Title: Charlie's Experiment
Summary: With his love for Willy Wonka growing, and Wonka getting older, Charlie knows he'll be around longer than Wonka. Before his age catches up with him, Charlie decides to find out if Willy Wonka tastes like chocolate.
Rated: T
Genre(s): Romance
Pairing(s): Charlie Bucket/Willy Wonka
Warning(s): Underage relationship
Charlie Bucket did not lead a normal life. No, his life in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory was pretty awesome. During the past few years, he had been helping Wonka around the factory and even creating some inventions of his own, which many people liked. For the first time in his life, he was rich.
He loved that he could support his family. He loved not being helpless as he had so often felt during his childhood. Winning the prize of being Wonka's heir was the best thing to ever happen to him, but not for reasons you might expect. As Charlie became a teenager, he found himself falling in love with Wonka himself.
He didn't want Wonka to die. He hated any talk of him being Wonka's heir, and it was hard for him to have Wonka tutor him about what needed to be done when he was...gone. Wonka knew something was up with him, he just didn't know what. Charlie acting strangely during tutoring did raise suspicion, but Wonka never tried to press Charlie for answers. For this, the younger boy was grateful.
"Charlie!" Wonka said from the chocolate river. He was sitting in the boat, traveling slowly downstream, and he patted the seat beside him. "Come join me."
Charlie smiled, his heart swelling as it did often when he saw the older chocolatier. He climbed down in the boat as it pulled to the shore briefly, taking his seat close to Wonka. The man smelled like chocolate. Charlie found himself wondering if he'd taste like chocolate. He decided to make it his goal to find out, an experiment of sorts. "I thought we could use a little bonding time?" Wonka suggested.
"Do you...mind me being so close to you?" They were sitting pretty close beside each other in the boat.
"Charlie, my dear, you don't have to keep asking, 'kay?" Wonka was getting better about their relationship after finally making up with his dad. Sometimes, he even allowed a hug, which Charlie loved. Being so close to Wonka felt nice.
"Okay," said Charlie, his heart fluttering at Wonka's smile, and he returned the smile genuinely.
"My dear, I do hope you don't mind me asking," Wonka said. "It would be super duper great if you could tell me why you act so strange during tutoring."
Charlie blushed. "Oh, that," he mumbled, averting his gaze. "I, uh..." All his feelings came out then, before he could stop them, in a rambling, awkward manner. "I just...I hate all this talk about what I need to do when you're gone, how I should run things and I don't like tutoring because I don't want to think about you not being here or you dying because I can't imagine my life without you! I love you!" He realized that he'd put his hand over Wonka's some time during his speech.
Silence. Wonka stared at him in shock. The river slanted and they moved faster. Before Wonka could say anything, there was a jolt in the boat, and the two toppled off the seats and fell onto the floor of the boat, Charlie on top of Wonka.
Charlie's heart beat very quickly as he felt Wonka's hand slipping in his hair, his other arm around his waist. Their gazes locked and it was like there wasn't anything else in the world besides them.
As it turned out, Willy Wonka did taste like chocolate.
AN: Hope you liked it! Review please? :)