AN: This is my second fan-fic, derived from the amazing movie Sweeny Todd. I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1

The smoke from the chimneys made the London sky look bleaker than usual. A gaunt looking woman holding hands with a meek and pale boy walk down a dirty alley.

"Mum, 'here are we going?" asked the boy. Tear stains were on his face, a torn and bloody knee smarted deeply. "Y-you know, we h-have been liv-ing on th-the streets for awhile. I know h-how hard it is f-f-for you, and t-that's w-why mummy's going to m-make it better."

She gave a toothless grin at the boy, eyes hazy from the vast amounts of opium she drinks. Her eyes focused on his injury, the smile now a grim frown. "I am sorry about t-the injury, b-but y-you know n-not to wake up my c-customers when t-they sleeping, they get v-violent and hurt y-you s-so…" the woman's eyes fill with tears as she remembers the horrors her clients inflicted on to her precious son.

She wants to push them away, to break their legs and shatter their ribcages in two. But she knows she can't, for they pay so generously for her body, she can actually give her son a warm meal for the day, even a week for most.

"That's ok mum; for you know, no one will hurt when I'm around. Isn't that right?" the boy whispered to is mum, squeezing her cold hand tightly.

"Yes, y-yes that's right. Y-you're my little a-angel," the mother sang to the boy. The pair arrived in front of the Thames River, thick and sluggish from all the sewage in it. The woman embraced the boy in an unyielding hug, and grabbed his shoulders steadfastly. "I-I want y-you to know T-Toby, that I love y-you a w-whole lot…ok. Just Remember t-that," the woman whispered in his ear.

Toby beamed a huge smile on his face, "O 'course mum, why wouldn't forget that?"

"That's g-good, s-such a good b-boy; t-to bad his life w–was so short…" she muttered to herself. Toby frowned, "What are you-!"

Toby felt the cold water pierce his body like glass daggers. The woman's hands held him down as he began to take on water, his vision beginning to blur. He opened his mouth to scream, but only swallowed more water. His limbs began to leaden, movements more lethargic. He barely felt the woman release him as he lost conciseness, black was all he saw…

The woman sighed, relived that someone could now take proper care of her son. "Don't w-worry Toby, Mummy's going to find you as soon as she can…" this was repeated into the night air as the woman walked away.

"Hey! Hey! Oi, you all right boy?" The light from the lantern pierced Toby's eyes as observed his surroundings. An old man kneeled over him, hands were gnarled and a long scar ran across his face from eye to neck. Toby was on the docks, chilled to the bone from the water; his mother was nowhere to be seen. He slowly got up, throwing up a quart of water on the way. "Please sir, d-did you happen to see a woman walk away from here when you helped found me?"

"Nope, sorry boy. Only ones that were here were me, you and God Almighty," the man said to Toby. "Say son, do you have any family? Relatives or such?" the man asked Toby, his eyes full of anticipation and a hint of malice. At first, Toby was going to say yes and tell him about his mother and how wonderful she was; but then he felt coldness deep within his heart. Angry thoughts raced across his mind, 'No mother in their right mind would kill their child! Mother never loved me, she probably had me to take the loneliness away…If she wanted to be gone from me, and then I shall! From this moment forth, I have no Family!'

"No sir! I have no family of such!" Toby exclaimed; his once youthful eyes now hardened into stone.

"Good boy, I think I might have a place for you to stay, for you to play with children all your age," The old man giggled and sinister smirk flitted across his face. He held out his hand as if offering Toby a letter, his eye bore into him like magnets. Toby stared at his hand for a full minute and gave his hand to the man.

The pair, hand in hand, walked off the docks and into the London mist.

AN: I plan on making this a multichaptered story and putting my own spin on some of the events. I hoped you liked it, please review :).