A/N: So, the thing is, is, I'm prolly never going to finish this story. No one seems to read it and I don't have any motivation to write it. Even if I did, I would prolly rewrite it (again) anyway bc it seems sloppy or juvenile or too dramatic or something. So for now it is eighty-sixed.
However, I do have the plot completely worked out and the epilogue written. So if you were rlly into this story and just never reviewed, I have created a list of the rest of the major plot points, in chronological order. At the end of the list will be the epilogue.
-So Wonka had a boyfriend (Julius) when he was young, right around the time his factory first opened. Julius had a twin brother named Commodus who was very controlling. Commodus initially encouraged Julius to forge a close relationship with Wonka and gain his trust in order to steal his recipes/inventions. Commodus was unaware the relationship turned romantic. When he found out, he was very, shall we say, pissed off. And so he killed Julius in a fit of rage and then impersonated him. Commodus knew that Wonka was beginning to suspect what was going on, so he went to him and pretended to apologize. Wonka accepted his apology and was going to help "Julius" escape his twin's wrath. However Commodus, who throughout the conversation has had trouble controlling his temper, suddenly turns and commits a horrible act to punish Wonka for being romantically involved with Julius. Wonka escapes before Commodus can kill him, too, but never realizes the whole time it was Commodus, not Julius. Oh yeah, and Julius's and Commodus's last name is Slugworth.
-Somewhere in here I make a note of how Wonka traveled to a lot of obscure locations after he closed his factory. He found a little island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where the Oompa-Loompas originated. He was unaware at the time it was a government genetic testing facility of sorts, and he had effectively broken in and stole one of their projects. It took the government a while to figure out who it was, so that's why they took a decade and a half to find Francis and request her services.
-Quick basics on Francis: she is an assassin who runs 17th St. Tea and Confectionary as a cover. She grew up in a wealthy family that could afford to send her to a top culinary school, so she actually is very good. Too bad she fell in with the criminal world.
-After the Annual Culinary Convention, Francis realizes she has a problem, er, crush. It quickly evolves into a sort of obsession. She does some deep research and uncovers everything about Wonka and his past life, as well as the truth about Julius and Commodus.
-The Buckets invite Francis to dinner in the factory and she asks Wonka out to dinner in front of the family because she knows the Buckets will force him to go. The Buckets think their rivalry is cute, but the truth is Wonka deeply hates Francis.
-They don't end up going to dinner, but rather Francis takes him to a four-story house in the country where Commodus is lying low. She thinks exacting revenge on Commodus for what he did to Wonka will make Wonka like her. Unfortunately Commodus is more crafty than Francis gives him credit for, and still harbours a huge grudge against Wonka.
-Everything might have been fine except for Francis's obsessive "love" for Wonka. They get into a fight and Francis makes an attempt on Commodus's life, but he corners her on the edge of the roof. Francis has a choice: she can walk away or she can take her only chance to kill Commodus by falling off the roof, which would be lethal to her as well, as Commodus is sure to drag her down with him. She, being the obsessive-borderline-insane woman she is, chooses the latter option. Wonka assumes they are both dead and goes back to the factory.
EPILOGUE
He doesn't remember in aching detail those minutes when Francis stood on top of that decrepit old building and dull thud when they hit the ground. He has erased that day from his memory, and all the other days with Francis, too.
Francis remembers those moments too, in those rare moments she is conscious. Most of the time she is unconscious, gone with drugs or the rush of murder or as of late, pain. Last summer she was captured by a terrorist group and tortured for information. Well, she won't talk and they won't kill her because she's the only one who knows, so she figures they can go on this way forever.
Charlie doesn't know what happened to Francis, but 17th St. Tea and Confectionary is shut now, and he hasn't seen her since the dinner. As far as Wonka goes, he pretends he never met her. Charlie still misses Francis, but by now it is only a dull ache in the middle of his chest.
Time heals some wounds.
Finite.