A/N: So here we are at the last chapter...
Six months later, Andreas stood outside the entrance to the Chocolate Room with his brothers. All three were dressed in traditional Greek clothes: a white long sleeved shirt with wide sleeves, black belt, black vest, white kilt, white stockings, and red shoes. Andreas and Nomiki were bareheaded while Filippos wore a red beret. Andreas also noticed that the oompa-loompas, who had made all their clothes, had used the traditional cotton for his brothers' outfits but used satin for his.
"You boys look wonderful." the voice of their mother, Despoina, caused them to turn around. She, too, was dressed traditionally. She wore a long, sleeveless black dress with a scoop neck, revealing the white long sleeved shirt underneath. She also wore a long sleeved black jacket with gold embroidery around the sleeves, shoulders, and hem. A gold belt encircled her waist and a necklace of gold coins was around her neck. On her head she wore a yellow and black scarf. She also wore white stockings and black high heeled shoes.
"Mother," Nomiki said, "You're beautiful."
"Thank you," Despoina said, blushing slightly.
"Shall we?" Andreas asked, indicating the door. The other three nodded. Andreas unlocked and opened the Chocolate Room door.
Inside the room, they could see the oompa-loompas dressed in their traditional clothing sitting on the swudge grass in two groups, creating an aisle through which the four of them walked. Off to one side, Andreas saw Charlie, his family, and Willy's father. Andreas turned his attention forward and smiled at his adopting father, Willy Wonka, who smiled back at him. Willy was dressed in his usual outfit of plum red velvet coat, black top hat, black vest and pants, multicolored shirt, and purple latex gloves which were folded over the top of his cane. On Willy's left side was the chief of the oompa-loompas in a black suit and white shirt, who was standing on a raised pillar and would lead the ceremony. Andreas, his brothers, and his mother went to the left side of the oompa-loompa and stood in a row. Wilbur walked over and took his place on Willy's right side. The oompa-loompa smiled and the ceremony began.
"You have gathered here today in a moment of union and transition in the life of this child," the oompa-loompa began, "whom you all love, and whose life will always be entwined with all of yours. Today, you mark the entrustment of this child by his birth mother, Despoina, and his birth siblings, Nomiki and Filippos, to Willy Wonka, to be his father, and Wilber Wonka to be his grandfather. A proverb of our people says that 'It is children that make relations.' This proverb certainly holds true for all of you here, for this child's birth and adoption link together your once-separate families. It also breaks years of estrangement from the biological families for both Willy and Andreas and makes a chance to forge new and stronger ties. May it be so."
"It will be so," Willy, Wilbur, Andreas, Nomiki, Filippos, and Despoina all said.
"Despoina Kostakis," the oompa-loompa continued, "You had to make a great and difficult decision once in your life for the survival of your family. Here and now you do so again, this time for the happiness of your son, Andreas. In your desire to do your best for your family, you built a bridge for Andreas into a life with his new and forever father. By his birth and life, and by the decisions you have made, you will always be linked to one another and to Andreas. Willy, in having taken Andreas in as your foster child and heir and then deciding to adopt him, you are linked to them." The oompa-loompa then turned to Andreas and his family. "Despoina, Nomiki, and Filippos Kostakis, do you here and forever entrust Andreas to this family?"
"We do," they answered.
The oompa-loompa then turned to Willy and his father. "And Willy and Wilbur Wonka, do you here and forever embrace Andreas, who will be known from now on as Andrew, into your family, to love and care for him, always and forever?"
"We do," they answered.
"Just as many streams - known and unknown, small and large - contribute to a river's strength and course," the oompa-loompa continued, "so too the course of this life to come will be shaped, in part, by its many tributaries. Andreas is a birth child; he is an adopted child. He is the son of Despoina Kostakis, and of Willy Wonka. He is little brother to Filippos Kostakis, big brother to Nomiki Kostakis, and grandson to Wilbur Wonka."
"Andreas," Despoina said, touching her son's shoulder, "I have something for you." She pulled out a round golden ring, filled inside with swirls hung on a gold chain. A Circle of Life, which was a symbol of luck in Greek culture. This she put around Andreas' neck. "I wish you happiness and luck in your life, my son," she said. She hugged him. "I love you, and will always love you. Even when I had to put you into foster care, I loved you."
"I love you too, Mother," Andreas said, pulling away. "Even when I thought you didn't love me because you had abandoned me, I loved you. I always will."
"Andreas Kostakis," the oompa-loompa said, holding out one hand, "It is now time for you to come forward, join your new family, and receive your new name: Andrew Wonka."
Andreas walked forwards, his mother's hand on his shoulder until she could no longer reach him. He saw Willy reach out one arm and, as he walked closer, Willy put his arm around his shoulders. "Welcome to the family, son," Willy said, giving Andreas' shoulders a squeeze.
"Thanks, Dad," Andreas replied, smiling up at him.
"I promise that I will love you as much as your birth family does," Willy said, his voice carrying. "In fact...I already do! That is why I decided to adopt you in the first place. I, too, have a gift for you." With that, he turned and gave the oompa-loompa call. One of the oompa-loompas in the audience came forwards, carrying a dark blue package. Willy picked it up and let it unfold itself, showing it to be a coat in the same style as his own except smaller. Willy then draped it about Andreas' shoulders. Andreas grinned and put his arms through the sleeves. Willy then waved Despoina, Filippos, and Nomiki forward, pulling something out of the pocket of his coat. "Andrew and I want you to be able to visit us whenever you can," he said. "These are keys to the side gate of the factory. You have earned them. Use them well."
"And you," Despoina said, tucking her key into a pocket of her dress, "I hope the two of you will come and visit us whenever you can, too."
"Willy, Wilbur, Andrew, Despoina, Filippos, and Nomiki," the oompa-loompa said, finishing the ceremony, "May you go forth in peace and comfort, and remember always this day of union." With that, he climbed down off the stand, signaling the end of the ceremony.
Charlie jumped up and raced over to his friend, tackling him in a joyous hug as music suddenly struck up.
"What are the oompa-loompas doing?" Despoina voiced what almost everyone was wondering.
Willy smiled. "They're going to give us a little song. I'm not surprised they decided to sing today. It is a special occasion, after all."
"When we first met Andreas,
We didn't know
Just how much our love for him,
Would grow.
"He became our friend
On that we could depend
Our joy became whole
When he settled into his role
"We saw Willy's pride in him
And the parental gleam
Grow day by day
One day to fulfill Andreas' biggest dream
"We watched as he struggled and fought
With inner demons, which were brought
To light because of a letter
But now they're gone, and things are better
"And so today, to Andrew we say,
In our own special way
Welcome to the family!"
Andreas smiled at the end of the song as the oompa-loompas gathered around, cheering. "Thanks guys," he said.