A/N: Hey Guys!!

I had the most amazing week last week. First I was on a TV show about the AFL [Australian Football League for all those who don't know.] and was actually in the front row and was on camera quite a bit, which was pretty cool. Then I got to meet my all-time fave footballer, Matthew Richardson and he gave me a hug and kiss and a signed football ...soo cool!

Then I went to the Supernova pop culture expo and met Alex Meraz [Paul from New Moon] and James Marsters [Spike from Buffy and John in PS. I love you...and is also the inspiration for Daniel in this story!] Both are so sweet and incredibly cute guys :P Alex even came out and said hi to my friend who couldn't get in for a photo with him...so sweet!

Then I went to the Kelly Clarkson Concert and sat behind two of my fave local stars from around here; Tim Campbell [ex Home and Away star] and Anthony Callea [Australian Idol runner-up ].. WHAT A WEEK!! Anyway, that's enough of my rambling.... I don't have school till Wednesday so I thought I would get some updating done :)

I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Charlie and the chocolate factory or any of its characters. I only own Natalie, Jackie, Tim, Alice, Daniel and Connor for now.

Two weeks later, everything was set. The day after their fight, Willy was up bright and early and looked into any possible way to get the two of them to Paris. It was organised that a few days after his 40th birthday, he and Natalie would fly off to Paris for two weeks.

A few days later, Charlie received a phone call from Alice. They had received his letter and were so excited to be able to visit them, especially since Natalie didn't know anything about it. Willy got on the phone and sorted everything out.

He had a wonderful, and very long chat with both Alice and Tim and had arranged everything, from flight details to where and how long they were staying. He even paid for the plane tickets himself, even after Alice tried to convince him otherwise. They were to be arriving two weeks from then.

Back to the main point, it was two weeks later. Natalie's friends were arriving that night, and Willy was in desperate need to keep Natalie away. He was walking around the Chocolate Room after breakfast, deciding what to do. Nat had had a late night helping out at the store so he let her sleep in. Not able to figure out what else to do, Willy decided to go and check on her.

When he made it upstairs to their room, Willy opened the door quietly, not wanting to wake her. To his surprise, she was already wide awake and sitting up in bed. She sat with a cup of coffee in her hands as she looked through old photo albums, something she was doing increasingly often.

"You're awake." Willy said surprised. Natalie looked up at him and smiled.

"Yeah, I've been up for a little while." She said, shifting a few of the albums that occupied the bed. Willy smiled and walked over to the bed, sitting beside her.

"Looking at photos again, I see." He said. Natalie smiled and nodded. She took another sip of her coffee before placing the cup on her bedside table.

"Can I see?" Willy asked. Natalie smiled and nodded. Willy moved closer so he was right beside her. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders as she snuggled closer to him. Flipping over the page, five smiling young faces looked back at him.

"God, we were all so young there." Natalie said in awe. She snapped out of her little daze in order to show Willy the picture better.

"Well, that's Tim, Alice, her brother Daniel, Me and..." Nat stopped when she saw the look on Willy's face as she pointed to a young Connor.

"Relax a little." Natalie said, placing her hand on his comfortingly. "He was a different person back then."

Willy nodded his head as he turned the page. This picture was of the four lying on the ground outside the Bucket house, laughing hysterically. Young Natalie was sitting by them, not looking that impressed. Her left wrist was bandaged and there was a hole in her jacket that she seemed to be playing with. Natalie's eyes widened as she remembered this day.

"Oh my god." She said. Willy looked at her confused.

"What?" he asked.

"Nothing, I just remembered what we were laughing about in this." She said.

"What was it?" Willy wondered. Natalie shook her head and hid her face in her hands.

"I cant say." She said.

"Why not?" he asked.

"Because it's kinda embarrassing and you'll think I'm an idiot or probably worse so I really don't want to tell you." Natalie said. Willy sighed.

"Honey, I promise I won't." He said, moving her hands from her eyes. Natalie sighed to herself. She tried to think of a way to tell him without actually revealing everything.

"Okay. Well, when we were kids there was this huge gate that we passed by everyday from school. Long story short I was dared to climb the gate and sneak over to the other side." Natalie explained. Willy smiled.

"Well, that doesn't seem so bad." He said. he couldn't see what all the fuss was about.

"It wasn't...until Daniel decided to scare the hell out of me by telling me that the guy who owned the place had seen us and was coming to get me." Nat said. "The others ran while I quickly climbed back over the fence. My jacket got caught on the top of it and ripped. I lost one of my favourite badges that day. It fell off and landed on the ground." Nat said. "I tried to reach for it but I thought I saw the guy and ran."

Willy sat there, looking deep in thought. Natalie tried to hide her smile as she remembered that day.

FLASHBACK

"I still don't see why we stop by here everyday." fifteen year old Connor complained. The five young teens were walking home from school when they stopped outside of Wonka's Chocolate factory.

"Because it's on the way home, idiot." Tim said, rolling his eyes. Daniel laughed and leaned up against the bars.

"Yeah, and so that Natalie can gaze longingly at the factory." He joked.

"Shut up, Danny." Natalie said.

"What? It's true." Daniel joked. Alice sighed and moved Tim's arm from around her shoulders so she could slap her brother.

"Ouch!" he said, rubbing his arm. Natalie shook her head and smiled before turning back to the factory. Alice walked over to her and stood beside her, wrapping her hands around the cool, iron bars like she did.

"What do you think goes on in there?" she wondered. Natalie shook her head.

"I don't know." She said honestly. "But I'm going to find out someday."

"Come on, Natty." Tim said. "You know that's a long shot."

"Long shot? It's impossible." Daniel said.

"Nothing's impossible." Alice retorted, sticking her tongue out at him. Natalie shook her head.

"Except trying to slam a revolving door." She pointed out. Her four friends nodded in agreement.

"Oh, man. Don't remind me...my head's still spinning." Connor said.

"Still. Wonka is a complete recluse Nobody has seen him in years. No one is going to get in there, and nobody is gonna come out any time soon." Daniel said.

"I will." Nat said, more to herself.

"Okay Nat. I bet you five pounds that you won't ever get inside." Daniel said.

"Okay, fine." Nat said, not really caring at all. She was too busy looking at the factory. She could have sworn she saw something moving from up in one of the windows.

"Come on, even if we wanted to...there is no way to get in or out of that gate." Tim said. Natalie looked at the factory in front of her then at the gate.

"Except jumping the fence." She said.

"Jumping the fence might...wait, what?!" Tim wondered. The others looked at her as if she was mad.

"What was that?" Alice asked.

"I'm gonna jump the fence." Nat said.

"You can't be serious." Connor said. Natalie rested her hands on her hips.

"You don't think I can do it?" she wondered.

"I think you're out of your mind if you even consider it." Connor said. Natalie glared at him for a moment before shrugging her bag off her shoulders. She took her jacket off and put it over her bag.

"Natalie put your jacket back on, you're gonna freeze!" Alice cried out. Nat rolled her eyes and put her jacket back on. She saluted her friends before she started to climb the bars of the factory gates. The other for moved closer, not believing that she was actually doing it.

"She's out of her mind." Daniel said, shaking his head. Tim laughed.

"since the day we met her." He said. a few moments later, Natalie jumped down from the top of the gates. Her friends cheered and applauded. Natalie grinned and bowed.

"Okay, you've proved your point, now let's get going." Alice said. Natalie looked at her best friend as if she was mad.

"No way, I'm looking around." She said.

"What if you get caught?" Connor wondered. But Nat didn't listen. She had already wandered off around the grounds. The other four sighed and waited for her to come back when Daniel saw something. He could have sworn that he saw something from one of the windows.

"Guys...we gotta go." He said.

"Why?" Tim asked.

"Because there's someone looking at us from the window up there." He said, pointing subtly. The other three looked up in shock.

"Natalie...we gotta go, now." Connor called out.

"Why?" she called back.

"Cause there's someone watching us." Alice called out. At first Natalie thought they were joking. But then she remembered seeing something earlier. She looked and saw the panicked looks on her friends' faces. Her eyes widened as she ran across the grounds and back over to the fence.

"He's not there anymore." Connor said.

"Yeah, he's probably coming to get us!" Daniel cried. Natalie's eyes widened in fear as she started climbing the fence once again. Not being able to wait for her, Daniel and Connor ran down the road. Alice wanted to stay and help her but Tim pulled her along.

"You guys can't just leave me?!" Natalie called out. She finally reached the top and kicked her leg over, ready to climb down when her jacket got caught on the top of the fence.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me!" she mumbled to herself. Nat tugged on her jacket, silently begging for it to untangle itself when she heard a ripping noise. The next thing she knew, she lost her balance and fell off the gate and landed on the ground on her wrist.

Natalie groaned in pain as she got up. She rubbed her wrist and inspected her jacket before she noticed that one of her badges was missing. She scanned the ground and found it on the other side of the gate. Nat tried to reach through the bars to get it, but it was no use. Sighing to herself, Natalie grabbed her bag and ran down the road after her friends.

END FLASHBACK

To that day, nobody outside of their group knew what really happened. When she got home that afternoon, they had told Helena and Noah that they had jumped over a neighbour's fence and Natalie fell. When the photo was taken, the others had managed to convince themselves that they were just imagining things and didn't see anyone in the window.

"You know, it's funny." Willy said. "Something like that happened here a long time ago." Natalie was pulled out of her reverie and looked at him in shock. He did see them that day!

"Really?" she asked, feigning curiosity. Willy nodded.

"Yeah, there were these kids that tried to jump the gates here at the factory. One girl actually managed to do so." He said.

"were you angry that they tried to get in?" Nat wondered. Willy thought about it and shrugged.

"Well, at the time I thought they were trying to steal my life's work and sell it to those parasitic copy-cat candy-making cads." He said. "But now, I guess they were just kids who wanted to have some fun." Nat nodded, silently thinking god that he wasn't angry with them.

"I always did wonder what ever happened to her." He said, looking as if he was headed straight into another one of his flashbacks. Natalie shrugged and continued flipping through the album.

"She probably grew up, got the chance of a lifetime, fell in love and is soon to be married." She said nonchalantly.

"What makes you say that?" Willy wondered. Natalie looked up at him for a split second, smiling sheepishly. Willy's eyes widened in both amazement and shock.

"That was you?!" he asked incredulously. Natalie bit her lip.

"Well, you see...umm...yes?" she said. Willy looked at her completely shocked before he broke out into a grin.

"You were really that interested in the factory?" he asked, with a hint of smugness. Natalie nodded.

"You have no idea." She said. Her answer seemed to please him. Willy chucked a little as he sat deep in thought.

"Small world isn't it?" he said.

"Tiny." Nat replied. He smiled once again before having an idea. He held up his finger, telling her to wait a minute as he got off the bed and wandered over to one of the closets. Natalie looked at him, trying to figure out what on earth he was doing.

He came back a few moments later with something in his hands. He put his hand behind his back as he sat beside her once more.

"I think this belongs to you." He said. Natalie tilted her head to the side a little, not sure what he was going on about. He then moved his hand out and handed her something very small. Natalie's eyes widened as she saw what it was.

Her lost badge.

"You kept it?" she asked. Willy nodded.

"One of the Oompa Loonpas found it and brought it in. I don't know why I kept it, I just knew I had to. I'm glad I did now." He said. Natalie smiled.

"So am I." She said, kissing him. After a moment or two, she had a thought and pulled away.

"What is it?" Willy asked, not very happy at the loss of contact.

"I just thought of something." Nat said.

"What?" Willy wondered.

"It's your fault I sprained my wrist!" she said.

"What?" Willy asked. "How do you figure that out?"

"if you weren't looking out your window, Daniel never would have seen you and he never would have scared me and made me run and try and get over the fence as fast I could. Then I never would have fallen off and never would have hurt my wrist." Natalie explained. Willy sat in silence for a moment, thinking it all over.

"But if you hadn't have climbed the gate, there never would have been a problem." He retorted. Natalie grinned.

"But if you hadn't created such a wonderful factory that was completely shrouded in mystery then I never would have had the curiosity to see inside and never would have wanted to climb the fence." She said.

Willy opened his mouth for a comeback, but nothing came. He sighed in defeat and nodded. Natalie smiled and kissed his cheek. She went to close the album but Willy stopped her.

"What's this one?" he asked, pointing to a picture. Natalie looked at the photo and smiled. It was one with her and Alice, arms wrapped around each other in a hug as they smiled at the camera. In her hand, Alice was holding a magazine with a red truck on it.

"Well, when we were younger, Alice had a thing for that American country singer, Tim McGraw." She said. "We both loved his music and loved this truck that one of the guys from work used to have. He had this incredible red Chevy truck, all the way from the states."

"I think I've seen those." Willy said. Natalie nodded.

"We were both convinced that we were gonna buy one and drive it around everywhere." Nat said. Willy smiled. Suddenly, he had an idea.

"Oh well, I guess dreams are dreams, right?" Nat said, closing the album. Willy nodded his head. Nat collected all her albums and packed them away.

"I'm just gonna go have a shower and get dressed." Nat said. Willy nodded. Nat grabbed her clothes and headed into the bathroom. When he was sure he could hear the water running, Willy grabbed his walkie-talkie and called Charlie.

Willy? Have you thought of a plan to keep Natalie out, yet?

"As a matter of fact, Charlie...I think I have."

A/N: I know...it's evil of me to leave it there. I was going to make this a super long chapter and fit everything into one, but it's late here and I'm tired...plus it's a good cliffhanger :P

But...if you guys like it and review and let me know what you think...I'll update tomorrow :)

Remember! REVIEW and let me know! What do you think Willy has planned? What's going on?