Hey my first fanfiction! In this Sweeney Todd is joined by the duaghter of his best friend. Will have a different ending. Tell me if you like or not! Thanx!
Todd stood there staring at the ocean. He was on a ship heading back to London, with some pit stops on the way.
His thoughts were filled with Johanna. What does she look like? Is she like her mother? Or me? He hoped she was like Lucy, pale with yellow hair…
Then something out in the sea caught his attention. He squinted trying to see through the thick fog. Then he heard it again.
"Anthony!" He called the young, lively sailor. Anthony Hope came forward.
"Everything alright, Mr. Todd?" He asked.
"Do you hear that?" He asked quickly. Anthony listened and then he did hear something.
"Yes." He nodded his head. "It sounds like something out in the ocean." He then watched the sea even more closely.
Todd kept listening but he again thought of Johanna. Then in the gray sea he saw a child. He squinted at the child, then saw Johanna or what he imagined she would look like as little thing.
Anthony saw her too and yelled, "Man overboard!" Anthony then prepared to jump into the cold ocean when he heard a sploosh!
He turned to see Mister Todd swimming toward the small figure. Another sailor joined Anthony with rope.
Todd swam onward. He ignored the freezing water; he only focused on the child he saw as Johanna. Then the child disappeared under the water.
"No! Johanna!" He called then dived under and grabbed the child and pulled her up to the surface.
Anthony and the other sailors pulled them both up onto the grand ship. Sweeney flopped over to one side as the men surrounded the child, trying to get her to breathe again.
Anthony gently gave Mister Todd a blanket to protect him from the biting wind. Todd grabbed it then walked toward the child. He just managed to see her spite out seawater and roll onto her side.
Then they began to engulf her with questions. Todd pushed past them saying harshly, "Leave her alone! Ask her one question at a time!" Anthony agreed with him, and then they gave the girl some space.
"Where am I? She asked her voice soft.
"On a ship called the 'Bountiful' on the ocean," Anthony said bending down to the girl's height.
"What's your name?" Todd asked. She didn't answer then looked into Todd's eyes.
"Where's my dad? Where did the sailors put him? He was beside me." She asked, her eyes filled with fear.
"Your father?" Anthony asked. She nodded.
"We were in a row boat when it sunk! He was right beside me!" she cried then ran to the side of the ship yelling and screaming, "Daddy! Daddy?" She ran around the ship calling for him with tears streaming down her face.
Anthony and some other sailors got a row boat into the water to look for the girl's absent father.
Todd approached the girl and again thought of his own child. Was she doing this? Running around calling his name?
"You look familiar," Todd commented. She gave him a doubtful look. "No, like I know your family… Can you tell me your dad's name?"
She was silent. She did look very familiar. Her light, dirty blonde hair was familiar; her light, crystal blue eyes were too familiar to be true.
Her eyes moistened. She wiped her nose and held her stomach. Todd looked into her beautiful eyes and asked, "Are you hungry?" She shook her head. "Are you cold?" Again she shook her shorter cut hair. "What do you want?"
She turned to looked at Todd and said with great purpose, "My father."
Then the sailor returned. Todd left the child to go to Anthony. "Did you find him?"
"No, and we looked all around but he's gone." He whispered sadly. Todd left him and returned to the girl.
"I'm sorry but…" His voice failed him and he too became silent. She laid her head into her knees and sobbed quietly.
"Why don't you tell me who you are and I'll tell you who I am, deal?" Todd asked. She nodded.
"My name used to be Cassidy but not anymore." Todd asked why. "My dad spoke out to this judge and he was punished to Australia."
"How does this involve you?" Todd asked.
"I stood up for my dad. I punched the judge and broke his jaw." She had a satisfied smile and Todd was forced to smile, he hadn't smiled for so long.
"Why did your father speak out?"
"My dad was working somewhere and while he was gone his best friend was banished to Australia for a crime he didn't commit. So it took a few years but my father came back and was infuriated that his best friend was gone just so the judge could have his wife!
"My dad called for a relook into the case and it took a few years for the judge to grant his request. By that time I was born and I was told about my dad's friend. So he challenged the judge and was exiled and after I broke the judge's jaw I was exiled too but that judge put holes in our boat!" She looked to be about four years old, Johanna would be seven by now…
"What was your father's friend's name?" His voice was oddly gentle but he understood what she was going through.
"Benjamin Barker. He was exiled seven years ago." She gave a smile and ignored Todd's shocked face. "He has the most beautiful girl! We would play together but then this…" She became lost for words when she looked into his face.
"Mister? Is everything okay?"
"Was your father's name Liam Rite?" Cassidy looked puzzled but nodded. Then she gasped.
"Mr. Barker?" Todd had tears in his eyes. His best friend was dead, in the bottom of the ocean. But he believed his innocence when no one did, he fought for him.
He knew Liam and his wife, Maria, were trying to have another child. A girl they said. So he went to work across seas to make ends work and while he was gone all this happened. Liam had good connections in the city and if Turpin ever accused him with Liam there Liam would have proved him wrong.
He always wondered what Maria would tell him when he returned. If he believed him or fought back. If he ever had a baby girl.
"Cassidy," he murmured as they pushed some barrels filled with fish to the fishermen for a few pennies, each. They stopped and wiped sweat off their foreheads.
"What?" Benjamin asked, taking a drink from his flask.
"I want my daughter to be name Cassidy. Cassidy Rite, doesn't that sound good? It'll be good to have a young body in the house." He smiled. He was lonely since his son Matthew moved away. He was only sixteen, too young but the boy wanted to make his own life…
The flashback burned into his eyes as he dried his eyes. That dammed judge had taken away his freedom, his life but now he had taken away Liam's freedom, his life and left a four year old to die in the middle of the ocean! He thought he hated the judge before, but now the very thought of him sickened him and made him enraged.
"Cassidy, I promise you we are going to get back home and find our families! And I promise you we are going to take Judge Turpin out!" Cassidy nodded, unsure of what the words meant but knew they were important to him.
"But what about me? I'm all alone, my brother and mom are far away!" Her eyes were big and blue but Todd shook his head.
"No, I'm going to take care of you. We'll have to change your name understand?" She nodded. "My name is Sweeney Todd. What is yours?" Cassidy thought, of all the names she wanted. She knew Cassidy was going to die and this new person would take her place, it scared her.
"Tanya. My name is Tanya Todd."