Here's the next piece of the story. Does everyone think that the name fits the story. Please tell me in your review. I have added a few lines from the stage show so don't get too confused ok. Anyway here it is. Enjoy!
(Chap 2: Whistle Down the London Wind)
Keena was surprised to find that both she and Jenny had a suitcase each… or rather, Keena's was a holdall, and they both had a messenger bag. Keena had only been on the ship for less than a week and already she wanted couldn't wait to get her feet on the solid land.
Keena and Jenny looked out over the sea as they neared London. Sweeney stood beside Keena, eyes fixed on the bridge which was rising to let the ship through. The girls had come to know the man as a, somewhat, friend, even though he didn't seem too comfortable around them, or they around him.
Jenny was wearing an old, navy-blue corseted dress that was found in her suitcase. She has warn this a few times whilst pretending to be a ghost on Halloween and other fancy-dress parties. Her shoes where plane white flats. Both girls wanted to blend in if they could, and Jenny's dress was much better than her white, lacy vest-top and denim skirt and Ugg Boots. Keena was wearing something similar to Sweeney. She had a white shirt and black trousers, but instead of a black waistcoat she had an under-bust-corset-style belt. Similar to Sweeney again she had black, fingerless gloves. The only thing she had to cover her feet where her black boots which quite often gave her blisters. She also had a leather jacket.
A few buttons where undone on her shirt to reveal a pendant shaped like a black rose. The flower opened to reveal a photo of her real parents. The ones who abused her weren't her real parents. Just an abusive foster family. She was told her real parents had been killed when she was hardly two weeks old. She, apparently, had an older sister, where she was Keena did not know.
"Where will you girls go? You've never been to London before." Sweeney stated, looking to Keena.
Keena and Jenny had told him how they've always wanted to go to London. Jenny had been once not long ago, but he wasn't told that because that was in the future. They didn't know how different London would be now. They told him they lived in Newcastle, which they sort of did. Where they lived was called Tynemouth, but it wouldn't be called that for a few more years, but they never told him much about it, encase they mentioned something that wouldn't be there yet.
"I don't know. I suppose we'll have to find someone who will look after us." Jenny said hopefully, looking at Sweeney but avoiding his eyes.
"Or live on the streets… until the police find out and send us to the work house." Keena spoke, her eyes never left the site of London ahead. Her thoughts where interrupted by Antony.
Antony:
I have sailed the world
beheld its wonders
from the Dardanelles,
to the mountains of Peru,
But there's no place like London!
Sweeney:
No there's no place like London...
"Mr. Todd?" Antony looked at Sweeney.
"You are young… life has been kind to you… you will learn." Sweeney half-sung that line."'Tis here we go our separate ways. Farewell Antony. I will not soon forget the good ship bountiful, nor the young man who saved my life."
"There's no cause to thank me for that, sir. It would have been a poor Christian indeed who would have spotted you pinching and tossing on that raft and not given the alarm." Antony spoke with genuine modesty.
"There's many a Christian would've done just that and not lost a winks sleep over it either." Sweeney shook his head. He sung again.
Sweeney:
There's a whole in the world like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit
and it goes by the name of London.
Keena decided to continue the song when he didn't. although she never thought she was terrible singer she felt that the song had to be finished, or they'd never get to London.
Keena:
At the top of the hole sit the privileged few
Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo
turning beauty to filth and greed...
Keena and Sweeney:
I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,
for the cruelty of men is as wondrous as Peru
but there's no place like London!
Sweeney looked suspiciously as Keena who shot him a nervous smile before realising they could now leave the ship and took off. Once she was off she waited for Jenny and Sweeney. He looked a little spooked. Haunted by the very place he was standing.
"Is everything alright?" Jenny asked him. Antony looked at her, he was about to say the same thing.
"Mr. Todd?" Antony asked.
"I beg your indulgence, Antony. My mind is far from easy. For in the once familiar streets I feel… shadows… everywhere." Sweeney looked around before glancing at the girls and back to the young sailor.
"Shadows, sir?" the boy looked confused.
"I think he means ghosts." Keena spoke up, hating the deathly silence of the cobblestone street. Sweeney just nodded. He walked past her, lost in thought.
Sweeney:
There was a barber and his wife
and she was beautiful...
a foolish barber and his wife.
She was his reason for his life...
and she was beautiful, and she was virtuous.
And he was... naive.
There was another man who saw
that she was beautiful...
A payas vulture of the law
who, with a gesture of his claw
removed the barber from his plate!
And there was nothing but to wait!
And she would fall!
So soft!
So young!
So lost and oh so beautiful!
Keena and Jenny found there eyes swimming with tears. They had cried a bit when they saw the movie, but listening to the song in real life, in person, made it all the more devastating.
"You two." Sweeney turned to the girls. Jenna was a little frightened of him still and hid slightly behind Keena. "If you tell anyone of this then so help me, your lives won't be worth living." he threatened, yet he still seemed pretty calm.
"My life already is." Keena muttered as she turned around. Sweeney thought he heard her say something, but shook it off.
"And the lady sir, did she Sercombe?" Antony asked, a little later than he should.
"Oh, that was many years ago. I doubt if anyone would know… I must thank you Antony. If you hadn't found me, I would be drifting at sea still." He turned to Antony again.
"May I see you again?" Antony asked.
"If you whish, you may find me. But around Fleet street, I wouldn't wander." Sweeney stood and looked at the lightless, lifeless street behind the girls.
"Then until then, my friend." Antony put out his hand, but Sweeney just walked past the girls and into the dark streets. The girls nodded by to Antony and followed him.
Sweeney, Keena and Jenny:
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!
They set off. There where tonnes of homeless people lying on the streets. One was whispering a cry for help and grabbed Jenny's dress. She kicked the man off of her and ran to Keena, crying.
"Keena, I'm scared. I wanna go home." She whimpered slightly. Jenny was tough normally, but when it came to weirs stuff, like ghosts (or time travelling) she's easily scared. Normally she'd take the mickey out of Keena because she believes in all that 'supernatural rubbish' as she puts it. 'Maybe she she'll believe me now' Keena thought.
"It's ok… but you have to realise that this is real. This is also our chance to change what happens. We can change history… Mr. Todd seems to trust us. We can make this how it was meant to be." Keena said. Hugging her friend.
"Maybe that's why we're here… we know how it should end."
Keena nodded. She hated seeing her friend like this. She thought of a song she could sing, but before she could open her mouth, a man bumped into her and took her by the wrist.
"Hey!" Keena gasped.
The man pushed her unto a wall. He was drunk to the gills. She could smell the alcohol in his breath easily. He started fumbling with the buttons on her shirt, trying to undo them. Keena was about to yell when he held up his knife. She shut her mouth. Jenny noticed what was happening and went to get Sweeney. By the time they had gotten back the man had only undone a few of the buttons, and had realised that he had to undo the corset belt.
"Oy!" Jenny yelled. The man turned and held his knife to Keena's chest. "Oh, shit." she turned to see Sweeney had disappeared.
The man smirked. He had let his guard down. Just then Sweeney came from over a wall and grabbed the knife, but not before the man could give Keena a small cut on her forehead. The man saw he was beaten and ran. Keena quickly done her top back up.
"Are you alright?" Sweeney spotted her coat lying on the floor and handed it to her.
"I'm fine… lets go before we meet anymore nutters." she mumbled, but so he could hear.
Jenny clung to her and sobbed. Keena knew what to sing…
Keena:
Whistle down the wind, let your voices carry.
Drown out all the rain, light a patch of darkness
Treacherous and scary.
Howl at the stars, whisper when your sleeping.
I'll be there to hold you, I'll be there to stop
The chills and all the weeping.
Make it clear and strong, so the whole night long
Every signal that you send, until the very end,
I will not abandon you my precious friend.
So try and stem the tide, then you'll raise a banner.
Send a flare up in the sky, try to burn a torch
And try to build a bonfire.
Every signal that you send, until the very end, I'm there.
So whistle down the wind, for I have always been right there.
right there.
Howl at the stars, whisper when your sleeping,
I'll be there to hold you, I'll be there to stop,
The chills and all the weeping.
Make it clear and strong, so the whole night long.
Every signal that you send, until the very end
I will not abandon you my precious friend.
So try and stem the tide, then you'll raise a banner.
Send a flare up in the sky, try to burn a torch
And try to build a bonfire
Every signal that you send, until the very end, I'm there.
So whistle down the wind, for I have always been... right there!
If you've never head the song before or want to and stuff here's what you can find it on you tube if you search Whistle Down the Wind.Enjoy! Plz tell me what you think of this.
