Sweeney's Pet (or: A better world with bloodstained shades)


Au - I did not read the full book yet! So the plot follows the story line as seen in Burton's movie. What would happy if Mrs. Lovett had a daughter? The only way to work towards a happy ending for everyone! .;;

Fandoms: Sweeney Todd; The demon Barber of Fleet Street
Disclaimer: I don't own Sweeney Todd or anything of it. I did make up Lilly Lovett, but that doesn't really count, does it?
Warnings: LEMONY stuff in here! So under 18? Don't read! Lemon will develop further on. Also includes a new character (oc) but if you like Sweeney X Lovett that won't bother you.
Pairings: Sweeny Todd X Miss Lovett, Antony Hope X Johanna, (Implied: Sweeney Todd X Mrs. Lovett, Tobias X Mrs. Lovett, Tobias X Pirelli )
Summary: When Sweeney Todd moves in, Mrs. Lovett loses her heart to him and she vows she will do anything for him. Mr. Todd, however, cannot think of anything else than taking revenge on the Judge who is the reason for all his misery and even Mrs. Lovett attempts to make him happy only leave him irritated. Following the plot of Burton's movie, there's one person who can help them all towards a happy ending, even when she doesn't know it herself. Because Sweeney Todd has unintentionally laid his eyes on Lilly Lovett, Mrs. Lovett's daughter who is just a little bit older than Johanna.


Intro:


She leaned forward and gazed outside the window.

Her eyes followed the people who walked by and she studied them carefully.

It was a strange thing, but then again it were hard times.

The sixteen year old Lilly Lovett looked at the small, hard piece of pie that was still left on the dusty plate and she sighed.

" 'Ot's the matter, Love? You sh'ld be 'appy, don't give me such a sad frown." Mrs. Lovett bend forward and hugged her daughter.

Business wasn't going swell and since they hardly had any money to life on Mrs. Lovett had only be able to bake a very uneatable pie for her daughter's birthday. "Owh," she groaned while hugging her daughter close to her, "I wanted to bake you a special big pie, with fruit and sugar and candles." She nudged her daughter who had to giggle at that. "But whot d'ya know, the store was closed." She joked and a small smile crept on Lilly's face. "I know, ma." She replied softly.

Mrs. Lovett hugged her daughter even closer and began to caress her daughters hair. She didn't knew what was going on with her daughter. She guessed it must have been the weather that made everyone a bit depressed these days and of course the fact that they were so poor. 'It must be really hard for her to see these other girls in the street with their nice dresses.' Mrs. Lovett thought and a tears formed in her eyes.

In reality it wasn't just the bad circumstances that made Lilly upset, but also the strange feeling she had all week. The feeling like something bad was going to happen and the feeling that things would never be the same again.


Chapter One; I


The woman had been very kind to him to offer him a place to stay. She even had kept his razors through all the years while she could have sold them and made a lot of money out of it. If she had done that she wouldn't been living here anymore, she could have bought herself a more luxurious house and she would have been able to feed herself and her daughter more properly.

Indeed, Mr Todd mused, Mrs. Lovett was quite skinny.

He studied his Razors one by one.

It was only this morning that Mrs. Lovett had offered him a place to stay and had returned his razors to him. He was thankful for that. He vaguely remembered the woman from when he'd lived here with his beautiful wife Lucy. He remembered her gawking at him when they did some shopping once, not long before he had been caught and falsely trialled. Oh! How he missed Lucy. Sweeney hugged himself at the memory and closed his eyes. His breathing got slower and he managed to push the memory of his beloved Lucy away. After all, she was dead now. Mrs. Lovett had told him she had poisoned herself. At these thoughts Todd felt an incredible bulge of energy bubbling inside of him. The spirit of revenge was making its way upwards in him and the thought of tasting the victory of revenge and to feel the dead skin of the judge who had caused him all this misery was overwhelming him. A soft knock on the door disturbed his thoughts and he turned around to scowl a low raspy "Come in.". The door opened and the remarkable resemblance of Mrs. Lovett entered the room.

"I came to bring you a kettle. In case you want to make yourself some tea." The soft whispering voice said.

Sweeney followed the young girl's movements with his eyes never leaving her frame. She had a remarkable resemblance to her mother. The same brown-reddish hair, the same kind of face and she was wearing the same kind of dress as her mother as well. He tried to remember Mrs. Lovett in all detail. After all, the woman had been standing very close to him when she had returned his razors. He could even remember the woman's smell. 'Not a very pleasant one.'

The young girl put the kettle on the table in an elegant manner and Todd concluded that she had to be a tad smaller than her mother. He reached out a hand to her and beckoned her to come closer but she put her arms on her back and stepped further away from him. 'Shy, huh?' Sweeny thought as he gestured her once again with his hand to come a bit closer. 'A sweet, shy, decent thing.' He mused as he watched the girl look at him with confusion all over her face.

"Now, I don't bite." Sweeny managed to say with a rough voice. "But I believe we haven't had a proper introduction yet." The girl gave him a small smile and stepped forward, convinced by his words. She shook his hand and slightly bowed at him.

"I'm so terribly sorry." The girl murmured softly. "I totally forgot to introduce myself to you."

Her face reddened a bit.

'Is she blushing?' Todd gave her a pet on the head.

"It's all right. You must be Lilly then? Mrs. Lovett's daughter." He said with a cheeky smile.

"That I am, Sir." She replied. Her hands were hanging loosely at her sides but Sweeney couldn't help to notice that she was making soft movements with her hands. The movements she made were ever so slowly. She was softly grasping the material of her dress. 'As if she's nervous.' Sweeney Todd let his eyes rest on her hands for a moment, his mouth was opened just a little and his breathing was the only thing to be heard.

He finally stood up from the old chair that Mrs. Lovett so kindly had offered to him since after her deceased husband she had no use for it anymore.

"Well, tell you what, Lilly," He began while turning on his heels to face the window that showed a marvellous view of the town, "You can tell your mother I'm very pleased with all she's done for me." He leaned against the window bars and softly glanced to his side where he saw Lilly standing not more than a few feet away from him.

"Will you do that for me?" He questioned with puppy eyes.

'My weak acting has improved.' He complimented himself while watching the girl smile at him and bowing again she whispered an "Of course, Mr. Todd." before she left his room. Sweeney watched her leave the room and then focused his attention on the town in front of him.

He needed to take revenge on the judge, that was his priority now.

But somehow he couldn't help but notice a soft throbbing in his pants.

He grumbled under his breath 'This can't be true.'


"And, what d'ya think, hun?" Nellie said as she was kneading the flower for her pies. Every now and then she would flatten a hideous and gigantic cockroach. "Mr. Todd seems a rather nice fell'w, doesn't he?" she looked up from her work and smiled at her daughter.

"Yes, ma." Lilly answered, her eyes studied her mother for a moment and Lilly noticed that something had changed. But she couldn't get a grip on what had changed exactly. So she fumbled at her dress and shyly announced that Mr. Todd had asked her to compliment her mother. At the mention of his name Lilly thought she saw a reddish colour appear on her mother's face.

"I'd do anything for you, Mr. Todd" That's what her mother had said to him. She knew this to be true. When the barber had arrived the day before she hadn't seen him. She had been out, on a mission that was given to her by her mother, to investigate the peculiar business of Mrs. Mooney who also had a pie shop in London. It had already been evening when she returned home and she'd gone to bed early. But because of the eerie feeling that grew stronger and stronger she hadn't been able to sleep. And thus she had heard Mr. Todd talk with her mother who had apparently offered him to stay and had returned him his razors. She had overheard a conversation between the two but hadn't been able to fully hear everything said.

And now it hit her, her mother was in love.

Lilly felt a strange feeling arise inside of her, a feeling of happiness. Her mother had been so sad and so alone when Mr. Lovett had died. Lilly thought her mother deserved a little love. Even if she thought Mr. Todd to be a scary man, perhaps she was wrong. Perhaps Mr. Todd was indeed the loving barber who had lived here more than fifteen years ago as the stories told. And perhaps her mother and Mr. Todd would marry and they would form a happy family.

To Lilly Lovett, making other people happy was one of the most important things in life.


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Au - How did you like the interlude? 'Why would anyone attempt to write a lemon fic like this? ' I hear you all ask. The answer is simple, Because I really wanted to write a Lovett X Todd fic with lots of lemons in it but then I noticed that in reality Mr. Todd wouldn't be able to ever love Mrs. Lovett enough to let the story end happily. Because that was my aim too, A Sweeney Todd fic with a happy ending for most of it's characters without having the plot ruined. And that's when I decided that a younger Mrs. Lovett who's a little shyer might be the solution! And here it is! The first part of it done and the first 'dirty' lemony part is already half-written on my PC. So expect more of it (I know this part was quite innocent but the story has just started XD). Review!

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Unless you really hated it XD