Title: Mello and the Chocolate Factory
Fandom: Death Note, Charlie/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; crack-fic, gen-fic
Word Count: ~300
Rating: PG(-13 eventually for Mello's mouth)
Summary: L gives Mello a mission to prove his worth as an L successor candidate.
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate the factory and discover the secret behind the production of...this." L held out a fanciful circular object between his index and thumb.
Mello nodded vigorously, holding back the need to jump in the air and shout colourful expletives in joy. This was his chance to finally one-up that bastard with the toy fetish and slightly higher IQ. He’d show his skills and then L would choose him, not Near, as the true successor.
“Very good, then here is the file with all the information we’ve gathered thus far on this operation,” L gestured to a thick file folder with some gold foil peaking out at the edge. “Also included are the back story and personality traits of the character you will be going undercover as. Commit everything to memory and report to Roger’s office tomorrow at 6:00 am. You will meet your partner then.”
L proceeded to pop the round item in his mouth and blinked at the younger boy. Mello knew a dismissal when he saw one; he snapped a semi-serious, mostly jaunty salute and grabbed the folder off the desktop before rushing back to his room, hoping that his partner wasn’t going to be a certain white-haired freak.
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After going through the all the files last night, Mello wasn’t surprised to meet a beautiful older woman at the rendezvous point that morning. L was also there, sitting on a chair in his weird position, munching on a bar of chocolate. Mello gazed at it longingly.
A “Hello, ‘Violet,’ darling,” snapped him out of his daze.
“Good morning, ‘Mother.’”
The woman’s laugh rang out. “Eyes on the prize, dear. We Beauregardes are winners.”
“No need to remind me,” Mello sneered. “Those punks won’t know what hit ‘em.”
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AN: Mello’s partner is Wedie, playing Scarlett Beauregarde. I’ve mixed elements of both the 1971 and 2005 films. Sorry, haven’t read the book.