Sung By: HIM
Maria stood in front of the Inventing Room and saw that the door was cracked open. She had gone to their because WIlly had asked her to, while she was cleaning his wound. She slowly walked inside and cleared her throat. "Mr. Wonka..." Willy Wonka had not noticed her come in to the inventing room, and continued working on a very colorful piece of candy in front of him. Maria took a step closer, not wanting to intrude or startle him. "Mr. Wonka?" No reply. "Mr. Wonka, you asked me to come see you?" Still no answer. Finally she decided to go against his wishes and touch him. She gently tapped him on the shoulder. "Mr. Wonka?"
Willy spun around with a look of utter shock and amazement before falling out of his chair onto the floor and scooting away. "Who are you? Are you here to steal my recipes!" His back hit the wall and he came to a stop, wrapping his arms around his legs. "Mr. Wonka, it's me, Maria. You asked me to come see you this afternoon, remember?" Willy thought about it for a minute. "Right...sorry...I just got so...lost in my thoughts..." Willy stood and dusted himself off.
Maria raised an eyebrow at Willy and folded her arms. Anyone could tell that she was worried about him. "Are you sure that you are okay? You seem quite perturbed with something..." She said, gently. She stood in front of him and looked into his purple eyes. He closed his eyes, lowered his head, and nodded. "Yes, I'm fine. Just having a couple of...flashbacks." His eyes started to glaze over.
Maria quickly figured he was sinking into another one, leaned down and grabbed Willy by the face. "Mr. Wonka, come back to earth!" Willy Wonka gasped and stared at her. He seemed quite scared or worried. "I... I'm so sorry, Maria..." He said, softly and slowly backed away from her. Maria raised an eyebrow and watched him. "There is no need to worry about it, Mr. Wonka." She told him. Willy sighed. "My flashbacks have been getting worse here lately.." He looked around the room, trying to remember what he had called her in the inventing room for, when a piece of sparkling candy caught his eyes. "Ah yes! I remember now!" He jumped to his feet, and began to walk briskly towards the shiny object.
Maria saw it, and thought it was aluminum foil, but upon closer investigation, she realized it was the candy itself. "Oh my...it's beautiful!" Though after she said it she felt funny saying that about candy. He looked at her and smiled. "It's not just a regular piece of candy. This is basically a low grade hallucinogen." Maria was shocked that he even knew that word. "What does it do?" He smiled again. "Basically, it lets you see what you truly..." He stopped, almost like he was searching for a word. He reached into the front pocket of his jacket and took out que cards. After shuffling through three or four, he found one, read it, mouthing out the words that he had just spoken, then said "Desire!"
Maria looked at the shiny candy. "So basically it's like a drug." Willy frowned a bit. "No, you see this candy plays with the natural human emotions, hormones, etc and against the reasoning, logical parts of the body. Basically, it allows you to see these things clearly without interruption of that darn logic!" He was grinning from ear to ear. "Well, what good will that do?" He looked down, thinking about it, and turned back to the que cards. "It allows a person to truly see what they want, so they can be happy!" He threw the que cards behind him after he said the line.
"How do you know when someone has eaten the candy?" Maria was beginning to like the idea of the candy. "Well, you just look into their eyes. Their eyes will have tiny stars in them for about an hour, and for the first 10 minutes you are shown images of what you truly want and or need. As you go on through the day, the candy still works, but you see normally. It's basically just a little voice in your head at that point!" Maria smiled at him before looking down at the shiny candy. "This sounds absolutely amazing!" Willy giggled. "Yeah, I know! I stayed up all night thinking about it and making it! And you know what else it does?"
Maria looked up at him expectantly. "If you are a big business person, it can also help you make business ideas. Basically, 'Do I really want my workers doing this? No not really. How about this? SURE!" Maria smiled widely to Willy and giggled a bit. "You did a great job, Mr. Wonka. I am greatly impressed." She nodded and looked back down to the candy.
She had never seen or heard of anything like it before. Ever since she came to the factory, she had started believing in things that she had never believed in before. Willy gently picked it up and looked at it, treating it like a sensitive piece of cargo. He glanced at Maria over the candy and said, "This is the candy I wanted you to try." Maria raised an eyebrow and looked down to the candy. She smiled a little and slowly looked back up to Willy. "Really? You would want me to try it out?" She seemed a little hesitant, but excited. He smiled and handed her the candy and smiled a bit bigger. "Go ahead! Eat it! It won't hurt, I tried it twice already!"
What he didn't include that what he saw had kind of frightened him, but at the same time, excited him. Maria slowly looked down to the candy, as she held it in her hand carefully. She looked to Willy once more and then stuck it in her mouth. She waited for a few moments and then her eyes suddenly glossed over. Her mouth opened slightly and she looked as if she were in some sort of daze. She saw herself with a man. She couldn't quite make out who the man was, since he was covered by the darkness. They were together, laughing and holding each other. Then making love. Who was this man? She didn't know! It wouldn't show her. She looked a little harder and then it revealed...
WILLY WONKA! Her eyes widened and she instantly snapped out of it. Willy clasped his hands together. He began bouncing up and down with anticipation. "What did you see? What did you see?" He couldn't hold in his excitement. Maria turned her gaze to him, and quickly tried to hide the look of surprise on her face. "I saw...I saw..." She quickly tried to think up a lie. "I saw my family...and we were happy...and eating Thanksgiving dinner...and I had a dog.." She realized quickly that she was babbling and cut herself off.
As she looked at Willy, she realized the candy was still working, because there was a faint glow around him, almost like he was in a spotlight. She shook her head trying to make the fuzz go away. "How long did you say the candy lasted?" "Oh, about 24 hours!" He was still smiling as he said it. "I'm sorry Mr. Wonka, I have to go...now...I have something that I...need..." And she bolted from the room, leaving a baffled Mr. Wonka behind. Maria couldn't face Willy! She wasn't even supposed to have fallen in love with him! She couldn't fall in love at all anymore. She promised herself that. She was getting in too deep and it was scaring her. She swallowed hard and wrapped her arms around herself.
"How can that be?" She whispered, as she walked to her room. She needed to think. Finally she decided to write in her journal, she hadn't done that the entire time she was here, simply because she hadn't needed to. She only wrote in it when her thoughts were too messed up for her own head, and had no where else to write them.
Willy was torn, when Maria left. He didn't know what she had seen and why it made her so upset. He sighed deeply and started to walk out of the room. He needed to find her and see what was the matter. Besides, she did that for him... He walked off towards her room and waited outside the door. He put his ear to the door and listened intently. What he heard made him cringe. He heard sobbing and then sharp pain sounds. He wasn't sure he wanted to go in there now... The screams were unbearable to him. He had to do this. His hand, now shaking, slowly turned the knob and then he quickly opened the door.
His eyes widened at what lay before him.