Epiphany RS Remix

By: RT

Disclaimer: I do not own either Saga of Darren Shan or the Lyrics to the Sweeney Todd song 'Epiphany'.

Author's Note: Just to make it easier the cast goes as: Rory; Sweeney Todd, Steve; Mrs. Lovette. So some of the dialogue will seem out of place for some characters but I wanted to keep as much of the original lyrics as possible. Also if you notice any errors of the spelling or gramatical kind let me know please.

Rory Hollis stormed out of the doors that lead to the roof, she pushed it opened so rough it banged hard against the wall. It was such a loud noise that it would have bothered anyone if there had been someone living on the top floor.

"All this running and shouting about, what's happened?" Steve asked as he was coming up behind her.
Rory didn't acknowledge him at first and walked up to the edge of the roof and leaned over the side and looked down at the street below.
"No I had her! Her throat was there beneath my hand. I had her! Her throat was there and now she'll never come again!" she yelled and banged her hands against the edges.

"Easy now, hush love hush I keep telling you..." Steve started but she cut him off

"When? Why do I wait?" She asked aloud and then swiftly turned around and took several steps toward Steve.
"You told me to wait! Now she'll never come again." she turned around and walked back over towards the edge again and looked down. "There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with shit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it." she mumbled to herself but Steve hear it very clearly.
"But not for long..." she laughed to herself.

"They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Leonard, tell you why. Because in all of the whole human race Leonard, there are two kinds of men and only two. There's the one they put in his proper place and the one with his foot in the other one's face. Look at me, Leonard, look at you." Rory said as she looked down at the people walking down the street, they looked so small and insignificant. She climbed up and stood on the edge like she was going to jump, but she kept her balance and continued to watch.

"Now we all deserve to die even you Leonard...even I, because the lives of the wicked should be made brief.
For the rest of us death will be a relief we all deserve to die."

"And I'll never see Darren; no I'll never hold my love to me - finished!"
Then without warning she stepped forward and slipped off the edge, she fell towards the ground. It looked like she was going to hit the ground but a few feet shy of the ground she twisted her body so she fell upright and landed softly on her feet. She straightened herself up and slowly walked over to a man who was making his was down the street. As she walked she pulled out a switchblade and quickly flicked it open with a flick of her wrist.
"Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?" She was standing in front of him with the blade pointing to his throat, but he continued on as if he didn't see her so she walked over to the next nearest person. "Come and visit your good friend Rory." It seems no one paid attention to Rory as she walked up to one person after another. "You sir, you sir? Welcome to the grave."

Then she turned in the middle of the street and spun around in a slow circle.
"I will have vengeance. I will have salvation." she yelled and it rang out and echoed about.
"Who sir, you sir?" She asked quickly turning to a pedestrian walking past her.
"No one in the chair, come on! Come on! Rory's waiting. I want you bleeders." she snarled and started following someone but stopped and went after another.
"You sir - anybody. Gentlemen don't be shy!" she called as they all walked passed her.

She walked over to a light post and climbed on it so she could see over the heads of everyone walking by. She swung around the light post and laughed.
"Not one man, no, no ten men. Not a hundred can assuage me -I will have you! And I will get her back even as she gloats in the meantime I'll practice on dishonorable throats. And my love lies in ashes and I'll never see my Darren again."

"But the work waits! I'm alive at last! And I'm full of joy!" She yelled, standing on the edge on the roof again as if nothing had happened. Which it didn't, falling over the edge and talking to the humans below had all been in her imagination. Steve walked over and sat down on the edge and looked over at the view below.

"So what do you think we should do next?" He asked as the two of them looked down at the world.