A/N: Hey everyone! This is my first story. Woot Woot! I loved how it turned out and so I thought that I would post this and see what you all thought of it. For the proposes of my story Lucy doesn't exist, and it's based off of Tim Berton's Sweeny Todd! Please tell me what you think, likes dislikes and if you want me to continue! R&R please, and here we go!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for the plot and the lovely Juliana!

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Seeing the dead bodies on the floor of her room Juliana couldn't help but go numb. The numbing started in her brain she just stud there nothing going though her head as she staring at the closest body nearest to her feet with a blank emotionless expression on her pale face. The numbing started moving to her neck and into her shoulders and arms slowly ever so slowly she felt it take hold of her heart as she blinked for the first time in the eternity of a second. Suddenly, painfully the numbness took over the rest of her body and finally releases her mind. Her first thought is to run and hide from the horrid scene in front of her but as she attempts to turn she moves forward instead.

Much to her dismay Juliana found herself kneeling down to the man that was now next to her feet. Her arm reaches out for the body even though she was mentally screaming for her body to stop. Her hand didn't listen to her however; the body moved lifelessly as she turned it over to see it was the baker who lived next door to her. She started to straiten up and her feet started to move. This sad thought reached her from the depth of her mind. She also realizes that the floor is completely covered with blood that flows from all of the throats of the bodies. The next body she didn't need to even need to turn it over to know who it was. She knew it was her courtier Johnny and next to him was her best friend Blake. She flipped them over in total numbness both of their throats were slit and their faces were bruised as if they were beaten before they were killed.

As she slowly walked around the now deceased she sadly noted that they were all the men that she saw on a regular basis whether it was in the market place or from her close family or her friends. In her now ragging mind she was balling, choking on her breath but her body just stood there smirking. As if she was happy this happened! If anyone had been there to witness what was happening to her they would have told you she was a completely heartless and cold woman. Yet that wasn't true, all she could think about was who could have done this to her? Why? Where were they now? How would she live any longer knowing that they were dead? In her panicked state of mind she hadn't realize she started talking to something, no not something someone!

"So are you satisfied with yourself?" as her body smiles to itself knowing the murderer was still in the bedroom.

'Oh my god how could I say something like that!?' she screams to herself hoping this reality is not so real.

She felt her body turn to face the person who stood in the shadows of the room so she couldn't see his face. In that deathly slow moment there was nothing but silence. Then out of nowhere the man starts laughing a dark and sinister laugh that sent shivers of what she hoped was fear down her spine but to her surprise her throat let out a chuckle just as evil as the other that was now perfectly harmonized with hers. As their laughing fit slowed he stepped into the pale moon light the first thing that caught her eye was a white stripe in the front of an other wise full head of midnight black hair. Then as she studied his facial fetchers she saw a very pale man with reddish black circles around his dead black eyes. Those eyes she could never forget yet she couldn't place them. His pale lips open as he starts speaking.

"Did you miss me my pet? Because I certainly have missed you these passed fifteen years." He said coolly looking grim and slightly sad all at the same time. As his words hit her ears she couldn't have been more confused who was this man and why did her body want to touch him so much, why did she want to hold him close and cry to him. He must have realized what was happening to her because he looked like he was honestly sad at how she couldn't remember him.

"I guess it is to be expected that you don't remember me. I was just a simple barber that lived in the meat pie show that your sister owned." He sighed and slowly started pacing back and forth. She guessed he was trying to fid a way to make her remember him.

As she watched him pace she started to remember some painful memories that she hid away and never thought about again, her sister always known for her awful meat pies and the barbershop up the stairs. Her sister telling her about how happy she was to live near a man called Benjamin Barker. Slowly that memory started to fade and a new one came to her mind. She had just arrived in London after living in France for three years studying the language and the culture. She remembered the large window and the man standing there staring down at her as she hurriedly went into her sister's meat pie stop to greet her sister and to get out of the rain. Her sister was so existed to see her; Nellie had said that she was going to ask Mr. Barker if he wanted to marry her. However Nellie knew that, that was looked down upon and wanted her approval first. To make sure that she was making the right move. Again the memory faded and a new one started.

"'Ello miss, How may I help you today?" the barber asked with a kind smile.

"Hello sir, its nice to meet you. My sister owns the shop under yours and she wanted us to get acquainted because I'll be moving in and there is no time like the present, as I always say!" she giggles at the face he made because of how forward she was. When she finally stopped laughing at how confused he was she noticed that he was rather a handsome man. 'No wonder Nellie wants to marry him is the best looking man I have ever seen.' She giggled to herself at the thought but was drawn out of her world again when he started to speak.

"Miss would you mind telling me your name?"

"Oh do forgive my poor manners Mr. Barker. My name is Juliana Lovett. As I said earlier I am moving in with Nellie and thought I would poke around and see if there was anything to be concerned about." I said matter a facilely blushing slightly at my own foolishness.

"There is nothing to fear your sister is safe as long as I'm around. I am on good terms with the law and I have always looked out for my dear neighbors and their beautiful sisters. Would you like the grand tour of London? I hear I am a great escort from your dear sister." He stated with a beautiful smile.

"I would love to go. We can take Nellie with us and you both can show me around!" She grins from ear to ear as she thinks of how clever she is and how this would be the perfect time for Nellie to ask Mr. Benjamin Barker to marry her…

She gasps as her mind swells with the memories of the happy months that the three of them shared.

"Ben is that you?" she asks hopeful that it was her long lost friend. He stops his pacing and looks at her with a smile but the emotion never reached his black dead eyes.

"This is his body, yes but he is dead now. Sadly he was separated form his love, Lucy and he never came back. That's why I'm here now." He stated without a hint of remorse in his voice.

Filled with sudden joy to know that he wasn't dead she started to run to him but tripped over Blake's body and started to fall but as she came closer to the ground she braced herself the impact that never came because two strong arms came and caught her around the waist. Then it hit her like a brick wall that Ben her Ben killed these kind people. She started to sob as he held her and let her weep. Suddenly she got so mad that she started hitting him. He then dropped her in his own furry.

"Why," she whispered "Why Ben? Why did you kill them?" she asked so calmly and so darkly that it scared her to the bone.

"Because they all wanted one thing from you and I couldn't let them have it." He stated with that blank face of his.

" But Ben…"

He cut her off when he yelled "NO! GET THIS IN YOUR HEAD! MY NAME IS NOT BENJAMIN BARKER ANY MORE!" he took a claming breath and said "its Todd, Sweeney Todd!" he finished glaring at the woman before him.

She started yelling on the top of her lungs at him but she didn't know what she was saying all she knew was that her heart was beating in her head so loud that she swore he could hear it. He must not have because his face changed into one of madness and destruction. As she saw this ever thing started moving so slow as all her memories came before her. She saw her sister laughing and playing. She saw the streets of London as they had their tour, she saw Ben getting dragged away by the police, she saw her room filled with people and objects of her life but the last thing she saw was the smile on Ben's face as he laughed with her.

The next thing she knew she had her back on the ground with Sweeney startling her and his beautiful silver razor blade to her throat and his lips next to her ear. He slowly pressed his razor into her throat as he whispers gruffly, "This is the world we live in the ones we love get taken away but as the world moves on I find myself wishing you hadn't left me behind."

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End… or is it? Let me know what you want! I would love to get some feedback, I will take sugestions and coments. NO FLAMES!! OH, and cookies to those who reveiw! ;p