fandomtownies | Wonka Sweets Shoppe

Kiki, on her errands about town, stops by. "Hello, Mr. Wonka," she says as she walks in.

"Good morning, Kiki," Wonka says, looking up from the chocolates he's stacking into his arms. "How are you this wonderful day?"

"Very well, thank you," she answers. "I just came in to buy a few chocolate truffles, if I might. Things have seemed quiet over this way. No orders?"

"Certainly, my dear." Wonka puts his pile down, and goes to find a bag to put the truffles in. He looks sadly over at Kiki. "No, no orders. And my employees have mysteriously disappeared." He contemplates something. "Do you think I should advertise more? Perhaps the good people of this town do not realise how fantastic my products are?"

"I don't see how they couldn't!" Kiki grins, forking over some money and eating one truffle immediately. "Maybe put up ads for new help, at any rate, if the ones you have aren't reliable. Oh, here's an idea! Have a giant Halloween sale - biggest candy holiday of the year, you know."

[ooc: somehow, it's become Kiki's personal mission to make all the neglected professors and shop owners feel loved, heh]

Wonka brightens when she mentions Halloween. "Oh wait here a second!" he says, before disappearing into the back of the shop. He comes back out again a little later, carrying eyeballs (http://tentative.net/sascha/jake/fandomhigh/wonka/halloween/eyeballs.jpg) and rats (http://tentative.net/sascha/jake/fandomhigh/wonka/halloween/blackrat.jpg). He holds them up for Kiki to see. "Do you think these will be popular? I have more too!"

"Ooh, excellent," Kiki exclaims. "Those should be big sellers. Is there any way you could make the rats run around a little? Or bat candies that really fly! Marshmallow ghosts that float?"

Wonka puts down the eyeballs on the counter, and pokes a rat. It lies there limp. He shakes his head at Kiki. "No, I don't think I can manage that. ...Do you know anyone who could?"

"If I knew more magic," Kiki says slowly, and shakes her head. "That would be beyond what I can do right now... but there are lots of other witches and wizards and people with powers at the school You could advertise for someone creative and able to enchant sugar."

"You are full of good ideas today!" Wonka beams happily. "I think I shall do that. It would certainly bright just an extra little sparkle to my products -- not that they need it of course, but it could be fun. And candy? Should be fun."

"Yes, it should," Kiki agrees emphatically. "Glad I could be of help. I hope business picks up for you soon." Kiki tucks her bag of truffles into her bag.

Tonks walked into the shop, looking around with a wonder much like that of a young child. "Wow..." she breathed, eyes bright as she examined a large display. "This place is brilliant..."

"Hello, young miss!" Wonka pops out from behind a stack of chocolates piled into a pyramid. "Thank you very much! Do you want to buy something?"

"Of course!" Tonks's eyes brightened - literally, changing to a flamboyant gold color. She wandered over to examine a shelf by him - and tripped, stumbling over the corner of the chocolate box pyramid. It didn't fall, though a few boxes were knocked from the side. "Sorry!" She said, turning a faint pink as she bent to pick up the boxes.

"Oh, don't worry about it. My chocolates are sturdy, they can take it." He regarded her curiously. "Are you new, miss?"

"Yeah!" She grinned and replaced the boxes, her slight unease replaced by a kind of easy friendliness. "My name's Tonks. Well...Nymphadora Tonks, but I like Tonks better."

"Lovely name," Wonka complimented her, and held out a gloved hand for her to take. "I am Willy Wonka and this is my fantastic empire of chocolate! ...Well, it's not an empire, yet," he admitted. "But it will be!"

She smiled, and shook his hand. "It's wonderful," she admitted, "We don't have anything like this where I'm from - it's all things like blood-flavored lollipops and jellybeans where you don't know what you're going to get... I've gotten earwax and pepper flavored ones," she laughed, rubbing her neck. "But this..." she gestured, "this is all so much more magical."

Wonka stared at her, blinking. "...Blood-flavoured..?" He looked a little worried. "I never thought of blood-flavour. It didn't seem quite... sweet-y. Do you think I should include it? " Then he brightened and looked hopeful. "Are you magical?"

"Yeah, I am," she confirmed casually, then considered, "Maybe you should include them. I think we might have some vampires in town. It's likely, at least." She ran a hand through her hair, pushing it away from her face.

"There could be vampires," Wonka agreed. He looked hopeful. "Are you magical, in a way that means you can make my rats wiggle or something? Kiki was by earlier and she thought that that might help."

"Hmm..." Looking thoughtful, Tonks reached into the pocket of her robes and pulled out her wand. She made a half-hearted effort to wipe the fingerprints off the oak wood with her sleeve, before holding it more carefully. "I can try!" She said firmly. "I don't think it would be too hard."

"Fantastic!" Wonka made his way over to the shelf with the rats on, picked one up and walked back to Tonks, holding the rat (http://tentative.net/sascha/jake/fandomhigh/wonka/halloween/blackrat.jpg) out towards her. "Can you make it do something interesting?"

She took it into her left hand, pointing the tip of her wand at it. "Ennervate!" She commanded cheerfully. The rat, now giving off an aura of red and black light, scampered up her sleeve, and lit for a brief moment on her shoulder, before scurrying across to her right arm. Tonks laughed, and scooped the rat up with her free hand. It might have been only candy, but it felt warm in her hand, and gave the appearance of actually breathing. "Is this okay?" She asked, looking at the glowing gummy in her hand.

Wonka stared at her, then at the rat, then back at Tonks. "...Do you want a job?"

"I would love that." She agreed easily, eyes bright.

"Fantastic! When can you start?" Wonka's current delight is on level with finding some rare, marvellous cocoa beans.

"Yesterday," She offered impishly. "Anytime is good for me, really," She added.

Wonka blinked. "I don't think we're allowed to go back in time. But tomorrow would be good! You could get a key and open the shop and everything!"

"I could?" Her grin was enthusiastic, "That would be brilliant. I'll do my best!"

Wonka Sweets Shoppe - OPEN

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