at Charlie with excitement on his face "I've been longing to press that button for years" he chuckled before continuing "well here we go, up and out"
"Do you really mean-"
"Yeah, I do" Charlie could the voice breaking from excitement.
"But this is made of glass, won't it smash to a million pieces?"
The only reply was Wonka tittering like some unstable person before they all looked up....and then...CRASH!
They went up even higher before going back down, Charlie was still gripping onto his dad's hand with a frightened look on his face, he didn't know what was going on, he felt like he was flying with no ground or force to keep him up, he was falling and two tears managed to escape.
All thoughts and Wonka's child like behavior vanished, he didn't mean to make Charlie cry, he only wanted to show him...
Wonka's throat suddenly clogged up and quickly pressed the jet button, the elevator now just inches away from the ground, he then quickly pressed another button to lift them up higher but low enough that they would feel safe. He could not believe that he had forgotten that Charlie was blind, how could he show Charlie something when the boy couldn't see? He wanted throw himself in the chocolate river for the ridiculous thought.
After making sure that four other children had left left the factory safely (as safely as can be) he turned to Charlie and his dad "where do you live?" he asked them politely.
Mr Bucket replied, turning in the direction of their house "our house is in direct line to your factory Mr Wonka, follow the main road its hard to miss"
Mr Wonka did as instructed and his heart cringed, how could a blind boy survive in a shambled house like that? Or even a family for that matter?
"Okay" was all he said before he pressed a button making them head for the house, he pretended not to hear Charlie's heavy breathing or slight crying noises coming from his mouth.

(At the Bucket house)
Mrs Bucket was chopping some cabbage for dinner silently hoping that her husband and son were okay, she had been panicking none stop the moment they had entered the factory but her grandparents and parents in law constantly told her that they were safe, Grandpa Joe constantly said "Willy Wonka isn't the kind of person to intentionally hurt someone, that place is safer than any other place in the world"
She had been reluctant at first but trusted Joe's word, after all he wouldn't put that much faith in someone if he thought they ended up a bad person, his instincts were never wrong.
"When do you think they will be back?" she asked him as she continued to chop.
"Hard to know really" Grandpa Joe replied "also depends on who won that special prize" he lightly chuckled as he cleaned up the floor, after Charlie had gotten the golden ticket he had jumped out of bed and danced that was before he realised that he couldn't go with Charlie to the factory because he was old and Charlie would be unable to help him.
He had just brushed the dust outside the back door when CRASH! the roof next to the grandparents bed was broken through by a glass looking box, after Mrs Bucket had managed to calm down she took a closer look at the glass box, when the dust settled she saw Charlie and her husband looking slightly pale but smiling a the fact that they were back.
It was a tense and awkward moment before Grandma said out of the blue "I think there's someone at the door"
"Hi mom" Charlie called out waved enthusiastically even though he couldn't see her.
As the elevator dinged open Wonka waved as well but more awkwardly.
Mr Bucket helped Charlie out so that he could great his mum before turning to the Chocolatier who had just got out of the glass elevator "this is Willy Wonka, he gave us a ride home"
"I can see that" Wonka was the only one who detect sarcasm in Mrs Buckets voice.
"You must be the boys..."once again he couldn't say the word.
"Parent's?" Mrs Bucket asked.
"Yeah that"
"He said that Charlie's won something" Mr Bucket interrupted.
Wonka looked around and couldn't stop himself from snooping as he explained "not just some,something, the most something that's ever been, I'm going to give this boy my entire factory"
The elders were just as shocked as the parents, Grandad Joe was the first to speak "you must be joking"
"No really it's true, you see a few months ago I was getting my annual haircut and I had the strangest revelation" as he began explaining about the silver hair a spark of guilt swelled in his stomach, he knew this was a lie but he needed the boy to come with him, the scent coming from him was addictive and his blindness made him more vulnerable.
"And I did Charlie, you"
"So that's why you sent out the golden tickets" Charlie said in awe.
Wonka, who had been looking at the grandparents quickly looked away "uh uh, I invited five children to the factory and the one who was the least wrotten would be the winner" he turned back round to Charlie with an almost fake smile "so what do you say to leaving all of this behind and living with me at the factory?"
He was shocked though when he saw Charlie look down and slightly upset "Mr Wonka, how can I help you when I cannot see? And if I do can my family come with me?"
Wonka had honestly not thought of that since he thought Charlie could see, but when the boy admitted he was blind he had no time to think it over since he was doing the tour, his inner creature was demanding that he leave the parents behind and take Charlie with him, but if he did that then Charlie wouldn't be happy, and if Charlie wasn't happy then he wouldn't be happy either.
"I must admit that I had not thought of that since I didn't know you were blind until you told the tour when we were on the boat" Wonka admitted "but that doesn't mean I am going to leave you and your family here and forget about the prize, I can show and help you with ingredients and since I know for a fact that your senses are higher than normal people you can help me with testing food to see if there is anything that needs adding"
"You mean to use him as a guinea pig?" Mrs Bucket went to move him behind her.
Wonka resisted the urge to growl at her "no ma'am, he would taste completely 'safe' sweets that have already been tested on Oompa Loompa's, should anything happen there will be something to get rid of it"
"Did you say my family can come?" Charlie asked with hope.
Wonka felt like he was going to explode until he saw Charlie's face "yes Charlie your family can come, after all they have helped you your entire life and are technically your carers, having you by yourself would be considered illegal"
"That's true" Mr Bucket said to his son.
"Then, yes I would love to join you in the factory"
The smile that came from Charlie would have been enough to make Wonka's heart beat again.

The day went by without any problem, Wonka got a lorry to help with the movement, the grandparents managed to get out of bed but still needed help with walking about, Charlie got the dream of his life by living in the chocolate factory with his family. But Wonka felt the luckiest of them all, he had a mate, a mate that would someday be his when he was ready and the appropriate age.
No one would dare to steal his Charlie, because if they did they would live to regret it. He may not have been happy to bring the parents with him either, but they were an important part of Charlie's life, if it weren't for them Charlie would never have existed, he owed them more than the factory, he owed them his immortal life.
So for now he would wait, wait until the time was right to tell Charlie the truth and hope that he wouldn't run away, if he did he would not know what to do.
"Mr Wonka?" the man looked from his spot near the bank of the chocolate river and saw Charlie reaching out for him in case he bumped into him.
"I'm here Charlie" Wonka was still cautious about touching, but with Charlie he could handle it.
He gently grabbed the boys hand and helped him sit down next to him, both enjoying the sound of the river.
"How does it feel to live in the factory?" it had been a few days since they moved here and Charlie was still trying to get the hang of things.
"I'm getting better, but I'm still afraid" Charlie admitted, his hand still clasped with Wonka's gloved one.
"Don't be, there's plenty of time to get the hand of things" they had all the time in the world after all.
Wonka stiffened when he felt Charlie lean agaisnt him but realised that the boy had fallen a sleep, resisting the urge to kiss the boy's head he wrapped a arm around the boy's shoulders and held him close, allowing the waterfall to soothe his inner thoughts.
"Soon Charlie" Wonka said under his breath "we will be together forever"